Summary
"Recent years have seen significant and monumental changes in policing ... [T]o capture the frank and candid observations of police commissioners who were in office while these changes were taking place ... interviews were recorded on behalf of the [Australian Institute of Criminology] by a retired police commissioner, and the tapes of these interviews are now in the process of being analysed ... This paper ... is an initial outline of some of the unique material, and a precursor to future analytical papers from this rich information source".