Police worked for 12 months to stop a major theft ring.

Operation Trump Card seized more than three thousand stolen items from homes and 15 commercial storage units, including 950 power tools, 46 heat pumps, 39 computers, and two baths.

Wellington District Detective Inspector John van den Heuvel told Andrew Dickens that it's a good example of ground up Policing.

He says their investigation started a year ago, with frontline officers speaking with offenders and victims in the community, which allowed analysts to join the dots and it pointed to this enterprise.

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• 950 power tools, 46 heat pumps, 27 e-scooters: Huge haul of recovered stolen property