ACT Policing and ACT Corrective Services conducted a joint operation at the weekend targeting movement of contraband into the Alexander Machonochie Centre (AMC) in Canberra.
This is the third joint operation since November 2025 targeting contraband at AMC.
Between 1pm and 6pm on Saturday, July 25, ACT Policing officers from the ACT Intelligence, Road Policing, and Drugs and Organised Crime Team alongside ACT Corrective Services Intelligence, Security, and K9 units conducted an operation targeting people seeking to visit the Centre, police said.
During the operation, vehicles were stopped and searched, licence and vehicle checks were conducted and vehicles attempting to avoid the operation were intercepted by Road Policing Officers.
Three positive drug driving tests were recorded, four vehicle defect notices and six traffic infringement notices were issued, with multiple items seized pending further examination.
One visitor was also turned away from AMC after breaches of visitation rules, police said.
ACT Policing said it will continue to work closely with the territory's Corrective Services to identify information and individuals involved in the movement of contraband including illicit drugs, mobile phones and other material into the AMC.
Anyone who has information about the movement of contraband into any ACT prison is urged to contact Crime Stoppers via the Crime Stoppers ACT website.
Information can be provided anonymously.
