ABC - March 28, 2009, 11:32 am
The Northern Territory Police Commissioner says he wants the Territory to introduce legislation to outlaw bikie gangs, similar to laws in South Australia .
Bikies in South Australia have protested against the law which allows police to ask the Attorney-General to make it illegal for members of a gang to even meet.
Commissioner Paul White has told the ABC's Stateline program he is confident South Australian legislation will be effective in stopping their criminal activities.
"I'm optimistic that it's going to work because it's not just our aim to detect these motorbike gangs as they go about their criminal activities but to actually disrupt and dismantle their very existence. So I am optimistic that sort of legislation might work," he said.
The Commissioner says even a small bikie gang presence in the Territory is cause for concern.
He says while there are only a dozen Hell's Angels members in the Territory, there is always the potential for numbers to grow.
But he says he is reasonably confident the growth of gangs is currently under control.
"We are closely monitoring their activities and we have them under control," he said.
"We've made a number of arrests and seizures and we intend to keep that up.
"We are not going to take a step back when it comes to dealing with these criminals. They are nothing but thugs. As I said they are involved in murder, intimidation , violence, stand-over tactics, they'll stop at nothing."
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The rise and rise of new gangs
THEY call themselves MBM - the Muslim Brotherhood Movement - a gang of 600 men who boast they are the toughest and best young street fighters of Middle Eastern descent in Sydney.
MBM claims to be the biggest of four new gangs to emerge on Sydney streets in the past year. Its numbers rival those of the state's largest bikie gang, the Rebels.
The sudden appearance of MBM, with its growing membership recruited predominantly from the city's south-western suburbs, has alarmed senior police already battling to combat open warfare among outlaw motorbike gangs.
Even hardened private security guards have expressed concern to police about the indiscriminate "punch and run" tactics of MBM members who, in the past two weeks, have arrived in large numbers at city nightclub venues and who walk the streets in intimidating mobs. But the objectives of MBM - its emblem features two crossed pistols and a hand grenade - and its leadership remain unclear to officers of both the Organised Crime and Gang Squad and Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad.
Police say that a fortnight ago MBM members embarked upon a campaign of random assaults on men who crossed the path of a mob of about 100 toughs stalking Darlinghurst and Kings Cross during the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
A week ago about 30 MBM members intimidated private security guards at government car auctions at Smithfield.
The emergence of MBM also coincides with the rise of two other urban Sydney gangs - the Parra Boyz or Asesinoz MC and Brothers For Life or BFL.
Police say BFL - with a logo featuring crossed machine-guns - is not dissimilar to MBM in its extremist views, but membership numbers are unknown. Police describe Asesinoz, comprising teenagers of Middle Eastern decent, as "tough kids" who use the video-sharing website YouTube to promote Islamic extremism and anti-Australian actions such as flag burning.
The group, which recently changed its name from the Parra Boyz, has more than 40 members, some of whom are known to police for committing acts of violence and vandalism.
Its creation follows that of the Notorious bikie gang, comprising members of Middle Eastern and Pacific Islander extraction, more than a year ago after a split in the membership of the Nomads motorcycle club.
Notorious members, who police allege are engaged in a series of tit-for-tat drive-by shootings on members of rival club the Bandidos in western Sydney, declared they will not be stood over by other gangs.
How dare they live in Australia and burn the flag, if they don't like it here fuk off. We should be more worried about these gangs than omc's. What is the government doing about these gangs????? or are they too scared to act incase the "race" card gets pulled out?
And guess what will happen when these morons get out of control???? the gov will call on OMC to help.
Think if you catch them burning our flag they obviously hate our country. Give them a one-way flight out to they're country of origin so they can have there hands chopped off for stealing and be whipped for saying the wrong thing.
Wish they would all FUCK OFF and leave our country like it was 10 years ago.
Can't stand anyone that wants to come here and try and change our country into the very thing they are trying to get away from.
