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Police alerts on over 2 million: Are you being watched?

Luke Kirkness
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Sport Planning Editor·Bay of Plenty Times·
5 mins to read

More than half of the Bay of Plenty population has an alert against their name on the New Zealand Police intelligence system, figures reveal.

And nationwide, more than 2 million people had at least one alert in 2020.

The alerts ranged from family violence to trespassing, firearm-related to warrants for arrest and people may have more than one against their name.

The Bay of Plenty district had the fifth-highest number of alerts with 160,986 – 52 per cent of the

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