Police want cheer, not fear
Southern police will attend hundreds of family violence incidents in the next few weeks as festive season stress takes its toll.
Southern police will attend hundreds of family violence incidents in the next few weeks as festive season stress takes its toll.
Having no security guards working at Dunedin's courthouse during industrial action, is putting counsel, judges, other court staff and clients at risk, lawyers say.
Police commissioner Howard Broad does not advocate separating road traffic police from frontline police, he said today.
Police have released the name of the Dunedin man who died in a tramping accident in Mt Aspiring National Park yesterday.
Police have named an Invercargill teenager killed after the car he was a passenger in collided with a power pole on Friday.
An "amazing" number of women were caught drink-driving last night in Manukau and Papakura -- including a heavily pregnant woman and a young mother going home to breastfeed her baby.
One person was killed and four others injured in a single-car crash in Invercargill last night.
Two people have been arrested following the aggravated robbery of four tourists near Rotorua on Monday.