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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

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When Seconds Count

Search and Rescue in the Wilds of Tasmania

Sergeant Damian Bidgood (Retired), Tasmania Police

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September 2025

  • REMEBRANCE
    National Police Remembrance Day
  • VICTORIA POLICE
    Welcome to Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush CNZM
  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
    Vale, Constable Keith Anthony Smith
  • POLICE MEMORIAL
    Blue Blood
  • CHILD EXPLOITATION
    Danger_33
  • ACCIDENTAL DEATHS
    Deadly Call of Nature
  • TERRORISM
    Armenian Terrorism in Australia
  • FORENSICS
    To Catch a Rapist
  • MOUNTED POLICE
    New Home for the ‘Police Greys’
  • HISTORICAL POLICE DEATHS
    Policing Australia’s Wild West
  • REMEBRANCE
    Vale, Special Constable Noel Johnson
  • AWARDS
    APJ Prize Winning Articles for 2024
  • BOOK REVIEW
    The Politics of Police Diplomacy – The Australian Experience
  • APJ UNSOLVED
    Reward for Frank Newbery’s Murder

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March 2025

  • INSIGNIA
    A New Symbol for Police Badges
  • VICTORIA POLICE
    Farewell to Chief Commissioner Shane Patton APM
  • NATURAL DISASTERS
    Nature’s Fury: Türkiye Earthquake
  • AIR WING
    50 Years of Service: Victoria Police Air Wing
  • HOMICIDE
    Hot Weather, Hot Liquor, Hot Temper
  • COLONIAL POLICING
    Man-of-War
  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
    Vale Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming
  • MENTAL HEALTH
    Horse Whispering
  • MISSING PERSON
    The Mandurah Queen
  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    Navigating the Artificial Intelligence Frontier
  • PEACEKEEPING
    Operation Land Rover
  • APJ
    Welcome to New Assistant Editor
  • UNSOLVED
    Murder in Cowra

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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

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December 2023

  • NORTHERN TERRITORY
    Welcome to Commissioner Michael Murphy APM
  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
    Vale, Brevet Sergeant Jason Doig
  • DRUGS
    The Drug Dilemma
  • COUNTER TERRORISM
    Extremism Unravelled
  • FORENSICS
    Murder, Mayhem and Mirth
  • SIEGE
    Shotgun Chaos
  • NATIONAL BRAVERY AWARDS
    Bravery
  • APJ BUSINESS
    Thank you to Outgoing Chair
  • APJ BUSINESS
    Liaison Officers’ Conference 2023
  • EDITORIAL
    From My Desk

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December 2022

  • WESTERN AUSTRALIA POLICE FORCE
    Welcome to Commissioner Col Blanch
  • TASMANIA POLICE
    Farewell to Commissioner Darren Hine
  • TASMANIA POLICE
    Welcome to Commissioner Donna Adams
  • POLICE BRAVERY
    Signal One
  • PIPES & DRUMS
    The Thin Blue Line Meets the Wall of Sound
  • POLICE DEATHS
    A Cop’s Cop
  • POLICE REMEMBRANCE
    Wall to Wall
  • TERRORISM
    Terror in Bali
  • THE GAMESMEN
    A Family Dynasty
  • CYBERCRIME
    Crypto Crime
  • DRUG LAW REFORM
    Decriminalising Illicit Drugs – 2023
  • HOMICIDE
    Ebony: 30 Years On

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September 2021

  • HONOURING THE FALLEN
    National Police Memorial (NATIONAL)
    Senior Constable David Masters (QLD)
  • TECHNOLOGY ON THE FRONT LINE (WA)
    Frontline APP Developments
  • HISTORICAL (QLD)
    Our Guests – The People
  • ASSAULTS ON POLICE
    Assaults on Police Officers Research
  • HOMICIDE (NT)
    The Murders of Somjai Insamran and Phuangsri Kroksamrong
  • HOMICIDE (TAS)
    The Port Arthur Shooting Incident
  • DEATH (NSW)
    An Enigmatic Death
  • DEATH (SA)
    The Shaft
  • HOMICIDE (WA)
    Investigation into the Disappearance of Siti Bahyah
  • DEATH (VIC)
    Diving Fatality in a Submarine
  • PUBLIC ORDER (ACT)
    Parliamentary Riots
  • HOMICIDE (QLD)
    Operation Tulip – The Investigation into the Appalling Murder of a Newborn Baby Girl
  • DRUGS (COMMONWEALTH)
    Sea Chase – Pursuit and Capture of the Pong Su
  • HOMICIDE (TAS)
    The Search for Human Remains
  • ABDUCTION (WA)
    Almost Lost in Paradise
  • HOMICIDE (QLD)
    Emerald Loses its Gleam
  • HOMICIDE (VIC)
    For the Term of his Unnatural Life
  • HOMICIDE (NSW)
    Scientific Aspects of the Graeme Thorne Kidnapping and Murder
  • SEX OFFENDER (SA)
    Uncontrollable Urges
  • SEX OFFENCES (NSW)
    How to Handle a Flasher
  • SERIOUS CRIME (NSW)
    Justice Too Swift

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June 2021

  • HOMICIDE
    House of Horrors (WA)
  • CRITICAL INCIDENT
    30 Minutes of Forever (TAS)
  • HISTORICAL
    The Bridge Street Burglary of 1984: The Arming of the NSW Police (NSW)
  • AWARDS
    APJ Prize Winning Articles for 2020

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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 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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