Police

Security camera footage from inside a City Taxis cab is being reviewed by police in a bid to identify a male passenger allegedly involved in an attack on a female driver on Saturday night.

A drunk Cromwell teenager drove up roads between Queenstown and Wanaka one night at speeds of more than 180kmh and sparked a police chase which only ended when the fleeing vehicle's engine blew up.

A 50-year-old Wanaka resident was sent to Whangarei to live with his mother by Judge John Clapham in the Queenstown District Court yesterday, after admitting his fourth drink-driving offence.

A police officer interviewed members of Campus Watch after an incident yesterday about 8.10pm at the University of Otago, near the St David lecture theatres, which resulted in two arrests, Senior Sergeant Craig Brown said.

Waikato Police are refuting claims of misuse of force against a 56-year-old Chinese woman visiting from overseas who sustained a dislocated elbow and a cut to her left cheek.

Police are investigating why a man in his 60s collapsed and died as he was about to be arrested for disorderly behaviour at a block of flats in Levin.

Dunedin police are seeking 25-year-old Jordan Marcus Quinney, who is wanted after he failed to appear in court on a threatening behaviour charge in January.

Dunedin police are cracking down on poor driver behaviour outside city schools.

Wellington police say robberies in the capital have spiked after appealing for public help with at least four incidents, three involving weapons, in the past two days.

Dunedin police have made a plea for help from the public after nine suspicious fires were lit in the city at the weekend.