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December 2013

  • VALE
    Paul Clark QPM (Former and third APJ Editor, 1964-1977)
  • ACT CHIEF POLICE OFFICER
    From Constable to Chief Police Officer for the ACT
  • CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
    The Hunt for Eryk
  • FORENSIC INVESTIGATION
    The Murder of Don Hancock
  • HOMICIDE
    Possessed by the Devil
  • HOMICIDE
    Operation Pitstop
  • APJ NEWS
    APJ Liaison Officers Team Build and Brainstorm at 2013 Seminar
  • APJ AWARDS
    Presentation of Awards for Prize Winning Articles 2010-2012
  • POLICE
    A Policing Career
  • POLICE TACTICS
    The Bad News about Good Police Tactics

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September 2013

  • POLICE DEATHS
    Vale Detective Inspector Bryson Anderson
    Vale Constable Casey Blain
  • CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
    Investigating Staged Crime Scenes
  • ROBBERY
    Caught Red-Handed
  • HISTORICAL
    Fatal Night in Fremantle WA
  • SEX CRIMES
    The Fight Against Sex and Gender Violence After Conflicts: An AFP Member’sInvolvement
  • CHILD SAFETY
    Protecting Children from Harm: Introducing the Daniel Morcombe Foundation ‘Help Me’ App
    Mobile Device app Helps Police Find Missing Children
  • ACTIVE SHOOTER
    Australia and New Zealand Counter-Terrorism Committee Announce Active Shooter Guidelines for Places of Mass Gatherings
    United States Active Shooter Events from 2000 to 2010: Training and Equipment Implications
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Active Shooter: Events and Response
  • SUICIDE
    Dead Men Can Tell Tales! Part Four
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Marshall Islands Police

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June 2013

  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Mobile Phone and GPS Jammers
  • POLICE – VIOLENCE AGAINST
    Alcohol and its Relationship to Violence Inflicted upon Police
  • HOMICIDE
    The Darkest Side of Human Nature
  • POLICE QUESTIONING
    How to Interview Witnesses with Communication Impairment
  • POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY
    APJ Photo Competition 2012
  • HOMICIDE
    Dead Men Can Tell Tales! – Part III: The Unpredictable Finger of Fate
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Timor-Leste Police

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March 2013

  • POLICE – QUEENSLAND
    Introducing Commissioner Ian Stewart
    Commissioner Bob Atkinson Retires
  • ARMED ROBBERY
    Bowling Bandits Meet the Jacks
  • DRUGS
    Kava in the Northern Territory – a Unique Situation
  • POLICE UNIFORMS
    New Victoria Police Attire
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    AFP Load Bearing Vests
  • DRUG TRAFFICKING
    Fly-By-Nighters 
  • AIRPORT POLICE
    Policing the National Community – The AFP’s Role at the Nation’s Major Airports
  • SEX CRIMES
    ‘The Little Pebble’
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Cook Islands Police

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December 2012

  • POLICE – AFP
    Keeping a Very Close Watch
  • POLICE – SOUTH AUSTRALIA
    Introducing Commissioner Burns BM, APM
  • POLICE – SOUTH AUSTRALIA
    Commissioner Mal Hyde APM, AO Retires 
  • HISTORICAL – VICTORIA
    A Grave Injustice: The Melbourne Police Strike of 1923
  • HOMICIDE – SOUTH AUSTRALIA
    A Person of Pure Evil: The Kapunda Murders
  • APJ AWARD
    Presentation of Award for Prize Winning Article
  • POLICE – AFGHANISTAN
    Objective Completed: Training Police Recruits in Afghanistan
  • HOMICIDE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    A Lesson in Murder: Strike Force Tenos
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Norfolk Island Police

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September 2012

  • AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    One Stop Tactical Shop
  • HOMICIDE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Her Name was Ebony
  • POLICE DEATHS
    Remember the Fallen – Senior Constable David Rixon
  • VALE
    Retired Sergeant Jack Dealy, ACT Police
  • AIR DISASTER
    A Country Town in Crisis
  • POLICE DEATH
    Time to Remember Police Trooper John Robertson
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    Less Lethal Munitions
  • HISTORICAL – NEW SOUTH WALES
    The Auburn Tragedy (Murder of Constable Samuel Long)
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Deception
    Partners & Crime
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Royal Solomon Islands Police Force

