The Fyles Government will give security guards and other employees the power to issue trespass orders, and remove the ‘second chance’ warning for people who breach a trespass order, in a week the government shut down an Opposition motion to censure Police Minister Kate Worden over what they said are her ongoing failures to manage out-of-control crime in the Territory and the ongoing “police crisis”.
Labor MLA Mark Turner has used parliamentary privilege to suggest the NT Police executive is secretly recording police officers and staff at stations and in their patrol cars, adding that if proven “the attrition rates would further climb”.
A 21-year-old woman has been charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a passenger following a fatal crash near Yulara on Friday.
Parliament’s Question Time was cut short Tuesday when the Opposition again moved to censure Police Minister Kate Worden over what they said are her ongoing failures to manage out-of-control crime in the Territory and the ongoing “police crisis”.
Police have launched Operation Lune to monitor the activities of members of the Mongols motorbike gang who are gathering in Alice Springs in preparation for their national run, while the alleged national president of the gang was arrested in Darwin Tuesday morning the media has reported.
NT Police have arrested a 15-year-old male they allege stole multiple vehicles used in a series of break and enters in Alice Springs with other youths, ultimately leading police on a pursuit at one point that was called off after full cans of beer were allegedly hurled at officers from the vehicle.
A 41-year-old Alice Springs man was charged by police after allegedly driving a defective and unregistered ute at his female partner early Wednesday morning while she walked along a footpath on Gap Road, NT Police said.
The NT Government has not amended the law to allow people to sue event organisers for negligence if they are injured by a car, despite Deputy Chief Minister Nicole Manison stating in 2018 that spectators being seriously burnt at the Red Centre Nats was “exactly the type of situation we need to look at”.
NT Police are investigating the alleged assault of a senior in Alice Springs on Monday night that left the man with a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain, police said.
Russell O’Donnell, who was last year fined over the death of an employee, has taken over as Deputy Mayor of the Barkly Regional Council and is currently the acting mayor, after councillors on Thursday voted to grant Mayor Jeff McLaughlin personal leave to deal with drug charges, sources have told the NT Independent.
Twelve burn victims who were sprayed with burning fuel and rubber from a car doing burnouts at the 2019 Red Centre Nats have settled with the organisers of the event, after they were forced to take Federal Court action.
NT Police are investigating at least three ram raids that occurred around Alice Springs overnight, after a white Toyota Land Cruiser was allegedly stolen from an unnamed Barkly region community.
