Call for reports of bad driving
Police are urging people who may have seen examples of dangerous driving on State Highway 8 south of Alexandra yesterday to come forward, following the arrest of two Christchurch drivers.
Police are urging people who may have seen examples of dangerous driving on State Highway 8 south of Alexandra yesterday to come forward, following the arrest of two Christchurch drivers.
Police need their own bars so they are not hassled by the public when they socialise, their union says.
"Idiotic" behaviour from spectators at the Lawrence quarter-mile drag races last year has prompted police and the Clutha District Council to impose a temporary liquor ban for the races today.
Crime dropped slightly in the Dunedin and Clutha areas last year, despite rises in violent, sexual and drug crime, police figures show.
A 14-day police operation in the Bay of Plenty has led to 115 arrests, the destruction of thousands of cannabis plants, and the recovery of a significant amount of stolen property.
Slow drivers as well as speeding ones will be targeted by police on southern roads this Easter.
A man wanted all over the country on fraud charges handed himself in to Dunedin police yesterday.