"Gangs will be a reality so long as families fail to meet the basic intrinsic needs of their children - such as identity, self-worth, self-esteem and the inherent desire to belong."

- Richard Lewis: Leader 

Targeting gangs: The Family Party believes that targeting gangs directly is a futile exercise, proven by the generational continuance of gangs and the establishment of new ones that have outlasted Governments, Police Commissioners and their strategies. Therefore, the Family Party will target NOT the gangs, but the activity that effectively binds them together – DRUG DEALING. By targeting the ACTIVITY of drug dealing, we expose their soft underbelly – their lifeline and source of existence.

The key - target drug dealing: DRUG DEALING needs to be targeted at street level and up through the layers of organised crime hierarchy. The Family Party proposes a broad three-fold approach:

1. Depriving gangs of future members: The first is in depriving gangs of as many future 'prospects' as possible by building strong functional families through family-friendly policies. This approach minimises the likelihood of young people seeking out gangs to meet basic needs NOT being met in the home, such as identity, self-worth, belonging and purpose.

2. Empowering law enforcement: Priorities towards law enforcement:

Additional staff and resources towards DRUG SQUADS:

• Look at ways to attract former detectives and senior Investigators back into the ranks to fight this war against drugs. They will be experienced in the field of organised crime, seeking out and handling informants and following investigations through to a positive end
• Invest in intelligence gathering and effective law enforcement inter-agency cooperation
• Increased powers of surveillance, search and seizure where drug dealing and organised crime is believed to be occurring
• Fund informants and offer meaningful incentives for information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of drug dealers at every level, thus creating insecurity within the organised crime community
• Consideration will also be given to undercover operations that have proven to be invaluable in the fight against organised crime. However, the Family Party is also very aware of the inherent risks and dangers posed to undercover operatives and desires far greater on-going support for agents after termination of assignments

3. A robust justice system: Streamlined justice system and effective sentencing measures:

• Achieving a justice system that measures out sentences appropriate to the heinous crime of drug dealing and possession for supply. The message that needs to go out to every drug dealer in our country is that New Zealand no longer tolerates drug dealing in our communities. We will defend our families and our children at all costs.
• The penalty for dealing Class A controlled drugs is life imprisonment. The Family Party believes that life, in this case, should be LIFE.
• The Family Party would support investment into a streamlined judicial process (Court system) to deal specifically with drug trials through to completion, which is the current bottleneck in the system.

Prostitution ruins lives and communities: Drug abuse and organised crime invariably go hand in hand with one other community vice, which is prostitution. To that end, The Family Party proposes a total repeal of the Prostitution Law Reform Act that was passed into law by a single vote.

By repealing the Prostitution Law Reform Act, we achieve three main objectives:

• Government sends a clear message to children and young people in our communities that prostitution is incredibly damaging and therefore, not supported through law
• We restore order and peace to public places that have become hotspots for street prostitution. This not only applies to the activity of prostitution and pimping, but the associated crimes of drug use, drug dealing, violence and disorderly behaviour that occurs in and around brothels and street prostitution
• We take away the cover of organised crime that thrives behind brothels and pimping