Two people in Palumpa were hit by a man using an unspecified “blunt weapon” on Wednesday, leaving them with unspecified injuries which required treatment, with the alleged offender unsuccessfully trying to steal their car before running off, and is still on the run, NT Police said.
NT Police Deputy Commissioner – and former commissioner Jamie Chalker’s right-hand man – Murray Smalpage has announced he will retire from the role next month after a tumultuous three-year term.
A Palmerston mum who was approached by two armed male teens while putting her young child inside her car near Goyder Square had her purse allegedly stolen and was threatened with a knife for her car, NT Police said.
Three girls, aged 11, 13, and 15-years old, have been arrested after they assaulted two women, stole a handbag, and attempted to steal a car in Darwin city on Tuesday afternoon, NT Police said.
Increased pressures and a lack of police resources have led to priority one call-out response times nearly doubling over the past five years – including a 165 per cent increase in response times from the Casuarina police station – the union representing the NT’s police officers has said.
Police have been involved in two pursuits of stolen cars, and have arrested 16 people in total over the theft of five cars since Wednesday in Darwin, while at least one person will also face charges over firing an arrow at a man, NT Police said.
Former NT Police Association president Vince Kelly will head the Fyles Government’s review into the NT Police, the government unilaterally announced despite pledging a bipartisan approach to the review, while calls continue for a proper independent inquiry led by a retired judge due to unresolved allegations of potential corrupt and criminal conduct.
The Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education has settled a compensation claim made by its former chief financial officer but it has not disclosed how much they paid her after she took the institute to the Federal Court over her dismissal.
Michael Murphy is the new Police Commissioner, Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has announced, more than four months after the former commissioner took a secret taxpayer-funded payout to leave the role and two months after a government employee was brought in to oversee communications.
More than a dozen bottles of spirits, along with wine casks and a carton of beer, destined for dry communities in the Victoria River Region were seized and destroyed by NT Police last weekend, with charges against multiple people pending for attempting to bring booze into restricted areas.
A 28-year-old woman is in hospital after what appears to be a stabbing in the street, that police media reported as an “assault with an edged weapon”, indicating that the woman suffered a punctured left lung.
UPDATED: A man who was tasered by police outside a Nightcliff house, after what NT Police said was a more than 24-hour standoff with authorities that followed the man allegedly assaulting a woman, has been charged with multiple domestic violence offences and assaulting police.
