Andrew Coster

Police will soon stop responding to most mental health calls after years of warning the workload was becoming unsustainable.  Audio

The government has been asked to fund an Auckland based police training college to help reach its target of 500 additional officers in two years. Figures released to Checkpoint show it will be almost… Audio

The Government is progressing a ban on gang patches this week, even though the policy's legality and enforceability are unclear.

The coalition will introduce legislation to Parliament to outlaw gang… Audio

Victim advocates say family violence could increase or go unreported if the police go ahead with plans to pull back from family harm callouts. In a briefing to incoming Police Minister, Mark Mitchell… Audio

Bolstering the thin blue line will require a substantially fatter budget, according to the police commissioner. The government's promising five hundred new frontline police in the next two years and… Video, Audio

The police commisioner has been put is on notice, with the government outlining its expectations around law and order. In a letter to Andrew Coster the new police minister Mark Mitchell says the force… Video, Audio

The Police Commisioner says gunman Matua Reid's victims were likely to have been known to him. 

Reid was serving five months home detention for family violence when entered the central Auckland… Audio

From today Police will take a more aggressive approach to pursuing fleeing drivers in the hopes it will lead to more arrests. Police Commissioner says the new framework, which begins today, balances… Audio

The Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says he would not have done anything differently in the police handling of the protest and occupation of Parliament grounds last year.

That's despite the Police… Audio

There has been an increase in family harm incidents reported to police since Cyclone Gabrielle hit.

The Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says reports of dishonesty offences are actually fewer than… Audio

Civil Defence Update from Police Commissioner Andrew Coster Audio

New Zealand authorities are celebrating intercepting more than three tonnes of cocaine floating in the Pacific Ocean. 

The bust is the largest find by "some margin" with an estimated street value of… Audio

Ram raiders who may have been let go by police could now be chased in a revision to fleeing driving policy. 

Announcing the policy Andrew Coster said changes introduced two years ago had seen an… Audio

Police have announced they will increase presence and visibility in areas experiencing most harm from retail crime, following the homicide in Sandringham last week.

But will it keep workers safe?

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Police were shot at 21 times last year - the most ever in single year. But despite the increase in firearms violence aimed at officers, the number of offenders fired on by police didn't reach similar… Audio