Police will be cracking down on firebugs ahead of what could be a potentially catastrophic fire season.
It's understood an arson watch list of high-risk offenders has been compiled by the Property Crime Squad's Arson Unit as a part of Strike Force Tronto and sent to local police commands.
The Telegraph reports officers will be making random house calls on 70 of the state's worst firebugs and putting them under covert surveillance. They'll use "proactive covert" spy techniques in a bid to catch arsonists redhanded.
It comes after retained Hunter firefighter Joshua Lambkin was charged over four fires near Kurri Kurri last month and amid Rural Fire Service investigations into the fire at Richmond Vale last week which they fear could have been deliberately lit.
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