Bill Tilley is the Liberal Party of Australia

Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

 member for the seat of Benambra

Electoral district of Benambra

The Electoral district of Benambra is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is located in north-east Victoria and includes the towns of Chiltern, Wodonga, Yackandandah, Beechworth, Tallangatta, and Corryong...

 in the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Victorian Legislative Assembly

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. He was elected at the 2006 Victorian state election, beating Labor

Australian Labor Party

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 candidate and Wodonga

Wodonga, Victoria

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 mayor Lisa Mahood

Lisa Mahood

Lisa Mahood is a councilor and the former Mayor of the City of Wodonga and the Australian Labor Party candidate for the seat of Benambra at the 2006 Victorian State election....

 and former Nationals

National Party of Australia

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 Upper House member Bill Baxter

Bill Baxter

William Robert Baxter was a former Australian politician and the current Victorian State President of The Nationals. He was the Nationals member of the Victorian Legislative Council representing North Eastern Province from June 1978 until November 2006...

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Prior to his candidacy, Tilley served in the Australian Army

Australian Army

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 and then Victoria Police

Victoria Police

Victoria Police is the primary law enforcement agency of Victoria, Australia. , the Victoria Police has over 12,190 sworn members, along with over 400 recruits, reservists and Protective Service Officers, and over 2,900 civilian staff across 393 police stations.-Early history:The Victoria Police...

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Ballieu Government

Following the election of the Baillieu

Ted Baillieu

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 Government at the 2010 Victorian State Election

Victorian state election, 2010

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, Tilley was appointed to be Parliamentary Secretary for Police. On 26 October, 2011, the Office of Police Integrity

Office of Police Integrity

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 released a report into the resignation of Assistant Police Commissioner Sir Ken Jones

Ken Jones (police officer)

Sir Kenneth Lloyd "Ken" Jones, QPM was Deputy Commissioner of the Victoria Police and a former President of Association of Chief Police Officers for England, Wales and Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom....

 stating that Tilley had met with Sir Ken and Tristan Weston, a police officer on leave while acting as an advisor to the Police Minister Peter Ryan

Peter Ryan (politician)

Peter Julian Ryan is an Australian politician and leader of the National Party in Victoria. He has represented the electoral district of Gippsland South since 1992, and has been the Deputy Premier of Victoria, Minister for Police as well as the Minister for Rural and Regional Development since 2...

, to complain about the then Police Commissioner Simon Overland

Simon Overland

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. As a result of the report, Tilley resigned as Parliamentary Secretary for Police.