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Chapter 6. The Drug Premises Act - new offences................................................................................................................. 81 6.1. Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................................81 6.2. Offences created by the Drug Premises Act.............................................................................................................................81 6.3. The offences in the Drug Premises Act: discussion.................................................................................................................82 6.4. Being found on, entering or leaving drug premises .................................................................................................................86 6.5. Residents of drug premises: dual purpose drug premises......................................................................................................90 6.6. Demographic characteristics of people charged with being found on drug premises ...........................................................93 6.7. Organising or conducting, or assisting in organising or conducting, drug premises .............................................................96 6.8. Offence by owner or occupier of allowing use of premises as drug premises........................................................................98 6.9. Conclusion .............................................................................................................................................................................105 6.10. Recommendation....................................................................................................................................................................106 Chapter 7. Cabramatta........................................................................................................................................................... 107 7.1. Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................................107 7.2. Background .............................................................................................................................................................................107 7.3. Frequency of the use of the Act in Cabramatta .....................................................................................................................108 7.4. The nature of drug premises targeted by the Act in Cabramatta ..........................................................................................112 7.5. Level of drug supply the law is targeting in Cabramatta.........................................................................................................117 7.6. Charges laid under the Drug Premises Act in Cabramatta ....................................................................................................121 7.7. Court outcomes relating to drug premises charges laid in Cabramatta................................................................................124 7.8. Conclusion: Impact of the Drug Premises Act on the drug trade in Cabramatta...................................................................127 Chapter 8. Targeting drug supply.......................................................................................................................................... 131 8.1. Organised and professional criminals and high level drug supply ........................................................................................131 8.3. How has the level of drug supply being targeted by the Drug Premises Act been assessed.............................................132 8.4. Discussion paper responses about the level of drug supply being targeted by the Act........................................................134 8.5. The use of the Drug Premises Act to target drug supply .......................................................................................................135 8.6. State Crime Command use of the Drug Premises Act...........................................................................................................142 Part Three. Drug move-on powers. Chapter 9. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 151 9.1. The original reasonable directions powers — background....................................................................................................151 9.2. The Drug Premises Act: the extension of reasonable directions powers ..............................................................................152 9.3. The objectives of the drug move-on powers ..........................................................................................................................152 9.4. The threshold for the exercise of the drug move-on powers..................................................................................................153 9.5. Procedural requirements for issuing drug move-ons..............................................................................................................154 Chapter 10. State-wide move-ons.......................................................................................................................................... 159 10.1. How many drug related move-ons were issued....................................................................................................................159 10.2. Where were drug related move-ons issued..........................................................................................................................159 10.3. How many drug move-ons were obeyed..............................................................................................................................159 10.4. NSW Audit .............................................................................................................................................................................167 10.5. Demographic information........................................................................................................................................................168 10.7. Factors police noted in determining relevant conduct............................................................................................................173 10.10. Procedural requirements.........................................................................................................................................................182 10.11. Public place .............................................................................................................................................................................183 10.12. Disobeyed directions...............................................................................................................................................................183 10.13. Legislative anomaly.................................................................................................................................................................185 4 NSW Ombudsman Review of the Police Powers (Drug Premises) Act 2001
Chapter 11. Drug move-on powers in Cabramatta............................................................................................................... 189 11.1. Organisation of this chapter ...................................................................................................................................................189 11.2. Review activities .....................................................................................................................................................................189 11.3. Frequency of the use of the powers in Cabramatta LAC........................................................................................................189 11.4. Part 1: Background..................................................................................................................................................................191 11.5. Impact of the street-level market on Cabramatta ...................................................................................................................192 11.6. Policing the street-level drug trade, interagency and community relations............................................................................192 11.7. The enforcement of drug move-ons: Cabramatta bike police ...............................................................................................193 11.8. Part 2: When can police issue a drug move-on direction Relevant conduct and reasonable belief ..................................194 11.9. What attracted the attention of police to a person to whom police issued a direction.........................................................194 11.10. Part 3: Seven day directions in Cabramatta ...........................................................................................................................206 11.11. Recommendations..................................................................................................................................................................217 11.12. Part 4: Disobeying drug move-on directions ..........................................................................................................................217 11.14. Part 5: Drug move-on powers and public health ...................................................................................................................224 11.15. Recommendations..................................................................................................................................................................229 11.16. Recommendation....................................................................................................................................................................230 11.17. Part 6: Drug move-ons and vulnerable groups.......................................................................................................................232 11.18. Recommendations..................................................................................................................................................................236 11.19. Part 7: Impact of the drug move-on powers on the street-level drug trade in Cabramatta ...................................................236 11.20. Part 8: Displacement of the drug trade to other areas and development of new modus operandi.......................................238 11.21. Recommendations .................................................................................................................................................................242 NSW Ombudsman Review of the Police Powers (Drug Premises) Act 2001 5
Page 1 and 2: Review of the Police Powers (Drug P
Page 3: Contents Preface ..................
