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Revhead rampager from RTA | The Daily Telegraph: a string of serious offences including speeding - on one and two wheels - and performing burnouts outside a Sydney police station

Sign of shame for seized hoon cars : thewest.com.au

Sign of shame for seized hoon cars : thewest.com.au
The signs would remain on the vehicle only while it was towed and then stored in an impound lot. Mr O’Callaghan said the hoon stickers would provide the public with reassurance that justice was being done.

Police hurt in Kununurra brawls

A female officer was punched in the face by a woman and a second officer was also hit before both were pelted with rocks and bottles. The mob turned on the officers after they arrested a 20-year-old man for a breach of bail and placed him in the back of a police van.

Amazing video of police bashing

A BRITISH woman is suring police after an officer was filmed punching her five times during an arrest.
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Police had been called when Comer vandalised a car. As the officer attempted to put handcuffs on Comer, he hit her five times with his fist. She pleaded guilty today to criminal damage. She admitted to being drunk at the time but could not remember it.
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The officer, identified only as PC Mulhall, was quoted by Newsnight as saying: "She began to kick, spit and make attempts to bite me. As her hands became free, she tried to grab handfuls of my genitals and knee and kick me in the same place. "At this point, I struck her as hard as I was physically able with my right fist in an attempt to subdue her. There was no apparent effect, so I did it twice more.

12yo boy leads police on 130km Top End car chase

A 12-YEAR-OLD boy was among a gang of five who hurled a television at a patrol car as they led police on a 130km-long pursuit yesterday. The youths fled in an allegedly stolen four-wheel-drive at up to 140km/h yesterday. The teens also threw head rests and floor mats out of the window in the way of pursuing police as they raced down the Stuart Highway at up to 140km/h.

Police defend S11 payout

Victoria Police is standing by a secret deal to pay $700,000 to S11 riot protesters. The force insists a settlement to end action against hundreds of officers accused of brutality during clashes outside the World Economic Forum in 2000 is appropriate. Protesters spat on police, poured urine on them and and threw ballbearings, marbles, nails, nuts and bolts during violent scuffles. Dozens of anti-globalisation campaigners sued and blamed injuries, including fractures, shock and anxiety, on police action. The payout has infuriated Police Association head Paul Mullett. Police Minister Bob Cameron said the settlement aborted action against individual officers and was reached on the advice of an insurer.
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The protesters sued the state of Victoria and 953 officers who worked at the riot. The Sunday Herald Sun revealed the Government and Victoria Police agreed to a $700,000 payment to 47 protesters and to law firm Slater and Gordon, which is expected to get $600,000.

QLD Police death shock

IPSWICH police were yesterday in mourning as news filtered through about the death of one of their own. A 26-year-old constable was found dead by passers-by on the beach at Main Beach in the early hours of yesterday morning. It is believed he had been shot with his service pistol.
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Police later said they no longer considered the death to be suspicious. It is believed the constable was in his first year of service and had only been on the job three months. It is believed he was undergoing difficulties in his personal life.

Police brain drain fear

ALMOST a quarter of South Australian police officers have been in the job fewer than four years, raising concerns about a brain drain within the force. Documents obtained by The Advertiser show 920 of the force's 4170 officers had less than four years' service. This does not include the 118 cadets now being trained at the police academy.

Police Association president Peter Alexander said the force had a lack of experienced officers on the beat as well as in specialist areas, such as CIBs. "The issue of experience is a concern in this police force and other police forces in Australia at the moment," he said yesterday. "It's one of those occupations where it does take a number of years."

Police car, taxi collide

The cars collided at an intersection in inner suburban Hawthorn about 1.25am (AEDT) as the police divisional van was pursuing a speeding car, police said. The police car had its lights and siren activated when it entered the intersection of Barkers Road and High Street and collided with a taxi.

Police investigate capsicum spray death

Bendigo police were called to the 48-year-old man's home in Energetic Street, Long Gully, a suburb of Bendigo, at about 9.40pm (AEDT) on Friday following a report of a domestic dispute, a Victoria Police spokeswoman said.
The man was sprayed with OC foam when he confronted police but was administered care by police and left in the company of a neighbour, who later left the house. The same neighbour found the man dead in his bed when she returned about 9am the following day.
Detective Sergeant Ross Gray of Castlemaine criminal investigation unit is preparing a report for the coroner. Sgt Gray said the man was diabetic and had heart problems. An initial autopsy showed the man died of a heart attack and there was no direct link to the capsicum spray, Sgt Gray said.

Four police attacked in Alice Springs

An Aboriginal community police officer was grabbed around the throat as he tried to break-up a disturbance outside the 24 hour store in Gap Road yesterday morning.
His female partner was bitten on the forearm as she came to his aid.

Earlier, an officer was punched in the cheek as he tried to calm a crowd of 150 revellers attending a 18th birthday party, who piled onto Stuart Terrace from the Promised Land.
A second officer was jostled and had his cap stolen.

'Police assaulted me'

In a statement of complaint lodged the day after the February 8 incident, Ms Whiley said she was walking Jacob home in a stroller along Willawong Rd, Caringbah, when four police officers blocked her path. She asked bystanders, "What's happening?'' and was told there was "some kind of raid'' being carried out at a nearby Housing Commission block of units.
"I said, 'Oh, OK - I have to get past,''' Ms Whiley said in her statement. "I walked right up to where the four officers were standing in the walkway with my pram and said, 'Excuse me'. "I was going to go on to the road and around them but I couldn't because there was a bicycle approaching me and four or five cars on the road.

Cheney protesters dress as police

The two Sydney women had been dressed as Operational Support Group police – complete with dark blue overalls and peaked caps – when they were arrested about 9.30am.
The pair were spotted in Essex St directing traffic towards a line of police formed to contain about 200 protesting US Vice-President Dick Cheney's visit. Police sources said it was the first time they had seen protesters use the dangerous tactic in Sydney – although it has been used before in Victoria.The potentially deadly tactic was aimed at forcing the police line to disperse, police sources said.

Mining boom 'lure' for country police

Police Minister Paul Holloway said there was anecdotal evidence that West Australian officers were quitting to take up highly-paid jobs created by the mining boom. He said South Australia already was finding it difficult to recruit officers to regional areas. The Opposition yesterday claimed more than two-thirds of police positions at Ceduna, in the state's Far West, were unfilled.

Man faces Qld court over police bashing

A man accused of bashing a police officer with a hammer has been granted bail in Brisbane.
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Constable Fuller initially pulled Battino over for an alleged traffic offence outside Brookside Shopping Centre around midday but allowed him to go, the court was told. However, the offender allegedly drove off erratically and shouted abuse at police who followed him to a block of units. When confronted, Battino allegedly hit Constable Fuller in the head several times with a hammer before his female colleague managed to handcuff him.
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Battino's barrister Howard Posner told the court his client suffered mental health problems including mild paranoia and was on medication.

Police officer killed on duty honoured

Hundreds of mourners, including many serving police officers, attended the full ceremonial funeral for the late Constable Damien Murphy today, who was killed while on duty at Craigie last week.

Police defend shooting axe-wielding man

He was shot by police several times in the upper body and died near his house in Frank Street, Sunshine West.
Victoria Police assistant commissioner Sandra Nicholson said the the officers involved had no alternative but to shoot the man.

Stun-gun pointed at accused man

Earlier, Senior-Sgt Bert Cohen said a chase began along the Kwinana and Graham Farmer freeways about 7pm on Friday after a driver tried to ram a police car at a service station in Thomas Rd, Bertram. After leading police for more than 20km the driver rammed a second police car and another vehicle just south of Canning Bridge. Sen-Sgt Cohen said the driver pulled into the emergency lane and reversed into the police car. One officer suffered concussion when his head hit the windscreen.

The driver then did a U-turn and drove south against the traffic in the northbound lanes of Kwinana Freeway. Police pursued the utility on to the Graham Farmer Freeway, through the tunnel and on to Orrong Rd, where it did a U-turn and returned to the Graham Farmer Freeway. A "stinger'' placed on Graham Farmer Freeway, near the Windan Bridge, deflated the ute's right tyre. The driver then allegedly menaced police with two knives and was arrested after being subdued with stun-guns.

