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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] More than 1,000 Victorian police officers incorrectly sworn in due to 'administrative oversight'
Read: 23/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
The Victorian government is urgently drafting retrospective legislation to address an administrative error which has resulted in more than 1,000 police officers being invalidly sworn in over the past eight years.
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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] 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] 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] 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] Richard Pusey being found too unpopular for community order is 'disturbing', judge says
Read: 28/4/2021 www.abc.net.au
WARNING: This story contains language that may offend some readers. Pusey was assessed for a community correction order ahead of his sentence on charges including outraging public decency following Melbourne's Eastern Freeway crash that killed four police officers.
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