In 2018 police executed a search warrant on the property, suspecting methamphetamine was being dealt from the semi-rural home. But even if police do tell landlords, it could be anywhere from days to months after raids have taken place – even in cases where they suspect methamphetamine pollution to landlords' properties. Tenants are responsible for damage caused in police raids because they were a reasonably forseeable damage directly arising from unlawful activities of tenants, tribunal referees have ruled. DAVID WALKER/STUFF Police have no obligation to tell landlords when a search warrant has been executed at one of their properties, but they often do. The Government is failing landlords, and is dismayed the focus remained on tenants' rights, not those of landlords, he said.

Source: Stuff January 25, 2020 16:07 UTC