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The business communities of New Zealand can help the Police Managers’ Guild Trust make a real difference to local communities.

How? By sponsoring the Trust

The Trust has two key objectives
  1. Educate New Zealanders with useful information that helps people avoid becoming victims of crime
  2. Provide funding to groups dealing with victims of crime and crime prevention programs
The Trust produces booklets that contain information that assists victims of crime and helps prevent crime. Over two million journals have been distributed free to homes throughout New Zealand. The number of publications delivered to homes in any one area is directly related to the level of support generated from each individual business community.

The booklets are widely recognised and serve the needs of business people, support groups, government and the general public.

The Trust has returned over three million dollars to community groups in need of support.

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LETTER FROM DAVE MONTGOMERY, CHAIRMAN OF THE POLICE MANAGERS' GUILD TRUST



Dear Supporter

The Police Managers' Guild Charitable Trust was established in 1997 to fill an identified community need for quality crime prevention advice. Senior Police Officers throughout the country coordinate the Trust. Its activity is based on the philosophy of ‘safer communities together’, designed to foster a close and ongoing working relationship with the community.

New Zealand has started into a major new era of drug abuse. We are faced with a greater number of drugs than ever before, and they are easier to get.

The Police noticed a big change in 2000, when methamphetamine – known as the party drug ‘P’ – appeared on the scene. It is chemically based, does not require importing, can be made at home and the ingredients are readily available. And most disturbingly, it is very addictive.

P was a factor in the killings of youngster Coral-Ellen Burrows in Featherson, and at a Returned Services club in Auckland. P is also linked to an increase in family violence.

Overseas suppliers have made links with ethnic and motorcycle gangs in this country who handle the local distribution. These drugs are not likely to be sold at ‘tinny houses’ but by people who know people, just like cannabis used to be. Users are more likely to be supplied their drugs by sex workers, strippers and bar bouncers.

Trafficking has become well organised. Couriers, mainly from Asian countries, bring P into New Zealand hidden in suitcases, strapped to their bodies and inside their bodies, and in hollowed-out objects. Some traffickers are being caught at our airports but this country is a target for international drug criminals because the market is so lucrative – the profits are high and ethnic gangs, who control the local supply, keep the prices up.

Mobile phones and internet banking help suppliers and dealers in their financial transactions. Drug money is being laundered in casinos, where the cash is placed then withdrawn a few minutes later as winnings.

New, legal, herbal-based drugs have also appeared and are being sold legally as energy pills. How dangerous they are is not yet known. They are banned in Sweden, the United States, and in some Australian states. The Police look at them as possible gateway drugs to harder, illegal drugs.

The Police Managers’ Guild Trust booklet on drugs and alcohol has been produced to help acquaint parents, at-risk teenagers and concerned individuals such as youth workers and teachers with the facts about drugs. We have focused on methamphetamines because they represent a major change in the New Zealand drug scene.

New Zealand Police want to reduce the supply of illegal, harmful drugs and make our community safer. Armed with the right information, we hope you can help.

You can become involved in the programme by helping generate funding for the production, printing and distribution of the booklet simply by placing your business name, logo and details alongside that of the Police Managers' Guild Trust in the form of a visual display space, or alternatively through a business sponsorship in our ‘Compliments of a Friend’ section.

The number of journals placed in homes in an area is directly related to the level of support generated from the business community.

Please take the time to consider our proposition carefully and if it is something you decide may be of benefit or if you have any questions or queries regarding this programme please communicate with me.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to further communication
between us.

Yours Sincerely



Dave Montgomery
Chairman, The Police Managers’ Guild Trust

PS. We need your help to support the programmes for drug and alcohol prevention! Act now, your support makes the difference.