A 19-year-old man has been arrested and charged with indecent dealings with a child in an undisclosed remote community in the Victoria Daly Region, NT Police said.


A 19-year-old man has been arrested and charged with indecent dealings with a child in an undisclosed remote community in the Victoria Daly Region, NT Police said.

UPDATED: NT Police say they have apprehended a 30-year-old man who escaped prison in Alice Springs on Monday evening after a night on the run.

Operation Trident squad police have been told if they arrest a child under 14-years of age, and cannot provide evidence that the offender knew their actions were wrong, the investigating officer will be referred to the anti-corruption watchdog.

A spectator in his 60s at the Finke Desert Race has tragically died on the spot after being struck by a racing vehicle, while two others involved in the crash aged in their 50s have been hospitalised, NT Police have confirmed.

Four youths allegedly behind a crime spree around Darwin earlier this week have been arrested, with two of the alleged offenders found to have been out on bail at the time of the rampage, NT Police said.

EXCLUSIVE: The NT Government could be forced to pay millions in damages and every criminal court case over the past few years could be called into question after revelations the NT police college was using unqualified instructors and allowed new recruits on the beat before they could be properly assessed, a national civil rights organisation says.

NT Police are seeking to locate the owner of a discarded letter-opener knife found in Ludmilla, as investigations into several unlawful entries and assaults last week in the area continues.

NT Police are searching for a group behind a massive crime spree across the northern suburbs overnight that allegedly involved Territorians assaulted in their homes during break and enters and three taxi drivers assaulted and their vehicles damaged.

EXCLUSIVE: The NT police college continued to employ unqualified instructors and failed to address the “significant risks” of putting cops on the beat before their competency was assessed, two years after a damning audit exposed serious non-compliance issues, the NT Independent can reveal.

Director of Public Prosecutions Jack Karczewski and deputy director Matthew Nathan have announced they are both leaving their senior roles at the end of the month, throwing the office of the DPP into turmoil.

A Supreme Court judge has rejected a move to ban the publication of allegations NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker and senior executive members intentionally withheld evidence from the defence team and the Director of Public Prosecutions in the Constable Zachary Rolfe murder case.

EXCLUSIVE: The NT Police college failed to meet national standards in nearly every measure and had “serious non-compliances around staff qualifications”, a scathing audit obtained by the NT Independent reveals. The audit report found the college employed unqualified...