Police have denied they overreacted when arresting Bailey Junior Kurariki on Friday night, saying reports of staff numbers had been exaggerated.
Kurariki is back behind bars after allegedly breaching his parole conditions by using drugs. Kim Workman, former national director of the Prison Fellowship, said Kurariki's family
had told him between 30 and 40 police officers surrounded the house and a helicopter hovered overhead as he was arrested.
But Counties Manukau police spokeswoman Senior Sergeant Denise Traill said there were nothing like 30 police officers present.
Kurariki was taken to Auckland's Mt Eden Prison and would remain there until the Parole Board held a recall meeting in two or three weeks' time, a board spokeswoman said.
