Police have arrested 12 people and seized ice, cannabis, weapons and cash as part of an operation targeting the distribution of ice in the Gladstone and Tannum Sands area.

Operation North Oxbow commenced in June 2015 by officers from Gladstone CIB, Organised Crime Investigation Unit (State Crime Command) and Tannum Sands police. The operation primarily focused on a syndicate involved in the distribution of ice within the local area.

Over the last two days police from the Organised Crime Investigation Unit in partnership with police from Gladstone, Rockhampton, Tannum Sands and Calliope stations and officers from the Australian Border Force executed search warrants in and around the Gladstone and Tannum Sands area.