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.

CHAPTERS

00:00 – Australia's bloodiest gangland war
02:30 – Street Crew
05:01 – Contract killings
06:49 – Innocent people murdered
09:50 – Alen Moradian
10:28 – Murdered in Bondi Junction
15:48 – Kill or be killed
16:50 – The Commission
19:35 – Police surveillance
20:08 – Murder plot
24:35 – Wave of violence
29:30 – The dilemma
33:05 – Police raids
34:00 – Ambush
38:15 – Should police intervene?

This episode was originally broadcast as ‘Silent Orders’ on 16 September 2024 on ABC TV and ABC iview.

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