ban gang patches from public spaces, and restrict gang members' right to congregate in public or communicate with each other. A specialized National Gang Unit will focus on enforcing those policies.

Police have also seized dozens of gang patches in the three months since a new law against wearing them publicly was introduced.

A legal challenge to the so-called gang patch ban has been compared the controversial legislation to Nazi Germany and the ...

Police have seized dozens of patches and laid hundreds of charges against people since a new law was introduced three months ago. The Gangs Act came into force in November, banning gang patches in ...