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Summary of fire investigations at Naval Air Station H.M.A.S. Albatross, Nowra on 4 December 1976

Detective Chief Inspector Harry Delaforce

A report on the investigation into what was the biggest peace-time act of destruction on Australia's naval aircraft.

Category: Arson
Tags: Free To Read, NSWPF, Arson, Harry Delaforce, HMAS Albatross, Nowra, Commonwealth Police, Grumman Tracker, Royal Australian Navy, RAN, Firefighting

Help! He’s Setting my Kids on Fire!

Jessica Elphick

Category: Police Bravery
Tags: Free To Read, WAPS, WAPOL, Police bravery, Jessica Elphick, Stephanie Bochorsky, Western Australia Police Union

Capital Protest

Extinction Rebellion protest closes a Canberra bridge

Category: Demonstrations
Tags: Free To Read, AFP, Canberra, Protests, General duties, Demonstration, XR, Extinction Rebellion, Search and Rescue Team

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Category: Shop
Tags: Free To Read, Challenge coin

Million-to-One Shot

A gun-fight with an amazing outcome. From the April 1967 issue of the APJ.

Category: Firearms
Tags: Firearms, Shooting, gunfight, Ballistics, Revolvers

New Podcast – A Commissioner’s Perspective

Category: Podcast
Tags: podcast, Mick Fuller, NSWPF, Policing Australia

A True Account of a Human Sacrifice

Superintendent H.S. Thomas

A human sacrifice and cargo cults. From the January 1972 edition of the APJ; written at a time when Australia was the colonial ruler of the territories of Papua and New Guinea, and when Australians held senior positions of authority in all government agencies, especially the police.

Category: Homicide
Tags: Homicide, Free To Read, PNG, Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary, Madang, Human sacrifice, Thomas, Black Rooster

Parliamentary Riots of 1996

Jason Byrnes

An overview of two violent protests in the heart of the nation's capital, at the pinnacle location for Australian democracy. The story was originally printed in the December 2003 issue of the APJ.