 Look, thanks very much for coming today. Just wanted to provide some information about some further excellent results that we've achieved for Operation Juliet Cheshire. This morning we've executed a number of search warrants on a further network involved in the distribution of significant amounts of Dainless drugs, in particular methyl amphetamine and MDMA. We've also successfully obtained the extradition of two key players from interstate drug networks who were distributing significant quantities of these drugs into the Queensland community. And overall we've had some excellent sieges and results and obviously the impact on the community will be significant, particularly in terms of being able to remove significant amounts of drugs such as MDMA or ecstasy. We seized about a week, just over a week ago we seized 4,000 pills from a residence at Victoria Point along with three kilograms of the drug ICE. Now obviously the impact that that does have, particularly on our younger members of the community in areas such as the nightclub scene and certainly licensed premises, that's a significant positive for us. About $3.5 million worth of drugs, can you just tell us about that? Look that's very conservative in wholesale terms, in street terms, for instance MDMA tablets if you're buying 4,000 pills you may pay in the vicinity of about $9 a pill. On the street they can get as much as $35 per pill so certainly there is significant profit for these people that are involved in this and that's an ongoing challenge for obviously law enforcement but it's very pleasing to be able to remove those types of dangerous drugs and those amounts from the community. Particularly with some of the drugs these days we see the ICE we've been seizing, some of the stuff that's coming from interstate is very, very high quality in the vicinity of high 70s to high 80% purity. Look there's a number of different methodologies and a lot of these networks use different methodologies all the time. The security of the airport is excellent and as you know it's been significantly improved over a number of years. We work very closely with Australian federal police, customs and the other authorities that work around transportation particularly in the air transportation. The specific information this time was that fellow travelled by plane. We have that information that often these people fly down and hire cars or use other methods to trucks, other methods to transport these drugs up so it's certainly dependent on the people and the availability and often just the circumstances. Was there any check on him? Oh look I believe it was in his carry on luggage, I haven't got that specific information but certainly it was very pleasing to intercept the kilogram that was on him and then we executed a search line on his residence and there's a further two kilograms there and also the 4,000 pills. Look this operation focused heavily around the nightclub scene in the Brisbane area and our objective obviously was to disrupt those activities and target people involved in distribution in that nightclub scene but certainly it moved further out to the higher level networks and entities and obviously the information we've got is a lot of these drugs found their way into those areas. It's been an ongoing job, there certainly will continue to investigate that. Obviously we have a lot of our young people go to those locations and we certainly work very hard to keep those types of venues a safe environment for our young people. We did identify that, we did identify some employees which is not uncommon in the industry, in different roles employed by the actual clubs themselves, security wasn't among those at this stage, it was more in employee roles either in management or in service there, there were obviously people involved in the in the entertainment areas there, the DJ that sort of stuff, there was some significant information about that and there were a couple of people identified during that. There was some staff members who arrested, something we did see was quite concerning, a lot of these people are very young, have very little criminal history previously and are not adverse to taking significant risks and being involved in fairly high-level criminal offences. No that's right, you know like some of the people were charging at 19, 20, early 20s and we're talking 20,000, 20,000, sorry 20 grams of, 20 ounces sorry of ice, thousands of pills, you know, kilograms of, one of the one of the persons we seized four kilograms of ice from was in his 20s. Yeah, as a wholesale, an ounce of ice can sell up to $12,000 even more sometimes depending on the location and the availability but when you break it down to street level there's significant more profits there as well. Particularly Fortitude Valley, this operation focused on Fortitude Valley, not the Gold Coast and that was something that we tried to maintain our focus on because it's obviously one of the major entertainment venues for Brisbane and we work very closely with Metropolitan North Region and certainly a number of the owners of clubs and the people that are involved in the Valley Business District there have been very supportive. Look our operation had a covert side and an overt side so a lot of the time, a lot of the presence of this operation has been running since September 2011. A lot of our operations continued along without the notification of, you know, the business people but we certainly didn't have any resistance from any of those businesses there. No, they were rated this morning. They were part of the syndicate that was involved with the intercept from the gentleman that flew up from Sydney. They were part of that broader syndicate. One fellow's based in Sydney and the other one is based in Melbourne. They will be brought to Queensland today. They've been remanded in our custody to appear in the British Magistrates Court tomorrow in relation to trafficking charges. Significant, significant amounts. Look, it's obviously something we continue to follow our investigations. You know, one of the pleasing things of this investigation is we have been able to move into the higher level which is obviously one of our primary focuses. So we have identified some key players with some very good links in organised crime networks. So it's something that it's been quite pleasing with this operation but it's something that we'll continue to work with, not at this stage. Very, very broad if any. With these nightclub scenes it's very surprising the types of people that we've found as I said before. Some of them haven't got as much as the traffic ticket. Oh look, I haven't personally delved into the education. Obviously the police that they'd investigate them would be aware of their antecedents but I haven't personally delved into that. We're certainly not talking about a focus on lower socioeconomic parties. They're from a broad range of areas. Look, we didn't see any significant intelligence inferring that. It's one of those, I suppose the nightclub scene and that's one of those scenes where it's fairly incestuous. People seem to know a lot of people and we'll go down one path and then all of a sudden you'll see it connect back again. There's a lot of tie-ins there with these people even though they may live in totally different locations. And as I said, we obviously focused on the nightclub scene and moved back out to the higher level which is obviously distributing the higher level distributors, drug distributors that ultimately end up in these places. So that was our focus. Look, we're still getting the results from those. Some of those searches are continuing and police are interviewing a number of people. There were drugs seized. I don't have the specific information at this stage. I haven't been advised