PENDENNIS – Clasp (AFP)

Operation PENDENNIS was a Melbourne-based combined Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), AFP, Victoria Police (VICPOL) and New South Wales Police (NSWPOL) counter-terrorist investigation carried out between 2004 and 2005 which resulted in the arrest
and trial of nine men on charges of plotting to carry out acts of terrorism. Operation Pendennis, along with its related Sydney-based Operation PENDENNIS-EDEN, was one of the most important terrorism investigations in Australian history and successfully disrupted a terrorist act from occurring on Australian soil. Members of the AFP who were involved in Operation PENDENNIS were awarded the AFP Operations Medal with clasp PENDENNIS.