A former police officer suffering PTSD had his comments about the force’s lack of concern for mental health inexplicably deleted from an NT Police Facebook post promoting R U OK? Day – along with the Police Minister’s comments she would investigate ongoing mental health concerns – while the Commissioner said yesterday he was being ‘cyber bullied’ in unrelated social media comments, which he brought up when asked how he was addressing low morale.
UPDATED: NT Police have deployed the Territory Response Group to the remote community of Peppimenarti following a man being shot and killed with a crossbow amid rising tensions in the community.
Seven youths, including one as young as 11, have been arrested following multiple crimes throughout the Greater Darwin region over the last week, including robbing a taxi driver and break and enters at various businesses, NT Police said.
A 42-year-old man charged with raping a woman he did not know on the riverbank in Katherine on Tuesday afternoon has been denied bail, NT Police said.
A 46-year-old woman in Ludmilla was sexually assaulted on Wednesday night with the suspect still at large, NT Police said.
UPDATED: Five people were injured and hospitalised following a “cooker explosion” at a restaurant in Austin Lane on Wednesday night.
NT Police used the “Find My” function on a pair of stolen Air Pods to track and arrest a 33-year-old man at a Stuart Park residence after he allegedly stole thousands of dollars worth of electronics, sound equipment and cash, among other items from numerous homes, police said.
NT Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy who attempted to escape police on an e-scooter but drove into the waiting arms of detectives who had set up a cordon near the Casuarina bus exchange yesterday, police said.
A 30-year-old man suffering serious head injuries after falling down a cliff at Doctors Gully in the Darwin CBD was rushed to the hospital after being treated by paramedics in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A 34-year-old male has been arrested after indecently touching a sleeping man on Saturday morning on a footpath, with police calling for anyone who witnessed the incident to contact them.
NT Police have found an allegedly topless woman just hours after issuing a statement seeking public assistance in locating her.
A 28-year-old man is in hospital after what appears to be a stabbing, in a domestic violence incident, that police media reported as an “assault with an edged weapon”, indicating that the man “suffered serious injuries to his upper chest”.
