a "rent" from individuals like Bill Bayeh, Steve Hardas and "Fat" George; the payments totaled thousands of dollars per week, collected by Sergeant Trevor Haken and shared amongst the six Detective Sergeants and the Detective Inspector in charge (Graham "Chook" Fowler). This corrupt practice was known in police circles as "the laugh". In 1994, Trevor Haken was summonsed for an examination at the New South Wales Crime Commission. The NSWCC had become aware of his relationship with drug traffickers and his corrupt practices through telephone intercepts that the Royal Commission could not undertake itself. The Wood Royal Commission had assessed Haken as being the individual most likely to co-operate with the Commission in a covert capacity, and took the opportunity to put to Haken an offer to work with the Commission. He agreed and he was instructed by the Commission to simply carry on as normal; his car was fitted with listening devices and cameras to record video and audio. Over the following 6 months, Haken continued to collect payments from traffickers, distribute them to the other corrupt detectives and collected an enormous amount of intelligence and data for the Commission. In 1995, the Commission scheduled a hearing on the Kings Cross police. It summonsed the detective sergeants and "Chook" Fowler and asked them whether they had ever accepted or asked for a bribe. They emphatically denied they had. Having these denials on the record, the Commission then played video footage and audio recordings from the bugs in Trevor Haken's car. The recordings showed very clearly the handing over of large amounts of cash and discussion of bribes and corrupt activities. Following this bombshell hearing, resistance to the work of the commission from the police service and media crumbled and they were inundated with calls from serving officers seeking to determine whether they could make a deal. The next day, Commissioner Wood declared a conditional amnesty for disclosures of corruption or misconduct by serving officers. The Commissioner emphasised that the goal of the inquiry was to ascertain the prevalence and nature of corruption in the NSW Police and advise on the reforms necessary to address the problem. Removing corrupt officers who would simultaneously provide a full account of their conduct and end their ability to engage in further corrupt practices. It would allow the NSW Police to obtain a large amount of information that would not otherwise come out in