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December 22, 2025
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Water-related incident, Waikawau

Location:

Waikato

Emergency services are responding to a report of a person missing in the water near Waikawau boat ramp.

Police were called about 9.45am after someone was reported to be in difficulty in the water off the Thames Coast Road.

One person had made it safely to shore and raised the alarm that a second party was still in the water.

Police, including Police Eagle, Coastguard Howick and Auckland Coastguard Air Patrol, and Fire and Emergency New Zealand have responded.

The second person has not been located at this stage and the search is ongoing.

ENDS

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December 21, 2025
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Police impersonator arrested after almost pulling over unmarked cop car

Location:

Counties Manukau

Counties Manukau Police have arrested one person in a bizarre incident when carrying out patrols in an unmarked vehicle last night.

Inspector Kerry Watson said officers on duty noticed a station wagon following them equipped with a flashing bar of red and blue lights – a typical Police signal for the vehicle in front of them to pull over to the side of the road.

“Our officers were perplexed and quickly clocked the car was not Police-official.

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December 21, 2025
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Police arrest one, seek witnesses to Wellington city bar stabbing

Location:

Wellington

Attributable to Detective Sergeant Graeme Muir, Wellington Criminal Investigation Branch:

Police have arrested one person while investigating a recent stabbing at an Allen Street bar in Wellington.

A 34-year-old woman has been charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and will appear at the Wellington District Court on Monday 22 December.

What we know is around 1:30am on Saturday 13 December, Police were called to the Ace of Spades bar following reports a man had been stabbed.

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December 20, 2025
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Tairāwhiti motorists urged to keep vehicles secure

Location:

Eastern

Police in Tairāwhiti are urging motorists to keep vehicle security top of mind, especially over the busy summer season.

“We’ve seen a rise in recent weeks in the number of thefts from vehicles, as well as reports of vehicles being stolen or interfered with,” says Acting Inspector Bryan Smith, Tairawhiti Area Prevention Manager.

“We want to remind people that some basic steps can help secure your vehicle and prevent it from being targeted by opportunistic criminals..

“Always lock your vehicle when you leave, it, and remove any valuables – especially anything visible.

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December 20, 2025
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Police investigating sudden death, Waiotapu

Location:

Bay of Plenty

Police are responding to a sudden death near Waiotapu Loop Road, Waiotapu.

Emergency services were alerted to an incident about 6.15am where one person had been pulled from the water unresponsive.

Enquiries are now underway to establish the circumstances surrounding the death, which is being treated as unexplained.

A scene examination will take place this morning. One person is currently assisting with enquiries.

Further information will be provided as it becomes available.

ENDS

Issued by Police Media Centre

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December 20, 2025
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Selwyn Police save Christmas for hundreds

Location:

Canterbury

Selwyn Police have prevented Christmas chaos, after a courier van, full of packages destined for underneath Christmas trees, was reported stolen on Friday 19 December.

Following this report, Police received numerous calls from the public about three suspicious men carrying courier packages in Birdlings Flat.

Acting Sergeant Daniel Ingram says Police responded immediately, and saw a vehicle leaving the area, which later attempted to hide from Police on a rural roadside.

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December 20, 2025
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Ongoing search for Mitchell Cole, further appeal for information

Location:

Central

Attributable to Detective Inspector Gerard Bouterey, Field Crime Manager, Central District CIB:

Police are continuing to make enquiries to locate 29-year-old Mitchell Cole, who we want to speak with in relation to a double homicide in Ruatiti on Saturday 13 December.

As part of our enquiries, Police want to identify a man who was seen near the intersection of Pukekaha and Rautiti roads at around 6pm on Saturday 13 December.

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December 20, 2025
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Human remains found – Coppermine Island (Mauipane)

Location:

Northland

Earlier today Police were alerted to human remains being located on Coppermine Island (Mauipane), east of Whangārei.

Police have since recovered the remains and commenced the formal identification process.

At this early stage, Police are unable to advise how long the remains may have been on the island.

The formal identification process is expected to take some time and no further information is available at this time.

ENDS

Issued by Police Media Centre.

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December 19, 2025
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Steam Deck Client Update: December 19th

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Stable channel.

General

Selecting Sleep in the Power menu will now prompt the user to enter Display-off downloads when appropriate.
Fixed intermittent in-game purchase failures for some games.
Fixed news items not updating in the “What’s New” tab on the Home screen.
Fixed non-Steam browser windows erroneously being created sometimes when steamwebhelper is restarted.
On the Bluetooth settings screen, we will now detect and notify the player when trying to pair/connect an Xbox controller with older firmware versions that cannot properly connect to Steam Deck. To fix these issues you must connect the controller to a Windows PC and update the firmware via the Xbox Accessories App.

