NZ Police
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- Jevon McSkimming police scandalQuiet since 19 Dec 2025
- Nelson police officer killed in car rammingQuiet since 16 Jan 2025
- Tom Phillips search and inquiryQuiet since 16 Dec 2025
- Stolen pounamu recovered on West CoastQuiet since 5 Jun 2025
- Missing Māngere woman appealQuiet since 16 Jul 2025
- Northland police crime crackdownQuiet since 4 Sep 2025
- Missing Christchurch teenager searchQuiet since 6 Oct 2025
- Pahīatua homicide investigationQuiet since 26 Nov 2025
- Police falsified breath tests investigationQuiet since 24 Dec 2025
- FlyDubai flight hijacking attemptQuiet since 10 Oct
- Yanfei Bao murder trialQuiet since 19 Nov 2024
- Taupō custody escapeQuiet since 15 Jan 2025
All stories
October 2026
- Former officer admits stealing police-issued Glock pistol
+1 - Police officer pleads guilty to database misuse and reckless driving
- Motorcyclist seriously injured in Hastings hit-and-run crash
- Pilot accused of hijacking attempt radicalised while studying in Australia
- Co-pilot accused of flydubai axe attack spent time in New Zealand
September 2026
- Search continues for woman missing near Coronet Peak
+1 - Stolen medication could kill anyone who takes it, police say
- Man arrested after stolen ute rams Taupō tool store
- Search paused for hiker swept down Canterbury river
- Police Commissioner cleared of criminal wrongdoing following investigation
+3 - Police seek witness after serious assault in central Queenstown
- Woman rescued after being trapped by rising Wairakau Stream
August 2026
- Police officer charged with indecent act against child
- Search continues for missing 71-year-old man in Pukehina
- Man charged after alleged armed carjacking outside Whangārei school
- Police seek information on potential body-worn camera implementation
- Woman tried to warn others before fatal Mauao landslide
- Drivers charged following Taranaki road policing operation
- Police appeal to find missing 59-year-old woman from Whanganui
- Man charged after methamphetamine worth $150,000 seized in Christchurch
- Whanganui River Road closed for planned police search warrant
- Police investigate threatening video posted by Brian Tamaki
- At least 10 police staff face criminal charges
July 2026
- Police release images to help identify two people in Canterbury fraud case
- Police seek help identifying man after vehicle damage in Riccarton
- Police appeal for sightings of missing woman in Bay of Islands
December 2025
- Police seize luxury cars and banned vapes during drug raids
- DOC tracks closed during manhunt for Ruatiti double homicide suspect
- Hastings man jailed after planning mass stabbing attack
- Family pay tribute to Christchurch woman murdered by stalker
- Mike Pannett appointed as new deputy police commissioner+4
- Man accused of swallowing Fabergé pendant pleads not guilty
- Family Court orders former officer to pay woman for abuse
- Missing seven-year-old boy found in Hamilton+1
- Man sentenced for vigilante attack on autistic man in St Andrews
- Coroner calls for fishing ban at Papanui Point+1
- Hearing on media injunction for Tom Phillips investigation concludes
- Police seek man wanted for multiple dishonesty offences
- Police seek help identifying suspect in Christchurch scrap metal theft
November 2025
- Police seek man following alleged indecent assaults in Auckland CBD
- Former deputy police commissioner Jevon McSkimming resigns following scandal
- Pike River families seek criminal charges 15 years after mine disaster
- Calls for broader inquiry following police corruption allegations
- Police appeal for footage to find missing man in Te Aroha+1
- Report reveals failures in police handling of complaints against former official
- Aviation security boss on leave following IPCA report
- Three people rescued from Whiritoa rocks after being caught by surf
- Former deputy police commissioner to retain pension following conviction
- Government to create police watchdog after damning McSkimming report+4
- Police renew appeal for information one year after Kāpiti man disappeared
- Customs seizes $12.25 million worth of cocaine in Dunedin
- Six people face potential prosecution for illegal pāua gathering in Taranaki
- More than 100 police officers under investigation for falsified breath tests
- Police rule out target review after 30,000 breath tests falsified
- Kawakawa man's self-defence claim rejected in double stabbing case
October 2025
- Police warn motorists not to pick up hitchhiker resembling suspect
- Motorbike and cash seized during Christchurch police search operation
- Police seek two men after Te Puke shooting death
- Police appeal for information to locate wanted man in Canterbury
- Dunedin man jailed after police raid uncovers drugs and weapons
- Search for suspect in Pahīatua homicide continues in Rotorua
- NZ police officer investigated for groping woman in the UK
- Trial for man accused of murdering police officer moved to Christchurch+2
- Police dog suffers severe burns after falling into geothermal water
- Teenager arrested after three-hour search for alleged car thief
- Two by Twos leader Wayne Dean resigns from New Zealand role
- Police Ten 7 host and veteran detective Graham Bell dies+3
- Police search for missing Tokoroa Intermediate School teacher
- Man fails appeal after knuckleduster assault in Thames bar
- Extradition efforts fail for Vietnamese officials accused of sexual assault
- Police release CCTV images of missing Christchurch teenager+2
September 2025
- Search intensifies for missing Christchurch teenager+2
- Police search for Ashburton man missing since August
- Wellington hit-and-run driver sentenced for causing life-changing injuries
- Police staffer involved in mass fraud against retail chain
- Police seize $680,000 in assets from New Plymouth drug offender
- NZ police join Australian manhunt for alleged cop killer
- Stuff editor addresses police criticism over Tom Phillips reporting
- Police release images of Tom Phillips' campsite in King Country+4
- Tom Phillips shot dead after four years on the run+2
