Threat to public considered in pursuit, inquest told
A road policing boss says police did not breach policy by continuing a pursuit during which an innocent Auckland was shot dead.
A road policing boss says police did not breach policy by continuing a pursuit during which an innocent Auckland was shot dead.
A field hospital has been set up in the heart of London's financial district to treat blind-drunk corporate revellers.
A former police superintendent has told an inquest police should have abandoned the pursuit which eventually led to the police motorway shooting of an innocent Auckland courier early last year.
Multiple breaches of police policy have been found in a pursuit where an officer was hit and seriously wounded by a drug-affected fleeing offender. The IPCA found a pursuing officer ignored two orders to abandon the chase.
Witnesses to a fatal car crash in Auckland's Mission Bay heard a survivor scream, 'Bro, I told you not to speed'.
Text messages and the internet may be used to contact emergency services in the future following a Government review of the 111 service.
Two youths were remanded in custody when they appeared in Wanganui District Court today after a police officer was brutally attacked with a machete over the weekend.
The Police Minister will meet the Police Commissioner today to discuss a report on whether to give officers easier access to firearms following the brutal machete attack on a policeman on Saturday morning.
Bleeding from a broken eye socket and multiple machete slashes, Bruce Mellor curled up into a ball.
A police officer who was brutally attacked with a machete on Saturday morning has been overwhelmed by messages of support from workmates and the public, police say.
Police have blocked off an inner-city Auckland street after a suspicious substance was found in the carpark of a building that houses the US Consular General and other diplomatic offices.
One of the men injured in an electrical explosion in west Auckland today is about to be discharged from hospital, while the other remains in hospital with minor burns to one of his hands.
Two men working on an underground cable have been injured in an electrical explosion in west Auckland, one of them seriously.
An injured man broke a police officer's nose as the officer tried to help restrain him in an ambulance.
A jury has been unable to reach a verdict in the case of a police officer accused of covering up the circumstances leading to the death of a man fleeing custody.