The execution of one of Australia’s most powerful organised criminals in Sydney last year has raised difficult questions about the role of police in preventing such deaths. Police recorded the alleged murder plot weeks before it happened, yet police faced a dilemma: Should they intervene? And if so, when? In the shadowy world of hitmen, where gangsters are both predators and prey, what risks come with letting these deadly games play out? In Silent Orders reporter Mahmood Fazal talks to contract killers and people involved in organised crime and investigates whether police have failed in their duty to protect the public.
