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.

No charges will be laid in relation to a crash late last year in which three Mongrel Mob members died when their car crashed into the Mohaka River.

Minister says New Zealanders want to know how gangs and violent offenders are getting hold of firearms.

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.

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.

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.

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.