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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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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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September 2014

  • POISONING
    Burning Inside – A Most Unusual Case of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
  • HISTORICAL
    Good Friday – Bad Sunday: The Murder of Constable George Doyle
  • POLICE SHOOTING
    Forced to Shoot!
  • SUICIDE
    Carbon Monoxide – Another Way
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Federated States of Micronesia

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September 2011

  • NATIONAL POLICE REMEMBRANCE DAY 2011
  • APJ STAFFING
    Retirement of APJ Assistant Editor Alan Dew (Victoria)
  • POLICE ETHICS
    The Blue Code of Silence
  • POLICE DEATHS
    Queensland & New Zealand
  • FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
    Skullduggery
  • POLICE FIREARMS
    Victoria Police Issued with New Side-Arm
  • SEXUAL OFFENCES
    Uncontrollable Urges
  • WATER POLICE
    A Cruel Sea
  • AUSTRALIASIAN POLICING
    First Intel Kiwi Installed at AFP
  • POLICE SPORT
    Police use Soccer to Break Down Multicultural Barriers
  • POLICE INVESTIGATIONS
    A Smoother Path for your Investigations: Australian Federal Police International Network
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    On Killing
    On Combat
  • POLICE VEHICLES
    Ten Tonne Tactical Advantage
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Nauru Police

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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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June 2010

  • HOMICIDE
    Murderous Denials – The De Gruchy Murders
  • POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY
    APJ Photo Competition 2009 Winners
  • HOMICIDE
    ‘Mad’ or ‘Bad’ – The Murder of Pamela King
  • HISTORICAL
    The Kelly Hunters
  • FORENSIC SCIENCE
    The Inaugural John Harber Phillips Award
  • HISTORICAL
    The Justices’ Manual and Police Guide
  • BOOK REVIEW
    The Face Without a Name – Finding Jane Doe
  • RANK INSIGNIA
    Tasmania Police Service
  • POLICE FAUNA
    NSW Police Force Eagle

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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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December 2009

  • APJ NEWS
    Introducing new Assistant Editor Victoria Williams
  • POLICE NEWS – AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    Introducing Commissioner Tony Negus
    Farewell to Commissioner Mick Keelty
  • APJ AWARDS
    Presentation of Prize Winning Articles
  • POLICE NEWS – NEW ZEALAND
    New Zealand Police Museum
  • CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
    The Criminal Investigator
  • SEXUAL OFFENCES
    Drink Spiking – A Two Man ‘Crime Wave’
  • APJ PHOTO COMPETITION
  • CRIME – ALTERNATIVE SUBCULTURES
    Crime and the Contemporary Vampire Subculture
  • POLICE TRAINING
    NSW Police College – Celebrating 25 Years in Goulburn
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Generation Next: LAPD Prototype Vehicle
  • POLICE – IRAQ
    Training the Iraqi National Police – A Personal Perspective
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Compact Remote Operated Underwater Vehicles
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Outside the Law 2: Australian True Crime Stories
    Outside the Law 3: Australian True Crime Stories
  • POLICE FLAGS
    United Nations

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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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March 2009

  • EDITORIAL
    New Editor – Geoff Norris
  • Cops!
    Inspector Dominic Wood – UK to WA
  • FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
    Forensic Anthropology and Police Investigations
  • APJ AWARDS
    Prize Winning Articles for 2008
  • ARSON INVESTIGATION
    Ground Zero Hero? The Hunt for the Blue Mountains’ Arsonist
  • HISTORICAL
    Slang – As used by police and others a century ago! Part Five
  • HISTORICAL
    Military Crime During WWII
  • MEDAL NEWS
    National Police Service Medal
  • BOOK REVIEW
    A Grain of Truth – How Pollen Brought a Murderer to Justice
  • RANK INSIGNIA
    Rank Insignia of the NSW Police Force
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Victoria Police

