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Victoria Police "did not parent" violent youth offenders but are the ones being forced to deal with them, Commissioner Graham Ashton says, dismissing claims the force is being "soft on crime".
Topics: crime, police, states-and-territories, vic
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| UpdatedCommunities in the NT's Daly River region are mourning the deaths of three people who drowned after a four-wheel drive carrying 20 people was swept into a fast-flowing river.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, police, peppimenarti-0822
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Topics: police, death, darwin-0800
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An 18-year-old foreign national who died after falling from a 16th storey balcony at Pyrmont in inner Sydney this morning had been drinking, NSW policy say.
Topics: emergency-incidents, alcohol, police, pyrmont-2009, nsw
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| UpdatedPolice examine a Launceston house as the search continues for missing 22-year-old Bradley Breward, whom they hold grave fears for.
Topics: missing-person, police, newnham-7248
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Sydney's Australia Day celebrations have been marred by violent clashes between police and protesters at an Invasion Day march through the inner city.
Topics: police, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe new Commissioner of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force says the organisation is ready to stand on its own two feet and ensure peace and stability in the country.
Topics: police, pacific, solomon-islands
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A community backlash leads to the NT Police Commissioner reversing the decision to close the front counter of the Alice Springs police station overnight.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, police, alice-springs-0870
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Holidaymakers heading to lakes and dams in northern New South Wales during the Australia Day long weekend can expect to be checked for their water safety compliance.
Topics: dams-and-reservoirs, police, maritime, tamworth-2340, gunnedah-2380, inverell-2360
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| UpdatedVictoria Police again defends its actions during the Bourke Street rampage after revelations officers were warned late last year to take extra care when trying to intercept stolen vehicles.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedIn just six months an operation targeting corruption in the Solomon Islands public service has notched up three arrests.
Topics: corruption, police, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedDNA testing will be carried out on a set of car seat covers found in a disused septic tank in Brisbane's north where the 30-year-old human remains of Wayne Youngkin were discovered late last year.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, brighton-4017
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Queensland police release CCTV footage of a man wanted for questioning over the theft of two high-value watches from Brisbane jewellery stores.
Topics: police, brisbane-4000
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In the wake of the Bourke St deaths, Victoria Police's pursuit policy needs to be examined, and their argument against releasing it is infantile.
Topics: police, melbourne-3000
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The Illawarra Islamic community calls for increased protection following an attack on worshippers.
Topics: islam, police, gwynneville-2500
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Gold Coast actor Johann Ofner has died after being shot in the chest while Australian hip hop group Bliss n Eso filmed a music video at a bar in Eagle Lane in the Brisbane CBD.
Topics: police, brisbane-4000
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SafeWork NSW cracks down on the illegal sale of fireworks through social media in the lead up to Australia Day.
Topics: safety-education, police, industrial-fires, nsw, tamworth-2340
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| UpdatedThe man accused of killing five people and injuring dozens of pedestrians during a rampage through Melbourne's CBD is charged with five counts of murder.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, death, melbourne-3000
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Two police officers are taken to hospital after they were allegedly assaulted while trying to arrest a man and a woman who ditched a stolen car and attempted to steal another west of Brisbane.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, ipswich-4305
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government will establish a night court for magistrates to hear after-hours bail requests, as part of a big shake-up of the system following Melbourne's Bourke Street tragedy.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, death, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedPolice are treating the death of a man who tried to evade police by swimming more than 200 metres out to sea on South Australia's West Coast as a death in custody.
Topics: accidents, police, law-crime-and-justice, ceduna-5690
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| UpdatedThere are growing calls for a bush-based detention facility in northern WA, with young offenders, police and politicians agreeing children are returning from detention in Perth hardened and more criminally inclined.
Topics: crime, vandalism, burglary, children, police, broome-6725, fitzroy-crossing-6765, kununurra-6743, wa
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| UpdatedDaniel Andrews says it is his job to address the "anger and frustration" Victorians feel in the wake of the Melbourne car attack on Friday, but refuses to be drawn on how bail laws might be reformed.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, death, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe body of a man who ran into the ocean while being chased by police on South Australia's West Coast is recovered from the water.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, ceduna-5690
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| UpdatedVictoria Police members say the contentious no-pursuit policy is leaving police hamstrung, and needs a complete overhaul after the deaths of five people in a car rampage in Melbourne's CBD.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, police, law-crime-and-justice, laws, melbourne-3000