Security

Government agencies are gearing up to combat a barrage of vaccine-related scams expected to hit during the Covid-19 immunisation campaign.

Other countries already rolling out vaccines have been… Audio

Dunedin bar owners and the police are banding together to tackle bad behaviour and increased gang activity in the central city.

The Octagon Alcohol Group formed late last year in a bid to make the… Audio

Phase two of the police's gun buy-back scheme begins today, with owners asked to hand in outlawed guns, parts and conversion kits.

These items became prohibited when new legislation was introduced… Audio

Community checkpoints in Tai Tokerau have been shut down by police who say they risked public safety and people's right to travel freely.

Around a dozen volunteers from Te Tai Tokerau border control… Video, Audio

The Commerce Commission has issued a Stop Now letter to Shelly Cullen, a promoter of Lions Share - a suspected pyramid scheme. Shelly Cullen is popular on social media, with some of her videos… Audio

Japan is warning it will stop importing New Zealand honey if it continues to find the weedkiller glyphosate during border testing. Our global honey exports totalled $490 million last year, almost $68… Audio

Right now over 300 New Zealanders are writing to pen pals in prison. They've connected with the inmates via Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa (PNCA). The organisation, which launched in 2016… Audio

As more and more people are opening their computer at home instead of entering an office, security risks are also opening up. Working from home in 2020, and certainly in 2021, has placed a renewed… Audio

Even in a bad year, things can always get worse. The New Zealand Stock Exchange experienced this first hand in August, when a massive cyberattack knocked the exchange's servers out of public view for… Audio

The electronic spy agency is defending a dearth of reports it got about far right threats in the lead-up to last year's mosque attacks.

Out of 7500 intelligence reports received in a three-month… Audio

A report into Auckland Prison, the country's maximum security prison, has revealed a myriad of problems, despite the introduction of a new strategy Hōkai Rangi.

The strategy was meant to deliver… Audio

The union for prison officers is rejecting a report spelling out cruel treatment of inmates and people being locked in their cells at Auckland Prison for up to 23 hours at a time.

The ombudsman paid… Audio

An academic and former Wellington Howard League president, says for prisons to become more humane places the public must demand change.

The ombudsman paid a surprise visit to Auckland Prison and… Audio

The union for prison officers is rejecting a report pointing to the cruel treatment of inmates and people being locked in their cells for up to 23 hours at a time.

The ombudsman paid a surprise visit… Audio

Questions are being raised about a new mobile app which tracks, records and scores how people drive.

The insurance company Tower has launched, GoCarma, which monitors people's driving habits, from… Audio

Several key security and intelligence agencies failed to do their counter-terrorism job very well, or at all.

There remains no way of holding them to account.

Those are two crucial findings of the… Audio

A woman gassed with pepper spray inside her prison cell is taking legal action to stop Corrections using the cell busting technique, which has been linked to two deaths in America this year.

Lawyers… Video, Audio

The Otago Polytechnic has postponed tomorrow's graduation ceremonies after a threat against University of Otago ceremonies.

Yesterday the university postponed theirs because of the online threat.

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Our Five-Eyes spy network has evolved from a surveillance agency to a political tool - and New Zealand is caught between old allies and new trading partners.  Audio