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[Link] Passengers escorted off Qantas flight by police after Sydney airport security breach
Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com
All passengers on a Qantas flight from Sydney Wednesday evening were escorted off the plane by police to the unscreened area of Melbourne airport, after one passenger managing to bypass screening. Just got off Qantas flight QF487, Sydney to Melbourne.
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[Link] Cleo Smith detective stood down amid misconduct probe
Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com
The decision to stand down a prominent West Australian homicide detective accused of misconduct does not mean he is guilty, the state’s police chief, Col Blanch, said.
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[Link] How drug smugglers are trying to outsmart border officials at Australian ports
Read: 10/5/2022 www.abc.net.au
International crime syndicates are attempting to smuggle drugs into the country strapped to the hulls of cargo ships to evade detection, police say. Once the ship arrives at the port, scuba divers are standing by to collect the contraband.
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[Link] Fireproof Australia: who are the radical Extinction Rebellion splinter group?
Read: 10/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
It was the re-election of a Coalition government in May 2019 that altered the trajectory of Sam Noonan’s life and politics.
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[Link] Police officer who assaulted teenager spared jall because of own trauma at work
Read: 1/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Andrew Allan Jaunay was handed a three-month suspended sentence with a year-long good behaviour bond for the 2013 assault of then-17-year-old Matthew Odgers. Jaunay was with other police officers when they stopped and searched Mr Odgers in a Whyalla Stuart street in October of that year.
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[Link] Zachary Rolfe trial: no ‘reasonable’ grounds for shooting Kumanjayi Walker second and third time, court hears
Read: 1/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Police officer Zachary Rolfe did not have “reasonable” grounds to shoot Kumanjayi Walker a second and third time, and the second and third shots provided no tactical advantage in the attempted arrest of the Aboriginal man, a former Northern Territory police defensive tactics trainer told Rolfe
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[Link] 'Not fit for purpose': Call to close NT's shipping container cop shops
Read: 27/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
The Northern Territory's police union has renewed calls for the closure of 14 remote police stations – some of them just repurposed shipping containers – which it says have fallen into severe disrepair.
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[Link] Five arrested after shots fired while cars 'chased each other' in peak-hour Adelaide traffic
Read: 23/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Four men and a woman have been arrested over several incidents in Adelaide's north in which shots were fired, including between cars. Firearms including a gel blaster were seized by police, who believe the incidents are linked.
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[Link] Park lands hub helps Aboriginal rough sleepers return to Country
Read: 9/12/2021 indaily.com.au
Puti on Kaurna Yerta in the southern park lands. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDailySince opening in October, the Puti on Kaurna Yerta hub has helped 75 Aboriginal people – approximately half of whom came from the Northern Territory – to travel from Adelaide back to Country.
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[Link] Operation Ironside nets 18 more suspects as police seize guns and drugs
Read: 2/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Another 18 men have been arrested in South Australia as part of ongoing Operation Ironside investigations, including two who have been charged with false imprisonment.
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[Link] 'He has been significantly punished': Prison escape lands man in solitary confinement for a year, court hears
Read: 30/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Jason Gregory Burdon has pleaded guilty to escaping from the maximum security prison's kitchen area in December last year, using items of clothing as a rope to climb out of a metal louvre window.
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[Link] WA Police officers who refuse vaccine will be stood down on full pay, union says
Read: 29/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The WA Police Union says about 20 officers are likely to be stood down for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before Wednesday's deadline, but they could continue to receive full pay for months.
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[Link] Police officer who reported off-duty colleague for taking a gun to a school guilty of public mischief
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A Sydney highway patrol officer has been found guilty of public mischief after anonymously reporting an off-duty colleague was at a primary school with a gun.
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[Link] Police presence at music festivals can lead to ‘panic overdoses’ of drugs
Read: 19/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police presence at music festivals leads some people to “panic overdose” in their attempt to avoid getting caught, an Australian study has found, with experts calling for a change in policing culture at festivals.
