We're working through the numbers, says police minister Judith Collins, as she suggests more cops may be on the way.

Watch: The caterpillar, the robot and the running man ... this police officer from Taupo has all the moves.

The police file on TV3's illegal gun buy reveals a focus by detectives on Heather du Plessis-Allan.

The number of people charged with cannabis offences has fallen 60 per cent in the past six years - further fuelling calls for government

People using cannabis are "jovial" and punishing them won't stop them using the drug, says a New Zealand police officer arguing for law reform.

More than 3700 police staff have asked for work-related trauma counselling in the last five years - with a senior association figure

The Police Association says a double killer's conviction today for two cold case murders is vindication of their use of undercover techniques.

A group of police staff have given new meaning to the term "party police".

A man who died after his car crashed into a stream in Taranaki this morning has been identified.

Measures including greater police search powers are being considered to try and get illegal weapons out of the hands of gangs.

Another overhaul of a payroll system by a government agency has hit trouble with the launch date of a new system for police pushed out.

Evidence given at a trial where a former armed offenders squad member was acquitted for accidentally shooting a restrained man has sparked an internal investigation.

Official documents have revealed how many police were involved in crashes in the past year.

Greg O'Connor will stand down from the top position, saying returning to a "beat cop" again is an option when his term expires next year.

More than 500,000 firearms, worth $242 million, have been legally imported into New Zealand over the past decade, newly obtained figures have revealed.

Editorial: The police have no real idea of how many firearms - legal or illegal - there are in the country. So poor is the record-keeping that there is not even a national register of seized guns.

Special report: Police Association claims police are being confronted almost daily by gun-wielding criminals

A demand to bring down the number of prosecutions has resulted in a new culture of not prosecuting unless absolutely necessary, the Police Association says.

There were several failures in the police care of a heavily intoxicated man who died after hitting his head more than 100 times while in a police cell.

Two Waikato police stations could lose staff or close after the completion of a review into rural policing in the district.

Police say a young female officer was repeatedly punched and eye gouged in the back of a patrol car while being driven to the station with an alleged drink-driver.

Complaints about bad language and bullying are just some of the reasons for disciplinary actions against some Southern district police officers.

A senior Queensland police officer has described the killing of eight children in a Cairns home as one of the most tragic events the service has had to deal with.

NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione has revealed his wife and daughter were inside the Lindt cafe at Martin Place just before Monday's siege.

Two police recruits have been stood down from police college after a number of alleged bullying incidents.

An incident in Auckland on Sunday shows that, sooner rather than later, firearms locked in police cars will prove too far away to save lives.

A former air force sergeant and several former volunteer firefighters are among 78 new police constables about to hit the beat.

A senior officer in the police area where hundreds of burglaries disappeared from official crime statistics says his former boss and colleagues have been "hung out to dry".

A police prosecutor who used methamphetamine and posted photographs of his drug use online has been struck off as a lawyer.

A woman is appalled it took three emergency calls to get help for an Auckland student writhing in pain at her inner-city campus.