West Australian border Covid-style police checkpoints brought back by Premier ... trends now

West Australian border Covid-style police checkpoints brought back by Premier ... trends now
West Australian border Covid-style police checkpoints brought back by Premier ... trends now

West Australian border Covid-style police checkpoints brought back by Premier ... trends now

Western Australia is desperate to go back to how things were during the coronavirus pandemic as it reintroduces draconian Covid-style police checkpoints under the guise of cracking down on illegal drugs and bikies.  

From later this year, visitors to Western Australia by road, air or sea will have to pass through police-manned barricades where vehicles can be searched.

The measures are part of a package of extraordinary powers being handed to police by Premier Mark McGowan under what are being called 'meth buster' laws.

The laws will be in place until at least 2028.

The West Australian government said police requested the move because during the pandemic period, meth use dropped by 51 per cent in Perth, and up to 73 per cent in regional areas.

'This new law is going to make it tougher than ever for organised crime to bring drugs into Western Australia,' Mr McGowan said. 

Under new powers WA police will again be manning border checkpoints as they did during the Covid period (pictured officers and Royal Australian conducting stops in April 2020)

Under new powers WA police will again be manning border checkpoints as they did during the Covid period (pictured officers and Royal Australian conducting stops in April 2020)

Police Minister Paul Papalia said the state was effectively 'creating a hard meth border'.

The phrase conjured up memories of the pandemic period when Western Australia's 'hard border' effectively shut it off from the world for 697 days.

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Mr Papalia said the laws particularly targeted bikie drug importation.

'This really enables us to focus on disrupting and breaking the power the outlaw motorcycle gangs have on our communities,' he said. 

'They (meth deliveries) come in from overseas, they come in from interstate, they're delivered to Western Australia by Triads and Mafia and cartels overseas, and then they are distributed, predominantly in Australia by outlaw motorcycle gangs.'

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