Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) government has announced new reforms aimed at dismantling organised crime in the state through new police powers to target unexplained wealth and the use of dedicated encrypted devices used by criminals to stay under the radar.
The new legislation will extend police powers to target and confiscate unexplained wealth, stop and search people for unexplained wealth, as well as introduce new powers to confiscate unlawfully acquired assets of major convicted drug traffickers.
In addition, it will become an offence to both possess dedicated encrypted devices and refuse police access to the contents of them.
Acting Police Commissioner Dave Hudson said on Thursday that these reforms will assist police in getting ahead of the game in the fight against organised crime….