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September 2007

  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
    Sergeant Colin ‘Col’ McKenzie
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Commissioner Ken Moroney Signs Off
    Cops! – Phil Peters, Editor – Australian Police Journal and Retired Duty Officer
  • POLICE DEATHS
    Remembrance Day
  • DRUG TRAFFICKING
    Sea Chase – Pursuit and Capture of the Pong Su
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Police Corruption
    Police Ethics Crisis in Law Enforcement
    Tasmanian Crime Stories
  • POLICE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
    Community Contact – The Future for Australian Policing and Technology
  • HOMICIDE
    Cold Case – The Unsolved Murder of Edgar Geer
  • CUSTOMS – AUSTRALIA
    Marine Patrol – The National Marine Unit of the Australian Customs Service
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Western Australia Police

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June 2007

  • APJ AWARDS
    Presentation of Awards for Prize Winning Articles
  • KIDNAPPING
    The Ghost Catchers
  • HISTORICAL
    Did You Know? Sillitoe’s Tartan
  • HOMICIDE
    Nigel Stiffe Murder
  • FORENSIC SCIENCE
    Forensic Entomology
  • HISTORICAL
    Loose Lips
  • POLICE QUESTIONING
    Recommendations for Eliciting a Disclosure of Abuse from a Young Child
  • HISTORICAL
    In Search of the ‘Butcher’s Ridge Bandit’ – Alan Torney
  • COUNTER TERRORISM LAW
    New Defence Force Powers to Aid Civil Authorities and Related Matters – Part 2
  • POLICE ATTITUDE
    The Copper
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Joanne Lees – My Journey – No Turning Back
    The Taxi Driver Killer
    The Rampage of Killer Kast
    The Thin Red and Blue Lines
  • CRIME
    Catch me if you can
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Northern Territory Police

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March 2007

  • POLICE POEM
    Angel on Highway 109
  • CRIMINALS – NEW SOUTH WALES
    The Notorious ‘Bobby’ Catman
  • STOCK THEFT
    Who are Ewe? – DNA Testing Proves Sheep Theft
    Outhouse Beef (or sometimes police-work can be dirty work!)
  • DRUGS
    When a House is not a Home: Asian Operated Hydroponic Cannabis Cultivation
    Random Drug Testing of Drivers in Victoria
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Road Safety – Strategies and Solutions
  • SUICIDE
    Peace in the Mountains
  • COUNTER TERRORISM LAW
    New Defence Force Powers to Aid Civil Authorities and Related Matters – Part 1
  • CRIME
    Human Fireball: Divine Tragedy – Gabriella Mazzali’s Terror by Fire
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Australian Federal Police

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December 2006

  • NATIONAL POLICE MEMORIAL
    National Police Memorial Dedication Ceremony
  • POLICE – NEW ZEALAND
    Introducing Commissioner Howard Broad
  • IN MEMORIAM
  • HOMICIDE
    The Wickham Terrace Massacre
  • CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
    Who Do You Trust?
  • COURT APPEAL
    Walking Evil – ‘Fiend Will Die Behind Bars’
  • HISTORICAL
    Ned Kelly – The Murderer Unmasked
  • POLICE METHODS
    Strike Force Kamiri – Sexual Assault Investigation in a Remote Aboriginal Community
  • RAIL DISASTER
    Granville – The Day of the Roses
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Frontline Policing/ On the Beat and in the Bush (with Mr Bob)
  • POLICE METHODS
    CIRT – (Victoria Police) Critical Incident Response Team
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    Fuel into the Future
  • PAST AUSTRALIAN POLICE MEDAL
    Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal

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September 2006

  • ANNIVERSARY
    60th Anniversary Issue
  • HOMICIDE
    Who Killed Julie?
  • HOMICIDE
    Murdered Innocence
  • SEXUAL OFFENCES
    The Rydalmere Rapist – Opportunist or Gerontophile?
  • DEATH
    Hell’s Own Highway
  • HOMICIDE
    There’s Always a Clue
  • DEATH – SUSPICIOUS
    Mystery at the Bridge
  • HOMICIDE
    A Nightmare on Crown Street
  • COMMUNICATION
    The Guessing Game
  • FRAUD
    At What Price?
  • HOMICIDE
    Murder Never Changes
  • SEX CRIMES
    The City Stalker – Strike Force ‘Grahame’
  • POLICE MEDALS
    Australian Police Medals

