NSW: Whelan blames inadequate border control for drug problem

AAP General News (Australia)
01-10-1999
NSW: Whelan blames inadequate border control for drug problem

By Lorna Knowles

SYDNEY, Jan 10 AAP - NSW police would remain losers in the war against drugs until the
federal government toughened border controls, a spokeswoman for Police Minister Paul Whelan
said tonight.

The spokeswoman was responding to NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan's admission to
Britain's Daily Mail newspaper that his officers were "not winning on the drugs front".

"Until we adequately resource the borders - customs and AFP (Australian Federal Police) -
to control the flow of hard drugs such as heroin and …