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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Code of Silence : How One Honest Police Officer Took on Australia's Most Corrupt Police Force
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'The powerful true story of the first police officer to lift the lid on police corruption in Queensland and what then happened to him.

''Wherever there is power and money, there is always the risk of corruption. But everyone has a choice: to become involved or to take a stand against it.'

'Colin Dillon is an extraordinary man. He was the first Indigenous policeman in Australia. But that is actually a very small part of his story.

'He was also the first serving police officer to voluntarily appear before the Fitzgerald Commission of Inquiry in 1987 and give first-hand evidence of police corruption. He did this at a time when the Fitzgerald Inquiry was beginning and struggling for traction. His evidence at the Inquiry was instrumental in eventually sending some police, including Police Commissioner Terry Lewis, and politicians to prison.

'Revealing, powerful and uncompromising, this is the story of Colin Dillon's nearly 40 years in a police force rotten to the core. It describes the extraordinary range of criminal activities - drugs, gaming, SP bookmaking, brothels, vehicle theft - that were allowed to operate with impunity in return for bribes. It also tells of the high price an honest man and his family paid for his decision to break the code of silence.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2016 .
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      Extent: 352p.
      Note/s:
      • Published May 2016
      ISBN: 9781760290580
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2017 .
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      Extent: 248p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 2017
      ISBN: 9781760297022

Works about this Work

Pioneer Refused to Take Crooked Path Stephen Fitzpatrick , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18 June 2016; (p. 21)

— Review of Code of Silence : How One Honest Police Officer Took on Australia's Most Corrupt Police Force Colin Dillon , Tom Gilling , 2016 single work autobiography
The Voice Unheard Tom Gilling , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 May 2016; (p. 4)
Pioneer Refused to Take Crooked Path Stephen Fitzpatrick , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18 June 2016; (p. 21)

— Review of Code of Silence : How One Honest Police Officer Took on Australia's Most Corrupt Police Force Colin Dillon , Tom Gilling , 2016 single work autobiography
The Voice Unheard Tom Gilling , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 May 2016; (p. 4)
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