Underbelly Experience
Deb is an entertaining after dinner speaker who is happy to discuss the book content and her life experiences.
Deborah is available for Media interviews & comment; as well as public speaking engagements.
Deborah is also available to Universities to speak on a variety of topics including ethics, police culture, equity in the work place and women’s issues.
Deborah at the Melbourne University Dept of Criminology
MEDIA: KINGS BLOODY CROSS 11TH JUNE 2017 AT THE WORLD BAR, KINGS CROSS WITH KATE McCLYMONT AND GREG HADDRICK
John Killick and Gary Page – Both have some interesting stories to tell
Kings Bloody Cross: The Underbelly Experience
PART OF THE VIVID FESTIVAL 2017
THE UNDERBELLY EXPERIENCE
Deborah Locke was a gutsy young city detective who began her career in 1984, working in the Kings Cross Drug Squad. Deborah witnessed widespread police corruption and bribery, involving crooked detectives associating freely with colourful members of Sydney’s underworld.
On her way to work, the prostitutes on Darlinghurst Road would tell her “I’ve already paid Sergeant so-and-so today…be careful of the blokes you are working with” an understatement which later led to Deborah risking her life to expose police corruption. Her bestselling book Watching the Detectives, inspired Nine’s television drama Underbelly: The Golden Mile.
Join Kate McClymont as she interviews Author Deborah Locke and Writer-Producer Greg Haddrick of Underbelly: The Golden Mile. Sunday 11th June 2017.
Host: Kate McClymont
Guest: Deborah Locke and Greg Haddrick
A proud mum with her two girls, Bronte and Vanessa. So grateful I got to see them grow up to become beautiful strong women. So glad to be still standing and up the Cross with them under better circumstances.
Radio interview with OLIVIA ANSELL 2017
A Current Affair
BURLEIGH SURF CLUB, GOODWIN TERRACE – 2018
Deborah will be available for signed copies of her book – Watching the Detectives. Great Christmas gift for only $30. This book was the underpinning for Underbelly 3 – the golden mile television series.
A compelling story of how one woman took on the NSW Police Force to expose the corruption that ultimately led to the Wood Royal Commission.
Watching the Detectives is Deborah Locke’s compelling and very personal story of her life in the NSW Police Force – the years of corruption and the consequences of whistleblowing. Deb also weaves her quite tragic upbringing into the story, sharing with us a life of immense hardship, growing up with alcoholic parents. How she coped with this situation as well as the ongoing harassment in the Force is the stuff of fiction. TV. Unreal. But it did happen, and she had the courage to do something about it.
