Former detective Tim Priest was one of the front-line cops who lead the war against crime in the drug-ridden streets of Cabramatta in New South Wales, Australia. This article was first published in Quadrant magazine. It is re-published here with the permission of Tim Priest. Tim Priest I believe that the rise of Middle Eastern organised crime in Sydney will have an impact on society unlike anything we have ever seen. In the early 1980s, as a young detective I was attached to the Drug Squad at the old CIB. I remember executing a search warrant at Croydon, where we found nearly a pound of heroin. I know that now sounds very familiar; however, what set this heroin apart was that it was Beaker Valley Heroin, markedly different from any heroin I had seen. Number Four heroin from the golden triangle of South East Asia is nearly always off white,…