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Police were able to stay ahead of the group and \u201cthe group were never able to take hold of any one location\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis comes down to the great planning and execution from the team and I would like to commend all those involved in their efforts,\u201d Barnes said.<\/p>\n

Police issued dozens of infringement notices for speeding and licence breaches, with 10 cars receiving pink and green compliance stickers.<\/p>\n

Police also confiscated fireworks that had been fired from a sunroof.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe checked every car leaving and found some to be showing signs of intended anti-social road user behaviour, such as being seen with boot-loads of spare tyres and even one towing a dedicated skid car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police are committed to disrupting all anti-social road user behaviour \u2013 \u201cit is reckless and wreaks havoc on our communities\u201d, Barnes said.<\/p>\n

Barnes urged the public to report any unlawful or dangerous road user activity as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to take action to proactively prevent this kind of activity,\u201d Barnes said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were able to stay ahead of the group and \u201cthe group were never able to take hold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,86498,46300,3944,6183,8987,33841,57982,2518,49947,16484,78,76,80139,685,2513,111,43,139,2551,69,10492,675,1314,39728,29954,86499,16742],"class_list":["post-123879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-antisocial","tag-broke","tag-car","tag-dozens","tag-fines","tag-fireworks","tag-gathering","tag-green","tag-hutt","tag-illegal","tag-in","tag-issue","tag-issuing","tag-last","tag-lower","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-pink","tag-police","tag-road","tag-seize","tag-seizing","tag-stickers","tag-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}