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A police officer has been charged with drug and firearm offences. In February 2021, officers from the Professional Standards Command commenced an...

Premium Content Subscriber only The case against police officer who is facing charges of aggravated sexual assault of a teenager has been delayed after paperwork was filed late, a court has heard. The police officer, a 29-year old senior constable, is facing multiple charges of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child between 14-16. He was arrested in early December after the Professional Standards Command (PSC) investigators established Strike Force Yalu in September to investigate alleged reports of misconduct by the policeman, attached to the Northern Region. The officer, who remains...

Advertisement A man has died in police custody after he was found unresponsive in the back of a divisional van. The Keilor Downs man was taken into custody last Friday after being released from a hospital in Fitzroy, where he had come to the attention of officers after threatening self-harm, police said. Police said they took the man into custody to speak with him in relation to an investigation. On arrival at the Victoria Police Centre on Spencer Street, officers found the 30-year-old unresponsive in the back of the van. The man was taken to hospital but died on Monday.

Detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man whose car hit a tree and burst into flames after police deployed spike strips to try and stop him speeding away.

A new father and amateur cage fighter with a lengthy criminal rap sheet has died after he lost control of a car while fleeing from police. John Beirouti was followed after officers saw him travelling through southeast Melbourne about 3.30am on Sunday in a car which had been linked to an 'outstanding matter'. The 43-year-old, who was known to police, refused to pull over before two of his tyres were slashed by stop sticks, sending the car spiralling out of control. He crashed into a tree, which set the car alight.    John Beirouti (left, with his girlfriend Argina Baker, right) was pursued ...