Detective Inspector Stuart Mills, a former vice-president of the Police Association and long-serving activist, was made a life member at this year’s annual conference.

This column is written by a frontline police member. It does not represent the views or policies of the Police Association.

Follow the money is what Superintendent Iain Chapman, national manager criminal investigations advises, because transnational organised crime groups operate through money.

Detective Sergeant Ray Sunkel, head of Police’s motorcycle gang unit, has a frontline view of organised crime.

The growth of organised crime was a real concern and “we need to do things differently”, Police Minister Stuart Nash said as he officially opened the Police Association annual conference.

The terror attack in Christchurch was foremost on the minds of many of the speakers at this year’s Police Association conference.