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September 2026

HOMICIDE
The Wife Killing Spiv
POLICING
Policing in the Northern Territory
MISSING PERSONS
A Journeyman’s End
FIREARMS
Ghost Guns: Firearms and 3D Printing: A Growing Threat for Policing
HOMICIDE
The Strathfield Massacre
REFLECTION
Patch to Patch
EDITORIAL
True Blue
FORENSICS
Forensic Botany
ROYAL PAPUA NEW GUINEA CONSTABULARY
Air Wing: Taking Policing to the Skies
POLICE REMEMBRANCE
The Patch Run
PRIZES
APJ Prize Winning Articles for 2025
POLICE MEDALS
Valour, Bravery and Courage
ANNIVERSARY
The APJ at 80: A Curated Guide
APJ UNSOLVED
What Happened to Eloise?

Valour, Bravery and Courage

Australian Police Medals

Posted: 25th August 2026

Category: Police Awards
Tags: Medals, AFP, VICPOL, Awards, QPS, SAPOL, NSWPF, Bravery, WAPF, NTPF, Valour, Courage

The APJ at 80

A Curated Guide

Posted: 25th August 2026

Jason Byrnes APM

Category: Historical
Tags: TASPOL, Black Rooster, Cold case, Clarke, Alan Baker, Thallium Poisoning, Bank robbery, Rogers, Graeme Thorne kidnapping, Anderson, AFP, RPNGC, George Richards, VICPOL, Pong Su, Concrete Slab Murder, APJ, Sea chase, Handcuff sandwich, NTPol, Lunatic, WAPF, Jason Byrnes, Milperra Bikie Massacre, Boyle, Barry Fay, Vince Pannell, Testifying in Court, QPS, Ben Cartwright, Star Hotel Riot, Aaron Power, Operation Aquatic, Woolworths Extortion, SAPOL, Ulricky Conway, Our Guests, Ron Stephenson, David Hughes, Howard Thomas, NSWPF, Cargo cult, Changeling

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

From My Desk – Dezi Freeman Dead

Posted: 23rd May 2026

Category: Editorial
Tags: Neal Thompson, Vadim De Waart-Hottart, Dezi Freeman, Gareth Train, Nathaniel Train, VICPOL, Stacey Train, QPS, Mathew Arnold, Simon Bouda, BearCat, Editorial, Thologolong, Rachel McCrow, Wieambilla, Alan Dare, Reward, SOG, Special Operations Group, Porepunkah

Clan Labs

An insight into the formation of the Australasian Clandestine Laboratory Association

Posted: 1st March 2026

Detective Sergeant Zoe Knight

Category: Illicit drugs
Tags: NPN, Dutch, Zoe Knight, ACLA, Australasian Clandestine Laboratory Association, drugs, SDOU, AFP, VR, ACIC, Virtual reality training, QPS, Jorrit van den Berg, Queensland Police Service, Janneke Zeebregts, MDMA, Operation Vitreus, cocaine, Dutch National Forensic Institute, Netherlands, Immersive training, Clan labs, Powder, Andre van Rijn

Bundaberg Taxi Driver

Posted: 1st March 2026

Category: Homicide
Tags: Bundaberg, Targo, Burnett Street, Tara Kentwell, Cold Case Investigation Team, Homicide, Coronial, Queensland, QPS, Missing Person, unsolved, CBD, Crime Stoppers, Taxi driver, Bryan Hodgkinson, Elaine Hodgkinson

March 2026

NORTHERN TERRITORY POLICE FORCE
Welcome to NTPF Commissioner Martin Dole APM
BRAVERY
National Police Bravery Awards
AWARDS
World-Leading Forensic Scientist Recognised
HOMICIDE
6 Minutes of Terror: The Bondi Junction Massacre
BRAVERY
A Heroic Battle
DRUG MANUFACTURE
Clan Labs: An Insight into the formation of the Australasian Clandestine Laboratory Association
PLANNING
Total War: A Police Perspective
DRUG IMPORTATION
The Junkie Express
APJ UNSOLVED
Bundaberg Taxi Driver

