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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] Man jailed for terrifying, humiliating knifepoint attack on partner

Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au

Darryl Nugget has been jailed for four years over the March 2020 attack, in which he repeatedly threatened to kill the woman while holding a knife to her throat in front of several children.

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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] Man faces court over alleged kidnapping of children from Blackburn North

Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Jiangang Ji is facing charges including kidnapping, aggravated burglary, armed robbery, false imprisonment, assault and theft of a motor vehicle.

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[Link] How a now-defunct site on the dark web led police to the biggest cryptocurrency seizure in Australia

Read: 24/8/2021 www.theage.com.au

They were “quite unremarkable in every way”, police said, living normal lives in the community having never before come to the attention of authorities.

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[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] ‘Ridiculous’: Police warn protesters ahead of anti-lockdown rally in Melbourne

Read: 22/8/2021 www.theage.com.au

Police have warned people attending an anti-lockdown march in Melbourne on Saturday that they will take strong action to deter breaches of lockdown restrictions. Thousands were expected to join the protest, which organisers said would begin at 12pm in the CBD.

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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] How was Tasmania's new COVID case allowed into the state?

Read: 7/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Tasmania has recorded its first COVID case in hotel quarantine in 238 days. It means potentially dozens of northern Tasmanians have been forced into self-isolation and questions are being asked about how he came to be in Tasmania in the first place.

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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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