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During the toughest days of Covid lockdowns in NSW more than 36,500 public health order breaches were recorded - with the majority of rule breakers being young men.
New data released this week reveals that males were responsible for three-quarters of public health order breaches at the height of lockdowns in July and August.
The figures gathered by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research also show that infringements detected in just those two months accounted for 90 per cent of the reported breaches in the state since March 2020.
Non-essential travel was the main reason for public health order breaches in July and August 2021 (pictured: police check traffic in the Sydney CBD in August)
Not wearing a mask was a big reason for breaches comprising about a third of infringements (pictured: police at Bondi in August)
Younger men and women aged from 18 to 39 accounted for more than 60 per cent of all infringements.
Half had a prior criminal offence in the previous five years.
Just over a third of breaches were for non-essential travel, 30 per cent were for failing to wear a mask and 14 per cent for visiting other households.
The majority, or 90 per cent, of breaches were dealt with by a $1000 fine
