Narc: Inside the Australian Bureau of Narcotics - Bernard Delaney

Why is Australia being flooded with drugs? How did our problem grow from small beginnings? Why are the country's seven drug law enforcement agencies unable to do much about it?

Bernard Delaney, a former Regional Commander of the Australian Bureau of Narcotics, has asked himself these painful questions. He has taken a close look at his six years as a Narcotics Agent and tells it as it is. He recalls some of his biggest busts, in which he caught several of Australia's best known criminals.-He reveals how the Bureau accompanied smugglers on a mission to Indonesia.

He recounts how one of his trusted subordinates went into partnership with a ring of smugglers and how a complex undercover operation was mounted to bring the traffickers to justice. He discloses forthe first time how the Bureau bent the rules about mail and telephones.

All this time, however, the Bureau was hampered by red tape which flowed generously from the Canberra supply. Leading politicians and bureaucrats come under Delaney's close scrutiny. Frank and hard-hitting, here is a unique description both of the drug scene and of the obscure police workings of a Government agency.