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Queensland police Deputy Commissioner Tracy Linford addresses the media.

‘No pushover’: Favourite emerges for new Victorian police chief

The next chief commissioner is expected to be announced next week, with Queensland force deputy Tracy Linford a frontrunner.

  • John Silvester

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Then and now: A young Jason Roberts (left) and in September last year.

Payout for man wrongfully convicted of police murders

Jason Roberts served 22 years for the 1998 murders of two police officers but was later acquitted.

  • John Silvester
Christopher Dale Flannery (second from left) entering court.

A hitman’s legacy: the family left devastated

Roger Wilson has been reduced to the passport photo used in police appeals for information when he disappeared, and he has become a bit player in his own life.

  • John Silvester
International burglar Liudas Valiusaitis is caught on camera.

The international cat burglar who hit eight Toorak homes in seven days

Police couldn’t be sure the pair were about to commit a crime, but they soon had a pretty good clue. They watched one burglar climb down a ladder with a safe on his back.

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Police gather in Templestowe in 1991 to begin a doorknock in search of clues to the abduction of Karmein Chan. Former officer Rod Phillips was the first on the scene when the crime was called in.

When Karmein Chan was abducted, this policeman was first at the scene

Retired cop Rod Phillips still has questions about the Mr Cruel theory. “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a big call. How can they have a suspect when they haven’t even got here yet?’”

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Tony Mokbel leaves the Court of Appeal on Friday.

Mokbel: The last chapter is yet to be written

The judicial process around Tony Mokbel makes the Suburban Rail Loop look like a frugal investment and the CFMEU a benevolent organisation.

  • John Silvester
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A sketch of Tony Mokbel in court on Tuesday.

As Tony Mokbel fights for freedom, the court has three options

There is this sense that the courts may be tempted to acquit the drug kingpin, to punish police for sneakily using barrister turned informer Nicola Gobbo as a spy.

  • John Silvester
Acting Police Chief Commissioner Rick Nugent will not seek the permanent job.

Position vacant: A crushing police chief job with 18-hour days, a crime crisis and not enough police

The front-runner for the new chief commissioner role is a late scratching after he drew up a list of pros and cons for the job then walked out the door.

  • John Silvester
Victoria Police target the Outlaws Motorcycle gang’s national run back in 2013.

The bikies’ deadly code of silence

This wasn’t about snitching to police but telling the truth about the death of an innocent man, so the victim’s family could have some answers.

  • John Silvester
Craig Stewart in action in 1983.

Shedding light on sport’s deadly secret

In Melbourne, there are four or five confirmed cases a year of the neurological disorder CTE. But one of Victoria’s leading pathologists knows there will be many more.

  • John Silvester

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