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June 2006

  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    New AFP Shoulder Flash
  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
    Vale – Regional Kennedy (1921 – 2006)
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Cops! – Sergeant James Beatty Reg’d No. 1162
  • KIDNAPPING
    The Devil in Disguise
  • LEADERSHIP
    Strategic Leadership in an Policing Environment
  • POLICE METHODS
    Harm Minimisation – Different Expectations on Police
  • POLICE DOGS
    Seven Siblings Make the Grade
  • HOMICIDE
    Death by Reckless Indifference (Husband and Wife killed simultaneously)
  • POLICE – SPORT
    Victoria Police Soccer Club
  • ROAD SAFETY
    Road Carnage – Where’s the Motorcycle?
  • AUSTRALASIAN POLICE MEDALS
    New Zealand Special Service Medal recognises tsunami work

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March 2006

  • NATIONAL POLICE MEMORIAL
    National Police Memorial Website Launched
  • APJ AWARDS
    Prize Winning Articles
  • POLICE – UNITED KINGDOM
    The Richard Dimbleby Lecture by Sir Ian Blair, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service
  • CRIMINALS
    Crooks! – The Kelly Gang: Recalling the Kelly Outbreak
  • POLICE DEATHS
    Four NSW Special Constables Murdered in 1867
  • HOMICIDE
    Murder of Gong (Maggie) Qi
  • CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
    Childhood Animal Cruelty and Fire Lighting – Outward Signs of Inner Traumas
  • ARSON
    Look at What I’ve Done
  • HOMICIDE
    The Body in the Wheelie Bin Murder
  • HOSTAGE TAKING
    The Stockholm Syndrome and its Relationship with Law Enforcement Psychology
  • CRIMINAL LAW
    First Double Jeopardy Trial
  • RECENT DECISIONS
    Drug Dog Searches – Lawful or Unlawful?
  • SENTENCING
    New Approach to Criminal Rehabilitation
  • AUSTRALIAN POLICE MEDALS
    Victoria Police Star

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December 2005

  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
    Killer Found fit to Plead
  • POLICE – SOLOMON ISLANDS
    Introducing Commissioner Shane Castles
  • HOMICIDE
    History Repeats – Murder of Ronald Joseph Williams
  • BICYCLE THEFT
    The Bicycle Graveyard: From Little Things, Big Things Come
  • RECENT DECISIONS
    Sniffer Dogs: Evidence from over-keen pooch excluded
  • POLICE TEACHING
    The Manly Experience
  • GENERAL
    Chicken Thief on INTERPOL List
  • POLICE – VICTORIA
    Victoria Police Shrine Guards
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Victor Chang: Murder of a Hero
  • PERSONAL SAFETY
    ICE (In Case of Emergency)
  • POLICE POWERS
    New Commonwealth Laws Supporting Counter-Terrorism Measures
  • INTERNET – CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
    Child Pornography and the Internet – A Statistical Review
  • POLICEWOMEN
    Summary of 2005 Australasian Council of Women and Policing Conference
  • CRIME PREVENTION
    SHEDucation
  • AUSTRALASIAN POLICE MEDALS
    New Zealand Police Long Shrive and Good Conduct Medal

