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  1. New Zealand is in the perfect position to limit drug importation – we’re living on isolated islands. However, the place is wide open for drug runners. In a recent OIA request it was revealed that less than 5% of shipping containers are X ray scanned and to my knowledge there isn’t a single container scanner in the South Island. I’ve never seen a full body scanner at Auckland airport whereas I’ve been through them twice when passing through Brisbane.

    The social and financial cost of illegal drugs is so vast, it would seem to me that spending some money on equipment and people at the border would make a lot of sense.

    1. Its crazy considering the drug sniffing dogs, explosives swabs, police wandering around with weapons, AI camera system, behaviour monitoring staff, full body scanners ,xray of my bag and 101ml of liquid (that wasnt in the right duty free bag which somehow makes it legit which ends getting thrown out) at Sydney airport.

  2. How many times does it need to be said, Michael and Jacinda just say “No To 501s”. Stand up to the aussies dont accept them transporting their convicts here

    1. The law is the law and even Jacinda cannot get it changed .These people are not Australia they are NZ so for better or worse we are forced to take them back. They send people home to other countries as well and have been doing it for years .I had a migrant friend sent back to the UK after committing a crime . NZ deport citizens of other countries in in just the same fashion .We may not be as hard as Australia but we do send people back to their homes .A well documented case is Sroubek who has been fighting his case for years but he is finally going .

  3. I realise you have to put yourself out there @Martyn in the media if you need to get attention and offer a view that differs from what’s now accepted dogma.
    The record already shows you’re the cat’s whisker on a number of issues. IMHO, just make sure you don’t let the ego overwhelm the humility. God knows there’s enough of that – Preslands and lumbering old Prentices, most of talk back radio, and many in the televisuals as examples.

  4. The law is the law and even Jacinda cannot get it changed .These people are not Australia they are NZ so for better or worse we are forced to take them back. They send people home to other countries as well and have been doing it for years .I had a migrant friend sent back to the UK after committing a crime . NZ deport citizens of other countries in in just the same fashion .We may not be as hard as Australia but we do send people back to their homes .A well documented case is Sroubek who has been fighting his case for years but he is finally going .

  5. This is stuff that resonates and some of which I didn’t know. I have been worried about our slack thinking about drugs and crime generally. A shrug and an attitude of ‘the peasants are revolting, or perhaps feral’ seems to come up top stop practical ‘treatment’ methods.

    So well set out Martyn. This bit hits home.
    The Right aren’t tough on crime, they are soft on facts.
    We need to cauterise the number of 501s from Australia which has currently been negotiated, we need wrap around services for those 501s so that they don’t drift into crime and we need a specific prison where we keep these 501s inside when we do arrest them.

    The problem we have had in NZ to date is that the SIS and GCSB intercept communications between the 501 syndicates and the South American Cartels, but instead of passing that intelligence onto local police to use, we’ve been sending it up the food chain to the NSA.
    Chippy has stopped this and demanded that intel be sent to local police to action and that’s why we’ve seen the jump in arrests targeting distribution networks.
    We urgently need to stamp this out because the Cartels use counter intelligence level sophistication that trumps our local Police force.

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