Today around 250 police from across the three agencies conducted at this stage
27 search warrants, we have arrested 12 men with links back to OMCG
particularly the Rebels and links to the Comancheros. We have located five
handguns and at this stage still counting but over two million dollars in
cash as well as a clan lab that was turning the Ephedrine into ice.
From the New South Wales police perspective it is a significant seizure and from our
perspective it will not just save lives but this will have an impact from not
just Sydney metropolitan but rural right across Australia.
Working in partnership to do with this sort of Enterprise is really important, this particular group are
involved in the importation, production and supply they have the whole supply
chain basically and of course the border is really important, but we also have to
look at the border or not just in terms of our physical border, airports, seaports
examination abilities and international mail facilities obviously we have to
work in our community to protect our community but also overseas.
The importation was really disguised in those sort of items that one would use
commonly in commercial aquarium shops and businesses.
This is yet another tangible example of what occurs when law enforcement and our border agencies
work together in the fight against organized crime. I'd like to congratulate
the New South Wales Police particularly for the absolute tenacity that its
investigators showed in the investigation that's been ongoing for
well over 12 months those type of investigations don't come to fruition
without hard work and tenacity and I congratulate them again.
These operations need to be done with the highest level of secrecy and stelth to protect the
integrity of things like the firearms and the drugs and the cash we've seized
and I suppose from our perspective is such a large operation involved with so
many police, over 250 today, but it was really the art of surprise this morning
that was our success but if you talk about the overall operation then there
were many aspects of the operation that you know caused the success and the
the ability for us to seize 1.4 tonnes of Ephedrine which has a street value of 650
million dollars and that's staggering when you put that into perspective in
terms of the harm that does cause the community
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