NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has resigned from the union representing police in a late night statement after the association mildly criticised parts of his apology speech to Aboriginal Territorians, accusing him of failing to tell his members about the content and intent of his address in advance of his speech.
A 70-year-old man was threatened with an “edged weapon” in his bedroom after an offender broke through the front door of his Alice Springs house with an iron bar, with that offender and another man later returning to the house and again threatening the man with an “edged weapon”, NT Police said.
A taxi driver was allegedly pushed over at Alice Springs Airport and required emergency hip surgery, while his alleged attacker is still on the run, NT Police said.
The NT Police Commissioner who claimed earlier this year that he had never seen racism in the police force has offered a sweeping public apology to Indigenous Territorians for “past harms and injustices” inflicted on them over the past 150 years at the hands of the NT Police, while committing to “eliminating racism” in the force under his command.
A man has been arrested for allegedly trying to abduct a child from an oval in Katherine, with the girl having broken free of the man before running back to tell her parents what had happened, NT Police said.
Continuing low-level riots in Woodroffe that saw up to 50 people fighting in the streets on Wednesday night and a car set on fire, meet the criteria for a curfew to be called similar to Alice Springs, the independent Member for Blain has said, while NT Police described the latest incident as a ‘disturbance’ of up to 20 people.
A man was caught in a residential backyard after breaking into homes in Alice Springs, NT Police said.
Leanne Liddle has been named executive director of the NT Police’s Community Resilience and Engagement Command, tasked with designing the agency’s anti-racism strategy, but Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has not made an official public announcement about the appointment amid turmoil over unresolved allegations of systemic racism in the force.
Police chased a stolen vehicle through Karama, Marrara, Berrimah, Tivendale, Wishart and Winnellie on Friday night before using tyre spikes to stop it, NT Police said.
Roughly 47,500 people attended the three-day Darwin Show weekend that kept police busy tipping out 72 litres of booze, returning four missing children at the showgrounds and arresting a 19-year-old female for allegedly throwing a can at an officer during a massive brawl on Friday night.
A man has been charged after he allegedly assaulted an employee of a Wagaman business and stole her handbag on Saturday afternoon, NT Police said.
A man was stabbed in the chest in Hermannsburg over the weekend, allegedly by his partner, NT Police said.
