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There were about 50 of them at the secret meeting - the men and women who had cracked Melbourne’s underworld war and were not afraid to chase...
The experienced detective was surprised when a barrister rang out of the blue to say a judge wanted to meet him for an off-the-record chat. The judge...
Nationalism is a funny thing. It can represent many things, including legitimate pride and a sense of identity, but it can also be used to hide all...
Assistant Commissioner Ross Guenther is just back from Disneyland. No, he wasn’t there to ride on the Indiana Jones Adventure or eat a smoked turkey...
Replay As we limp to the finishing line that is the Christmas break, it is time to reflect on 2018, when crime, politics and the very tactics...
Replay In the underworld the gamble of becoming a police informer has become a deadly version of the old game show routine: The Money (reward)...
Loch Ness is a deep, grey freshwater lake in the windswept Scottish Highlands that contains eels, char, pike and the occasional sturgeon, which would...
When Lawyer 3838 first turned snitch, detectives wanted to know why she wanted to be an informer (it is standard practice to try and establish the...
It was the most bizarre, ambitious, imaginative, reckless, possibly illegal, successful failure in policing history, effectively gifting millions in...
It was the most bizarre, ambitious, imaginative, reckless, possibly illegal, successful failure in policing history, effectively gifting millions in...
It was the most bizarre, ambitious, imaginative, reckless, possibly illegal, successful failure in policing history, effectively gifting millions in...
They are kids and stupid ones at that, but that doesn’t make them any less dangerous. As criminals they are absolutely hopeless, but that doesn’t...
In the days before security metal detectors, luggage X-ray machines, (legal) phone taps, widespread CCTV and armed Protective Services Officers, court...
Police have said it was always a matter of when, not if Melbourne was placed on terror alert. Uniformed police were first to respond Credit:Stuart...
While we are in the middle of the Melbourne Cup Carnival, where we will wager more than $650 million, it is a fair bet no one will reflect on how the...
The phoney war is over and with just four weeks to the Victorian election, the gloves are off in the battle for the law and order vote. One thing is...
As a law-abiding family man, Roger Wilson would have had no idea there was a contract out on his life. Which is why the honest and successful...
A Victoria Police press conference in 2015 responding to the Victorian Equal Opportunity Human Rights Commission report into sexual harassment in...
Walsh Street and, inset, Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre. Sometimes we devalue the word hero - and sometimes there is no one left to remember true acts...
For street police there is a sixth sense they develop that can’t be taught from a training manual. It can be a glance, suspicious body language or...
I was sitting at my desk on the second floor of Media House when I felt a presence behind me - it was the Editor, which filled me with foreboding....