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Coroner to examine death of man injured in crash with police car We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement A coroner is set to examine the manner of driving and actions of a police officer in the minutes before he collided with a vehicle during a Mornington Peninsula pursuit, injuring an elderly man who later died. Senior Sergeant Stephen Burt from Frankston police station was driving one of two police cars involved in t...

A caller to radio station 3AW said police gave the man "every opportunity to stop" before he was shot.

Police say a 31-year-old man allegedly involved in a carjacking produced an "edged weapon" shortly before he was fatally shot by officers in the Gippsland town of Drouin this morning.

Police have shot dead a man wielding a knife following reports of an armed carjacking in Victoria’s east.

Premium Content Subscriber only Threats have been made aginst a serving police officer, who is facing charges of aggravated sexual assault of a teenager, a court hearing has been told. Magistrate Jeff Linden granted the policeman bail yesterday based on these threats and serious concerns about his safety if he remained in custody. The bail application was originally set for Lismore local court last Wednesday but was adjourned to allow the reading of a 90-page interview transcript. The crown...

Premium Content Subscriber only Threats have been made aginst a serving police officer, who is facing charges of aggravated sexual assault of a teenager, a court hearing has been told. Magistrate Jeff Linden granted the policeman bail yesterday based on these threats and serious concerns about his safety if he remained in custody. The bail application was originally set for Lismore local court last Wednesday but was adjourned to allow the reading of a 90-page interview transcript. The crown...

Advertisement A former police officer who allegedly sexually assaulted his young stepdaughter has been extradited from Britain after a judge criticised Victoria Polices "snails pace" investigation. Robert Scott, 88, has been charged with four counts of indecent assault and one count of gross indecency allegedly committed while he was serving as an officer in country Victoria from 1965 to 1975. Hes due to face Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday. Sexual assault survivor Kim Elzaibak has been g...

News by Ava Benny-Morrison Premium Content Subscriber only It was the police WhatsApp group that has led to a misconduct inquiry, two officers sacked, a man "loaded up" and wrongly charged - and the messaging app banned across the entire police force. Along the way it also exposed a culture of sexism and derogatory remarks about women, including female colleagues, among frontline police at a Sydney station. And the man who was wrongly charged and spent seve...

At least nine officers from Botany Bay Local Area Command were involved The group chat was the subject of an Industrial Relations Commission hearing Group creator Constable Calvin Dunne wrote shes not hot, but not ugly in 2017 When talking about a senior officer, one constable said the woman was a bit old An officer said a woman would be worth the rape charge in another exchange 

News by Ava Benny-Morrison Premium Content Subscriber only It was the police WhatsApp group that has led to a misconduct inquiry, two officers sacked, a man "loaded up" and wrongly charged - and the messaging app banned across the entire police force. Along the way it also exposed a culture of sexism and derogatory remarks about women, including female colleagues, among frontline police at a Sydney station. And the man who was wrongly charged and spent seve...