Stuff has spoken to numerous officers who were stunned to hear of the funding.
Now Police Association President Chris Cahill said he had been contacted by officers who were asking “why they should even bother making the huge commitment and taking the risks they do to bring to account gangs who are armed, dangerous, and dealing meth on a massive scale, when the money is just going to go back to the gangs”.
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The programme sees participants working in a ‘community garden’ at the home of the president of the Mongrel Mob's Notorious chapter, Sonny Smith, pictured.
Cahill said one officer described it as “the most successful money laundering scheme he’d heard”.