Manawatu Police have been reviewing how officers search people in custody, following a Police watchdog report
Manawatu Police have been reviewing how officers search people in custody, following a Police watchdog report
18 July 2023
An 18-year-old Palmerston North man was arrested last year, after evading police for about nine months.
Officers fired a sponge-round rubber bullet at the man after he attempted to flee, which the Independent Police Conduct Authority says was justified.
However, the teenager then harmed himself in custody with a cell phone cord left in his tracksuit pants, that wasn't taken by officers.
The IPCA's found the search was deficient and inadequate.
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