http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3094933a10,00.html
"Police in some parts of the country have been ordered not to hunt for illicit laboratories making the drug P.
Several officers say there is an unwritten message not to go after gangs and drug labs because dealing with the labs is too difficult and because police chiefs do not want crime statistics to look bad, an Auckland newspaper reports.
High-ranking police officers and Police Minister George Hawkins have dismissed the claims.
But one officer from the North Shore/Waitakere/Rodney district said he was told by a supervisor not to target gang-related activities so the district would not feature badly in crime statistics.
'Our boss has decreed that we don't target gangs specifically,' he said.
'They have buried their heads in the sand, saying that if we don't target it, we don't create a statistic and therefore we don't look bad.'
The officer said the addictive and destructive drug ? pure methamphetamine, or P, mostly made and sold by gangs ? was 'the most serious thing around' and now staff were allowed to follow it up only if they came across it. "
