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In this section you will find the latest news on arrests, missing persons, seizures and crimes committed and solved in the ACT.
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Man to face court charged with assaulting police officer
Publish date: 04:14PM - 30 January 2024A 55-year-old McKellar man has been charged with assaulting a police officer and other offences following an incident in Belconnen last night.
MORE Police seek to identify witnesses to family violence incident in Bonner
Publish date: 09:46AM - 30 January 2024ACT Policing is seeking to identify a person who assisted a woman who was allegedly assaulted last Thursday in Bonner.
MORE Witnesses sought to fail to stop incident in Fisher
Publish date: 02:35PM - 29 January 2024ACT Policing is seeking witnesses and dash-cam footage to a fail to stop incident in Fisher on Thursday, 25 January 2024.
MORE Man charged following reckless driving incident
Publish date: 10:31AM - 29 January 2024A 37-year-old man from Queanbeyan, NSW has been charged with several serious driving offences following an incident spanning across Canberra yesterday.
MORE Assistance sought to identify man from City incident
Publish date: 09:04AM - 27 January 2024ACT Policing is seeking to identify a man following an assault incident in a licenced premises earlier this month.
MORE Monash man charged with multiple sexual offences
Publish date: 07:59AM - 27 January 2024A 43-year-old Monash man has been charged with more than 30 sex offences allegedly committed against family members and others.
MORE UPDATE Can you identify this man? IDENTIFIED
Publish date: 09:04AM - 26 January 2024Thank you Canberra. The man has contacted police and the matter continues to be investigated.
MORE Police and ABF seize more than 100kg of methamphetamine bound for the ACT
Publish date: 08:27AM - 25 January 2024This is a joint media release between ACT Policing and the Australian Border Force.
ACT Policing and the Australian Border Force (ABF) have intercepted 106kg of methamphetamine hidden in a shipment of car radiators in the ACT’s largest meth bust.
MORE UPDATED Police seek to identify cyclist involved in pedestrian collision IDENTIFIED
Publish date: 10:33AM - 23 January 2024Thank you Canberra. The cyclist has contacted police and the matter continues to be investigated.
MORE Man charged with fraud and identity theft offences
Publish date: 09:00AM - 23 January 2024A 34-year-old Gungahlin man will face the ACT Magistrates Court today (Tuesday, 23 January 2024) on more than 130 fraud and theft related charges.
MORE Man charged with burglary of dog pound
Publish date: 10:30AM - 22 January 2024A Waramanga man has been charged with burglary following an incident at the Domestic Animal Services facility in Symonston on the weekend.
MORE Speeding P-plater has licence suspended
Publish date: 09:16AM - 21 January 2024A 19-year-old Nicholls man has had his provisional licence suspended for 90 days following an incident yesterday morning.
MORE Police seeking witnesses to suspicious apartment fire
Publish date: 12:04PM - 19 January 2024ACT Policing is seeking witnesses and CCTV footage to an apartment fire in O’Connor on Wednesday (17 January 2024).
MORE Two teenagers charged with several offences by Operation TORIC
Publish date: 09:23AM - 19 January 2024Two youths will face the ACT Children’s Court today charged with various offences following an investigation by officers from ACT Policing’s Operation TORIC.
MORE Boy to face court over fatal Barton Highway collision
Publish date: 03:08PM - 18 January 2024A 14-year-old boy will face the ACT Children’s Court today (Thursday, 18 January 2024) charged in relation to a fatal collision on the Barton Highway.
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