Leigh Johns … Australian Building and Construction Commissioner. Photo: Josh Robenstone BUILDING industry watchdog staff will be subject to a wide-ranging inquiry after the destruction of evidence by inspectors led to the collapse of a criminal case last week. The Australian Building and Construction Commissioner, Leigh Johns, said he had asked the Australian Government Solicitor
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THE Australian Federal Police has been criticised by a Supreme Court judge for bungling a two-year investigation into three men who sent funds to the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers separatist group, including improperly arresting a suspect and abusing his rights. The AFP’s mistakes occurred during its 2007 arrest and questioning of Arumugam Rajeevan, one of
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THE Australian Federal Police is taking more than a year to address many serious complaints by the public and has ignored repeated calls to fix how it deals with such cases. In two extreme matters complainants had to wait 1000 days for their problems to be resolved. A report by the Commonwealth Ombudsman on complaints
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THE Australian Federal Police will take control of security at the nation’s 11 busiest airports within three to five years under a plan to prevent understaffing at terminals and duplication of services by state and federal agencies. Yesterday the Federal Government urged travellers going to the United States to be at airports an hour earlier
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AUSTRALIAN law enforcement and government agencies are accessing vast quantities of phone and internet data without warrants, prompting warnings of a growing “surveillance state” and calls for tighter controls. The Attorney-General’s Department has released figures showing federal and state agencies accessed telecommunications data and internet logs more than 250,000 times during criminal and revenue investigations
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AAP Federal police are to investigate a media report that Defence force employees gave preferential treatment to a company in relation to a deal to supply flights. The Age newspaper claims two Defence officers gave inside information to a company bidding to provide the $100 million deal to fly Australian troops to the Middle East.
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GUIDELINES supposed to prevent the federal police putting Australians at risk of overseas death penalties are actually window dressing that could allow a repeat of the Bali nine case. Senior sources within the federal police have indicated that guidelines introduced late last year have little effect on operational decisions. If the Bali situation were repeated
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AAP Australian Federal Police will investigate a brawl which broke out among Sri Lankan, Iraqi and Kuwaiti asylum seeker at the Christmas Island detention centre this week. The Department of Immigration confirmed that in the early hours of Monday morning an altercation broke out between eight Sri Lankan, Iraqi and Kuwaiti detainees at Christmas Island.
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EXCLUSIVE CHEMICALS used by drug gangs to manufacture amphetamines are being imported into Australia because of a loophole in federal legislation. The ”precursor” chemicals are being legally brought into the country from places such as China and India, even though it is illegal to possess them in most Australian states, where they are banned under
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Daniel Tzvetkoff … charged with money laundering. Photo: Glen Hunt THE Australian Federal Police has been drawn into a US investigation into alleged bank fraud by online poker sites in which the FBI alleges $US540 million ($507 million) was laundered by an Australian payments processor. Charges laid in New York’s Southern District Court have also
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