Having two staff members selected to provide ongoing assistance and advice to the Tongan police as part of a development programme between New Zealand, Australia and Tonga is a feather in the Southern police district's cap, says the district superintendent.
A scam that has been operating in Australia and other parts of New Zealand for some months appears to have hit Mosgiel, where police have this week received reports from residents who received telephone cold-calls from companies wishing to check their "computer for viruses".
A fire safety investigator is still working through the causes of two accidental house fires in Dunedin in the past week.
The exact circumstances of an accident in which two logging contractors were seriously injured at Mt Allan, near Dunedin, yesterday, is being worked through by an inspector from the Department of Labour.
A man has been arrested in relation to the burglary of Dunedin fast food restaurant Velvet Burger last month.
Constable Karl O'Dowda said police arrested the 27-year-old, who had been evading police for some time, in Dunedin yesterday.
The man would appear in the Dunedin District Court on Friday on a burglary charge.
Five young people are being dealt with in the courts after a police operation targeted teenage drug dealers in Dunedin.
The public will get their say on a restructuring of the Dunedin police service.
Eighty-seven Christchurch prisoners transferred to the Otago Corrections Facility are settling in for the long haul as the assessment of earthquake damage to Christchurch Men's Prison continues.
Some minor technical issues with Dunedin's new CCTV system have not affected its operation, authorities say.
New proposals to make it harder for the evidence and the names of accused and convicted people to be suppressed in court and easier to suppress the names of children and victims, signal the rebalancing of the intention of the law, an Otago law professor says.
A rare case of stuffed native New Zealand birds from the 1870s is expected to fetch thousands at auction in Dunedin tomorrow.
Nearly 3000 complaints have been laid against New Zealand police officers - and 244 officers have faced disciplinary action for misconduct - since the police code of conduct was introduced.
There was more "fighting" ahead to uncover the whole truth, Shane Cribb and Steve Potter said yesterday after the jailing of former police officer Neil Ford.
The family of a Dunedin student who drowned after he fell into Otago Harbour say they will fight on to find out what really happened to their "special" son.
Southland recorded the largest decrease in crime of any policing area in New Zealand over the last fiscal year.
It seems likely Panos the dog has no idea how lucky he is.
Constable Tina Svensk shows some of the pink tyre valve caps Dunedin police cars will be sporting this month and next in the name of breast cancer research.
The man responsible for giving more than two million daffodil bulbs and 8000 rhododendrons that grace many of Dunedin's public spaces has been named as the Otago Gardener of the Year.
New Zealand Police yesterday released its second set of monthly indicative statistics on how many crimes have been reported to police, what crimes they have discovered and what preventive activities they have been engaged in.
Dunedin man Barry Dougherty and dog Yip have just become members of an exclusive team.
