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Clubs with bikie gang, drug links targeted
By EDITH BEVIN
26sep05
POLICE are preparing to swoop on nightclubs and other licensed venues with suspected links to bikie gangs and drug trafficking.
 
The South Australian police's anti-bikie taskforce, Avatar, is working with officers from the Licensing Enforcement Branch to target premises linked to drugs and The Advertiser has been told operations involving major venues are imminent.
 
Police have warned venue operators all operations of their businesses will be examined.
 
Avatar officer in charge, Inspector Graham Goodwin, would not comment on whether police would be working their way through the dealings of the clubs and hotels one by one, or if there would be simultaneous raids across the state.
 
All operations would be thorough.
 

"We're not only investigating ownership and control", Inspector Goodwin said. "We look at every facet of their enterprises. We look at clubs, we look at involvement in pubs. Every club can expect to be looked at and their activities will be closely scrutinised and, if offences are detected, action will be taken.
 
"We have, in the past and continue to, looked at all areas of ownership and licensing arrangements of nightclubs for suggestions of motorcycle club involvements."
 
Police Commissioner Mal Hyde this month joined Liquor Licensing Commissioner Bill Pryor in lodging intervention orders against several people they believe should not operate nightclubs.
 
Heaven Nightclub, one of Adelaide's biggest clubs, last week was linked to "undesirable" people associated with bikie gang members, the Liquor Licensing Court heard.
 
Heaven, closed since the beginning of the month, will remain so indefinitely after an application to transfer its licence to a private company failed in the court.
 

 

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