Officers in two more Territory police regions have voted for the Northern Territory Police Association to hold a Territory-wide vote of confidence in Commissioner Jamie Chalker and Deputy Commissioner Murray Smalpage, sources have told the NT Independent.
The NT Police have continued to suppress information about violence in Wadeye, issuing a press release an hour and a half after the NT Independent sent questions about the ongoing rioting, but which lacked vital information about bloodshed in the community and why the Territory Response Group had not been sent in to restore safety.
NT Police are seeking the public’s help to identify the drivers of two vehicles captured on CCTV passing through Timber Creek, in hopes they may have information in connection to the fatal hit-and-run in the area on April 22.
A man has been killed after being speared in the head, health clinic staff have been seriously injured, police officers have been told not to leave the station compound, and 36 houses have been set on fire during ongoing violence largely not made public by NT Police and the Gunner Government, sources have told the NT Independent.
A McMinns Lagoon man has fronted court for the first time after being charged with bestiality after police allegedly uncovered a “significant number” of videos, including some that had been posted on the internet, of the man engaged in “abhorrent” sexual acts with an animal during a raid of his house on Friday.
Three more police officers were attacked while arresting two suspects in separate incidents across the Territory over the weekend, NT Police said, with at least one requiring medical attention.
A 51-year-old rural area man has been charged with bestiality after police uncovered a “significant number” of videos of the man allegedly engaged in “abhorrent” sexual acts with an animal during a raid of his house on Friday.
Detectives are investigating the death of a 28-year-old man in Alice Springs after he was found unresponsive at a Sadadeen home on Thursday evening, NT Police said.
A 19-year-old man has been killed in an alleged hit-and-run near Timber Creek, NT Police said, calling on the driver to turn themselves in.
NT Police officers in Alice Springs have voted to force the NT Police Association to hold a Territory-wide vote of confidence in Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker, sources have told the NT Independent.
A 15-year-old male who allegedly attempted to steal a car with a group of others by threatening the driver with a knife at 7:30am after a night of breaking into properties in the northern suburbs has been arrested and charged, NT Police said, but they continue to seek others involved in the crime spree.
An 18-year-old Wadeye man has been charged with manslaughter after the death of a man he was allegedly fighting with in part of an ongoing community dispute, which has caused an escalation of violence in the town, despite more police having already been sent in to try and restore peace, NT Police have said.
