A drug summit next year will likely probe the effectiveness of sniffer dogs after police data showed the canines had a success rate of just 25 per cent.
Four men have been charged as part of an ongoing investigation by Strike Force Ginga into the alleged commercial supply of cocaine and methamphetamine in the NSW Monaro region.
Of 70 samples tested at the ACT’s CanTest Health and Drug Checking service during August, 18 people discarded their drugs once they received the results, researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) revealed today.
A 50-year-old Melba woman will face the ACT Magistrates Court this morning on various charges including drug and weapon offences, and keeping a non-exempt animal - a three-metre-long jungle jag python.
A mechanical drug press, cannabis, drug paraphernalia and a white powder suspected to be cocaine were some of the items uncovered during a police search of a Greenway property on Thursday 19 May.
In this opinion piece, Liberal Senator for the ACT, Zed Seselja argues the local ACT Labor-Greens Government wants to make changes to our drug laws that go against the very instinct of keeping our kids safe.
Decriminalising illicit drugs – as Labor backbencher Michael Pettersson wants to do in the ACT – would be “a far more dangerous environment” to police, AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw told a Senate estimates committee this week.
NSW Police raids targeting crime networks across Sydney have uncovered almost 20 guns, ammunition, drugs and cash with 115 people charged in the two-day operation.
The ACT Legislative Assembly’s Bill to decriminalise the use of heroin, ice, speed, cocaine and ecstasy has hit a legal roadblock, according to Gary Christian, research director of Drug Free Australia (DFA).
