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'Not used randomly': Police commissioner defends taking photos of youth
Police Commissioner says photographs of young people not taken unless it is authorised.
Police Commissioner says photographs of young people not taken unless it is authorised.
Police working to identify and locate the person responsible.
A man claimed two members of the force tried to force a statement from him.
Police say death unexplained as second man remains in critical condition in hospital.
Suspicions facial recognition used on police photographs of innocent young people.
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Andrew Coster said he wanted a balanced public conversation about it.
"You know you're being targeted because you're brown."
Police were first notified that the man was missing on Sunday evening.
The man failed to return home from a fishing trip in the Twizel-Tekapo area on Saturday.
Part of Lake Road in Belmont is closed while emergency services respond.
Pair were left clinging to a chilly bin but fortunately wearing lifejackets.
Murderer Timothy Taylor is to be released on parole 21 years after killing Lisa Blakie
Rydell Tauapiki Martin is charged with murdering Phillip Macpherson with an axe.
It comes after reports of Māori youths being randomly stopped and photographed.
"It makes me angry, because they are children of the Whanganui river."
"What's secretive about twisting someone's arm?"
Johnson was last seen leaving an address in Glenfield yesterday evening.
Rydell Martin is fighting a murder charge after a fatal axe attack two years ago.
A post-mortem will be held tomorrow.
More than 113,000 vehicles went through the 10 police border checkpoints last week.
The 501 deportees are of particular concern, says the Police Association.
Superintendent: 'The public rightly hold police officers to high standards.'
The person has been taken to Middlemore Hospital by ambulance.
NZ intelligence agencies urged to do better at blocking white supremacists online.
After multiple serious assaults in the past few weeks, the streets no longer feel safe.
The arrest involved dozens of armed police and police dogs.
Police say they are still seeking other people in relation to the offending.
Two people were initially trapped in their car after colliding with a bus in Christchurch.