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.

Hiding in the shadows in the early hours of the morning, two members of a specialist police team crept into a driveway...

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 prison guard who wanted to spend his entire working life with inmates has been killed on duty after only six months in the job.

Department of Corrections bosses say staff safety is paramount following criticisms made in the wake of the death of slain prison officer Jason Palmer.

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.

The Deputy Police Commissioner has dismissed the idea that police had failed in their "duty of care" toward Navtej Singh.

A High Court jury has found Christopher Shadrock guilty of murder after he struck down Joanne Wang in a Manukau carpark.