Jason Somerville

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Australian True Crime · Shortcut: Life as an Undercover Cop · 30 Aug 2026 podcast

There have been books, there have been you know, there's a there was a an ex Queensland police officer that got addicted to heroin that became a bank robber in South Australia.

Let me put it to you this way.

So if I bought one gram of heroin, that was six hundred dollars.

If I

Cut it up as it was.

I would get eleven uh packets out of it, hundred dollar packets.

That's eleven hundred dollars.

If I added another gram of powder to it to make it less effective but larger, that's two thousand two hundred dollars.

for a six hundred dollar outlay.

Now, when you start talking about ounces

Or half ounces,

For a a six thousand dollar outlay of a half an ounce, you can be making upwards of twenty-five, thirty thousand dollars.

ability to make that sort of money when you were getting paid back in those days, I think my salary was forty grand a year.

You can understand it.

And let's everyone goes, Oh, police are supposed to be these people who are, you know, infallible and the police are human and they reflect.

the community they serve.

And in every community, there are people who are going to be tempted by that sort of thing because of a situation that they're in.

Yes or no.

So what happened was prior to uh ninety five, the rule was you would stay as long as was needed.

But

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