Midday Report Essentials for Tuesday 27 May 2025

In today's episode, the Police Commissioner has slammed a shoplifting directive issued to police, labelling it as "confusing and unhelpful", RNZ revealed last week a memo was sent to police about not investigating retail crime below certain thresholds - this meant officers could apply nationally standardised value thresholds when assessing theft and fraud files, Samoa's Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa has announced she will seek a dissolution of parliament and an early election, and an Oyster farmer in Warkworth says he's not hopeful sewage overflows affecting his livelihood will stop, after a meeting with Watercare on Monday.