Media releases

Colleagues, the Honourable Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, QC, distinguished guests and to the broader law enforcement audience here tonight: Many of you have travelled several hours to get to Australia and your journey is no doubt a reminder of our unique location in the Asia Pacific Region.

Editor’s Note:  Photographs of the arrest available here The Perth District Court has jailed two men who had been arrested by the AFP as they tried to access a stash of cocaine they expected to find in a package sent from Europe.

A Queensland man has been charged with impersonating a Commonwealth public official and importing fake Australian Federal Police badges as part of an ongoing Queensland Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) investigation.

The AFP will target Italian organised crime and money-laundering syndicates washing billions of dollars a year through the Australian economy after invaluable intelligence was obtained on the AN0M platform.

Five new AFP canines and their handlers have graduated from a grueling explosives detection course and are set to deploy around the country, leaving no bone unturned in the fight against crime.

A 61-year-old Brisbane man appeared in Brisbane District Court today (3 June 2022) charged with uploading child abuse material

Editor’s note: search warrant images are available on Hightail A 34-year-old Sydney man has been convicted and sentenced over an offensive email campaign directed at Federal politicians and candidates in the 2019 Federal Election and 2020 by-election. The man was sentenced to an aggregate of 21 months and released with conditions including to be of good behaviour for three years.

Monash University experts and the AFP are calling for people to contribute to a world first ethically-sourced and managed image bank for research to combat child exploitation.

A WA man has been stripped of about $4 million worth of assets including funds in bank accounts, an apartment and other property, arising from an international money laundering and tax fraud investigation by the AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT).

A Brisbane man is due to appear in court today, charged with impersonating an Australian Federal Police officer in February this year.