Australian Police Get Extraordinary Powers in War on Drugs

Australian Police Get Extraordinary Powers in War on Drugs
NSW police patrolling the Victorian border checkpoint in South Albury, Australia on November 22, 2020. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
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Police in the Australian state of New South Wales can now search the homes, cars, planes and boats of convicted drug dealers without a warrant as part of the crackdown on Sydney criminal gangs involved in public executions and turf wars.

Police Minister Paul Toole says the new powers are applicable to anyone who has been convicted of a serious drug offence in the past decade.