Aussie spy taking on ISIS extremists unmasked
One of Australia’s leading counter terrorist operatives has been revealed as the secret agent stopping ISIS supporters and plotters from using Australian courts to combat moves to boot them out.
Behind The Scenes
‘Muscling up’: Top cop gives officers new marching orders
After years of being dubbed the “plastics” for not doing real police work, new AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw says his top cops will outsmart serious, organised crims and hit them where it hurts as he shakes up the federal agency.
Was officer Pratt a ‘martyr or a mug’?
At just 21, off-duty police officer Michael Pratt didn’t think twice about thwarting a trio of armed bandits as they entered a Clifton Hill bank, ramming his Mazda at the doors and earning himself a bullet in the back and a bravery medal in the process.
Gay police officer’s new move after $1.5m legal stoush
A NSW police officer who claimed the force had a toxic culture of homophobia after he was sacked for taking recreational drugs has revealed what he’ll do next after a five-year legal battle.
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Mail-order lizards: Reptile smuggling soars
ORGANISED crime groups are sending out shopping list requests for Australian wildlife to be smuggled to buyers overseas in an alarming escalation in the racket.
Crime scene cleaner: I speak for the dead
DONNA Naylor has learned that reality and horror movies aren’t so different from each other … “but for me life is worth living, even if it means cleaning up after the dead”.
One cop’s quest to catch serial paedophile
SHE had no name, no suspect and no forensic evidence, just the knowledge of the terrible harm a serial paedophile had caused 30 years before. Three years of painstaking “old fashion detective work” later, she found him.
Why this man was shot in face ten times
HE was a troubled businessman, she was a former prostitute, her lover was a callous killer. Shyam “Sam’’ Dhody met a brutal end, found dead in his bed after a horrific execution-style murder that had Gold Coast detectives baffled.
How a bank robber turned his tale into Hollywood gold
HE was one of Australia’s most wanted men, with a daring prison escape and multiple robberies on his rap sheet. But Greg Smith turned his fugitive years into an international bestseller, with Johnny Depp set to play Smith. NEW PODCAST — LISTEN NOW.
Killer ex-cop says name taken in vain
HE jokes about police attempts to link him to a string of crimes — but when his name came up in connection with notorious drugs kingpin James Kinch even Roger Rogerson admitted: “It’s an amazing story.”
The Coast’s biggest bikie brawls
THE Gold Coast has long been the backdrop for disputes between rival outlaw motorcycle gangs, but rarely have these arguments spilt into the public sphere. All that changed in 2006 when a violent public confrontation between bikies set plans in motion to have the city’s gangs completely dismantled.
Inside the minds of copycat crims
IT started with needles found in strawberries packed by two brands. It’s exploded to more than 100 incidents of ‘spiked’ fruit. Has the uproar inspired a wave of ‘copycats’?
Inside Coast cops’ ‘worst day ever’
IF you ask any long-serving Gold Coast cop what their worst day on the job has been, they’ll answer May 29, 2011. The day when one of their own — a young father and a good mate — was cruelly gunned down in a brazen tavern robbery.
One life taken, another ruined
CLIFF Lockwood was a big cop acquitted of murdering criminal figure Gary Abdallah, but he still paid a high price after being accused in court of executing a kneeling man like “a dog on a short leash”, writes Andrew Rule. NEW PODCAST — LISTEN NOW.
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