The police said there had been 86 drug-related arrests in that building in the last three years.

That is a reference to the 46,000 drug-related arrests made by the force over the past two and a half years.

Statistically, according to department figures, the force made 21 drug-related arrests last year for each 1,000 residents of the city.

At the 2008 festival in Sydney, police made 86 drug-related arrests.

Since 1986, the number of drug-related arrests has jumped from 1,200 a year to more than 3,400.

But now the total number of drug-related arrests annually is only about 25,000.

But he has been under rising pressure to increase it still further as drug-related arrests have soared in recent months.

"We've made more than 120 drug-related arrests through this unit," he said.

Since October 1988, the police have made about 50 drug-related arrests at that location.

And, he said, drug-related arrests have shown "a 41 percent increase in just the last three months."