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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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Man-of-War

The American Civil War Comes to Victoria

Protective Service Officer Gerald Lefurgy

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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

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March 2023

  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
    Vale, Constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow
  • EDITORIAL
    From my Desk
  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
    Heroism – Vale, Sergeant Peter Stone
  • EDUCATION
    Court Craft
  • POLICE DOGS
    Scent of a Crime
  • SIEGE
    The Siege in Civic
  • HOMICIDE
    Web of Lies
  • MYSTERY
    The Mysterious Disappearance of Margaret Clement
  • HOMICIDE
    Good Over Evil
  • PODCAST
    Podcast Roundup

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June 2017

  • CARBON MONOXIDE
    Smoke, The Silent Killer
  • ROBBERY
    Armed Robbery at Balwyn Park
  • POLICE DEATH
    What Happened to Constable Nowland?
  • MOTOR CYCLE GANGS
    Operation Peregrine 22
  • POLICE QUESTIONING
    Sexual Trauma, Memory and Implications for the Police

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September 2016

  • REMEMBER THE FALLEN
    New South Wales Police Employee Curtis Cheng
  • POLICE DEATH
    Innocent Blood and Alcohol Fuelled Violence
  • DRUGS
    Iced Coffee – Rock beats Paper?
  • POLICE DEATH
    An Unexpected ‘Mayday’ in November

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June 2016

  • FORENSIC SCIENCE
    Australia Launches its First Body Farm
  • POLICE DOGS – VICTORIA
    Nat the Crook Catcher
  • SEARCH AND RESCUE – QUEENSLAND
    The Suicide Factor
  • POLICE DEATHS – VICTORIA
    Remembering Angela
  • POLICE – VICTORIA
    Russell Street 30 Years On
  • AIR CRASH INVESTIGATION
    The MH17 Tragedy
    In Search of MH17
    The Quest for Justice on MH17
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT
    Eight Body Camera Concerns
    Understanding the Tech
  • POLICE EQUIPMENT – AUSTRALIA
    BWC Down Under
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Smoke and Mirrors by Robin Bowles Reviewed By Denise Cullen
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    APJ Photography Competition 2016 Winner

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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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December 2012

  • POLICE – AFP
    Keeping a Very Close Watch
  • POLICE – SOUTH AUSTRALIA
    Introducing Commissioner Burns BM, APM
  • POLICE – SOUTH AUSTRALIA
    Commissioner Mal Hyde APM, AO Retires 
  • HISTORICAL – VICTORIA
    A Grave Injustice: The Melbourne Police Strike of 1923
  • HOMICIDE – SOUTH AUSTRALIA
    A Person of Pure Evil: The Kapunda Murders
  • APJ AWARD
    Presentation of Award for Prize Winning Article
  • POLICE – AFGHANISTAN
    Objective Completed: Training Police Recruits in Afghanistan
  • HOMICIDE – NEW SOUTH WALES
    A Lesson in Murder: Strike Force Tenos
  • POLICE PATCHES
    Norfolk Island Police

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December 2002

  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Cars & Stripes
  • HOMICIDE
    All the President’s Men
  • CRIME
    Suzy’s Scars – A Kings Cross Brief
  • DISASTERS
    Granville Train Disaster – 25 Years Later
  • KIDNAPPING
    The Morrison Case
  • SERIAL KILLERS
    The Hunters Among Us: Serial Killers
  • ACT – AWARD
    Cop is Top ACT Citizen
  • SUICIDE
    Releasing the Demons – Mental Illness Leading to Suicide – A Case Study
  • SUICIDE
    Revolving Fortunes
  • SUICIDE
    Firearms Suicides: During Police Intervention in North America
  • BADGE CALL
    New South Wales

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September 2002

  • NEW SOUTH WALES
    Introducing Commissioner Ken Moroney
  • SPORTS – SECURITY MEASURES
    Condemned to Success – Building the Security Overlay for the XXVII Olympiad
  • POEM
    I Am – Remembrance
  • TERRORISM
    ‘9/11’ – The World Trade Centre Attacks
  • HOMICIDE
    Where did we go Wrong?
  • HOMICIDE
    No Man is an Island
  • NEW SOUTH WALES
    The Job
  • BADGE CALL
    South Australia

