Learner driver detected travelling at 203kph

A learner driver from the ACT is due to face a New South Wales court next year after allegedly being detected travelling more than 120km over the speed limit.

Learner driver charged after BMW crash

Police from the Northern Beaches Local Area Command arrested an 18-year-old man at the scene after he allegedly failed a roadside breath test.
He was taken to Dee Why Police Station where he was questioned and charged with low range PCA (0.065), not display ‘L’ plates and learner unaccompanied.

NSW Police arrest man over shooting

Police will allege the vehicle failed to stop and a pursuit was initiated, with the sedan being followed onto the M7, to the Cowpasture Road exit at Green Valley.
The pursuit was terminated, however PolAir and police continued to monitor the vehicle’s movements.
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Police will allege a number of shots were fired at officers who had exited their vehicles, as well as seven people on board a nearby bus.

Police probe if fatal crash was deliberate

Dennis George Yannopoulos, 35, died when he was struck by a car in Piper Street, Kyneton, north-west of Melbourne, about 11pm last night.
Police confirmed today the bike he was riding belonged to the family of the other driver.

Four injured as police vehicle runs amok

A Toyota Qualis patrol vehicle belonging to the All-Women Police Station of St. Thomas Mount ran amok after its driver lost control and hit a section of them.
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Thamizhvanan, 21, who was driving the vehicle, is reported to have abandoned the vehicle and fled from the spot. St.Thomas Mount police, later, arrested him.
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The women Inspector of the police station was also present in the vehicle when the accident took place.

Drunk learner driver tries to evade police

The 19-year-old man from Garbutt in the far north Queensland town of Townsville allegedly recorded a blood alcohol reading of 0.188 per cent after he was intercepted by police at 3am this morning.
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The man was charged with evading police, driving whilst unaccompanied and failing to display L-plates.

WA cops answer fire call

Two WA police officers have given up Christmas with their families to help in the Victorian bushfire crisis.
Country cops Amanda Stoward and Tim Lowndes, both army reserve plant operators, will drive bulldozers to build up containment lines and relieve an exhausted regular army unit.

Shattered by Stacey's death

Police believe Stacey died on Sunday, possibly after being bludgeoned with a brick, at a shared house in Rutland Ave, Lathlain.
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Valerie Parashunti, 18, and Jessica Stasinowsky, 19, both of Lathlain, have been charged with wilful murder. They are yet to enter a plea.
The confirmation of identity comes as Det-Insp Jeff Ellis revealed Stacey was an ``acquaintance'' of the two accused teenagers, knowing them only a short time before her death.
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It is believed Stacey had left home in the days leading up to her death.
The mother of one of Stacey's close friends yesterday told The Sunday Times that Stacey had lived at her house, sometimes for two weeks at a time.
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... Jason, may have been one of the last people to see Stacey alive, when he bumped into her at a local service station at 10.30pm on December 16 the day before she was believed to have been killed.
"She was sitting down near the BP waiting for her friend to pick her up,'' he said.
"She told me she was smoking pot (marijuana),'' Jason said, as he relayed how a ``BMW or Mercedes'' had arrived to pick her up.
"She was a bit looped out,'' he said.

Court hears alleged rapist impersonated policeman

The court heard the Smithfield Plains man had impersonated a police officer to flag down a motorist.

Police Shoot and Kill a Man They Say Wielded an Ax

Police officers yesterday fatally shot a 62-year-old man, whom neighbors described as mentally ill, after the man threatened them with an ax on a sixth-floor fire escape outside his Bronx apartment, the authorities said.

Police charge driver accused of turning car into 3-wheeler

"The two chaps who went out thought initially it was a hoax call and headed off the highway expecting not to find anything that would match what they'd been told - a car on three wheels driving from Wagin to Katanning - but as they headed up the highway on the long stretches they could see a vehicle coming towards them in the dark with a shower of sparks coming out from the back left corner," he said.

Police blitz SW drivers

TEG officer-in-charge Sen-Sgt Colin Asplin said police used speed cameras, marked and unmarked cars, motorcycles, a booze bus and the Argus number plate recognition technology in the blitz.

Police turn on their chief

It accused him of "being out of touch" and of failing to provide enough police on shifts to staff Burwood and Five Dock stations, leaving the community at risk and forcing officers to close the stations and lock crime victims out to keep police patrolling the streets.

Police injured in crash

His passenger, a senior constable, had to be cut from the wreckage and was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital with pelvic and rib injuries.

Police officers to sue over riot-related stress

The 16 officers from north Queensland stations were sent to Palm Island in late November ahead of the release of the autopsy results of an Aboriginal man, Mulrunji.
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Hours after the results spread across the island, hundreds of people had gathered outside the police station which was later set alight along with the courthouse and the home of the officer-in-charge.

Girl, 12, leads police in car chase

A chase began when the car sped away.
At one point, the pursued car reached speeds of 110km/h in a 60km/h zone, a police spokeswoman said.

Woman arrested after police pursuit

The pursuit went through several suburbs before ending in the carpark of the Hampstead Hotel where the stolen vehicle rammed into the two police cars.

A 26-year-old woman was arrested and charged with illegal use of a motor vehicle, driving unlicensed, acts to endanger life and other traffic offences.

Police instructor clocked at 118mph

Inspector Paul Gee, of Durham Police, was caught by a mobile camera positioned on a bridge over the M9 near Falkirk, Scotland, while on police duty. He was in uniform as he drove the 5-Series diesel BMW and was carrying out a risk assessment for the force's advanced driving course on November 3.

NSW govt loses police assault appeal

Driving home around 2am on January 23, 2001, Mr Ibbett was chased by police in an unmarked car because he was allegedly speeding in his van.
He drove into his mother's garage but as he began to close the door using a remote control, Senior Constable Darren Pickavance slid underneath and drew his pistol.
Woken by the commotion, Mrs Ibbett went to the garage where she was confronted by Snr Const Pickavance wielding his gun and ordering the door be opened so his partner, Snr Const Peter Harman could get inside.

Minister suing police

A former New Haven minister who said he was upholding God's law when he beat two children with a belt because they disobeyed their mother is suing the police officers who arrested him.

Man armed with sword charges police

When they arrived they were confronted by a man with a samurai sword. Police sprayed the man with OC spray when he ran at them with the sword above his head.

Dupain beach snaps draw police attention

"Lifeguards and the police are taking the law into their own hands and they regard anyone with a camera as a potential pervert," Dupain said yesterday.

Man charged after crash with police officer

A 29-year-old man has been charged with several offences after a traffic crash involving a police officer riding a motorcycle in Bellevue, in north-eastern Perth.

4 dead in Chicago office tower shooting

Cline said the gunman, who was armed with a revolver, a knife and hammer, didn't work in the office but demanded to see one of the victims who was killed.

Three Winnipeg officers injured

Grim, determined Winnipeg police officers spent early Friday trying to figure out what went wrong when three of their colleagues were shot while executing a drug warrant.

Police at fault in electrocuted teens case, says report

“If the company had been alerted at the moment when one of the officers realised the two youths could possibly enter the power station, EDF technicians would have intervened 15 minutes before the accident,” the report said, adding that such steps would not necessarily have prevented the electrocutions.

The report added that Traore and another teen were preparing to rob a construction site when a plainclothes officer gave chase.

Impact of police being sent to Iraq felt on street

Hickman estimated that 11,380 law enforcement officers were called for military reserve service from all agencies during the time period studied, compared with gains of about 2,600 new hires.

Drunken Cyclist's Fear of Wife Leads to Police Investigation

The man, it was then revealed, had been cycling home drunk when his inebriated state led him into a crash with a lamppost. The injuries he claimed he had sustained in the fabricated mugging had actually come from his drunken collision with the street light.

Police Commissioner hails high-tech fingerprinting system

Western Australian police have 13 Livescan units, which take a digital scan of an offender's finger and palm and identifies them through a national database in less than 15 minutes.

Police station 9-to-5 concern

He writes that a police district management team has recommended Werribee – which covers a booming population of 121,000 – work shorter hours. About 70 people work at the station, a figure criticised as 30 to 40 short of what is needed.
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There were 6900 crimes in the area covered by Werribee last year. They included seven murders, 146 rapes and sex assaults, 918 burglaries, 407 car thefts and 1064 cases of property damage.

Teenage police officer stabbed after car chase

The driver then got out of his car and stabbed the officer in the chest, she said.
The policeman managed to reach his radio to call for help.
He was picked up by a nearby police helicopter and taken to Auckland Hospital.

Premier, police at odds over Cronulla

But Mr Iemma's views differed sharply from those of the Deputy Police Commissioner, Andrew Scipione, who last week said that there was no hint of any likely trouble. A police spokesman, Strath Gordon, said he had spoken to Mr Scipione yesterday and the assessment had not changed. A spokesman for the Premier sought to play down his comments last night, saying Mr Iemma had not intended to suggest there was fresh intelligence of a credible threat.

