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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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The Shimming Swindlers

Operation Helsing

Jason Byrnes APM

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Global Cop

Reflections on International Policing

Detective Superintendent Paul Hopkins

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June 2025

  • HOMICIDE
    Warwick v Warwick: The Hunt for the Family Law Court Bomber
  • FORENSICS
    “Corpse” Delicti
  • HOMICIDE – ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT
    No End to the Sorrow
  • INTERNATIONAL POLICING
    Global Cop
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Behind the Badge
  • APJ UNSOLVED
    Operation Scores

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Man-of-War

The American Civil War Comes to Victoria

Protective Service Officer Gerald Lefurgy

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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 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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March 2000

  • POLICE DRIVING
    Police Pursuits – An Educational Perspective
  • POLICE – USA
    Halloween in Loveland, Colorado
  • DISASTERS
    The Day the Earth Shook
  • FIREARMS
    Briefcase Gun
  • POLICE METHODS
    Offender Profiling in Police Investigations – Beneficial or B.S.?
  • HISTORICAL
    “Bonehead College”
  • POLICE WORK
    What are the Odds …
  • POEM
    I’m the One

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June 1995

  • USA
    Twelve Rules for Raising Delinquent Children
  • RESCUE
    Buried Alive
  • SEXUAL OFFENCES
    The Cambridge Rapist
  • HOMICIDE
    A Tale of Two Murders
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Use of High Capacity Sorbents in Fire Investigation
  • FORENSIC SCIENCE
    Towards 2000 – Forensic Investigation of Crime
  • COMMUNITY RELATIONS
    Developments in Community Policing – Beat Policing Pilot Projects in Queensland
  • POLICE ATTITUDE
    Reflecting on 33 Years Police Service
  • HUMOUR
    A Very Fishy Case

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Number 3 – 1991

  • HOMICIDE (WA)
    Skeletons in the Closet
  • TRAFFIC
    USA Traffic Policing
  • TRANSPORT POLICE
    Transit Crime and Policing
  • SEIZURE OF ASSETS
    You Make It, We’ll Take It
  • POLICE SPORT
    Making Waves – Part II
  • HISTORICAL
    Winston and the Mysterious Inspector Thompson
  • ARSON INVESTIGATION
    How Teamwork Unmasked The Albatross Arsonist

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Number 3 – 1989

  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    A Suitable Holster (A Victorian Perspective)
  • RESCUE
    Queensland Disaster Planning
  • POLICE EDUCATION
    University Degrees – Flavour of the Month in Australia Part 1
  • FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION
    Fibre Evidence
  • HOMICIDE (VICTORIA)
    Hunt for the Ballarat Killer
  • DRUGS
    Doping in Sport
  • HOMICIDE (USA)
    A Babysitter’s Call to Death
  • POLICE HEALTH
    Cholesterol – Police at Risk
  • OVERSEAS POLICE
    History of the United States Marshals Service
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Violence at Sea: Review of Terrorism, Acts of War and Countermeasures to Prevent Terrorism
    Fascism and the Mafia
    Insanity and Incompetence

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Number 4 – 1988

  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Hazardous Materials Decontamination Unit
  • POLICE ADMINISTRATION
    Issues in Police Leadership
  • HOMICIDE
    Characteristics of Homicides in Victoria, January 1984 – June 1988
  • TRAFFIC
    An Answer to Drug Driving?
  • INDECENT BEHAVIOUR
    How to ‘Handle’ a Flasher
  • POLICE TRAINING
    Crime Analysis: Intelligence Techniques in Criminal Investigation
  • HISTORICAL
    The New Forces: A Comparison of British and Australian Police Forces 1820 – 1850
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Policing in Australia: Historical Perspectives
    Understanding Crime and Criminal Justice

