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December 2014

  • HOMICIDE
    The Milperra Massacre
  • MOTOR CYCLE GANGS
    The Days, Months, Years and Decades that Followed, The Evolution of the OMCG Culture and Sphere of Operation
  • MOTOR CYCLE GANGS
    The Brotherhood of Bikers
  • MILPERRA MASSACRE INTERVIEWS
    Former OMCG Member
    Chief Inspector Sam Courcoulos
    Former Detective Senior Constable Michael McGann
    Former Senior Constable Greg McMahon
    Former Detective Sergeant Trevor Baker
  • OMCG ACTIVITY IN AUSTRALIA
    South Australia Police
    Tasmania Police
    Victoria Police
    New Zealand Police
    New South Wales Police Force

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March 2014

  • APJ PRIZE WINNING ARTICLES FOR 2013
  • DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
    Be Credulous and Instil Faith
  • HOMICIDE
    The Case of the Case-maker’s Hammer
  • PUNISHMENT
    In Defence of Flogging
  • POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY
    Suburban Noir
  • SEXUAL OFFENCES
    For the Term of his Unnatural Life
  • POLICEWOMEN
    State of Policing Firsts Host Landmark Event
  • POLICE HISTORY
    The Body Snatchers – Commonwealth Peace Officers and the Peace Officers Act 1925

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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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The Murder of Don Hancock

A review of the forensic evidence used to support Operation Zircon: the homicide of retired WA Police Commander Donald Hancock and Mr Lawrence Lewis

David Royds

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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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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 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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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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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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Asian Gangs Blood the Yarra

The Salt Nightclub Murders

Brett Smith

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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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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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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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