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An Unexpected ‘Mayday’ in November

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.
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AFP Commissioner National Press Club Address

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.
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Catch Me if You Can

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.
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