CRIME AND VICE
N.S.W’S WORST WAVE 17,000 ARRESTS IN 1944 ,9 a . iTl .) SYDNEY. Jan. 5. During 1944. the New South Wales police vice squad arrested more than 17.000 nersons in the worst wave ot crime and vice in the history ol the State. Convictions secured numbered 15,695, compared with 8079 in 1J43. Of the persons convicted, 3464 were women. Fines imposed in 1944 totalled £50,036, compared with £26,345 m tSP3 ’For breaches of the Gaming Act. 0025 men and 336 women were convicted, with fines totalling £26,312 ancl forfeitures £llßs. Sly-grog convictions were 332 males and 43 females, who paid fines totalling £15,245. The liquor seized included nearly 14.000 bottles of beer,
spirits and wine. , . Sex and drug offenders numbered 5274 males and' 3085 females. Officers of the vice squad said that the intensified drive would continue {his year, but it was expected that the vice figures would be lower.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21604, 5 January 1945, Page 4
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