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Australian police and policing

News, comment and analysis on the Australian federal police (AFP) and state and territory police forces
  • A gas burner on a stove

    Shadow energy minister says system in ‘dire trouble’ – as it happened

  • A glimpse of Wreck beach from the Great Ocean Walk

    Two people found dead on a walking track in Victoria’s Otway Ranges

  • Robert Rickerby arrives at the supreme court of Victoria in Melbourne on Friday

    Man jailed for bashing Melbourne partner Jessica Geddes to death before collecting pizzas

  • A Queensland Police vehicle

    Tributes for Mackay woman Natalie Frahm shot dead in driveway

  • Police tape

    Man charged over alleged Queensland shooting murder lost gun licence three years ago, police say

  • Police are seen at the scene of a fatal hit and run in Blackett, Sydney

    Man killed in alleged ‘devastating’ road rage incident in Sydney, police look for ute driver

  • Screen grab from live stream of Krista Kach during siege in Stockton Australia

    NSW police forced to hand over ‘less lethal’ tactics manual to watchdog after woman’s bean-bag round death

  • Jack Karlson samples a succulent Chinese meal at the China Sea restaurant in Brisbane, where it all began – sort of – more than 30 years ago.On the 11th of October 1991, Jack Karlson was apprehended by Queensland Police at a Chinese restaurant in Fortitude Valley. Following a Shakespearean response from Karlson during the arrest and subsequent coverage from Channel 7’s Chris Reason (who, at the time, believed he was Queensland’s most wanted criminal) - a legend was born. Photograph by Jamila Filippone. Brisbane, Australia.

    A succulent Chinese meme: the real story behind Australia’s most bombastic arrest

  • The Queensland Police emblem

    Teenager charged over ‘vile’ social media post ranking female students at Queensland high school

  • Victorian premier Jacinta Allan

    ‘We failed to keep these children safe’: Victorian government to apologise for sexual abuse at public schools

  • Victorian premier Jacinta Allan.

    Victoria to raise age of criminal responsibility to 12 with no exceptions

  • A man against a festival background in police uniform with his hands in the air

    Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon’s double murder case delayed

  • Amber Haigh and her son, whose face is blurred, in an undated image

    Amber Haigh trial unexpectedly delayed after murder accused too ill to attend court

  • Robert Rickerby arriving at the supreme court of Victoria

    Man ordered pizza after bashing partner Jessica Geddes to death at Melbourne home, court told

  • Composite image featuring Russell Hill, a court sketch of Greg Lyn, and Carol Clay, over a photograph at Bucks Camp

    An affair, a hunting trip and two people dead at a high country camp: how the Greg Lynn case unfolded – a timeline

    The former Jetstar pilot pleaded not guilty to murdering Russell Hill and Carol Clay in the Wonnangatta Valley in 2020. Here’s everything you need to know in the lead-up to the verdict
  • Amber Haigh and her son, whose face is blurred

    ‘I lost a part of myself’: hope for answers as Amber Haigh murder trial begins 22 years after she disappeared

    Robert Samuel Geeves and his wife, Anne Margaret Geeves, are accused in the NSW trial that begins on Monday. They have pleaded not guilty
  • Melbourne woman Maria James.

    Police offer $1m reward to solve murder of Maria James inside Melbourne bookshop

    Catholic priest Anthony Bongiorno and Peter Keogh, both dead, previously named as persons of interest
  • A court sketch of Greg Lynn.

    Greg Lynn trial: jury retires to consider verdict in high country murders of Russell Hill and Carol Clay

    Jury expected to return on Monday to deliberate over former pilot who has pleaded not guilty to double murder
  • Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel during a sermon in a Wakeley church

    Teen charged with attempted murder over alleged stabbing of Wakeley bishop

    Investigators found 52,000 images and 7,500 videos on teenager’s phone, which will require a terrorism evidence notice to access
  • Two NSW police officers have been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm against a 92-year-old man.

    Two NSW police officers charged with assaulting 92-year-old man in Sydney

    Elderly man taken to hospital with a broken elbow and bruising after alleged assault in Picton, police say
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