The City of Darwin has agreed to cease fining council candidates and their volunteers $200 for campaigning outside of early polling centres, after independent candidates took the city to court seeking an immediate injunction on the “unfair” restrictions.
The partner of a woman who died in March last year has been charged with manslaughter after police found she had allegedly been poisoned, NT Police said.
UPDATE: The Northern Territory Government has successfully prevented Friday’s planned industrial action by hospital pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, following an after-hours application for an injunction.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government is not ready to roll out its plan to allow the public to purchase pepper spray next month, the union representing the Territory’s police officers has warned, raising unaddressed concerns over the lack of mandatory training for safe usage, vague legal thresholds for its use that will cause police an increased workload to investigate, and the lack of a “real-time database” to ensure criminals are not buying the spray.
NT Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a pedestrian strike in Katherine that left a 20-year-old man unconscious on Riverbank Road on Wednesday night and are calling for witnesses.
Three youths, including a 12-year-old boy, have been arrested and are facing charges after allegedly assaulting a 70-year-old woman in the Darwin CBD Wednesday morning, before allegedly threatening a mum with her three children at a Karama school car park later in the morning, NT Police said.
Police caught six drug drivers but no drink drivers and also seized unspecified amounts of cannabis, methamphetamine, MDMA, ketamine, steroids, kava, and alcohol, along with a number of gold bars during a remote road safety operation, NT Police said.
Nearly 40 Kiwi police officers have left their jobs to move to the Northern Territory this year following an international recruitment drive, New Zealand media reported, with the pay offers and perks so generous the New Zealand police admitted it “can’t compete”.
Acting Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Greg Shanahan has ordered changes to the way public servants file corruption reports to his office, but has refused to say if the new directions are the result of referrals dropping substantially since he took the helm last December.
The CLP is moving ahead with its controversial plan to allow Territorians to purchase pepper spray by setting up its community oversight body to oversee the trial that includes victims of crime, a public servant who worked for a former CLP chief minister, and local business people, but nobody with a legal background, which follows the Queensland LNP Government recently rejecting the OC spray idea as dangerous to the public due to “potential misuse and unintended harm”.
An NT Police officer has been placed on leave with pay after being charged with using false documents, forgery and obtaining financial advantage by deception, the NT Police said.
A 30-year-old man was chased by police and arrested in Darwin on Saturday night after he allegedly stabbed another man, which was one of multiple arrests for NT Police over the weekend throughout the Territory, including a police pursuit of a stolen vehicle that rammed a cop car.
