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”.
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“We want to reassure the community that we do not tolerate this type of behaviour on our roads and offenders will be held accountable,” Sycamore said. Police estimated about 1200 people attended the tangi and six people were arrested overnight for allegedly breaching bail conditions. Hundreds of gang members attended the tangi for the man, who died in Flaxmere, near Hastings, early on Friday morning. A funeral notice requested no patches, but there was a plethora of patches on display from various chapters and locations around the North Island. National MP Simeon Brown said the gang’s procession across the region was “unacceptable”.
Traffic was brought to a standstill on a major highway this afternoon as Mongrel Mob gang members took to road in tangi in Hawke’s Bay, following the death of a senior member.
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Member of the Mongrel Mob in a procession on State Highway 2 as part of a tangi for a senior member In the afternoon, the man’s body was taken to an urupā south of Hastings via State Highway 2. There were long line of motorbikes and cars head south, overflowing into the northbound land, forcing oncoming traffic to pull over. Several cars had gang members leaning out windows making hand gestures.
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Traffic was brought to standstill on a major highway as members of the Mongrel Mob transported the body of a senior member to an urupā south of Hastings.