Police

Police have arrested two people alleged to have been involved in the shooting of a Mongrel Mob member in the northern Hawke's Bay town of Wairoa on Sunday morning.

Relatives in India are still be told of the brutal slaying of a woman in east Auckland last night.

Police said until that happened they would not release her name.

Dunedin police are seeking witnesses to a "brutal and cowardly attack" on a 20-year-old man on Sunday morning.

A witness has described how darkly dressed figures, apparently drunk, were stumbling along a dark Northland road before a teenager was hit and killed by a police car.

A Dunedin man who stole a 21-inch LCD television from The Warehouse in South Dunedin was caught red-handed when he returned to the store to steal an aerial to go with it, police say.

Dunedin police are investigating the theft of thousands of dollars' worth of clothing from a central city retailer at the weekend.

Palmerston North, Feilding and Horowhenua gangs have borne the brunt of yesterday's police operation which resulted in 31 arrests across 10 towns and cities and the seizure of $500,000 worth of met

Police on the lookout for drunk drivers made a catch of a different kind late last night - three paua poachers.

A police recruiting advertisement which used the colloquial term "cougar" was pulled just before the release of a critical report on the force culture.