By Pauline Askin SYDNEY | Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:55am EDT
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – Former Australian detective Deborah Locke’s life became a living nightmare after she blew the cover on police corruption but the steely 46-year-old says it was worthwhile if people remember her and follow her lead.
It’s been 14 years since Locke was discharged “medically unfit” from the police force in the state of New South Wales and more than 15 years since she went to authorities to give details of a “one-in-all-in” culture of bribery among police colleagues.
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This year she has published the second edition of her book “Watching the Detectives” and was also portrayed in a new series of the popular Australian TV crime drama “Underbelly” set in 1989 in Sydney’s red light district, Kings Cross.
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Hard-drinking detectives regularly mingled with criminals and corruption was seen by some as part of daily policing to keep strip clubs owners, pimps, and drug lords under control.
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