Mark Mitchell: National Party Police spokesperson on the record number of people listed as gang members - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

National's digging into the Government over New Zealand's record numbers of gangsters.

Newstalk ZB can reveal more than eight-thousand three-hundred people are on the national gang list.

National Police spokesperson Mark Mitchell says that's risen more than 300 since August - and is up 56 percent on 2017.

He says the current environment is soft on crime.

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