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[Link] Terror detectives charge Melbourne man with inciting protesters to make explosives
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Terror detectives have charged a Melbourne man with inciting protesters to make explosives, as police continue to investigate threats against Victorian MPs who supported the state's controversial pandemic legislation.
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[Link] This is what we know about William Tyrrell case
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
For seven years, the case of the missing boy dressed in a Spider-Man costume has confounded the state's top detectives. Three-year-old William Tyrrell appeared to have vanished without a trace from his foster grandmother's house at Kendall on the NSW Mid-North Coast.
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[Link] Thick blue line: Victoria builds the country’s biggest police force
Read: 14/11/2021 www.theage.com.au
Victoria has become one of the most heavily policed states in Australia after a two decade-long law and order rivalry between the ALP and Coalition helped build the country’s largest law enforcement organisation.
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[Link] Tasmania shooting: two men dead and woman in hospital
Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Two men have died and a woman is in hospital after suffering gunshot wounds at a Tasmanian house with two children inside. Police were called to a property on William Street in Devonport after reports of shots fired about 1am on Saturday.
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[Link] Police try to identify flare-wielding protesters
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police are trying to identify three people involved in the setting off of flares at an anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne on Saturday.
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[Link] Alleged stalker arrested and charged over sexual assaults
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
SA Police have arrested a 35-year-old man and charged him with seven counts of stalking as well as rape and unlawful sexual intercourse. It is alleged the crimes occurred across the Adelaide metro area and that, on most occasions, he approached and met victims through online platforms.
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[Link] Adelaide emergency doctor withdraws legal challenge against mandatory vaccinations
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide emergency doctor who sought to challenge the state's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers has withdrawn his legal challenge in the Adelaide Magistrates Court.
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[Link] 'Sovereign citizen' posts video after failing to appear in court on firearms offences
Read: 2/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Solange Goodes, 42, was arrested at her farm in Sandy Creek earlier this year, after police allege she threatened them when they came to the property to check if registered guns were properly secured.
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[Link] Federal police confiscate largest ever haul of ill-gotten cryptocurrency
Read: 31/10/2021 www.smh.com.au
The federal government has netted its largest ever haul of ill-gotten cryptocurrency and will redistribute the $1.2 million to law enforcement and community safety programs.
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[Link] Organised crime going undetected, says AFP, as Australian hits US ‘most wanted’ list
Read: 17/10/2021 www.smh.com.au
A top security official has warned that 90 per cent of Australia’s organised crime groups are operating with relative impunity, as police say employees of the Australian arm of Dubai’s government air services company have been used to infiltrate Sydney airport and smuggle drugs.
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[Link] Optimum distance to use a taser 3-4 metres, police shooting murder trial told
Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The murder trial of a police officer who shot and killed a woman armed with a knife has been told the best distance to deploy a taser is from 3 to 4 metres — around the same distance some witnesses put him at when he fired his gun.
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[Link] Police officer who fined Brisbane Greens councillor Jonathan Sri regularly criticised him on Facebook
Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Queensland police service says it will conduct a “full review” into a fine issued to prominent Brisbane Greens councillor Jonathan Sri, after it emerged the police officer involved had regularly criticised Sri in social media posts.
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[Link] Incredible find on 173km/hr P-plater’s phone
Read: 9/10/2021 www.news.com.au
The young tradie was spotted speeding in a white Toyota HiLux on the M1 Motorway near Berowra in northern Sydney at 5.40pm on Monday. The 19-year-old P-plater driver was travelling 173km/hr in a 110km/hr zone.
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[Link] Police officer's stalker possessed explosives in 'misguided' belief they were valuable, court told
Read: 6/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Oswald Bruggemans, 65, has pleaded guilty to stalking a police officer at Victor Harbor in February.
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[Link] Queensland police officer who leaked domestic abuse victim’s address resigns
Read: 4/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A Queensland police officer who leaked the address of a domestic abuse victim to her violent former partner has resigned, more than five years after first admitting to hacking into a confidential police database.
