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A Melbourne police officer resigned this week, after receiving a "notice of termination" in which he had the option to appeal the firing that was recommended in a recent internal investigation.
The Australian Federal Police had established a special task force called Operation Avalite to respond to the attacks, which include a fire at a Jewish minister’s Melbourne office and vandalism ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Anti-war protesters and police clashed outside a defence exhibition in Australia's second-largest city of Melbourne on Wednesday, with police using sponge grenades, flash-bang ...
For many decades, Nine News Melbourne was the most dominant local news service, often drawing a peak audience of more than 400,000 viewers. However, in the mid-2000s, the bulletin started to lose ground to the rival Seven News Melbourne , winning only 24 (out of 40) weeks in 2006 and then narrowly losing in 2007 when it won 19 weeks (to Seven's ...
On 2 August 2020, following the surge of COVID-19 cases in Victoria, especially in Melbourne, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews declared a state of disaster across the state and imposed stage 4 lockdown in Metropolitan Melbourne. The new measures included nighttime curfew, which was implemented across Melbourne from 20:00 to 05:00 . The ...
A Critical Incident Response Team member at a siege in Belmont, Geelong on 27 September 2012. In March 2004, the Force Response Unit (FRU) launched the CIRT concept consisting of two teams of officers patrolling in a Van each to provide specialist assistance to general duties police with a primary focus on tactical support and negotiation capabilities supported by a greater range of less-than ...
In a news conferences, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison thanked Victoria police, whilst offering his condolences. Melbourne's mayor, Sally Capp, organised for the flags to be raised at half-mast, and as well as the Melbourne Town Hall to display in blue as a gesture of respect. Police forces from the country and as well as those ...
In 2018, Victoria Police said that all of the 324 officers in the ORU would now be required to complete the Public Order Response Team course to be able to supplement PORT if required. [17] [2] [18] In 2021, Police Life magazine reported that the Operations Response Unit was now known as the Public Order Response Team. [19]