TO PROTECT AND TO SERVE

by Tim Priest and Richard Basham

Almost every month in New South Wales the news features stories of police corruption and a service seemingly under attack, both from the criminals it tries to put away and the people it has sworn to protect. So what is the true situation? Are the reports we read just media sensationalism, or is the New South Wales Police Service really in trouble? And if it is, what's gone wrong?
Tim Priest was a good cop - a policeman who gave everything he had to fight crime on the drug-ridden streets of Cabramatta - yet who found himself waging his biggest battle against the very organisation he worked for. Priest teams up with Richard Basham, a forensic anthropologist and a man with deep insight into the police service through his involvement in a number of criminal investigations and advisory boards, to reveal the "untold story" of the Police Service. To Protect and to Serve will take you behind the scenes of a police service on the verge of catastrophe....and leave you wondering what can be done to save it.