Yes we need a new Organised Crime Police unit – no we don’t need Mark Mitchell’s stupid Gang Unit
Police to establish national gang unit
Police will establish a national gang unit, supported by ‘district gang disruption teams’, to target crime, harm, and intimidation caused by patched members.
The national team will work with police districts across the country, drawing on joint operations to monitor gang funerals and other activity.
Police Commissioner Andrew Coster, announcing the plan on Tuesday, said resourcing was likely to include a mix of new investment and other resources being moved around.
Coster said he imagined 25 to 30 people will staff the new national unit, while the smaller district teams would be about seven officers.
He said he believed there would be a reduction in gang numbers (currently around 9000) once they got the units up and running and got the tools the government was providing through new legislation.
Other new legislation would include a ban on gang insignia in public places and giving police greater powers to stop gang members congregating.
Police Minister Mark Mitchell was adamant about pushing ahead with plans to ban patches despite criticism.
We already had a Gang Intelligence Centre, and it was a joke!
Gang Intelligence Centre leadership concerns revealed in document release
New Zealand’s Gang Intelligence Centre has been blighted by poor leadership and has been struggling to reduce the harm caused by organised crime.
Multiple sources RNZ has talked to said the leadership of the Gang Intelligence Centre was “clueless”, and one person said it was run by a bunch of buffoons.
Leadership were said to have no understanding of the gang environment, which in turn meant the centre was failing to have an impact on the harm being caused by gangs.
Hand on heart I don’t think National MPs could tell you what is the difference between the Mongrel Mob, Mongols, Head Hunters, Black Power or Comancheros and that’s deeply concerning because they all have completely different reasons for existence and attempting to tackle the most glaringly apparent elements of gangs with laws that breach human rights will only radicalize those communities.
The problem we have right now with gangs is the unprecedented forced deportation of the 501 criminal elements from Australia who have unleashed a tsunami of violent gang take overs because they are prepared to use a level of violence and sophistication far in advance of the domestic gangs.
These 501 syndicates are using their contacts with South American Cartels to import a purer, cheaper Meth and it is this turf war for the Meth trade that is shaping the current violence.
Police gaining powers to harass and intimidate the poorest members of this crime pyramid with powers that breach human rights will only radicalise that community.
I think this is going to be a clusterfuck of unintended consequences and predictable backlashes.
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See pages 62 to 67 of ‘Dirty Politics’ by Nicky Hager. Quite revealing of MM’s characteristics.
I’d be happy for gang members to lose some of their human rights if it meant that the 99.999% of New Zealanders who have enough sense to not be gang members and who have to deal with, and pay for, the effects of gangs’ criminality benefit from the gang members loss of rights. Nobody wins from the existence of criminal gangs, not even the members of them.
The only crackdown I want is the one on the billions of fraud carried out by the elite frankly.
Why don’t they do this… oh yes they are mates!
It was interesting to hear that wearing a patch in public will give police the right to search your house ( at least that was what was said). So no patch and they won’t have cause to search your house? So now the gangs will be invisible and search free? Awesome.
A solution to Australia doing 501 convict transportation to NZ is to declare all the Aus gangs terrorist organisations. If Aus gang 501s are terrorising NZ suburbs with daylight gunfights then they are terrorist organisations. If a Kiwi leaves NZ at the age of 2 months or 22 years and becomes a foot soldier for Isis Syria or Comancheros Sydney NZ does not have to repatriate that terrorist organisation member under the terrorism laws. NZ terrorism laws must trump Aus gangster character deportation orders.