Police Minister Brent Potter says “racism or discrimination in any form will not be tolerated” with an investigation launched following explosive revelations by Zach Rolfe at the inquiry into the death of Kumanjayi Walker of a widespread culture of racism in the NT Police force, that included high-ranking officers engaging in racist conduct and lying to the coronial inquest.
A high-ranking police officer and other still-serving senior officers attended a Territory Response Group annual party where the “coon of the year” award was handed out to a police member with the “winner” presented a caveman club with nails in it, while some officers have lied to the coronial inquest about the frequency of racist language being used in the NT Police force, the Kumanjayi Walker coronial inquest was told on Monday.
NT Police responded to three aggravated assaults over the weekend, resulting in the tasering and arrest of one man in connection to a disturbance in Tennant Creek, while two other suspects remain at large, including a man who threatened a 60-year-old woman in Palmerston with a pair of scissors while she walked along the street on Saturday afternoon.
An unspecified number of teenage boys used a trolley to ram through the front glass door of a Katherine service station, NT Police said.
Five youths, aged as young as 10 years-old, broke into a Daly River business and stole alcohol, NT Police said.
A man shot off a rifle inside a house while demanding residents hand over any drugs and money they had, during a home invasion in Leanyer, NT Police said.
A 44-year-old Dundee Beach man was arrested and charged on Thursday for allegedly attempting to run over his female neighbour with his ATV earlier this month, sending her to hospital, NT Police said.
NT Police are searching for two male relatives of a woman who was allegedly abused by her 34-year-old partner Wednesday night, after the pair stabbed the man multiple times following the assault and fled the Jingili residence.
The NT Police’s new estimated $65 million electronic case management system is leading to wrongful arrests, failed prosecutions of domestic violence crimes, not recording all incidents and placing police officers at risk, the head of the police union says, while also accusing the government of misleading the public about historical crime statistics for political purposes.
A female pedestrian was taken to Royal Darwin Hospital with multiple fractures after police said she walked onto the Stuart Highway in Darwin, and was hit by a car.
A man who was trying to clear a Darwin street of a bicycle “strategically placed” as an obstacle by four alleged youth offenders aged as young as 11 who had just crashed a stolen vehicle, was threatened with a machete by the group, who then stole his car and drove off before crashing it, NT Police said.
A group of unidentified youths allegedly struck a 62-year-old woman in the head with a weapon on Monday night that left her disoriented and seeking help at the YMCA gym before collapsing on the floor with blood coming out of her head.
