Cracking down on insults commonly hurled at police is the first step to ending assaults on police officers, the union's president said today.

Police have charged three men after an assault on an officer at an Oamaru drink-driving checkpoint last night.

A man who disciplined his six-year-old daughter with a cricket bat when she would not stop coughing fails to get his jail term reduced.

A road rage incident may have been the precursor of a vicious murder in Sydney's inner suburbs last night.

Three police officers have been attacked in three days, the latest in Oamaru where five passengers kicked and injured an officer at a drink-drive stop

A Super 14 rugby player is before the courts over a carpark assault that left a man needing medical treatment.

A television programme about the life of convicted double-murderer Mark Lundy is set to go ahead.

A fifteen-year-old schoolgirl tried to fend off the group of teenagers who viciously bashed a South Auckland police officer.

The teenager who was yesterday unmasked as Liberty Templeman's murderer has received death threats on the internet.

Police have warned the attackers who beat an off-duty policemen nearly to death when he tried to stop a fight yesterday, that their time is nearly up.

An off-duty police officer seriously assaulted yesterday afternoon is now in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

Name suppression has lifted for the boy convicted of the murder and indecent assault of Northland teenager Liberty Templeman.