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September 2005

  • POLICE – NAURU
    Danger UXB!
  • POLICE – WESTERN AUSTRALIA
    Introducing Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan – New Breeze blows through West
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Cops! – Tribute to the Late Retired Detective Superintendent Ron Stephenson
  • POLICE MEMORIAL
    Proposed National Police Memorial in Canberra
  • POEMS
    A Soldier Died Today
    The Policeman’s Funeral
  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
    Introducing ACT Chief of Police Audrey Fagan
  • CRIME
    Infidelity can be a Dangerous Pastime
  • TRAFFIC ISSUES
    Driver busted with 26 people crammed in tray
    Man drives vehicle through procession
  • HOMICIDE
    Patricide – The Murder of Laurence Santos Snr
  • LAW ENFORCEMENT – UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task Force Chicago and Milwaukee Field Offices
  • HOMICIDE (POLICE DEATH)
    Murder Most Foul – The Murders of Trooper Frederick Henderson and Others
  • POISONINGS
    Affairs of the Heart and Poisons
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Milperra: The Road to Justice
    One Door Too Many – The Police Shooting of David Gundy
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Divisional Vans (Victoria) and Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (AFP)
  • AUSTRALIAN POLICE MEDALS
    Queensland Police Service Medal

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June 2005

  • CRIME REPORTING
    Long Distance Crime Alert
  • NATURAL DISASTERS
    Tsunami – A Police Perspective
  • POLICE METHODS
    Crime Scene Investigation – A One Stop Shop
  • POLICEWOMEN
    NSW Police Celebrates 90 Years of Women in Policing
  • HOMICIDE
    The Purvis Hit (Unravelling a Contract Killing)
  • CRIMINALS
    Crooks! – The Infamous Darcy Dugan
  • POLICE – TIME MANAGEMENT
    Time Management Tops for Police
  • FIREARMS
    Punt Gun – An Old Relic
  • AUSTRALIAN POLICE MEDALS
    South Australia Police Service Medal

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March 2005

  • POLICE DEATH
    Solomon’s Murder: A Tribute to a Slain Officer Adam Dunning
  • APJ AWARDS
    Prize Winning Articles
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Cops! – Inspector Don Eyb (Mounted Police)
  • HOMICIDE
    Forensic-Led Investigation – The Murder of Samantha O’Reilly
  • BALLISTICS
    Shotgun Booby-Traps and Warning Devices
  • HOMICIDE (POLICE DEATH)
    The Story of the Bega Bombing
  • IDENTIFICATION
    Robber’s Dandruff Costs Him 15 Years
  • RECENT DECISIONS
    On the Road Again – The Right to Drive Normally
  • POLICE WORK
    The Relative Hazards of Australian Police Work
  • DRUGS
    A Case of MDMA ‘Madness’
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Officer’s Life Hits Bookstands
  • AUSTRALIAN POLICE MEDALS
    Tasmania Police Service Medal

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December 2004

  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    New Police Vehicles (New Zealand and Solomon Islands)
  • HOMICIDE RESEARCH
    Contract Killings in Australia
  • ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
    A Tragedy on Two Wheels
  • POLICE POWERS
    Is a Police Officer Ever Off Duty?
  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    Fighting Crime Together … 25 Years of the Australian Federal Police
  • CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
    Child Pornography in an Australian Context – the Problem, the Legislation and the Offenders
  • APJ AWARDS
    Presentation of Awards for Prize Winning Articles
  • HOMICIDE
    Justice Too Swift
  • POLICE – JORDAN
    Another Day in Paradise
  • POLICE WORK
    A Police Prosecutor’s Bad Day in Court – The Breast-Feeding Defendant
  • AUSTRALIAN POLICE MEDALS
    Australian Federal Police Service Medal

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September 2004

  • POEM
    Police Remembrance Day
  • APJ AWARDS
    Presentation of Awards for Prize Winning Articles
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    In the line of Duty …
  • POLICE HISTORY
    Constable Michael Dwyer Story – Past, Present and Future
  • MISSING PERSONS
    Without a Trace
  • COURT PROCEDURES
    Tips for Police and Prosecutors in Large People Smuggling Trials
  • POLICE – HUMOUR
    Wanted – Good People for a Thankless Job!
  • POLICE DEATHS
    The Murder of Australian Police
  • POLICE HEALTH
    Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Police Officers
  • POLICE METHODS
    Police Contribution to Illicit Drug Harm Minimisation
  • INTERNATIONAL POLICING
    RAMSI Celebrations
  • AUSTRALIAN POLICE MEDALS
    Victoria Police Service Medal

