The New York Police Department discovered the perils of trying to engage with Twitter to boost its own image after a hashtag campaign went badly awry.

Police officers prosecuting breaches of protection orders broke their own rules six times last year by granting diversion from court.

A high-profile Auckland cop faces an employment investigation after he repeatedly accessed the national computer profile of a prostitute he was sleeping with.

The police unit that protects the Prime Minister and other VIPs has had another budget blowout - this time by almost $1.3 million.

Police were wrong not to charge an off-duty cop who used his baton to bash a youth he thought had smashed his letterbox, a review has found.

Editorial:The appointment of a new Commissioner of Police should be aimed primarily at benefiting the public, not just the police and politicians.

It was one of the most gut-wrenching of jobs: telling the nation the body of 2-year-old Auckland girl Aisling Symes had been found.

Aucklander Jim is still recovering from a violent assault outside the Cosmopolitan Club at the Avondale Racecourse in September.

The Far North's top cop is refuting claims police don't have enough staff to make their new rosters work.

Police Commissioner Peter Marshall's statement accepting the Independent Police Conduct Authority's (IPCA) findings into Operation 8. Provided by NZ Police.

Only four of the country's top eight police officers have passed a new fitness test.

Police have defended the actions of an officer accused of injuring a woman in a scuffle during an arrest that has resulted in a complaint to the conduct authority.

Waitemata police managers are losing their headquarters and will set up shop at a nearby station in a bid to cut district costs.

A Hamilton teen who claims police pushed her to the ground before dragging her face down from a party has complained to the Independent Police Conduct Authority.

Hundreds of police have been withdrawn from frontline duties and told not to interact with the public after failing a key fitness test.

The diary of one of the royal commissioners who found police had planted evidence against Arthur Allan Thomas focuses scepticism on the detective who led the murder inquiry.

Frontline police officers are calling for senior staff to let them to wear Tasers on their belts while they walk their beats.

Two policemen who died in a shooting in West Auckland 50 years ago were remembered by their families and police yesterday in a wreath-laying ceremony.

Darren Ian Hodgetts used a coll-eague's computer log-on to leak confidential information to a target of a drugs investigation for a promised fee of $5000.

At least 67 police staff have been arrested in the past three years while serving on the force.

It is time for an independent review of the way in which the NZ Police carry out search and surveillance operations against New Zealanders, wites Catriona MacClennan.

A police manual warns officers not to new vehicle ID cameras to try to hook up socially with strangers or spy on people.