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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has had to ask South Australia to send police to Alice Springs because some kids from the APY lands who were “not aware of the curfew” were in town, the Police Minister has claimed amid differing reasons for the reinforcements, but said it had nothing to do with the riots in the streets last week which led to an “emergency situation” declared and youth curfew.
