Boris Giuliano

Boris Giuliano
Police inspector Boris Giuliano
Born	October 22, 1930 (1930-10-22) Piazza Armerina (Enna), Sicily (Italy)
Died	July 21, 1979 (1979-07-22) Palermo, Italy
Cause of death	Killed by the Sicilian Mafia
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Police inspector
Known for	Police investigations into the Mafia

Giorgio Boris Giuliano (Piazza Armerina (Enna), October 22, 1930 – Palermo, July 21, 1979) was a police chief from Palermo, Sicily. He was the head of Palermo's Flying Squad. He was killed by the Sicilian Mafia while investigating heroin trafficking and money laundering. Not long before his death he had been one of the first Italian policemen to have attended the FBI academy at Quantico, Virginia. His son Alessandro became head of the Milan Flying Squad and arrested old guard Mafioso Gaetano Fidanzati in 2009, as part of the same operation Gianni Nicchi was captured in Palermo.

Before becoming a police officer he had many other professions: as a dishwasher in London, where he learned English, while studying at the university in Messina; as a seller of neckties in Milan; as the manager in a factory in Lombardy. As a boy he had lived in the Italian colonies of Africa, where his father served as an officer at the Italian Navy. In 1963, after entering the police, Giuliano was assigned, at his request, to the Flying Squad of Palermo. These were the years of what was called the First Mafia War between the Grecos the brothers Salvatore and Angelo La Barbera.

In 1973 he became deputy police chief under Bruno Contrada, who had created the section investigating the Mafia. They were dubbed 'B&B', Bruno and Boris. Together, they changed radically changed investigating methods: two meetings per day with all the officials to take stock of the ongoing investigations and share information. (Contrada was later arrested and convicted for aiding and abetting the Mafia).