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Forensics database set up in Perth

March 13, 2010 14:45:00

Researchers in Perth are building a database of skeletons to help identify bodies more quickly and accurately.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, police, science-and-technology, research, anatomy, wa, perth-6000

Police probe pub bashing

March 13, 2010 14:29:00

Police are investigating the bashing of a man outside a Palmerston bar overnight.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, australia, nt, palmerston-0830

4 Darwin drivers nabbed for drink driving

March 13, 2010 14:28:00

Darwin police say they arrested four people in Darwin's northern suburbs for high level drink driving overnight.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, australia, nt, darwin-0800

Sister finds missing Sydney teen

March 13, 2010 13:30:00

An intellectually disabled teenager who went missing from her home in Sydney's west last night has been found safe.[MORE]

Tags: community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, police, missing-person, australia, nsw, rooty-hill-2766

Teen's skull fractured in Gold Coast robbery

March 13, 2010 12:07:00

An 18-year-old man who was robbed on the Gold Coast overnight is in hospital with a fractured skull and a punctured lung.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, australia, qld, surfers-paradise-4217

Man glassed in CBD

March 13, 2010 08:00:00

Police are appealing for help from the public as they hunt a group of people believed to have glassed a man in Sydney's CBD last night.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, australia, nsw, sydney-2000

Teen employee 'punched, bound and burned'

March 12, 2010 17:33:00

Police allege a man and woman punched, bound, burned and threatened to kill a teenage employee.[MORE]

Tags: courts-and-trials, police, australia, nt, darwin-0800

Pair arrested over airport drug bust

March 12, 2010 16:13:00

Police have arrested two alleged members of an organised crime syndicate over the importation of a commercial quantity of drugs.[MORE]

Tags: police, drug-offences, australia, nt, darwin-0800

East Timor bones affair 'embarrassing' for Australia

March 12, 2010 13:14:00

East Timor says it is embarrassing for Australia that NT police took five years to test remains believed to be those of the country's first prime minister.[MORE]

Tags: foreign-affairs, police, australia, nt, darwin-0800, east-timor

Police officer grilled for second day

March 12, 2010 13:01:00

The police officer at the centre of a death in custody at Palm Island in north Queensland has denied applying force to the prisoner during a scuffle.[MORE]

Tags: community-and-society, indigenous, black-deaths-in-custody, law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, police, australia, qld, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810

Two men bashed with home-made baton

March 12, 2010 12:05:00

A man has allegedly assaulted two people with a home-made baton in a Nightcliff hotel.[MORE]

Tags: police, assault, australia, nt, darwin-0800

Blazing campervan forces road closure

March 12, 2010 11:37:00

A campervan fire yesterday forced the closure of the Stuart Highway, police say.[MORE]

Tags: fires, police, australia, nt, darwin-0800

Burglar on run in north Qld

March 12, 2010 11:33:00

Police are searching for a man who escaped from a low security prison in Townsville this morning.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, australia, qld, townsville-4810

Inquest told of Palm Island 'scuffle'

March 12, 2010 08:01:00

The coronial inquest into the death in custody of a Palm Island man will continue hearing evidence today from the police officer acquitted of his manslaughter.[MORE]

Tags: community-and-society, indigenous, black-deaths-in-custody, law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, police, australia, qld, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810

Mulder cleared by Electoral Commission

March 11, 2010 21:01:00

The Tasmanian Electoral Commission has found that the Liberal candidate and former police officer, Tony Mulder, did not breach the Electoral Act.[MORE]

Tags: elections, state-parliament, labor-party, liberal-party, laws, police, tas, hobart-7000, launceston-7250

Police push for more pub bans

March 11, 2010 19:02:00

The Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan says anyone who commits a serious assault in a pub or club should be banned for five years.[MORE]

Tags: police, wa, northbridge-6003

Policeman 'never heard Doomadgee's cries for help'

March 11, 2010 18:22:00

The police officer acquitted of the 2004 manslaughter of a Palm Island man in police custody says he never heard the prisoner's cries for help.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, police, australia, qld, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810

Woman doused with petrol, threatened

March 11, 2010 17:49:00

A man poured petrol on a woman in the Palmerston suburb of Driver yesterday morning and threatened to set her alight, police said.[MORE]

Tags: police, arson, australia, nt, darwin-0800, palmerston-0830

Child caught up in attempted axe assault

March 11, 2010 13:26:00

NT woman who allegedly struck a child in the head with an axe was trying to hit someone else but missed, police said.[MORE]

Tags: police, assault, australia, nt, darwin-0800, katherine-0850

Police negotiate end to Brisbane stand-off

March 11, 2010 12:32:00

A woman is in hospital and a man is in police custody after a stand-off ended in Brisbane's south.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, police-sieges, australia, qld, runcorn-4113

Residents lobby to stop police sergeant move

March 11, 2010 11:12:00

The Coonabarabran community is vowing to fight plans to only have one sergeant based at the town's police station. [MORE]

Tags: government-and-politics, local-government, law-crime-and-justice, police, coonabarabran-2357

Police used motorists as human blockade

March 11, 2010 10:06:00

Moscow's police chief has apologised after motorists were ordered to form their vehicles into a blockade to stop a speeding getaway car.[MORE]

Tags: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, police, russian-federation

Police investigate bullying at slain boy's school

March 11, 2010 10:04:00

Police are investigating the alleged assault of a teenager by a fellow student at the Brisbane Catholic boys' school St Patrick's College. [MORE]

Tags: education, bullying, law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, australia, qld, shorncliffe-4017

Police chief laments likely nightclub nod

March 11, 2010 09:00:00

Newcastle local area police commander Max Mitchell says he is resigned to the fact a proposed nightclub will get a licence to operate, despite his officers being totally opposed to it.[MORE]

Tags: food-and-beverage, drugs-and-substance-abuse, police, newcastle-2300

Police look for paintball attackers

March 10, 2010 19:00:00

Police are looking for a group of men who injured two people with paintball guns in Perth's northern suburbs last week.[MORE]

Tags: crime, police, hillarys-6025, mullaloo-6027, north-beach-6020, ocean-reef-6027, warwick-6024