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Alex Mitchell

HISTORICAL FACTS: Cops push back on non core duties citing staff shortage - The Untold Story

NSW police officers are under pressure and need more than 2000 recruits to return to full strength. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

Some NSW police will refuse to perform non-core tasks like welfare and truancy checks and prisoner transfers, as a mammoth staff shortfall grows.

Officers in Sydney's southwest will triage "non-urgent police jobs" and send them back to other government agencies as union leaders say the rank and file are sick of acting as "24/7 problem-solvers".

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