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Speaker 1: Police have scored a big win against the gangs. Today

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Speaker 1: they will seize fifteen million dollars worth of assets from

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Speaker 1: the Headhunters and that includes the gang's pad in Mount

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Speaker 1: Wellington and some other properties. And this is after the

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Speaker 1: High Court ruled and the police has favored Today the

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Speaker 1: Police Commissioner Andrew cost is with us now, Andrew, that'snon Heather.

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Speaker 1: Was this ever going to go any other way than

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Speaker 1: your way?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? The team has had to be a huge amount

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Speaker 2: of work to demonstrate the connection between the property mister

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Speaker 2: Doyle as the president of the Headhunters and the unlawfull activity.

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Speaker 2: So it's been a couple of years of very solid

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Speaker 2: work by a small team on the financial part and

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Speaker 2: then a much longer chain of investigations targeting the head

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Speaker 2: Hunters for they're from activity to provide the basis for

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Speaker 2: that application.

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Speaker 1: Why was it important? Why was his role in the

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Speaker 1: gang so important? Whether he was the president or a

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Speaker 1: senior member.

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Speaker 2: The property was held by entities connected with him, and

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Speaker 2: so we needed to demonstrate his role over the top

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Speaker 2: of the head Hunter's crimonal activities for that property probably

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Speaker 2: to be shown to be tainted by that offending. And

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Speaker 2: it was and it shows that, you know, we will

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Speaker 2: persist until we can recover assets that are chained through

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Speaker 2: criminal means.

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Speaker 1: What are you going to do with it?

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Speaker 2: It goes into the proceeds of Prime fund, which is

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Speaker 2: a fund that can be accessed.

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Speaker 1: I mean, are you going to sell the power organized crime?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, yeah, property it's disposed of and there's a

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Speaker 2: process that gets followed for that. So there's potential of

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Speaker 2: an appeal here. So there'll be a little bit of

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Speaker 2: what's going to the bridge yet, But you know, a

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Speaker 2: great success for the team that's been doing the work.

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Speaker 2: I'm incredibly proud of there.

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Speaker 1: Do you reckon? Everybody's going to want to buy this pad?

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Speaker 1: Because I remember some somewhere down south, maybe Tom Rule,

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Speaker 1: something like this, maybe somewhere else, there was a pad

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Speaker 1: that was going to be sold in the gang called

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Speaker 1: such trouble. Nobody wants to buy the blinking thing.

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Speaker 2: It's a commercial property and it looks a lot like

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Speaker 2: any others, but for the fact that it's been customized

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Speaker 2: in particular ways. So that's something that the official sn

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Speaker 2: will work through as they resolve it. But the point

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Speaker 2: here is this property is not going back to the

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Speaker 2: gang and We've had a great one targeting a group

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Speaker 2: that's ped alled a huge amount of misery into our community.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just going to set up somewhere else, tho, aren't.

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Speaker 1: They're not going to give up, are they?

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Speaker 2: Look? These gangs are very persistent. But when you lose

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Speaker 2: money that's been accumulated over years and years, it does hurt,

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Speaker 2: and it does make a difference. And the point for

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Speaker 2: us really is demonstrating that, you know, if you obtain

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Speaker 2: profit this way, you're not going to be able to

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Speaker 2: hold onto it.

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Speaker 1: Andrew your man in Auckland, I think it's Tony Wakelan

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Speaker 1: is his name. He said he's told people off today

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Speaker 1: for filming at that actual yesterday in State Highway one.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a view on that?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think just because you can doesn't mean you should.

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Speaker 2: And in the end, you know, we're talking about people's lives,

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Speaker 2: and people surely exercise some judgment about the kind of

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Speaker 2: thing that we're going to post in the kind of

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Speaker 2: thing we're not. I mean, people will make their own decisions,

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Speaker 2: But you know, I think I think the message is

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Speaker 2: probably right, and I think most people would agree that

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Speaker 2: that's not really the kind of thing that we want

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Speaker 2: to see an a.

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Speaker 1: We're wasting our breath because it feels like the horse

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Speaker 1: has bolted. Everybody's got a camera on their phones, and

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Speaker 1: everybody thinks it's really important to stick absolutely everything on

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Speaker 1: social media.

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Speaker 2: Yes they do. Look, I would like to think that

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Speaker 2: people can exercise some judgment, and I think for the

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Speaker 2: means of the public and the families who are deeply

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Speaker 2: offended to see that, it's good for them to hear

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Speaker 2: from place that actually, hey, we don't think that's okay,

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Speaker 2: even if people are going to continue doing that.

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Speaker 1: Andrew, thank you for your time. I appreciate this. Andrew Costa,

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Speaker 1: the police commissioner. This is what Counties Manecow Road Police

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Speaker 1: Manager Inspector Tony Wakeland said.

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Speaker 3: Okay, can I just say I thought that was disgusting.

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Speaker 3: It really was. I mean I saw some of the footage.

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Speaker 3: It was filmed before emergency services arrived. There were close

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Speaker 3: ups of people deceasing the van and injured line on

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Speaker 3: the road. As I say, I thought it was horrible.

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Speaker 3: As said a lot of my colleagues, that's not acceptable.

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Speaker 3: You know, we should not be doing that. And I

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Speaker 3: say to the people that had filming that, how would

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Speaker 3: you feel if that's your family.

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