in the face of bitter opposition from colleagues and former colleagues. Peter Ryan was recruited from the United Kingdom and successfully implemented many of the recommendations of the Commission, including drug testing for serving officers, integrity testing and more thorough supervision. The New South Wales government also undertook a series of legislative changes, which resulted in the majority of recommendations being consolidated in statute. These recommendations included the questioning and investigation procedures that followed arrest. In addition to reforms of the police service, the facilities, staff and equipment of the Commission formed the nucleus of the Police Integrity Commission; the PIC retained many of the broad powers held by the Wood Royal Commission and has acted as a standing Royal Commission. The Commission has been criticised as "puritanical" for overreacting to minor cases of alleged misconduct like the Kareela Cat Burglar case, where senior detectives who were tangentially involved in a case where mace was used on an uncooperative child molester were dismissed from the force 12 years after the event. In popular culture The 2009 and 2010 television series Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities and Underbelly: The Golden Mile were loosely based on the activities of the NSW police service and the Wood Royal Commission with Terry Clark, Robert Trimbole, "Chook" Fowler, Trevor Haken, Bill Bayeh, George Freeman and Lenny McPherson all portrayed. See also New South Wales Police Force strip search scandal References External links The Kings Cross Sting series exposing what the Wood's Royal Commission missed linking to Kings Cross 1990s in Australia Law enforcement in New South Wales Police Service, Royal Commission into the Corruption in Australia Police misconduct in Australia Child sexual abuse in Australia