A Very Cold, Cold Case
Barry Fay
- Category: Uncategorized
- Tags: Free To Read, Barry Fay, NSWPF, Bank robbery, Musa Adalis
Australian Police Journal - All Articles
Using Evidence to Inform Practice
Detective Sergeant Katrina Carr, Detective Senior Sergeant Kirsten Helton and Associate Professor Sarah Bennett
- Category: Sexual offences
- Tags: Free To Read, QPS, Sarah Bennett, Sexual Assault Investigations Training, Kirsten Helton, ISACURE
Retired Detective Senior Sergeant Barry Fay
The hard-hitting account of notorious crimes (including three murders) three years apart, committed by an uncaring and violent offender. The victims; a shop keeper, his customer and a police sergeant. A second policeman was shot and would most likely also have been killed were it not for fate. This article appeared in the September 2016 issue of the APJ, and is the feature subject of the APJ's second 'Policing Australia' podcast, released on 1 February 2021.
- Category: Homicide
- Tags: Shooting, Barry Fay, Keith Haydon, NSWPF, Mount Sugarloaf, Alexander Pietruszka, Berwyn Rees, Valiant, Bondi Junction, Christopher Greenfield, Raymond James, revolver, Waratah
A new (online) exhibition championing police service
Reece P Kershaw APM was appointed as the eighth AFP Commissioner on 2 October 2019. Prior to that Commissioner Kershaw spent five years as Northern Territory Police Commissioner, after joining the NT Police (from the AFP) in 2011.
The following speech was delivered by Commissioner Kershaw to the National Press Club on 22 July 2020. In the speech, Commissioner Kershaw outlines a new operational focus for the AFP; investing in the frontline and taking the fight offshore to outsmart serious crime.
Assistant Commissioner Stuart Smith
The amazing story of Australia's first detective; a man who first arrived on our shores as a convict!
- Category: Historical
- Tags: NSWPF, Israel Chapman, detective, Stuart Smith
News of a significant seizure of cocaine in waters off Australia's east coast.
- Category: Illicit drugs
- Tags: Maritime, Illicit drugs, drugs, Water Police, AFP, ABF, NSW Police, Tactical policing, HAZMAT, ADF
The image above is of an AFP recruit beret from 1982, now in the collection of the AFP Museum.
The West Perth Rapist
Tony Guerriero and Luke McCulloch
Police hunting for a sex offender in West Perth needed a break and that came after what appeared to be an innocuous vehicle stop. What eventuated from that interaction surprised everyone. The offender had used his knowledge and training as an employee of a bank, as a police officer, as a customs officer and as an immigration officer to commit a series of calculated offences.
- Category: Sexual offences
- Tags: WAPS, West Perth Rapist, Sex Assault Squad
From the December 2020 issue of the APJ
From the December 2020 issue of the APJ.
- Category: Police Memorial
- Tags: AFP, Australian Federal Police, Canberra, National Police Memorial, recruits
Pursuit and capture of the 'Pong Su'
Jason Byrnes
'Operation Sorbet' was the AFP name for the investigation into the importation of 150kgs (then worth approximately AUD$164 million) of heroin into Victoria just before Easter 2003. One offender died in the crime, his identity still remains a mystery to authorities. The most public aspect to the investigation was the pursuit of the cargo ship that had carried the heroin to Australia, the North Korean owned 'Pong Su'. This is from the September 2007 issue of the APJ.
- Category: Illicit drugs
- Tags: Free To Read, Search & Rescue, Maritime, AFP, Death, Jason Byrnes, Victoria Police, NSWPF, Tasmania Police, Pong Su, HMAS Stuart, Customs
