Media releases

The AFP’s podcast series Crime Interrupted has been recognised on the global stage for creative excellence and strategy, taking out one Silver and one Bronze Lion at the Cannes Lion International Festival of Creativity for 2022.

A man from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast has been charged with three counts of child abuse material-related offences by the AFP Brisbane Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (JACET).

VISION AVAILABLE Three men were arrested yesterday as part of a Joint Organised Crime Taskforce (JOCTF) investigation into the importation of cocaine into Melbourne.

An Adelaide man who sexually abused several minors in Cambodia and kept a collection of child abuse material has had his sentence increased to 12 years’ imprisonment by the South Australia Court of Appeal today (22 June, 2022).

VISION AND AUDIO AVAILABLE A NSW man has been charged with multiple child abuse-related offences by the AFP and faced Gosford Local Court today (22 June, 2022).

An Adelaide woman, 52, was yesterday (21 June, 2022) sentenced to more than two years’ imprisonment by the District Court of South Australia for laundering more than $1 million.

A 28-year-old Brisbane man who the AFP identified soliciting child abuse material online as part of a global investigation has

The Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) is warning that Australia is seeing a global trend in the crime of sexual extortion, with a spike in the number of Australian boys being preyed on by international sex offenders, who are grooming them into producing explicit images and then extorting them for money.

A Melbourne man arrested after producing and accessing significant amounts of child exploitation material was sentenced to four years and eight months’ imprisonment by the Melbourne County Court yesterday (16 June 2022).

A 39-year-old man who conversed online about his desire to sexually abuse minors and had hundreds of videos and images showing children being abused has been sentenced to more than a year’s imprisonment.