To Protect and to Serve: The Untold Truth about the New South Wales Police Service (1st EDITION)

Author: Tim Priest and Richard Basham 

Condition: Good 

Hardcover 

Tim Priest was just a good cop - a policeman who gave everything he had to fight crime on the drug-ridden streets of Cabramatta - yet who found himself waging the biggest battle not against the drug gangs, but the organisation he worked for. Eventually, he could stand it no longer and took the step of speaking out about the corruption, the politics and bureaucratic bungling, chronic lack of resources, and crazy policy decisions that seem endemic to the New South Wales Police Service.

For this, he was labelled a "whistleblower" and ultimate found himself railroaded out of the police force.

Parliamentary inquiries and the evidence of other "ordinary cops" subsequently proved that Tim Priest did indeed speak the truth and, perhaps more shockingly, what the newspapers revealed was merely the tip of the iceberg. of what is really wrong with policing in New South Wales. While drug-related crime spiralled out of control, morale among the rank and file police plummeted, and experienced cops found themselves at the mercy of a promotions system that left them nowhere to go but out.

A must read account of true crime in the police force.

This book will take you behind the scenes of a police service that was once on the verge of collapse. 

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