Accessibility

Moved the Screen Reader’s “Stop Talking” button to X so that external gamepads can still open the Quick Access Menu with Guide button + their equivalent of A button.

Friends & Chat

Suspicious or harassing group chat messages can be reported directly in the chat window by selecting the message and pressing ‘Options’. You can optionally block and/or unfriend the other user while submitting the report.

Remote Play

Fixed being unable to move the mouse to another monitor when using touch controls on the Steam Link app.

Steam Input

Promoted the newer gyro modes from beta to the default gyro modes loaded. Older configuration that are using the older modes will still see the option and you can also enable Steam Input dev mode under Settings->Developer to keep them visible all the time.
Adjusted Dualsense “Create” and “Options” glyphs for better recall.
In all Gyro Modes, when selecting multiple gyro activation buttons, you can also choose whether “Any” or “All” buttons are required to Enable/Suppress/Toggle the gyro.
Gyro Haptic On/Off effect is now separated from Gyro Haptic Rotation Effect.
Added an “Invert Input” toggle in “Regular Press” activator settings. When enabled, this causes button presses to generate releases, and vice versa.
Gyro to Joystick Deflection Mode: Added “Use Relative Roll” & “Use Relative Pitch” toggles. When enabled, this makes the output Joystick deflection relative to the controller’s pose since the Gyro’s activation. i.e. turning on the gyro will always center the stick output. When disabled, the deflection angle is absolute vs. the controller’s gravity sensor. Previously this was only possible for “Pitch” (old name: “World Auto Tilt”), but it’s now available for Roll as well.
Gyro to Joystick Deflection: “Relative Roll” and “Relative Pitch” toggles are only available if a Gyro Activation Button is selected, because the angles are relative to the pose of the controller each time the Gyro is activated.
Fixed Dualsense Edge, Xbox Elite, Nintendo JoyCons in paired mode not finding the correct config to edit.
Fixed Gyro to Joystick Deflection: Lock Extents not working as intended.
Fixed Gyro to Joystick Deflection: Some combinations of “Relative Roll” and “Relative Pitch” toggles resulted in zero joystick output.

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December 19, 2025
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Steam Client Update – December 19th

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

General

The Steam client is now 64-bit on Windows 11 and Windows 10 64-bit.
- Systems running 32-bit versions of Windows will continue receiving updates to the 32-bit Steam client until January 1, 2026.
Fixed non-Steam browser windows erroneously being created sometimes when steamwebhelper is restarted.

Game Recording

Fixed errors copying to clipboard or exporting H265 videos on systems with a NVIDIA 50xx series gpu.

Friends & Chat

Suspicious or harassing group chat messages can now be reported directly in the chat window by right clicking the message. You can optionally block and/or unfriend the other user while submitting the report.

Big Picture Mode

Fixed intermittent in-game purchase failures for some games.

Remote Play

Fixed being unable to move the mouse to another monitor when using touch controls on the Steam Link app.

Steam Input

Added support for Nintendo Switch 2 controllers connected over USB on Windows
Added support for GameCube adapters in Wii-U mode with rumble on Windows
Added an “Invert Input” toggle in “Regular Press” activator settings. When enabled, this causes button presses to generate releases, and vice versa.
Promoted the newer gyro modes from beta to the default gyro modes loaded. Older configuration that are using the older modes will still see the option and you can also enable Steam Input dev mode under Settings->Developer to keep them visible all the time.
Adjusted Dualsense “Create” and “Options” glyphs for better recall.
In all Gyro Modes, when selecting multiple gyro activation buttons, you can also choose whether “Any” or “All” buttons are required to Enable/Suppress/Toggle the gyro.
Gyro Haptic On/Off effect is now separated from Gyro Haptic Rotation Effect.
Gyro to Joystick Deflection Mode: Added “Use Relative Roll” & “Use Relative Pitch” toggles. When enabled, this makes the output Joystick deflection relative to the controller’s pose since the Gyro’s activation. i.e. turning on the gyro will always center the stick output. When disabled, the deflection angle is absolute vs. the controller’s gravity sensor. Previously this was only possible for “Pitch” (old name: “World Auto Tilt”), but it’s now available for Roll as well.
Gyro to Joystick Deflection: “Relative Roll” and “Relative Pitch” toggles are only available if a Gyro Activation Button is selected, because the angles are relative to the pose of the controller each time the Gyro is activated.
Fixed a case where the desktop version of the configurator could unexpectedly close when trying to preview a configuration for another game on the Search tab
Fixed Dualsense Edge, Xbox Elite, Nintendo JoyCons in paired mode not finding the correct config to edit.
Fixed Gyro to Joystick Deflection: Lock Extents not working as intended.
Fixed Gyro to Joystick Deflection: Some combinations of “Relative Roll” and “Relative Pitch” toggles resulted in zero joystick output.