Fact Check
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Media Statement: reports of AFP search warrants
Publish date: 13.09.2020News reports today that the AFP executed search warrants at a Chinese Embassy property in May are incorrect.
MOREFact Check: Commissioner misquoted on anti-consorting laws
Publish date: 23.07.2020In an article published yesterday, the Canberra Times reported AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw said “the recent death of the head of the Canberra chapter of the Comanchero bikie gang showed the ACT needed to consider anti-consorting rules”.
MOREMedia statement
Publish date: 20.07.2018Media reporting the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has launched a preliminary investigation into RT – a Russian television network - for foreign interference is incorrect.
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Concerns about alleged incidents in PNG raised by AFP member
Publish date: 05.03.2017The AFP is aware of concerns raised by an AFP member regarding alleged incidents and human rights abuses in PNG in 2013 and 2014.
MOREFact Check: AFP Access to Journalist Metadata
Publish date: 14.04.2016The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is aware of comments made by the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) in relation to the AFP’s access of journalists’ metadata.
MOREFact Check: AFP response to media reporting on our role in PNG
Publish date: 23.11.2015The Australian Federal Police would like to respond to a media report published on 23 November 2015 regarding the AFP’s role in
MOREFact check: Use of metadata in relation to journalists
Publish date: 17.03.2015In a statement released yesterday, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) claimed that AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin confirmed the AFP had “been repeatedly asked to hunt down journalists’ sources by accessing journalists’ metadata and he confirmed that it is doing so.
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