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The New South Wales Police Force is a law enforcement agency of the state of New South Wales, Australia, established in 1862.With more than 17,000 police officers, it is the largest police organisation in Australia, [6] policing an area of 801,600 square kilometres with a population of more than 8.2 million people.
A separate article published by The Guardian earlier that year in February had instead claimed that since 2016, NSW Police had paid $238 million in legal compensation, [118] while statistics published by The Daily Telegraph in October suggested that NSW police had paid $89.62 million to settle 968 civil cases during the same four-year period.
In another incident, NSW Police had launched an investigation in response to an article published by The Sunday Telegraph in May 2019. The Telegraph had spoken to two patrons (a man and a woman) who had allegedly been ejected from the Midnight Mafia music festival after being strip searched by police.
Often mistakenly referred to as the ″operational support group″ by the media and even sections of the NSW Police Force, the OSG form part [1] of the state's public order and high urgency response in areas such as Kings Cross, Redfern, Auburn and the Sydney CBD.
In 1995, the Independent Commission Against Corruption referred a matter to the Commission regarding the possibility of collusion between organised paedophile networks with members from the legal profession, media and political establishment, and the senior ranks of the NSW Police Service and judiciary.
On 21 June, following a freedom of information request by The Sydney Morning Herald, it was discovered that NSW Police media had deliberately withheld advice to the public that White had used a Taser on Nowland. [18] On 3 December 2024, White was officially sacked by the NSW Police. [19]
The Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 (NSW) is an Act of the Parliament of New South Wales which governs the exercise of specific police powers in New South Wales. [1] It The Act contains nineteen parts which either reinforce the common law, relocate existing sections from other Acts or establish new powers and safeguards ...
The New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime was initially published on 2 January 1854 as the New South Wales Reports of Crime and was initially published several times per week by the Office of the Inspector General of Police for distribution to all police stations. The NSW State Archives and Records describe it as containing ...