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Hundreds Arrested in Domestic Violence Blitz
Police seized 94 guns and laid 2,063 charges during the four-day blitz targeting offenders with a history of domestic violence.
- From Wednesday to Saturday, NSW Police arrested 993 people and laid 2063 charges during Operation Amarok XIII, a statewide blitz targeting individuals with a history of domestic violence.
- Officers conducted 14,318 apprehended domestic violence order compliance checks, identifying 391 breaches while seizing 94 firearms and 48 other weapons during the operation.
- Police Minister Yasmin Catley called domestic violence a "stain on our society," while arrests included a 28-year-old Fairfield man charged over a stabbing and a 51-year-old man accused of intentionally choking a person.
- Criminology lecturer Rachael Burgin labeled the operation a "political gimmick" and alleged police were slow to act, but NSW Police Acting Assistant Commissioner Adam Johnson rejected the criticism, stating "we can't arrest our way out of this."
- Domestic violence accounts for around 60 per cent of police time, contributing to a record-high number of people in state prisons, with 41 per cent of the increase in remand prisoners attributed to domestic violence.
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