NZ massacre: How Aussie snipers saved lives
Australian police risked a potential blue-on-blue incident during the Christchurch mosque shootings as visiting officers rushed to the scene without identification.
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Crime gangs target mums in ‘money mules’ scam
Stay-at-home mums, students and retirees are being duped into becoming “money mules” to launder money for overseas crime syndicates.
The Fasta Pasta connection: How police smashed SA-Qld drug syndicate
In 2017 almost 40 boxes were mailed from Adelaide to Fasta Pasta in Cairns. Why? And what was inside those boxes?
Retiring DNA dynamo leaves SA with crime-cracking database
The man behind the development of DNA as major crime fighting tool for police is retiring, just as SA’s database reaches new levels of success.
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‘We gave shelter to an Islamic State terrorist’
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Superhuman cops a police force to be reckoned with
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Sherlock 2.0: the future of forensics is now
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Parents’ last resort for kidnapped kids
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‘Brandings’: Inside horror sex cult NXIVM
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High profile crims’ prison demands
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