NSW paramedic charged with stealing drugs

A paramedic has been charged with stealing prescription drugs in the NSW Riverina.

Staff at an ambulance station within the Griffith local area command allegedly noticed several kits containing bottles of the anaesthetic methoxyflurane missing from a secure location on January 15.

Police on Friday charged a 52-year-old paramedic with nine counts of stealing as a clerk or servant and one count of self-administering a restricted substance.

He has been bailed to face Narrandera Court on March 24.