Police are searching for a man who brandished an “edged weapon” at staff during a failed cafeteria heist Monday night, near CDU.


Police are searching for a man who brandished an “edged weapon” at staff during a failed cafeteria heist Monday night, near CDU.

The NT’s Director of Public Prosecutions has laid fresh charges against NT Police officer Zach Rolfe, 19 months after the shooting death of Indigenous man Kumanjayi Walker and just weeks before the high-profile murder trial is set to begin.

Three people have been killed in a single vehicle rollover in Central Australia Thursday night, while one survivor has been hospitalised, NT Police have said.

A female police officer of the Darwin and Road Policing Command, who was almost killed in a buggy crash in Bees Creek Road in January with her allegedly intoxicated partner, will front court to for allegedly exposing official secrets.

Two separate sets of hikers at the Litchfield National Park and Kakadu National Park, who all became disoriented due to dehydration, have been rescued by NT Parks and Wildlife rangers and police authorities.

A seven-year-old girl left inside a vehicle while waiting for her mother at a Bakewell shop, was forced to jump out of the car when it was stolen by a young offender who was later found huffing deodorants, NT Police said.

A teen who breached bail after allegedly threatening a service station employee with “an edged weapon” while demanding money and stealing a beverage has been arrested and charged, NT Police said.

A gang of roughly 10 youths allegedly smashed in the front door of a restaurant on Wood Street around 2:30am Monday morning, NT Police said.

NT Police commissioner Jamie Chalker told Estimates hearings the police college had failed to meet national standards but it is working towards addressing its non-compliance issues that saw unqualified instructors employed and recruits graduated before being properly assessed for competency.

Police commissioner Jamie Chalker has confirmed the NT Police have launched an official investigation into the NT Independent – an online publication its executive does not respond to – after a series of articles exposed massive failures by the police brass, including sexual assaults not being publicly reported and the police college using unqualified instructors.

Police are investigating a fire that appears to have broke out in a carpark beneath a unit complex in Darwin’s inner suburb of Larrakeyah early Wednesday morning.

Police are searching for a man who threatened a Smith Street supermarket employee with a weapon during a Monday morning grog heist.