Police across Australia charged hundreds of people with various offences related to drinking and drunkenness from Friday night to Saturday morning.

In a crackdown dubbed Operation Unite, Western Australia police charged 806 people, including 542 in one night, with 905 offences, the highest number of arrests. The number is nearly double than in May, when 435 were booked for 462 offences.

Police also conducted 8,000 roadside breath tests resulting in the arrest of 194 for drink driving. Another 100 were arrested for disorderly conduct and four were charged with assaulting an officer.

In other states, the number of arrests was 385 in New South Wales, 287 in Queensland, 184 in Victoria, 88 in Tasmania, 44 in Northern Territory, 41 in South Australia and nine in the ACT.

More than 800 pubs, clubs and bars were checked in Victoria and police found 44 for breaching licenses.

"We have had a very, very strong focus over the last couple of years, trying to get licensees to be compliant," said Deputy Commissioner Kieran Walshe, according to Herald Sun. "We are still detecting offences such as suffer drunks on the premises, underage drinking and in some cases, insufficient security."

In Queensland, the 287 people were charged with a total 727 offences.

"Police attended 1752 licensed establishments and detected 56 licensing breaches and submitted 60 liquor incident reports. Police also issued 155 liquor infringement notices," said Queensland Deputy Commissioner Ian Stewart, according to News.com.au.

More than 1,655 uniformed and plainclothes police officers conducted the operation.

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