A police officer who was at the scene where an undercover officer was shot dead in 2008 says there was an element of risk involved that night.

A police officer at the scene where an undercover officer was killed in 2008 says body armour is "very hot, it's very bulky and... quite detectable".

The detective in charge of an undercover police operation where an officer was shot dead broke down in tears before a jury today as he recalled his colleague radioing for help.

George Gwaze will again stand trial for the murder of his 10 year-old niece after the Crown successfully won an appeal in the Supreme Court today.

Police say further charges are likely against the inmate accused of killing a prison officer on Saturday.

Two undercover police officers were shot at close range, one fatally, after they and a colleague was sprung trying to put a tracking device on a car, a jury has been told.

A prison inmate was awaiting transfer to a high security prison at the time of a fatal attack on prison guard Jason Palmer, the Department of Corrections says.

A man's attack on his partner was described as domestic violence of the worst kind by the judge who jailed him.

Slain liquor store owner Navtej Singh waited for 37 minutes for medical treatment because the officer in charge of the scene was never directly told the robbers had fled, an IPCA inquiry finds.

A police investigation into the assault on a four-year-old in a Whakatane park has resulted in the arrest of a 21-year-old local man.