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At 8:30 pm, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb addressed the media, saying police believed the attacker was a 40-year-old male and that the incident was not an act of terrorism. [43] She said there was no ongoing risk to the public. [44] She also alluded that the attacker might have been known to police.
Last week, New South Wales police said a 28-year-old senior constable had been charged with two counts of murder in the disappearance of former television reporter Baird, 26, and his flight ...
A crime scene from 2006 Police search for drugs, 2007 Road closures during the Lindt Cafe siege, 2014 Graffiti under the Grafton Bridge, 2021. Criminal activity in New South Wales, Australia is combated by the New South Wales Police Force and the New South Wales court system, while statistics about crime are managed by the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.
Police are believed to have had intelligence of a potential attack on the Parramatta headquarters up to 12 months prior, although it was unknown if that was linked to the 2 October 2015 incident. [5] In the days before the shooting, police and security officers had seen an individual taking photographs of the entrance to Police Headquarters. [6]
Operations Support Group (OSG) police are specialist police within the New South Wales Police Force. They are trained in public order (riot) response; weaponless control (hand-to-hand combat); violent prisoner cell extractions; high-value asset protection; navigation and terrain search; bomb searching; and chemical, biological, radiological and ...
[12] The man had subsequently launched legal action against New South Wales Police, with the matter later being settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. [13] The incident was one of dozens of alleged cases of police misconduct which had reportedly taken place at the 2013 Mardi Gras Parade and subsequent afterparty celebrations. [14]
PORS provide core officers for Operation Vikings. Operation Vikings was designed to provide a highly visible police presence across New South Wales. Large numbers of Police are deployed to these operations, targeting antisocial behaviour, alcohol-related crime, street level drug possession and traffic offences in known trouble (or "hot") spots ...
The gay gang murders reached their zenith during the New South Wales 1988-1995 Coalition government led by Nick Greiner until 1992, when he was succeeded by John Fahey. The Coalition had come into power just 4 years after same-sex relationships were decriminalised in 1984, a reform most of the party had opposed, as had the Catholic Right of the ...