Police officers are upset by the Government s funding of
a gang-led methamphetamine programme and the NZ Police
Association has totally rejected the proposed $2.75m funding
for gang-led meth programme.
Prime Minister Jacinda
Ardern defended the $2.75 million used (from proceeds of
crime funding), which was given to a Mongrel Mob-led meth
rehabilitation programme. She admitted that she had been one
of the ministers involved in making the decision to fund
it.
The Prime Minister stated that she was comfortable using millions from crime proceeds to fund
gang-led meth rehab
However, the New Zealand Police
Association is opposed to the payment.
Association
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”.
Explainer - One of National s current lines of attack against Labour is an accusation that the governing party has funded the Mongrel Mob to the tune of $2.75 million.
A methamphetamine rehabilitation programme with close ties to the Mongrel Mob has received money from the Proceeds of Crime Fund.
Photo: RNZ / Vinay Ranchhod
The money, from the Proceeds of Crime Fund, was signed off by those at the top of Labour, including Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
It was for a methamphetamine rehabilitation programme called Kahukura in the central Hawke s Bay.
But the organisation running the programme has gang connections, some of the property it is held on has gang connections, and some of those taking part do too.
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