Overview

• Under Detective Superintendent Jason Box, Taskforce Falcon is now active with support from the NSW Crime Commission.
• The unit unites probes into gang-related shootings, arson attacks and kidnappings dating back to December 2024.
• Police attribute three shootings in Western Sydney over the past fortnight to a tit-for-tat feud over the city’s lucrative drug trade.
• Dawood Zakaria, an alleged Alameddine associate shot in the head on May 25, died in hospital on May 27.
• W PoPolice Minister Yasmin Catley and Deputy Commissioner David Hudson have vowed relentless pursuit of shooters and their facilitators.