WA's top cop rejects raising drinking age

NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch has backed a call by Australian of the Year Ita Buttrose for an increase in the drinking age.

Ms Buttrose said this week that a trial rise of the drinking age to 21 was worth exploring as she was alarmed by the number of children who end up in hospital because of alcohol abuse.

Mr Murdoch says the idea is "useful" and can "add an edge to the debate about the appropriate use of alcohol".

"No commentary in that regard is wasted," he told reporters in Sydney on Thursday.

"It's valuable and almost certainly it is a conversation we need to have as a community, as a society, to get to the bottom of this problem because what we are doing currently is making a difference but it is very much incremental progression.

"We need some really robust conversation to get some transformational change."

Mr Murdoch was launching the sixth annual NSW Police operation to deal with drunks who ruin summer festivities in central Sydney.

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