NSW Police brace for major gang war

A full of 13 ongoing constabulary investigations will beryllium brought nether 1 banner arsenic NSW Police effort to stifle an escalation successful unit betwixt organised crime figures playing retired connected nan streets.

The caller over-arching task force, named Falcon, is modelled disconnected erstwhile akin enterprises and has nan extremity of preventing a pack warfare connected nan streets.

The task force, led by Superintendent Jason Box, will dwell of 150 staff, including 100 detectives.

Deputy Commissioner David Hudson said nan task unit would besides see a "suppression arm", pinch officers retired connected nan thoroughfare attempting to caput disconnected immoderate much violence.

"We judge location is conflict wrong organised criminal networks astatine nan moment, We judge it is related to supplier proviso matters," Hudson said astatine a property convention today.

Hudson said that of nan 25 organised crime murders since 2021, 20 had been solved and 5 continued to beryllium pursued.

And he vowed constabulary would complaint not only immoderate shooters, but those suspected of immoderate involvement, from storing a stolen getaway car, to commissioning nan murder.

"We will not tolerate these lawless thugs getting retired location pinch their vendetta against each different and putting successful threat members of our community," NSW Police and Counter Terrorism Minister Yasmin Catley said.

She said Box, nan serviceman starring nan task force, was "one of nan champion successful nan business".

The 13 investigations being subsumed into Task Force Falcon see murders, arson attacks, nationalist spot shootings, an attempted kidnapping, and organised crime activity, making love backmost to December 2024.

Most took spot successful Sydney's westbound aliases south-west.

Hudson confirmed immoderate links betwixt respective of nan cases had already been established.

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