Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

Keelty put Moyes under surveillance. Armed with a search warrant and
with the drug squad head looking on, Keelty opened Moyes’ personal
safe. Hidden inside were drugs seized in past police raids which Moyes
should have destroyed. Moyes claimed he was innocent. He said he has
been consorting with ‘well known mafia figures’ because he was covertly
infiltrating organised crime. And then he said he couldn’t tell his own drug
squad because there were too many corrupt colleagues. Moyes’
explanation was disproved by Keelty’s Sydney police informant. Moyes
confessed and was jailed. ‘He was involved in a crop at the time and
distributing drugs from the drug safe,’ Keelty said.
Is it possible that police corruption exists in SA today? There is no proof,
but there have been allegations. Two weeks ago in Sydney an anonymous
witness gave astonishing evidence during an inquest into the death of
Brisbane woman Dianne Brimble on a P&O cruise ship called the Pacific
Star. Brimble had died of an overdose of the drug gammahydroxy
butyrate, commonly known as fantasy.
Just before her death she’d been seen socialising with eight Adelaide men.
She was sexually photographed with one of them. Her body was found on
the floor of a cabin belonging to four of the men. With his voice
electrically modified so it couldn’t be recognised, and from a separate
room, an anonymous informant code-named Charles White testified that
one of the Adelaide men was a drug dealer operating with the protection
of South Australian police.
Mr White went on the claim the police owned an Adelaide nightclub
where drugs were dealt. South Australian police commissioner Mal Hyde
argued before the coronial inquiry that Mr White’s evidence was
sensational hearsay and not relevant.
At an Adelaide media conference later, Mr Hyde denied SA police
owned the nightclub. ‘But inquiries show that none of the licensees of the
club are police’, the commissioner said. But he could not rule out police
having an indirect involvement in nightclubs, and this would be
investigated, presumably by other police. This week, a spokesman for
police minister Paul Holloway said the minister played no role at all in any
aspect of the Brimble inquest.
The spokesman said Commissioner Hyde had weekly sessions with the
minister, and could have informed Mr Holloway of what had been the
commissioner’s own decision. While Mr White’s testimony has not been
substantiated, he did tell the inquest he now feared the South Australian
police. ‘I’m just scared that when I get back to South Australia the police
will come,’ he said.
All of which has again raised the question of an independent commission
against organised crime and official corruption in SA.
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