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Gangs in New Zealand; References External links "Identified gangs". Gangs Act 2024. New Zealand Government; This page was last edited on 22 January 2025, at 20:28 ...
According to the 2007 book Gangs by English journalist Ross Kemp, New Zealand had more gangs per head than any other country in the world, [23] with about seventy major gangs and over 4,000 patched members [1] in a population of 4 million people. In 2019 the Police recorded 6,500 patched or prospective gang members in the country, with the ten ...
The gang began with a group of mainly New Zealand European youths from Wellington and Hawke's Bay in the 1960s. Legend within the gang holds that the name originated from the comments of a judge in the Hastings District Court, who referred to a group of men before him as mongrels. [1] [7] Whatever the origin, the group embraced the term.
The King Cobras were founded by Samoans in Ponsonby sometime in the 1950s, making them the oldest gang in New Zealand. [3] Initially, it was restricted to Samoans, but has since accepted other Polynesians. [3] The King Cobras have had a presence across South, Central, [4] North [5] and West Auckland, [6] Hutt Valley, Wellington, [7] Dunedin [8 ...
The 2017 Financial Statements, of the incorporated portion of the organisation, lodged with the New Zealand Societies Office stated the total assets to be $106,630. The assets listed included a property, 7 Centennial Park Road, Wellsford. A search of the property shows clear Head Hunters New Zealand imagery and symbolism.
The Gangs Act 2024 is an omnibus bill that seeks to reduce the harmful behaviours caused by criminal gangs and to disincentivise gang membership. It makes displaying gang patches a criminal offence, creates new dispersal powers to stop gang members for gathering in a public area for seven days and create a new non-consorting order which bans specified gang offenders from consorting with each ...
In 1997, tensions heated up with the Highway 61 gang and resulted in the murder of Nomad Malcom Munns. [2] In 2009, Nomads founder and President Dennis Hines died. [3] He is the brother of senior Head Hunters member, William Hines. [3] He was imprisoned on a count of nearly 100 criminal convictions. [4] The gang had 103 members in prison in ...
The Highway 61 Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club based in New Zealand and also operating in Australia. The Committee on Gangs report of 1981 (known as the Comber Report) said they were one of the two largest of the 20 outlaw motorcycle gangs in New Zealand. [1] In the 1990s they were the largest in the country. [2]