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September 2026

  • HOMICIDE
    The Wife Killing Spiv
  • POLICING
    Policing in the Northern Territory
  • MISSING PERSONS
    A Journeyman’s End
  • FIREARMS
    Ghost Guns: Firearms and 3D Printing: A Growing Threat for Policing
  • HOMICIDE
    The Strathfield Massacre
  • REFLECTION
    Patch to Patch
  • EDITORIAL
    True Blue
  • FORENSICS
    Forensic Botany
  • ROYAL PAPUA NEW GUINEA CONSTABULARY
    Air Wing: Taking Policing to the Skies
  • POLICE REMEMBRANCE
    The Patch Run
  • PRIZES
    APJ Prize Winning Articles for 2025
  • POLICE MEDALS
    Valour, Bravery and Courage
  • ANNIVERSARY
    The APJ at 80: A Curated Guide
  • APJ UNSOLVED
    What Happened to Eloise?

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Forensic Peacekeepers

Justine Adamek and Jason Byrnes APM

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March 2024

  • CEREMONIAL AND PROTOCOL
    Milestone for Police Service Awards
  • EDITORIAL
    From My Desk
  • SEARCH & RESCUE
    The Angry Sea
  • ROAD TRAUMA
    Crash or Accident
  • PEACEKEEPING
    Forensic Peacekeepers
  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
    Hasten the Dawn
  • ORGANISED CRIME
    Tobacco Wars
  • APJ UNSOLVED
    The Janine Vaughan Mystery

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June 2023

  • HOMICIDE
    Cold Blooded Murder
  • POLICING
    The Met – Lessons Arising from the Casey Review
  • HOMICIDE
    Kitching’s War
  • CYBERCRIME
    Script Kiddies, Happy Slapping and Griefers
  • HOMICIDE
    Total and Utter Evil
  • FORENSICS
    The Tip Off

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June 2021

  • HOMICIDE
    House of Horrors (WA)
  • CRITICAL INCIDENT
    30 Minutes of Forever (TAS)
  • HISTORICAL
    The Bridge Street Burglary of 1984: The Arming of the NSW Police (NSW)
  • AWARDS
    APJ Prize Winning Articles for 2020

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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 2015

  • FIRST AID
    Tactical Medicine in the Domestic Policing Environment
  • POLICE – EDUCATION
    Policing High Conflict Personalities in the Family Violence Context
  • POLICE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
    Policing Goes Viral
  • POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY
    APJ Photo Competition 2014
  • JUROR
    Sign of the Times
  • HISTORICAL
    Death of an Innocent
  • POEM
    Whiskey Bravo Two-Four, There’s a ‘10-9’
  • FIREARMS
    Guns on our Doorstep. Illicit Firearm Markets of South East Asia

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March 2015

  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    AFP Welcomes Commissioner Andrew Colvin
    The AFP Farewells Commissioner Tony Negus
  • POLICE – VICTORIA
    Chief Commissioner Ken Lay APM: Policing – a privilege never taken for granted
  • TERRORISM
    Attack Likely! Are you Prepared? Are you Alert?
  • DRUGS
    Death of a Dancer
  • FORENSIC PHOTOGRAPHY
    Locard’s Theory – Or Something Else?
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    Madame Kevlar
  • WOMEN IN POLICING
    NSW Police Force Celebrates 100 Years of Women in Policing
  • HOMICIDE INVESTIGATIONS
    The Weckert Murders
  • ACTIVE SHOOTER INCIDENTS
    Responding to “Active Shooter’ Incidents in Australia
  • FIREARMS
    Guns on our Doorstep, Illicit Firearm Markets of South East Asia

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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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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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Number 2 – 1992

  • POLICE
    Policing in the 21st Century
  • CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
    Interstate Inquiry – The Walsh Street Murder Weapon
  • FINGERPRINTS
    Micro Anatomy Solves a Problem
  • COMMUNITY RELATIONS
    Some Initiatives and Developments in Community Policing – Part 2
  • HUMOUR
    Blue Humour – Part 2
  • DISASTERS
    Nyngan ‘in’ the Bogan River
  • SLANG
    Slang Today – Gone Tomorrow

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Number 4 – 1984

  • NEW SOUTH WALES
    Introducing the New NSW Police Commissioner John Keith Avery
  • BOMBINGS
    Fewer Bombings in 1983
  • FIREARMS
    Is Complete Control by Legislation Possible and Necessary?
    Introduction of Stricter Gun Control Laws in NSW
  • IDENTIFICATION
    My Fingerprints? Of Course, I Lived There!
  • RESCUE
    Ambulance Rescue in NSW
  • HISTORICAL
    His Honour, The Judge
  • TRAFFIC
    USA Traffic Enforcement Techniques – Summary of Findings in Study
  • WESTERN AUSTRALIA
    I Remember … The Demise (?) of Billy Kublathanna
  • ADMINISTRATION
    Introduction to Police Administration – Chapter XVII – The Commissioner and his Duties
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Emergency Powers
    Psychology for Police Officers
  • POEM
    Introducing Miss Heroin

