NSW Police

New South Wales Police Force

Status Tracked

The force behind most of the country's voluntary industry-assistance requests, second-largest user of warrantless metadata authorisations, and the operator of the extraction kits the new unlocking order would feed.

Last on record: 2026-09
Named in: 3 articles
Across: 2 cases

Named in 3 articles across 2 cases 23 connections: companies 8, mechanisms 3, regulators and bodies 6, agencies and departments 4, police 1, people 1

Key figure on file

About 160 Cellebrite kits

The reported size of the NSW Police phone-extraction fleet, alongside thousands of phones reportedly examined every year. The bill does not build thi… GIPA-based reporting by two independent outlets citing NSW Police FOI documents (reported, not verified)

Articles naming it

Cases it recurs across

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Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Surveillance RortAbout 160 Cellebrite kitsThe reported size of the NSW Police phone-extraction fleet, alongside thousands of phones reportedly examined every year. The bill does not build t…2 articles →The Reporting Rort11 article →

Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

About 160 Cellebrite kitsThe reported size of the NSW Police phone-extraction fleet, alongside thousands of phones reportedly examined every year. The bill does not build this capacity. It lowers the threshold at which the existing capacity can be pointed at a person.Source: GIPA-based reporting by two independent outlets citing NSW Police FOI documents (reported, not verified)The order that replaces the warrant →
126,775 of 357,864NSW Police's share of the nation's warrantless s178 metadata authorisations in 2024-25. The same force made 43 of the 58 voluntary TOLA assistance requests, the clear majority of the national total.Source: TIA Act Annual Report 2024-25; SDA Annual Report 2024-25, homeaffairs.gov.auThe order that replaces the warrant →

Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

How we know

The sources of the 3 articles that name NSW Police, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about NSW Police.

Evidence strength · 90 sources across 3 articles

Primary 56
Official 6
Masthead 10
Trade 12
6 not yet graded

Primary: the document itself: legislation, a court record, a filing, a regulator’s own publication
Official: the organisation’s own statement about itself
Masthead: a news organisation with a corrections policy, reporting the primary document
Trade: specialist or trade press

How sources are graded

3 of 3 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 03 / Named together

The 12 names most often in the same articles as NSW Police. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.

Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled