The NT Police Association has backed Commissioner Michael Murphy after he failed to investigate racist material last year and lied to the public about it, with the union’s boss saying Mr Murphy has done “everything to rectify the situation”, but was unable to point to one instance in which the NTPA has publicly criticised the Commissioner specifically for any issue.
There is insufficient evidence to charge anyone with the 2017 disappearance of Paddy Moriarty, the NT Director of Public Prosecutions has concluded, more than two years after being referred the matter by the NT Coroner.
UPDATED: A 43-year-old man has been charged with murder, rape and breaching a domestic violence order in connection to the death of a woman in Coconut Grove on Saturday afternoon, NT Police said.
A man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman after entering her Palmerston home on Wednesday night is still at large, while police appeal for the public’s help to track him down.
UPDATED: A man who allegedly killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run in Coconut Grove on Wednesday night, has turned himself into police, after authorities released a description of his vehicle on Thursday.
Police Minister Brent Potter has thrown his support behind embattled Police Commissioner Michael Murphy after it was revealed at a coronial inquest on Wednesday that Mr Murphy chose not to investigate racist awards handed out by the NT Police tactical unit when he first became aware of them last year and lied to the public about his knowledge of the awards six months later.
Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has admitted under oath at a coronial inquest that he was made aware of racist awards distributed by the NT Police’s elite tactical unit last August but took no action, later misleading the public when he said at a February press conference that he had no knowledge of them.
Parks Australia will plead guilty to damaging a sacred site at Gunlom Falls in Kakadu National Park during construction work in 2019, the authority has said.
A female of an unspecified age was treated at Royal Darwin Hospital after bleeding heavily from being stabbed in the foot, leg, and lower back in a Darwin home, while her alleged attacker has been charged, NT Police said.
A man was treated in Alice Springs Hospital for head and chest injuries after being kicked and punched and assaulted with a blunt weapon, while trying to stop his attacker from damaging his car, NT Police said.
NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy was made aware of racist awards handed out within the Territory Response Group at least six months before they were aired publicly, a coronial inquest has heard, contradicting Mr Murphy’s claims in February that he was “not aware of the TRG awards”.
NT Police have welcomed four new members to its elite Search and Rescue Squad after completing their training and evaluation, which follows the unit being plagued with a lack of personnel that meant it could not undertake some diving operations in late 2021.
