POLICE have issued more than 30 infringement notices during a crackdown on illegal hunting in the Khancoban and Tumbarumba region.
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Albury rural crime investigators joined officers from other stations and agencies for Operation Brushwood from Friday to Monday.
Police issued 32 infringement notices and laid two charges for a variety of offences, including not keeping a firearm safe, possessing a firearm in a public place, illegal hunting and possessing hunting equipment in a state forest.
Other offences included public knife possession, damaging or destroying vegetation in a national park and possessing a chainsaw in a national park.
Firearms, ammunition, knives and GPS trackers were seized.
Detective Inspector Winston Woodward said police had spoken to a large number of people.
He said the number of people undertaking unlawful and unsafe hunting was of concern to those involved in the operation.