Talk:Australian Federal Police

message: I have removed from the article the following:
:The AFP can trace it's origin to an incident in November 1917. Prime Minister Hughes was touring Queensland campaigning for conscription, which was unpopular, especially in Queensland. A egg was thrown at him, which generated a fight, in which the PM was injured. The local police refused to arrest the man who had thrown the egg, and the Premier of Queensland likewise refused, claiming that no state law had been broken. Enraged, Hughes gave orders for the establishment of "peace officers" under Commonwealth jurisdiction.  (Reference - A Dictionary of Australian Folklore. Editor; Bill Wannan. Viking O'Neil 1970)
An event, of which I doubt the factuality (even if 'referenced'), that occurred in 1917 is hardly relative to the formation of the Australian Federal Police in 1979. In any case, the AFP, prior to the merging of the APS in 1981, was not responsible for the protection of officials, revealing the irrelevance of this statement.--Cyberjunkie 05:16, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed this sentence in the introduction:
"The establishment of the organisation was partly motivated by the Sydney Hilton Bombing the year prior, which revealed the necessity for a national police force."
McCulloch (2001) Paramilitary Policing in Australia tells that the establishment of the AFP was well under way before the bombing of the Sydney Hilton, but the Fraser government simply 'sold' its formation as a response to the bombing. stonemaccas 04:32, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Establishment 

message: It appears that this article is constantly monitored by the AFP and all contentious issues are removed.
This is NOT the home page of the AFP. Thousands of column inches of Australian and International Newspapers have been devoted to AFP mishandling of numerous issues in the past two years, and yet no such references are allowed to remain on this page.
Vanuatuapt (talk) 04:39, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: I propose to remove the entire "See Also" section. I fail to see the relavence to the article. These sort of interconnections should be made through categories or links in the prose. Comments? --Martyman-(talk) 01:10, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Those links that are directly relevant to the AFP should remain. Xtra 02:45, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Which ones are they? --Martyman-(talk) 05:02, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Of those that are currently there I can't see any. But that does not mean that there are not any. Xtra 07:25, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly, I have no problem with a "See Also" section existing, it is just all the links in this one are pointless. It can be re-added if anyone comes up with a link that actually should be there. I am going to go ahead and remove it. --Martyman-(talk) 08:03, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing the "See Also" section 

message: How about some information on the AFP museum that was burnt down in the canberra bush fires.
:The museum did NOT burn down.  The small arms firing range building next door did though.  The fire did burn up to the windows of several other buildings on the site, which inclduded the museum. Ronnam (talk) 23:10, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: AFP Museum

message: I am looking at doing a major upgrade of this article over the next couple of months.
To avoid any edit conflicts, if I could ask that issues and ideas for changes to this article could be raised here, so that I can properly include them.
Ronnam (talk) 23:14, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have commenced a rewrite of the 'Australian Protective Service' article, restricting it to dealing with the agency as it existed between 1984 and 2004.  Please consider dealing with the uniformed protection and aviation security functions pre-84 and post-04 within your revision of the AFP entry; happy to assist if requested. Cheers, Stepat (talk) 06:08, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The more I look at it the bigger the task is!  So if you can provide content as per your offer/s it would be good - perhaps an open collaboration - it might also keep me going.  I was just starting to think about reneging as it looked like turning out to be a bit too much to do properly in a reasonable time frame! Ronnam (talk) 02:34, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem, happy to help! Stepat (talk) 05:19, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: newman78 Hi all - I started with a few erroneous issues and just kept editing - I'm more than happy for my changes to be refined/reverted, but felt that since this site has been listed for a major revamp for a long time now, it needed some work.  There should be some discussion about organising the information into the portfolios of the organisation, rather than the technical classification of roles (ranks/titles) as the functions show the work being undertaken by this police force. The reason I began working on the site was the premature change of Commissioner - this will ocur on 7 September 2009 when the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia swears in the new Commissioner. Newman78 (talk) 05:12, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major upgrade of article 

message: Pages like these should include a section showing the amount spent by tax payers for police to drive past a bottleshop run by army officer that sells grog to violent intoxicated alcoholics on credit.  The AFP refuse to enforce the law - instead they drive past the bottleshop to social housing complexes less than 100m away.
It is a turn-key event where police make loads of money while the victims are assured no compo or actual law enforcement (unless they are female or wealthy).
The local government has created laws to allow secret political donations in return for a total lack of alcohol management, or forcing violent alcoholics to take medication by court order/s.
Nope - instead we have 40 year old violent alcoholic pensioners created by a wholesale business model that exploits both addictions and all victims of the alcoholism (including anyone that has to wait for service in emergency departments because staff are dealing with physical assaults).
Seems the tax payer needed at least 5 new special AFP departments for TERRORISM, not alcoholism that costs lives and at least 31b a year.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.138.240.116 (talk) 02:21, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please review the ISSUES items; Crime and Terrorism gets a listing but alcoholism does not 

message: This page is missing the newly nominated rank of Leading Senior Constable (by Comm Negus in 2011)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.9.136.236 (talk) 09:17, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rank badges 

message: I have just started one.  This is not an attack on the AFP, but any police force will have a few skeletons, and they should be taken out of the cupboard to try to prevent them happening again.
Please help me ensure that this section does not disappear. Tuntable (talk) 23:01, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Criticism section 

message: People might like to comment on the proposal to delete the Martens article.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frederic Arthur Martens Tuntable (talk) 01:30, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martens Deletion  

message: There have been a number of edits to this talk page complaining about the behaviour of the Australian Federal Police.
This page is for discussion about the content of the article, and is not an effective or appropriate place to try to address issues about the police force itself.  This is an encyclopedia and it is not able to assist in resolving issues, real or perceived, with the police force itself.
If you have issues with the police force itself, and-or its members, you need to report them via the AFP website, specifically, Feedback and Complaints.
Or you can contact the Commonwealth Law Enforcement Ombudsman.
Or you can contact the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity.
Aoziwe (talk) 14:14, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I have just checked all three links and they work correctly Aoziwe (talk) 14:08, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appropriate forum for behaviour of police 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: No such organization as described by the wiki entry actually exists in reality.
There are NO facts from a court system where the police settle sexual abuse cases made against the police in some kind of out non-pubic-court-process and under condition of keeping the case a secret  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.217.119.121 (talk) 14:24, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Please provide some sources such a newspaper stories, or journal articles that talk about this.  Then someone can write about it in the article.  But we don't include information that one person has discovered by themselves, as that is WP:original research. Ditto Graeme Bartlett as per Talk:ACT Policing#This page needs to be reviewed as it promotes an image of an organisation that is false.   Aoziwe (talk) 11:17, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  false impression from concealment of factual evidence - hello fake news company 

message: health checks are performed for all those admitted by police to hospitals which can use out of date information to determine the subject of protective custody is able to move on though the process and this determines their care which can for a matter of instance not include surgery results, abnormal ecg test results, etc  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.216.199.40 (talk) 20:36, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Please provide some sources such a newspaper stories, or journal articles that talk about this. Then someone can write about it in the article. But we don't include information that one person has discovered by themselves, as that is WP:original research. Aoziwe (talk) 11:36, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  End of life advance care planning is taken care of by a social network operating within the AFP 

message: Some of the items in this section doesn't contain any criticism, such as The Bali Nine; others seem to be misdirected, shouldn't the court that issued the warrant be blamed for the Raids on media; others are unsourced. Creuzbourg (talk) 21:22, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticisms section