{"id":5013,"date":"2020-02-03T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2020-02-03T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T23:00:16","slug":"operation-surge-saturates-hunter-basin-and-arrests-11-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/03\/operation-surge-saturates-hunter-basin-and-arrests-11-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Surge saturates Hunter Basin and arrests 11 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police districts within the Hunter Basin have once again joined together to proactively target offenders during a high-visibility operation at the weekend.<br \/>\nBetween 4pm on Saturday 1 February and 4am on Sunday 2 February 2020, more than 100 officers from the four Hunter Basin police districts \u2013 Newcastle City, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens-Hunter and Hunter Valley, with assistance from Traffic &amp; Highway Patrol, the Police Dog Unit, Strike Force Utah, PolAir and Police Transport Command \u2013 were deployed to several suburbs across the region in a high-saturation operation, capturing areas such as Newcastle, Maitland, Raymond Terrace and Cessnock.<br \/>\nThe aim of Operation Surge is to manoeuvre resources where they are needed in a fluid, reactive environment, with the assistance of real-time intelligence from a single control base.<br \/>\nPreliminary results from Operation Surge show:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>11 people arrested<\/li>\n<li>17 charges laid<\/li>\n<li>10 possess\/supply drug<\/li>\n<li>145 RBT conducted<\/li>\n<li>4 PCA charges<\/li>\n<li>40 traffic infringements issued<\/li>\n<li>74 licensed premises checks<\/li>\n<li>11 juvenile cautions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of note, a 20-year-old man was arrested at a licensed premises on Hunter Street, Newcastle West, after allegedly being in possession of 69 MDMA capsules. He was charged with supply prohibited drug and granted conditional bail to face Newcastle Local Court on Thursday 27 February 2020.<br \/>\nOperation Surge Commander, Superintendent Danny Sullivan APM said the second roll-out of Operation Surge was a great success, with officers able to respond in numbers across the wider community, regardless of their home police district.<br \/>\n\u201cOperation Surge was created to merge police resources across several Hunter suburbs, being able to move freely and deploy to wherever the demand and need is at any given time.<br \/>\n\u201cThis operation allows police to engage with the public in highly visible areas and in vast numbers \u2013 reinforcing that the Hunter\u2019s police are there to protect the community all day, every day.<br \/>\n\u201cFor the second deployment of Operation Surge, we wanted to focus on utilising the real-time intelligence from our analysts to target repeat offenders within each police district.<br \/>\n\u201cPolice will continue to put operations like \u2018Surge\u2019 into practice; those in the community who wish to cause trouble need to know we will be there, and we will be there in large numbers.<br \/>\n\u201cThe public should continue to feel confident that their local police are out in force, protecting their neighbourhoods and families,\u201d Supt Sullivan said.<br \/>\nOperation Surge will be continually rolled-out through various deployments in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police districts within the Hunter Basin have once again joined together to proactively target offenders during a high-visibility operation at the weekend. Between 4pm on Saturday 1 February and 4am on Sunday 2 February 2020, more than 100 officers from the four Hunter Basin police districts \u2013 Newcastle City, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens-Hunter and Hunter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/03\/operation-surge-saturates-hunter-basin-and-arrests-11-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Operation Surge saturates Hunter Basin and arrests 11 people&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}