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June 2012

  • HOMICIDE
    All That Glitters Is Not Gold
  • POLICE – AFGHANISTAN
    Postcard from Afghanistan: Recruit Graduation – Afghan Style
  • SUICIDE
    The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
  • LAND MINES – CAMBODIA
    Western Australian Police Officers Join the Fight to Clear Land Mines
  • POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY
    APJ Photo Competition 2011
  • HOMICIDE
    Dead Men Can Tell Tales
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    150 Years of Service and Sacrifice
    New South Wales Police on Show at the 150 Expo
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Seven Bones
    The Cruel City: Is Adelaide The Murder Capital of Australia?
    Call Me Cruel: A Story about Murder and the Dangerous Power of Lies
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Samoa Police Service

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March 2012

  • POLICE – VICTORIA
    Introducing Chief Commissioner Ken Lay APM
  • EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
    The Pyrolysis Issue
  • HISTORICAL
    The NSW Police Force Celebrates 150 Years of Service and Sacrifice
  • POLICE OPERATIONS
    Innovation in Policing Major Sport Tourism Events: The Tour Down Under: A South Australian Perspective
  • POLICE WORK
    BBQ Pork Draws a Crowd!
  • POLICE – NORFOLK ISLAND
    Island Beat: Policing a Pacific Island
  • APJ AWARDS
    Presentation of Award for 2010 Photo Competition & Prize Winning Articles 2011
  • FORENSIC SCIENCE
    Australia Signs on to the INTERPOL DNA Database
  • POLICE QUESTIONING
    Ten Tips to Protect Eyewitness Evidence
  • CRIME AND CRIMINALS
    No Ordinary Sunday
  • SEXUAL ASPHYXIA
    Flirting with Death
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Jack Knife: The Crashing of a Policeman (NSW Police & PTSD)
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary

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December 2011

  • 2011 APJ PHOTO COMPETITION
  • POLICE UNIFORMS
    Modern Policing – Territory Style
  • NATURAL DISASTERS
    The Summer of Destruction From a Police Perspective (Queensland)
  • APJ NEWS
    APJ Liaison Officers Brainstorm at 2011 Seminar
  • MAIL
    Cruel Sea Coincidence
  • HOMICIDE
    Chilling in the Extreme
  • NATURAL DISASTERS
    Christchurch Earthquake
  • APJ AWARDS
    Presentation of Awards for Prize Winning Articles 2010
  • PIRACY
    Sea Piracy: What’s the Current Situation
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Vanuatu Police Force

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September 2011

  • NATIONAL POLICE REMEMBRANCE DAY 2011
  • APJ STAFFING
    Retirement of APJ Assistant Editor Alan Dew (Victoria)
  • POLICE ETHICS
    The Blue Code of Silence
  • POLICE DEATHS
    Queensland & New Zealand
  • FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
    Skullduggery
  • POLICE FIREARMS
    Victoria Police Issued with New Side-Arm
  • SEXUAL OFFENCES
    Uncontrollable Urges
  • WATER POLICE
    A Cruel Sea
  • AUSTRALIASIAN POLICING
    First Intel Kiwi Installed at AFP
  • POLICE SPORT
    Police use Soccer to Break Down Multicultural Barriers
  • POLICE INVESTIGATIONS
    A Smoother Path for your Investigations: Australian Federal Police International Network
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    On Killing
    On Combat
  • POLICE VEHICLES
    Ten Tonne Tactical Advantage
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Nauru Police

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June 2011

  • APJ AWARDS
    Presentation of Second Prize – Crime Sergeant Brett Smith Victoria Police
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
  • POLICE – NEW ZEALAND
    Introducing Commissioner Peter Marshall
    Commissioner Howard Broad Retires
  • INTERPOL
    From Vienna to Canberra – The evolution of Australia’s relationship with INTERPOL (1923-1975)
  • POLICE – NORTHERN TERRITORY
    E Pluribus Unum – Diversity turns out to be the strength in the Top End Police when it comes to law and order in remote areas
  • POLICE QUESTIONING
    Guidelines to Improve the Quality of Professionals’ Contemporaneous Notes of Investigative Interviews
  • SEXUAL OFFENCES
    The Insatiable Rapist
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    Victorian Police IN’VEST in Safety
  • APJ PHOTO COMPETITION 2010
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Tonga Police Force

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March 2011

  • APJ AWARDS
    Presentation of awards for 2009 prize winning articles and inaugural APJ photo competition
  • APJ INTERNET
    Major revamp to the APJ webpage
  • FORENSIC SCIENCE
    Forensic Dentistry and Microbial Analysis of Bite Marks
  • HOMICIDE
    A 1932 Cold Case Report (Was it a Family Feud or a Killer Unknown?) The Murder of Victor Claude Saywell
  • HOMICIDE
    Crocodile Tears – The Murder of Jodie Galante
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    The AFP’s Internal Secretion Cleaning Device (ISCD): Not all police work is glamorous!
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    Tactical Cops! Or Just Smart OHS. Introducing the NSW Police Force Load Bearing Vest
  • CHILD ABUSE
    Is That You Daddy? – A Typical Offender
  • BOOK REVIEW
    What the Mother Knew
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Recon Scout IR – Know Before You Go
  • FORENSIC SCIENCE
    Sweet Tooth Foils Robber

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December 2010

  • POLICE – TASMANIA
    Introducing Commissioner Darren Hine
  • POLICE TRAINING
    Modern Command Training: The New South Wales Police Force Approach
  • POLICE
    Courage Is Blind (United Kingdom)
  • POLICE DEATHS
    Rest in Peace Mate
  • CRASH INVESTIGATION
    Mayhem on the North Shore (6 dead; 4 critically injured)
  • HOMICIDE
    Who Murdered Eric? 
  • HOMICIDE
    Coward’s Castle
  • CHILD ABUSE
    Tips for Investigating Child Sexual Assault
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Gangsters’ Women
  • SPECIAL ISSUES
    APJ 50th Anniversary Issue
    APJ 60th Anniversary Issue
  • CRIME PREVENTION
    Crime Stoppers International – CSI – Making the World a Safer Place
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Regional Assistance Mission Solomon Islands

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September 2010

  • NATIONAL POLICE REMEMBRANCE DAY 2010
  • HOMICIDE
    Cold Case – The Johanne Hatty Murder
  • POLICE DEATHS
    Remember the Fallen
  • HOMICIDE
    Murder Beneath the Pyramid
  • POLICE DEATHS
    ‘Together, We Remember. 50 Years On’
  • HOMICIDE
    The Murder of Constable Peter Forsyth
  • FORENSIC SCIENCE
    World First DNA Breakthrough for Tasmania Police
  • POLICE TRAINING
    Visualisation, or Mental Imagery
  • OPERATIONAL HAZARDS
    The Handcuff Sandwich
  • POLICE FAUNA
    Northern Territory Police Kangaroo

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June 2010

  • HOMICIDE
    Murderous Denials – The De Gruchy Murders
  • POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY
    APJ Photo Competition 2009 Winners
  • HOMICIDE
    ‘Mad’ or ‘Bad’ – The Murder of Pamela King
  • HISTORICAL
    The Kelly Hunters
  • FORENSIC SCIENCE
    The Inaugural John Harber Phillips Award
  • HISTORICAL
    The Justices’ Manual and Police Guide
  • BOOK REVIEW
    The Face Without a Name – Finding Jane Doe
  • RANK INSIGNIA
    Tasmania Police Service
  • POLICE FAUNA
    NSW Police Force Eagle

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March 2010

  • POLICE – NORTHERN TERRITORY
    Farewell to Commissioner Paul White
    Welcome Commissioner John McRoberts
  • APJ AWARDS
    Prize Winning Articles 2009
  • POLICE VEHICLES
    Fleet Management and the Multi-Functional Police Vehicle
  • HOMICIDE
    Evil Husband – The Murder of Jean Keir
  • DRUGS
    Does Anybody Win in a War on Drugs?
  • POLICE WORK
    Twist of Fate – WA Biggest ‘Unplanned’ Drug Bust
  • HISTORICAL
    Gunfight at Kentucky Creek
  • SUICIDE
    Fatal Consequences
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    ID Scanning Technology
  • POLICE (IRAQ)
    Training the Iraqi National Police – A Personal Perspective
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    The Second Father: An Insider’s Story Of Cops, Crime and Corruption
    The Chinawoman
    Razor: Tilly Devine, Kate Leigh and the Razor Gangs
  • POLICE FAUNA
    Platypus (AFP)

