The comments come after Australian sport's darkest day plunged the AFL and NRL into crisis and rocked elite sport, amid revelations that entire teams doped.
Sports scientists, coaches and club support staff have orchestrated the drug use of players, aided by dodgy doctors, pharmacists and even anti-ageing clinics which have supplied new-age performance enhancing peptides and hormones.
Leading sports administrator Malcolm Speed said the introduction of state police integrity forces is long overdue.
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"Criminals don't come along with tattoos on their forehead telling us that they're criminals," Speed, who is executive director of the coalition of major professional and participation sports, told ABC radio.
"They're members of the community, they're often sports fans, they become involved with clubs or players.
"You can't expect sporting clubs to investigate their own supporters, they simply don't know who they (the criminal elements) are."
The head of the Australian college of physicians said clubs needed to leave injections to doctors.
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[date]25/04/2013[/date]
