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.
A large bushfire at Darwin River earlier this month that destroyed one home and several vehicles “appears to be accidental”, the NT Police have concluded after previously describing the fire as “suspicious”.
A 14-year-old boy who allegedly stole a bow and arrows from a store on Cavenagh Street in the middle of the afternoon reportedly fired one of the arrows at a security guard after being approached, NT Police said.
A Territory woman who was driving an uninsured car while seven times over the legal blood alcohol limit has been charged after smashing into a truck on a Malak street while trying to reverse her car on Monday evening, police said.
A 31-year-old Woodroffe man has been arrested at his home following an NT Police raid and is facing multiple child exploitation charges.
NT Police are searching for a man who allegedly robbed a Darwin taxi driver after threatening him with a knife in the northern suburbs overnight.
A woman was “assaulted with an edged weapon” in her bedroom after being woken by intruders, leaving her with unspecified lower body injuries that were treated in Royal Darwin Hospital, with her attackers still on the run, NT Police said.
Two teens were arrested over several home break ins, car thefts, a break-in of and theft from a licensed premises, and a police car chase, while 12-year-old and 13-year-old boys were arrested over a ram raid of another grog shop, NT Police said.
A serious police incident in Palmerston on Saturday night involving an “armed offender” that lasted seven hours – and was not reported to the public – caused massive disruptions to already strained officers responding to general duties, the police union boss has said.
