Press Release – Social Workers Registration Board
The Social Workers Registration Board Chairperson, Ms Toni Hocquard, is appalled at the decision to discharge without conviction a woman who left her five children locked in a van in SkyCity’s basement car park, while she and her partner gambled, based on the fact she wanted to become a social worker. Read more »

Press Release – Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust
Auckland’s Westpac Recue Helicopter service has today named Greg Barrow as its next CEO. Read more »

News from NZ Police
A small helicopter crashed into the Waitemata Harbour between Devonport and Tamaki Drive at 1117 am this morning. It sank almost immediately. Read more »

Press Release – Green Party
Green Party justice spokesperson David Clendon has written to Police Commissioner Peter Marshall requesting an investigation into the prosecution and conviction of Teina Pora. Read more »

News from Auckland Police
A Mt Roskill man described by police as violent and dangerous was sought by police on Friday night because of four warrants issued by the Auckland District Court. Read more »

News from NZ Police
A former police staff member was jailed today on methamphetamine charges. Timothy Sarah, 38, of Auckland, was jailed for four years when he appeared in the Auckland High Court for sentencing on three charges of supplying methamphetamine, one charge of possessing methamphetamine and one charge of dishonestly accessing a computer system. Read more »

Press Release – Department Of Internal Affairs
Former Maori All Black Lindsay Raki has been sentenced in the Auckland District Court to two years nine months imprisonment for what Judge Emma Aitken said was serious fraud — 11 counts of theft totalling over $300,000 of pokie grant money. Read more »

Press Release – MBIE
An Auckland electrician and electrical inspector have been found guilty of negligence and creating a risk of serious harm after a home owner received a fatal electrical shock. Read more »

News from NZ Police
Police believe that grandfather George Taiaroa was the innocent victim of a cold-blooded murder and anyone protecting the person responsible has seriously misplaced loyalty. Read more »

News from NZ Police
A Hamilton mother took a ‘tough love’ stance this morning when she laid a theft complaint against her teenage son, who stole her car overnight. Read more »

Press Release – Ministry For Primary Industries
MPI investigators have executed search warrants at two premises in the Flat Bush area in Manukau, Auckland believed to be involved in an illegal poultry operation. Read more »

Press Release: Unite Union
About 20 police were used to move a peaceful union picket away from the entrance to a McDonald’s restaurant in Queen Street in Auckland yesterday. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand High Court
Full judgment: Carroll_v_Coroners_Court_.pdf
IN THE HIGH COURT OF NEW ZEALAND

AUCKLAND REGISTRY
CIV-2012-404-4779

[2013] NZHC 906
UNDER the Judicature Amendment Act 1972
IN THE MATTER OF a decision made by Coroner Peter Ryan following an inquest into the death of Iraena Rama Te Awhina Asher
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News from NZ Police
Police have cordoned off an area surrounding the Three Kings Public Library after the discovery of an unusual object in a public area adjacent to the library. Read more »

News from NZ Police
A woman jogger was killed by a vehicle which crashed off the road in Morrinsville this afternoon. Read more »

News from NZ Police at 4.40pm
Shortly after 4pm today there was a multi vehicle accident between Te Iriangi Drive and Otara onramp northbound. One person has died as a result of injuries. Read more »

Press Release – SPCA
Manurewa man Tekana Katuke yesterday admitted abusing and starving three puppies, one of which died of starvation and was buried in a back yard. Read more »

News from NZ Police
A man drowned this afternoon at the Hunua Falls, in the Hunua ranges near Auckland. Read more »

Auckland.Scoop
A speeding car this morning crashed into a Mt Eden house, entering a room where a couple and their baby were sleeping. Police report the details. Read more »

News from NZ Police
Auckland City District police were this afternoon called to the scene of a suspicious package at a bus stop in the vicinity of 305 Queen Street. The package was reported to Police by a concerned member of the public at 1pm. Read more »