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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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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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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 2022

  • ADMINISTRATION
    New APJ Editor – Simon Bouda AM
  • WESTERN AUSTRALIA POLICE FORCE
    Farewell to Commissioner Chris Dawson APM
  • HOMICIDE
    Crueller than Murder
  • ANZPAA
    Introducing Dr Tracey Green
  • POLICE RESCUE
    Landslide: Reflecting on the Thredbo Catastrophe 25 Years on – and what it might have looked like had it happened 100 years earlier
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Missing, Presumed Dead – the Double Murder Case that Shocked Australia

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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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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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The Murder of Don Hancock

A review of the forensic evidence used to support Operation Zircon: the homicide of retired WA Police Commander Donald Hancock and Mr Lawrence Lewis

David Royds

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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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December 2005

  • POLICE – AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
    Killer Found fit to Plead
  • POLICE – SOLOMON ISLANDS
    Introducing Commissioner Shane Castles
  • HOMICIDE
    History Repeats – Murder of Ronald Joseph Williams
  • BICYCLE THEFT
    The Bicycle Graveyard: From Little Things, Big Things Come
  • RECENT DECISIONS
    Sniffer Dogs: Evidence from over-keen pooch excluded
  • POLICE TEACHING
    The Manly Experience
  • GENERAL
    Chicken Thief on INTERPOL List
  • POLICE – VICTORIA
    Victoria Police Shrine Guards
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Victor Chang: Murder of a Hero
  • PERSONAL SAFETY
    ICE (In Case of Emergency)
  • POLICE POWERS
    New Commonwealth Laws Supporting Counter-Terrorism Measures
  • INTERNET – CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
    Child Pornography and the Internet – A Statistical Review
  • POLICEWOMEN
    Summary of 2005 Australasian Council of Women and Policing Conference
  • CRIME PREVENTION
    SHEDucation
  • AUSTRALASIAN POLICE MEDALS
    New Zealand Police Long Shrive and Good Conduct Medal

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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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