Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson and former Police officer The current approach to gangs isn’t working and Police Minister Poto Williams needs to take action. The headlines this morning are simply unacceptable. Our Sunday morning papers shouldn’t be reading “Shocking gang axe attack: Man killed in front of
New Zealand media don’t want you to notice who are the people committing crimes in New Zealand. This is the obvious takeaway from a “review” of Police Ten 7 that accuses the show of “racism” and “bias”. A report released today has found that the producers of Police Ten
Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. sportingshooters.nz Recent statements attributed to the Commissioner of Police, Andrew Coster, have repeated previous allegations from police that gangs acquire their firearms from licensed firearms owners. That is a significant distortion of the truth and by implication Coster maligns a quarter of
The Prime Minister has more questions to answer on the Mongrel Mob meth programme as it’s revealed the time the project would run each year decreased as the overall funding increased, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. In the 71 days between the initial funding application and
Louis Houlbrooke New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union When it was revealed that a Mongrel Mob-affiliated group received $2.75 million to run a meth rehab programme, Taxpayers’ Union supporters pitched in to publicise the Prime Minister’s dodgy decision with nationwide newspaper ads and promotion of a petition signed by 24,
The Government’s announcement it will deploy Tactical Prevention Teams is a clear admission that firearms violence and gang membership in New Zealand is out of control, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown. “The Government has wasted months refusing to agree with National that our police need more support. It’
Nicole McKee ACT Justice Spokesperson My Member’s Bill drawn today will crack down on gangs and illegal firearms use. Gang numbers have exploded under this soft on crime Government. With more gang members comes an increase in their confidence. As a result we’ve seen shootings in our communities,
A law change that will prevent any future government funding being granted to organised criminal groups and gangs will be debated in Parliament, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. The Public Finance (Prohibition on Providing Public Funds to Gangs) Amendment Bill will ensure that any person responsible for the
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust “The announcement today by the Minister of Police Poto Williams and Police Commissioner Andrew Coster, shows the pressure they have been under to deal with the rise and rise of gun violence – but have failed to deliver anything of any real substance,” says
Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson Just over a year ago Jacinda Ardern told New Zealanders she had achieved her goal of 1800 new Police, today Poto Williams broke ranks and said she was wrong. It was always nonsense the way that the Government said they achieved the target without taking
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week ago I wrote its time to arm the police, an attitude inconceivable to me up until the last half dozen years. Well talk of the devil, two days later the New Zealand Herald came out with a polling survey I was unaware they
The Catholic Church has been rightly reviled for its years of covering up for the horrendous crimes of a small core of paedophiles in its ranks. So why aren’t other organisations who are still doing the same not subject to the same opprobrium? Think schools, for example: abusers are
Fr Frank Brennan SJ mercatornet.com Fr Frank Brennan SJ is the Rector of Newman College, Melbourne, the Distinguished Fellow of the P M Glynn Institute, Australian Catholic University, and the former CEO of Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA). Cardinal George Pell’s conviction in a Melbourne court of historic
The extension of Operation Tauwhiro today is a clear sign that gang violence and the dangers of firearms violence caused by gangs is a far bigger problem than the Government will admit, says National’s spokesperson for Police Simeon Brown. “Operation Tauwhiro was initially supposed to by a six-month operation
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The home invasion was “easily the most carefully planned and professionally executed aggravated robbery of its type I’m aware of in New Zealand”, so said Judge Thomas Ingram when jailing four Maori gang members for a house invasion in which they took $40. “Carefully
