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Logan District police have released vision of officers intercepting a ute carrying a dozen people inside the vehicle, including several in the back tray.
Topics: police, traffic-offences, edens-landing-4207
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| UpdatedAn off-duty Tasmanian police officer investigates noises outside a private residence to discover his police car has been set on fire.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, lenah-valley-7008
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| UpdatedNT police searching for two men suspected of killing a cyclist in Darwin on New Year's Eve spot and then lose the suspects' car after a chase on Monday during which a patrol car is hit and an officer almost run over.
Topics: accidents, road, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, darwin-0800, nightcliff-0810, winnellie-0820, coconut-grove-0810
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Graphic footage shows Myanmar police officers beating villagers in Rakhine State.
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| UpdatedPapua New Guinea police are investigating yet another confrontation between the country's two armed forces, which saw gun shots fired early on New Year's Day outside a suburban police station in the capital Port Moresby.
Topics: police, defence-forces, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedPapua New Guinea police are investigating yet another confrontation between the country's two armed forces, which saw gun shots fired early on New Year's Day outside a suburban police station in the capital Port Moresby.
Topics: police, defence-forces, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedMyanmar's Government vows to take action against police officers who assaulted villagers in Rakhine State, after a video of the incident circulates on the internet.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, police, burma
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Video captured by EMTV shows a clash between Papua New Guinea police and soldiers outside the Boroko Police Station in the capital, Port Moresby, just minutes after the New Year.
Topics: defence-forces, police, papua-new-guinea, pacific
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| UpdatedPapua New Guinean police investigate a violent clash between the country's two armed forces, which saw gun shots fired in the early hours of New Year's Day in the capital Port Moresby.
Topics: defence-forces, police, law-crime-and-justice, papua-new-guinea, pacific
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The WA Government dismisses Labor's election promise of more 24-hour police stations as "shallow politics", but the Opposition says it is responding to public demand.
Topics: police, crime, states-and-territories, perth-6000, wa, ellenbrook-6069
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| UpdatedA 20-year-old learner driver returns a breath test of 0.187 per cent after being found driving the wrong way up a Melbourne street in the early hours of New Year's Day.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia, werribee-3030
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| UpdatedA Queensland police officer is in hospital with a leg injury after being hit by two cars driven by people leaving the scene of a break-and-enter north of Brisbane.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, cooroy-4563
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Most of the arrests are related to drunkenness, with the remainder made up of assaults, wilful damage and the theft of personal items, police say.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedOn April 13, 1997, 47-year-old Phillip Carlyle was found dead in an air-conditioning plant room inside his Robina office on the Gold Coast. Now almost 20 years on, police say they are preparing a brief of evidence around a suspect after adding extra resources to the investigation.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, robina-4226
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Police charge two men after an on-water chase on the NSW south coast which ended in an altercation where one of the men allegedly assaulted officers.
Topics: crime, police, law-crime-and-justice, sussex-inlet-2540, nsw, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Police believe that a device similar to a Molotov cocktail was used to ignite a fire in a Northern Territory tattoo parlour that severely damaged the family business.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, fires, police, yarrawonga-0830
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| UpdatedThe NSW Police horses are regularly exposed to loud noises, smoke, flashing lights and people in order to prepare them for nights like this.
Topics: police, animals, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA police dive squad finds a body believed to be that of a swimmer who went missing at a Queensland water hole on Friday morning.
Topics: police, missing-person, beechmont-4211
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The purity of methylamphetamine in WA is at the highest level ever recorded, prompting a warning from health authorities.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, police, community-and-society, wa
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| UpdatedPolice will be using buses and garbage trucks as safety barriers at Sydney's huge New Year's Eve celebrations, to avoid a Nice or Berlin-style attack on the crowd.
Topics: community-and-society, safety, terrorism, police, family-and-children, sydney-2000
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Facebook is a growing tool in the arsenal of police, allowing them to issue virtual wanted posters, search for missing people and build community engagement.
Topics: police, social-media, internet-culture, law-crime-and-justice, information-and-communication, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedThree men drown in NSW, on the same day the bodies of two missing swimmers are recovered, bringing the state's Christmas drowning toll to 14.
Topics: oceans-and-reefs, missing-person, police, maroubra-2035, sydney-2000, yamba-2464, tahmoor-2573, brighton-le-sands-2216, wagga-wagga-2650, nsw
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| UpdatedA woman is in hospital with wounds to her neck and another has been arrested over an alleged stabbing in suburban Hobart police say was sparked by a Facebook post.
Topics: assault, courts-and-trials, police, moonah-7009, montrose-7010, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedNorth Queensland police officer and former One Nation candidate Leanne Rissman is stood down after being accused of using her gun while off duty and affected by alcohol.
Topics: police, alcohol, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedA manager of a Wollongong charity feeding hundreds of people living on the poverty line has been charged with swindling thousands of dollars.
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, fraud-and-corporate-crime, volunteers, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, police, wollongong-2500, warrawong-2502