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December 2008

  • FASHION POLICE
    What the Well Dressed Lady was Wearing to Court 100 Years Ago
  • EDITORIAL
    Retirement Farewell from Editor Phil Peters
  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    Cops! – Commander Grant Edwards, Sport and Strength Help Make a Man
  • SEXUAL OFFENDERS
    A Glimpse into the Mind of a Predator
  • MISSING PERSONS
    The Baffling Disappearance of Kevin Beal
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    New Japanese Tow Trucks? Truly Amazing!
  • POLICE – NORTHERN TERRITORY
    Postcard from Croker Island, NT
    Postcard from Willowra, NT
  • CRIME
    Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards
  • POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY
    Cop Cam! – A Picture Tells a Thousand Words
    Gun Cam!
  • HISTORICAL
    ‘There’s Something Queer About Harry’ – A Woman who Lived and Killed as a Man
  • WILDLIFE RESCUE
    Crocodile Arrested and Taken into Custody
  • HISTORICAL
    Slang – used by Police and Others a Century Ago! – Part Four
  • POLICE TRAINING
    Exploding Some Myths in Police Education – Reflections on the Police Problem Based Learning Course
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Reasonable Doubt – Bizarre Tales of Death and Justice
  • POLICEWOMEN
    Policing New Territory – The 46th International Association of Women Police Annual Training Conference
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Tasmania Police

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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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December 2007

  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
    Constable Brett Irwin
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Introducing Commissioner Andrew Scipione
  • IDENTIFICATION
    Irrefutable Evidence
  • RECENT DECISION
    Skating on Thin Ice
  • POLICE – UNITED NATIONS
    UN Top Cop an Australian
  • FIREARMS
    Illegal Firearm Trafficking – A NSW Perspective
  • PUBLIC RELATIONS
    On the set of the new Crash Investigation Unit TV Series
  • POLICE – IRAQ
    Formation of the Iraqi National Police
  • VIP SECURITY MEASURES
    APEC – A NSW Police Response
  • HISTORICAL
    Slang – use by Police and others a Century Ago! – Part One
  • HISTORICAL
    Seventeen Steps (Hanging)
  • AUSTRALIAN CRIME AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION AWARDS
    Top Honours for NSW Police at 2007 Crime and Violence Prevention Awards
  • FIRE INVESTIGATION
    A Fiery Night in St Ives
  • ORGAN DONORS
    Organ Donor Registration
  • WATER POLICE
    Helping our Stranded Wildlife
  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    New Vehicle Markings
  • POLICE FLAGS
    New Zealand Police

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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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March 2007

  • POLICE POEM
    Angel on Highway 109
  • CRIMINALS – NEW SOUTH WALES
    The Notorious ‘Bobby’ Catman
  • STOCK THEFT
    Who are Ewe? – DNA Testing Proves Sheep Theft
    Outhouse Beef (or sometimes police-work can be dirty work!)
  • DRUGS
    When a House is not a Home: Asian Operated Hydroponic Cannabis Cultivation
    Random Drug Testing of Drivers in Victoria
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Road Safety – Strategies and Solutions
  • SUICIDE
    Peace in the Mountains
  • COUNTER TERRORISM LAW
    New Defence Force Powers to Aid Civil Authorities and Related Matters – Part 1
  • CRIME
    Human Fireball: Divine Tragedy – Gabriella Mazzali’s Terror by Fire
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Australian Federal 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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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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September 2005

  • POLICE – NAURU
    Danger UXB!
  • POLICE – WESTERN AUSTRALIA
    Introducing Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan – New Breeze blows through West
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Cops! – Tribute to the Late Retired Detective Superintendent Ron Stephenson
  • POLICE MEMORIAL
    Proposed National Police Memorial in Canberra
  • POEMS
    A Soldier Died Today
    The Policeman’s Funeral
  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
    Introducing ACT Chief of Police Audrey Fagan
  • CRIME
    Infidelity can be a Dangerous Pastime
  • TRAFFIC ISSUES
    Driver busted with 26 people crammed in tray
    Man drives vehicle through procession
  • HOMICIDE
    Patricide – The Murder of Laurence Santos Snr
  • LAW ENFORCEMENT – UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task Force Chicago and Milwaukee Field Offices
  • HOMICIDE (POLICE DEATH)
    Murder Most Foul – The Murders of Trooper Frederick Henderson and Others
  • POISONINGS
    Affairs of the Heart and Poisons
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Milperra: The Road to Justice
    One Door Too Many – The Police Shooting of David Gundy
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Divisional Vans (Victoria) and Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (AFP)
  • AUSTRALIAN POLICE MEDALS
    Queensland Police Service Medal

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