Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Police shrink as drug gangs get bigger / The New Zealand Herald, 18 Apr 2005

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10121044
"As international gangsters develop the $1-billion-a-year illicit drugs trade in New Zealand, the number of police assigned to gang intelligence has shrunk from 40 in the mid-1990s to just a dozen today, a Herald investigation has learned.

In that time gangs have become more sophisticated and entrenched in the drug business and frontline police believe senior officers and the Government are doing too little to crack down on the growing problem. "