Clutha's thin blue line now has an even more distinctively
British flavour to it, with three police officers from the
United Kingdom starting work on the beat this week.
A "cowardly, threatening and pathetic attack" on two youths
in Dunedin on Sunday night may be linked to a robbery in
Invercargill the same day, police say.
Riversdale policeman Jacob Schriek (55), a former
Commonwealth Games cyclist, collapsed and died on
Saturday from a heart attack while taking part in the
Motatapu Icebreaker mountain bike event between Glendhu Bay
and Arrowtown.
Wanaka's new police boss, Senior Sergeant Allan Grindell,
recalls first working in Wanaka over New Year as a young
policeman ‘‘when it was a oneman station in the late '70s'',
and staying at the old THC Hotel.
Police and local runanga believe a recently-signed memorandum
of understanding will help reduce the disparities in
offending between Maori and non-Maori in the South, and form
a relationship of mutual trust, rather than mutual distrust.
Dunedin police and a Balclutha transport company are shocked
at the stupidity of two people who tried to hitch a ride by
standing on the rear bumper bar of a truck bound for Timaru.
