EXCLUSIVE: Constable Zach Rolfe would not have been recruited into the police force if he had been honest about his military disciplinary history, and the impact of undisclosed medication he was taking for a “psychiatric condition” in the months before shooting and killing Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu will never be known, a draft coronial report prepared by the NT Police states.
The inquest into the death of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker, who was shot by a NT Police officer Constable Zach Rolfe in 2019, will begin on Monday and run for approximately three months. Here is a draft list of witnesses.
The Fyles Government has rejected calls for a parliamentary inquiry into the ongoing crisis in NT Police, saying it is currently undertaking a financial and structural reorganisation of the police force that will “get to the bottom” of the problems.
A 38-year-old man who allegedly exposed himself to a child near the Todd River and spoke to a “number of children” in an “indecent manner” last month has been arrested and charged, NT Police said.
EXCLUSIVE: A draft coronial report prepared by the NT Police and obtained by the NT Independent has revealed the shocking extent of police failures in the hours before the shooting death of Yuendumu man Kumanjayi Walker in November 2019, including that two of the senior officers in charge of deploying the taskforce that raided his home did not understand how the Immediate Response Team functioned nor how it should be deployed.
A woman was killed after she was run over while lying on the Stuart Hwy in Alice Springs, NT Police has said.
Eight kids aged between 11 and 16-years old have been arrested over an alleged attempted break-in on Friday night in Alice Springs, NT Police have said.
A group of five youths, including two eleven-year-old boys, allegedly broke in an 84-year old’s house in Tennant Creek on Sunday, with one restraining her, while the others searched her property before running off, NT Police have said.
The only way the Yuendumu community will ever recover, and get any form of justice from the death of Kumanjayi Walker, is to free themselves of the NT Police executives’ constructed blame of Constable Rolfe, and look at the multitude of failures made by management sending the Immediate Response Team there in the first place, writes the former leader of that unit Carey Joy.
The family of Kumanjayi Walker have started a Go Fund Me page in an attempt to raise $400,000 to pay for lawyers and for expenses for his family Yuendumu community members to attend the coronial inquest into his death in Alice Springs.
NT Police are seeking the public’s help to identify the criminals allegedly involved in breaking into a “government premises” in Alice Springs and stealing a white Mercedes Benz Sprinter that was then used in a crime spree throughout the night.
A man and woman have been arrested following a drug bust at a rural Alice Springs property, with drug detectives finding more than $75,000 in cash, four firearms and ammunition, a “replica” automatic rifle and 4.3kgs of marijuana, NT Police said.
