PNTL - Australian Police Journal

September 2024

NATIONAL POLICE REMEMBRANCE DAY
National Service Details for 2024
EDITORIAL – FROM MY DESK
East Timor 1999
RETIREMENT
The Retirement of APJ Deputy Editor Barry Fay
HOMICIDE
Fingerprints Catch a Strangler
NORTHERN TERRITORY POLICE
Northern Territory Police Apology
PEACEKEEPING
East Timor Vote for Independence: Reflections of a Police Peacekeeper
BOOK REVIEW
In the Service of Peace: Australian Police Involvement in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
TACTICAL POLICING
Tasmania’s SOG Goes Full Time
FORENSICS
National DNA Database Success
POLICING HISTORY
100 Years of Police Radio
APJ PRIZES
APJ Prize Winning Articles for 2023
INSIGNIA
Police Insignia Collectors Association of Australia (PICAA)
APJ UNSOLVED
Beachside Murder

Justine Adamek and Jason Byrnes APM

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