Tag: Police
Forensics database set up in Perth
Researchers in Perth are building a database of skeletons to help identify bodies more quickly and accurately.[MORE]
Police probe pub bashing
Police are investigating the bashing of a man outside a Palmerston bar overnight.[MORE]
4 Darwin drivers nabbed for drink driving
Darwin police say they arrested four people in Darwin's northern suburbs for high level drink driving overnight.[MORE]
Sister finds missing Sydney teen
An intellectually disabled teenager who went missing from her home in Sydney's west last night has been found safe.[MORE]
Teen's skull fractured in Gold Coast robbery
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]
Man glassed in CBD
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]
Teen employee 'punched, bound and burned'
Police allege a man and woman punched, bound, burned and threatened to kill a teenage employee.[MORE]
Pair arrested over airport drug bust
Police have arrested two alleged members of an organised crime syndicate over the importation of a commercial quantity of drugs.[MORE]
East Timor bones affair 'embarrassing' for Australia
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]
Police officer grilled for second day
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]
Two men bashed with home-made baton
A man has allegedly assaulted two people with a home-made baton in a Nightcliff hotel.[MORE]
Blazing campervan forces road closure
A campervan fire yesterday forced the closure of the Stuart Highway, police say.[MORE]
Burglar on run in north Qld
Police are searching for a man who escaped from a low security prison in Townsville this morning.[MORE]
Inquest told of Palm Island 'scuffle'
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]
Mulder cleared by Electoral Commission
The Tasmanian Electoral Commission has found that the Liberal candidate and former police officer, Tony Mulder, did not breach the Electoral Act.[MORE]
Police push for more pub bans
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]
Policeman 'never heard Doomadgee's cries for help'
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]
Woman doused with petrol, threatened
A man poured petrol on a woman in the Palmerston suburb of Driver yesterday morning and threatened to set her alight, police said.[MORE]
Child caught up in attempted axe assault
NT woman who allegedly struck a child in the head with an axe was trying to hit someone else but missed, police said.[MORE]
Police negotiate end to Brisbane stand-off
A woman is in hospital and a man is in police custody after a stand-off ended in Brisbane's south.[MORE]
Residents lobby to stop police sergeant move
The Coonabarabran community is vowing to fight plans to only have one sergeant based at the town's police station. [MORE]
Police used motorists as human blockade
Moscow's police chief has apologised after motorists were ordered to form their vehicles into a blockade to stop a speeding getaway car.[MORE]
Police investigate bullying at slain boy's school
Police are investigating the alleged assault of a teenager by a fellow student at the Brisbane Catholic boys' school St Patrick's College. [MORE]
Police chief laments likely nightclub nod
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]
Police look for paintball attackers
Police are looking for a group of men who injured two people with paintball guns in Perth's northern suburbs last week.[MORE]
