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Man charged over theft of car with 3yo boy still inside
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A 32-year-old man is accused of stealing a car with a three-year-old boy asleep in the back from outside an East Victoria Park home, with the child later found safe in the dumped vehicle.
Topics: crime, police, east-victoria-park-6101, perth-6000, wa
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Police search for young boy missing at Moama Video
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Police are searching for a young boy missing at Moama, in southern NSW.
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Police Superintendent Paul Condon discusses the charges Video
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Police say a woman will be charged with the attempted murder of one of her sons in the Murray River town of Moama.
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What happens when a politician is referred to the AFP?
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The Human Services Minister has been referred to the Australian Federal Police, but what does this actually mean? ABC News political reporter Stephanie Anderson explains.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, law-crime-and-justice, police, australia
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PNG Hela Governor calls for Australian Police deployment Audio
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The Governor of Papua New Guinea's Hela province has appealed for Australian Federal Police to help end the lawlessness in the province, which he says has reached crisis point.
Topics: police, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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Boy feared drowned in Murray River, brother in hospital as mother arrested
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A nine-year-old boy is in hospital and police are continuing a search for his five-year-old brother who is feared drowned in the Murray River.
Topics: police, moama-2731
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Man arrested over fatal squatters fire in Melbourne's inner west
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A man is arrested over Wednesday night's fatal squatters fire at a former factory in Melbourne's inner west, in which the bodies of three people were found.
Topics: fires, police, arson, homelessness, footscray-3011
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Minister referred to police over release of Centrelink details
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Labor MP Linda Burney asks the Australian Federal Police to determine whether Human Services Minister Alan Tudge broke the law by disclosing a welfare recipient's personal information to a journalist.
Topics: welfare, community-and-society, police, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, australia
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Ex-Army sergeant jailed for murder near Newcastle
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A decorated ex-Army sergeant has been told to 'rot in hell' after being jailed in Newcastle for a 2014 stabbing murder.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, police, windale-2306, newcastle-2300
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'Motivated by reward': Hong Kong man jailed over record WA ice haul
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A Hong Kong man caught with more than 300 kilograms of methylamphetamine — the largest seizure of the drug in Western Australia — will have to spend at least 18 years behind bars.
Topics: drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, courts-and-trials, police, perth-6000, wa, canning-vale-6155, south-hedland-6722
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Reporting crime in Tasmania goes online
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Tasmanians are now able to report crime at the click of a button after the launch of a local Crime Stoppers website, with the potential for video to be uploaded down the track.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, tas
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Calf shooting has WA police appealing for information
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Augusta police are investigating the random shooting of a three-week-old calf in WA's south-west.
Topics: police, animal-welfare, livestock-welfare, scott-river-6288, albany-6330
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Man's body found after kayak capsized in WA's Murchison River
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The body of a man who disappeared while kayaking on the Murchison River in Western Australia's Mid West is found about six kilometres west of where he capsized.
Topics: death, missing-person, police, ajana-6532, kalbarri-6536
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Man crushed to death on barge in Sydney
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A man is killed after being struck with a metal beam on a New South Wales Government construction site at Barangaroo, near Sydney's Darling Harbour.
Topics: workplace, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, work, death, police, millers-point-2000, sydney-2000
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Vision from a demonstration of 3D printed firearms in 2013. Video
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Sicen Sun, 27, was arrested and charged with various offences relating to the manufacture of firearms using a 3D printer. after detectives searched his Waverley unit in Sydney's east.
Topics: courts-and-trials, police, computers-and-technology, waverley-2024
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Lloyd Rayney suffered 'stain on reputation', defamation trial hears
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Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney suffered a "dreadful stain on his reputation" after being named as a suspect in his wife's death, the WA Supreme Court is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, police, perth-6000, kings-park-6005, como-6152
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Defamed? How the case against Rayney unfolded
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The murder of court registrar Corryn Rayney was one of the biggest legal cases ever heard in Perth, both in the scope of its criminal investigation, and the closeness of the media coverage.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, police, perth-6000, wa
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Rayney seeks redress over police 'prime and only suspect' claim
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Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney was cleared of murdering his wife Corryn five years after her body was found buried in Kings Park — and is now launching a multi-million-dollar defamation case against the state of WA.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, police, perth-6000, wa, kings-park-6005
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French President Francois Hollande stops speaking when he hears gunfire Video
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A police sharpshooter accidentally wounded two people as French President Francois Hollande was giving a speech in the south-west of France.
Topics: police, government-and-politics, world-politics, france
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Why didn't police share 'bomb' reports in Sydney siege?
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The AFP had two intelligence reports assessing the backpack "bomb" worn by Sydney siege gunman Man Haron Monis during the 17-hour attack, but the inquest heard they were not shared with the NSW police running the operation.
Topics: police-sieges, police, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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Police to lay murder charge over 2015 crash into river
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New South Wales Police plan to charge a Queensland man with the murder of a woman, who died days after the car she was a passenger in veered off a road and plunged into the Tweed River two years ago.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, police, tumbulgum-2490, nsw, qld, bonogin-4213
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Detective fined for using device to track mate's girlfriend wins appeal
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A West Australian police officer convicted two years ago of unlawfully using a tracking device to monitor a mate's girlfriend is awarded almost $15,000 in legal costs after successfully appealing against the decision.
Topics: police, courts-and-trials, perth-6000, wa
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Elderly Dutch woman Annie being arrested image
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Topics: offbeat, police, human-interest, netherlands
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Criminal offender rate up 8 per cent in WA
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WA's criminal offender rate surges 8 per cent, bucking a nationwide decline, with police suggesting the spike could be related to the high rate of ice use in the state.
Topics: crime, police, perth-6000, wa
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