- Missing 14-year-old Auckland schoolgirl has been found
- Sixteen-year-old girl missing from Auckland's Dairy Flat
- Grenade and drugs found during Northland police raid
- Teenager arrested after taunting police on social media
- Police appeal for sightings of missing Whangārei man
- Three arrested after $1000 worth of stolen meat found in car
- Police make nine arrests during Northland gang and drug crackdown
- Two Kinleith men charged after anti-social driving incidents
- Man arrested after shots fired at police in Palmerston North+1
August 2025
- Police officer and dog injured by broken glass in Hamilton
- Police release new images of missing Wellington woman
- Dunedin man jailed for crossbow attack following motorcycle dispute
- Record GBL seizure at the border leads to four arrests+1
- Missing three-year-old in Wainuiomata found safe
- Police warn of catastrophic near miss with child in Christchurch
- Police searching for 14-year-old girl missing from Hamilton
- Discussion rises over online public shaming after Coldplay concert incident
- Work halted in Whakatāne after human remains found at construction site
- Man apprehended after police pursuit ends in Palmerston cemetery
- Woman with dementia found safe after going missing in Mt Albert
- Three arrested after synthetic cannabis and firearms seized in Christchurch
- Hayden Tasker named in connection with death of Nelson police officer+4
- Coroner rules Shargin Stephens' fatal police shooting was preventable+1
- Police seek help finding missing teenager on Auckland's North Shore
- Selling gang insignia online is not illegal, according to police
July 2025
- Twenty-seven arrested in Auckland airport drug smuggling investigation
- Large armed police operation in Maketū
- Search continues for missing West Coast tramper Roy Arbon
- Record LSD seizure in Auckland involving over 40,000 tabs
- Police respond to family harm incidents every four minutes
- Dunedin man pepper-sprayed and bitten by dog during traffic stop
- Unprepared tramper rescued from Tongariro Alpine Crossing
- Missing 79-year-old woman found safe in Christchurch+1
- Search continues for missing 20-year-old man in Auckland
- Man recaptured after escaping Corrections custody in Hastings
- Police appeal for information on missing Hutt Valley man
- New public-facing police counter opens in Auckland CBD
- Police appeal for information regarding missing Māngere woman
- Police seek man after alleged assault in Hamilton bar
- Police seek information as Auckland teenager remains missing
- Auckland man facing charges after allegedly ramming police car
- Five military-style firearms found in children's bedrooms during Napier raid
- Police seek public assistance to locate wanted man Michael Tautari
June 2025
- Missing Auckland teenager found safe and well
- Police search for Auckland man wanted for serious violent incident
- Police appeal for sightings of missing Māngere woman
- Four charged after Wellington drug syndicate investigation
- Fifty police staff warned after improper database searches
- Police raid Greazy Dogs gang in Tauranga drug bust
- Christchurch detective investigated over relationship with rape complainant
- Truck hits Tamahere overbridge causing traffic delays
- Police seek information after aggravated robbery in Christchurch
- Police seek help to identify suspect in Papakura stabbing
- Search continues for missing man Travis Langford in Waikato+1
- Stolen pounamu pieces returned to West Coast hapū
- Man pleads guilty to shooting person with crossbow in Dunedin
May 2025
- Police recover 365 stolen pounamu pieces in South Westland
- Police review retail crime filing after controversial directive was scrapped
- Cannabis and cash seized after driver pulled over in Waiuku
- Comancheros member pleads guilty to shooting at former member's family homes
- Man arrested after violent Papatoetoe assault leaves woman seriously injured
- Police name victim in Horeke homicide investigation
- One person dies in Castlecliff dirt bike crash
- Northland man charged with murder of Parakao resident
- Comancheros nominee pleads guilty to shooting at Auckland homes
- Man jailed for role in computer-generated child abuse website
- Two teenagers rescued after one swept away in Tararua Forest Park
- Three Chinese nationals jailed for blessing scam in New Zealand
- Police seek help identifying man after Christchurch CBD hit-and-run
- Raglan boating incidents prompt warnings over bar crossing safety
March 2025
- Gang member sentenced to life for smuggling methamphetamine from prison
- Police renew appeal for information regarding missing Feilding man
- Search paused for missing woman on Otago Peninsula
- Police search for missing 16-year-old from Belmont
- Firearms and ammunition seized during Glendene search
- Police search for missing 15-year-old boy in South Auckland
- Two men appear in court after being caught by police dogs
- New Auckland training facility to open this year
- NZ police join global operation targeting AI-generated child abuse material
February 2025
- Luxon leaves Vietnam without discussing extradition of two officials
- Suspicious package found at Woodbourne Air Force base ruled false alarm
- Metal Yoda sculpture stolen from Wellington property
- Man sentenced to prison for supplying methamphetamine
- Woman arrested after alleged supermarket theft in Pukekohe
- FBI shares information with NZ police regarding religious sect abuse
- Police seek associate of missing Hutt Valley man
- Motorcyclist found dead in Northland creek had been shot
January 2025
- Police Commissioner proposes disestablishing 37 executive and support roles+2
- Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming farewelled with full police honours in Nelson+2
- Man who escaped police custody in Taupō hands himself in+1
- Police seize cannabis, cash and vehicles in Fitzroy search
- Flags to fly at half-mast for senior sergeant Lyn Fleming
- Name suppression extended for man accused of murdering Nelson police officer+1
- Driver charged with murder after Nelson officer killed by vehicle