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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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September 2020

  • POLICE REMEMBRANCE 
    Remember the Fallen
  • ACCIDENTAL DEATHS
    Dead But Still ‘Live’
  • HOMICIDE
    Lethal Injections on the Vulnerable
  • EDUCATION AND TRAINING
    Brain Fingerprinting
  • POLICE HUMOUR
    Lampooning Tasmania Police
  • EDUCATION AND TRAINING – RECRUIT TRAINING
    Recruits Prepare for the Reality of Policing

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June 2020

  • ATTEMPTED MURDER
    On Any Given Sunday
  • HOMICIDE
    Killer’s Clutch at Straws
  • APJ PRIZE WINNING ARTICLE 2019
    Black Widow Carer 
  • INVESTIGATIONS
    Working with Interpreters

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March 2020

  • POLICE STRATEGIES
    Developing Resilience in the Job
  • MOTOR CYCLE GANGS
    True Colours – The Power of the Patch
  • HOMICIDE
    Black Widow Carer
  • TRIBUTE TO MICK MCGANN
    Death of retired police officer and APJ author
  • SEXUAL ASSAULT
    How Persistence Defeated the Predator
  • POLICE DEATHS
    Courage Under Fire

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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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June 2019

  • HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION
    Ultimate Act of Betrayal
  • HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION 
    Where is Johann Morgan?
  • INVESTIGATIVE INTERVIEWING
    How Tasmania Police Have Achieved Breakthroughs in Investigative Interviewing Training
  • HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION 
    The ‘Mountains Murder’
  • POLICING STRATEGIES
    Disruption – What’s in a Name? The Evolving Concept of Disruption in Law Enforcement

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March 2019

  • AUSTRALIAN POLICE JOURNAL
    A Tribute to a Retired APJ Editor
  • ORGANISED CRIME
    True Colours: The Violence of the 1%
  • POLICE DEATH
    Incident at The Green & Cream Café’
  • HOMICIDE
    Killer Next Door
  • SEXUAL ASSAULT
    The Modus Operandi of Frank Patrick Bessant
  • BOOK REVIEW
    There’s Bug Guts on My Shoe

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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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December 2015

  • POLICE – SOUTH AUSTRALIA
    Introducing Commissioner Grant Stevens – Commissioning A Plan For The Future
    Farewell Commissioner Gary Burns – New Branches, Stronger SAPOL a Burns Legacy
  • CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
    Sins Of The Father – The Life and Crimes of Dean Stanley
  • POLICE – SOCIAL ASPECTS
    25 Years and GLLO-ing – A Special Anniversary Conference
  • BORDER ENFORCEMENT
    Australian Border Force Gets to Work
  • TERRORISM
    Countering Radicalisation and Violent Extremism
  • HOMICIDE
    Death in the South Sinai – The Murder of Xochi Kama Mace
  • STRESS
    PTSD – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Police Officers
  • CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
    Dead Men Can Tell Tales – Part Five of the Series
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Silk Road by Eileen Ormsby- Review by Denise Cullen

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September 2015

  • NORTHERN TERRITORY POLICE COMMISSIONER
    Introducing Reece Kershaw; Evolution with a Badge
  • VICTORIA POLICE COMMISSIONER
    Introducing Graham Ashton AM APM
    Victoria Police’s 22nd Chief Commissioner
  • HOMICIDE
    All for Nothing, The Death of Police Constable David Edward McGrath 1915
  • POLICE QUESTIONING
    The Truth About Lying
  • HOMICIDE
    The Mutilator
  • SEARCH AND RESCUE
    Lost Persons: Sometimes We Don’t Find Them

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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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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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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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