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Domenico Cacciola (born 1945 in Sicily) is a former police officer and author of The Second Father. He joined the Queensland Police Force in 1966, and became an undercover detective in the 1970s. In 1977 he received the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct, and the National Medal in 1991.[1] After retiring in 2001, he wrote his life story with the assistance of his brother Carmelo Cacciola and journalist Ben Robertson. In 2009 the University of Queensland Press published his autobiography The Second Father, which detailed how he resisted the corruption which was rampant within the Queensland police force until the Fitzgerald Inquiry.[2]
Books
- The Second Father (2009) ISBN 978 0 7022 3712 6