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Note to Journalists - Media Stand Up
Publish date: 12:35PM - 20 December 2016Police investigate suspicious fire in Fyshwick
MORE Slow down and arrive alive
Publish date: 02:09PM - 19 December 2016The Kings Highway Road Safety Partnership has launched a new campaign aimed at encouraging drivers to slow down on the Kings Highway.
ACT Policing will be working collaboratively with the NSW Police Force to target speeding, along with drug and alcohol impaired drivers, and urge all road users to be aware of speed limits along the highway.
MORE Witnesses sought to aggravated robbery in North Lyneham
Publish date: 12:02PM - 19 December 2016ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to an aggravated robbery that occurred at the North Lyneham Minimart on Colville Street, on Tuesday, 13 December 2016.
MORE Witnesses sought to Florey hit and run
Publish date: 08:45AM - 18 December 2016ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to a hit and run that occurred yesterday (Saturday, 17 December) where a pedestrian was struck by a car on Kreft Street, Florey.
MORE Kids in Care Charity helping children and young people in need
Publish date: 03:14PM - 16 December 2016ACT Policing’s annual Kids in Care charity drive has once again delivered with 200 children in crisis or emergency care within the ACT to receive a gift over the Christmas period.
MORE Police seek assistance
Publish date: 08:24AM - 15 December 2016Police are seeking to identify two male witnesses involved in an incident which occurred on the footpaths in the vicinity of the McCulloch Street overpass in Curtin, on the afternoon of 20 October 2016.
MORE Witnesses sought to nightclub assault
Publish date: 02:16PM - 14 December 2016ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to a cowardly assault that occurred inside the Cube nightclub on Sunday, 20 November 2016.
MORE Note to journalists - Media stand-up
Publish date: 09:00AM - 14 December 2016ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to a cowardly assault that occurred inside Cube nightclub on Sunday, 20 November 2016.
MORE Garry Gordon found safe
Publish date: 04:45PM - 09 December 2016UPDATE:
Missing man Garry Gordon was located safe in Tuggeranong around 6:30pm today. Police enquiries continuing.
MORE Man to face court on act of indecency charges
Publish date: 11:14AM - 09 December 2016ACT Policing have arrested a 24-year-old Casey man following reports of a number of indecent assaults.
MORE CCTV released of alleged offender in Civic coward punch
Publish date: 11:55AM - 08 December 2016ACT Policing has released CCTV vision of the alleged offender in the coward punch on London Circuit (Saturday, 26 November).
MORE Officers reach out to students to tackle family violence
Publish date: 02:43PM - 07 December 2016ACT Policing’s Family Violence Coordination Unit has been engaging with Canberra’s high school students to teach them about family violence with a view to developing attitudes which break the cycle of family violence in the new generation.
MORE Witnesses sought to attempted aggravated robbery
Publish date: 01:15PM - 07 December 2016ACT Policing is seeking to identify a male after an aggravated robbery was interrupted by police on Saturday (3 December).
MORE Police continue to be frustrated by driver behaviour
Publish date: 10:11AM - 07 December 2016Less than a week after an appeal to the public to slow down and stop reckless behaviour on our roads, a provisional licence holder has been detected travelling 65km/h over the speed limit.
MORE Watson homicide: suspects identified
Publish date: 01:50PM - 06 December 2016ACT Policing’s Homicide Team are progressing their investigation into the murder of Watson man Eden Waugh, with detectives identifying two persons of interest.
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