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ACT Announces Gang Injunction Orders

ACT Announces Gang Injunction Orders

Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson ACT will introduce a new policy of Gang Injunction Orders to crack down on gang members and minimise the risk posed to the public. Under Labour, gang numbers have exploded, ACT has a plan to take back control. Gang Injunction Orders would allow the Police

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ACT Would Correct Corrections

ACT Would Correct Corrections

Toni Severin ACT Corrections spokesperson ACT would abolish the prisoner reduction target, make rehabilitation compulsory to be eligible for parole and keep our successful the Three Strikes Law. We need to be smart, not ideological when it comes to crime. Corrections number one goal should be to keep New Zealanders

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Bring Back Armed Response Teams

Bring Back Armed Response Teams

National is calling on the Government to take serious action to give better support to frontline Police Officers who are facing significantly increased violence, emboldened gangs, and rising gun crime, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “The Police Commission and the Minister of Police have both rightly expressed concern

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West Auckland Police Attack: Mandatory Jail Time Needed for Police Assaults

West Auckland Police Attack: Mandatory Jail Time Needed for Police Assaults

Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust The latest violent attack on a police constable in West Auckland is more evidence that there need to be harsher sentences brought in for assaults on our frontline officers, says Darroch Ball co-leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust. “A constable has been viciously punched

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National Seeks Auditor General Investigation into Mongrel-Mob Funding

National Seeks Auditor General Investigation into Mongrel-Mob Funding

National has written to the Auditor General requesting an investigation into two separate Government Mongrel Mob-related funding; the $2.75 million payment to lifetime Mongrel-Mob Member Harry Tam for a drug rehabilitation programme and the Chief Human Rights Commissioners $200 donation to the Waikato Mongrel Mob. “It has become clear

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Demand the Debate on Gangs and Crime

Demand the Debate on Gangs and Crime

Judith Collins Leader Under Labour, New Zealand is less safe as gang numbers explode. Gangs are becoming more powerful, while the Government focuses on making apologies for criminals rather than arresting them. You can read more here. On a weekly basis, we learn of increased gang-related gun crime, shootings and

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Mongrel Mob Drug Rehab Funding Likened to Money Laundering

Mongrel Mob Drug Rehab Funding Likened to Money Laundering

policeassn.org.nz The Police Association totally rejects the payment of nearly $3 million to a Mongrel Mob-led methamphetamine addiction programme – a scheme that has riled a growing number of police officers, particularly those involved in organised crime investigations. Association President Chris Cahill has been contacted by officers asking why

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Gangs Are the Problem, Not the Solution

Gangs Are the Problem, Not the Solution

Darroch Ball Co-Leader Sensible Sentencing Trust. Over recent months there has been a massive increase in police shootings, gang violence, and innocent members of the public being caught in danger caused by gangs. Every week we are writing to you, posting on social media, and putting out press releases not

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Was Jack Really Jill the Ripper?

Was Jack Really Jill the Ripper?

Few historical crimes have had such enduring fascination as the Ripper murders. The mutilation-killings of five lower-class women in London’s Whitechapel slums in 1888 caused an immediate sensation – one which has barely faded after 133 years. “Jack the Ripper” is the subject of dozens of films and TV shows,

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Kiwis Deserve the Debate on Gangs and Crime

Kiwis Deserve the Debate on Gangs and Crime

Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says the Government’s approach to law and order is appalling, as she releases National’s third billboard as part of its ‘Demand the Debate’ campaign. “The Government backing the Mongrel Mob to rehabilitate people on meth over proven organisations with no gang affiliation

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Anger Management

Anger Management

I travelled into Wellington from the Hutt Valley on the train today. The view along the water was delightful. The passengers provided an eclectic mix of people and races – roughly 50% Europeans and 50% Asians – mostly heading into the capital for work. At the station, I took a taxi to

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Frontline Police Don’t Support Labour Funding the Mob

Frontline Police Don’t Support Labour Funding the Mob

Police officers have aptly labelled the funding of a rehabilitation programme run by the Mongrel Mob as a successful money laundering scheme and National agrees, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “There is clearly outrage and anger amongst police officers who feel giving taxpayer money to an organised criminal

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Is Australia a Sitting Duck for Ransomware Attacks? Yes, and the Danger Has Been Growing for 30 Years

Is Australia a Sitting Duck for Ransomware Attacks? Yes, and the Danger Has Been Growing for 30 Years

Paul Haskell-Dowland Andrew Woodward Edith Cowan University Associate Professor Paul Haskell-Dowland is the Associate Dean for Computing and Security in the School of Science at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. Professor Andrew Woodward is the Executive Dean of the School of Science, which includes the two major discipline groupings of

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Police Minister Doesn’t Know the Law She Voted For

Police Minister Doesn’t Know the Law She Voted For

Neville Dodd President president@sportingshooters.nz A police officer is shot in Ngaruawhaia and in a media release commenting on that the Police Minister has said “Cabinet was “working on the process” of getting a gun register in place to stop these weapons getting into the wrong hands, Williams said.

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