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Their plan would expand the ability of police to target the profits of organised crime, increase funding for addiction services, focus on stamping out corruption at ports, and increase education about drug harm.

It would also ask more from the Defence Force and security services, asking that more work be done from the NZDF and GCSB to track and monitor drug smuggling operations that take illicit substances from South American across the Pacific to New Zealand.

The plan included nine tasks for seven ministers, bringing in the original group but also associate ministers James Meager and Nicole McKee, with Judith Collins, the minister in charge of spying and the defence force. In short, the plan would:

* See spy agencies work with Customs and the Defence Force to target ships carrying illegal drugs in the Pacific.

* Have transport and security officials work with the shipping industry, including ports and cargo companies, to work out what more can be done to crack down on drug shipments.

* Change the Search and Surveillance Act, to make it easier for law enforcement agencies to intercept communications and search evidence on computers and phones.

* Change the law that police use to seize assets from drug dealers, with the Government saying it will become faster for police to use the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act.

* Launch a four-year advertising campaign to educate the public about methamphetamine harm.

* Increase funding by $30 million for addiction services.

* Hire more offshore police and customs liaison officers to improve multi-national collaboration targeting organised crime.

* Establish a fourth police team targeting money laundering.

* Invest $11 million to continue the Resilience to Organised Crime in Communities programme, which helps communities hit by methamphetamine addiction.