On this day in 1987, CT police reporter Karen Harbutt offered readers this front page report:
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"It was one of those days when 14 men did well to sleep-in and three Canberra men probably would have done better not to get out of bed at all.
"After a car had ploughed into traffic lights at the intersection of Wentworth Avenue and Telopea Park East, the three men fled the scene on foot.
"They did not count on being spotted by 14 ultra-fit men on a morning jog who had a special interest in them.
"Thirteen of the men were Australian Federal Police officers who have spent the past three weeks in rigorous physical training to take up jobs with the AFP special-operations team and the 14th was their physical-training instructor."
Allowed a sleep-in after late-night exercises, the officers were running later than usual. They pursued the three men, who were arrested and later appeared in court over the accident and other driving offences.
But there was no rest for the officers, who later abseiled down the Travel Lodge Motor Lodge on Northbourne Avenue.
