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Investigations continue following the death of a 27-year-old man while being detained by police at Wilsonton on Thursday, October 7, 2021. An autopsy

Holding a bloody knife, 19-year-old Dean Webber calls triple-0, his voice frantic with fear. Moments later, two men would be killed at an Alva Beach home in north Qld.

Police attended an address in Ipswich on Wednesday morning and the man fled, falling to his death.

Date Time Off-duty police officer detected drink driving An off-duty police officer has been detected allegedly drink driving in Connewarre on Friday night (9 July). The 37-year-old male constable from Western region was intercepted on Barwon Heads Road just after 11.30pm. He tested positive to a preliminary breath test before undergoing an evidentiary test, where he returned an alleged reading of .11. Professional Standards Command has been notified as per standard procedure. /Public Release. ...

Police discriminated against men in a female-focused hiring spree that saw 200 men who should have been hired miss out on a job. The bombshell finding is contained in a Crime and Corruption Commission report tabled in parliament today into a female recruitment strategy employed by the Queensland Police Service between December 2015 to October 2018. "The discriminatory practices saw different standards applied to female and male applicants, with females selected in preference to male applican...

THE HUNT BEGINS RICK Charles Maddison was a local crook who had been annoying police for years. He was known for being aggressive and mouthy. He knew bikies, his name had come up during drug raids and in 2007 hed been heard making a serious threat towards Sen-Sgt Stahlhut (Stahlhut would tell the inquest he did not know about this until 2017). He told people he was going to ambush the senior sergeant and other officers in a driveway. Maddison and a mate would hide behind mulch piles and ta...

20:26 EDT, 8 April 2021 A serving police officer has been charged with assault over the arrest of a man in Sydneys northwest. Professional Standards Command have been investigating the alleged incident, which occurred on September 5 last year, and on Thursday charged a male senior constable. The officer, attached to a command in the citys northwest, was issued with a court attendance notice on Thursday for the offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault. He is due to...

Woman applies for domestic violence order against senior cop A police officer has fronted court in Darwin where a woman applied to take out a domestic violence order against him. Crime by Jason Walls Premium Content Subscriber only A SENIOR NT Police officer has fronted court in Darwin where a woman applied to take out a domestic violence order against him. Superintendent Daniel Shean, 47, appeared in the Darwin Local Court on Tuesday in the domestic v...

Premium Content Subscriber only No action will be taken regarding a complaint to the Queensland Police Ethical Standards Command concerning the investigation into an incident involving Neville Butcher and a One Nation volunteer during 2020 early voting. At Boyne Island Community Centre on October 21, One Nation volunteer Ian Paterson alleged an incident occurred involving he and the former Queensland Police officer, who is the father of Gladstone MP Glenn Butcher. On the day of the incident, Gl...