AFP to examine its handling of sensitive investigations after media raids

Federal police commissioner says he has enlisted a former crime commission chief to head the inquiry

The Australian federal police has launched an inquiry into how it handles sensitive investigations, in response to an outcry about recent raids on journalists’ homes and premises.

The new AFP commissioner, Reece Kershaw, told a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra on Monday he had enlisted a former chair of the Australian Crime Commission, John Lawler, to examine how the police dealt with unauthorised disclosures, espionage and foreign interference, war crimes and the application of parliamentary privilege.

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