Sixteen driver testing officers have been suspended with a further seven stood down following an investigation by the NZ Transport Agency, RNZ can reveal. The investigation relates to abnormal test results for both passenger and heavy vehicles across the country, with about 650 drivers needing to re-sit tests. NZTA says the investigation will look at whether testing officers were receiving payments for passing people, and whether the officers were working together.

More than 50 child protection complaints and adult sexual assault cases have been re-opened amid concerns about a senior officer. The re-investigations follow a "rapid review" of 1000 files that were under the oversight of the officer while working in different locations over a three-year period from May 2023. The officer is now subject to an employment process, with police describing the revelations as "extremely concerning". The Chief Victim's Advisor, who has been briefed on the matter, said the alleged actions of the officer are "absolutely horrific".

The police officer under an employment investigation over concerns about his oversight of sexual assault and child abuse cases can be named as prominent Detective Inspector Kevan Verry.

The two men convicted in the Red Fox Tavern cold case murder have had their convictions quashed. Chris Bush was gunned down at the Maramarua pub on the Saturday of Labour weekend, October 24, 1987, and two balaclava-clad offenders had fled with more than $30,000. The Supreme Court delivered its ruling in the case on Tuesday morning after deliberating two years, finding there was no reliable evidence to prove they were at the scene of the crime.

Patient advocates are horrified at revelations of potential human rights abuses at Dunedin's Wakari Hospital. Inspectors for the chief ombudsman said they found treatment amounting to torture at the inpatient unit for adults with intellectual disabilities. They found people were being rewarded for good behaviour with access to basic necessities, including the toilet, prolonged restraints and long-term seclusion. One person was secluded in their bedroom for about 18 months. Health New Zealand has said it will close Ward 10A as a result. Patient Voice Aotearoa chairman Malcolm Mulholland said such practices were meant to be left behind 50 years ago.

A popular fish and chip staple is on the brink of collapse after new data revealed spawning stocks have plunged to historic lows. New scientific modelling shows eastern tarakihi populations have dropped to just 7.7% of their original pre-fishing size. A biomass level below 20% represents an overfished stock, and one below 10% is considered to be collapsed and at risk of not recovering. The revelation has prompted the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) to call for a total closure of the fishery, warning that the species is facing severe pressure.

With scandal after scandal, senior officers under scrutiny, and more police before the courts, The Detail looks at what is happening inside the force. Since then, other officers have been charged with similar allegations; claims of falsified breath tests have emerged; a senior police executive joined the opposition party; two ex-cops have appeared in court charged with perverting the course of justice; an officer gave his criminal son police-only access in court, and now complaints have been made against the nation's top cop.

An Auckland police officer facing charges of possessing objectionable material can now be named. He is Matthew Rogers. The charges allege the offending occurred between August 2023 and October 2025. They carry a maximum sentence of 10 years' imprisonment and a fine of $50,000.

A woman says her family's safety was put at risk after police mistakenly released their address to her ex-partner who is subject to a protection order. Police say the incorrect releasing of the address was the result of "human error" and have apologised to the woman. Meanwhile, the woman says the release, which also included that she was seeking support from women's refuge, has caused her "considerable distress" and has meant she has moved her children out of the address.

JUST HOW MANY PEDOPHILE AND PERVERT COPS DOES NEW ZEALAND POLICE HAVE IN THEIR RANKS!

Among the 32 sheds investigated, 11 held ZQ accreditation - a New Zealand certification intended to assure ethical wool production. [Photo: Phil Smith] More than 20 animal welfare charges have been laid against four shearers after an animal rights group gathered undercover footage showing graphic abuse of sheep. The charges are part of an ongoing investigation by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), and stemmed from video footage from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) as part of an exposé into more than 30 farms and shearing sheds.

The Police Commissioner has sought answers after some recruit wings at Police College fell below expected numbers, including one with fewer than 50 recruits. New Zealand First and National's coalition agreement in November 2023 contained a commitment to "training no fewer than 500 new frontline police within the first two years".

REVIEW OF NEW ZEALAND POLICE INTEGRITY AND EFFECTIVENES RESET URGENTLY NEEDED

A scathing review of police by the Public Service Commission has found an "integrity reset is urgently needed" with a perceived culture that holds seniors to a "lesser standard than juniors". It also found a "wave of crime" arriving on New Zealand shores and says police are "struggling to keep up". 'Serious integrity and conduct failings' - The report said Dame Margaret Bazley's 2007 Commission of Inquiry into police conduct found "systemic issues dating back decades".

SUPREME COURT QUASHES DAVID TAMIHERE CONVICTIONS - CITES EVIDENCE "CONCOCTED TO SECURE CONVICTIONS"

David Tamihere’s convictions for murdering the two Swedish tourists have been quashed, 37 years after the couple disappeared in the Coromandel bush. The upset decision from the Supreme Court today finds that Tamihere’s High Court trial in 1990 was unfair, and based partly on evidence that was “concocted to secure convictions”. It also says that the Crown’s later theories of what happened to Sven Urban Höglin and Heidi Birgitta Paakkonen when they went missing almost four decades ago have never been tested in front of a jury. While the Supreme Court has allowed Tamihere’s appeal, overturning his two murder convictions, it has also ordered a retrial.

