Quiet New Year for NZ police
By Christie Anderson,WNS New Zealand Correspondent
It has been a very quiet New Year in all the traditional hot spots leaving police breathing a sigh of relief. They say despite a number of arrests there have been no major problems. About 100 people have had a night in the specially constructed 'Alcatraz' facility in Mount Maunganui for breaches of the liquor ban. Bad weather in Wellington forced the event in Civic Square to be cancelled, and Whangamata is reporting its lowest number of arrests for years, just over 100.
In Wanaka, Sergeant Aaron Nicholson says the thirty extra police brought in from Dunedin helped keep arrests down there too. He says there were just a few minor street incidents and nobody got badly hurt. And there were only a handful of arrests in the crowd of three thousand at the Gisborne clock tower. None at all were made from a crowd of about 14,000 at the Waiohika Rhythm and Vines event.
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