Police investigating an alleged attempt to secretly fly hundreds of kilograms of drugs into Australia feared their work would be ruined if details about their surveillance devices were revealed in the prosecution of two people busted over a Melbourne drug lab, a court has heard.
The Cairns Magistrates Court heard investigators from a joint task force of Queensland Police and Australian Federal Police were in a "race against time" in early 2020 as they waited for a light aircraft to fly covertly to Papua New Guinea and return to Far North Queensland with a consignment of drugs.
