NSW: Higher price of cocaine due to good policing: Scipione

AAP General News (Australia)
12-14-2009
NSW: Higher price of cocaine due to good policing: Scipione

NSW Police Commissioner ANDREW SCIPIONE says the relatively high price of cocaine in
Australia is a result of good policing.

Newspaper reports suggest Australia's now one of the most lucrative markets in the
world for the illicit drug.

Sydney's Daily Telegraph reports that cocaine seizures in Australia have grown 20 per
cent since 2003.

One kilogram of the drug's worth 190 thousand dollars here compared to 35 thousand
in the US .. making Australia the most lucrative market in the world.

Mr SCIPIONE says seizures by state and federal police are causing the price to rise.

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KEYWORD: COCAINE (SYDNEY)

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