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June 2004

  • POLICE – AUSTRALASIA
    33rd Police Commissioners’ Conference
  • DRUGS
    The Role of Police in Supporting Illicit Drug Related Public Health Outcomes
  • TERRORISM – AUSTRALIA
    24-Hour National Security Hotline
  • TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
    Heading ‘Em Off
  • IDENTIFICATION
    The Bone Collectors
  • ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
    Death by Misadventure!
  • POLICE POWERS – AUSTRALIA
    New Counter-Terrorism Powers for Airports, Diplomats and Others
  • POLICE INTELLIGENCE
    Geographic Profiling Using CrimeStat
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    The Scent of a Crime
    Murder in the Rain – The Horror at Glenore Grove
    Beyond Courage – Second Edition
  • INTERNATIONAL POLICING
    ANZAC Day 2004
  • AUSTRALIAN POLICE MEDALS
    Northern Territory Police Service Medal

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March 2004

  • OVERSEAS POLICING
    Reflections on Timor Leste
  • FRAUD
    The Prince of Love – Overview of Police ‘Operation Grenada’
  • POLICE AND MASS MEDIA
    What Kind of Dog? The Media’s Influence on Public Perceptions About Crime and Policing
  • EVIDENCE – COMPUTERS
    Collecting Evidence from Computers
  • IDENTIFICATION
    Shark Attack – Part 2: DNA on Human Intestinal Tissue Identifies Shark Victim
  • TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS
    Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) – A Clear and Present Danger
  • STRESS
    Occupational Stress Among Police Officers
  • AUSTRALIAN POLICE MEDALS
    Western Australia Police Service Medal
  • DANGER
    Lighting Strikes Only Once!

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December 2003

  • SOLOMON ISLANDS
    Operation: Helpem Fren
  • HOMICIDE
    Operation Tulip
  • DEMONSTRATIONS
    Parliamentary Riots
  • HISTORICAL
    ‘One of Us’
  • POLICE QUESTIONING
    A Guide to Introducing the Topic of an Interview about Abuse with a Child
  • ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
    Fatal Blowout (Tread Warily Near Tyres)
  • HISTORICAL
    The Way We Were (Paddy Wagon)
  • AUSTRALIAN POLICE MEDALS
    NSW Police Medal

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September 2003

  • AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
    Community Protection Medal
  • FIJI
    Introducing Commissioner Andy Hughes
  • POLICE METHODS
    ViCLAS response to – ‘The Hunters Among Us: Serial Killers’
  • POEM
    I Am – Remembrance
  • COMPUTER CRIME
    This Pen can Conceal Crime
  • HOMICIDE
    Unholy Offerings
  • SEATBELTS
    A Tragic Lack of Restraint – All Seatbelts are not Created Equal
  • ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
    An Enigmatic Death
  • POLICE METHODS
    No Secrets in Handling Informants
  • POLICE HEALTH
    Meningococcal
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Future of on Road Policing
  • POLICE ATTITUDES
    A Date with Destiny – 9/11
  • BADGE CALL
    Australian Protective Service

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June 2003

  • HOMICIDE
    Murder and Dismemberment
  • DRUGS
    Synthetic Drug Trends and the Mining Industry
  • DRUGS
    More than One Way to Deal with a Dealer
  • DEMONSTRATIONS
    Protecting the Right to Protest
  • STRESS
    Psychological Aspects of Stress
  • PROHIBITIVE WEAPONS
    Electric Shock Weapons – Stun Guns and Tasers
  • POISONINGS
    They Flypaper Poisonings
  • TERRORISM
    Terrorism 101
  • CRIME REPORTING
    False Reports in Stalking – Motivations and Investigative Considerations
  • CHILD ABUSE – RESEARCH
    Using the Internet as an Intelligence Tool for Child Protection Duties
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Islam in Australia
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Police Vehicles – NSW Mini Cooper S
  • BADGE CALL
    Australian Federal Police Senior (Commissioned) Officers Cap Badge

