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By Daniel Wills
The Adelaide Advertiser (South Australia) | 4 September 2008

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24293389-5006301,00.html

POLICE say they are ready to take imminent action to outlaw criminal bike gangs after tough new State Government legislation came into effect today.

The Serious and Organised Crime Act allows Police Commissioner Mal Hyde to apply to Attorney-General Michael Atkinson to outlaw individual gangs and place severe restrictions on their members.

Assistant Police Commissioner Tony Harrison this afternoon said police had been gathering information for some time and would soon move against the gangs.

“A lot of preparatory work has been ongoing and I wouldn’t anticipate it would be too far down the track before we’d be in a position to make the first of those applications,” he said.

“What we have been doing is considering all of the outlaw motorcycle gangs and their respective criminal activity.

“We’ve been going through a fairly comprehensive process in relation to consolidating our information.

“The legislation will allow police to take a very different approach in terms of the policing of outlaw motorcycle gangs.

“Outlaw motorcycle gangs have been able to operate effectively for some time because of their criminal associations. I would anticipate that over a period of time we will start to see those associations become more difficult to maintain.”

Attorney-General Michael Atkinson said bikie gangs had been put on notice and were not welcome in South Australia.

“The message of the Rann Government to the individual gang members is leave the gang or leave the state,” Mr Atkinson said. “We will pursue them until they do.”