Services across the country for National Police Remembrance Day on Friday will honour police force members who tragically lost their lives in the line of duty, including the two young officers killed at the fatal Wieambilla shooting in December. At the 2023 commemoration, constables Rachel McCrow, Matthew Arnold and AnthonyContinue Reading
An Australian Federal Police (AFP) officer has died after taking their own life at the organisation’s Perth headquarters. It happened on Friday at the AFP’s offices on Murray Street in West Perth. The 34-year-old was a Protective Service Officer, and the incident is being investigated by WA Police. AFP CommissionerContinue Reading
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw has fronted budget estimates on Friday after the AFP entered into a $794,000 contract with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Mr Kershaw failed to declare a conflict of interest over his relationship with former NSW Police commissioner Mick Fuller, now partner at the beleaguered consulting firm, afterContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese has accused Peter Dutton of telling the Prime Minister’s office of Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation “days before” it became public. The Prime Minister turned the tables on the Opposition leader in parliament after he asked Mr Albanese when the Prime Minister’s office became aware. Mr Albanese – whoContinue Reading
Working Australians have slammed the Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw for his citing research regarding how much “praise” each generation requires from their supervisor to do their job well. While speaking to the Senate Estimates Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Commissioner Kershaw discussed workforce habits, with hisContinue Reading
Australia’s top cop has claimed young workers need to be praised “three times a week” by their supervisors, and that they find happy face emojis “offensive”. Addressing senate estimates on Thursday, AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw said there was a huge divide in how each generation needed to be managed atContinue Reading
One of the most senior police investigating Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation has told an inquiry that when he pleaded with her to stop doing media that could prejudice a trial, Victims of Crime Commissioner Heidi Yates told him: “She can’t, Scott – she is the face of the movement now.”Continue Reading
A decision to publicly suggest a political conspiracy was afoot in the Bruce Lehrmann case has been called into question during a blunt cross-examination of the ACT’s top prosecutor. Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold SC was grilled by counsel for the Australian Federal Police about his claim during theContinue Reading
Australians concerned they’re the target of foreign spies have been urged to alert authorities under a fresh campaign to fight foreign interference. The federal police will launch the grassroots campaign on Monday to better educate Australia’s multicultural communities amid fears potential crimes are going unreported. The move comes less thanContinue Reading
The alleged boss of an international drug trafficking syndicate has landed in Australia after being extradited from the Netherlands. Tse Chi Lop, 59, was charged by the Australian Federal Police over conspiracy to traffic commercial quantities of drugs for the crime syndicate known as The Company. He is accused ofContinue Reading