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December 2009

  • APJ NEWS
    Introducing new Assistant Editor Victoria Williams
  • POLICE NEWS – AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    Introducing Commissioner Tony Negus
    Farewell to Commissioner Mick Keelty
  • APJ AWARDS
    Presentation of Prize Winning Articles
  • POLICE NEWS – NEW ZEALAND
    New Zealand Police Museum
  • CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
    The Criminal Investigator
  • SEXUAL OFFENCES
    Drink Spiking – A Two Man ‘Crime Wave’
  • APJ PHOTO COMPETITION
  • CRIME – ALTERNATIVE SUBCULTURES
    Crime and the Contemporary Vampire Subculture
  • POLICE TRAINING
    NSW Police College – Celebrating 25 Years in Goulburn
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Generation Next: LAPD Prototype Vehicle
  • POLICE – IRAQ
    Training the Iraqi National Police – A Personal Perspective
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Compact Remote Operated Underwater Vehicles
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Outside the Law 2: Australian True Crime Stories
    Outside the Law 3: Australian True Crime Stories
  • POLICE FLAGS
    United Nations

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September 2009

  • NATIONAL POLICE REMEMBRANCE DAY
  • APJ STAFFING
    New Assistant Editor (NSW) Appointed – Greg Byrne
  • POLICING NEWS
    The Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police – Working Towards Safety and Secure Communities for all Pacific Islands Countries
  • POLICING NEWS
    A Bed Made of Money (Texas, USA)
  • POLICE DEATHS
    Remember the Fallen
  • APJ STAFFING
    Death of Brian Smith, Retired APJ Business Manager
  • HOMICIDE
    Kelly’s gone to Heaven
  • TERRORISM
    Home-grown Terrorism and Radicalisation Activities: More than Meets the Eye
  • HISTORICAL
    Sticks and Stones Won’t Break my Bones: The Story of the 1909 Broken Hill Miners Lockout
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    Principles of CBRN Personal Protection
  • CYBER CRIME
    Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud Scams: Perception and Reality
  • POLICE SPORT
    Australian Police Rugby Union Team Victorious over Royal Australian Navy
  • MISSING PERSON
    The Warrimoo Mystery: The Lonely Death of Audrey Mountford
  • HISTORICAL
    Slang – Used by Police and Others a Century Ago! – Part Seven
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Cold Cases: True Australian Crime
  • TACTICAL POLICING
    Operation: Talisman Saber 2009
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police

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June 2009

  • RANK INSIGNIA
    Queensland Police Service Rank Insignia
  • POLICE – VICTORIA
    New Chief Commissioner for Victoria – Simon Overland
    Christine Nixon signs off after eight years
  • HOMICIDE (VICTORIA)
    Asian Gangs Blood the Yarra: The Salt Nightclub Murders
  • TRAFFIC SAFETY
    Road Safety is No Accident
  • APJ NEWS
    APJ Inaugural Liaison Officer’s Seminar
  • EMERGENCY RESPONSE
    Flood Operations: Queensland
  • VICTORIAN BUSHFIRES
    Scorched Earth: Victorian Bushfires 2009
  • SEXUAL OFFENCES
    No One Heard Her Scream! – Gang Rape at Wattle Flats
  • HOMICIDE
    Death of a Drug Dealer – The ‘Ecstasy’ and the Agony!
  • GENERAL INTEREST
    Arthur Takes on the Riot Squad
  • HISTORICAL
    Slang – Used by Police and Others a Century Ago! – Part Six
  • AUSTRALASIAN POLICING NEWS
    ANZPAA: Achieving Excellence in Australian and New Zealand Policing
  • CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
    Man Hides Pigeons in his Budgie Smugglers
  • CHARITY AUCTION
    Centenary of the 1909 ‘Lock Out’
  • POLICE FLAGS
    INTERPOL

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March 2009

  • EDITORIAL
    New Editor – Geoff Norris
  • Cops!
    Inspector Dominic Wood – UK to WA
  • FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
    Forensic Anthropology and Police Investigations
  • APJ AWARDS
    Prize Winning Articles for 2008
  • ARSON INVESTIGATION
    Ground Zero Hero? The Hunt for the Blue Mountains’ Arsonist
  • HISTORICAL
    Slang – As used by police and others a century ago! Part Five
  • HISTORICAL
    Military Crime During WWII
  • MEDAL NEWS
    National Police Service Medal
  • BOOK REVIEW
    A Grain of Truth – How Pollen Brought a Murderer to Justice
  • RANK INSIGNIA
    Rank Insignia of the NSW Police Force
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Victoria Police

