 I feel like it. So if you would like to ask a few more questions, what do you want to say? Actually, do I face them? No. Do you mind if I talk to you for a second? Sorry. Are you ready to go? Not yet? Is that all right? The only other thing is, there's still some investigations are ongoing, so we probably won't have the final figures for you until this afternoon. So Gary can probably give you what they've got so far, but I'll probably give you some of the other stuff this afternoon. That's that final line. So I'll just deal it mine for me as well. When you said this afternoon, give us something as in deadline-wise? As soon as you return the figures that we have to give them to you. Otherwise, if you broadcast time, I mean, I'll have to use what we've got so far. Yeah. Everyone good? Okay. Thanks very much for coming on. Along, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Gary Watts, GA-R-R-Y-W-A-T-S. I'm a detective inspector in charge of Task Force Hydra state crime operations command. Police have charged 34 people on 196 offences, and the police have charged 34 people on 186 offences, and the police have charged 34 people on 186 offences, and the people on 196 offences after a number of raids were conducted across South-East Queensland today. Police from state crime operations command led by members from Task Force Hydra supported by police from the South-Eastern region, the Southern region, and operations support command today close to nine-month-long operation called Operation Ice Vulcan. We're also supported by personnel from the Customs and Border Protection Service. Operation Ice Vulcan specifically targeted persons with identified links with outlaw motorcycle gangs who were involved in the production and supply of illicit substances, namely GHB and methyl amphetamine. Today, we executed 30 search warrants at residential and business premises across the Gold Coast, Logan and Ipswich areas. This operation is one of the strategies the service uses for the activities of outlaw motorcycle gangs and persons associated with outlaw motorcycle gangs who are involved in the production and supply of dangerous drugs which causes, obviously, a great deal of community concern. This operation clearly demonstrates we will continue to search out and prosecute people who are involved with the production and supply of dangerous drugs and with identified links with outlaw motorcycle gangs. A number of items were seized during the search warrant execution today including 66 litres of precursor chemicals using the manufacture of illicit substances, one taser and also an amount of GHB and methyl amphetamine. I'm now open for questions but bear in mind, obviously, these matters will be going to court, so I'll be somewhat limited in what I can release. This operation, look, I believe that is a serious and major dent in respect to a major criminal network operating on the Gold Coast who were involved in the high level supply of methyl amphetamine and GHB across the Gold Coast in South East Queensland. What's the Gold Coast's centrepiece of this operation? It started at the Gold Coast with the identified links with outlaw motorcycle gangs and criminal networks but it also stretched to Logan Ifswitch and also the North Coast region. Yes, the people that we are saying who are high up in the criminal network are based on the Gold Coast. That's correct, yes. Two members charged today are from the Fink South Law Motorcycle Gang on the Gold Coast. Are they high ranking members? That's as far as I'm going to say in relation to their membership. Not yet but we certainly will attempt to break them down before the end of the day but the majority of people charged are from the Gold Coast. Search warrants are still being executed as we speak and we will provide updates as the day progresses. How many premises on the Gold Coast were landed today? I haven't got the exact breakdown for that issue. A number of the 34 people have identified links with outlaw motorcycle gangs and are associated with the criminal network that we have charged today. Our operation led us into this particular network which as I said is what we believe to be a major drug supply network operating on the Gold Coast. Were undercover police officers used in this operation? We used a variety of methodologies to gather evidence against the people involved in this network which has led us to the position we're in today. Were there several gangs in the base around alleged illegal gangs? No other outlaw motorcycle gangs have been identified at this stage. Is there some suggestion at one of the raids that may have been some sort of gun shots or some sort of noises or that sort of thing? As to the exact operations that we go through to execute search warrants I'm not going to comment on that. 66 litres were found at one premises is my understanding. No I don't. It's my understanding that no one was assaulted at any of the locations that we executed search warrants today. Certainly it's my understanding that that address is not associated with the operation today. No I'm not going to comment on the operational of the way we do business with search warrants. Certainly my understanding there were no gun shots discharged during the execution of any of the search warrants this morning. It's my understanding that the police officer has obtained a slight laceration to a hand as a result of some broken glass but that's as far as I know in relation to that. The execution of the search warrants went as I would have expected them to go. Dollar value on the drug scenes today? No not today but during or even over the course of the operation at this stage but I just say that I want to reiterate that we believe we have smashed a major drug trafficking network operating on the Gold Coast. I don't have that breakdown. There's certainly where a number of women involved. A motor vehicle a trailer with motorcycles attached taser as I've said an amount of drugs some precursor chemicals that's at this stage the breakdown I have. An amount of chemicals and an amount of glass where have been located they've been examined by our Eilert examiners as to the exact breakdown of whether we can call it the clandestine laboratory or not it's too early to say. Do you expect any more arrest? Most definitely there will be further arrests today further people will be charged and there will be ongoing search warrants and people arrested. Not to my knowledge, no. You've been around some time and I know you've said already it's quite major but I mean in terms of what the task force has sort of done prior how does this rate amount to that? The achievements task force hydro has achieved this is certainly one of one of the highlight investigations that I've been involved in. We, you know, Hotel Barrow from last year Foxtrot Creed from the year before that were there with what we believe to be disrupting and dismantling a major drug trafficking network that has been operating on the Gold Coast at some time. I certainly hope so. It's one of the strategies that the service utilises to lessen the impact that drugs and drug trafficking have within the community and obviously causes such community concern. Customs officers and customs dogs They assisted us with the execution of the search warrants. At premises? At premises, yes. It wasn't bringing in through the border they assisted us with the execution of the warrants. How many police officers were involved in the operation? In excess of 115 police officers drawn from, as I've said, the Strait Cumber Operations Command South East Police Region and the Southern Region. Were those raids all simultaneous? That's correct, yes. The raids were simultaneously executed in the early hours of this morning and have continued since that time. Yes. This has been a nine month operation conducted by members of task force Hydra and as I said, we are confident that we smashed a major drug trafficking network on the Gold Coast. Obviously our investigations are ongoing but the production or the supply of precursor chemicals and the production of the dangerous drugs is something that we'll examine and establish links whether it be in Queensland or interstate. Do you have a nine month operation that do you have police intel that goes back years on this particular record? That's probably something I can't really go into. Is the methylamphetamine commonly asked? Methylamphetamine? No, I couldn't give you the breakdown of what that would lead to in methylamphetamine or other drugs. Would you have expected to find other drugs at some of the other homes, perhaps? During the course of the... During the raids, did you find that at one house? Yeah, an amount of drugs has been located at the various premises but not a great deal today, but that wasn't expected. And did any Hydra officers infiltrate the gang zone for the nine month period? Again, you're getting into an operational area that I won't be answering any questions on. When you said that wasn't expected, a moment ago, you said it wasn't expected that we didn't find more. Well, I should probably rephrase that. We found what I expected to be found rather than I didn't expect to be finding anything else. That's what I expected to be, to be found. Okay. Thanks very much for your time. Thank you. No, I'm sorry. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.