Landcruiser mounts police car

The man has been charged with stealing, stealing a motor vehicle, reckless driving, three counts of assault to prevent arrest, criminal damage, failing to stop, breach of bail and giving a false address.

Fatal police chase 'allowable'

He said the teenager was hit on the Oxley Avenue crossing outside Redcliffe State High School during the two-minute, 3km chase.
"(She) had the walk sign activated, moved out on the roadway and was struck by the vehicle," Mr Atkinson said.
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Mr Atkinson said Redcliffe was one of two areas in which pursuits sparked by minor offences were banned, but this pursuit "wasn't in that category".
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Police Minister Judy Spence rejected the state opposition's call for a police helicopter to be deployed to pursue criminals and avoid high-speed car chases.

Police officer injured in attack

He suffered a puncture wound under his left arm and began losing blood, but, helped by the other person in the station they disarmed the offender and grabbed the broken handle and length of copper pipe.

Police drop questionable training tactic

The training practice was revealed when a driver who was stopped Jan. 3 on suspicion of hit and run complained that an officer had tossed a loaded handgun into the trunk of his car. The pistol was discovered by a rookie officer who searched the car while the driver, Tom Cox, watched.

Police-hater jailed for 3 years

He was arrested last April after police attempted to remove him from a residence where he wasn't wanted. McGinnis responded with a flurry of elbows, kicks, slaps and punches on the two male officers before he was finally restrained. Neither officer was seriously injured.
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"I feel good about assaulting the cops. Any cop that gets assaulted deserves what he gets," said McGinnis. "If I could have got my hands on the gun, I would have shot them." The stunned probation officer actually gave McGinnis a chance to take back his comments, reminding him they would be going to the judge who would be sentencing him. McGinnis declined to change a single word -- even adding that the only reason he attends addiction's counselling is for the free coffee.

Robbery suspect dies in police chase

As officers arrived, they spotted the Pontiac that matched the description of the getaway car and began chasing it.

Police spray machete-wielding teen

A teenager has been subdued with capsicum spray after threatening police with a machete in Melbourne.

Police chase investigated after girl hurt

Police say the car sped away from police and veered towards the girl, hitting her on the footpath.
The driver didn't stop until he dumped the vehicle at Alfred Street in nearby Margate and ran off.

Assistant Commissioner Ian Stewart of the Queensland Police Ethical Standards Command said today it was not yet known if the officers in the police car breached revised safe driving policy guidelines, which include restrictions on pursuits.

Teens charged over Sydney police attack

An 18-year-old Forestville man then punched one of the off-duty constables in the face, knocking him unconscious as he fell heavily to the ground, police said.
A 17-year-old Chatswood boy and an 18-year-old Ryde man also allegedly assaulted the other two officers.

Road toll 'worst in five years'

One horror crash saw a rider and his bike dragged under a four-wheel-drive for more than 250 metres before the car stopped.
It is understood the woman driver if the car was reaching for a cigarette and did not see the motorcyclist.
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"From the trail of debris and body matter on the road we know he was dragged along,'' Constable Goddard said.
The four-wheel drive came to rest 400m from the point of impact, on the wrong side of the road.

Police officer faces court over alleged assault

The accused officer is still to enter pleas to two counts of resisting police, failing to quit licensed premises, offensive language, assaulting police and malicious wounding with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm.

SA Police need better handguns

PASA president Peter Alexander yesterday said the upgrading of the existing .357 Smith and Wesson handguns was "now appropriate".

Police track YouTube reckless driver

The Norwegian, identified only as a man in his early 20s, posted the video called "Driving in Norway" on Google Inc.'s popular video-sharing site YouTube. The recording showed the car's speedometer hitting up to 240kmh on a public highway near Oslo.

Fatal end to police chase

"The rider refused to stop and accelerated from that site. One of the highway patrol vehicles commenced to follow the vehicle and signalled it to stop by activating his warning devices. The cycle didn't stop.
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Earlier this year, Queensland Coroner Michael Barnes condemned police pursuits as unnecessary.

The Force: Behind the Line

This documentary series follows officers of the Western Australian Police Force as they go about their duties, similar to American television series COPS.

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The brave men and women of the police force put their lives on the line every day to make this nation a safer place and protect us from crime. You hear about the risks of their jobs but rarely do you see the challenges they face on a daily basis. In an Australian television first, a new Seven Network series will finally take viewers behind the scenes of the often dangerous world of The Force: Behind The Line.