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Mar 2024
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DETECTIVES: Investigating a Queensland P...

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When Detective Brett Lee was told one of his colleagues was a potential sex offender, he took on not only the investigation, but the pressure of prosecuting one of his own. 

Brett was a career detective, and was involved in some of QPol's most heinous investigations. Working in child protection has its difficulties, but for Brett, he found the challenges to be rewarding.

Understand his work and what it took to undertake it with host Brent Sanders, as he dives into Brett as an officer and as an educator post policing. 

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