Sometimes you just have to take a break and do something fun, right?
In tribute to the Queensland Water Police. These two photos. The actual and the AI generated of the divers haming it up. The photos are being reviewed by the Queensland Police Museum for use as a moral boosting poster. Will update the outcome.
The original photo was taken in 1967 and was sourced from the website: www.thejoke.com.au
Extract from site:
“The truth about the group of corrupt Queensland police officers is that an honest and somewhat
under the weather police officer issued the sneering remark loudly at the bar of the police
recreation club which was above the former Bureau of Criminal Intelligence. He issued the
remark to a small group of police officers that he firmly believed were corrupt, and the remark
became the name by which they were known by, by those in the know. The members of ‘The
Joke’ were regulars at the club and the sneering remark was overheard by other police and it
stuck to the corrupt like the proverbable on a blanket. Unfortunately like many things to do
with corruption it got twisted around to mean something completely different. Australians
particularly in the 50s and 60s often used the expressions “It’s a joke’ they are a joke” or “he’s a
Joker” when faced with something or someone’s behaviour that was appalling, and what those of
‘The Joke’ did was not only appalling at times it was downright pure evil.”
The Brisbane Water Police were aware that organised crime was run by corrupt police at the highest level. Victims of crime sometimes were found in the Brisbane River.
Extract from site:
The divers will tell you that a male body found floating in the river will float face down and a female face up. There is an exception to this, when a male victim suffers wounds to the torso such as broken ribs the damaged areas bloat more than other areas of the body due to increased decay. This causes the body of a male to float face up when it would normally float face down. So when they took this victim of crime from the Brisbane River it was confirmed later at the morgue that he has been severely beaten to death. The words of the officer were, “He was really badly broken up.” The man was recognised immediately as a courier for one of the Fortitude Valley Italian crime families.
