Please attribute to Inspector Grant Tetzlaff, Acting Auckland City District Commander:

At 5.40am Emergency services attended a two-vehicle crash on Victoria Street, Auckland Central.

At this point in our enquiries, we have established a vehicle has been traveling at high speed on Victoria Street West. It has continued down the hill where it has lost control, colliding with a Police car which was stationary at a red light.

The crash has caused extensive damage to both vehicles.

Three people have been taken into custody following a series of search warrants targeting traffic offending and anti-social trail bike use.

Police welcome the findings of the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) that a police officer’s actions during an incident in Motueka in March 2024 were justified. 

Officers were responding to several 111 calls regarding a man presenting a firearm at members of the public. 

Tasman District Commander, Superintendent Tracey Thompson, says the officer involved assessed the situation and responded accordingly, to ensure the safety of all who were present.

Quick thinking by a shop owner put a group of violent offenders on the back foot and Police closely behind.

A Glen Eden superette owner was preparing to open his store around 6.45am on Tuesday, when five youths with their faces covered arrived outside, in what turned out to be a stolen car.

Inspector Kelly Farrant, Waitematā West Area Prevention Manager, says the store-owner’s rapid reaction literally stopped the offenders in their tracks.

Local Police expertise and a decision to breach bail has led to the recovery of a firearm, and a date back in court for one man.

Early Tuesday morning, one of our Henderson Beat Team members was out conducting mobile patrols In New Lynn and spotted a male behind the wheel of a car.

“The man was known to our local staff, they knew he was forbidden to drive and breaching the conditions of his bail” Waitematā West Area Prevention Manager, Inspector Kelly Farrant says.

Officers signalled for him to stop on Arawa Street.

On 29 September each year New Zealand Police commemorates Police Remembrance Day on the feast day of the Archangel Michael, the patron saint of police.

Police have arrested a man in connection with more than 40 fraud related offences totalling over $68,000.

Officers attended a property in Long Bay this morning where a 34-year-old man was taken into custody.

Waitematā East Area Prevention Manager, acting Inspector Tim Williams, says numerous credit card frauds were committed across New Zealand during 2024 and 2025.

“After a prolonged and complex investigation over nearly a year, our staff identified three people of interest.”

Police investigating an assault in Papamoa are seeking help from the public.

Detective Sergeant Sam Pritchard says a report was made on Sunday 21 September of the assault on Maranui Street a short time earlier.

“The female victim was walking along Maranui Street from the intersection of Coast Boulevard, west towards Bayfair, about 4:40pm,” he says.

“She has turned around upon reaching the retirement village at the intersection of Mangatawa Boulevard, and began walking back east along Maranui Street, on the oppose side of the road to the beach.