A further nine people had been arrested and face a range of charges, including drug dealing and firearms offences.<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said further arrests are likely.<\/p>\n
Cannabis seized by police as part of Operation Tar in Hawke’s Bay.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector James Keene said the operation focused on both enforcement and prevention.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur aim is not only to disrupt organised criminal activity, but to reduce the harm it causes to wh\u0101nau and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The operation involved Resilience to Organised Crime in Communities (ROCC), a police-led, multi\u2011agency initiative designed to disrupt the influence of organised crime.<\/p>\n
\u201cOperations like this demonstrate the value of a joined-up approach,\u201d Detective Inspector Keene said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNinety-six per cent of wh\u0101nau engaged by the ROCC team chose to take up support.<\/p>\n
At the same time, a team identified wh\u0101nau affected by the offending and connected them with agencies able to provide support aimed at addressing the underlying issues and vulnerabilities that contribute to ongoing harm.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know the impact of gang-related offending often extends well beyond the immediate criminal activity,\u201d Keene said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that methamphetamine addiction continues to harm individuals, wh\u0101nau and communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlongside enforcement, we worked to identify people and wh\u0101nau who had been affected and linked them with the support they need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A further nine people had been arrested and face a range of charges, including drug dealing and firearms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15140,3225,2840,95,11924,31746,1561,6932,1349,12639,1757,16959,1328,7815,305,1976,42,11927,120,130,43,37968,384,675,12641,40,38,41,39,102],"class_list":["post-414819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-15140","tag-according","tag-across","tag-and","tag-arrested","tag-arrests","tag-bay","tag-cash","tag-court","tag-crackdown","tag-drugs","tag-firearms","tag-gang","tag-guns","tag-have","tag-hawkes","tag-headlines","tag-landed","tag-likely","tag-more","tag-news","tag-nine","tag-people","tag-police","tag-seized","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414819","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=414819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}