The NT Police’s ongoing New Zealand officer recruitment campaign has that country’s top cop asking why the NT couldn’t have given him a ‘heads up’ phone call before the latest drive, that saw nearly 40 Kiwi officers sign-up earlier this year, but he said many have stated they “lack the support from bosses” here in “pretty harsh” conditions and are looking to return home.
A man was killed Wednesday afternoon in a two-vehicle collision involving a car and a truck on the Stuart Highway at the Angliss Road intersection at Knuckey Lagoon, NT Police said.
An 18-year-old female passenger on a motorcycle was killed when two motorcycles collided with feral pigs 19km east of the Stuart Highway intersection on Arnhem Highway Monday night, NT Police said.
A man allegedly repeatedly punched his partner in the face and then stabbed her while they were riding on a public bus in Palmerston, NT Police said.
A woman was killed Saturday night after being struck by a vehicle on the Stuart Highway in Pinelands, NT Police said.
A drunk taxi driver carrying a passenger was one of four drivers caught with a medium-range blood-alcohol reading last weekend, as part of a targeted NT Police traffic operation that saw 165 drivers tested through two random breath testing stations in Darwin and Palmerston, police said.
A 36-year-old woman who allegedly lit a car on fire on Kempe Street in Alice Springs on Monday afternoon has been charged with vehicle and arson offences, NT Police said.
NT Police have released CCTV footage of an aggravated burglary that occurred at the government armoury in Katherine East on Saturday, October 11, as they continue to appeal to the public for information to aid in their ongoing investigation.
Two security guards, one suffering suspected fractures, were taken to Royal Darwin Hospital after being attacked by up to 20 people in Parap on Saturday afternoon with bottles and sticks, NT Police said.
Sixteen youths in Katherine have been arrested and charged as part of NT Police Task Force Cerberus for 40 offences related to burglaries, stolen vehicles, and bail breaches as part of a three-day operation targeting property-related crime in the Katherine CBD, NT Police said.
A woman has died in a two-vehicle collision on the Stuart Highway, approximately 20 km north of Ti Tree on Thursday night, NT Police said.
A government armoury in Katherine has been robbed for the second time in three months, after four unknown people broke into the building in the industrial area in Katherine East on Saturday morning, stealing an undisclosed quantity of ammunition and damaging emergency services vehicles, NT Police said.
