ban gang patches from public spaces, and restrict gang members' right to congregate in public or communicate with each other. A specialized National Gang Unit will focus on enforcing those policies.

Police have executed 13 search warrants across Hawke’s Bay, Gisborne, Wairoa, Auckland, and Dannevirke to seize gang patches and other gang-related clothing worn at a high-profile Mongrel Mob tangi ...

A legal challenge to the so-called gang patch ban has compared the controversial legislation to Nazi Germany and the Taliban.

Police have also seized dozens of gang patches in the three months since a new law against wearing them publicly was introduced.

A legal challenge to the gang patch ban has compared the controversial legislation to Nazi Germany and the Taliban. Lawyer Chris Nicholls spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

In the three months since the Government’s new gang laws came into effect Police have seized 76 patches, 67 firearms, and laid 337 charges for insignia breaches. Police Minister Mark Mitchell ...

The Police Commissioner says feedback from the gang-patch crackdown has been mostly positive on all fronts. More than 300 charges have been filed for breaches since the ban came into force in ...

A legal challenge to the so-called gang patch ban has been compared the controversial legislation to Nazi Germany and the Taliban. Lawyer Chris Nicholls is asking the High Court at Wellington to ...