NSW police 'working hard on gang laws' NSW Police are looking at amalgamating local area commands to get more officers on the street in the fight against armed gangs, a spokesman for the police minister says. The amalgamation is part of process in the full implementation of anti-gang laws following a spate of shootings in Sydney's west. Opposition Leader John Robertson told reporters on Saturday that the government wasn't using its anti-gang laws to crack down on gun crime. But a spokesman for Police Minister Mike Gallacher denied Mr Robertson's claims. "We've been doing great things on gun crime, (Labor) have done 16 years of nothing," he told AAP. We've reformed the Crime Commission, we're on target to deliver 859 extra police, we've established a new highway patrol and transport command, and we're looking to amalgamate local area commands to get more officers back on the street. He said NSW Police had increased powers to move people on, tightened laws to tackle alcohol-based violence, and developed anti-consorting and anti-gang laws. Obviously a lot of work is going into putting together briefs of evidence. Cops are working around the clock on these laws," he said. Police could not talk about what they were doing on an operational level, the spokesman said, but they used the anti-gang laws at their discretion. Acting Assistant Police Commissioner Arthur Katsogiannis told reporters on Saturday that implementation of the laws was a complicated process. "It's quite a lengthy process for us to undergo to be able to provide the documentation and evidence that's required," he said. We want to be able to do it properly the first time around.