Attributable to Senior Sergeant Andy Livingstone:
Over the past 24-hours Taupō Police and Coastguard have responded to two swimmers in trouble on the Waikato River.
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Boaties using the water near Kinloch Beach, Taupō, are urged to take care after a vessel caught fire and sank this afternoon.
About 2.50pm, Police were notified of a boat on fire, some 300m ... More
Bay of Plenty Police are investigating the death of a man in Te Puke overnight.
Shortly after midnight, Police were called to the corner of Seddon St and Station Rd, where a man had been ... More
Police can advise a man has died following a water incident at Cape Runaway, Opotiki, last night.
Emergency services were called to the incident at around 7pm.
The man was pulled ... More
At about 8pm today, 24 December, Police received reports of 14-year-old boy who had failed to return from collecting shellfish off the rocks at Opape Beach near Opotiki.
The boy was last ... More
Today Police executed a search warrant at an address in Taupō in relation to recent offending in the area.
Several stolen items were recovered during the search.
A 26-year-old man ... More