drinks with Terry Lewis and Tony Murphy, who were furious with Herbert being set up. Following the Herbert sting, Pitts was scheduled to go on a raid with three of his team: Sergeant Con Horgan, Senior Constable Ollie Boyce and Constable Frank Davey, but Ollie Boyce did not even show up, and so Mick Cacciola subbed in for him. The ensuing raid saw them arrest Saunders and Sieber. After the raid, with only 8 months in charge of the Licensing Squad, Pitts was transferred to the Gold Coast. In the middle of the trial Frank Davey alleged that Pitts had forged warrants and tried to ‘brick’ the bookmakers (falsify evidence against them). He then revealed he had been given a micro cassette tape recorder by Jack Herbert, and had taped four separate conversations with officers to ‘prove’ his allegations. After giving the evidence, Davey jumped in a car with Herbert. It seemed that the Bagman, Jack Herbert had master minded a defeat against the Licensing Branch in the Southport case to set a precedent in his own case. Davey had met with Herbert in his home, and told showed him the warrant which was largely blank, and they plotted to have Davey wear a tape recorder when talking to Pitts and others. Herbert wrote to a friend in San Diego and got him to send the miniature tape recorder over for Davey to wear. Mick Cacciola later got a sworn statement from another officer, where Ollie Boyce admitted he was told to be late. In 1975, the results of the trial found neither men guilty and the loss was devastating to the campaign against both corruption and the integrity of the CIU. "The Criminal Intelligence Unit had failed to secure a prosecution in a seemingly iron-clad case-one where money was actually paid over, the vital conversations had been taped and most of the activities had been observed by members of the CIU." To make matters worse, Herbert and his co-accused also later were acquitted at a jury trial. The two cases were a body blow to then Commissioner Whitrod’s credibility, and were used by corrupt cops to undermine him. Whitrod punshied Arthur Pitts by transferring him yet again from Southport to running the property office at police headquarters, the ultimate insult for such a renowned crusader. The negative press prompted an investigation into police behaviour, resulting in the Lucas Inquiry.