News card: NSW transport police arrest 15 in 24-hour Operation Disrupt blitz

News card from EXE Index. Headline: NSW transport police arrest 15 in 24-hour Operation Disrupt blitz. File, Oct 2025, JaredMcKenzie (CC0 via Wikimedia Commons): NSW Police Force Transport Command post at Broadmeadow station, Newcastle; not from this operation. Key facts: 24 hours to 2 a.m. Oct 17 AEDT; trains, buses and shops in Newcastle, Gosford, Wyong and Tuggerah Lakes; 15 arrested on 23 charges, 26 searches, 15 bail checks; 110 people knife-scanned, 2 knives found, 39 rail fines, per police. Sources: NSW Police via The National Tribune, Newcastle Herald. exeindex.com/crime. Record dispatch:2026-10-17-au-nsw-disrupt. @exeindex. — File, Oct 2025: Police Transport Command post, Broadmeadow station, Newcastle. not from this operation. File photo: JaredMcKenzie, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons (File:NSW Police Force Transport Command.jpg) · CC0 (Wikimedia Commons); card CC BY 4.0 EXE Index

Oct 17: NSW Police say Operation Disrupt, a 24-hour transport blitz in Newcastle and the Central Coast, led to 15 arrests on 23 charges, with 2 knives found in 110 scans. Every record is sourced

What: News card: NSW transport police arrest 15 in 24-hour Operation Disrupt blitz
Where: Oceania
When: 2026-10-17
Source: The National Tribune
Credit: File, Oct 2025: Police Transport Command post, Broadmeadow station, Newcastle. not from this operation. File photo: JaredMcKenzie, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons (File:NSW Police Force Transport Command.jpg)
License: CC0 (Wikimedia Commons); card CC BY 4.0 EXE Index
Details: Oceania, Australia

crime Australia Oceania

Sources and credit

The National Tribune
Dispatch: the full record