Sydney born in 1948 and left school at 15 to work as a rouseabout in a wool store. Returned to Sydney at 17 and joined the NSW police cadet corps. Sworn as a constable on 19th birthday and began a 34 year career in policing, mostly as a detective and superintendent commander in Sydney's west, including Blacktown, Parramatta and Cabramatta. Co-founder of an exhibiting fine art gallery concurrent with police duties -' ... one virtue and a thousand crimes' as Byron would have it.