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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?

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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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March 2018

  • POLICE – RECRUITMENT
    AFP Tackles Diversity Challenge with special female-only recruitment drive
  • INTERVIEWING CHILDREN
    Children’s Testimonies: Facts or Fiction?
  • FIRST AID
    A Mass Casualty Terrorist Event – Are Australian Police Medically Ready?
  • HOMICIDE
    Time Waits for No Man: The murder of off-duty Western Australia police officer Felicity Jane Park
  • ALCOHOL-RELATED CRIME
    Smart Start: Queensland Police partner with Griffith University in spearheading a unique study into reducing alcohol-related crime
  • POLICE DEATH
    The Garden of Horror – Murder of police trooper, Fredrick Henderson.

 

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September 2017

  • POLICE MEMORIAL
    Vale Senior Constable Brett Forte
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Introducing New Police Commissioner Fuller APM
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Farewell retiring New South Wales Police Commissioner Mr Scipione
  • AUSTRALIAN CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE COMMISSION
    Recognising Achievements in a Year of Transition
  • ROBBERY – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Never a Dull Moment
  • POLICE EDUCATION AND TRAINING – TASMANIA
    Tasmania Police Moves toward Professionalisation
  • POLICE RESCUE AND BOMB DISPOSAL – NEW SOUTH WALES
    An Extraordinary History of Service Police Rescue and Bomb Disposal Operations

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June 2014

  • POLICE – NEW ZEALAND
    Introducing Commissioner Mike Bush MNZM
    Commissioner Peter Marshall MNZM Retires
  • INTERNATIONAL POLICING
    Delivering Security: Building Police Capacity – The AFP’s International Deployment Group Turns 10
  • FIREARMS
    Modified Glocks Seized in Western Australia
  • RESCUE – TASMANIA
    Road Crash Rescue – Volunteering at the Sharp End
  • POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY
    APJ Photo Competition 2013
  • HOME INVASION
    40 Minutes of Madness 
  • POLICE INVESTIGATION
    Death by Misadventure
  • CRASH INVESTIGATION
    Road Crash Trauma
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Milat
    The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama 
  • POLICE QUESTIONING
    Between a Rock and Hard Place – False Accusations of Sexual Assault and Law Enforcement in Australia

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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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March 1999

  • DRUGS
    Anabolic Steroids
  • OVERSEAS POLICING
    Cyprus – The UN’s Thin Blue Line
  • POLICE ISSUES
    Comparison of Indigenous Recruitment Initiatives
  • DEATH
    Death of a Sea Captain – Part Two
  • HOMICIDE
    Jockey Falls at Last
  • CRIME
    Further to the Jockey Smith Saga
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Investigative Sub-Surface Search
  • BOOK REVIEW
    The Corporate Fool
    A Quinology of Tasmanian Crime Cases

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September 1997

  • ORGANISED CRIME
    Chinese Organised Crime & the Australian Law Enforcement Response
  • ARSON
    The Beaudesert Fires
  • TEAM POLICING
    The Team Concept and Police: Is it Mixing Oil with Water?
  • HOMICIDE
    The Murder of Gabriel Meyer
  • LEGAL SERVICES
    The Lawyer Within
  • COMMUNICATION
    Verbal Judo – Tactical Communication Training for Police
  • CRIME – RUSSIA
    The Soviet Heritage – Red Mafia
  • HISTORICAL
    The Country Police (1910)
  • HUMOUR
    Humour in a Blue Vein
  • PATCH CALL
    Tasmania Police

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Number 3 – 1992

  • POEM
    Our Flag
  • CRIME
    Illegal Gambling in Sydney as Cultural Deviance
  • UNDERCOVER POLICING
    Undercover Work Reviewed
  • SEXUAL OFFENCES
    The Rydalmere Rapist – Opportunist or Gerontophile?
  • POLICE HEALTH
    Operation ‘Physiocop’ – Victoria Police Health and Fitness Initiative
  • IDENTIFICATION
    Computer Identification of Serial Killers
  • HISTORICAL
    Tasmania’s Last Hanging
  • HUMOUR
    Blue Humour – Part 3
  • COMMUNITY RELATIONS
    Some Initiatives and Developments in Community Policing – Part 3
  • MUSEUM
    NSW Justice & Police Museum Exhibition

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Number 1 – 1992

  • POEM
    That Face in your Mirror
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Tactical Armour Jackets
  • FINGERPRINTS
    Down the Track with our New Fingerprint Computer
  • HISTORICAL
    Fatal Partnership
  • POLICE METHODS
    Property Handling Procedures at the Kempsey Bush Crash
  • HUMOUR
    Blue Humour – Part 1
  • HOMICIDE
    The Gorilla-Man Murder

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Number 3 – 1987

  • CROCODILE ATTACK (NT)
    Eaten Alive
  • HOMICIDE (NSW)
    Further to the Kim Barry Saga
  • HOMICIDE
    Sex Killers – Their Actions and Reactions
  • SHIPWRECK (NZ)
    ‘Mikhail Lermontov’ Update
  • FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
    The Police and the Future: Social Trends and their Implications for Law Enforcement
  • POLICE HEALTH
    AIDS: The Penny Drops
  • POLICE QUESTIONING (TAS)
    Scientific and Technical Aids to Police Interviews – Identification Parades – Part 5

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Number 4 – 1986

  • POLICE ESSAYS
    The Queen’s Police Gold Medal Essay Competition – 1985
  • IDENTIFICATION
    Our Future Through the Magic Eyes
  • HOMICIDE (ACT)
    Murderer in Custody Before Victim Discovered
  • POLICE SPORT
    The Inaugural Australia/New Zealand Police Games
  • NEW SOUTH WALES
    Horse Toll
  • POLICE QUESTIONING
    Scientific and Technical Aids to Police Interview – Interrogation – Part 2 (Section III)

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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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