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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

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Cold Blooded Murder

Detective Sergeant Tim Briggs and Detective Sergeant Brent Fletcher

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June 2023

  • HOMICIDE
    Cold Blooded Murder
  • POLICING
    The Met – Lessons Arising from the Casey Review
  • HOMICIDE
    Kitching’s War
  • CYBERCRIME
    Script Kiddies, Happy Slapping and Griefers
  • HOMICIDE
    Total and Utter Evil
  • FORENSICS
    The Tip Off

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June 2022

  • EDUCATION
    The Museum of Australian Policing
  • POLICE TRAINING
    Virtual Reality & De-Escalation Training
  • HATE CRIME
    Insights into the Policing of Hate Crime: A NSW Police Study
  • ARMED ROBBERY
    Shoot to Thrill: Shoot with Intent to Murder and Armed Robberies in Newcastle
  • MONEY LAUNDERING
    Defining & Combatting Cuckoo Smurfing
  • HOMICIDE
    Head in a Bag Mystery
  • ROBBERY
    Organised Crime Behind Brazen Robberies
  • DRUG COURTS
    Australian Drug Courts: The Second Generation – Justice, Rehabilitation and Reintegration
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Nabbing Ned Kelly
    Law Enforcement and Public Health
  • RESEARCH
    Request for Assistance – Online Scams

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March 2022

  • EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
    APJ Editor Vacancy
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    NSW Police Force Welcomes Commissioner Karen Webb APM
  • POLICE – NEW ZEALAND
    Reflection: New Zealand Police Commissioner Andrew Coster
  • HIGHWAY PATROL – HEAVY VEHICLE SPEED ENFORCEMENT
    100 Speed Limited (or Not)
  • POLICE BRAVERY
    ‘Help! He’s Setting My Kids on Fire!’
  • HOMICIDE
    Murder, Manhunt and a Move Audition
  • PROPERTY THEFT
    A Thief in the Night
  • POLICE HUMOUR
    Night Shift in Bermuda
  • POLICE WELFARE
    Operation Soul Surf
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Blast from the Past

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December 2021

  • DEMONSTRATIONS
    Capital Protest
  • RESEARCH PROJECT
    Emotional First Aid & Police Officers: Examining the Role of Family Members
  • HOMICIDE
    Top End Murders – The Search for the ‘Kimberley Killer’
  • HOMICIDE
    Josef Thomas Schwab: Serial Killer
  • CHILD PROTECTION
    Uncovering the Children’s Horror
  • HISTORICAL
    Undercover – A Colonial Detective Story
  • POLICE WELFARE
    PTSD in Police
  • HISTORICAL
    War-Time Aussies Remembered: The Murders of Yvonne Barret and Cathy Wayne
  • POLICE HUMOUR
    The Hunting of the Snark: Lessons for, and from, a Life in Policing

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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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December 2019

  • BREAK, ENTER & STEAL
    Travel all over the country side – Strike Force Chiver
  • OPINION PIECE
    Tackling Australia’s knowledge challenge
  • POLICE – WHY I WORK WHERE I WORK – KUALA LUMPUR
    An account of the work the AFP undertakes in Malaysia and other overseas locations
  • POLICE – VICTORIA
    The role and operations of the Victoria Police Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit (SIIU)
  • BREAK, ENTER & STEAL
    The Kareela Cat Burglar

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September 2018

  • POLICE DEATHS
    Always Expect the Unexpected
  • KIDNAPPING
    Snatched by a Stranger
  • POLICE MENTAL HEALTH
    Police Suicide – Implications for policy and practice police officers medically ready?
  • STRESS
    Burnout in Police
  • FRAUD
    The Changeling – A case of arrested development?

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September 2015

  • NORTHERN TERRITORY POLICE COMMISSIONER
    Introducing Reece Kershaw; Evolution with a Badge
  • VICTORIA POLICE COMMISSIONER
    Introducing Graham Ashton AM APM
    Victoria Police’s 22nd Chief Commissioner
  • HOMICIDE
    All for Nothing, The Death of Police Constable David Edward McGrath 1915
  • POLICE QUESTIONING
    The Truth About Lying
  • HOMICIDE
    The Mutilator
  • SEARCH AND RESCUE
    Lost Persons: Sometimes We Don’t Find Them

