Drugs worth over US$4 billion seized in Australia in 2011-2012:report

20 May 2013| last updated at 12:01PM

The figure is a 154 percent increase from 9.3 tonnes seized in 2010-11, Xinhua news agency quoted the report as saying.

The repport showed there were also 93,000 drug-related arrests and a total of 809 hidden drug laboratories discovered during this period.

Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said the key to stopping drug activities is police teamwork and criminal intelligence.

"85 percent of the drugs we seize are because of criminal intelligence that our law enforcement agencies collect before the drugs ever arrive in Australia," he said.

The ACC also announced record seizures of hormones in performance and image-enhancing drugs.

Executive director of ACC Paul Jevtovic said drugs in sports are on the rise, hence the commission's focus on drugs in sport.

"In relation to hormones, it's the highest reported detections that we've had in the last decade," he said.

"Steroids for example are also one of those things used, and we actually incorporate steroids and hormones in the category of image-enhancing drugs." -- BERNAMA

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