Sixteen known gangs are operating in the South, police have revealed. That excuse, according to a leading New Zealand gang expert, was "nonsense". The Otago Daily Times requested a range of information about gang activity in the Southern police district, including how many known gangs were present in the area. "Patched gangs, they’ll know about some of them, but they won’t know about the homie gangs, the street gangs, the kids who hang about under a name. There were 16 gangs known to be operating in the area, police said.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 01, 2019 15:22 UTC