Monday 16 May 2022 10:37 PM Sydney's gang war: New powers for NSW Police kick in drug dealers doors ... trends now
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Police have been granted new powers to detain convicted drug dealers anytime anywhere, no warrant required.
The unprecedented NSW laws also allow police to search them in the street, knock down their doors, as well as search their homes, businesses and vehicles.
The new legislation two years in the making will be piloted in four areas across NSW, including Bankstown in Sydney's south-west as the city's gangland war escalates.
The tough laws which came into effect this week allow police to apply to issue a Drug Supply Prohibition Order on anyone convicted of a 'serious drug offence' in the past decade.
The powers extend to officers in the Hunter Valley, the Orana district in the state's central west and Coffs Harbour-Clarence command up north.
They will also be extended to Strike Force Raptor and Taskforce Erebus, a newly established strike force set up to coordinate investigations into a spate of fatal shootings involving
