Police are continuing to fight drug crime on every level up and down the country, from shutting down major operations to seizing assets purchased with drug money.

And in a move to stamp out drug offending in the Bay of Plenty, police are fighting to seize $1.71 million worth of a Tauranga drug dealer's assets.

Items seized from Gary Read's property including cash, guns and drugs.

Police have applied to the High Court for the forfeiture of assets including cars, artworks and two Tauranga Homes of Gary Read.

Read was sentenced to 11 years and three months with a minimum non-parole period of five years back in August 2013.

He had pleaded guilty to 74 charges, including 71 counts of importing pseudoephedrine, possession of pseudoephedrine and methamphetamine for supply, participating in an organised criminal group and unlawful possession of a firearm in court on May 7, 2013.

In sentencing, Justice Kit Toogood said Read executed an enterprising and cunning operation by disguising the drugs and mailing them from Thailand to unwitting friends and family, including his daughter, in New Zealand.

Read, who was the director of NZ Party Pills Ltd and Internet Sales Ltd, was arrested as part of an operation by the Organised and Financial Crime Agency (OFCANZ) in 2011.

The operation nabbed more than 300 people nationwide, including Read and two other Western Bay of Plenty people.

In September 2011 the Armed Offenders Squad raided Read's property and recovered 1.5kg of the precursor chemical pseudoephedrine, used to produce P.

Police said at the time Read was seen shortly before his arrest in a garden area near the intersection of 15th Avenue and Cameron Road.

Police later found a plastic container with seven ounce bags of a Class A drug with a street value of about $70,000 to $150,000.

Methamphetamine is worth around $700 a gram.

Detectives of the OFCANZ say more than 70 packages of pseudoephedrine were smuggled into NZ between June 2009 and September 2011.

Recently, around 700 cannabis plants were seized from an indoor growing operation in the North Island, while a further 600 drying plants and 70 mature plants were found in a garage when police executed a search warrant in Fielding.

Police Commissioner Mike Bush says drugs are a significant driver of crime in our communities and drug abuse and dependency does enormous harm.

'That's why Police, together with our partner agencies, work so hard to disrupt this trade and target the proceeds of the criminals who run it,” explains Mike.

'The Feilding seizure will prevent harm and help keep our communities safe.”