Detectives to join racing integrity team

Sunday 31 March 2013, 2:03pm

Racing Victoria has appointed two former police officers to its compliance assurance team (CAT) which has been behind a number of high-profile prosecutions over the past six months.

Former Victoria Police detectives Tim Robinson and Rhys Melville will join the CAT in May.

Robinson, a former member of the Purana Taskforce that investigated Melbourne's gangland wars, joins RV from Victoria Police's Racing & Gaming Intelligence Unit, while Melville, a 13-year veteran has been recruited from a Victorian regional crime investigation unit.

"Our primary desire has and will always be to ensure a level playing field for all participants and the Compliance Assurance Team play a pivotal role in ensuring that the minority that wish to cheat are brought to account," RV's integrity manager Dayle Brown said.

"Deterrence and detection are the platforms of our integrity program and these appointments will ensure the Compliance Assurance Team has an even greater presence in the field to build upon their outstanding work over the past six months."

The CAT team has responsibility for conducting raids on racing stables with a focus on preventing the treatment of horses in the 24 hours before they race.

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »