User:Ronnam/New AFP article

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Overview[edit]

Roles and functions today[edit]

National activities[edit]

Australian community policing activities[edit]

Local[edit]

Airports[edit]

Protective security[edit]

Protection[edit]

International[edit]

International liaison network[edit]

Overseas deployments[edit]

Organisation[edit]

Character[edit]

Structure[edit]

Functions[edit]

Offices[edit]

History[edit]

The Australian Federal Police in Australian Society[edit]

Folklore - a thrown egg[edit]

In Australian folk lore, it is sometimes believed that an egg thrown at the then Prime Minister, Billy Hughes, in November 1917 was the initiator for the formation of a predecessor organisation of the AFP.

While the egg throwing did occur, and did result in the formation of an organisation called the Commonwealth Police, this organisation was disbanded in 1919 and never evolved to become part of the AFP.[1][2]

Two, later, separate, and different organisations, one formed in 1927, and one formed in 1960, also both called the Commonwealth Police at one time, eventually became part of the AFP.

See User:Ronnam/New AFP article/Australian Federal Police (history) for further details.

In the media[edit]

Criticism of the Australian Federal Police[edit]

Praise of the Australian Federal Police[edit]

Personnel[edit]

Commissioners[edit]

Personnel killed in the line of duty[edit]

Australian Federal Police personnel killed in the line of duty (excluding by suicide).

List[edit]

Name Rank Date Place of death Cause of death
Frederick James Bannear Peace Officer 1st Class 9 September 1945 Perth, Western Australia Struck by a train while on patrol in North Quay, Fremantle
Robert John Bishop Constable 10 February 1968 Canberra Complications related to injuries sustained after his patrol car struck a tree
Richard Leslie Norden Constable 12 November 1974 Canberra Complications related to injuries sustained during an ACT Police motorcycle accident
John Michael Zegenhagen Senior Constable 4 August 1984 Brisbane In 1974, while conducting diplomatic and consular security in Brisbane, his car plunged into the Brisbane river. He would later die after being in a coma for over six years
Colin Stanley Winchester[a] Assistant Commissioner 10 January 1989 Canberra Fatally wounded by a gunman near his home in Deakin, ACT
David Anthony Hanswyk Constable 12 May 1990 Canberra Complications related to injuries sustained after his ACT Policing motorcycle collided with a car
Robert Edmund Shepherd Superintendent 19 May 1993 Colombia Died after his plane crashed into a mountain in Columbia
Stephen Richard Hill Federal Agent 13 March 1996 Albany, Western Australia Died after his plane crashed near Albany, Western Australia
Adam Dunning Protective Service Officer 22 December 2004 Honiara, Solomon Islands Fatally wounded by a gunman during a patrol around a high-risk premises in Honiara, Solomon Islands
Brice Steele[b] Commander 7 March 2007 Yogyakarta, Indonesia Among the 21 passengers that died after a plane crashed on landing in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Mark Scott[b] Federal Agent 7 March 2007 Yogyakarta, Indonesia Among the 21 passengers that died after a plane crashed on landing in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Equipment and facilities[edit]

See also[edit]

Publications[edit]

Platypus Magazine[edit]

Annual reports[edit]

Overview reports[edit]

Research[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Warwick incident, Queensland 1917". Archives of Australia. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
  2. ^ "Warwick incident documents, Queensland 1917". Archives of Australia. Retrieved 2008-07-31.

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