Tim Priest

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Tim Priest, is a former New South Wales police Detective Sergeant in Australia.

He wrote a book called To Protect And To Serve with Richard Basham about his experiences dealing with the drug trade and the police service.

In 2003, he gave a talk at a Quadrant dinner in November 2003 entitled "The Rise of Middle Eastern Crime in Australia" in which he also talked about his experience policing specific Lebanese households, and criticised Peter Ryan and Mike Carlton.[1] However, in 2006 The Sydney Morning Herald, said of Priest's talk: "It has become a celebrated story, told by the whistleblowing former policeman Tim Priest. The trouble is, it isn't true. ... Priest was compressing good detail to make a point, and saw nothing wrong with that".[2]

[edit] External links

• Transcript of 2001 PM interview with Tim Priest, about Cabramatta
• Transcript of 2005 60 Minutes interview with Tim Priest about the 2005 Macquarie Fields riots and policing