From bugging the collar of a crim’s little pooch to dressing up as shrubbery, there have been some ingenious and outlandish sting operations.
To be a good detective you need to be smart, dedicated and have a large slice of empathy. But the great ones have something else – the ability to think outside the square.
The key members were close mates, highly trained, and had taught themselves police tactics. They would never talk on the phone, in their cars or their homes, always wary of listening devices. In 1992, Coles Myer executive Christopher Boucher was determined not to pay his ex-wife the settlement deemed fair by the Family Court. Instead he approached a security expert to find him a hitman. Enter an undercover cop who taped Boucher suggesting she may be, “battered, shot, stabbed, strangled, drowned or electrocuted – the old hairdryer in the bathtub – and if that doesn’t work hold her under.
July 28, 1992: police Special Operations Group smash into the bandits’ panel van at Melbourne Airport.Lee pointed his gun at police, which turned out to be a fatal mistake. He was shot dead, Barci was shot multiple times and Asling arrested.
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