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March 2015

  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
    AFP Welcomes Commissioner Andrew Colvin
    The AFP Farewells Commissioner Tony Negus
  • POLICE – VICTORIA
    Chief Commissioner Ken Lay APM: Policing – a privilege never taken for granted
  • TERRORISM
    Attack Likely! Are you Prepared? Are you Alert?
  • DRUGS
    Death of a Dancer
  • FORENSIC PHOTOGRAPHY
    Locard’s Theory – Or Something Else?
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    Madame Kevlar
  • WOMEN IN POLICING
    NSW Police Force Celebrates 100 Years of Women in Policing
  • HOMICIDE INVESTIGATIONS
    The Weckert Murders
  • ACTIVE SHOOTER INCIDENTS
    Responding to “Active Shooter’ Incidents in Australia
  • FIREARMS
    Guns on our Doorstep, Illicit Firearm Markets of South East Asia

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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 2013

  • POLICE – QUEENSLAND
    Introducing Commissioner Ian Stewart
    Commissioner Bob Atkinson Retires
  • ARMED ROBBERY
    Bowling Bandits Meet the Jacks
  • DRUGS
    Kava in the Northern Territory – a Unique Situation
  • POLICE UNIFORMS
    New Victoria Police Attire
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    AFP Load Bearing Vests
  • DRUG TRAFFICKING
    Fly-By-Nighters 
  • AIRPORT POLICE
    Policing the National Community – The AFP’s Role at the Nation’s Major Airports
  • SEX CRIMES
    ‘The Little Pebble’
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Cook Islands Police

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June 2010

  • HOMICIDE
    Murderous Denials – The De Gruchy Murders
  • POLICE PHOTOGRAPHY
    APJ Photo Competition 2009 Winners
  • HOMICIDE
    ‘Mad’ or ‘Bad’ – The Murder of Pamela King
  • HISTORICAL
    The Kelly Hunters
  • FORENSIC SCIENCE
    The Inaugural John Harber Phillips Award
  • HISTORICAL
    The Justices’ Manual and Police Guide
  • BOOK REVIEW
    The Face Without a Name – Finding Jane Doe
  • RANK INSIGNIA
    Tasmania Police Service
  • POLICE FAUNA
    NSW Police Force Eagle

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June 2009

  • RANK INSIGNIA
    Queensland Police Service Rank Insignia
  • POLICE – VICTORIA
    New Chief Commissioner for Victoria – Simon Overland
    Christine Nixon signs off after eight years
  • HOMICIDE (VICTORIA)
    Asian Gangs Blood the Yarra: The Salt Nightclub Murders
  • TRAFFIC SAFETY
    Road Safety is No Accident
  • APJ NEWS
    APJ Inaugural Liaison Officer’s Seminar
  • EMERGENCY RESPONSE
    Flood Operations: Queensland
  • VICTORIAN BUSHFIRES
    Scorched Earth: Victorian Bushfires 2009
  • SEXUAL OFFENCES
    No One Heard Her Scream! – Gang Rape at Wattle Flats
  • HOMICIDE
    Death of a Drug Dealer – The ‘Ecstasy’ and the Agony!
  • GENERAL INTEREST
    Arthur Takes on the Riot Squad
  • HISTORICAL
    Slang – Used by Police and Others a Century Ago! – Part Six
  • AUSTRALASIAN POLICING NEWS
    ANZPAA: Achieving Excellence in Australian and New Zealand Policing
  • CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
    Man Hides Pigeons in his Budgie Smugglers
  • CHARITY AUCTION
    Centenary of the 1909 ‘Lock Out’
  • POLICE FLAGS
    INTERPOL

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Asian Gangs Blood the Yarra

The Salt Nightclub Murders

Brett Smith

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September 2008

  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
    Constable Samuel Nelson
    Constable Brett Irwin
  • APJ AWARDS
    Prize Winning Articles
  • SPORT – SECURITY MEASURES
    Olympic Torch Relay
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Detective Senior Constable Valerie Wagstaff’s Story: A Change for the Better
  • HOMICIDE
    Murder at Koroit Opal Fields
  • POLICE – SPORT
    Australasian Police Basketball Championships
  • ANIMAL CRUELTY
    Broken Seals (The Prom Massacre)
  • HOMICIDE
    Where’s Michelle? Case of a Murdered Mother whose body has never been found
  • DRUG COURTS
    The Adult Drug Court – Police Assisting to Combine Justice and Treatment
  • HISTORICAL
    Slang – used by Police and others a Century ago! – Part Three
  • MAJOR EVENTS – SECURITY MEASURES
    Policing World Youth Day (2008)
  • POLICE PURSUITS
    Cocktail Cartwheel
  • HOMICIDE
    Copycat TV Killing: Suicide Scripted by CSI
  • CRIME
    ‘Steroids Made Me Do It!’: Auburn Westpac Bank Robbery
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Forensic Files: ‘The Lottery Kidnapping’
  • POLICE FLAGS
    New South Wales Police Force

