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 been launched in Wellington's High Court, arguing the law infringes freedom of ...

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 ...

Police have seized dozens of patches and laid hundreds of charges against people since a new law was introduced three months ago. The Gangs Act came into force in November, banning gang patches in ...