When intel was received that a boat with nearly half a tonne of cocaine was headed toward Australian waters, the AFP, Customs, and state police monitored the journey and the transference of drugs to a smaller vessel. What followed was a perilou

Operation Birks

Aug 10th, 2023 49m 20s

An urgent cybersecurity fraud case landed on the desk of AFP investigators; a syndicate was stealing money from Australian superannuation and share trading accounts. In a race against time to stop millions of dollars in theft, the team had to u

Operation Boscobel

Jul 13th, 2023 1h 3m

When the AFP joined a multi-agency taskforce to investigate security and vulnerabilities on the waterfront, they had no idea they would discover a huge national fraud involving tens of millions of dollars. From off-the-book payments to clandest

Operation Blare

Jun 9th, 2023 50m 19s

When the AFP got intel on a case of foreign bribery, it wasn’t historic as they usually were; it was happening right then. Operation Blare was formed to stop it and send a message to Australian businesses – pay bribes at your own risk.https:/

Operation Caulis

May 11th, 2023 56m 8s

When the Australian Education Department noticed huge fortnightly claims for childcare under their fully-subsidised grandparent scheme, they suspected fraud and called in the AFP. The scheme they uncovered was beyond belief. https://www.afp.g

Operation Kastelholm

Apr 13th, 2023 59m 2s

When four young men began planning a terrorist attack in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD, the Joint Counter Terrorism Team had just days to avert it. https://www.afp.gov.au/crimeinterrupted

Operation Middleham

Mar 10th, 2022 56m 14s

In Operation Middleham, counter-terrorism officers arrested five men in Northern Queensland before they were able to travel overseas to join the Islamic State group and engage in hostile activities. https://jobs.afp.gov.au/CrimeInterrupted

Operation Okesi

Mar 3rd, 2022 52m 49s

Operation Okesi ran for more than two years. The AFP adopted a multi-agency approach to seize hundreds of kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of $360 million. https://jobs.afp.gov.au/CrimeInterrupted

Operation Ascalon

Feb 24th, 2022 56m 30s

When the AFP was made aware of a sadistic online offender targeting one teenage boy and threatening blackmail, Operation Ascalon kicked into gear. The investigators uncovered a disturbing pattern of behaviour by the offender that quickly lured

Operation Streambank

Feb 17th, 2022 1h 1m

When South Australian farmer Des fell in love with ‘Natacha’ in an online romance scam, he travelled more than 8,000 km to West Africa, facing danger from the moment he arrived. In Operation Streambank we learn how the AFP worked with internati

Operation Boone

1 Feb 10th, 2022 58m 37s

Operation Boone details the AFP investigation that brought down an offender who created websites to sell stolen usernames and passwords to access multiple online subscriber services. Unsuspecting law-abiding citizens suddenly found their servic

Operation Kitrino

1 Feb 3rd, 2022 1h 13m

In Operation Kitrino, the AFP investigated a well-established human trafficking syndicate operating within the brothel industry in Melbourne. It took months to locate the syndicate head who was targeting mostly Korean women who found themselves