Editing Leonard Douglas Brown (section)

==Career==
Len reported at 9 a.m. on the 23rd of January 1935 to embark on a 4-year training program as a Junior Constable at the Port Adelaide Police Depot. At the end of the 4-year period he was sworn-in as probationary constable and posted to Renmark in January 1938. After a 2-year posting at Strathalbyn as a constable, he was posted to Port Augusta as a plain-clothes constable.

It was in 1946 that he was then posted to the Adelaide CIB where he became a detective, and took on the Somerton Case in that capacity in 1949. He rose to sergeant and in about 1959 he was posted to Port Adelaide. As a sergeant, he was the officer in charge of the CIB at Port Adelaide.

In about 1960, he was promoted to 2nd grade sergeant and posted back to the city, rising to 2nd grade sergeant prosecutor and then inspector in 1961. In 1962, Len returned to the Adelaide CIB and was in charge of the Breaking Squad, Consorting Squad, and Anti-Larrikin Squad. In 1965, he rose to superintendent at the CIB. During the 1974-1977 period, Len was in charge of the Prosecution Branch. After 42 years service he retired on 31st December 1977.