Page 7 and 8: Acknowledgements This report was re
Page 9 and 10: Part One. Background. Chapter 1. In
Page 11 and 12: Drug offences, unlike for example,
Page 13 and 14: elieve is in a public place with th
Page 15 and 16: Chapter 2. Methodology In this chap
Page 17 and 18: 2.3.5. Health data NSP distribution
Page 19 and 20: As the table indicates, more than o
Page 21 and 22: 2.4.7. Complaints The NSW Ombudsman
Page 23 and 24: NSW Police advised us that calculat
Page 25 and 26: Another data limitation is that COP
Page 27 and 28: Chapter 3. Legislative survey This
Page 29 and 30: Once police have entered the suspec
Page 31 and 32: The table below sets out the penalt
Page 33 and 34: (c) that the nature and extent of t
Page 35 and 36: The Act contains four additional in
Page 37 and 38: A fortification removal notice is r
Page 39 and 40: For example, section 39(3) of the Q
Page 41 and 42: Part Two. Drug premises Chapter 4.
Page 43 and 44: In the police training manual on th
Page 45 and 46: Case study 2. Drug premises search
Page 47 and 48: 4.2.4. Presenting the application b
Page 49 and 50: A Crime Manager we interviewed from
Page 51 and 52: applications. In this Act, an inves
Page 53 and 54: Chapter 5. The definition of drug p
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5.2. Recommendation That Parliament
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5.5.2. Section 11(2)(b): fortificat
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In our chapter on Cabramatta, we di
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The woman was found guilty of allow
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5.5.5. Means or devices for drug us
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Number of Premises Figure 7. Razor
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However, no other evidence of drug
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• magnum revolver and a 0.357 mag
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5.5.8. Section 11(2)(g): large amou
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The magistrate noted that there wer
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In relation to the money located on
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5.7.6. Cars as drug premises As we
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… rather than being on the edge o
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Chapter 6. The Drug Premises Act -
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• the offence of being found on,
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With reverse onus, we didn’t have
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In the following section, we will d
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Officers from the State Crime Comma
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The second reading speech, which gi
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In the granny flat, police found ca
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Table 6. Pleas entered and court ou
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The magistrate said that he had a r
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13. Allowing use of premises as dru
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The defendant says he was not there
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Figure 13: Ages of people charged w
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Table 12. Number of charges for var
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Chapter 7. Cabramatta 7.1. Introduc
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No. of Drug Premises Figure 14: Num
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Table 13. Information about drug pr
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It should be clear that this legisl
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The unit was in disarray, with spar
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7.5. Level of drug supply the law i
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7.5.3 Firearms, weapons and high le
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7.6. Charges laid under the Drug Pr
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7.6.4. Young Asian people and drug
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Of these 52 people, 31 people pled
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7.8. Conclusion: Impact of the Drug
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By way of comment, the continuing a
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Chapter 8. Targeting drug supply Pa
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Table 18. Drug Misuse and Trafficki
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Low level drug suppliers are more l
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Other forms of organisation in evid
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Table 19. Drugs Located, State-wide
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Table 23. Drugs located, Northern R
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However, the submission concluded b
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To begin with, telephone intercepts
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The prohibited drugs that were loca
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One factor that appears to have per
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