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Mobile police stations defended

<i>Editorial</i>: Mobile justice no answer to clogged courts

Extending police instant punishment powers finds support

A proposal to turn patrol cars into "mobile stations" could make police more effective, top NZ lawyer says.

Police set for greater instant punishment powers

Police officers will be able to dispense on-the-spot punishments for minor crimes under plans to turn patrol cars into "mobile stations".

$5.3m flight bill for Corrections

Prisoners break into unit

Nasty shock for jail smugglers

199 people were searched at a combined Department of Corrections and police checkpoint at Auckland Prison at Paremoremo on Saturday.

First new cells appear in jail's makeover

Islands in the stream

Security tightens to stop prison work party escapes

Prison chiefs praise drug unit's first graduates

Prison drug use at record low: Corrections

Undie drug smuggler caught by prison staff

Tight contracts for private jails

Courts to try sitting for extended hours

Escaped prisoner named