Editing Peter Dutton (section)

===Police career===
Dutton graduated from the Queensland Police Academy in 1990. He was a [[Queensland Police]] officer for nearly a decade, working in the drug squad in Brisbane in the early 1990s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.peterdutton.com.au/MeetPeter/AboutPeter.aspx |title=About Peter Dutton|work=PetterDutton.com.au |access-date=21 December 2014 |archive-date=9 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509195611/http://www.peterdutton.com.au/MeetPeter/AboutPeter.aspx |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/guide/dick/ |title=Federal Election 2013 - Dickson Results|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=11 October 2013 |archive-date=12 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112064655/http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/guide/dick/ |url-status=live}}</ref> He also worked in the sex offenders squad and with the [[National Crime Authority]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/sky-news-the-bolt-report |publisher=Sky News|title=The Bolt Report |website=Whooshkaa |archive-date=22 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222193829/https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/sky-news-the-bolt-report}}</ref> In 1999, Dutton left the Queensland Police, having reached the rank of detective [[senior constable]].<ref name="King-2014" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Gothe-Snape |first=Jackson |date=11 May 2019 |title=Divided by politics but united by trauma |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-11/federal-election-peter-dutton-ali-france-united-by-trauma/11057856?nw=0&r=HtmlFragment |work=ABC News |location= |access-date= |archive-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111210954/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-11/federal-election-peter-dutton-ali-france-united-by-trauma/11057856?nw=0&r=HtmlFragment |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=19 July 2017 |title=Peter Dutton tough cop on the beat for new Home Affairs |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/peter-dutton-tough-cop-on-the-beat-for-new-home-affairs/news-story/b22103c11c28cc5be95ef065abdae9df |work=The Australian |location= |access-date= |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405104612/https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/peter-dutton-tough-cop-on-the-beat-for-new-home-affairs/news-story/b22103c11c28cc5be95ef065abdae9df |url-status=live }}</ref> Documentation filed in the [[District Court of Queensland]] in 2000 describes his resignation as being prompted by a loss of driving confidence after a [[car crash]] in August 1998. During a covert surveillance operation, he rolled his unmarked [[Mazda 626]] car while in pursuit of an escaped prisoner who was driving erratically. Dutton suffered numerous injuries in the accident, and was hospitalised briefly and bedridden for a week. He sought damages of {{AUD|250,000|link=yes}}, equivalent to {{AUD|{{Inflation|AU|250000|1998|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation/year|AU}}, from the escaped prisoner's insurance company but dropped the claim in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-11/federal-election-peter-dutton-ali-france-united-by-trauma/11057856 |title=Examining why Peter Dutton left the force reveals a strange coincidence |last=Machan |first=Emma |date=11 May 2019 |website=ABC News|language=en-AU |access-date=1 January 2020 |archive-date=28 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128173647/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-11/federal-election-peter-dutton-ali-france-united-by-trauma/11057856 |url-status=live}}</ref>