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September 2000

  • POEM
    The Path of the Fallen
  • HOMICIDE
    Emerald Loses its Gleam
  • HOMICIDE
    Burwood Triple Murders
  • ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
    Death on the Gateway
  • DEATH
    Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
  • POLICE METHODS
    Interviewing of Aboriginal People
  • MANAGEMENT
    Management Education for Police Leaders
  • SPORTS – SECURITY MEASURES
    Olympic Security, Defence Force Aid and Legal Matters
  • APJ STAFFING
    Retirement of Brian Smith
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Sheriff’s Insignia of the United States

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Number 2 – 1989

  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    Hovercraft – Newest Aid for Rescue Calls
  • POLICE ADMINISTRATION
    The Changing Environment of the Police Executive
  • TERRORISM
    Aviation Security in an Age of Terrorism
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Managing Neighbourhood Watch
  • CRIME
    Parcel Bomb
  • TRANSPORT POLICE
    Transit Policing in Victoria
  • VANDALISM
    Graffiti: Vandalism Masquerades as Art

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Number 4 – 1983

  • OVERSEAS POLICE
    The Police Nationale – A Day in the Life of a Police Officer in Paris, France
  • NEW EQUIPMENT
    CS Gas
    Baseball caps
  • SEXUAL OFFENCES
    Rape x Fear
    The Heidelberg Rapes – The Medical Aspect
  • WOMEN POLICE
    Women Police in NSW – The Formative Years
  • TRAINING
    Higher Education for Police: A Contemporary Imperative
  • ADMINISTRATION
    Introduction to Police Administration – Chapter XV – Changing Times People, Police and Politics
  • PHYSICAL
    The Long and the Short and the Tall
  • FORENSIC INVESTIGATION
    Deaths During a Fire
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Political Terrorism
    100 Australian Bushrangers 1789 – 1901

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October 1975

  • ILLICIT DRUGS
    Smoking Devices
  • ORGANISED CRIME
    INTERPOL and Organized Crime
  • ILLICIT DRUGS
    Investigation of a Clandestine Laboratory
  • OPERATIONAL POLICING
    The Undercover Operator
  • SEX CRIMES
    Flasher’s Graduation
  • GENDER ISSUES
    Policewomen – An Asset to Law Enforcement
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Macerated Hands

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October 1968

  • DRUGS
    So We Have a Drug Problem!
  • THEFT
    Motor Vehicle Theft Investigations – Part 2
  • PUBLIC RELATIONS
    Police – Problems of Public Relations
  • LAW
    An Australian Lawyer Loos at the Administration of Criminal Justice in USA – Part 1
  • HISTORICAL
    Alexander Tolmer – Commissioner
  • IDENTIFICATION
    Identification of Accused from Police Photographs
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
  • BOOK REVIEW
  • RECENT DECISIONS

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April 1968

  • CRIME PREVENTION
    The Prevention of Crime – A Community Problem – Part II
  • THEFT
    Motor Vehicle Theft Investigations – Part I
  • HOMICIDE
    The Trig Beach Murder
  • COMPANY LAW
    Some Aspects of Company Law
  • FORENSICS
    Crime Scene Protection
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
  • BOOK REVIEW
  • RECENT LEGAL DECISIONS

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January 1968

  • CRIME PREVENTION
    The Prevention of Crime – A Community Problem – Part I
  • INTERNATIONAL
    The Police Force in Pakistan
  • INTERNATIONAL (UNITED NATIONS POLICING)
    The Cyprus Story
  • FORENSICS
    Forensic Science ‘Scenes of Crime’ Officers
  • SKILLS
    Testifying in Court
  • ARMED ROBBERY
    An Analysis of Armed Robbery
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
  • RECENT LEGAL DECISIONS
  • APJ INDEX

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April 1963

  • LEGAL
    Carelessness, Indifference and Recklessness: Two Replies
  • CRIME SCENES
    Initial Action at the Scene of a Crime
  • QUEENS POLICE MEDAL ESSAY
    Separate Traffic Enforcement Agencies?
  • METHODOLOGY
    Use of Aniline Dyes and Anthracene in the Detection of Petty Theft
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Garbage Disposal a Must for Bookmakers
    Gambler Takes a Gamble
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Firearms Identification
    Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction

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