This webpage provides data on NSW Policing Activity, including bail compliance checks and searches. It is regularly updated and is currently live as at December 2025.

NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research 'BOCSAR NSW Policing Activity January 2021 to December 2025' (Webpage, January 2025)

The law gives police the power to stop and search people and says how those searches must occur. In some circumstances this can include strip searches or searches under Firearm Prohibition Orders. Aboriginal and young people are disproportionately subject to these searches.

Pre-emptive policing: Police searches

When people are granted bail by a court with a residence or curfew condition, there is controversy about when police can attend private property to check whether a person is complying with that condition. Police are more likely to visit the homes of Aboriginal people, particularly young Aboriginal people, to...

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NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research 'BOCSAR NSW Policing Activity January 2021 to December 2025' (Webpage, January 2025)

Pre-emptive policing: Police searches

Pre-emptive policing: Bail compliance checks