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Former Victoria Police forensics officer charged over child abuse material
Former Victoria Police officer Vincent Manner faces 23 charges, including counts of possessing and accessing child abuse material.
Manner, 57, worked as a digital forensics officer from 2016 to 2025, extracting data from devices for use as court evidence.
Police say irregularities in his work led to an audit of cases that might have been affected.
Police assessed at least 112 cases, while Victoria Legal Aid said it knew of at least eight affected cases, almost all delayed.
Police say they have finished reviewing the evidence and notified affected parties, but would not say how many cases were disrupted.
One family's case was delayed four more times during the review, though police later confirmed its digital evidence had not been corrupted.
Manner is due in court in Bendigo on November 4; the charges are allegations, and the case is now before the courts.
Former Victoria Police digital forensics officer Vincent Manner has been charged with possessing and accessing child abuse material.
Manner faces 23 charges, including misconduct in public office and failing to provide information under warrant.
Police said they completed a review of evidence under Operation Turnberry and that affected parties had been notified.
The audit assessed at least 112 cases that may have been affected by irregularities in the handling of digital evidence.
Some court cases were delayed while police re-examined evidence.
- Who
- Vincent Manner, a former Victoria Police digital forensics officer.
- What
- He was charged with 23 offences, including possessing and accessing child abuse material.
- When
- The charges were announced in October 2026; he is due in court on November 4.
- Where
- Bendigo, Victoria.
- Why
- Not stated
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Manner worked as a digital forensics officer.
Manner was arrested.
Manner resigned while still under investigation.
Manner was charged, more than a year after his arrest.
Manner is due to face court in Bendigo.
- Charges
- 23, including 10 counts of possessing and accessing child abuse material
- Other charges
- Two counts of misconduct in public office and 11 counts of failing to provide information under warrant
- Potentially affected cases
- At least 112 cases before Victorian courts were assessed
- Operation
- Operation Turnberry reviewed evidence connected to Manner’s work
What people are saying
At this stage it is believed all issues have been identified and reviewed and impacted parties have been notified
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