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Queensland Police and
political corruption circa 1961: North
Queensland: & Police Commissioner Frank Bischof
From HISTORY OF ORGANISED CRIME IN QUEENSLAND: Organising
Crime in Queensland P.J. Dickie - thesis draft 1
By P.J. Dickie
Between 1928 and 1938 a number of Italians and one Australian
prostitute were murdered or mutilated in the Ayr, Ingham and
Innisfail areas of North Queensland. Although some of the murders
appear to have been related to the domestic affairs of some of the
victims, others seemed to be linked to the extortion activities of an
organisation known as the Black Hand or Mano Nera. The murders ceased
after the killing, in 1938, of suspected gang leader and Ingham baker
Vincenzo D'Agostino. In 1930 and 1934, prominent members of the
Calabrian communities of Sydney and the Riverina town of Griffiths were
killed. Police investigations showed family and other connections
between these victims, their associates, and the "Black Handers" of
Ingham, including, notably, D'Agostino. No particular significance was
to be attached to these events until another round of killings in the
Calabrian community of Melbourne in the 1960s.
Impact of the Second World
War:
Following the Japanese entry into the Second World War Queensland
became a forward base for the conduct of the war. The influx of
servicemen was a major boost for the illegal economy with the demand
for illegal services increasing perhaps three-fold. In particular, the
technically illegal but effectively regulated prostitution "houses"
were unable to cope; an unregulated industry quickly sprang up to meet
the deficiency, allegedly with some tacit assistance from Federal
authorities calling on the Sydney criminal establishment to provide
additional prostitutes. In addition, wartime restrictions on many goods
created the conditions for a thriving black market.
Precincts sprang up where illegal alcohol, prostitution and gambling
occurred in close proximity to one another. For the first time
Queensland's illegal economy was sizeable and centralised enough to
support persons taking the role of organisers or "protectors".
A listing of the principal illegal goods and services of the wartime
era would include unlicensed alcohol, gambling, unregulated
prostitution, vehicles and fuel, stolen or "recycled" military
equipment, official documentation, black market commodities and
abortion.
Although little hard evidence survives, anecdotal accounts support the
view that corruption in the police force increased significantly during
the war years, and that it extended well beyond the hitherto relatively
benign activity of turning a blind eye to the activities of publicans
and SP bookmakers.
The illegal economy collapsed at the end of the war. The healthiest
sector, sustained by continuing post war shortages, was property crime.
Thieves and their fences then adjusted with minimum discomfort to an
era of increasing prosperity and the greatly increased availability of
consumer goods. The war left a significant legacy; at least some of the
detectives exposed to corruption during the war maintained corrupt
informer/partner relationships with favoured criminals. With the most
significant rewards in property crime, those thieves and fences in
particular who had influential police contacts were regarded as
the criminal elite. They were to remain so until the 1960s.
The SP industry boomed during the war despite the requisitioning of
racetracks as troop camps. Unlike Sydney, Queensland's SP operators
continued to maintain their independence of the general criminal
milieu, finding only a natural community of interest with publicans
trading out of hours. Both activities certainly benefited from
corruption, as far as is known, usually through mainly local
arrangements.
III. Postwar development of organised crime
Against a background of frequent allegations of widespread illegal
gambling and, to a lesser extent, corruption, the State Government
established a fourth Royal Commission on racing in 1951. Police then
estimated there were 980 illegal bookmakers in the State, with 530 in
the metropolitan area alone. The Royal Commission recommended that
off-course betting be permitted outside the metropolitan area, or
sufficiently distant to avoid upsetting the principal racing clubs. The
government enacted legislation in 1954 in line with these
recommendations but with the added proviso that a local referendum had
to approve the setting up of betting shops. Little changed.
Later evidence to the (Fitzgerald) Commission of Inquiry indicated that
both SP bookmakers and publicans were involved in political as well as
police corruption, making payments into a "Premier's Fund". A new
Country Party-Liberal Party government took office in 1957, and in 1962
introduced legal off-course betting in the shape of the TAB. The
discovery by the government that its newly appointed Police
Commissioner, Frank Eric Bischof, was in receipt of considerable
corrupt payments from SP bookmakers, was kept concealed from public
knowledge. Bischof stayed in office.
In retrospect, the appointment of Bischof handed control of the police
force to a clique of officers who had become accustomed to corruption
during the Second World War.
Some evidence has come to light indicating an almost immediate attempt
to extort protection monies from the technically illegal but by long
tradition "regulated" houses of prostitution; when this foundered
because of the scale of demands for payment by police, Bischof
unilaterally closed the brothels. Restoring the status quo would, the
government realised, place them in a difficult position politically;
the celebrated "houses" remained closed and prostitutes began to work
from streets, bars and suburban homes. This could occur regularly only
with the tacit approval of police; with the restraining influence of
medically-based regulation removed, corruption flourished.
The effect of Bischof's action was to bring prostitution into the
mainstream illegal economy, increasing both the overall size of the
illegal economy and the scope for greater criminal organisation. For
the first time a generalised criminal elite began to develop in
Brisbane, composed of corrupt police and their favoured thieves,
fences, prostitutes, sly grog merchants and gambling entrepreneurs. In
such a grouping, police were able to exert a considerable degree of
control over crime, on occasion, it has been alleged, organising it.
When required, crime could also be "solved" with amazing rapidity. In
the early 1960s, however, the focus of corruption in the police force
began to shift away from sharing in the proceeds of crime towards the
receipt of regular income from the providers of illegal services, most
significantly the prostitutes, SP bookmakers, and the relatively new
baccarat clubs, the precursors of the illegal casino.
Institutionally, this trend was marked in 1962 by the consolidation of
Licensing Branch responsibilities to include policing all metropolitan
prostitution, out of hours liquor trading, gaming and SP bookmaking. It
was confirmed by the subsequent voluntary transfer of a number of
notable Consorting Squad detectives to the Licensing Branch.
Cosy relationships between police and criminals have one weakness, an
in built tendency to recurrent scandal. In 1963, one such scandal lead
to a Royal Commission, into alleged police toleration of after-hours
drinking and prostitution at the inner city National Hotel. The police
in question, including Bischof, emerged essentially unscathed; later
there was to be evidence that with the assistance of civilian and
criminal associates they had significantly manipulated the evidence put
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