The head of NSW Police has admitted escalated enforcement operations are not directed by any public health order, but rather their own agenda to achieve greater compliance.

Mick Fuller recently told NSW Parliament that the force has committed to “treating the virus like a criminal”, encouraging officers to “put community policing to the side”.

This country has witnessed the police force enforce cruel compliance operations across the state, issuing fines, arresting citizens for breaching health rules, squashing democratic protests and more.

Now, in a bombshell admission, the head of the NSW police has admitted the increased tyrannical actions witnessed in recent months have been taken solely on the own accord of the force.

NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller was recently called before a NSW Parliament budget estimates hearing and was questioned over the response of his force to COVID-19.

During this sitting, Fuller said the decision to escalate police enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions was solely based on low levels of compliance in the community, as opposed to NSW Health orders: