Ron Iddles

Ron Iddles 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 In 2016 he retired, but the following year he was lured out of retirement and is now Victoria's inaugural Community Safety Trustee.

Ron Iddles was born in 1955 in central Victoria. He is the son of William "Bill" and Phyllis Iddles. He has a twin brother, Barry and an older sister. His early years were spent growing up on a dairy farm in Rochester, where he assisted his father, with milking 120 cows before school each day, and at the weekends carting hay and driving tractors. He played football, as a ruckman, for the Echuca first XVIII while in his teens. His interest in police work came from watching a long-running local, television drama series, Homicide. He attended Echuca Technical School and after completing his secondary education, became a police cadet at the age of 18 years.

Ron Iddles entered the Victorian Police force 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. During the 1980s, he was seconded to the National Crime Authority. 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 the Homicide Division where he was involved in investigating serious crime. In 2012 he headed up the Cold Case Homicide Division. He left the 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.

During his career, which spanned 43 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%.

He retired from the Police force 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 2015, Iddles was awarded the Order of Australia (OA) for services to the community. He is widely known as "Australia's greatest detective." Ron Iddles is the subject of the book, The Good Cop, written by Justine Ford and published by Macmillan (2017).

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