Review of the Police Powers (Drug Detection Trial) Act 2003 - NSW ...

Chapter 3.
Results of drug detection operations
This chapter outlines the results of operations conducted during the review period (23 February 2007 to 22 February 2008).
3.1. Where operations conducted
The NSW Police Force has six regions
across New South Wales. There are three
metropolitan and three non-metropolitan
regions as illustrated in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Map of NSW Police Force regions
There are 80 local area commands located
in the six regions. Each local area command
is primarily responsible for its own strategic
and business planning.
A total of 23 operations were conducted in
the three non-metropolitan police regions.
Eleven operations were conducted in
Southern Region, ten in Western Region,
and two in Northern Region.
Thirteen operations utilised a ‘static’ check
point strategy (operations 1–12, and 14 in
Tables 1 and 3) and ten utilised a ‘mobile’
check point strategy (operations 13, and
15–23).
Figure 2 shows the number of operations
conducted by each of the 16 local area
commands that participated in the drug
detection trial.
Source: NSW Police Force (‘NSWPF’) Intranet.
Figure 2: Local Area Commands conducted operations*
Number of operations
Source: NSWPF. (n=23).
* Two operations involved more than one command.
Local Area Command
NSW Ombudsman
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