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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?

Public Order Response Team (PORT)

The History

Posted: 1st December 2025

Sarah Vanin

Category: Tactical Policing
Tags: Tactical policing, VICPOL, Victoria Police, Simon Overland, Melbourne, Public Order Response Team, PORT, Sarah Vanin

Porepunkah

Posted: 1st December 2025

Simon Bouda AM

Category: Police Deaths
Tags: Tactical policing, VICPOL, Funeral, Victoria Police, Mike Bush, Search, Simon Bouda, SOG, Victoria Police Star, Porepunkah, Neal Thompson, Vadim De Waart-Hottart, Dezi Freeman, Desmond Filby

26 AUGUST 2025 – ‘PLEASE NO’

Posted: 1st December 2025

Detective Sergeant Justin Polwarth

Category: Poetry
Tags: VICPOL, Funeral, Victoria Police, Poem, poetry, Justin Polwarth, Porepunkah, Neal Thompson, Vadim De Waart-Hottart

The Shimming Swindlers

Operation Helsing

Posted: 1st December 2025

Jason Byrnes APM

Category: Fraud
Tags: 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, 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

Respect and Honour

Posted: 1st December 2025

Acting Inspector Mick Hannah

Category: Police Awards
Tags: VICPOL, Victoria Police, Academy, Collision, Dennis Petersen, Solo, Mick Hannah, Warragul Court, Dawson Street, Victoria Police Star, Brunswick, Respect and Honour

Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush CNZM

Posted: 1st September 2025

Category: Commissioners and Leaders
Tags: VICPOL, New Zealand Police, Mike Bush, Chief Commissioner, NZP, CNZM

Armenian Terrorism in Australia

Posted: 1st September 2025

Dr David Gawel APM and Carolyn O’Hare APM

Category: Terrorism
Tags: terrorism, Turkiye, Caroline Street, AFP, Woollahra, ARF, VICPOL, Armenia, Levon Demirian, Canberra, Armenian, ASIO, NSWPF, Bob Hawke, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Customs, Demet Ariyak, Hagop Levonian, consulate, Honda motorcycle, JCTT, Melbourne, Portland Street, Bondi Junction, Drummoyne, Sydney, ASALA, Turkey, Dalmation Act, David Gawel, JCAG, Reward, Beirut, Caroline O'Hare, Los Angeles, Sarik Ariyak, Vahit Melih Halefogui, Engin Sever, Toorak

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

Farewell to Victoria Police Chief Commissioner

Posted: 1st March 2025

Category: Commissioners and Leaders
Tags: VICPOL, Victoria Police, Chief Commissioner, Shane Patton, Rick Nugent

50 Years of Service

Victoria Police Air Wing 1975-2025

Posted: 1st March 2025

Sergeant Jim Stafford

Category: Air Wing
Tags: VICPOL, Augusta AW139, Balnarring, Mick Miller, ASTRO, VH-PVM, Dauphin, Air Support to Routine Operations, VH-PVF, Air Ambulance, Hughes 500D, VH-PVK, VH-PVA, Aerospatiale SA365, Andrew Henshaw, Victoria Police Air Wing, Eurocopter EC135, TFO, Ron Newman, Squirrel, Tactical Flight Officer, Dennis McIntyre, Lloyd Helicopters, Dermot Oakley, Graham Pegram, CHC, Medway, Glenn Vaughan, Fran Corrie, FLIR, John McDonald, Les Hore, Forward Looking Infra Red, Mark Stella, Richard Paton, Spotlight, Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, Neville Balding, Jim Stafford, Vance Dickie, Hoddle Street Massacre, Daryl Boyce Knight, King Air, Aero Club

Man-of-War

The American Civil War Comes to Victoria

Posted: 1st March 2025

Protective Service Officer Gerald Lefurgy

Category: Colonial Policing
Tags: Free To Read, James McCulloch, VICPOL, Williamstown, Victoria, Docks, United Kingdom, Charles Darling, UK, Eureka Stockade, USA, American Civil War, Melbourne, Gerald Lefurgy, Colonial policing, Ray Lizarraga, CSS Shenandoah, Byard Sheppard, Frederick Standish, Gray Storm, Melbourne Club, William Blanchard, John Williams, Herman Wicke, Thomas Lyttleton, James Waddell

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

Until Death do us Part

The Tragic Disappearance of Ruth Ridley

Posted: 1st December 2024

Detective Leading Senior Constable Andrew Leonard

Category: Homicide
Tags: 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, VRA, Tallangatta, Medicare, inquest, Steven Ridley, 4WD, Coroner, MARAM, Air wing, Bushfire, Albury, Talmalmo, Border, Gympie, Fishing

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

In the Service of Peace

A Book Review

Posted: 1st September 2024

Category: Book Reviews
Tags: 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, Timor-Leste, WAPOL, Thailand, ACTP, Cyprus

Police Peacekeepers March in Darwin

Posted: 1st June 2024

Jason Byrnes APM

Category: Peacekeeping
Tags: 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, UN, UNOPAA, Timor-Leste, Australian police, WAPOL, Parade, Thailand, March, Solomon Islands, Mozambique

Tobacco Wars

An Australian Perspective

Posted: 1st March 2024

Inspector Rohan Best

Category: Organised crime
Tags: ABF, World Customs Organisation, organised crime, Black Economy Taskforce, VICPOL, ITTF, ACIC, Department of Home Affairs, Australian Border Force, DHA, NSWPF, Taskforce Lunar, Arson, World Health Organisation, CDPP, WHO, Money Laundering, Trafficking, Transnational crime, ATO, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, Rohan Best, Tobacco, Tax

March 2024

CEREMONIAL AND PROTOCOL
Milestone for Police Service Awards
EDITORIAL
From My Desk
SEARCH & RESCUE
The Angry Sea
ROAD TRAUMA
Crash or Accident
PEACEKEEPING
Forensic Peacekeepers
REMEMBER THE FALLEN
Hasten the Dawn
ORGANISED CRIME
Tobacco Wars
APJ UNSOLVED
The Janine Vaughan Mystery

Museum of Australian Policing Update

Posted: 1st September 2023

Jason Byrnes APM

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

The Coiner Killers

Posted: 1st September 2023

Noel Johnson and Sergeant Danny Webster (Rtd)

Category: Police Deaths
Tags: Homicide, Michael Maher, Murder, George Shaw, VICPOL, George Skidmore, Redfern, Youdan, Noel Johnson, Richard Johnson, Danny Webster, Killed on duty, NSWPF, Touchstone, National Police Memorial, St Kilda, Police Ode, Bravery, NPM, Wilson, Coiner Killers, Counterfeit, Denis Guilfoyle

September 2023

REMEMBER THE FALLEN
Vale Constable Anthony Woods
EXTORTION
Catching the Collar Bomber
BOOK REVIEW
Vanished: True stories from families of Australian missing persons
POLICING
The Future of Federal Policing
INTELLIGENCE
Intel Breakthrough
HOMICIDE
Cold Case Homicide: A Western Australia Perspective
POLICING
Hill Street Blues: Singapore Police Force
SEARCH AND RESCUE
A Perfect Storm
POLICING
Museum of Australian Policing Update
HISTORICAL
The Coiner Killers
PRIZES
APJ Prize Winning Articles for 2022