Bad by Michael Duffy

Author:Michael Duffy [Duffy, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime
ISBN: 9781743430637
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2012-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

8

CREEPING BARRAGE

He smote them hip and thigh.

Gary Jubelin had two plans for the arrests of Anthony Perish and Brad Curtis, a personal one and a work one. The personal one involved exercise, training hard so he would go into what he knew would be a stretch of twenty-hour days as fit as possible. He did a lot of running and some boxing and qi gong, a form of eastern meditation he’d practised for twenty years.

Then there was the work plan for what would be an enormous operation involving officers from many different sections, with the arrests of Perish and Curtis to be followed a day later by the arrests or interviewing of twenty more people, which itself would be followed by the announcement of large rewards for information about certain of the murders Tuno was investigating. The whole thing would be a bit like a creeping artillery barrage, designed progressively to strike fear into the hearts of Sydney’s criminals and their associates and families, and encourage some to roll over or otherwise give information to the police. It was clever stuff, but the coordination was going to be a big job. Apart from anything else, all the planning had to be done over the New Year holiday period.

The team came through, as always, working long hours, weekends and public holidays. Other organisations had to be prompted to greater efforts. Finally Nicholas Cowdery, the Director of Public Prosecutions, signed off on the opinion that there was enough evidence to arrest Anthony Perish and Brad Curtis, and to prevent them getting bail.

The detectives now turned their minds to just how to make the arrests. As they had no idea where Perish was, they would have to wait until Curtis—who was under physical surveillance—met up with him, in order to take them together. They were violent men, so Tactical Operations officers from the State Protection Group (SPG) would be needed, with their high-powered guns and body armour. All up, with the SPG and the surveillance crew and the Tuno detectives, a hundred officers would be involved and they would have to be ready to assemble at short notice at any time of the day or night.

The job would be even more complex because of Jubelin’s plan to interview almost twenty family members and associates of the targets the day after the two key figures were arrested. The purpose of this was to put psychological pressure on the pair, and also on Christiansen and Urriola, hopefully overwhelming them by showing just how determined the police were and how much they knew about their lives. Presumably the arrests would come as complete surprises, and Jubelin wanted Perish and Curtis to be fully aware their worlds had just collapsed. Maybe Perish would cope with this, but Curtis might panic when he learned just how much police knew about his activities, and that his home was being searched and his wife and mother interrogated. Being put inside a cell for the first time can have a powerful effect on a man.

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