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April 1963

  • LEGAL
    Carelessness, Indifference and Recklessness: Two Replies
  • CRIME SCENES
    Initial Action at the Scene of a Crime
  • QUEENS POLICE MEDAL ESSAY
    Separate Traffic Enforcement Agencies?
  • METHODOLOGY
    Use of Aniline Dyes and Anthracene in the Detection of Petty Theft
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Garbage Disposal a Must for Bookmakers
    Gambler Takes a Gamble
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Firearms Identification
    Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction

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October 1961

  • LEGAL
    The Lawyer’s Approach to the Criminal Law – Part II
  • LEGAL
    The Philosophy of Tribal Law
  • ROAD POLICING
    Road Users and the Human Element
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    A Remarkable Impression
    Suicide by a Home-made Gun
    Specialised Unit Answers Calls of Search and Rescue
  • ROAD SAFETY
    New Ways of Carrying out Traffic Education of Children by the Norwegian Police
  • ROAD POLICING
    Alcohol as a Factor in Victorian Road Collisions

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October 1959

  • JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
    Child Delinquency
  • TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT
    The Kansas Highway Air Patrol
  • LEADERSHIP
    Leadership in the Police Service
  • PUBLIC RELATIONS
    Police and Public Relations
  • GAMBLING
    The Dice were Loaded and the Cards were Marked
  • WOMEN POLICE
    Women Police – ICPO Notes
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Skilful Police Tactics Pay Off
    Juvenile Crime not Worse than Usual
    When was a Smoke-Damaged Document Typewritten
  • FIREARMS
    Injury Caused by a Single Shotgun Pellet

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October 1956

  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
    The Public and the Police
  • INTERNATIONAL POLICING
    The Most Important Men in the World
  • FIREARMS
    The Use of Firearms by Police
  • MISSING PERSONS
    Child Missing
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Hamilton and Addison Criminal Law and Procedure
    Crawford’s Proof in Criminal Cases
    The Justices Acts of Queensland
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Car Camera Catches Offenders
    Division of Juvenile Delinquency Service
    Accident Investigation Squad (NYPD)
  • LEGISLATION
    Manner of Driving

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October 1953

  • EQUIPMENT
    Making Your Own Equipment – Part II
  • BOOK REVIEW
    The Colonial Police
  • LEGAL
    Traffic Offences – Criminal Responsibility, Civil and Criminal Negligence, Contributory Negligence and Manslaughter
  • EQUIPMENT
    The Telephone in Police Communications
  • MENTAL DYSFUNCTION
    The Straffen Case
  • FORENSICS
    The Functions of the Forensic Science Laboratory in Criminal Investigations
  • LEGAL
    Wilful and Obscene Exposure
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    A Homemade Pistol
    Death from Lightning
    Identification of Textile Pattern in Hit-run Investigation
  • HISTORY
    Police Establishment in New South Wales – Part I

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January 1951

  • TRAINING
    The Police College
  • HOMICIDE
    A Murder Investigation by the CID of New Scotland Yard
  • LEGAL
    The Law of Consorting
  • LEGAL
    ‘Peeping Toms’
  • PUBLIC RELATIONS
    Publice Relations
  • HEALTH
    Arteriosclerosis and Police Duty
  • HISTORY
    A Short History of Criminal Punishment
  • FIREARMS
    A Few Hints on Good Shooting
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    An Unusual Suicide
    Identification of Electric Wire
    Bullet Identification
    Identification of a Cartridge Case
    Bicycle Number Plates
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Gross’ Criminal Investigation
  • LEGAL
    Appeals and Prohibitions: Stated Cases, Law, Procedure, Reports Required – A Lecture

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October 1950

  • SUICIDE
    The Bungendore Bones
  • HOMICIDE
    The Devaney Murder
  • ROBBERY
    A Novel Disguise
  • FIREARMS
    Look to your Pistol
  • LANGUAGE
    ‘Barnacles’
  • FORENSICS
    Blood Tests and Grouping in Police Work
  • ROAD SAFETY
    Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor – Some Practical Points
  • CRIME
    ‘Peeping Tom’ – Habitual Offenders. Magistrates’ Powers
  • INCEST
    The Effect of Russell v Russell in cases of Incest
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Plan-Drawing Stencil
    Oblique Light in Document Examination
    Proposed use of Radio-Activity to Catch Thieves
    Comparison and Identification of Tool Markings on Wood

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