During the two-day community engagement operation, which concluded on Saturday, August 1, New England police stopped and spoke with a number of people, including landholders and rural workers who were appreciative of the police presence and their efforts towards detecting and reducing rural crime.

Police conducted checks on firearms licence holders, firearm safe storage compliance, trespassers, illegal hunting and traffic offences.

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"The purpose of the operation was a community engagement opportunity," Moree Police officer-in-charge Inspector Martin Burke said.

"It was a good opportunity to go out and meet with landholders and people who are lawfully out there hunting. We encourage them to do it with the consent of the land owner.

"It's also an opportunity to remind landholders that if they have issues with unlawful trespass and damage to property, to report those as soon as they can to Moree Police or their local police station. We can use that information to target future operations.

"We'll continue to do operations like this into the future."

At the same time, Queensland Police conducted similar patrols on their side of the border.

Anyone with information about criminal activity should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: www1.police.nsw.gov.au.