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A failed bid to smuggle a suspected Queensland fugitive to Indonesia has landed three people in WA courts. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says officers from a WA joint crime taskforce arrested three people onboard a yacht at 8am on […]
Putting guns in the hands of police officers will not lead to more shootings, new research from Monash University says. The research investigated 50 years of officer-involved shootings in Australia between 1970 and 2020. Lead researcher Dr Ross Hendy says
Illegal e-bikes will now be seized and crushed in NSW after state parliament approved changes to the Road Transport Act. NSW Police and Transport officers can seize these e-bikes and Transport for NSW will crush them under changes approved on
Colombia police will join in Pacific-wide efforts to crack down on drug trafficking to Australia. A new joint investigations squad will be created and based in Bogota, Colombia, to target the trade at its source; it will involve officers from
Australian and French divers are helping train police from the remote, central Pacific atoll nation of Kiribati to detect illegal drugs. Australian Federal Police (AFP) divers joined their French military counterparts in Tahiti to train 12 Kiribati officers to combat
Tow truck drivers are averaging more than one near-miss a week on Queensland roads as they get out to help stranded drivers. The finding from motoring organisation RACQ came out a day after police say a woman was killed on
Ipswich Police’s new $38 million three-storey complex at Ripley is now officially open ‘for business’. Queensland Police says the new complex will serve as Ripley’s new local station as well as the district base for Ipswich Police. It will house
About 10,000 e-bikes, scooters and cycling gear worth more than $2 million will go to auction on the Gold Coast this weekend. (In unrelated news, Queensland Police say two teenager riders on an e-bike died in a collision with a
Federal police officers have been visiting North Queensland airports as they strengthen efforts to ‘bust’ people-smuggling flights. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced the visits after a Woolshed man faced Ipswich Magistrate’s Court today (March 12) on two counts of
Illegal motorbikes are to be seized and crushed on the spot by NSW Police in a crackdown on their growing use on roads and paths. Police have now been empowered to target the growing number of throttle-only, high-powered electric motorbikes,
