National's Law and Order discussion paper is being called a mish-mash of reheated ideas.
It includes proposals for a new police unit to crack down on gangs, revoking parole for associates and banning patches in public.
The police unit would be based on Strike Force Raptor - a team dedicated to stamping out gangs in Australia.
Leader Simon Bridges says gang numbers are increasing twice as fast as new police recruits.
Other proposals include creating a new sentence for violent gang crime, streamlining the courts system and making working prisons compulsory.
Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis says National's talking a big game, but didn't act when in Government.
"What we've done as a Government is address every area from prevention of crime through to more police through to greater rehabilitation services in prison, through to helping people when they emerge from prison, and it's working."
Executive Director of the Māori Council Matthew Tukaki told Heater du Plessis-Allan that the Australian plan this is based on has not worked as well as Bridges may think it has.
"We've been here before. It doesn't get to the root cause of the problem, and the problem is we've got to bust the distribution networks and supply channels that give gangs their money."
He says he would rather see a Border Force-esque agency set up here.
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