A police officer tasked with helping a vulnerable pensioner who had $14,000 stolen from her bank cards went on to steal a further $68,000 from her. In offending described as "extraordinary", the Waikato officer, who was on duty and in police uniform at the time, had the woman drive to her local bank branch to make cash withdrawals as he followed her in a patrol car and waited in the carpark. It was two months before the victim, in her 70s, discovered what he'd done and reported him to her bank. The bank reported it to police.

DON'T BRING CHILDREN TO DANGEROUS NEW ZEALAND WHERE DOG ATTACKS ARE RAMPANT AND NOTHING IS BEING DONE

A woman whose young daughter had part of her face bitten off by an aggressive dog can not understand why the animal has not been euthanised, a month after the attack.The dog belongs to a family member who came to stay at their Waikato home. They were aware it had previously bitten an adult and had been impounded. At that time, animal control seized the dog and it had since been required to meet a set of regulations, including wearing a muzzle.

One in seven children are living in hardship in the latest recorded year, according to new data from Stats New Zealand. The national statistics agency released the data for the year between July 2024 and June 2025 on Wednesday morning. Around 17,900 households were interviewed for the research. The number of children that were recorded as living in material hardship was 14.3 percent - one in seven. There was no significant change in that from the year recorded prior or since 2018.

Dripping with blood, Barbara Wilson screamed for help - but no-one came. Terrified she was about to be killed, the 71-year-old tried to run as two dogs at a neighbour’s Wānaka property tore at her, ripping her trousers and stripping skin from the backs of her legs. “There was no doubt what they had in mind for me,” she says of the December 2024 attack that left her needing plastic surgery.

MORE THAN HALF OF NEW ZEALAND POLICE CONSIDERING QUITTING THE FORCE - UNION SURVEY

Police bosses say a survey showing almost 60 percent of officers have considered quitting in the last year is not a pressure point that can be used in pay negotiations. A Police Association survey of almost 6000 officers put the quit figure at 57 percent and said big factors were insufficient pay and strain on the job. But police headquarters said attrition was running at a low 4.5-5 percent, frontline numbers had just hit an all-time high and they had some officers rejoining having earlier been lured to Australia. "I understand the job of our frontline teams is as dynamic and complex as it is, that gives our people pause for thought on certain days," said chief people officer Leigh MacDonald.

Feel like coming to shit covered New Zealand? - The sewage and wastewater systems in NZ are garbage as thise man found out when a tower of shit exploded from his toilet and splattered the entire bathroom, leaving a disgusting, nauseating stink and shit everywhere. A Wellington resident says sewage "exploded" out of his toilet while Wellington Water staff were working on his street. Ed, a Miramar resident who doesn't want his surname used, told RNZ it happened on on Thursday morning. Sadly this is not the only shockingly stinky story about New Zealand infrastructure failing chronically! Christchurch wastewater plant is a stinking hulk burned out by a fire several years back and not yet repaired. There's no money or talent in NZ to fix these issues. Move to NZ and you'll come across the stink of shit in the air! This makes the capital city of New Zealand and Christchurch, the second largest New Zealand city stinking of shit and shit piling up all around Wellington beaches! Go swim in that? I don't think so!

WOMAN MAULED TO DEATH AS SHOCKING VIOLENT DOG ATTACKS RAMPANT AND OUT OF CONTROL ACROSS NORTHLAND - NEW ZEALAND

Yet another person savaged to death by roaming dogs in out of control New Zealand. Dog attacks have become so common in Northland New Zealand that people are carrying wepaons to fend off unprovoked attacks. A Wellington plastic surgeon is patching up dog attack victims on a weekly basis, with some injuries so severe they are life changing.Dr Emily Yassaie has already treated two dog attack victims this week. She told Checkpoint Aotearoa needs to reviews animal control laws and consider mandatory reporting of bites and dog related injuries requiring medical treatment. If you are a tourist coming to dangerous New Zealand, you need to know these facts. In Northland alone, 1087 reports about romaing and dangerous dogs were made over one financial year with almost 400 impounded. These dogs exhibit pack mentality and savage innocent people, children, pets! Savage, roaming dogs are just another nasty part of life in dangerous New Zealand. The editor of TNZO has been attacked no less than seven times since 2015.

Nearly two dozen graves of Kiwi soldiers who died in World War I and World War II have been destroyed at a Gaza cemetery in what is being labelled as “systematic” destruction of the sacred ground. Israeli jew animas have tbulldozed dozens of graves at the Gaza City graveyard where British, Australian, New Zealand and other allied soldiers were interred after being killed during both wars. This shows the jew armt, they call it the IDF are nothing but murdering, disrespectful trash! Shameful - you can't shame jews though because they have no shame. They are doing this in the area where they also murdered, slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent men, women, children, peoples pets!

