Palmerston North’s crime problem hit the news again yesterday. If you’re a migrant considering relocating to Palmerston North (population 78,800) you may wish to look for somewhere safer. Police are hunting for a man who tried to hold up the Albert Street dairy at knife point just after 10am. The offender used a kitchen…
Police have shot an armed man in the South Island township of Motueka, whom they say pointed a firearm at them. The dust had barely settled on yesterday’s massive manhunt in the North Island, when New Zealand police were required to deal with another armed offender this afternoon. The man was critically injured in Wharepapa…
A major incident is ongoing in the North Island of New Zealand after shots were fired at police. Residents are advised to remain indoors and police will be holding a press conference at 10.30am NZ time in Palmerston North. Police say Kohu, one of a group of five men on the run, should not be…
Matamata, world famous in New Zealand as the location of Hobbiton in the LoTR and Hobbit films, isn’t as safe as you’d think. Police are looking for 3 or 4 men who pulled a gun on a weary traveler in the small Waikato town of Matamata. Their victim had been driving from Auckland to Rotorua…
Stuff is reporting a police raid on a home in Shirley, Christchurch. A Christchurch house is cordoned off while a specialist police team searches for firearms. Police carried out a search warrant for firearms at a house on Shirley Rd about 7am. A spokeswoman said armed police and dog handler squads were searching the…
Days after the opening ceremony of the Cricket World Cup a Christchurch shopping mall has been stormed by armed police. After a car chase which ended at the entrance to Barrington Mall, police chased two suspects through the shopping centre. Police are keeping quiet about the incidents that led up to the pursuit, but it…
Part of the massive arsenal of weapons and ammunition stolen from a private home in Bucklands Beach has turned up in the hands of Northland criminals. In June last year we wrote about how the cache went missing on the eve of the anti-gun initiative “Operation Unification” an Australasian-wide two-week campaign aimed at encouraging the public…
