POLICE ANTI-CRIME CAMPAIGN
500 ARRESTS IN SYDNEY SYDNEY, Aug. 25. City and suburban police yesterday arrested more than 500 persons in continuation of their campaign against crime and disorder. Special police squads patrolled the metropolitan area using 30 vehicles m addition to the usual patrol cars. The charges include drunkenness, assault, offensive, riotous and indecent behaviour. At the Darlinghurst police station a charge was lodged every four minutes between 2 p.m. and B_p.ni. According to an article m the medical journal of Australia, the Commonwealth is second in the list of_ countries in point of number of convictions for drunkenness per head of the population. Norway heads the list. England, with a beer consumption 50 per cent, higher than Australia, has only one-eighth of the drunkenness. Here the police courts claim that drink causes 80 per cent, of the offences.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 269, 26 August 1946, Page 3
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