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.

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.

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.

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.

Top New Zealand police officers could be lured to run British police forces under a proposed shake-up in the UK.

Police have confirmed that gang members have tried to join the police force but they could not say how many had been intercepted during the recruitment stage.