Unemployment rose to its highest level in more than a decade, with more people chasing work than jobs created, while wage growth slowed further. Stats NZ numbers showed the unemployment rate rising to 5.4 percent in the three months ended December, from 5.3 percent in the previous quarter. It was the highest level since March 2015. "Over the quarter, we saw higher levels of engagement in the labour market as both employment and unemployment increased," macroeconomic spokesperson Jason Attewell said. A total of 165,000 people were unemployed, a rise of 4000 on the previous quarter and 10,000 on a year ago

THOUSANDS OF MODERN SLAVERY VICTIMS (8000+) ESTIMATED IN NEW ZEALAND

An anti-trafficking expert says the idea that only 31 people are trafficked each year in New Zealand is very unlikely, given that an estimate puts modern slavery here at 8000 victims. The minister in charge of the fight against organised crime says stronger action is needed to bolster the country's response to trafficking. Police said they had 19 ongoing investigations last year, consisting dealing in slaves (three), sex or forced labour of children (three), people trafficking (eight), 'assisting' a child in prostitution (two) and employer exploiting worker (three).

From January to December 2025, there were 2161 reported incidents of "aggression, violence, racism, discrimination, and inappropriate behaviour" on Auckland public transport, said Auckland Transport's Director of Public Transport and Active Modes, Stacey van der Putten. "The number of reported cases fluctuates across the months, ranging from a low of 84 cases in December 2025 to a peak of 249 cases in March 2025," she said. The rough average from those numbers would work out to about six reported incidents per day in 2025. There have been several violent incidents on or around Auckland transport in recent weeks. A passenger suffered moderate injuries in an apparently unprovoked attack by a group of people earlier this month, while a young woman was arrested after two people were assaulted at a bus station in Ōrewa. A 32-year-old man was also arrested after a bus driver was allegedly sprayed with a fire extinguisher in Auckland on 13 January.

NEW ZEALAND PRISON STAFF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING PRISONERS AT AN INCREASING RATE

SEX CRIMES IN NZ PRISONS AGAINST PRISONERS: Yes, prisoners who have no power to avoid rape, molestation and other perverted sex crimes are now reporting these sex crimes at an increasing rate in dangerous violent criminal New Zealand prisons!

The data, released under the Official Information Act, shows that reports of alleged sexual assault on prisoners by Corrections staff is rising, but Commissioner of Custodial Services Leigh Marsh said the huge jump is down to the introduction of prisoners being able to submit allegations directly at a kiosk and the “overwhelming majority” were reported in error.

New Zealand is a violent criminal country and it's people are not to be trusted with your safety!

New Zealand, Despite the "100% Pure and friendly" bullshit the NZ government feeds everyone so you will come to NZ and kiwis can rip off your money with overpriced everything and violence all around, to give innocent people who are on their own riding public transport the bash, or even death just because! Use your head. Avoid violent Criminal NZ like the plague that it is

This is a shocking incident. A stream in the North Island of filthy New Zealand has had it's entire population of eels wiped out by some kind of spill. Despite the "100% Pure" bullshit line, New Zealand is a shockingly polluted cesspit in almost every river in the country, as well as coastal areas, beaches and lakes. Any pollution incident is severe in New Zealand.

INNOCENT NEW ZEALAND MAN AWARDED MASSIVE DAMAGES AFTER FALSE SEX ALLEGATIONS AND CONVICTIONS!

A man has been awarded $500,000 after spending time in New Zealand prisons through being falsely convicted of rape, earning him 11 years and 3 months in New Zealand prisons. We are constantly told women don't make false rape complaints - we must believe all women! Here's yet another false rape claim made by a woman who forced her husband into prison on such a complaint, right here in bullshit, false sex allegation making New Zealand! It's no wonder men stay the fuck away from any woman in this day and age - the price of being with a woman is shockingly high and common!

When you force 87 year old women to live on the streets in NZ you don't get to claim any kind of humanitarian goody goody crown - NZ simply sucks in it's care of the vulnerable in the community. NZ is all about $$$ and the rich and the NZ government and their cronies simply don't care a fuck about the people who made them rich! Note to the rich in NZ... You fucking suck!

New Zealand police delayed a life flight to rescue boy from the sea after boat went up in flames.

One of the alleged thieves was a security guard FFS! Just goes to show you can't trust Kiwis as they will steal the shirt off your back!

So many asshole neighbours from hell in such a small country! Many New Zealanders are this bad - and worse.

Holy shit - New Zealand Police make colossal fuck up by sending out criminal case files with narks names and addresses still on them - "Absolute nightmare"

Call the cops for help in New Zealand and it's always going to cost you! This is a total clusterfuck by the NZ cops!

New Zealand cops spat at and called pedophiles since top level cops convicted of possessing dirty pics of child sex abuse and beastiality

Don't believe the "economy recovering well" NZ bullshit. It's not, and not likely to any time soon.