Police

A man is facing multiple charges - suspected of being behind seven early morning burglaries, two car thefts and three crashes over just 40 minutes.

Northbound motorists are advised to expect delays on the Southern Motorway near the Highbrook off ramp.

A couple are considering legal action, after an officer who stomped, tackled, punched and kneed one of them avoided prosecution.

Police are still hunting, after a man was found with critical injuries in the Auckland suburb last night.

'Peter' was last seen on Thursday in the suburb of Kenmure.

Emergency services were called to 'disorder' at a property in Flaxmere in Hawke's Bay today.

A senior police officer who admitted to beating his children with a belt is the subject of another "employment process," police have confirmed.

Two people died, after a boat capsized off the Taranaki coast on Sunday.

A 22-year-old man was arrested and police are searching for two others following the brawl.

Police have made an arrest after a stand-off in Mt Roskill, but road closures continue to cause headaches.

Chris Cahill addressed leaks in relation to Jevon McSkimming's investigation in his latest column in the Police News magazine.

Police release CCTV of missing Christchurch pensioner Elisabeth Nicholls.

Richard Chambers has made it clear no more discretion was to be applied.

The woman was found with critical injuries in a Riccarton car park and died on the way to hospital. Audio

Seth John Forde, 46, was a former leading member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club in Napier.

Police Minister's office says the use of discretion over recruits who had not passed a literacy test was introduced in 2018 under the Labour government.

The police union says officers getting body cameras for the first time will counter people doctoring phone footage of interactions.

Police say the sighting was on Forrest Hill Road, near the intersection with Pine Avenue.