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Bad Detective
Bad Detective
Author: True Crime Australia
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In Australia former detective Roger Rogerson has come to epitomise the bad cop - up to his elbows in corruption of public officials, drug crime and murder. The Daily Telegraph crime editor Mark Morri and former NSW Assistant Commissioner Clive Small discuss Rogerson's life and crimes from his career in the criminal investigation branch in the 1960s to the murder of drug dealer Jamie Gao in 2014.
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Daily Telegraph crime editor Mark Morri speaks with former NSW Assistant Police Commissioner Clive Small about former cop Roger Rogerson's early career and his move to the armed hold-up squad where he began to play a key part in Sydney's criminal underworld, shot Butch Burns and teamed up with psychopath Neddy Smith.
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Daily Telegraph crime editor Mark Morri speaks with former NSW Assistant Police Commissioner Clive Small about former cop Roger Rogerson's plot to assassinate drug squad officer Mick Drury, his pairing with hitman Chris 'Mr Rent-a-Kill' Flannery, the gangland wars of the 1980s and the killings of Warren Lanfranchi and Sallie-Anne Huckstepp.
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Daily Telegraph crime editor Mark Morri speaks with former NSW Assistant Police Commissioner Clive Small about former cop Roger Rogerson's threat to kill Small and police commissioner Tony Lauer, his connection to major crime figures and the shooting of drug dealer Jamie Gao.
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