THE "cultural adoration" of bushranger Ned Kelly led the three policemen murdered by his gang to suffer an injustice in death, Victoria's top cop says.
Chief Commissioner Ken Lay will attend a dedication service on Thursday of the graves of Constables Scanlan and Lonigan and Sergeant Kennedy who were murdered by the Kelly Gang.
Mr Lay says the policemen became nothing more than footnotes in history while debate raged on about the historical meaning of Kelly.
"It is a shame that in death, another indignity befell Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan and Scanlan," he said in a statement.
"They became pawns in the long-running historical conjecture about the meaning of Ned Kelly.
"In other words, they became nothing more than footnotes to the lives and excesses of those who killed them."
Mr Lay said the simple fact was that these policemen were asked to do a difficult and dangerous task because it was their job to do it.
"There was barbarism and loneliness in their final moments, and the cultural adoration of their killers doesn't change that," he said.
Mr Lay will be joined by Police Minister Kim Wells for the service at Mansfield cemetery, northeast of Melbourne, on Thursday afternoon.
Kelly was hanged in 1880 for shooting dead the three policeman.
He was laid to rest in January this year beside the unmarked grave of his mother at a cemetery in the tiny northeast Victorian town of Greta, not far from Glenrowan where he had his last stand in June 1880.
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