of any significant seizures at this point in time. The significant seizures in relation to that network were Tuesday a week ago. Well, certainly there are a number of people who are still continuing to make inquiries about and I do anticipate our investigations will continue. But the main operational focus of this operation has now closed. Look, certainly in the vicinity of three and a half to four million dollars and that's a wholesale figure as I said. In terms of street value, significantly higher, you could triple that. Well, look, I'm not saying they're more educated but I said there's a broad range of people. Obviously, entertainment precincts attract a variety of different people, particularly young people. And you know, it's not uncommon. We have encountered some people in their 40s, 50s. But there is a fairly predominant focus on the people in their late teens, 20s. Look, we're seeing those traditional types of methodologies changing, evolving immensely. It wouldn't be uncommon to be able to go to a venue, not know that person at all and be able to buy drugs. And there are a lot more Oh, look, I think it's probably a reflection on the culture of society, particularly the young people. They're certainly not risk adverse. And you know, it's one of those environments, I suppose, you meet literally hundreds of people on any given weekend or any given night you go in there you can meet. And I suppose it's a lot of it's about opportunities. And that's what we're trying to disrupt those opportunities and those those avenues for these types of drugs to go into places where our vulnerable younger people are. Look, there certainly wasn't any significant intelligence about, you know, business proprietors and that it was more people that were were involved in the service industry supervised a couple of supervisors or managers, but particularly people that worked in those areas, or new people that worked in those areas. So and they weren't a large percentage of the operation. But it was obviously a concern to us as well. September, or street value, you know, street value would certainly, we certainly blow out to to those two figures. Yeah, we when we see so we sees an ounce we value it at what the ounce the answers but in reality, when you're selling grams and those sorts of things that you know, you can pay $600 or $800 for a gram of ice. I actually don't have that specific information. But I mean, sometimes what we see with these people is they don't make a pre booking or they don't have any preference. They'll arrive at an airport. And they're just booked straight away. So there's no it's very hard for law enforcement to monitor those sorts of things. So and you know, there's other sorts of challenges we have. And it may be that they walk in and there's a Tiger Airways flight available right there and then. So it's mainly about circumstances, opportunities. It's not vulnerabilities in any particular airline or any particular carrier. Oh, look, they can see they can see these things in very airtight security, airtight devices on their bodies, lots of different methodologies. You know, obviously, they learn from different, you know, law enforcement's detections and methodology from where we where we get results. They continue these people continue to learn those sorts of things. Oh, you look, you know, I think the buzzer picks up metal when you walk through. If it's got on, it doesn't actually physically x-ray a person. So and, you know, you can have something concealed inside something else. We see it all the time with these, these importation shows, but they obviously continue to use strategies to to allude detection. And we continue to work closely with all the partner agencies to disrupt these activities and prosecute the people involved. Oh, no, not really. Obviously, when they come from overseas, they've got to get here somewhere, whether it be container, whether it be people, we get drug meals come in from overseas countries all the time. So as I said, we, we, we don't have a lot of these things or intercept people off planes. A lot of people drive up with it. Some people use different transport industries. Some people use the mail is a variety of methodologies. So it was as a result of the investigation. So we identified that. Well, the people in Melbourne are the key distributors. They're not the people that actually the fellow who went down was the actual distributor here in Queensland. And he was sourcing drugs from the fellow in Sydney. Honestly, honestly couldn't say I haven't dealt down to that thing. I would dare say that there probably would be some people that do, but I can't say for sure. Look, that's being analysed at the moment. Otherwise, I'd certainly have it here for a show and tell. And which would we try to do? But because of the, the, the time lapse between the seizure last week and the time we're in a position to, to focus on our warrants for the other parts of the network, we weren't able to have it here. It's being analysed currently as we speak. But that is a concerning fact. We've, we've seen very low levels actually in, in Australia and Queensland. And the problem with that is, often the drugs are substituted with other very harmful substances, different types of analogue drugs, poisons, other chemicals. And, and you know, these young people, that's what they really need to understand. They're taking a significant risk ingesting something they really don't know what it is and what, what it's going to do to them. I looked at the, the operation focused on the entertainment precinct, not on a Pacific nightclubs, often depending on, and a lot of these people that are involved move, as you know, from venue to venue. So we certainly looked at, at the whole, whole picture of, of the entertainment precinct. Often they sell the people they know, but they also sell the people that they meet on the night. And that's not uncommon. Yeah. Oh, look, as I said, a lot of the people we, we targeted or identified weren't employed in that industry. They were people that attended those areas. But there were some people that were involved in the industry, which obviously is disappointing and concerning. But I mean, that's, that was just one part of our focus. Yeah, through, I suppose through word of mouth that, that people, people, I suppose, ascertain information that this person may be able to provide something to them. That's usually, usually the way it happens. Yeah. Look, I'm not going to elaborate on now our methodologies or our strategies. Needless to say that we were very, very happy with the outcomes that were achieved. And in terms of seizures, to be able to see, see, have a number of networks where we've seized kilograms of these, of these drugs. Extremely pleased about that. I look this operation, I would say that is probably certainly one of the more significant operations that the Queensland Police have been involved in and have run ourselves been the lead on. And certainly, as I said, you know, to be able to seize multiple kilograms of drugs from different networks and remove them from the community and the impact that will have, the positive impact that will have in relation to harm reduction, we're very, very pleased about that. I'll look, our counterparts down there obviously assisted us in, in, in focusing on those people. And that's, we have very good relationships with, with both, you know, state and Commonwealth law enforcement agencies. And, and that's, you know, that's very important. You're going to see fairly significant quantities of, of methylamphetamine, both in white and, and a brownish colour. And we're also going to see 4,000 pills, pre-porting to be ecstasy pills. I haven't been analysed yet, but in a blue colour there. No, not at this stage, no. So, yeah.