Betrayed: the shocking story of two undercover cops

304 Pages·2011·3.536 MB·English

by  Gilling, Tom;Small, Clive

R U N N I N G H E A D
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R U N N I N G H E A D
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First published in 2010
Copyright © Clive Small and Tom Gilling 2010
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To Joe and Jessie’s parents, family and friends,
who never let them down
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Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements x
About the authors xi
1 Beginnings 1
2 Joe goes undercover 20
3 The Lebanese connection 34
4 Garry Page and ‘Lawrie’ 47
5 Garry Raff and John Visser 61
6 The finished article 70
7 Partners 85
8 Kings Cross 96
9 Craig Haeusler 107
10 Mackay 125
11 Brisbane 151
12 Out of control 173
13 Back in Sydney 184
14 Charged 197
15 Shame 208
16 Unprotected witness 220
17 Dismissal 225
18 ‘Kill Robbie’ 238
19 Reform 250
20 A new start 266
Appendix 1
Joe’s working list of drugs, street names and prices,
circa 1996 273
Appendix 2
Wood Royal Commission recommendations regarding
the use of undercover operatives 282
Preface
This is the story of two people who joined the New South
Wales Police thinking they could make a difference. For
reasons of personal and family safety their real names cannot
be used: we’ll call them Joe and Jessie, although they have
used a number of aliases.
Joe and Jessie live with their young twins in Sydney’s
western suburbs. They met as undercover cops, trusting each
other with their lives as they infiltrated a world of drugs,
guns and violence. In order to blend into that world, they
had to be part of it. They were cops pretending to be crooks.
Their targets were not only criminals but corrupt police.
The work was exciting, and Joe and Jessie were good at
it. Ambitious but inexperienced, they threw themselves into
their fictional roles believing that the people in charge, the
senior commanders who ran operations from the safety of
police headquarters, knew the difference between crooked
cops and honest cops pretending to be crooked.
They were wrong.
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Acknowledgements
Our sincere thanks to those former undercover cops
who have been willing to speak to us about their
experiences, and to the journalists and former police who
helped expose a flawed system.
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