Police

The Police Association wants a more streamlined way of deploying armed response units to help deal with armed offenders. Audio

Crime fighting algorithms that sound like the stuff of a Hollywood sci-fi are in the sights of police.

A new stocktake out today shows they wanted to use one when pulling over drivers - but have now… Audio

Police shot an armed man dead in the Hamilton suburb of Hillcrest last night.

The shooting occurred when officers visited an Odonoghue Street address, looking for a person in relation to firearms… Audio

Warning: Some parts of this story may be distressing.

Radio communications from a shot police officer have been played to a jury in Auckland today.

Eli Epiha has pleaded guilty to murdering… Audio

A man has pleaded guilty to the murder of Auckland police constable Matthew Hunt during a traffic stop in Massey last June.

A second officer who was shot in the leg and seriously injured can be named… Audio

Police in Hong Kong have arrested nine people including six secondary students, on suspicion of terrorist activities.

Police say those arrested belonged to a pro-independence group, and planned to… Audio

Police have no idea how many photographs of Māori youth are stored in its intelligence database, but continue to insist officers are not racially profiling them. 

In March, RNZ revealed police were… Audio

The police watchdog is reopening its inquiry into the fatal shooting of Rotorua man Shargin Stephens by an officer.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority says it will now take an "in-depth review"… Video, Audio

Three students from Christchurch Girls High School have made formal complaints to police of incidents of sexual abuse.This follows the release on Monday of a survey of 700 students from the school -… Audio

Gisborne Police say the large number of people who helped search for three-year-old Axle near Tolaga Bay last month may have made the search chaotic.

They're looking at ways to improve managing… Audio

A survivor of Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital who took his complaints to the United Nations says the government here is still not helping victims.

In the 1970s, then 13-year-old Paul Zentfeld was put… Audio

The Independent Police Conduct Authority is considering reopening its inquiry into the police shooting of Rotorua man Shargin Stephens.

Stephens was shot and killed after smashing up a police car… Audio

A criminologist is concerned about the discrepancies in the official accounts of how the police ended up shooting a man dead. 35-year-old Shargin Stephens was killed in 2016 after he smashed up an… Audio

The official version of how police came to shoot a Māori man in Rotorua is contradicted by the police's own investigation of the shooting. 

Shargin Stephens was shot and killed in 2016 after smashing… Audio