The concussed police officer was treated at Fremantle Hospital.

44-hour work week highlights police shortage: union

This week, the WA police hierarchy returned from an overseas recruiting drive which it says should result in up to 300 new officers.
It was also announced 200 Perth officers would work a 44-hour week, despite Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan's previous comments he thought it was detrimental to the health and well-being of officers.

P-plater's 108km/h in school zone - Readers' Comments

How about catching the real crooks who bash, rob & torment all sections of our community. Sick to death of the constant revenue raising!!
Posted by: Anne

I am all for speed checks in 40 zones, there are kids everywhere at these times not to mention high traffic volumes and congestion it actually makes sense, but speed cameras? No nothing but revenue raising.
Posted by: Mr Jones

Speed dection devices DO NOT raise revenue . It is the driver that raises the revenue to pay the fine .
Posted by: Stanley

I don't actually believe im reading comments about revenue raising. A young girl (on P-Plates - undisplayed) was caught doing 68k's over the limit, in a school zone, and all you can say is revenue raising? It's simple, if you don't want to contribute to revenue raising, don't speed!
Posted by: Troy

I think everybody is missing the point here. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REVENUE RAISING! It's about people being irresponsible around schools during the time where there are lots of children around.
Posted by: Tracy

Anne - funnily enough there are sections within the Police that deal with robbers, burglars and the like (and doing a good job of it with the tools/resources they have) - but have those offenders killed an average of one person per day in WA this year...... ?
Posted by: greg

Man running from police attacked by croc

Police said the man fled when approached by police at the Daly River community yesterday about a possible breach of bail conditions. After he disappeared down a river bank or into long grass, police gave up their search. But as they were about to leave, nearby residents told them the fugitive had been seen bleeding, with puncture marks on his head. He appeared to have been bitten by a crocodile, they told police. The man then assaulted officers as they tried to help him.

Six police bashed as mobs run amok

SIX police across the State were set upon and bashed by drunken mobs over the Australia Day long weekend. One policewoman was hospitalised after being punched and kicked by several people when she tried to make an arrest at St Helens. The constable received face, chest and abdominal injuries after she and other police were called to a disturbance involving up to 100 people on Saturday night.
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In other incidents on Saturday night, a policeman was kicked in the face and spat on when trying to make an arrest at Exton, near Deloraine. At Invermay, a man who police allege had attacked his ex-girlfriend, and was chasing her, assaulted the policeman who tried to arrest him.A 19-year-old man was charged with wounding after he allegedly king-hit a policeman with a full bottle of beer at White Beach, on the Tasman Peninsula, at 1am on Sunday. The policeman was taken to hospital with serious lacerations to the back of his head.

Police chase ends in fatality

Police have defended their actions surrounding the high-speed chase which was sparked when the Holden Commodore the man was driving was caught doing burnouts at Cross Rd, Clarence Gardens just before 2am.
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The car was not stolen and police would not comment on whether alcohol was involved as the crash was being investigated by Major Crash police.

Probe launched into police use of capsicum spray

The man allegedly became aggressive and struck the senior constable several times in the head and body moments after the officers began speaking to him.
He allegedly struggled when the officers tried to detain him, and one of them sprayed capsicum spray on the side of his face.
The man then allegedly spat at both officers, struck the policewoman in the mouth and scratched her colleague on the arms.
Police back-up was then called to help detain the man.
"At this time the man appeared to be unwell and losing consciousness," the police spokeswoman said.
"The ambulance service was called, and the officers provided CPR until the ambulance officers arrived."

Cops find impersonators, cannabis at party

"A search of the car located a blue shirt with replica badges and rank insignia as well as a blue light believed to have been used in the interceptions,'' the spokeswoman said.
Police then located the two men alleged to have impersonated police and were putting them into a police vehicle, when they were surrounded by party-goers who let the men escape.
Both men ran into bushland and were pursued on foot by police, who then located the cannabis crop with over 30 plants ranging from immature to three metres in height.

Man dies after release from police custody

He was released on Friday morning but went back to the clinic complaining of similar symptoms.
He died there about 4pm ACST on Friday afternoon.
Territory police say they are treating it as a death in custody, despite the fact the man had been released from their care.

Police officer concussed

A MALE police officer has been hit in the back of the head while attempting to arrest a 20-year-old man in Mooloolaba, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
After the officer was hit, the man who was being arrested fled the scene, but was later caught, police said.
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A 26-year-old man then allegedly attempted to assault a female police officer, but he was placed into a police vehicle with the assistance of an unknown man.

Tragic rookie told police he had tried to take his life

The young policeman who killed himself at a single-person station had a troubled mental health history. When Greg Norman Lundberg entered the NSW Police Academy at Goulburn two years ago he wrote on the application form that he had previously tried to take his own life.

He successfully completed his training, graduated as a constable and was armed with a Glock semi-automatic service pistol.
And last year he was given his first major assignment: to manage the one-officer station at the Menai Market Place shopping centre.

Police sniff out house fire

The police officers were on a routine patrol with their windows down when they smelled smoke coming from a house on Dinning Street.

They broke into the burning home and dragged an elderly woman free before the house became engulfed in flames.

Police defy bail order

The 16-year-old, accused of assaulting his girlfriend before waving a knife at Tour Down Under spectators at Willunga on Saturday, was arrested after an onlooker tackled and disarmed him.

Although police opposing bail told a duty magistrate that the youth could not tell them where he lived, bail was granted on condition he provide an address within 24 hours.

Concerned for the safety of the youth's alleged victim, police then used provisions of the Bail Act to remand him to the Magill Training Centre and will today ask the Supreme Court to overturn the magistrate's order.

New infra-red camera for police chopper

Police Air Wing officer-in-charge acting inspector Clinton Oversby said the new "eye in the sky" was a tremendous asset to the helicopter and the frontline police officers it supported.

“Our old FLIR (Forward Looking Infra Red) camera was about seven years old and with advances in technology was very outdated. This new model greatly enhances our capability to monitor and record incidents from the air in terms of range and clarity of pictures,” acting inspector Oversby said.

Readers' Comments: Mum's grief at shooting

Posted by: Serving Police Officer of Perth 10:31am today
May I also say that the WA Police Executive have acted shamefully in this matter. When the incident in Karratha happened we all received, via internal emails, updates on the officer's welfare. What have we heard about this junior police officer? Nothing! If it wasn't for the media we would not even know his name. We do a hard job and for the arm-chair officers out there give it a go before telling us how we should have reacted.

Posted by: country copper's wife of WA 12:41pm January 21, 2007
Mental illness is a factor here, but from the little i have read of the case, the officers didn't have time to establish this fact. If someone was coming at you with a knife, what would you do? think carefully about that for a split second! that is all the time the officer had. How different it was when the Karratha copper shot dead the scumbag who had killed two young women in Victoria, media couldn't stop singing his praises then. He had about as much time to decide him or me as Const Ferguson did, just his luck was better that day, his offender was a killer and Const Ferguson's wasn't - could you tell the difference?!

Shot son died in dad's arms

It is understood a police officer ran into the house chasing Mr Rolph, then ran outside again with Mr Rolph pursuing him with a kitchen knife.

Mr Rolph allegedly lunged at one police officer who staggered backwards, falling into the swimming pool. Then, it is alleged, Mr Rolph stabbed Constable Ferguson.

WA Cop shoots man after car chase

When police approached, the driver got out of the car and lunged at the officer with a knife, stabbing him in the shoulder.
The spokesman said the officer shot the man in self defence and he died at the scene.

Man charged after policeman run down

When the car eventually stopped, and the officers were walking towards it, it suddenly reversed and knocked one of them over.
The police officer who was run down then fired a number of shots at the car, which stopped about 200m away.

Police 'forced to shoot' bow man

The man allegedly assaulted one of the ambulance officers before two police in a divisional van from nearby Cowes and a traffic police officer responded.
The man initially confronted the police with a knife, but returned to his house and emerged with the bow.

Police shoot man in stand-off

Police had been called to Grantville, near Phillip Island, by ambulance officers.
They had been attacked by the man, who was threatening self-harm.

Police officer found dead at station

The officer had been alone in the building and the death is not being treated as suspicious.

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.