Believed to be the highest serving Indigenous Police Officer at the time of his retirement in 2001, Col Dillon has faced racism and adversity head-on and has never shied away from exposing those who dishonoured his profession. Col Dillon was heavily involved in the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody. He was a vocal critic of the Beattie Government’s decision to scrap DATSIP (Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy), and recently quit the Department over the Queensland Government’s lack of response into the findings of the Mulrunji Doomadgee case. He is now pursuing a career in the private sector and has no idea what the future holds for him. From the Message Stick series.