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March 2003

  • VICTORIA
    Victoria Police – The First 150 Years
  • HOMICIDE
    Stranger Danger
  • TRANSIT CRIME
    Transit Crime Prevention (Queensland Rail)
  • WAR CRIMES
    Enforcement of Arrest Warrants Issued by International Tribunals
  • POLICE POWERS – AUSTRALIA
    Post September 11 Legislation Supporting Counter-Terrorism Measures
  • POLICE ATTITUDES
    Remembering the Anita Cobby Murder Investigation
  • DISASTERS
    Canberra Firestorm – January 2003
  • BADGE CALL
    Australian Federal Police

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December 2002

  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Cars & Stripes
  • HOMICIDE
    All the President’s Men
  • CRIME
    Suzy’s Scars – A Kings Cross Brief
  • DISASTERS
    Granville Train Disaster – 25 Years Later
  • KIDNAPPING
    The Morrison Case
  • SERIAL KILLERS
    The Hunters Among Us: Serial Killers
  • ACT – AWARD
    Cop is Top ACT Citizen
  • SUICIDE
    Releasing the Demons – Mental Illness Leading to Suicide – A Case Study
  • SUICIDE
    Revolving Fortunes
  • SUICIDE
    Firearms Suicides: During Police Intervention in North America
  • BADGE CALL
    New South Wales

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September 2002

  • NEW SOUTH WALES
    Introducing Commissioner Ken Moroney
  • SPORTS – SECURITY MEASURES
    Condemned to Success – Building the Security Overlay for the XXVII Olympiad
  • POEM
    I Am – Remembrance
  • TERRORISM
    ‘9/11’ – The World Trade Centre Attacks
  • HOMICIDE
    Where did we go Wrong?
  • HOMICIDE
    No Man is an Island
  • NEW SOUTH WALES
    The Job
  • BADGE CALL
    South Australia

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June 2002

  • POEM
    The Path of the Fallen
  • QUEENSLAND
    Introducing Commissioner Bob Atkinson
  • NEW SOUTH WALES
    Commissioner Peter Ryan Signs Off
  • HOMICIDE
    Operation ‘Aquatic’ – The Investigation into the Ulricky Conway Murder
  • WAR CRIMES
    Crimes of War
  • HOMICIDE
    Fatal Odyssey
  • CRIMES
    Tales from the Crypt
  • ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
    Never Ever Give Up – An Investigation into a Fatal Hit-Run Collision
  • HOMICIDE
    Who Killed Billy?
  • CHINA
    Chines Police
  • IRELAND
    Garda Museum
  • HISTORICAL
    Memories of a Probationary Constable – 1949
  • AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    The AFP’s Dive Team
  • BADGE CALL
    Queensland Police Commissioned Officers’ Cap Badge

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March 2002

  • MEDAL
    The National Medal
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
    Introducing Commissioner Paul White
  • HOMICIDE
    The Murderous Reign of Daryl Francis Suckling
  • POLICE PROFESSIONALISM
    Police Professionalism and Education – A Queensland Perspective
  • CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
    Child Pornography and the Internet: Accessibility and Policing
  • ARSON INVESTIGATION
    Developing an Analysis Model for Wildfire Events
  • CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
    Online Services and Child Sexual Assault: Old Crimes – New Threat
  • DISASTER RELIEF
    The Salvos are Here!
  • AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
    The ACT Community Policing Medal
  • BADGE CALL
    Queensland Police

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December 2001

  • PRAYER
    The Police Prayer
  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
    Commissioner Brian Bates Retires
  • PUBLICATIONS
    US Research into Police Fatalities has Implications for Australia
  • E-CRIME
    Australian Policing Response to Electronic Crime
  • POLICE METHODS
    Zero Tolerance Policing – Firmness with Courtesy
  • SEX CRIMES
    Throwing Away the Key on a Serial Sex Offender
  • DRUGS
    Operation ‘Tendon’ – The Tiki Syndicate
  • HOMICIDE
    Friends
  • POLICE ATTITUDES
    When a Police Officer Dies – Part of Society Dies
  • OVERSEAS POLICING
    Australian United Nations Police Revisit Cyprus via Gallipoli
  • HISTORICAL
    You Can’t Beat the Cops!
  • POLICE REMEMBRANCE DAY
    National Police Memorial Given the Go-ahead
  • BADGE CALL
    Tasmania

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