Roger Rogerson hasn't been a police officer for more than 20 years.
Yet his name makes him the most well-known 'detective-sergeant' in Australia.
He has been the subject of articles, appearances, profiles and books; portrayed in TV dramas; and recorded by covert listening devices at home for months.
Rogerson took up his own pen in prison. Out, he walked the club and pub speaking circuit, where he found a ready audience for his tales of law and mayhem. He now writes for newspapers.
Here, he tells us of:
high profile investigations
forgotten ones, like when a key from Tassie opened a Sydney murderer's door
some of the most interesting dead people he's ever met
the hunt for desperados on a deadly robbing spree
the bloody night that earned him the award for courageous action
meeting a prominent toe cutter
besieging the comic Wally and the dangerous Green Man
the dogs in a prison he sojourned in
bad days in a flattened railcarriage at Granville... and more...