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[Link] Police bungle cost ‘14 years of potential progress’ in Maria James’ murder, Melbourne inquest hears
Read: 23/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police errors regarding the storage and examination of evidence hampered the investigation into the unsolved murder of Maria James in Melbourne, with one bungle costing “14 years of potential progress”, an inquest has been told.
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[Link] Age photographer pepper-sprayed at anti-lockdown protest
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The conduct of some Victoria Police is being investigated after a newspaper photographer was pepper sprayed and video was published online showing a woman being pushed to the ground and sprayed by an officer at a violent anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne at the weekend.
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[Link] NSW police apologise for sending email with sensitive information to wrong person
Read: 23/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
When a sensitive email from New South Wales police landed in Richard McDonald’s inbox earlier this month, he could scarcely believe the irony.
[Link] Statement of Concern: Police use of projectile weapons
Read: 22/8/2021 melbactivistlegal.org.au
Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS) expresses concern regarding use of projectile weapons at Melbourne protest on 21 August 2021.
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[Link] NSW police fine 600 people on first day of Covid crackdown blitz
Read: 18/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales police issued nearly 600 infringement notices to people flouting tough new health orders on the first day of a three-week crackdown designed to get the state’s escalating Covid crisis under control.
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[Link] Pressure on Queensland police to sack officer who leaked address of domestic violence victim
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Queensland police commissioner, Katarina Carroll, is “carefully considering” whether to take further disciplinary action against an officer who leaked the address of a domestic violence victim.
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[Link] Police arrest dozens of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne's CBD
Read: 13/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Victorian police arrested dozens of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne's CBD last night. Officers appeared to outnumber a handful of protesters who came into the city's centre to protest hours after Premier Daniel Andrews announced a seven-day extension to the city's lockdown.
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[Link] High level Victorian police under investigation by corruption watchdog
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theage.com.au
Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog is investigating alleged cover-ups, nepotism and internal information leaks involving high ranking police in a probe that is likely to rock force command, policing sources say.
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[Link] Police officer shot dead armed robber after being told not to intervene, Victorian coroner’s court told
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
An undercover police officer who shot dead an armed robber during the hold-up of a bottle shop had been told to let the crime occur rather than intervene, a Victorian court has heard.
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[Link] Hundreds protest against Victorian COVID lockdown, leading to clashes with police
Read: 6/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Hundreds of protesters have taken to Melbourne's streets hours after Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced a statewide lockdown from 8:00pm on Thursday.
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[Link] No conviction, $6000 fine for gangland cop who leaked corruption secret
Read: 6/8/2021 www.theage.com.au
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[Link] Who’s behind Australia’s anti-lockdown protests? The German conspiracy group driving marches
Read: 27/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
A German-based conspiracy group helped to drive a series of anti-lockdown protests across Australia which saw dozens of people arrested and hundreds fined after violent clashes with police.
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[Link] SA Police investigates photo of man in uniform appearing to snort white substance
Read: 19/5/2021 www.abc.net.au
SA Police says it will investigate the authenticity of a photo showing a man in a police uniform appearing to snort a white substance. The image shows the man leaning over a table and wearing what appears to be an SA Police (SAPOL) uniform without identification numbers.
[Link] Machete attack by car thieves leaves man in hospital
Read: 19/5/2021 www.abc.net.au
The 28-year-old man was struck with the weapon at his Cosgrove home about midnight before his assailants then took his car. He was taken to the Townsville University Hospital, where he was treated for multiple lacerations to his back and hands.
[Link] Queensland police blocked research into domestic violence cases and attitudes of officers
Read: 6/5/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Queensland police service blocked academic research seeking to scrutinise its response to domestic violence cases and the attitudes of officers – sending rejection letters that denied there was a need for studies.
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[Link] Australian Federal Police launch investigation into Ben Roberts-Smith over fresh allegations
Read: 15/4/2021 www.sbs.com.au
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[Link] Man hurt while in police custody and acquitted of ill-advised assault charge now suing SA Police
Read: 2/2/2021 www.abc.net.au
Three prosecutors advised against charging a man with assault after an incident at the Victor Harbor Police Station, but he was prosecuted anyway and acquitted after a trial, a court has heard.