Code of Silence: How one honest police officer took on Australia's most corrupt police force

by Colin Dillon 


'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.



Published April 27th 2016 by Allen & Unwin 

 
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