Mr Walton gets drug review job
NZPA-AAP Sydney A former New Zealand police commissioner, Mr R. J. Walton, will review the joint Federal-New South Wales police task force on drug trafficking. The New South Wales Premier, Mr Neville Wran, told State Parliament that the task force was set up in 1979 on the recommendation of drug commissioners Mr Justice Williams and Mr Justice Woodward.
The task force’s five-year term will expire in June.
Mr Wran said he and the Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, would wait for the review before making any decision on the future of the task force.
Mr Walton had been chosen as he was from outside both forces and could supply the required objectivity, Mr Wran said. He said the task force had been set up to investigate large scale trafficking in hard drugs, concentrating mainly on heroin.
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