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December 2008

  • FASHION POLICE
    What the Well Dressed Lady was Wearing to Court 100 Years Ago
  • EDITORIAL
    Retirement Farewell from Editor Phil Peters
  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    Cops! – Commander Grant Edwards, Sport and Strength Help Make a Man
  • SEXUAL OFFENDERS
    A Glimpse into the Mind of a Predator
  • MISSING PERSONS
    The Baffling Disappearance of Kevin Beal
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    New Japanese Tow Trucks? Truly Amazing!
  • POLICE – NORTHERN TERRITORY
    Postcard from Croker Island, NT
    Postcard from Willowra, NT
  • CRIME
    Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards
  • POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY
    Cop Cam! – A Picture Tells a Thousand Words
    Gun Cam!
  • HISTORICAL
    ‘There’s Something Queer About Harry’ – A Woman who Lived and Killed as a Man
  • WILDLIFE RESCUE
    Crocodile Arrested and Taken into Custody
  • HISTORICAL
    Slang – used by Police and Others a Century Ago! – Part Four
  • POLICE TRAINING
    Exploding Some Myths in Police Education – Reflections on the Police Problem Based Learning Course
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Reasonable Doubt – Bizarre Tales of Death and Justice
  • POLICEWOMEN
    Policing New Territory – The 46th International Association of Women Police Annual Training Conference
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Tasmania Police

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September 2008

  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
    Constable Samuel Nelson
    Constable Brett Irwin
  • APJ AWARDS
    Prize Winning Articles
  • SPORT – SECURITY MEASURES
    Olympic Torch Relay
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Detective Senior Constable Valerie Wagstaff’s Story: A Change for the Better
  • HOMICIDE
    Murder at Koroit Opal Fields
  • POLICE – SPORT
    Australasian Police Basketball Championships
  • ANIMAL CRUELTY
    Broken Seals (The Prom Massacre)
  • HOMICIDE
    Where’s Michelle? Case of a Murdered Mother whose body has never been found
  • DRUG COURTS
    The Adult Drug Court – Police Assisting to Combine Justice and Treatment
  • HISTORICAL
    Slang – used by Police and others a Century ago! – Part Three
  • MAJOR EVENTS – SECURITY MEASURES
    Policing World Youth Day (2008)
  • POLICE PURSUITS
    Cocktail Cartwheel
  • HOMICIDE
    Copycat TV Killing: Suicide Scripted by CSI
  • CRIME
    ‘Steroids Made Me Do It!’: Auburn Westpac Bank Robbery
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Forensic Files: ‘The Lottery Kidnapping’
  • POLICE FLAGS
    New South Wales Police Force

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June 2008

  • APJ AWARDS
    Presentation of Awards for Prize Winning Articles
  • POLICE – TASMANIA
    Commissioner Richard McCreadie Signs Off Deputy Commissioner Jack Johnson Appointed His Successor
  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    Building Sino-Australian Relations: Tribute to AFP Commander Brice Steele
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Cops! – Senior Constable Paul Jones: A Truly Inspirational Officer
  • HOMICIDE
    They Walk Amongst Us
  • HOMICIDE
    ‘But Dad … What Exactly Do You Do?’ The Death of Francis Sale
  • RAIL DISASTER
    Off the Rails – The Waterfall Train Crash
  • HOMICIDE
    The Murders of Somjai Insamran and Phuangsri Kroksamrong
  • MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
    One Man’s Trash – Is Another Man’s Treasure
  • HISTORICAL
    Slang – used by Police and others a century ago! Part Two
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    Police Crash Puts ‘Xplore’ PC to the Ultimate Test
  • POLICE FLAGS
    South Australia Police

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March 2008

  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    The NSW Police Medal and Medallion is now available
  • POLICEWOMAN – VICTORIA
    Cops! – Constable Maha Sukkar’s Story
  • HOMICIDE RESEARCH
    The Murder of Overseas Visitors in Australia
  • ARSON
    North-Side Nostradamus Prophecy, Prank or Pyromania?
  • ARSON INVESTIGATION
    Tips for Police Investigating Fire Fighter Arsonists
  • HOMICIDE
    Cold Case – The Bonnie Clarke Murder
  • HISTORICAL
    Death Message from Across the Miles
  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
    Cops! – Retired Sergeant John ‘Jack’ Dealy
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Queensland Police Service

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