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Inquest into four Tasmania Police suicides exposes harsh toll on officers

Overworked, enduring nightmares of dead bodies, self-medicating with alcohol and other drugs, with the help from well-meaning colleagues in some cases doing more harm than good: An inquest examining the suicides of four police officers in four years has laid bare the torment members can face.

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'Ripple effect' of Tas police suicides

The former head of Tasmania Police has told an inquest about the ripple effect of the suicide deaths of four police officers between 2016 and 2020.

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Tas police welfare 'lacked PTSD training'

An inquest into the suicide deaths of four Tasmanian policemen has been told welfare officers lacked knowledge about post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Tas cop felt support lacking, inquest told

An inquest into the suicides of four Tasmanian police officers has been told an experienced sergeant believed there was a lack of support from the force.

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Cops face unavoidable trauma, inquest told

An inquest into the suicide deaths of four Tasmanian policemen has been told officers face unavoidable trauma due to the nature of the job.

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Tas cop 'feared judgment' about health

An inquest into the suicides of four Tasmania police officers has been told one constable was worried about being judged for seeking mental health help.

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Tas police suicide inquest probes meeting

An inquest has been told a professional standards meeting with a Tasmanian police officer on the day he took his own life could have been handled differently.

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Tas inquest told of last conversation

A sergeant has told an inquest examining the suicides of four Tasmanian police officers about his final conversation with a constable who took his own life.

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Tas cop's welfare paramount, inquest told

An inquest into the suicides of four Tasmanian police officers has been told the wellbeing of a sergeant during return-to-work processes was paramount.

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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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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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