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Police funeral for alleged pedophile cop 'a mistake'

A full police funeral provided to a senior officer who died by suicide while being investigated for child abuse offences was regrettable, Tasmania Police says.

AAP · Sep 28, 2023

Man charged with nearly 100 child sexual offences

Tasmania Police have charged a 31-year-old man with 98 child sexual offences allegedly committed over five years.

AAP · Sep 18, 2023

Tasmania Police Share CCTV Footage Of Last Time 14 Y.O. Girl Was Seen Before She Went Missing

The teenager has been missing for two months with police finding "no sign of her".

Pedestrian.tv · Jun 30, 2023

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Tasmanian woman who starved to death in her home was let down, neighbour says

The neighbour of a Tasmanian woman who starved to death in her own home says the 71-year-old was let down by those who should have stepped in to help her.

ABC News · Jun 1, 2023

A Tassie Woman Has Starved To Death Days After Police Did A Welfare Check & Reported Nothing

The woman was described as "gravely ill, both mentally and physically" when police visited her.

Pedestrian.tv · Jun 1, 2023

Police response lashed after ill woman starved to death

A coroner has criticised the response of police after a Tasmanian woman with mental health issues died from starvation in community housing.

The New Daily · Jun 1, 2023

Woman with mental health issues starved to death in community housing after Tasmania Police welfare check

A woman's "lonely death" of starvation in the suburbs of an Australian capital city raised "several issues", including with police inaction, a Tasmanian coroner has said.

ABC News · May 31, 2023

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Police recruitment crisis putting officers and community 'at risk'

Australia is experiencing a shortage of police officers, with some states embarking on overseas recruitment drives and one state trying to sign people up at football games.

ABC News · May 16, 2023

Tasmania Police Association concerned about force burn-out amid spiking overtime costs

Costs at 24-hour police stations in Tasmania have more than doubled, and in some cases tripled, since the middle of last year.

ABC News · May 11, 2023

Drivers may hold clues in search for missing teenager

Police investigations are ongoing to locate a missing 14-year-old girl in Tasmania, with further searches of a river planned.

The New Daily · May 10, 2023

New forensic capabilities to be put to solving Tasmanian cold case crimes

New forensic technology will be used to re-examine all Tasmanian cold cases, with police hoping it could finally provide answers to families and loved ones of those like Victoria, whose killer has never been found.

ABC News · May 8, 2023

Shyanne-Lee Tatnell has been missing for four days, leaving family pleading for clues

Shyanne-Lee Tatnell hasn't been heard from since Sunday afternoon. Her grandmother says the family is "sickened with worry".

ABC News · May 5, 2023

Tasmania Police officer struck by garbage truck in Launceston's CBD

A Tasmania Police officer is in a serious condition in hospital after being struck by a garbage truck in Launceston's CBD.

ABC News · May 2, 2023

Assault charge dropped against Hobart lord mayor

A charge of common assault against Hobart Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds will not proceed after the file was reviewed.

AAP · Apr 24, 2023

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ABC News · Apr 21, 2023

Tasmanian driver has lucky escape after wood flies from log truck into windscreen

A driver has narrowly avoided serious injury when a stray chunk of wood from a passing log truck smashed through their windscreen on a road in Tasmania's north.

ABC News · Mar 21, 2023

New hope dashed, but Tasmania Police still seeking clues to Nancy Grunwaldt missing person case

On a Friday in 1993, German traveller Nancy Grunwaldt hopped on her red bike, rode south out of the small Tasmanian town of St Helens and was never seen again. Three decades on, with another lead amounting to nothing, police say the case will "stay open" until there is an…

ABC News · Mar 16, 2023

Humans sought after penguin injured at Burnie foreshore, with Tasmania Police investigating

A penguin has been found with its leg dangling and toe torn, after allegedly being abused by a group of youths in Tasmania — and bird advocates want those responsible punished "to the fullest extent of the law".

ABC News · Mar 14, 2023

Tasmanian government unmoved on pill testing despite drug warning to Panama festival-goers

A warning from the stage of a Tasmanian music festival for punters to "not take recreational drugs" as a precaution following a death at the event has again sparked calls for an introduction to pill testing — but the government is not budging.

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ABC News · Mar 14, 2023

Beaconsfield mine reopening delayed again after costly copper theft attempt

An attempt to steal copper wire at the mine, which attracted global attention in 2006 after a deadly accident, will delay plans to resume operations, the "devastated" company says.

AAP · Mar 10, 2023

Ex-cop allegedly shared confidential police information

A former Tasmanian constable has been accused of sharing confidential information from a police reporting system.

ABC News · Mar 4, 2023

Tasmania's police family violence orders are supposed to keep victims safe. But experts say they're backfiring on women

Tasmania Police's power to issue final family violence orders is exacerbating the problem of victim misidentification, experts say, making it difficult to correct cases where officers have made the wrong call and upending the lives of potentially hundreds of women every year.

ABC News · Feb 13, 2023

Fine but no conviction for Tasmanian police officer who punched man who had bow and arrow

A Tasmanian police officer who punched a man, who had earlier been armed with a bow, in the head during a dramatic arrest cops a fine but avoids having a conviction recorded.

ABC News · Feb 8, 2023

Farm theft a 'growing issue' in Tasmania, but some victims fear 'retribution' agricultural body says

Farmers in Tasmania are having livestock and machinery stolen from their properties, with victims being urged to speak up — but some are "scared of retribution", an agricultural advocacy group says.

ABC News · Jan 26, 2023

Search for missing round-the-world sailor Peter Baggenstos continues two months after he was last seen

Tasmania Police has taken over the investigation into the disappearance of Swiss sailor Peter Baggenstos, who was last seen leaving port in Hobart on December 1.

AAP · Jan 23, 2023

River body find in Tas missing person case

Divers have found a body in a submerged car belonging to a 61-year-old Tasmanian man who disappeared more than six years ago.

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