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.

The Director-General of the BBC is being protected by an elite squad of bodyguards after receiving a chilling death threat over the sacking of Jeremy Clarkson.

The family of a young man who died in a blood-smeared cell are looking to take legal action against the police.

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.

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.

A drunk driver who fled the scene of an early morning crash in Waikato could be seriously injured and police are "seriously concerned" about his whereabouts.

A policeman sitting in his car with his family warned a gang member not to do anything stupid moments before being punched in the head.

Police bosses have been forced to call in staff from a private IT firm to help answer soaring numbers of emergency calls on 111 and *555.

The public should have faith in the police service and feel confident it is working after another police employee appeared in court today, the Police Association says.

Police have launched 13 homicide inquiries after a dramatic spike in violent crimes in the past month.

Labour has joined the chorus of voices calling for urgent attention to be paid to the case of Teina Pora, who is now into his 21st year in prison for rape and murder.

The Police Association is calling for an independent inquiry into the conviction of Teina Pora, now into his 21st year in jail for the rape and murder of Susan Burdett.

A policeman has broken ranks to sound warnings about arming the force.

Crime is at its lowest level in 24 years but the percentage of offences that police solve is also dropping - less than half of all cases.