NT Police are searching for three men who allegedly used an axe to smash into an East Side Alice Springs residence early Sunday morning before assaulting a woman and later returning to steal jewellery and money.
Post curfew response for Alice Springs announced
Heightened police patrols and full coverage of bottle shops will continue in Alice Springs after the youth curfew expires on Tuesday to ensure the community’s safety, the Chief Minister has pledged, while the Opposition said the emergency situation could have been avoided if Labor had not taken resources out of town in the first place.
Woman allegedly attacks neighbour with fork, throws concrete at police officer
A woman has been charged after allegedly assaulting her neighbour with a fork, and then throwing a 10kg piece of concrete down a stairwell, narrowly missing an arresting officer’s head, NT Police said.
‘Black Monopoly’ board game shared by NT Police members with every space ‘go to jail’ revealed
Leaked screenshots of a Territory Response Group email that police members shared depicting a “Black Monopoly” board with every space designated “go to jail” in 2008, has cast further doubt on TRG members’ sworn claims their unit of the NT Police was not racist.
Woman stabs bouncer in leg with scissors, then stabs woman in the head twice: Police
A woman allegedly stabbed a bouncer in the leg with scissors while being kicked out of a city bar, and then stabbed a woman twice in the head at the Darwin bus exchange, NT Police said.
Police union says interstate officers needed while extra police are recruited
The NT Police Association has said an extra 200 officers recruited over fours years is a good first step to improving policing, while some officers on sick leave had been “damaged” by the lack of resources provided by the government and executive and would never be coming back to work, which has also led to a need for more officers.
More charges laid as part of police operation into meth drug ring
Two women have been charged with the commercial supply of methamphetamine after the alleged seizure of 500 grams of the drug last week from a Darwin rural area property, NT Police said, as part of an ongoing operation into the meth trade in the Greater Darwin region.
Damning review into NT Police resourcing shows organisational failures over many years
The Lawler Government has released the long-awaited review into police resources, which made 18 recommendations to improve the NT Police force, following a decade of “deeply traumatic organisational events” that led to multiple organisational failures, including the inability to properly allocate its resources.
Alice Springs youth curfew extended for another six days
The Lawler Government has extended the Alice Springs youth curfew for another six days, after it was recommended in a meeting of the Territory Emergency Management Council yesterday.
Lawler Government stuffed up emergency declaration for Alice Springs; police union still concerned curfew not legal
Official documents have revealed the Lawler Government made an error concerning which ministry was supposed to declare the Alice Springs “emergency situation”, raising further questions about the legality of the youth curfew and whether police have been exposed to legal risk in carrying out the orders.
Four teens steal car, lead police on dangerous pursuit through northern suburbs
Four males allegedly stole a car after breaking into a Darwin CBD residence over the weekend, leading police on a dangerous pursuit through the northern suburbs before a tyre deflation device was used to end the chase in Anula, but which then forced police to pursue the offenders on foot, NT Police said.
Arrest over Katherine service station robbery
A 13-year-old has been charged for allegedly being one of a group of six youths who used rocks to hit the front sliding doors of a Katherine service station and then pushed the doors off the rails, before stealing some items, NT Police said.