Police and community leaders spruiked the random use of scanning wands in the days after the stabbing death of 17-year-old Jack Beasley in Surfers Paradise 14 months ago. It never happened. Instead, ...

Police armed with metal detector wands are preparing to hit the streets of Townsville’s party precinct in a bid to crack down on knife crime. Find out more about the new police powers. Police will ...

Metal-detecting 'wands' are to be handed to frontline police officers in the latest move to tackle the huge increase in knife crime. Sign up to our digest of the biggest court cases heard in the West ...

COAST nightclubs are on alert after it was revealed a 15cm razor-sharp kitchen knife being sold in supermarkets cannot be detected by security scanners. There are fears the knives, made from ...

Police will begin metal detector searches at eight major Adelaide shopping centres from Friday, but a mall that saw a violent brawl this year has been left off the list. Shoppers will now be subjected ...