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The various news reports about the Abel Smith St raid and the Police's own press release say they were looking for "firearms, ammunition and people". So it would seem that they did not know that there were no weapons in Wellington.
Either that, or they knew perfectly well that there were no firearms, but claimed there might be as an excuse for the raid. Their failure to lock down Abel Smith St supports this explanation.
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I'm sure in hindsight the police might regret not just using the plain Crimes Act, however that's hindsight.
The police have admitted that they couldn't use the Crimes Act, because no crimes had been committed (excluding the alleged firearms crimes). That includes conspiracy to murder, and conspiracy to commit an offence. In other words, no crimes were planned, and the arrests were made on the basis that the police thought that they might plan a crime at some point in the future.