Herald Sun| For years, Jim O'Brien was the man Victorian police chiefs called on to make the impossible possible.
No job was too big for the boss of the Purana Taskforce, including dragging back Tony Mokbel from Greece and helping end Melbourne's underworld wars.
Yet that expertise ripping apart drug rings and stopping violent crime doesn't help much when he tours Victoria's country towns.
O'Brien is in demand at the ice forums that are mushrooming across the state, where he hears a familiar and heartbreaking refrain.
Not only has ice become the most dangerous drug this state has faced, it has wormed its way deep into the football and other sporting clubs that are the lifeblood of country and regional towns.