POLICE have charged 627 people with more than 1300 offences during a four-day statewide operation targeting domestic and family violence (DFV).
“Operation Amarok X” ran from Wednesday 14 May to Saturday 17 May 2025, and involved officers from all police area commands and police districts across NSW.
The Domestic and Family Violence Command-led operation also involved officers from each regions’ Domestic Violence High Risk Offenders Team (DVHROT), along with specialist officers from Raptor Squad, Youth Command, State Crime Command’s Child Protection Register, Traffic & Highway Patrol Command, and the Police Transport Command.
Across the four days, 627 people were arrested and charged with 257 arrest warrants executed.
Police laid 1316 charges and conducted 1276 bail compliance checks and 12,926 apprehended domestic violence order (ADVO) compliance checks with a total of 535 breaches identified.
Officers conducted 125 firearms prohibition order (FPO) searches, with 100 firearms and 16 weapons seized.
Domestic and Family Violence Corporate Sponsor, Assistant Commissioner Peter Mckenna, said Amarok X had a focus on protecting young victims with officers from Youth Command attending schools and PCYCs to help educate and engage with young people.
“We know the psychological trauma caused by a child or young person, when they are exposed to domestic and family abuse, can have a lasting effect,” Assistant Commissioner Mckenna said.
“No one – and especially no child – should have to experience violence and should be safe in their own home.
“There have been 160,000 reported incidents of domestic violence in the past 12 months, which is an average of about 438 per day. That is unacceptable and is not tolerated by police or our society.”
Locally, officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District commenced an investigation after a 37-year-old woman was allegedly assaulted, resulting in a broken jaw and a wound to her leg.
Following inquiries, officers arrested a 44-year-old man at a Maitland home.
He was taken to Maitland Police Station and charged with “cause grievous bodily harm to person with intent (DV)”, and “wound person intend to cause grievous bodily harm (DV)”.
The man appeared at Maitland Local Court last Wednesday, where he was formally refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday 9 July 2025.
Elsewhere in the Hunter, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District and the Northern Region DVHROT arrested a man on Velinda Street, Edgeworth.
Police will allege in court the man assaulted a woman known to him at a home in Edgeworth in March 2025.
The 29-year-old man was taken to Toronto Police Station where two outstanding warrants were executed, and he was charged with “assault occasioning actual bodily harm (DV)”.
He was refused bail to appear before Toronto Local Court the same day where he was granted conditional bail to appear at the same court on Thursday 31 May 2025.
Last Thursday, officers attached to Lake Illawarra Police District attended Newcastle Police Station and arrested a 25-year-old man after he was transferred from a correctional facility.
Police will allege in court that the man contacted a woman known to him more than 300 times between January and April 2025 and made serious threats of harm, in breach of a current enforceable AVO.
He was charged with 75 offences.
He appeared before Newcastle Local Court last Friday where he was formally refused bail to appear at Wollongong Local Court on Wednesday 4 June 2025.
Officers from Newcastle City Police District also commenced an investigation after a 23-year-old woman was allegedly repeatedly assaulted by a man known to her last Monday.
Following inquiries, officers attached to the Newcastle City Domestic Violence Team attended a home at Jesmond about 2pm last Thursday and arrested a 26-year-old man.
He was taken to Waratah Police Station and charged with multiple offences.
The man was refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court last Friday.
Reports of domestic and family-related crime or abuse can be made by contacting or attending your local police station. In an emergency, contact Triple Zero (000).