December 2025

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
Welcome to AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett APM
AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
Farewell to AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw APM
NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE FORCE
Welcome to NSWPF Commissioner Mal Lanyon APM
NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE FORCE
Farewell to NSWPF Commissioner Karen Webb APM
REMEMBRANCE DAY
Hasten the Dawn – Curtis Cheng
HOMICIDE
Everyone Matters or No One Matters
PUBLIC ORDER RESPONSE TEAM
Public Order Response Team (PORT) – The History
POLICE DEATHS
Porepunkah – Too Much Blue Blood
POEM
26 August 2025 – ‘Please No’
SOVEREIGN CITIZENS
The Sovereign Threat
FRAUD
The Shimming Swindlers – Operation Helsing
POLICE AWARDS
Respect and Honour
POLICE TATTOO
Pacific Police United in Music and Song
BOOK REVIEW
Homo Criminalis – How Crime Organises the World
APJ UNSOLVED
What Happened to Nancy?

The Shimming Swindlers

Operation Helsing

Posted: 1st December 2025

Jason Byrnes APM

Category: Fraud
Tags: Sydney, Cestmir Bozdech, Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act, California, Czech Republic, Campbelltown, Paul Garlick, Focusrite, Passports, ATM, eVisitor, Operation Helsing, Brisbane, Alexandru Badaric, AFP, Crimes Act, Burwood, VICPOL, Skimming, Rhodes, cash, Shimming, Alex Avrames, Fraud, The Shimming Swindlers, Audi, Victoria, United States Secret Service, Credit Cards, Jason Byrnes, USSS, Andreas Madison, QPS, San Diego, Kia Sportage, Australian Federal Police, Romania, Cemir Bode, NSWPF, JPC3, Vimla, USA, Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre, Kris Wilson, Bank, Owen Smith, Gary Poon

Until Death do us Part

The Tragic Disappearance of Ruth Ridley

Posted: 1st December 2024

Detective Leading Senior Constable Andrew Leonard

Category: Homicide
Tags: VRA, Tallangatta, Medicare, inquest, Steven Ridley, 4WD, Coroner, MARAM, Air wing, Bushfire, Albury, Talmalmo, Border, Gympie, Fishing, Homicide, State Emergency Service, Jingellic, Cain, Coronial, SES, Adam Niksic, Murder, Ruth Ridley, FVIU, Autopsy, Andrew Leonard, Jayco caravan, VICPOL, Murray River, Neil's Bend, Suicide, Tumbarumba, Tintaldra, QPS, Port Macquarie, Wymah Ferry, family violence, Garry Ridley, DVO, NSWPF, Pikes Dam, Petrol station, Domestic violence, Pajero, post-mortem, CCTV, Wodonga, Centrelink

Shattered Reef

The Grounding of the 'Shen Neng 1'

Posted: 1st December 2024

Jason Byrnes APM

Category: Environmental Crime
Tags: TMR, Gladstone, Douglas Shoal, GBRMPA, Australian Transport Safety Bureau, AFP, Coal carrier, Jason Byrnes, Kevin Rudd, QPS, Maritime Safety Queensland, China, MSQ, CDPP, DIAC, ATSB, Great Barrier Reef, Shen Neng 1, David Payne, Peter Bodel, AMSA

December 2024

HEROISM
Honouring a Hero
PEACEKEEPING
The Silent Mission (Mozambique)
HOMICIDE
Until Death do us Part
TERRORISM
Victims of Terrorism Australia (VOTA)
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
Shattered Reef
POLICE DOGS
In the Line of Duty
APJ UNSOLVED
Where is Melissa Brown?
JOB VACANCY
Expressions of Interest for Assistant Editor
APJ
2024 Liaison Officer’s Conference

Fingerprints Catch a Strangler

Posted: 1st September 2024

Senior Constable Barry Fay

Category: Homicide
Tags: Escape, Strangulation, Fingerprints Catch a Strangler, Bruce Douglas Connell, Rooty Hill, Homicide, Ella Avis Sullivan, Murder, TAB, Forensic, Holden Station Wagon, Queensland, Norma Sasse, New South Wales, Blacktown, Barry Fay, QPS, NSWPF, Sydney, Scientific

