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Minister of Police Poto Williams and Justice Minister Kris Faafoi announce new laws to ban “high risk people from owning or being near firearms.
National Party leader Judith Collins insists there is no systemic racism within police, as she pushes the Government to add “teeth” to an organised crime crackdown that may “unduly impact” Māori. Talk of racism within the police arose on Tuesday after the Government announced a crackdown on organised crime, promising new laws to create Firearm Prevention Orders which will ban serious criminals from owning or being near guns, and bolstered police powers to seize the assets of gang members.
Andrew Dickens: If cracking down on gangs was easy, it would have been done decades ago Tue, 11 May 2021, 5:42PM
Andrew Dickens: If cracking down on gangs was easy, it would have been done decades ago Tue, 11 May 2021, 5:42PM
So, the latest step has been taken in the decades long battle against the gangs, organised crime and hardened criminals.
The government has introduced a thing called Firearm Prohibition Orders.
It bans high-risk convicted Kiwis from owning firearms and enabling the seizure of assets obtained through crime.
It’s very similar to the idea floated a few weeks ago by National’s Simeon Brown, but it goes further than Simeon’s proposal in that it includes all criminals and not just gang members. That hasn’t stopped Simon Bridges from saying Labour has just copied them.
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