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NZ border control increases focus on organised crime

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 10 Nov 2025, 7:44am
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NZ border control increases focus on organised crime

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 10 Nov 2025, 7:44am

Border control is concentrating it's efforts on tackling organised crime. 

They said that the progress so far, in collaboration with international partners, has shown positive results - with over 900kgs of meth bound for NZ seized. However, there is still a significant threat.

Customs' Deputy Chief Executive of Operations, Jamie Bamford told Mike Hosking that 'what we're facing is scale and an aggressive, well funded, agile, organised crime.'

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