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June 2026

  • HOMICIDE
    A Sandy Grave: The Murders of Danny Wasley and Mark Banks
  • WATER POLICE
    175 Years at Sea: Celebrating Courage, Commitment and Service on Western Australia’s Waters since 1851
  • AWARDS
    A Hero Recognised
  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    Policing the Future: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Policing in Australia
  • INTERNATIONAL POLICING
    Troubling Times: The Royal Ulster Constabulary in “The Troubles”
  • POLICING
    Beyond the Badge: Police Retirement
  • SEARCH AND RESCUE
    When Seconds Count: Search and Rescue in the Wilds of Tasmania
  • POLICING
    One Small Step: Newman’s Space Debris
  • UNSOLVED
    What Happened to Harmony?
  • BOOK REVIEW
    My Life in Crime: A Tapestry of Cases
  • POLICE MEDALS
    The National Medal

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A Sandy Grave

The murders of Danny Wasley and Mark Banks

Detective Sergeant Lance Chaffey (Retired), NSW Police Force

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December 2022

  • WESTERN AUSTRALIA POLICE FORCE
    Welcome to Commissioner Col Blanch
  • TASMANIA POLICE
    Farewell to Commissioner Darren Hine
  • TASMANIA POLICE
    Welcome to Commissioner Donna Adams
  • POLICE BRAVERY
    Signal One
  • PIPES & DRUMS
    The Thin Blue Line Meets the Wall of Sound
  • POLICE DEATHS
    A Cop’s Cop
  • POLICE REMEMBRANCE
    Wall to Wall
  • TERRORISM
    Terror in Bali
  • THE GAMESMEN
    A Family Dynasty
  • CYBERCRIME
    Crypto Crime
  • DRUG LAW REFORM
    Decriminalising Illicit Drugs – 2023
  • HOMICIDE
    Ebony: 30 Years On

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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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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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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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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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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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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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October 1979

  • TECHNICAL
    Recorded Interviews, Law Reform and the Wonderful World of Electronics
  • DRUGS
    Phencyclidine (PCP) – Angel Dust Alias the Embalmer
  • FRAUD
    Fraud – A Sociological Approach
  • SCIENCE
    Microbes vs Missing Links
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    The Court is Open
    Police Institutions & Issues

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October 1976

  • DISASTER MANAGEMENT
    The Police Role in Disaster Organizations in New South Wales
  • SEXUAL ASSAULT
    Police Inquiries in Sexual Offences
  • DRUGS
    Turkey – The Licit Production of Opium and its Side Effects
  • ADMINISTRATION
    Giving Orders
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Sir Percy Sillitoe
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Infrared Light Sources in Police Surveillance

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July 1970

  • HOMICIDE
    The Barkly Highway Murder
  • DEATH
    Sentencing a Juvenile for Manslaughter
  • BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE
    Behavioural Science and Law Enforcement
  • CRIMESCENCES
    The Scene of the Crime
  • ILLICIT DRUGS
    The Psychedelic Boom
  • QUEEN’S POLICE GOLD MEDAL ESSAY
    The Exercise of Discretion in the Enforcement of Law
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Cannons and Mortar

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January 1970

  • ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES
    Team Building in a Police Organisation
  • LEGAL
    The Preparation of the Defence
  • TECHNICAL
    The Polygraph or Lie Detector
  • ROAD POLICING
    Drugs and Driving
  • SEXUAL OFFENCES
    The Police and Sexual Deviants
  • LEGAL
    The Role of the Clerk of Petty Sessions
  • PHILOSOPHICAL
    The Police and the Community
  • ROAD SAFETY
    The Shattering of the Windscreen
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Estimating the time of Death

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April 1969

  • COMMONWEALTH POLICE
    International Narcotics Control
  • UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Disaster Squad (Fingerprints)
  • UNITED KINGDOM
    Identification from a Bite Mark in Cheese
  • VICTORIA
    The Interrogation of Suspects
  • SPAIN
    The Body in a Fire Suicide
  • WESTERN AUSTRALIA
    The Police and the Public
  • TECHNICAL NOTES

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