The number of children in detention or on community detention orders spiked by 40 per cent last fiscal year.
Canberra's City station has been chosen as one of two locations for the AFP's new mental health pilot program,in which officers are monitored for the cumulative effects of traumatic events.
Police allege the Griffith man made more than $400,000 worth of personal purchases.
Three homes in Coombs were burgled within an eight-hour period on Wednesday afternoon.
A perfect storm of seemingly random events and a phenomenon known as trigger stacking may have pushed a loyal dog to turn on its owner.
Thursday marks 30 years since the Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner Colin Winchester was killed.
The man is expected to face the ACT Magistrates Court on Wednesday charged with drug trafficking offences.
Canberra barrister Jack Pappas talks about some of his most high-profile murder cases
Police are calling on Canberrans to help identify a man who was involved in two separate burglaries at the same car wash over the Christmas holidays.
Data shows the majority of young people in detention on an average night in Canberra are unsentenced,male and non-Indigenous.
Gang-related assaults in the ACT resulted in nine arrests last year.