Former Queensland police commissioner Terry Lewis was one of the state’s most controversial figures, whose spectacular fall from grace defined the reforms of the corruption-busting Fitzgerald inquiry. 7NEWS
The state’s youngest police commissioner and holder of a knighthood for services to the force was denounced as a traitor to his oath after he was convicted of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.Former Queensland police commissioner Terry Lewis was one of the state's most controversial figures.He was raised in a working class family and left school at 12 before drifting between various employers until he joined the police force at 20.
It was in the CIB that Lewis grew close to corrupt police commissioner Frank Bischof and bribe-taking “Rat Pack” officers Tony Murphy and Glen Hallahan. Whitrod’s subsequent resignation opened the door for his assistant to claim the top job at the age of 48. His career reached its zenith in 1986 when he became the first serving Australian police officer to be awarded a knighthood.The following year, media reports prompted Fitzgerald’s watershed inquiry into police corruption.
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