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

Local area
command/s
where
operation
conducted
Date/s of
operations
No. of
vehicles
stopped
and
screened
No. of
vehicles
searched
No. of
persons
searched
No. of
occasions
drug
seized 83
Rate of
finding
drugs 84
No. of
indictable
quantities
of drugs
seized
17 Deniliquin
12–13
December 66 1 1 0 0 Nil
2007
18 Griffith
13–14
December 37 4 4 1 25% Nil
2007
19 Barrier
14–16
December 63 7 9 2 29% Nil
2007
20 Lachlan
17–19
December 193 5 87 2 1 20% Nil
2007
21 Monaro
3–5 January
2008
451 60 113 33 55% 3 88
22 Canobolas
10–11
January 502 20 15 3 15% Nil
2008
23 Barrier
19–21
February 100 22 22 3 14% 2 89
2008
TOTALS 7,527 591 537 133 23% 7
Source: NSWPF and COPS.
3.3. Drugs seized, legal action taken and court outcomes
The principal New South Wales legislation regulating drug offences is the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985.
Schedule 1 of that Act contains a list of prohibited drugs and prescribes the quantities for drug offences.
Table 2 outlines the prescribed quantities for the prohibited drugs seized during the drug detection trial.
Table 2.
Prescribed quantities for prohibited drugs seized
Small
quantity
Traffickable quantity (also
known as deemed supply)
Indictable
quantity
Commercial
quantity
Cannabis 30.0g 300.0g 1000.0g 25.0kg
Amphetamine^ 1.0g 3.0g 5.0g 250.0g
Ecstasy 0.25g 0.75g 1.25g 125.0g
Cocaine 1.0g 3.0g 5.0g 250.0g
Nexus^^ 0.08g 0.3g 0.5g 25.0g
Heroin 1.0g 3.0g 5.0g 250.0g
Source: Schedule 1 of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985.
^
Throughout this report references to amphetamine include amphetamine-like drugs such as methylamphetamine, which is also known as ‘ice’ or ‘crystal’.
These drugs have identical prescribed quantities.
^^
This is the street name for the drug. Its actual name is 2C-B and its chemical name is 4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine. It has been described as a
synthetic psychedelic drug. 90
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