Proposed NSW police powers to search convicted drug dealers labelled 'unjust'

Proposed law would allow police to detain and search anyone convicted in the past 10 years without a warrant

Proposed new laws that would allow New South Wales police to stop, detain and search" anyone convicted of a serious drug offence in the past decade are unjust" and would give police extraordinary" power to target marginalised groups, legal and civil liberties groups have warned.

The government's drug supply prohibition order bill, introduced to parliament last month and supported by the Labor opposition, would introduce a two-year pilot program in four local government areas allowing police to search convicted drug dealers and manufacturers, as well as their homes and vehicles, at any time without a warrant".