{"id":8542,"date":"2020-10-06T21:10:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T21:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8542"},"modified":"2020-10-06T21:10:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T21:10:13","slug":"operation-border-closure-continues-at-nsw-victoria-border-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/06\/operation-border-closure-continues-at-nsw-victoria-border-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Border Closure continues at NSW\/Victoria border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are reminding the community that restrictions remain in place at the NSW\/Victoria border.<br \/>\nSince midnight on Wednesday 8 July 2020, thousands of police officers from across the state have been deployed to support border crossings between NSW and Victoria.<br \/>\nWhile the NSW\/Victoria border zone was extended on Thursday 1 October 2020, travel to these areas is only permitted for border region resident permit holders.<br \/>\nNSW Police are reminding all other NSW residents that anyone who travels to Victoria, including within the border zone \u2018border bubble\u2019, will require a valid permit to re-enter NSW.<br \/>\nThe NSW\/Victoria border remains closed, unless you have a valid permit.<br \/>\nOperation Border Closure Forward Commander, Superintendent Paul Smith, said police will continue to enforce border closures.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have had several reports of people attempting to travel from South Australia to NSW \u2013 and vice versa &#8211; via the Sturt Highway in Victoria, as this is the most direct route,\u201d Supt Smith said.<br \/>\n\u201cAnyone wishing to enter NSW from South Australia will need to do so directly, via an alternative route.<br \/>\n\u201cIf you attempt to travel into NSW via Victoria and do not have a valid permit, you will be turned around at the border checkpoint and refused entry to NSW.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong><em>For more information about exemptions or to apply for a permit, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.service.nsw.gov.au\/transaction\/apply-covid-19-nsw-border-entry-permit\">https:\/\/www.service.nsw.gov.au\/transaction\/apply-covid-19-nsw-border-entry-permit<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Anyone who has information regarding individuals or businesses in contravention of a COVID-19-related ministerial direction is urged to contact Crime Stoppers:<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\"><strong><em title=\"\">https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report crime via NSW Police social media pages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are reminding the community that restrictions remain in place at the NSW\/Victoria border. Since midnight on Wednesday 8 July 2020, thousands of police officers from across the state have been deployed to support border crossings between NSW and Victoria. While the NSW\/Victoria border zone was extended on Thursday 1 October 2020, travel to these &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/06\/operation-border-closure-continues-at-nsw-victoria-border-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Operation Border Closure continues at NSW\/Victoria border&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542","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=8542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}