‘Nice day for the beach… unless you’re in Sydney’: Fury as police bring sniffer dogs onto the sand on a perfect spring day – before blitzing nearby pubs
- Furious residents slammed police for blitzing beaches and bars with drug dogs
- Officers were spotted at popular beaches and bars around Sydney on Saturday
- The presence of officers was part of a wider operation a spokesman said
Dozens of police officers spoiled the mood in Sydney over the weekend by storming a popular beach and surrounding pubs with sniffer dogs.
Thousands of residents flocked to the water in Coogee and Maroubra to beat the heat on Saturday as the mercury rose to 31C.
Frustrated residents took to social media after spotting drug detection police units scouring the footpaths, beaches and bars.
‘This makes me so angry! You can’t even go to the beach without being intimidated and harassed,’ one angered resident wrote.
‘Nice day for the beach… unless you’re in Sydney,’ wrote another.
Dozens of police officers spoiled the mood in Sydney over the weekend by storming a popular beach and surrounding pubs with sniffer dogs
Facebook page Sniff Off posted a number of images showing police drug detection units scouring the footpaths, beaches and bars around Coogee and Maroubra (above) beaches
‘They got a tip off that word on the street is that every Saturday down at the beach there’s large groups of people having fun and rumour has it, someone’s been playing music on one of those new fangled Bluetooth Speakers,’ another mocked.
‘Now tell me that’s not intimidating,’ wrote a fourth person.
The Sniff Off Facebook page posted a number of photographs showing officers blitzing pubs in the city’s eastern suburbs.
One image showed officers entering the Maroubra Seals Sports and Community Club, while another showed a crowd making their way to the sand at Coogee.
In another photo posted online, at least eight officers were seen walking along a busy coastal footpath.
A New South Wales Police spokesman told Daily Mail Australia officers were in the areas as part of a police operation with figures on arrests and fines to be released later today.
According to figures from the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research all drug possession offences have seen a rise over the five years from 2014 to 2015 with the exception of cannabis.
A New South Wales Police spokesman told Daily Mail Australia officers were in the areas as part of a police operation with figures on arrests and fines to be released later today