Head Hunters Motorcycle Club  The Head Hunters Motorcycle Club are an outlaw motorcycle club in New Zealand. They are found all around the North Island, but are mainly based in East Auckland, with its headquarters being located in Ellerslie. They also have chapters in West Auckland, Wellsford, Northland and Wellington. They have a long criminal history, with more than 1000 criminal convictions, and 110 members and associates in the New Zealand prison system. The Head Hunters were formed in 1967, in the East Auckland suburb of Glen Innes as a large multi-ethnic street gang, but later moved its location, and eventually, in 1985, evolved into a Motorcycle Club, before becoming a legally incorporated society in 1996. They are known allies of the Hells Angels, the Filthy Few, and the Nomads. The Head Hunters run a successful fight club running out of their East Auckland headquarters. The gang is known for its reputation of violence. With the growth of their 'violent' reputation, seeing themselves as an elite group of criminals, the gang began to restrict its membership. When speaking about the gang, Detective Sergeant Craig Martin Turley said,   The Head Hunters are an organised crime group, using companies, societies, and trusts to shroud their operations and cash flow in secrecy. The gang has a single strategy: remain limited in members, report all to the central headquarters in Ellerslie, and expand nationally. The Head Hunters' main rivals are loosely connected gangs with no centralised national body, whereas the Head Hunters legally incorporated a National Body with the Societies Office in 1996, the Head Hunters Motorcycle Club Incorporated. The organisation has been known to use the "patching over" tactic with smaller regional gangs, allowing them to become Head Hunters, only if they adhere to the business model. The reach of the Head Hunters is multinational, with links to the Asian organised crime syndicates well known by the New Zealand Police. These connections are the main connection for the Head Hunters acquiring their supplies for their methamphetamine operations     The Head Hunters East Auckland have opened their gym to the public, providing a place for the youth to get off of the streets. The gang also has placed a ban on methamphetamine use within its ranks. The Head Hunters commonly use the purchase of legitimate businesses in order to cover, and launder, for drug and extortion work undertaken by the gang. Allegations of money laundering are yet to proven in a New Zealand court of law. The 'HEAD HUNTERS MOTORCYCLE CLUB INCORPORATED' (Society No: 829572) was incorporated as an incorporated society in New Zealand on 5 December 1996.