Organised Crime – Disorganised Us
How New Zealand can fight back on organised crime
The final report from an advisory group on organised crime is calling on the government to urgently implement its proposed solutions, which include a dedicated minister, a refreshed strategy and a charter that would ensure agencies could be accountable.
It warns against implementing a “smaller, scaled back option” of the recommendations, because it will “not achieve the results we need”.
A dedicated transnational serious organised crime (TSOC) minister would lead delivery and drive cross-agency accountability, while a charter would formally recognise organised crime as New Zealand’s greatest national security threat, the report states.
Chair of the ministerial advisory group, Steve Symon told RNZ the work is now done, but it’s up to the government to enact it.
“[Organised crime] is not a threat that might happen in the future. It’s one that is happening now to New Zealand, but it potentially may get much worse, and so that’s why we need to treat it with the seriousness that it deserves, and have a response that’s bold enough to fight it.”
All of the things that are happening because of the criminal sophistication brought in by the 501s and their South American Cartel contacts have all come pass, just as TDB warned when we started blogging on this issue half a decade ago.
Of course we are losing the war against Organized Crime and here’s why it’s going to get worse!
1: Despite decades of being fear mongered by our Politicians about domestic gang violence, our domestic organised crime are not in the same league of criminal sophistication as Australia’s crime culture and that the 501s being forced back here were forming syndicates and standing over the local gangs presented a unique danger to NZ because our local thick-o cops have no capacity to deal with organised crime that uses counter-intelligence tactics. The 501 syndicates use violence and cheaper more pure meth from their South American Cartel contacts and have taken over most of the imported meth trade.
2: ACT legalised pseudoephedrine and meth use spikes while cops are still scratching their heads…
Gangs making large profits amid ‘bizarre’ increase in meth use
The police believe gangs are now making twice as much money from dealing methamphetamine as they were a year ago amid what they’re calling a “bizarre” increase in use of the illicit drug.
Recently released data from Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR)’s wastewater testing programme revealed New Zealand’s meth consumption rose from 732kg in 2023 to 1434kg in 2024.
ESR’s senior scientist Andrew Chappell told 1News there was a large spike in the amount of meth being consumed in July and August last year – and the level has remained high ever since.
New Zealand went from consuming between 15 and 20kg of methamphetamine a week to between 30 to 40kgs.
…NZ Police have no idea why there was a jump in Meth use in June and August of last year and why it has remained so high.
R-i-g-h-t.
And what happened in June of last year…
Pseudoephedrine back on shelves
Associate Health Minister David Seymour is pleased that Pseudoephedrine can now be purchased by the general public to protect them from winter illness, after the coalition government worked swiftly to change the law and oversaw a fast approval process by Medsafe.
Remember what the officials said?
Officials back planned return of pseudoephedrine sales but suggest meth production increase
Officials have advised Associate Health Minister David Seymour, who leads the Misuse of Drugs (Pseudoephedrine) Amendment Bill, that the move comes with risks including a potential increase in domestic meth production, a higher likelihood pharmacies would be ram-raided and the potential for improper use.
And yet the NZ Police have no fucking idea why meth use spiked the month after this policy came into effect?
If we were serious about cracking down on organised crime and not just paying lip service to it, we would hire 100 Mandarin speaking police officers.
The biggest reason why the spike in meth is occurring is because the Chinese are deeply involved.
What we refuse to acknowledge because our Fourth Estate media is dead, is that Shadow Chinese Banking services have created the infrastructure for the 501 syndicates in NZ to pay South American Cartels directly via Shadow Chinese Banking services.
The expose in the Financial Times at how wide spread Chinese shadow banking for criminal organisations has become also notes Auckland in the global chain of this criminal empire…
Chinese brokers launder hundreds of millions for global crime groups
Chinese money launderers are facilitating the fentanyl epidemic and helping international drug traffickers, like Mexican cartels and the Italian mafia, launder the proceeds of crime. The FT investigates the connection between capital flight from China and global organised crime
…let me spell it out incase you are missing my point.
SHUT. DOWN. THE. CHINESE. SHADOW. BANKING. SERVICES!
They are providing banking infrastructure to the cartels FFS, that’s why we are flooded with Meth – because the suppliers and the dealers can easily transfer the money to buy and sell the meth, that means all they need to do is smuggle in the product without worrying about moving the cash around.
It makes the drug dealing very easy.
NZ was slow to understand what was happening with the influx of 501s.
NZ was slow to comprehend that as much as we had been telling people our gangs were bad, they weren’t in the same league of extreme violence and criminals sophistication of those who were being forced here.
NZ is not seeing the link between Chinese shadow banking, 501 syndicates and South American Cartels.
If we want people off meth, we have to have fully funded 3month rehabilitation programmes that we can fund from a legalised cannabis market.
Otherwise meth addiction will rise and the South American Cartels will get a foot in our door. Bribing Police and Judges will be next.
Nothing National is suggesting by banning Gang Patches or Military Boot Camps is anything more than virtue signalling rhetoric for their frightened electorate.
It’s more important to bash Māori gangs and promise retribution against them than it is it actually deal to the financial structure of Chinese shadow banking that is enabling 501 syndicates to profit from the billion dollar meth trade.
We are easily manipulated muppets.
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Or… we could just legalize and make it easy to buy over the counter safe drugs (like adderall) and relatively safe drugs (like powder cocaine).
I know people who use meth occasionally recreationally and are perfectly fine, but it’s far too easy to have a habit get out of control. There’s no practical way to stop it being available without taking serious measures (like executions for traffickers). If the government is too panty-waisted to do that, then they should make sure better substitutes are available.
This is the stark reality according to MK. And needs to be considered as he likes to shock us with hard truth FTTT. And should be considered seriously though OTT at times.
We need to do as recommended by Advisory Group/Committee! There must be an attempt by good-minded citizens to prevent the further callousness and viciousness of our governments from permeating, trickling down, to us in mockery of the vaunted trickle-down theory of prosperity and opportunities we were going to get IN THEORY. And we must keep our minds on the real, the practical, the effective and needed; the good values and plans and work under them.
I am shocked at how many good men I have come across lately who have little trust in anything coming from authority, examples of anti-vaxx thinking. Looking around and thinking about earlier of their years they have noted so many confusions, mistakes, lies, deaths, hurts, difficulties, that should not have happened in our country if run well with a good heart. This leaves them in a state of doubt or disbelief and so they set their minds against much. And are rejecting the present with a set desire to go away to somewhere reliable where one can live with a set of values and respect. The negativity and cankering of the government has been felt and reflected back.
meh – should be able to get it for $10 at the Chemist Warehouse. NZ needs to grow up with regards to it’s drug use and vice in general. it’s only due to the legal status of drugs that make them the purview of outlaws
Does that really sound plausible? “Meth use spiked the month after the policy came into effect? Within a month enough pharmacies were relieved of their pseudoepherdrine products to be ‘repurposed’ for illicit use and into the waste water? That’s incredibly fast or perhaps the testing is ultra sensitive in a relatively small sample size. Or is it people using those products as recommended and passing that into the wastewater system ( if that actually gets detected) I am clearly not saying this in defence of Star of David Seymour. Just hard to get your head around that point.