The Lucas Inquiry, chaired by Justice G. A. G. Lucas, began in 1976 and was constituted to look into police corruption in Queensland, but the Inquiry was seriously flawed, reliant as it was, on its star witness Jack Herbert, The Bagman who confessed at the later Fitzgerald Inquiry to organised corruption for almost his entire career within the Police Force and afterwards. It was prompted by the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, along with the Queensland Law Society, who demanded an inquiry into police corruption. Justice Lucas took evidence from Jack Herbert and listened to tapes made by Senior Constable Frank Davey, a friend of the corrupt Bagman, Herbert, but didn’t interview the honest cops who were the subject of the allegations. Background The Lucas Inquiry emanated from the "Southport Betting Case," a trial where a number of corrupt high-ranking police officers were alleged to have collaborated with two bookmakers to clear them of prosecution. Originally Jock Rutherford a Magistrate known to be hard on Bookmakers was scheduled to hear the case, but at the last minute the date was changed meaning Magistrate Leo McConnell would hear the case instead. In November 1974 two suspected "starting price" bookmakers, Brian Leonard George Sieber and Stanley Derwent Saunders, were charged and arrested "with possession of instruments of betting" and it was alleged these two men and many other bookmakers operating in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast were chief sources of "corrupt payments to police" in the Licensing Branch, a subsection of the Criminal Intelligence Unit (CIU). The CIU was a police department "formed to collect, record and disseminate intelligence on organized crime and corruption, and to apprehend and prosecute those involved." In 1974, to clean up the Licensing Branch, a new Inspector was appointed in Arthur Pitts, who laid seventeen charges against SP bookmakers in three months. Prior to Pitts appointment there had been only three prosecutions in the past four years. As a result of the crackdown, Sergeant Reginald Neal Freier asked former Licensing Branch sergeant, Jack Herbert to approach Pitts with a bribe, to reinstate ‘The Joke’ which had ended when Herbert had left the police force. Herbert did so along with Freier and a bookmaker, Paddy McIntyre. However anticipating such an approach, Pitts had his house wired, with Detective Basil ‘The Hound’ Hicks present, hiding in another room. In the aftermath of the event, Des Sturgess reported having