A man has been charged following an investigation into alleged child grooming offences in the state’s west.

On Tuesday 4 May 2021, officers attached to Central North Police District – with the assistance of the Child Abuse and Sex Crime Command’s Child Exploitation Internet Unit – began investigating allegations a carriage service had been used in the attempted grooming of a teenage girl.

Following inquiries, detectives executed a search warrant at a home in Walgett shortly after 9am on Saturday 3 July 2021.

A 21-year-old man was arrested and taken to Walgett Police Station where he was charged with use a carriage service to solicit child sex abuse material and use carriage service to send indecent material to person under 16.

The man was granted conditional bail to appear before Walgett Local Court on Tuesday 27 July.