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Authorities have reacted quickly after a ONE News investigation revealed how ingredients to make methamphetamine are being sold in dairies in the Northland town of Moerewa.
The two stores were selling large quantities of isopropyl, a key ingredient used in making the class A drug P, which is legally used in painting and cleaning industries.
Police visited the dairies on Tuesday.
Kawakawa Police Sergeant Allyson Ealam says the incident has upset locals.
"What people have got to understand is that Moerewa is a very small community ... they respect their community and they care about their community and I think this has had a huge blow to them," she says.
So far no action has been taken against the shop owners but police are investigating the sale of the ingredients to make P.
"They have removed the item from their shelf and it has been packaged up and is to be returned to the supplier and they will no longer sell it," says Ealam.
"I want to reiterate to the community that we are dealing with it and sort of not to take the law into their own hands."
During undercover filming one shopkeeper offered to do a cheap deal on a bulk purchase of isopropyl knowing the buyer wanted it to make drugs.
The camera footage showed shopkeeper Nick Patel apparently happy to sell the chemical to drug dealers
When told it was used for drugs Patel is shown on camera saying: "It's got nothing to do with me so I don't mind."

However when ONE News returned he said it would not be good to sell isopropyl for use in drug making.
"It is killing people and we are not here to kill people," Patel says.
But further into the interview he admits selling to customers knowing it would be used to make methamphetamine.
"Yep, well since you pushing it that hard I have no other choice of saying no or yes," Patel says.
Patel doesn't live in Moerewa and says he can't ask the customers what they are doing with the things they are buying. He says "it is their business."
Moerewa School pricnipal, Keri Milne-Ihimaera is devastated that the community has apparently been let down by the actions of a few.
"To hear that some of our businesses are not actively joining us in support of our fight against this drug is really disappointing," she says.
Police Minister Annette King is also shocked about the happenings in the small town.
"I looked at that programme last night and I have to say I was appalled at the behaviour of that shop owner," says King.
But others in Moerewa feel their town is being picked on.
"Is there no P problem in Auckland?" asks one man.
Another says there are other towns where heavier drugs are used than those used in Moerewa.
For now, some in the area will be boycotting the two stores.
"We'd be quite happy to guarantee our business back to those dairies when they can guarantee to us that they'll put families first and profits and drugs supply second," says Milne-Ihimaera.
Awareness lacking
ONE News believes other stores are unwittingly selling materials needed to cook up P.
A reporter visited a Northland supermarket and purchased several of the necessary products along with two decoy items. The purchases by ONE News did not raise an eyebrow, even when the reporter returned for a forgotten item - butane gas.
After visiting six stores ONE News had everything necessary for the making of P except the cold remedy medicine containing pseudoephedrine.
"Most checkout operators, in the absence of education would probably not bat an eyelid and you could buy eight to 10 of those items in one hit," says Mike Sabin, a former police officer who is trying to fight the growing problem with his organisation Methcon.
Sabin, along with others, believes there is a need for tighter regulation, more education for sellers and deterrents for buyers.
"Drug dealing, drug manufacture relies on one thing and if people are ignorant to what is going on it happens blindly under their noses," Sabin says.
Patel maintains the police knew he was selling isopropyl.
"It is not only me, there is so many other people who know about it and they are still selling it," he says.
Police have warned sellers to make a note of people who buy the isopropyl alcohol in combination with other known P precursors.

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I agree with the store owner; it aint my business what you do with it.

Seriously, if a store owner asked every single person what they did with everything they purchased...

Seriously...

Like, I am surprised at the community's reaction to the store owner's comment.

Now, knowing that customers were doing the drug-making, I would have notified the authorities after the sale.

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