Bent by James Morton
Author:James Morton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780522866506
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Over the border in South Australia, on 8 October 1981 The Advertiser published claims from its Extra team of journalists, who had been investigating organised crime in other states, that there was a substantial degree of corruption among members of the South Australian police. The allegations followed the usual pattern: green lighting, bricking, lawyers fixing cases with the police, standing over dealers, thefts of drugs and money, and a certainly amount of brutality. The Attorney-General indicated that he would set up an internal inquiry. This announcement did not generally go down well with those who would have preferred a royal commission. In a case that week a jury had disagreed over allegations that police had found seventeen bags of Indian hemp in the possession of Giuseppe Romeo and William Gray at Norwood back in April 1980. The bags had ‘accidentally’ been destroyed by the police and so could not be produced in evidence. Would it be possible for the public to be satisfied with an internal inquiry? The opposition wondered how it was that there had been no look at massage parlours and found it puzzling that some were harassed continually while others near the city centre continued to operate openly and apparently unimpeded. The Attorney-General was sure that the public would be happy. ‘These allegations need capable detective work and if anyone is to test the veracity of these allegations then this team will do just that.’
Unsurprisingly, the allegations were not well received by the police. The president of the South Australian Police Association, Inspector Barry Morse, was one who was righteously indignant when he spoke up for his members, saying he believed that the allegations were both ‘bland’ and ‘insubstantiated’. He thought that drug dealers were behind the allegations, which were designed to disrupt police investigation into the trade and were ‘an obvious attempt by drug dealers to discredit the police force’.
Depending upon one’s point of view, the report the following year either cleared the police or was a whitewash. Former Supreme Court judge Sir Charles Bright had been brought in to comment on the investigations and he found that witnesses had either backtracked, refused to cooperate or were untrustworthy. Of the principal witness, who, in fairness, had thirty-one convictions over a 28-year period, including a few for false pretences, Sir Charles wittily wrote:
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