In comparison,police in London,a city of almost 9 million people,handed out just 906 fines,according to a BBC report.
Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said the numbers were higher because of the volume of calls from the public reporting breaches.
"The police assistance lines were full of calls,"Mr Ashton told 3AW when asked to respond to suggestions the restrictions had been overpoliced.
The phone line received almost 70,000 calls from the public,with more than 25,000 reporting illegal gatherings and isolation breaches.
Mr Ashton said most of the calls came over the Easter weekend.
"We were getting smashed with people wanting to say,'Oh,these people have got more people in their home,these people were out,people are on the beaches,'"he said.