Former detective senior sergeant Bill Nash said his career remained tarnished by corruption authority inquiries over the leak.
Mr Nash was assigned in 2003 to review a police taskforce investigation into Denis Tanner, a former police officer suspected of murdering his sister-in-law, Jennifer Tanner, and transsexual prostitute, Adele Bailey.
He found taskforce head Insp Paul Newman and Sen-Sgt Marty Allison should have been charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, concluding they dishonestly strengthened their case against Denis Tanner in a number of listening-device and telephone-intercept affidavits. Neither was charged.
When part of his report concerning non-prosecution of the case was published in the Herald Sun in 2008, Mr Nash said he became the subject of an investigation, which remains unresolved.
He said he did not leak the information to the paper but the damage had been done.
Mr Nash said he had kept the victims, who were former police members, fully updated on the progress of the investigation.
He said this was done to ensure the alleged victims did not accuse the force of a whitewash of the matter.
"It was provided as feedback under the Victim's Charter," Mr Nash said.
The information was later published.
Mr Nash said he was disgusted at not having received his certificate of service because of the probe, which he said should have been sorted out either way by now.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman would not comment as it was a "personnel matter".
heraldsun 29 Aug 2011
Another story of corrupt police, that the government not only hides, but also supports via the corrupt court system, with the lack of incarceration time.
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