Zachary Rolfe

Zachary Rolfe, the police officer who shot dead Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker in 2019, has been sacked.

Rolfe dedicated 600 words to outlining rescues and patrols he had conducted as a police officer. [Rolfe was found not guilty of murdering Walker](/link/follow-20170101-p5a3sf) following a high-profile, five-week trial in 2022. “The coronial focus is still on me rather than on areas that could improve the circumstances of the NT,” he wrote in the 2500-word dispatch published in full on the “I support Zach Rolfe” Facebook page.

“A 31-year-old male police officer has been dismissed from the Northern Territory Police Force effective 4th April 2023,” NT Police said in a statement.

In the open letter, Constable Rolfe was critical of the decision to charge him, and of the subsequent coronial investigation into Walker’s death. It’s understood the dismissal relates to an open letter attributed to Constable Rolfe that was published on Facebook in February. The dismissal is understood to relate to an open letter attributed to Constable Rolfe, in which the exonerated police officer was critical of the decision to charge him over the death of Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker.

A police officer who shot dead an Indigenous teenager in during an outback arrest has been sacked by the Northern Territory Police Force.

Mr Rolfe’s application to the NT police was also investigated, with the inquest told he failed to disclose stealing while he was a soldier in the Australian Defence Force in 2012. It was also revealed that the soldier-turned-policeman was banned from applying to join the Queensland Police Force for a decade for failing to disclose that he’d been fined for being a public nuisance and for violent behaviour. “A 31-year-old male police officer has been dismissed from the Northern Territory Police Force effective 4th April 2023,” it said in a statement.

Zachary Rolfe has been dismissed by the Northern Territory Police Force despite being acquitted of murder over the 2019 shooting death of an Aboriginal ...

A post-mortem examination would later determine either the second or third shot killed him. Mr Rolfe was stabbed by Mr Walker with a pair of scissors, after which he shot Mr Walker three times Mr Rolfe, a former constable, was charged with Mr Walker's murder three days after his death on November 9, 2019, but was acquitted in March 2022. Mr Rolfe was charged with Mr Walker's murder three days after his death on November 9, 2019, but was acquitted in March 2022 The jury that acquitted Mr Rolfe heard that he acted in good faith, in the reasonable performance of his duties and in the defence of himself and his policing partner in firing his gun after being stabbed. A statement issued by NT Police on April 4 confirmed Mr Rolfe was sacked 'due to serious breaches of discipline'.