Wagga Wagga LAC - NSW Police Force 4.78

Wagga Wagga is one of Australia's leading regional cities. It is a nursery for Australian sporting champions and is the home for the National Art Glass Gallery, extensive gardens, Defence bases Australian Army Kapooka and Forest Hill R.A.A.F, and Charles Sturt University. The city's shopping centre includes major chains stores through boutique shops and the wide variety and number of cultural and sporting clubs reflects the dept of our community. The Wagga Wagga Livestock Marketing Centre with capacities of 30,000 sheep and 4,000 cattle is one of the State's major centres.

The Wagga Wagga LAC is broken down into 4 Clusters: Wagga Wagga the head station, Northern Cluster (Temora, Ariah Park and Ardlethan), Central Cluster (Junee, Coolamon and Ganmain) and Southern Cluster (Tarcutta, Lockhart and The Rock), comprising 10 Police Sectors.

Wagga Wagga is 518 km by rail from Sydney and 432 km from Melbourne on the main Southern Line. It is 185.6 m (608 ft) above sea level and situated on the Sturt Highway which joins the Hume Highway 48km to the east. It is the junction of the Sturt Highway and the Trunk road known as the "Olympic Way", which enables travellers by road to proceed to and from Sydney via Cootamundra, Cowra, Bathurst and The Blue Mountains area, instead of travelling via the Hume Highway.