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December 2025

  • AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    Welcome to AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett APM
  • AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    Farewell to AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw APM
  • NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE FORCE
    Welcome to NSWPF Commissioner Mal Lanyon APM
  • NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE FORCE
    Farewell to NSWPF Commissioner Karen Webb APM
  • REMEMBRANCE DAY
    Hasten the Dawn – Curtis Cheng
  • HOMICIDE
    Everyone Matters or No One Matters
  • PUBLIC ORDER RESPONSE TEAM
    Public Order Response Team (PORT) – The History
  • POLICE DEATHS
    Porepunkah – Too Much Blue Blood
  • POEM
    26 August 2025 – ‘Please No’
  • SOVEREIGN CITIZENS
    The Sovereign Threat
  • FRAUD
    The Shimming Swindlers – Operation Helsing
  • POLICE AWARDS
    Respect and Honour
  • POLICE TATTOO
    Pacific Police United in Music and Song
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Homo Criminalis – How Crime Organises the World
  • APJ UNSOLVED
    What Happened to Nancy?

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September 2025

  • REMEBRANCE
    National Police Remembrance Day
  • VICTORIA POLICE
    Welcome to Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush CNZM
  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
    Vale, Constable Keith Anthony Smith
  • POLICE MEMORIAL
    Blue Blood
  • CHILD EXPLOITATION
    Danger_33
  • ACCIDENTAL DEATHS
    Deadly Call of Nature
  • TERRORISM
    Armenian Terrorism in Australia
  • FORENSICS
    To Catch a Rapist
  • MOUNTED POLICE
    New Home for the ‘Police Greys’
  • HISTORICAL POLICE DEATHS
    Policing Australia’s Wild West
  • REMEBRANCE
    Vale, Special Constable Noel Johnson
  • AWARDS
    APJ Prize Winning Articles for 2024
  • BOOK REVIEW
    The Politics of Police Diplomacy – The Australian Experience
  • APJ UNSOLVED
    Reward for Frank Newbery’s Murder

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March 2022

  • EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
    APJ Editor Vacancy
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    NSW Police Force Welcomes Commissioner Karen Webb APM
  • POLICE – NEW ZEALAND
    Reflection: New Zealand Police Commissioner Andrew Coster
  • HIGHWAY PATROL – HEAVY VEHICLE SPEED ENFORCEMENT
    100 Speed Limited (or Not)
  • POLICE BRAVERY
    ‘Help! He’s Setting My Kids on Fire!’
  • HOMICIDE
    Murder, Manhunt and a Move Audition
  • PROPERTY THEFT
    A Thief in the Night
  • POLICE HUMOUR
    Night Shift in Bermuda
  • POLICE WELFARE
    Operation Soul Surf
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Blast from the Past

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December 2019

  • BREAK, ENTER & STEAL
    Travel all over the country side – Strike Force Chiver
  • OPINION PIECE
    Tackling Australia’s knowledge challenge
  • POLICE – WHY I WORK WHERE I WORK – KUALA LUMPUR
    An account of the work the AFP undertakes in Malaysia and other overseas locations
  • POLICE – VICTORIA
    The role and operations of the Victoria Police Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit (SIIU)
  • BREAK, ENTER & STEAL
    The Kareela Cat Burglar

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September 2019

  • SIMULATION TRAINING
    Police and Emergency Services Shine in Exercise Lumen Tenebris
  • HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION 
    Merciless & Cold Blooded: The murder of bride-to-be Stephanie Scott
  • HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION
    The Killing of Ting Fang
  • DECISION MAKING 
    Police Ethical Decision Making
  • HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION 
    A Prescription for Murder

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December 2018

  • AUSTRALIAN POLICE JOURNAL
    Farewell Editor Geoff Norris
    Farewell Assistant Editor Jason Byrnes
    Farewell Assistant Editor Greg Byrne
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Code of Silence
  • HOMICIDE
    The Murder of James Mason Johns
  • INVESTIGATING SUSPICIOUS DEATHS
    Homicide by Pushing from a Height
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Denny Day; The Life and Times of Australia’s Great Lawman
  • FIREARMS
    The Rise of the Workshop-made Gun in Australia
  • HISTORICAL
    The Cheshire Creek Trooper
  • POLICE MANAGEMENT
    Australian Federal Police Selection for promotion to Sergeant: Recommendation for a New Process
  • AWARDS
    Proposal for the Introduction of Meritorious Service Awards for Australian Police and other Emergency Services
  • BOOK REVIEW
    The Good Cop

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September 2018

  • POLICE DEATHS
    Always Expect the Unexpected
  • KIDNAPPING
    Snatched by a Stranger
  • POLICE MENTAL HEALTH
    Police Suicide – Implications for policy and practice police officers medically ready?
  • STRESS
    Burnout in Police
  • FRAUD
    The Changeling – A case of arrested development?

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June 2018

  • KIDNAPPING
    Almost Lost in Paradise
  • POLICE QUESTIONING
    iWitnessed – A Smart Phone Application to Record Eye Witness Memory
  • APJ PRIZE WINNING AWARDS 2017
  • HOMICIDE
    Triangle of Murder – Strike Force Chandler
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    ‘The Pursuit of Justice’ & ‘Terrorism in Australia’
  • DRUGS
    National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program
  • FRAUD
    Transnational Fraud on the Elderly
  • POLICE TRAINING
    Forensic Firearm and Toolmark Training for the Palestinian Civil Police

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June 2014

  • POLICE – NEW ZEALAND
    Introducing Commissioner Mike Bush MNZM
    Commissioner Peter Marshall MNZM Retires
  • INTERNATIONAL POLICING
    Delivering Security: Building Police Capacity – The AFP’s International Deployment Group Turns 10
  • FIREARMS
    Modified Glocks Seized in Western Australia
  • RESCUE – TASMANIA
    Road Crash Rescue – Volunteering at the Sharp End
  • POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY
    APJ Photo Competition 2013
  • HOME INVASION
    40 Minutes of Madness 
  • POLICE INVESTIGATION
    Death by Misadventure
  • CRASH INVESTIGATION
    Road Crash Trauma
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Milat
    The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama 
  • POLICE QUESTIONING
    Between a Rock and Hard Place – False Accusations of Sexual Assault and Law Enforcement in Australia

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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 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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