The ongoing use of police watch houses for long-term prisoners could start affecting the police’s ability to make arrests on a nightly basis, the union representing police said, with the practice continuing despite Corrections Minister Gerard Maley’s claims that transfers were finalised last month.
A woman was stabbed and bashed in an Alice Springs street in the early hours of this morning before being dragged away from the scene of the attack, with the victim still unknown and the offender on the run, NT Police said.
The NT’s Director of Public Prosecutions has referred an 82-page investigation report into the conduct of five senior NT Police officers who lied about racist awards the TRG produced back to the ICAC, raising a perceived conflict of interest for the acting-ICAC, who was involved in high-level political meetings relating to the Yuendumu shooting in 2019 while a senior public servant.
A man has been arrested in Alice Springs after he allegedly pushed his partner over causing her head to hit the floor and lose consciousness, NT Police said.
UPDATED: A 34-year-old male school employee in Darwin has been charged with sexual intercourse with a young person, who attended the school where the man worked, NT Police said Friday. The school at the centre of the alleged offending has now been identified.
A 71-year-old man named Trevor is in intensive care following surgery after he was attacked with a machete during a home invasion on Wednesday morning, an MLA has said, while another source has told the NT Independent two teenagers allegedly tried to cut off the man’s hand, and succeeded in cutting off one of his fingers.
Former NT Police constable Zach Rolfe has taken up the Chief Minister’s challenge to substantiate that five senior officers who misled a coronial inquest about racist awards in the NT Police’s TRG unit committed a crime, completing an 82-page investigation report that he distributed to the Chief Minister, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Acting Police Commissioner on Tuesday, highlighting the ICAC’s failure to properly investigate the officers’ conduct.
A man and teenage girl were stabbed in the chest at the Casuarina bus exchange yesterday afternoon, NT Police said.
The government and the NT Police executive need to take urgent action to protect police officers following a series of threatening incidents involving vehicles being used to ram police cars and driving directly at officers, the union representing NT Police officers said, adding they fear it is “only a matter of time before an officer is killed”.
A large “disturbance” in Wadeye over the weekend had police scrambling for backup as the incident continued after fighting families were first dispersed, NT Police said, with weapons seized.
A planned arrest in the northern suburbs quickly escalated Thursday morning, after a 25-year-old male and another man used a vehicle to swerve at police officers, smashing into a police vehicle, with the event ending after a foot chase through a school oval and a taser being deployed, NT Police said. Meanwhile, the police executive attempted to use the serious situation to rehabilitate a lying police officer’s public image.
A fire erupted early this morning causing major damage to Alice Hosetech and Industrial Supplies situated on Larapinta Drive in Alice Springs, with fears an explosion of gas bottles might occur.
