Slade’s untold story is how he, a plain-speaking police constable, met Vassallo, a crisp, well-spoken former engineer who became a constable at 34 to fight a drug problem at his daughter’s Sydney school.Ĭorrupt former Queensland police commissioner Terry Lewis leaves St Vincent De Paul's day centre for home detention release after leaving prison.

Lewis would in 1991 be sentenced to 14 years' jail, after being found guilty of 16 charges of corruption and accepting $700,000 in bribes.

His 1984 report on his discoveries while on undercover surveillance in north Queensland opened the door to two national crime investigations into the state.īoth Slade and Vassallo were thwarted by Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s government, largely on the advice from now-disgraced then-police commissioner Terry Lewis. Lately he has relented and is writing his own book, Call Sign Kodak, with the encouragement of crime writer Matthew Condon. “But if you had asked me four years ago, I would have said, ‘get f-ed Tony Moore – I am not having anything more to do with this’.”

“The full story has not been told yet,” Slade says. Only in recent years has Slade opened up about his role in two national drug investigations in north Queensland, where he first identified some members of the Bellino family and others linked to Australia’s drug trade in the '70s and '80s.

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