I divide my time between Sydney & London and often what is happening in one country is like a prelude to events in the other.

The NSW Police have long been regarded as one of the most corrupt in the Commonwealth. In the early 1990's the NSW Government,after so many scandals appointed a new Police Commissioner, after a world-wide search-Peter Ryan the ex-head of Hendon Police Training College. I'd long watched his career as his wife and I shared a personal interest in the infamous IRA Harrod's bombing.

Ryan was stepping into a snake-pit of drug-dealing coppers and false alegations about high profile liberal leaning lawyers and judges accused of pedophilia ( with one judge committing suicide)bribery etc.and was to be under-mined by the very politicans who hired him, along with a coterie of right-wing shock jocks and the Murdoch press. He was a sacrifcial lamb to the slaughter who hadn't realised that his political bi-partisan approach wasn't the way it was meant to be.

I played a small role when promoting a new musical I sent he and his wife opening night tickets-nothing unusual in that or by him accepting them. But months later it was the beginning of endless attacks upon his honesty and integrity.

Ryan fled afer 2 years to become head of security for the Olympic Committee and has successfully overseen security at Greece and Beijing.

Subsequent Police Commissioners have walked hand in hand with their political masters and sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between them...

'Sir Ian, you have put the police in Labour's pocket'
: Britain's top Asian police officer reveals how Blair forced him out
By TARIQUE GHAFFUR

I was heading for Scotland Yard when the call came. I had just made a routine visit to my officers at Heathrow airport and had been impressed by their loyalty and unwavering belief in their cause.

Little did I know that my own loyalty was about to be questioned in such a way that it was clear my career as Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Britain's highest-ranking Asian officer would soon be coming to a brutal end.
'The Commissioner wants to see you immediately,' said the caller from Sir Ian Blair's office. After the conversation ended, I rang my staff officer. 'Oops, what have I done?' I asked.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1092469...lair-forced-out.html