Police investigating an aggravated burglary and kidnapping in Invercargill on November 19 have executed a further five search warrants over the past three weeks.

A stolen vehicle has also been recovered.

Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Greg Baird said police would not tolerate this kind of violent behaviour, and would continue to closely monitor and take a proactive approach to "disrupting and combating" this type of offending.

Police have already arrested and charged four men in relation to the aggravated robbery and kidnapping on Regent Street on November 19.

Last week, John Kenneth Butler (36), Brendon Kaea (30) and Nathan Arama Mitchell Rerekura (31) appeared in the Invercargill District Court jointly charged with entering a building on Regent Street without authority, with an intent to commit an imprisonable offence, armed with a pistol and a tomahawk. 

They were also charged with detaining a person against their will. 

All three were remanded without plea and are expected back in the Invercargill District Court on December 17.

The following week, Miharo Papa (36) appeared in court, jointly charged along with three others, with unlawfully detaining a person against their will and committing an aggravated robbery at an address on Regent Street, Invercargill in the early house of November 19.

Papa is also charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, assault with a pistol and he faces another charge of common assault.

He pleaded not guilty on December 2 and is due back in the Invercargill District Court on February 15, 2021. 

Two further arrests have been made as a result of the search warrants over the past three weeks, but their charges relate to drugs and robbery offending on different dates.