Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has backed away from holding a parliamentary inquiry into what she called a “crisis in police”, despite calling for one seven times while in opposition, and criticising the previous Labor government’s “deliberately constrained” and “behind-closed-doors review” of police.
A female pedestrian was killed after being hit by a car on the Stuart Highway near Knuckey Lagoon, NT Police said.
A man has been charged for allegedly drug driving and for having a traffickable amount of methamphetamine, NT Police said.
A man has been charged with causing serious harm and contravening a domestic violence order after allegedly beating his partner unconscious in the street in Alice Springs, NT Police said.
A man has been charged for allegedly raping a woman he knew at East Point last Monday, NT Police said.
Up to 30 vehicles were damaged during a break-in at the Pickles vehicle auction yard in Alice Springs, with the office building also damaged, NT Police said.
A man died after a collision between a 4WD and a truck on the Arnhem Highway on Friday, NT Police said.
The 52-year-old police officer who was sacked Friday afternoon for alleged “serious breaches” of discipline is Detective Senior Sergeant Wayne Newell, the NT Independent can confirm.
The former operator of the Darwin city burger joint Good Thanks has been fined $21,000 in the Federal Circuit Court for underpaying a young chef and showing no remorse for it, the Fair Work Ombudsman said.
NT Police are calling for the public’s help to identify a group of nine youths who allegedly threatened an employee of a Katherine service station with a knife before stealing cash and cigarettes.
A man has been arrested over the “suspicious” death of a woman in a Malak house overnight, NT Police said.
EXCLUSIVE: A senior NT Police detective who was the subject of an interstate investigation for allegedly perverting the course of justice in the Zach Rolfe murder investigation has been suspended over unrelated allegations he impersonated a female officer in an online dating app, where he allegedly exchanged sexually explicit photos with an unknown male who later attempted to meet the female officer in person.
