A New South Wales (NSW) Police operation targeting the state’s most dangerous domestic violence offenders has turned up illegal firearms and guns, and a corn snake.
Nearly 600 people were charged in the four-day operation, including 139 considered among the state’s most dangerous domestic violence offenders.
As well as checking compliance with restraining orders and bail conditions at least 5,000 times, police took out 315 new restraining orders and seized 22 firearms and 40 prohibited weapons.
More than half of the state’s murders are domestic violence-related, senior police said on Sunday.
Police Deputy Commissioner Mal Lanyon said the most dangerous DV offences often display the violence of organised crime figures and the fixation of terrorists….