Three female police officers were assaulted over the weekend in three different incidents resulting in charges against “multiple offenders”, NT Police said.
‘Downgrading’: NT Police Association rejects Labor’s new Police Minister as ‘novice’
The appointment of Natasha Fyles’s chief of staff’s brother-in-law as the Police Minister has rubbed the union representing the Territory’s police officers the wrong way, who say appointing the one-year backbencher to the major role has raised “real concerns” the government is not taking the police portfolio seriously.
Man with machete who broke into Alice Springs home on the run
NT Police are searching for a machete-wielding man who broke into an Alice Springs residence on Saturday afternoon and threatened a resident before fleeing the scene.
Missing woman’s remains recovered in Kakadu by NT Police
Human remains believed to be those of 35-year-old Jessica Louise Stephens who went missing for more than a week in Kakadu National Park have been recovered by the NT Police on Nourlangie Rock.
Fugitive Jermaine Austral stabbed a man in the back, police kept information from public: Sources
Fugitive Jermaine Austral, who has now been arrested, stabbed a man in the back in a home invasion the week before he allegedly broke into a Johnston house with a gun, sources have told the NT Independent – information the NT Police have not disclosed to the public.
Police hunting carjacker who dragged woman from car and assaulted her
A man, who dragged a woman from her car during the day on Wednesday before assaulting her then stealing her car, is still on the run, NT Police said.
Police officer numbers not keeping up with increase in serious crime: NTPA
The Fyles Government’s expectation that police can deal with record levels of crime and violence with just 14 additional police officers compared to last year is “farcical”, NT Police Association president Nathan Finn has said.
Katherine man charged for allegedly raping child
A 28-year-old Katherine man has been arrested and charged by NT Police with several offences relating to the alleged repeated sexual assault of children.
Police release description of dangerous offender, two days after warning the public not to approach him
NT Police has released a description of a man wanted over an unspecified “serious crime”, two days after warning the public not to approach him, and four days after he allegedly broke into a house with a gun that ended with a failed attempt to arrest him by the Territory Response Group.
‘Safety is optional’: Pledged govt safety audits of all late night businesses turns into voluntary scheme
The NT Police misinformed the public when it described a man who had his eye gouged out by a stick at a service station earlier this month as a passerby, while the union representing store workers has called the Fyles Government out for putting workers’ safety at risk by turning mandatory safety audits of late night businesses into a voluntary scheme.
Police search for missing woman in Kakadu National Park
Police are conducting a land and air search in Kakadu National Park for a woman who is believed to have been there since Thursday but has not contacted her family in that time
Four people rescued from Timor Sea clinging onto overturned catamaran
Four people have been rescued from the sea, clinging onto their overturned catamaran, off the Tiwi Islands on Friday afternoon, NT Police said.