Alice Springs will go into a three-night curfew following an appalling weekend of crime in the town, including the alleged assault of four off-duty police officers.
Police Commissioner Michael Murphy declared the curfew this afternoon, which will prevent people of all ages going into the city centre between 10pm and 6am over the next three nights without good reason.
A group of four off-duty police officers were allegedly assaulted by a group of 20 young men in the early hours of Sunday, while another officer was allegedly run over by a drunk driver outside a bottle shop. The curfew is the second that has been declared in Alice Springs in the last few months, coming after children were barred from a restricted area in the town's centre during night-time hours between late March and mid-April.
"If that continues and there's some behaviour that still concerns me, I can apply for a 72-hour for a different area or go to the minister for another seven days."
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