The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is the national and principal federal law enforcement agency of the Australian Government with the unique role of investigating crime and protecting the national security of the Commonwealth of Australia. The AFP is an independent agency of the Department of Home Affairs and is responsible to the minister for home affairs and accountable to the Parliament of Australia. As of October 2019 the commissioner of the Australian Federal Police is Reece Kershaw,formerly the Northern Territory Police Commissioner.
The New South Wales Police Force is the primary law enforcement agency of the state of New South Wales,Australia. Divided into Police Area Commands (PACs),for metropolitan areas and Police Districts (PDs),for regional and country areas,the NSW Police Force consists of more than 400 Police stations and over 18,000 officers,who are responsible for covering an area of 801,600 square kilometres and a population of more than 8.2 million people.
Joel Andrew Fitzgibbon is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since the 1996 federal election,representing the New South Wales seat of Hunter. He served as Minister for Defence (2007–2009) in the first Rudd Government and Minister for Agriculture,Fisheries and Forestry (2013) in the second Rudd Government. He was also Chief Government Whip in the House of Representatives (2010–2013) in the Gillard Government.
Michael Joseph Keelty AO is a retired Australian Police Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police from 2001 to 2009. He was also the inaugural chairperson of the Australian Crime Commission,now known as the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.
ACT Policing is the portfolio of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) responsible for providing policing services to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The Australian Capital Territory Police was an independent police force responsible for policing the ACT until 19 October 1979,when it was merged with the Commonwealth Police to form the AFP.
The Australian Protective Service (APS) was an Australian Commonwealth law enforcement agency which existed between 1984 and 2004. The APS was created by the separation of the Protective Service component of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) into a new agency based upon recommendations contained in the Stewart Royal Commission of Inquiry into Drug Trafficking. It was initially responsible for protecting personnel and property of the Australian government;foreign diplomatic missions and Internationally Protected Persons (IPPs);and the provision of custodial services at immigration detention centres. From 1990 the APS commenced providing Counter Terrorist First Response duties at certain security-designated airports including the specialist Bomb Appraisal Officer function and,following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001,deployed Air Security Officers on board Australian registered commercial aircraft. Close Personal Protection (CPP),or bodyguard,functions were never provided by the APS;where this has been a Commonwealth responsibility,the function was provided by the AFP.
Colin Stanley Winchester was an assistant commissioner in the Australian Federal Police (AFP). Winchester commanded ACT Police,the community policing component of the AFP responsible for the Australian Capital Territory. In 1989 he was assassinated by an unknown perpetrator.
Audrey Ann Fagan was an Australian police officer,who,between 2005 and 2007,held the rank of Assistant Commissioner and served as the Chief Police Officer of Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Policing,which includes community policing responsibilities for Canberra and other parts of the ACT. Fagan was awarded the Australian Police Medal in 2004 and died in office,having committed suicide by hanging while on vacation.
The New South Wales Crime Commission is a statutory corporation of the Government of New South Wales. It is constituted by the Crime Commission Act 2012,the object of which is to reduce the incidence of organised crime and other serious crime in the state of New South Wales,Australia.
Michael Anthony Phelan,a senior Australian law enforcement officer,is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and Director of the Australian Institute of Criminology since November 2017.
Simon James Overland is the former Chief Executive Officer at the City of Whittlesea and a former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police in Australia. He previously worked with the Australian Federal Police and then with Victoria Police focusing on Melbourne's gangland wars. On 2 March 2009 he was named by the Premier,John Brumby,as Victoria Police Chief Commissioner. He resigned from this position on 16 June 2011 after intense public pressure from critics who questioned his performance. In July 2011,he was appointed the chair of the Board of Management of the Tasmania University Union and was responsible for overseeing the direction of the student union.
David John Owens APM is the former Deputy Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force in Australia and was appointed to the position in August 2011 having performed the role of Deputy Commissioner since December 2007.
The Specialist Response Group (SRG) is a highly trained police unit of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) consisting of a range of teams capable of deploying at short notice in order to undertake a variety of specialist policing tasks. SRG predominantly consist of sworn police officers,based in Canberra,Australian Capital Territory (ACT),who are capable of resolving high risk planned and emergency policing operations;both domestically and internationally.
Roman Alexander Quaedvlieg is a former Australian public servant and police officer who was the Commissioner of the Australian Border Force (ABF) from 1 July 2015 until May 2017 when he was put on paid leave while an investigation took place. He was dismissed from the position in March 2018 after an investigation found that he had failed to comply with disclosure requirements regarding a relationship with a woman.
Andrew Colvin is an Australian police officer who was the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police from September 2014 to September 2019. On 5 January 2020,Colvin was appointed to lead the newly-established National Bushfire Recovery Agency.
Graham Leonard Ashton is an Australian police officer who was the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police from 2015 to 2020. He also served in the Australian Federal Police for a long period.
The second Turnbull ministry was the 70th ministry of the Government of Australia,led by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. It succeeded the first Turnbull ministry following the 2016 Australian federal election on 2 July 2016.
The Department of Home Affairs is the Australian Government interior ministry with responsibilities for national security,law enforcement,emergency management,border control,immigration,refugees,citizenship,transport security and multicultural affairs. The portfolio also includes federal agencies such as the Australian Federal Police,Australian Border Force and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. The Home Affairs portfolio reports to the Minister for Home Affairs,Karen Andrews,and is led by the Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs,Mike Pezzullo.
Four suspects were arrested without charge by Australian Federal Police on 29 July 2017 in Sydney on suspicion of an Islamic State inspired plot to plant a bomb on an Etihad Airways flight departing Sydney on 15 July 2017.
Shane Andrew Patton is an Australian police officer and as of June 2020,the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police.
