Tackling gangs head-on
National is building a safer New Zealand.
We’ve embarked on a comprehensive programme of reform to protect communities, prevent crime, and put victims first. Our work is paying off.
We now have the lowest crime rate in 35 years, and the time is right to focus on gang crime and the disproportionate harm it causes. Gang members make up just 0.1 per cent of the population but are responsible for significant levels of crime. The cost to victims, families, and the taxpayer is huge.
National wants to ensure Police and other agencies have the tools they need to hold gangs to account, while breaking the cycle of offending, preventing young people from joining these organisations, and helping current members to leave gang life behind.
For the first time, a multi-agency approach involving intelligence-gathering, enhanced law enforcement, prevention, intervention, rehabilitation, and reintegration will be adopted to address New Zealand gangs and transnational crime groups.
We’re also working on a long-term plan to address what is a complex issue, to stop the intergenerational grip which gang life has on families, and to reduce the number of victims, both within these families and in the wider community.
National will create a multi-agency Gang Intelligence Centre which will combine intelligence to support investigation, prevention, and enforcement; as well as identifying vulnerable kids and family members who may need support.
Breaking the cycle begins at home. Support will be targeted to communities where there is a large gang presence and we will help families and members turn away from the gang lifestyle. We will provide access to training, education, employment, and housing away from gang life for gang members released from prison.
We will strengthen legislation to allow courts to require 24-hour GPS monitoring on high-risk gang members out of prison, as a condition of their release. This will prevent them associating with other gang members at gang headquarters and help keep their families, often their first victims, safe.
We will also establish two Dedicated Enforcement Taskforces focussing on asset recovery and border protection, as well as exploring other measures. We’re tackling this problem head-on.
Gangs don’t need to be a fact of life in New Zealand. We want to break the cycle of gangs to ensure a safer New Zealand for future generations. New Zealanders deserve to feel safe in their homes and communities.
Authorised by Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi MP, 1/131 Kolmar Road, Papatoetoe, Auckland
National is building a safer New Zealand.
We’ve embarked on a comprehensive programme of reform to protect communities, prevent crime, and put victims first. Our work is paying off.
We now have the lowest crime rate in 35 years, and the time is right to focus on gang crime and the...
National is building a safer New Zealand.
We’ve embarked on a comprehensive programme of reform to protect communities, prevent crime, and put victims first. Our work is paying off.
We now have the lowest crime rate in 35 years, and the time is right to focus on gang crime and the disproportionate harm it causes. Gang members make up just 0.1 per cent of the population but are responsible for significant levels of crime. The cost to victims, families, and the taxpayer is huge.
National wants to ensure Police and other agencies have the tools they need to hold gangs to account, while breaking the cycle of offending, preventing young people from joining these organisations, and helping current members to leave gang life behind.
For the first time, a multi-agency approach involving intelligence-gathering, enhanced law enforcement, prevention, intervention, rehabilitation, and reintegration will be adopted to address New Zealand gangs and transnational crime groups.
We’re also working on a long-term plan to address what is a complex issue, to stop the intergenerational grip which gang life has on families, and to reduce the number of victims, both within these families and in the wider community.
National will create a multi-agency Gang Intelligence Centre which will combine intelligence to support investigation, prevention, and enforcement; as well as identifying vulnerable kids and family members who may need support.
Breaking the cycle begins at home. Support will be targeted to communities where there is a large gang presence and we will help families and members turn away from the gang lifestyle. We will provide access to training, education, employment, and housing away from gang life for gang members released from prison.
We will strengthen legislation to allow courts to require 24-hour GPS monitoring on high-risk gang members out of prison, as a condition of their release. This will prevent them associating with other gang members at gang headquarters and help keep their families, often their first victims, safe.
We will also establish two Dedicated Enforcement Taskforces focussing on asset recovery and border protection, as well as exploring other measures. We’re tackling this problem head-on.
Gangs don’t need to be a fact of life in New Zealand. We want to break the cycle of gangs to ensure a safer New Zealand for future generations. New Zealanders deserve to feel safe in their homes and communities.
Authorised by Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi MP, 1/131 Kolmar Road, Papatoetoe, Auckland
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