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A tobacconist is seen peeking from a counter on Macquarie street, Sydney,

Police don’t know how many shops are selling illegal tobacco

Illegal tobacco and nicotine products now represent nearly 40 per cent of the market. There is no agreement on how to tackle the proliferating problem.

  • Max Maddison and Penry Buckley

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Police Minister Yasmin Catley answers a question in the NSW Legislative Assembly this week.

‘A sexist man’: Catley slams Speakman after he calls her ‘hysterical’

The NSW Liberal leader made the comments on the same day he slammed a Victorian party elder for claiming Liberal women were “sufficiently assertive”.

  • Penry Buckley and Alexandra Smith
NSW Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism Yasmin Catley.

Just say ‘no’: How Sydney’s drug habits are fuelling the gangland wars

Police Minister Yasmin Catley, despite coming from the Labor Left, holds some fairly right-wing views on strip-searching, the age of criminal responsibility and drug use.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Police have announced Strikeforce Falcon to crack down on gangland violence.

Murder of innocent tradie catalyst in latest gangland crackdown

A new police taskforce has been set up to crush Sydney’s bloody underworld violence after the deaths of innocent people in public shootings.

  • Perry Duffin and Josefine Ganko
A 43-year-old man has been arrested over the alleged vandalism.

Man charged over police memorial vandalism, minister calls for ‘social harmony’

Steven Joseph Smith-Ince briefly appeared at court on Tuesday, where he failed in his bid to be released to a mental health facility. 

  • Jessica McSweeney, Riley Walter and Nick Newling
Anthony Flannery has been appointed as NSW Police executive director of public affairs, beginning in April.

‘Twiggy’ Forrest spinner lands $360,000 NSW Police job

Anthony Flannery will be the sixth person in three years to hold the high-profile media role.

  • Amber Schultz
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Police Minister Yasmin Catley’s review of strip search practices has not yielded any change

Police strip-searched 51 children in a year despite Labor’s promised review

It has been 12 months since the NSW police minister promised to review the strip-searching of children. She has held only three meetings.

  • Michael McGowan
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‘We fundamentally failed’: Apology for victims, survivors of hate crimes

The NSW government has supported all 19 recommendations of a world-first inquiry into gay-hate crimes.

  • Max Maddison
Data from nearly six months of NSW’s landmark pre-court diversion scheme suggests the vast majority of people are still being sent through the overburdened legal system.

Postcode lottery: Where police have shunned state’s new drug laws

Data from nearly six months of NSW’s landmark pre-court diversion scheme suggests the vast majority of people are still being sent through the overburdened legal system.

  • Max Maddison
Commissioner Karen Webb speaks to the media outside Sydney Police Centre, Surry Hills following the Wakeley stabbing.

Webb has many enemies and they will not stop until they topple her

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has enjoyed a break from controversy, but her detractors are never far away. 

  • Alexandra Smith

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