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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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Scientific Aspects of the Graeme Thorne Kidnapping and Murder

Detective Sergeant A.F. Clarke, Scientific Investigation Bureau, NSW Police Force
This is an abridged version of an article first published in 1963 (Vol.16, No. 3), and reprinted in part, in the APJ’s 75th Anniversary Edition (September 2021). It relates to one of the saddest and most infamous crimes ever committed in Australia - the abduction and death of a school boy by a man desperate to steal prize winnings from the boy's parents. Some additional comments have been inserted to provide context for today’s reader.
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The Mutilator

Retired Detective Senior Sergeant C.B. (Barry) Fay
The following case-history, about one of Australia’s first serial killers who carried out his nefarious activities around the Sydney business district decades ago, was originally published by the APJ in 1982. Since then a number of requests were received for the APJ to reprint the article in full for new subscribers. However, due to its length and the fact that a constant stream of interesting (serious crime) articles were being sent to us, their requests were put on the ‘back-burner’. Following the killer’s death in prison on 12 May 2015 and on reading a number of misleading stories that surfaced shortly afterwards about his mental condition etc., the APJ reprinted the article in its September 2015 issue.
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Why I work where I work

AFP Kuala Lumpur Post

Jason Byrnes
What type of work does the Australian Federal Police (AFP) do offshore? In 2019 former APJ Assistant Editor, and current AFP Superintendent, Jason Byrnes was approaching the end of his deployment as Senior Officer, Kuala Lumpur Post. Coinciding with the AFP’s 40th year, he was asked by the AFP History, Traditions and Museum Team to provide a reflection on his time in ‘KL’ and the work the AFP undertakes in Malaysia. This article was published in the December 2019 issue of the APJ.
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Always Expect the Unexpected

C.B. (Barry) Fay and Noel Johnson
A woman is raped, her abusive partner murdered, and two police killed, by a crazed man. The story highlights how police must expect the unexpected.
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