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New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet paid his respects at a police memorial [50] and announced on 14 December that the Sydney Opera House would be lit up in blue that night in honour of the police officers. [51] The Australian Federal Police [52] and the New Zealand Police [53] sent their condolences, as did the Queensland Police Union [54 ...
On July 15, 2017, Justine Damond (née Ruszczyk), [3] a 40-year-old Australian-American woman, [4] was fatally shot by Minneapolis Police Department officer Mohamed Noor after she had called 9-1-1 to report the possible assault of a woman in an alley behind her house.
Pages in category "Australian police officers killed in the line of duty" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
On 17 May 2023, Clare Nowland, a 95-year-old resident with dementia, was Tasered by New South Wales police at an aged care home in Cooma, Australia. She was hospitalized after she fell and fractured her skull when she received the Taser electric current. [1] She died a week later, on 24 May.
An investigation by the Western Australian Corruption and Crime Commission later cleared two police officers of "any serious misconduct" after their behaviour in threatening a female lawyer had been described as ranging from "inappropriate to reprehensible" by the trial judge. A second matter reviewed by the CCC related to "attempts by a third ...
An officer who killed a woman while speeding in a police van has been handed a community payback order. PC Jamie Hamill knocked Margaret McCarron down in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, in ...
Taylor was the first female police officer killed in the line of duty in Australian history. [ 129 ] 12 October 1988, officers Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre were gunned down in the Walsh Street police shootings .
The police investigation was known as the Ty-Eyre Task Force, a combination of the two surnames of the officers killed. Detective Inspector John Noonan was the Officer in Charge and it was the biggest investigation Victoria Police had ever undertaken at the time and also the longest running, spanning 895 days.