Western Australia's new Police Commissioner gives his first interview as the state's top cop, vowing to aggressively target drug traffickers and their criminal networks.
Western Australia's new Police Commissioner has vowed to aggressively target drug traffickers and their criminal networks in the state.He says stopping methamphetamines from entering WA is a prioritySpeaking at his first media conference since taking on the new role, Commissioner Blanch said WA detectives were working hard with their state and federal counterparts to track down the source of illegal drugs.
Police charged eight men and a woman after two separate investigations and subsequent searches of cars and houses across Perth turned up 22 kilograms of methamphetamine, $420,000 in cash, 200 grams of cocaine, and three kilograms of gold bullion."While we have seized the drugs and cash from these established criminal networks, our job is not yet done and we will continue to pursue the source of these drugs," Commissioner Blanch said.
"I'm going to focus on investigations, solving crime, and doing prosecutions as best we can to make sure those who are committing crimes are being held accountable by the courts," he said."Unsolved cases from many years ago are so challenging to solve," he said. "Today, it's very unusual for us not to solve a serious case. And we've seen that more recently with Cleo and
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