In the Service of Peace

A Book Review

Posted: 1st September 2024

Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Timor-Leste, WAPOL, Thailand, ACTP, Cyprus, Book Review, Cambodia, AFP, COMPOL, VICPOL, East Timor, NTPol, Peacekeeping, Jason Byrnes, New York, QPS, Sudan, SAPOL, Liberia, NSWPF, Mozambique, TASPOL, South Sudan, United Nations, Namibia, UN, In the Service of Peace

Police Peacekeepers March in Darwin

Posted: 1st June 2024

Jason Byrnes APM

Category: Peacekeeping
Tags: UN, UNOPAA, Timor-Leste, Australian police, WAPOL, Parade, Thailand, March, Solomon Islands, Mozambique, AFP, Cyprus, South Sudan, VICPOL, Cambodia, Bougainville, Darwin, Commonwealth Police, Namibia, NTPol, COMPOL, Blue beret, Afghanistan, East Timor, QPS, Peacekeeping, SAPOL, Haiti, ACT Police, Sudan, NSWPF, Somalia, TASPOL, Liberia, United Nations, Peacekeepers

June 2024

BRAVERY
National Police Bravery Awards
QUEENSLAND POLICE SERVICE
Welcome to Commissioner Steve Gollschewski APM
CHILD SEX ABUSE
Pervert, Predator, Prisoner
SEARCH AND RESCUE
A Lonely Death
HOMICIDE
The Pizza Hut Heist
BOOK REVIEW
Motivated by Love
PEACEKEEPING
Peacekeeping During an Epidemic
MISSING PERSON
Where’s Otto?
ELDER ABUSE
Dignity and Safety: Responding Effectively to Abuse of Older Persons
UNSOLVED CRIMES
The Toni Tiki Mystery

Welcome to Commissioner Steve Gollschewski APM

Posted: 24th May 2024

Category: Commissioners and Leaders
Tags: Queensland, QPS, Commissioner Steve Gollschewski APM

A Lonely Death

Posted: 24th May 2024

Snr Sgt Jim Whitehead APM (Retired)

Category: Search & Rescue
Tags: Commonwealth Bank, Winfried Weiss, Search & Rescue, Queensland, Jim Whitehead, QPS, SAR, State Emergency Service, SES, Mareeba, Victor Horne, Hermit, Land Rover

Podcast: National Police Remembrance Day

Posted: 29th September 2023

Category: Podcast
Tags: NPM, Governor-General, Col Blanch, David Hurley, Dean Elliott, AFP, Queanbeyan Police Station, podcast, Recognition and Customs, QPS, I am, NPRD, Rebecca Kotz, National Police Remembrance Day, Reece Kershaw, Greg Primmer, WAPOL, National Police Memorial, Katarina Carroll, Vince Pannell

Museum of Australian Policing Update

Posted: 1st September 2023

Jason Byrnes APM

Category: Museums
Tags: PFA, MOAP, Jason Byrnes APM, Alex Stalker-Booth, Acton Peninsula, AFP, WAPF, VICPOL, NTPol, QPS, SAPOL, Canberra, NSWPF, TASPOL, Police Federation of Australia, WAPOL, Museum of Australian Policing

A Perfect Storm

A Search and Rescue

Posted: 1st September 2023

Snr Sgt Jim Whitehead APM (Rtd)

Category: Search & Rescue
Tags: Morans Creek Forestry Hut, Parkinson's disease, Federated Mountain Rescue, FMR, park rangers, Queensland, Will Buch, Search and Rescue, Jim Whitehead, QPS, Bones, SAR, Remains, Don Marchant, Lamington National Park, State Emergency Service, SES

Remember the Fallen

Vale, Constables Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold

Posted: 10th March 2023

Category: Police Deaths
Tags: Homicide, QPS, Police remembrance, Matthew Arnold, Rachel McCrow, Tara Police Station, Memorial Service, Honour

From My Desk

The March 2023 Editorial

Posted: 25th February 2023

Simon Bouda AM

Category: Editorial
Tags: QPS, Police Ode, Simon Bouda, Editorial, Matthew Arnold, Rachel McCrow

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