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Ron Iddles is a retired Australian homicide detective who was born in 1955. He is best known for his work on the Melbourne gangland killings and his commitment to justice and victims' rights.
Iddles began his career in the Victoria Police in 1975 and worked in a variety of roles, including as a detective in the Homicide Squad. He was promoted to Detective Senior Sergeant in 1998 and was appointed to the Homicide Squad in 2000.
Iddles was involved in some of the most high-profile cases in Victoria, including the investigation into the murder of police informer Terence Hodson and his wife Christine in 2004. He was also involved in the investigation into the murder of gangland figure Carl Williams in 2010.
Iddles was awarded the Australian Police Medal in 2006 and the Victoria Police Medal in 2011. He retired from the Victoria Police in 2015 after 40 years of service.
Iddles is currently the President of the Victoria Police Association and is a board member of the Victoria Police Legacy. He is also a patron of the Victoria Police Blue Ribbon Foundation.
Iddles is married and has two children.
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Iddles is also the subject of a 2017 book, The Good Cop, written by Justine Ford and published by Macmillan. In 2019, Iddles starred in a Foxtel Crime + Investigation series based on the book as well as a podcast series titled Ron Iddles: The Good Cop.
He retired from the police in 2016, but was enticed to come out of retirement to take up the position as Victoria's inaugural Community Safety Trustee, a role that involves serving as an independent voice for the community and overseeing the state's community safety budget. In 2017, he finally retired and moved to a township near Cairns in Queensland.
In 2015, Iddles was made a Member of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to the community. He is widely known as "Australia's greatest detective." During his career, which spanned 37 years, 25 of which were spent in homicide, he investigated more than 300 murder cases and hundreds of suspicious deaths. His homicide conviction rate was 99%.
Ronald William Iddles OAM APM is a former Australian police detective. His conviction rate was 99% and he was dubbed "Australia's greatest detective". After a career spanning some 43 years investigating serious crime, he took up the role of Secretary of the Police Association of Victoria between 2014 and 2016 He retired in 2016, but he was lured out of retirement the following year and is currently Victoria's inaugural Community Safety Trustee.
In 1989, he retired from policing altogether and began his own trucking business. In 1994, he returned to policing, starting out as a constable again. Within three years, he worked his way back to his former rank as a detective senior sergeant with Homicide Division where he was involved in investigating serious crime. In 2012, he headed up the Cold Case Homicide Division. He left Homicide Division in 2014 and became the Secretary of the Police Union, where he was instrumental in raising awareness of mental health issues for serving police officers.
Iddles joined the Victoria Police in 1972. His early police career was in the uniform branch working in and around Collingwood, one of Melbourne's inner suburbs and he was later transferred to Fitzroy Criminal Investigation Branch. He became a homicide detective in 1980, and his first case was the murder of 38-year old Thornbury resident Maria James on 17 June 1980 (which was covered in detail by the ABC podcast Trace in 2017-2018). During the 1980s, he was seconded to the National Crime Authority.
His interest in police work came from watching a long-running, local television drama series, Homicide (aired 1964–1977). He attended Echuca Technical School and after completing his secondary education, became a police cadet at the age of 18.
Ron Iddles was born in 1955 in central Victoria. He is the son of William "Bill" Iddles and Phyllis Iddles. He has a twin brother, Barry Iddles, and an older sister. His early years were spent growing up on a dairy farm in Rochester, where he assisted his father milking 120 cows before school each day, and on the weekends carting hay and driving tractors. He played football, as a ruckman, for the Echuca Football Club in the first XVIII while in his teens.
