Drug abuse and crime
Photographic prints relating to crime
Date: 1950-2000
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: PAColl-7327-1-045
Description: Photographs relating to crime, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.
"The middle lane with the wheelie bin, spitoon and ashtray is for people on needle exch...
Date: 2010
From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]
Reference: DCDL-0015468
Description: A chemist explains that the middle lane of the road outside his shop with the wheelie bin, spittoon and ashtray, is for people on needle exchange and methadone programs and that there is also an express lane for armed robbery. Refers to the number of pharmacy robberies by people wanting illegal drugs or the ingredients for the making of illegal drugs. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
News. Police, this week, busted a 'well-organised' drug operation run mainly by prison ...
Date: 2008
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
Reference: DCDL-0007481
Description: Shows a prison guard leading a bunch of heavily armed storm troopers to a the locked doors of a prison block that is named 'P Block'. He yells at them that this sounds promising. Refers to the uncovering of a large drug operation in Auckland where police arrested 12 people including eight prison inmates in what they called a major drug ring smuggling medicines into the country from China. Police said raids on two prisons and 23 homes in Auckland followed a 6-month investigation into the activities of a well-organized group of criminals involved in the manufacture of methamphetamine and other illegal drugs. Published in Shipping Gazette Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"We're too busy harassing peaceful activists and shooting innocent people!" Law and dis...
Date: 2009
From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0010215
Description: On the left a raised fist clutching a knife and representing 'gangs' makes the whole of a map of New Zealand bleed. On the right stands Leader of the House, Gerry Brownlee, in a policeman's uniform. He says that the police are too busy harassing peaceful activists and shooting innocent people to be bothered by the gang problem. Refers to police scrutiny of peaceful activist groups and the problems posed by criminal gangs which eventually led to The Gangs and Organised Crime Bill. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Doyle, Martin, 1956-:"How the hell do you unpack this lot?" 27 April 2011
Date: 2011
From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons
By: Scoop (Firm)
Reference: DCDL-0017716
Description: A customs official wonders 'How the hell do you unpack this lot?' as he surveys a suitcase overflowing with cocaine and various kinds of strange creatures. A snake says 'We were set up by some nasty manipulative creep!', a spider says 'There was a whole web of them', some bug says 'I'm a silly girl...' and someone enjoys the cocaine 'This is good stuff, man...' Context - The problem of smuggling drugs and rare animals but specifically the case of New Zealander Sharon Armstrong has been imprisoned in Argentina after being caught with 5k of cocaine concealed in the base of a suitcase. She says she feels foolish and has been caught in a scam. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Ekers, Paul, 1961-:Dogs trained to sniff out cash. 16 August 2013
Date: 2013
From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]
By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0025842
Description: Under the caption 'Dogs trained to sniff out cash', a Police dog stands threateningly on the desk of the Chief Executive Officer of Meridian Energy. The dog handler tells the anxious executive 'Rover's speciality is obscene profits'. In August 2013 twelve dogs trained to sniff out paper money as well as drugs were put into service with the Police and Customs departments to detect drug smugglers. In the same month Meridian Energy net profits for the year ending April 2013 were declared at $295 million. Considering the increase in electricity prices, many considered this to be exhorbitant. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).
Ekers, Paul, 1961- :"So we forget P-labs and make heaps selling cold medicine". 9 Octob...
Date: 2009
From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]
Reference: DCDL-0029769
Description: Shows two motorcycle gang members talking about making money from selling cold and flu medicine. Refers to pseudoephedrine, a main ingredient in many cold and flu medication, becoming a Class B2 prescription-only drug. Title supplied by librarian Arrangement: File was originally delivered to the Library in a folder called '2009' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Doyle, Martin, 1956- :Drug mule led on by woman. 8 December 2014
Date: 2014
From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons
By: Scoop (Firm)
Reference: DCDL-0030035
Description: Commentary from the artist reads 'New Zealand is fed up to its back teeth of its own citizens trying to smuggle drugs into, of all places - Indonesia. The word needs to go out: death by firing squad is a bad trip. Cartoon represents Antony de Malmanche, arrested in Bali for trying to import 1.7 kg of methamphetamines.' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Doyle, Martin, 1956- :Stuffing Young Minds. 26 October 2012
Date: 2012
From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons
By: Scoop (Firm)
Reference: DCDL-0023249
Description: Cartoon commenting on the irony that drug-dealers are escaping prosecution by the Police being bound strictly by rules and regulations while they themselves dispense illegal drugs to young people, destroying their lives. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :"Oh, that's a relief! He kept saying he was 'off to the can' an...
Date: 2011
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
Reference: DCDL-0018735
Description: Text reads 'News: a Whareora man has been arrested for cultivating cannabis in shipping containers on his property.' Below, a woman who looks rather the worse for wear and is smoking something, says to the policeman 'Oh, that's a relief! He kept saying he was "off to the can" and I blamed my haute cuisine.' In the background another policeman carries cannabis plants out of a shipping container. Context: police have discovered more than 400 cannabis plants in three shipping containers at a property near Whangdrei. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Doyle, Martin, 1956- :Maurice on the line. 23 May 2014
Date: 2014
From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0028246
Description: Accompanying note from cartoonist states, "One of the key signs of a corrupt society is when politicians just need to lift the phone to the Police to get a case 'sorted'. News of yet another call from Maurice Williamson to senior police is a quite concerning." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).