Media release - Update
28 Nov 2025 7:04pm News:
Waitematā

Wanted man located

Police can advise a man previously subject of a warrant to arrest, after he failed to return to custody, has been located. A media release was issued on 21 November. We can advise the 56-year-old man... More

1 min read
Multiple Police cars in a line
28 Nov 2025 6:59pm News:
Counties Manukau

Police arrest man after Papatoetoe aggravated robbery

Police have arrested a man after he allegedly forced an elderly man out of his vehicle and stole it. Just before lunchtime, a man arrived at a house on Wyllie Road in Papatoetoe and attempted to open... More

1 min read
Media release - name release
28 Nov 2025 2:49pm News:
Canterbury

Name release, fatal crash, Timaru

Police are now able to release the names of the two people who died following a crash on State Highway 1 in Timaru on 20 November. They were Ivar Andrew Crowther, 5, and Steven Bruce Crowther, 40, of... More

1 min read
Media release - Appeal for information
28 Nov 2025 1:17pm News:
Waikato

Information sought on shooting - Sapphire Place, Hamilton

Please attribute the following to Detective Senior Sergeant Reece Durston: Waikato Police investigating a firearms incident overnight are seeking information from the public where a man was left with... More

1 min read
Baggage seized as part of the Operation Matata investigation
28 Nov 2025 12:56pm News:
National News

Operation Matata: Significant Police-Customs investigation unravels smuggling syndicate at air border

Police are laying nearly 200 criminal charges against gang associates, who are allegedly facilitators in a criminal syndicate smuggling illicit drugs aboard international flights. More

3 min read
Constable Casey Hales in action in the pool.
28 Nov 2025 12:55pm TenOne Magazine

Champion canoeist dives into policing

New Zealand Paddle Fern is making her mark as a police officer. More

2 min read

Proactive Release of Breath Screening Test issue information

Background to Alcohol Breath Testing

  1. The Road Policing Investment Programme 2024–27 (RPIP) is the agreement between New Zealand Police, the NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi and the Ministry of Transport, which sees Police carry out agreed land transport enforcement activities.  It provides funding from the National Land Transport Fund to Police for those activities. The programme specifies several key road policing activities expected of Police which contribute to reducing deaths and serious injuries on our roads.