The Latest Breaking News from Australian Federal Police

Good morning, early birds. The Australian Federal Police says that foreign governments are helping Australian drug cartels and crime groups, and the CSIRO reports that there is 29% less plastic pollution on our coastlines. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.

The Australian Federal Police are training a team of sniffer dogs to locate digital technology⁠ — like USBs, hard drives, and SIM cards ⁠— in a bid to target child abuse operations and terrorism perpetrators.

For a federal ICAC to truly survive future generations of government, it will require bipartisan agreement on its scope and power.

The Australian Federal Police will move out of Home Affairs in an overhaul of several commonwealth bodies under Anthony Albanese’s new Labor government.

Andrew Cole was involved in the planning of the huge cocaine smuggling operation, which saw two tonnes of the class A drug trafficked into the UK.

As more details about the massive drug bust come to light, police claim the drugs wrapped in plastic were thrown off a bulk carrier near Port Hedland, where they were picked up by a smaller sailboat.

The Australian Federal Police have charged the master of a bulk carrier in relation to his role in a cocaine smuggling operation.

Solomon Islands Opposition Leader Matthew Wale is accusing the Australian Federal Police of renting a property from a key government MP and powerbroker for a hugely inflated price.

A retired SAS soldier denies Ben Roberts-Smith murdered a terrified adolescent Afghan prisoner in the Federal Court defamation trial the war veteran launched.

Sitting MP Anika Wells says she was abused by an LNP member in separate incident at prepolling centre in Lilley

The electoral commission has referred a potential case of fraud by the Liberal candidate for Isaacs to the Australian Federal Police.