A major police operation today has highlighted the fact that rival gangs are working together in the highly lucrative drugs trade, Police Minister Judith Collins says.

Members of the public wept in court today upon hearing a 3-year-old had over 80 marks or wounds when she died.

A police search and rescue team looking for missing Pahiatua man John Campbell have found a body. Mr Campbell, 64, was last seen leaving his Pahiatua home, in the Tararua district, for work at 6.45am yesterday.

Lisa Latta clearly remembers her thoughts moments before Fort Lincoln mastered Antonio Lombardo in last night's $1 million Karaka Million at Ellerslie.

Police officer Bruce Mellor, who was viciously attacked with a machete at the weekend, is steadily improving.

Two trainee officers at Linton Army Camp were caught with a haul of 210 ecstasy tablets.

A seven-year-old girl who went missing in Palmerston North last night has been found safe and well, police say.