Five youths and an 18-year-old fled from different facilities in Alice Springs on Wednesday night, after removing their electronic monitoring devices, the NT Police said, with all still on the run, except for one 17-year-old who was arrested this morning.
A seven-year-old girl was hit in the head with a rock while travelling on a bus in Palmerston, NT Police said.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government is not ready to roll out its plan to allow the public to purchase pepper spray next month, the union representing the Territory’s police officers has warned, raising unaddressed concerns over the lack of mandatory training for safe usage, vague legal thresholds for its use that will cause police an increased workload to investigate, and the lack of a “real-time database” to ensure criminals are not buying the spray.
NT Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a pedestrian strike in Katherine that left a 20-year-old man unconscious on Riverbank Road on Wednesday night and are calling for witnesses.
Three youths, including a 12-year-old boy, have been arrested and are facing charges after allegedly assaulting a 70-year-old woman in the Darwin CBD Wednesday morning, before allegedly threatening a mum with her three children at a Karama school car park later in the morning, NT Police said.
Police caught six drug drivers but no drink drivers and also seized unspecified amounts of cannabis, methamphetamine, MDMA, ketamine, steroids, kava, and alcohol, along with a number of gold bars during a remote road safety operation, NT Police said.
Nearly 40 Kiwi police officers have left their jobs to move to the Northern Territory this year following an international recruitment drive, New Zealand media reported, with the pay offers and perks so generous the New Zealand police admitted it “can’t compete”.
An NT Police officer has been placed on leave with pay after being charged with using false documents, forgery and obtaining financial advantage by deception, the NT Police said.
A 30-year-old man was chased by police and arrested in Darwin on Saturday night after he allegedly stabbed another man, which was one of multiple arrests for NT Police over the weekend throughout the Territory, including a police pursuit of a stolen vehicle that rammed a cop car.
UPDATED: A 62-year-old Palmerston man is dead following a police raid on his Rosebery home on Friday morning as part of a joint child abuse taskforce investigation, the NT Police said, with the man reportedly sustaining self-inflicted stab wounds to the chest.
Three males were arrested and one remains on the loose after the group allegedly stole tools and spray cans from a Tennant Creek business before spraying graffiti on buildings down Paterson Street, using the tools to break into a licenced premise and stealing 134 litres of alcohol, NT Police said.
Two police officers attempting to arrest a man under a parole revocation order in Titjikala, south of Alice Springs, were allegedly attacked by a group armed with rocks and “forced to withdraw”, NT Police said, while the offender escaped.
