Further comment about the operation will be made later in the morning.
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Mr Cheng, an accountant who had worked for NSW Police for 17 years, was leaving work about 4.30pm when 15-year-old gunman Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar shot him in the back of the head.
The action comes in the wake of a fatal shooting outside the NSW Police’s Parramatta headquarters, according to reports.
More than 200 armed officers with the state’s counter-terrorism and homicide commands as well as the Australian Federal Police have arrested five men aged between 16 and 24.
“The five men have been taken into custody/detained and will taken to carious police stations were they will be interviewed in relation to Friday’s shooting”, the police statement said.
Authorities are expected to provide more information on Wednesday morning.
The raids are believed to have been carried out at homes in the city’s western suburbs.
He was also charged with assaulting and intimidating police and resisting arrest while on his way to Arthur Phillip High School in western Sydney on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, police arrested another teenage boy from the same school as the attacker.
Investigations are continuing and the teenager is expected to appear before a children’s court on November 9.
The events in the street last night, though, was a cause for a few bewilderment for neighbour’s of the boy’s family.
“We are working to try and divert people if we think they are falling under the spell of ISIL in the Middle East”, he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Wednesday, using another name for ISIS.
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BRENDAN TREMBATH: That’s a neighbour, Maggie Semaan, and Nick Grimm reporting earlier.
