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by GRACE JOHNSON
NSW Police are investigating reports of a stabbing in Woolloomooloo at around 12:30am on Monday 1 January, just after the fireworks display brought in the new year.
Police officers found three men with stab wounds, who are being treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics. No arrests have been made yet.
A further 19 arrests were made across the CBD and Sydney Harbour foreshore for various offences, including assault and drug offences.
Operation New Year’s Eve 2023 Commander, Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke, said most members of the public were well behaved throughout the evening.
“Every year Sydney welcomes the New Year with an extraordinary celebration across the city, and this year has been no different. Pleasingly the vast majority did so in the right spirit. There were few arrests,” Assistant Commissioner Cooke said.
Operation New Year’s Eve 2023 was the largest police operation of the year, with thousands of officers deployed across the city. Officers were dressed both in uniform and in plain clothes.
The free entry to vantage points around the city prompted one of the largest turnouts for the New Year’s Eve celebrations the city has seen.
More than 225,000 people flocked to Sydney’s 49 vantage spots to watch the iconic firework display.
