 Arantz took his allegations to senior police but they were dismissed out of hand.Eventually Arantz, now recognised as one of Australia's pioneer "whistle-blowers", realised that Norman Allan (who had been Commissioner since 1962) was at least aware of the scheme, if not directly involved in it, and that he wanted to suppress Arantz's revelations.The frustrated Arantz created history when, through the journalist Basil Sweeney, he had official figures published in "The Sydney Morning Herald" showing reported crime in 1971 was 75 per cent above the figures for 1970.