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.
A firefighter who was found guilty of assaulting his son in front of colleagues while on duty was to return to work to lead a team, including some officers who witnessed the assault, but was temporarily stood down again by the NT Fire service just days before resuming his role, sources have told the NT Independent.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has caused confusion with her public remarks about the five lying officers who misled a coronial inquest over their involvement in racist TRG awards, telling Parliament today that they are currently under an NT Police “internal review”, but later saying “this matter is closed” when asked what action she is taking as Police Minister to clean up the mess.
Five teens with weapons who allegedly stole two cars overnight to carry out a crime spree were arrested after crashing one of the cars in the northern suburbs during a police pursuit, and attempting to hide from police dogs in various locations including in a tree and a puddle, NT Police said.
A 19-year-old female was allegedly sexually assaulted in the bathroom of an Alice Springs fast-food restaurant around 6:30am Saturday morning, NT Police said, following two reports of domestic violence incidents over the weekend across the NT, including a stabbing.
A pub in Darwin and a pub in Humpty Doo were ram raided overnight with the offenders using a vehicle stolen from a home in Rosebery, NT Police said.
Disgraced former NT Police detective Wayne Newell has been sentenced after pleading guilty to one count of using a carriage service to harass as part of a strange case that the NT Police top brass attempted to keep out of the public spotlight.