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Number 2 – 1988

  • DRUGS
    Understanding Drug Dependence
  • FORENSIC DENTISTRY
    Forensic Odontology – Adelaide; Tokyo; and Madras
  • COMMUNITY POLICING
    Canberra’s Constable ‘Kenny Koala’
  • BICENTENNIAL EVENT
    Camel Trek Honours Pioneers of the Centre
  • COMPUTER CRIME
    The Law as it Relates to Computer Abuse
  • STRESS
    Stress Management – How it Affects Police Officers
  • CHILD ABUSE
    A Survey on Child Abuse
  • POLICE VEHICLES
    Bentleys in Pursuit
  • HOMICIDE (USA)
    McDonald’s Massacre
  • POLICE DOGS
    UK Canine Bravery Award for Top Hong Kong Police Dog
  • NEIGHBOURHOOD DISPUTE
    Peace on Main Street
  • FIREARMS
    Trends in Police Handguns
  • ANZAC POLICE
    ‘On ANZAC Day!’
  • BOOK REVIEW
    The People’s Force
  • POEM
    An Orphan’s Prayer …

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Number 3 – 1985

  • HISTORICAL
    The Way We Were
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Explosives Detector PD4C
  • HOMICIDE
    Investigations into the Killing of Michael John Sideris
  • HISTORICAL
    All in the Line of Duty
  • COMMUNITY RELATIONS
    The Cop Shop with a Difference
  • DRUGS
    Addictive Drugs Available to Australia’s Youth – What Parents and Professionals Should Know
  • ADMINISTRATION
    Orlando Wilson and Police Professionalism
  • TRAFFIC
    USA Traffic Enforcement Techniques – Pursuit Policies and Guidelines
  • CRIME PREVENTION
    Neighbourhood Watch – The North American Experience
  • STRESS
    Responding to Occupational Stress – The Role of Welfare Services
  • CRIME PREVENTION
    When Crime on the Underground is Good News
  • COMMUNICATIONS
    Citizens Radio Emergency Service Teams – Australia – NSW
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Police as Peace Keepers

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Number 3 – 1984

  • EQUIPMENT
    Vehicles used by the Californian Highway Patrol (C.H.i.P.s)
  • COMPUTER CRIME
    The Computer Criminal – Implications for Policing, Part II
  • EXPLOSIVES
    Bombs and Bomb Incidents
  • IDENTIFICATION
    The Inglewood Skeleton – Identification by Means of Cranio-Facial Superimposition
  • TRAFFIC
    USA Traffic Enforcement Techniques – Part III – California Highway Patrol
  • DRUGS
    Tactics used by African Smugglers and Traffickers to avoid Detection and Prosecution
  • IDENTIFICATION
    ID Information
  • HISTORICAL
    Once and Itinerant Indigent – Progress – June, 1969
  • POEM
    Waltzing Matilda

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Number 2 – 1984

  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    New PT Boats Make Waves
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    Introduction of the 66cm Baton for General Use in NSW
  • STOCK
    Queensland’s ‘Wild West Marshalls’ – The Police Stock Squad
  • COMPUTER CRIME
    The Computer Criminal – Implications for Policing, Part 1
  • RESCUE
    Chase Police Hailed Heroes
  • PUBLIC RELATIONS
    The Kong Kidnapping and the Media
  • POLICE ADMINISTRATION
    Measuring District/Branch Efficiency
  • HISTORICAL
    Ashton’s Hotel (South Australia’s Gaol)
  • TRAFFIC
    USA Traffic Enforcement Techniques – Part II North Dakota Highway Patrol
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    The ABC of Liquor Law in NSW
    Interesting Books for Police
    Two Cultures of Policing: Street Cops and Management Cops
    The Manager’s Guide to Alternative Work Schedules
    McNee’s Law
  • ART
    Police Art Exhibition

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Mount Erebus Air Disaster

From the July 1980 edition of the APJ

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October 1976

  • DISASTER MANAGEMENT
    The Police Role in Disaster Organizations in New South Wales
  • SEXUAL ASSAULT
    Police Inquiries in Sexual Offences
  • DRUGS
    Turkey – The Licit Production of Opium and its Side Effects
  • ADMINISTRATION
    Giving Orders
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Sir Percy Sillitoe
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Infrared Light Sources in Police Surveillance

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