Don O'Halloran

Don O'Halloran is an Inspector with the Australian Commonwealth Police. He is the driving force behind the arrest of Thomas Morello and Giorgio Modafferi in the late 1960s and in the late 1970s, he leads an unrelenting quest against the mafia and Police corruption.

Militery Service and WWII
O'Halloran served in the Australian Army from 1933 to 1947. During World War II he served as a Major in 18th Brigade of the 7th Australian Division in the Second Australian Imperial Force.

He was involved in the 241-day Siege of Tobruk from the 10th April to the 27th November 1941. O'Halloran regularly lead succesful and damaging fighting patrols on Rommel's Afrika Korps, usually crawling for several miles then attacking with bayonets without shots fired. O'Halloran's made an impressive attack on the Germans when he stalked and destroyed three German light tanks, then went on to kill or wound the crews of 4 machine-gun and 8 anti-tank gun positions along with their protective infantry. In addition, O'Halloran damaged a German heavy tank then killed 23 and wounded 47 in the process of taking a German garrison while O'Halloran's patrol did not suffer any casualties. He returned to Australia in 1943, where he was appointed to the II Corps. He was involved in combat once again during the New Guinea campaign.

Police Career
After leaving the Army in 1947, O'Halloran entered the Commonwealth Investigation Service (CIS) which had been formed after the war with the consolidation of the CSS and CIB. During this time O'Halloran found himself in a fledgling new organisation which was run-down and largely ineffective with limited resources and its role was poorly defined. It was not until 1957, when the Commonwealth Police Act was passed, that O'Halloran found his roles and capabibilities expanding to investigate serius crimes such as money laundering and damage to/theft of Commonwealth property as well as assisting State Police agencies and establishing intelligence liaison posts overseas.

During the late 1950s and 1960s, O'Halloran was part of a Commonwealth Police Team investigating major gang related ctrimes in Sydney, especially the Carpenter Outfit and the powerful new Italian/Australian crime family headed by Bruno Modafferi.

In the mid 1960s the name "name" was assoicated with Bruno Modafferi and the Modafferi crime family. O'Halloran took charge of a team of Commonwealth Officers to investigate the extent of the mafia and mafia activities. Despite his best efforts, O'Halloran found the mafia to be altra secrective and it was not until the annoynomus drop of a general-ledger to Alovic Cranes (a mafia front company formed by the Modafferi clan) that O'Halloran was able to penetrate deep within the mafia by arresting Giorgio Modafferi and Thomas Morello.

Personality
O'Halloran is a patiant man but does have tendensies to show frustration during his investigations againt mafia operations in Australia. His personal distaste of Italians can be linked to many posibilies, mainly to the fact that he faught against Italians during the Siege of Tobruk. He does show the skilled ability to infiltrate a mafia safe-house unit complex during a raid agaisnt the Tehran Outfit to capture hashish, tactics he developed during his time in the desert during WWII.