A Rouge Cop !

The ultimate disaster for the New South Wales police force. When one of their own changes sides and joins the criminal element and feeds them the intimate information of how the police force works when it puts together the strategies that break cases and put offenders in prison.

Fortunately this rogue cop got greedy and was not content to just supply critical information for money and started to dabble in the illicit drug scene as well as running a money laundering racket.  He came unstuck and has been charged with commercial drug supply and criminal group offences. He has been refused bail and will appear in court in May.

Security is a nightmare for the police high command.   They take ordinary men and women and  eventually they go on the streets in uniform after a lengthy training regime at the police academy at the lowest rank of "probationary constable ".   Their integration into specialised units comes after careful evaluation and they are carefully monitored as they move up the police ranking and pay scales.

Unfortunately, these are human beings with all the stresses and faults that come built in to the human psyche.  Some will develop undesirable traits and have a very short career.   Others will never rise above the rank of constable and simply become part of the "herd " when police numbers are needed to control public events.   A few will go on to head up police departments, only to later be unmasked for a life of crime that has included wilful murder.

This thirty-two year old officer joined the police force and served for four years before resigning six years ago.   He registered a business providing services as both a private investigator and as a labour hire supplier and maintained contact with criminal elements that he had cultivated during his time with the police.  Initially, he gave advice on how to operate under the police radar and used his specialised knowledge to bring both guns and drugs into the country in ways that would least likely attract attention.   He finally fell victim to an organised prime sting that uncovered fifteen kilograms of drugs, and ten firearms being moved stealthily into this country.

There is little doubt that these charges will bring a prison sentence and that will bring new problems for the law and order people.  A former cop sentenced to prison does not receive a hearty welcome from other prisoners and usually has to be kept in solitary confinement for his own safety.  But when that cop has become a fellow criminal the reception he will receive is something prison officials will need to ponder.   He will certainly have valuable information on how the cops infiltrate prison supply networks that distribute mobile phones and instructions to criminal associates.

Fortunately, with the passage of time that knowledge of policed procedures will become less relevant.  Police methods move on and new technology joins the fray but the sheer size of the police force means that normal attrition delivers steady resignations and it is inevitable that there will be a number of people joining the civilian workforce who have intimate knowledge of how the police system works that would be valuable to criminals.   To the relief of the police hierarchy, going rogue seems to be extremely rare !