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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National

'He died in my lap': why the National Police Memorial is so important to Mick Keelty

On January 2, 1989, NSW Homicide Squad detective Risto Baltoski and I were driving in separate police cars to Adelaide to continue an investigation into Italian organised crime when Risto was involved in a head-on collision on the Sturt Highway.

It happened exactly halfway between Balranald and Hay, in the piercing heat of the Hay Plains.

Former AFP commissioner Mick Keelty, officers at the National Police Memorial. Pictures by Melissa Adams, ACM
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