Colin Dillon – Straight shooter
In times of shrill complaint, it is worth contemplating the life and career of a good man, an honest cop. Colin Dillon was the first serving officer voluntarily to give evidence of Queensland police corruption to the Fitzgerald Commission of Inquiry in 1987. It was a brave call.
Dillon suspects that Commissioner Tony Fitzgerald cut short the Inquiry into the trade in illegal drugs because of detective Tony Murphy.
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