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Inquest hears Tasmania Police officer Paul Reynolds was facing child exploitation claims before suicide

A senior Tasmanian police officer who was part of the response to the Port Arthur massacre and the Beaconsfield Mine collapse was facing serious child exploitation allegations before his death, an inquest hears.

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Tasmania Police officer took his own life on day of professional standards meeting, inquest told

A coronial inquest into the deaths by suicide of four Tasmanian police officers hears one took his own life on the same day he received an unannounced visit from the Professional Standards Unit.

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Inquest probes Tas police officer suicides

An inquest into the suicides of four Tasmanian police officers has been told a meeting with one constable on the day of his death was poorly managed.

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Tribunal awards male police officer $20k in compensation after younger colleague wins job

A tribunal finds an internal police process incorrectly took gender into account when a male police officer filed a complaint about being overlooked for a job in favour of a more junior, female candidate.

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Teenager killed, another injured in quad bike crash at Oldina, Tasmania

A 16-year-old boy is dead and his riding companion, a 16-year-old girl, injured, after a quad bike crash in northern Tasmania.

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Key evidence in drug case thrown out after judge rules police illegally opened private mail

Key evidence in a drug trafficking case has been thrown out after a judge ruled police in Tasmania illegally opened private mail in what has been described as a "reckless" breach of the law.

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Police officer charged over fatal crash which killed mother and son in Tasmania

A Tasmania Police officer is charged with two counts of causing death by negligent driving — as well as driving while disqualified — following a crash in which a mother and son died and two others were injured.

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Fire destroys Bowen Road Primary School newly refurbished classrooms in suspected arson

At least two recently refurbished classrooms were completely gutted in the fire which swept through the North Hobart primary school on Saturday afternoon.

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Emily says she's a victim of domestic violence, but has struggled to feel heard by police and the courts

A Tasmanian woman who alleges she is a victim of domestic violence says she feels "gaslit" by the state's justice system after senior police downplayed her claims as "a family quibble" and a magistrate called them a "tenuous thread of allegations".

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Body found in car linked to Tas shooter

Tasmania Police have found a body in a burned-out car believed to belong to a man wanted over a shooting incident a fortnight ago.

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Tasmanian Parliament quietly tables terms of reference for police investigation

The terms of reference for an investigation into the illegal bugging of prisoners and lawyers were dropped into Tasmanian Parliament with an almost embarrassed silence. A quick read explains why.

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Illegal recording by Tasmania Police needs to be examined by a commission of inquiry

The revelation that client-lawyer conversations were recorded has raised huge questions — and the response has done nothing to answer them.

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School student allegedly assaulted twice in two weeks at school in southern Tasmania

Jason says he's "pumped" about starting at a new school on Monday — but the reason he is having to change is something he says should never have happened.

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Privacy concerns over bugging of Risdon Prison meeting room used by Susan Neill-Fraser's former lawyer

Tasmania Police announces an independent review after it was revealed officers secretly recorded private and legally privileged conversations between lawyers and clients at Risdon Prison for months while trying to make a case against convicted murderer Susan Neill-Fraser's lawyer.

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Police investigating suspicious fire that caused $500,000 damage at Circle Coffee House in New Norfolk

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Tasmania police launch new Kia Stinger highway patrol car, which crashes two days later

A Tasmania police officer is taken to hospital after his new patrol car was involved in a highway crash with a car driven by a member of the public — two days after the vehicle was used to launch a new road safety campaign.

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Launceston thief who scooped coins from monkey enclosure pond 'now at risk of herpes'

An intruder who broke into a snow monkey enclosure to scoop coins from a pond could have unwittingly exposed themselves to "potentially fatal" herpes, with authorities urging them to seek immediate medical attention.

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Donna Adams appointed as Tasmania's first female Commissioner of Police

It has taken 125 years, but Tasmania will soon have its first female Commissioner of Police.

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Tas appoints first female police chief

Tasmania will have its first female police commissioner when a decorated officer with more than three decades of experience assumes the top job this year.

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Wife of missing man Bruce Fairfax faces seven-year wait or Supreme Court for death certificate

The wife of a man missing since 2017 says she feels hamstrung by the fact she cannot obtain a death certificate and move forward with her life, almost five years after they became separated on a bush path in Tasmania.

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Tasmania Police apologise to abuse victims over paedophile James Geoffrey Griffin

Tasmania Police was handed credible evidence that a man working as a children's nurse had been discussing child abuse online, years before he was charged — but nothing was done because it was "filed inappropriately".

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Commission of Inquiry hears little done to stop paedophile James Geoffrey Griffin despite report of child abuse material on laptop

A person who bought a laptop from now-notorious paedophile James Geoffrey Griffin decades ago alerted police of links to child exploitation websites and followed up after not hearing back, but nothing was done.

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Child protection failed to act after alleged abuser found living in caravan on same property with kids, mother says

When Ashley awoke from a coma, she says child safety told her to sign over her parental rights. In a phone call late one night, she learned something "very terrible" that derailed her life.

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Three years in prison for Tasmania Police officer who killed a man and injured his wife in Launceston crash

A woman struck by a police car that also killed her husband says she believes she has "forgiven" the driver — but a court hears the crash has eroded the family's faith in police in general.

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Driver Dies in Australian Rally, 4th Fatality in 2 Years

A 59-year-old driver was killed in a crash at the Targa Tasmania rally on Wednesday, a year after three competitors died in the annual race. The man from Brisbane and his wife were in a 1989 Porsche 944 S2 when it crashed over an embankment on a closed section of…

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