NSW: Prisons dept vows to keep out contraband presents

AAP General News (Australia)
12-12-2006
NSW: Prisons dept vows to keep out contraband presents

Families and friends of detainees have been warned not to try and smuggle Christmas
presents of drugs .. mobile phones or weapons into New South Wales prisons.

Justice Minister TONY KELLY says searches of visitors to correctional facilities are
being stepped up over the festive season.

Mr KELLY says there have already been 14 thousand searches of visitors .. two thousand-400
searches of visitors' property .. and over 900 searches of vehicles this year.

Property seized includes machetes .. a spear-gun head .. a copper-pipe spear .. knives
and knuckle dusters.

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KEYWORD: CONTRABAND (SYDNEY)

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