Inside western Sydney's police blitz: Extraordinary video shows over TWENTY patrol cars parked along suburban streets as cops vow to enforce Covid lockdown measures
- Footage shows 21 police cars parked along suburban streets in western Sydney
- NSW Police have initiated high-visibility operation in the region to tackle Covid
- Video shows dozens of patrol vehicles stopped in quiet area of Bass Hill
Extraordinary footage shows 21 police cars parked along suburban streets in western Sydney as the state continues to enforce lockdown measures in the region.
New South Wales Police have initiated a high-visibility operation in south-west Sydney after a spark of coronavirus cases in the area.
Video posted to social media shows more than 20 patrol vehicles lining quiet streets in Bass Hill.
New South Wales Police confirmed to Daily Mail Australia the major Covid-19 operation is being based out of the local station.
Extraordinary footage shows 21 police cars parked along suburban streets in western Sydney as the state continues to crackdown on the region
New South Wales recorded 50 new coronavirus cases on Saturday after three-consecutive days of record numbers as the premier warned 'things are going to get worse before they get better'.
Gladys Berejiklian says 'most concerningly' there were 26 active cases in the community, saying too many residents were 'cutting corners' and 'flouting the rules'.
Police confirmed 167 fines were handed out in the last 24 hours, including a party in Randwick in Sydney's east involving eight men.
Of the 100 fines, 67 came from Sydney's south-west - an area being targetted extensively by police to attempt to slow the virus' spread.
Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys said police will continue their high-visibility movement in the suburbs despite claims of racism and double standards.
The footage of dozens of police cars parked on local Bass Hill streets would have proved alarming to residents, who Dept. Comm. Worboys said 'the vast majority are being compliant'.
'I was there, there's police everywhere like crazy, like they had been invited to a party,' one person commented on the clip.
'Come on man this is so BS. Bondi can do whatever they want, what makes them different. I can't even leave my house they parked in my streets,' another said.
One user said Bass Hill hadn't even had a case.
Video posted to social media shows more than 20 patrol vehicles lining quiet streets in Bass Hill.
Senator Mehreen Faruqi says the operation was a deliberate crackdown on 'already marginalised communities'.
'This is a terrible turn of events. Over-policing multicultural communities is a recipe for disaster,' she said.
'The mounted police were never called into Avalon or Westfield Bondi.'
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Fairfield Mayor Frank Carbone said the latest outbreak 'was not a western Sydney problem' and that the entire city should be under the same scrutiny.
'I'm not going to cop this. This is something that came from hotel lockdown and from the hotel quarantine,' he said on Today.
'The prime minister needs to make sure they provide support both financially and through services to people out here in Western Sydney.
'I just think we've got to work out a way to stop the virus coming in from hotel quarantine, it's a controlled area, that's where everyone's frustrated. Fairfield's a perfect example, an area that never had the virus, but the virus spreads.'
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