Road Safety In Adverse Weather Conditions
Police are urging Tasmanian drivers to take extra care with rain, sleet, snow and high winds impacting the State. Tasmania Police always experience a large increase in phone calls from the public during severe weather events, with many of those calling to ask if a road is open or closed. Motorists are urged to check…
Serious Motor Vehicle Accident –St Helens
At 12.20pm on Tuesday 12/7/2016 a blue Ford station wagon was being driven east on St Helens Point Road, Stieglitz by a 24 year old St Helens man. The vehicle left the sealed road surface onto the grass verge where it has lost traction, sliding sideways for approximately 40 metres before impacting heavily with a…
Devonport firearms burglary
Between 11.00 am and 4.30 pm on Monday 4 July 2016, a burglary and stealing occurred at Devonport. Offenders forced entry to a garage and removed a gun safe containing a quantity of firearms. Two further firearms safes were forced open and firearms and ammunition were removed. Members from the Devonport Criminal Investigation Branch…
Missing bushwalker located – Cradle Mountain
A missing bushwalker lost near the Overland Track, Cradle Mountain, has been located alive and well by police search and rescue teams. The woman, from the Northern Territory, contacted police via a satellite phone she was carrying when she became lost on her way to Waterfall Valley Hut about 5.30pm last night. Police…
Man charged – Shoreline Shopping Centre incident
A 36 year old Clarendon Vale man has been charged with one count of Create a Common Nuisance following an incident at the Shoreline Shopping Centre on Hobart’s eastern shore today. Tasmania Police was called to the shopping complex about 8.25am after three suspicious packages were located in the car park. The man has been…
Structure fire – Albion Road, Bridgewater
Bridgewater CIB is investigating a fire at a Bridgewater home during the early evening of Sunday 10 July 2016. The fire was discovered by a member of the public who alerted emergency services around 6.18pm. Upon arrival by Tasmania Fire Service, the house was fully engulfed by flames. The privately owned property was…
Man assisting police – Shoreline Shopping Centre incident
Police investigations are continuing into an incident at the Shoreline Shopping Centre on Hobart’s eastern shore today. A 30 year old Clarendon Vale man was arrested near the scene and is assisting police with their enquiries. Tasmania Police were called to the shopping complex about 8.25am after three suspicious packages were located in the car…
Suspicious package – Shoreline Shopping Centre
Tasmania Police are attending the Shoreline Shopping Centre where a suspicious package has been located in the car park. An area of the car park has been cordoned off as a precaution and the car park has been evacuated. A section of Clarence Street is closed from Howrah Road to Clarence Joint Therapy (273 Clarence Street).…
Helicopter rescue from Adamsons Falls
At 2:30pm on Sunday 10/7/16 Tasmania Police Search and Rescue were notified of an injured walker at Adamsons Falls in the south of the state. The rescue helicopter was activated and the crew reached the inured 25 year old woman from Mornington and an uninjured 29 year old man from Mornington at last light. A…
Update to warning for rainfall and damaging winds
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued flood warnings with 30 – 80mm of rain across the North & North West of Tasmania from Sunday evening into Monday with further rainfall expected into Tuesday. This may result in some river rises during Monday and Tuesday: Minor Flood Warning South Esk – in the upper reaches from…