What is the latest information on Operation Vikings?
The Hon. MICHAEL COSTA: The community wants to see police on the street at the right time and in the right places. That is why high-visibility, high-impact policing has won the support of the community and front-line police. And that is why Operation Vikings will continue to roll out across the State, targeting major transport routes, hot spots, shopping centres and areas of community concern. Since 24 May this year there have been Vikings operations across more than a dozen metropolitan and regional centres. New South Wales police staged the fourteenth Vikings operation last weekend on the streets of Newcastle. In that operation our police conducted 3,518 random breath tests; issued 13 field court attendance notices, 22 speeding infringements, 213 parking and noise infringements, 191 traffic infringements, 31 vehicle defect notices and 12 move-along directions; conducted two knife searches; and charged 10 people with assault, resisting arrest, hindering police, drink driving and other