AFP counter-terrorism operation that targeted 13-year-old with autism cost more than $500,000

Materials received by Guardian Australia under freedom of information laws show a partial look into the Australian federal police’s counter-terror investigations into youth. Photograph: AFP

An Australian federal police counter-terrorism operation targeting a 13-year-old boy with autism cost more than $500,000, Guardian Australia can reveal.

Documents provided under freedom of information laws show the total cost of Operation Bourglinster, the AFP investigation into a boy known as Thomas Carrick, was $507,087. No further breakdown of the cost was provided.