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March 2008

  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    The NSW Police Medal and Medallion is now available
  • POLICEWOMAN – VICTORIA
    Cops! – Constable Maha Sukkar’s Story
  • HOMICIDE RESEARCH
    The Murder of Overseas Visitors in Australia
  • ARSON
    North-Side Nostradamus Prophecy, Prank or Pyromania?
  • ARSON INVESTIGATION
    Tips for Police Investigating Fire Fighter Arsonists
  • HOMICIDE
    Cold Case – The Bonnie Clarke Murder
  • HISTORICAL
    Death Message from Across the Miles
  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
    Cops! – Retired Sergeant John ‘Jack’ Dealy
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Queensland Police Service

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September 2007

  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
    Sergeant Colin ‘Col’ McKenzie
  • POLICE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    Commissioner Ken Moroney Signs Off
    Cops! – Phil Peters, Editor – Australian Police Journal and Retired Duty Officer
  • POLICE DEATHS
    Remembrance Day
  • DRUG TRAFFICKING
    Sea Chase – Pursuit and Capture of the Pong Su
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Police Corruption
    Police Ethics Crisis in Law Enforcement
    Tasmanian Crime Stories
  • POLICE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
    Community Contact – The Future for Australian Policing and Technology
  • HOMICIDE
    Cold Case – The Unsolved Murder of Edgar Geer
  • CUSTOMS – AUSTRALIA
    Marine Patrol – The National Marine Unit of the Australian Customs Service
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Western Australia Police

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June 2007

  • APJ AWARDS
    Presentation of Awards for Prize Winning Articles
  • KIDNAPPING
    The Ghost Catchers
  • HISTORICAL
    Did You Know? Sillitoe’s Tartan
  • HOMICIDE
    Nigel Stiffe Murder
  • FORENSIC SCIENCE
    Forensic Entomology
  • HISTORICAL
    Loose Lips
  • POLICE QUESTIONING
    Recommendations for Eliciting a Disclosure of Abuse from a Young Child
  • HISTORICAL
    In Search of the ‘Butcher’s Ridge Bandit’ – Alan Torney
  • COUNTER TERRORISM LAW
    New Defence Force Powers to Aid Civil Authorities and Related Matters – Part 2
  • POLICE ATTITUDE
    The Copper
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Joanne Lees – My Journey – No Turning Back
    The Taxi Driver Killer
    The Rampage of Killer Kast
    The Thin Red and Blue Lines
  • CRIME
    Catch me if you can
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Northern Territory Police

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March 2007

  • POLICE POEM
    Angel on Highway 109
  • CRIMINALS – NEW SOUTH WALES
    The Notorious ‘Bobby’ Catman
  • STOCK THEFT
    Who are Ewe? – DNA Testing Proves Sheep Theft
    Outhouse Beef (or sometimes police-work can be dirty work!)
  • DRUGS
    When a House is not a Home: Asian Operated Hydroponic Cannabis Cultivation
    Random Drug Testing of Drivers in Victoria
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Road Safety – Strategies and Solutions
  • SUICIDE
    Peace in the Mountains
  • COUNTER TERRORISM LAW
    New Defence Force Powers to Aid Civil Authorities and Related Matters – Part 1
  • CRIME
    Human Fireball: Divine Tragedy – Gabriella Mazzali’s Terror by Fire
  • POLICE FLAGS
    Australian Federal Police

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December 2006

  • NATIONAL POLICE MEMORIAL
    National Police Memorial Dedication Ceremony
  • POLICE – NEW ZEALAND
    Introducing Commissioner Howard Broad
  • IN MEMORIAM
  • HOMICIDE
    The Wickham Terrace Massacre
  • CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
    Who Do You Trust?
  • COURT APPEAL
    Walking Evil – ‘Fiend Will Die Behind Bars’
  • HISTORICAL
    Ned Kelly – The Murderer Unmasked
  • POLICE METHODS
    Strike Force Kamiri – Sexual Assault Investigation in a Remote Aboriginal Community
  • RAIL DISASTER
    Granville – The Day of the Roses
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Frontline Policing/ On the Beat and in the Bush (with Mr Bob)
  • POLICE METHODS
    CIRT – (Victoria Police) Critical Incident Response Team
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    Fuel into the Future
  • PAST AUSTRALIAN POLICE MEDAL
    Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal

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