Special Operations Group

The Special Operations Group are ultra-fit, highly trained officers brought in to do the jobs other police cannot. Since he was a nineteen-year-old recruit with Victoria Police, Chris Glasl aspired to join this elite group - the SOG were untouchable, indestructible and bonded so closely together they were a brotherhood like no other. But when Chris achieved his dream in 1994, the brotherhood he thought he was joining didn't exist.
 
Special Operations Group is Chris's story of his life in the SOG - where solidarity, camaraderie and loyalties were undermined by bullying, bastardisation, drug use, lies and betrayal. It is a raw, behind-the-scenes look at what went on at the SOG, and a gripping account of major jobs he attended: fatal shootings, a triple murder, a 100-million-dollar drug bust and the Port Arthur massacre, to name just a few.
 
For Chris, eventually the work, culture and his struggle with drugs and alcohol took its toll. This is a white-knuckle ride of a story as he tells it like it was and comes to grips with his past.

Chris Glasl was a member of the Victorian Police Force for 16 years and he spent four of those in the SOG. He is now retired from the force and living in Melbourne. Special Operations Group is his first book.