 north region. I will be making two statements and then I will take questions. So whenever you're ready. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. Police are currently investigating an incident which commenced at Zilmia Road, Zilmia at approximately 9.45 last evening. Investigations have established that four male persons in a stolen vehicle left an address in Zilmia. A short time later police attempted to intercept the vehicle at a roadblock. As a result of the incident at the roadblock, a man received a gunshot wound to his right thigh and is currently under guard at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. The vehicle was then pursued at slow speed and was stopped by police on Gimpy Road at Kedrin. The three other male persons were taken into custody. They have been arrested and charged with a number of offences and appeared in Pine Rivers Magistrate Court this morning. Additional charges have also been preferred this afternoon and investigations are continuing. As you would be aware from our current operational procedure, police from ethical standards command are over-viewing the investigation, particularly in relation to the shooting. Second statement. In early December 2011, a series of ram raid-style offences were committed in southeast Queensland. This led to operation kilo-perpetual commencing on the 2nd of February by Crime Operations Branch property crime squad. They coordinated the investigation of these offences across all regions. The operation widened to include offenders that had been targeting business premises by using vehicles or weapons such as sledgehammers to gain entry. As a result of last evening's events, this operation has been upgraded to a task force named Task Force Kilo Perpetual and it comprises members of all regions involved. The task force has been headed by State Crime Operations Command. Offences have occurred across five police regions, including Metropolitan North, Metropolitan South, Southeastern Region, Southern Region and the North Coast Region and that comprises 35 police divisions. There are currently in excess of 30 persons of interest and included in that 30 persons is a number of juveniles. To date, 190 offences have been identified. These include burglaries, enter premises, unlawful use motor vehicle, stealing, armed robbery, dangerous operation of motor vehicles and evade police. I would ask any member of the public who has any information that may assist the police in locating the offenders to please contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 00. Thank you. I'll take questions. Well as I said, there's in excess of 30 persons of interest and these are four of those persons. Are they all linked? No, they're not all linked. There's different groups in different areas that are operating but they're using the same MO and quite probably some are copycats. Those investigations will be undertaken by the task force but early indications are that yes that is quite correct. Have you ever seen a spate of such a condensed number? I don't think we've seen such a condensed amount in such a short space of time at the amount that have been committed, which is why we're asking members of the public to come forward and assist us. It's quite obvious that a number of people know what's gone on and they know who the offenders are but they're not telling us so we would like their assistance to do that. But with this task force that's now been, is going to take over the whole of the investigation, comprising members of each of the regions, I'm hoping that we will get some excellent results quite soon. At this stage I can't give you their names, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I don't know their ages at this stage. I think it's very concerning for all of us that we do have not only adults but juveniles involved in these types of offences because I think we've seen from the ram raids, they are quite violent in nature the offences that have been committed and the property damage that has occurred. So it is very concerning to think that some of the younger members of our community are being involved in these types of offences at such early ages. Those investigations are still continuing. They've been arrested on incidents that occurred in Metro North. Their further investigations have been conducted and there will be charges laid against these people from I would think Ipswich and Oxley and other areas as well. They've had an excessive about 20 charges laid on them today with a lot more to follow. No, he's only just got out of surgery. So he will be interviewed and charged at a later day. Sledge Hammers or Ram Raids, yes, with vehicles. I don't know whether they're getting better at them. I think that their style of entry is just smash and grab. It's use whatever violence you can possibly use to get into the building and then take whatever you can. I don't think there's any sophistication with them or that they're getting more professional. I just think it's just whatever means you can get in use that. To my knowledge, no. Yes, I think it's like what we've been doing with all the business premises is that we do have the crime prevention people that can go out and ensure that their security is as good as it can possibly be with CCTV, footage, etc. What we are asking that particularly the business owners, if they're there, that please not try and interfere and stop these people because you don't know what they will do. It's best just to let them take what they want and your love be saved then you end up being hurt and hospitalised. I think it's cash cigarettes, alcohol, anything they can get their hands on really. That's one of the things that our task force will be investigating and I'll be looking very closely at that. No, I'm sorry, I can't at this stage. That's being investigated by Ethical Standards Command and when their investigation is fully completed, I've no doubt that that will be released but at the moment their investigations are continuing and I would not like to compromise any part of that. The officers are coping well. They have a lot of support as you can imagine and they are cooperating with members of Ethical Standards Command and as is always the Crime and Misconduct Commissioner over viewing the investigation. They were known to us from as suspects, yes, but whether they're actually known for a number of different incidents that have occurred, I don't know, but they were known to police, yes. I would think it was excellent police work by the off-duty officers that, of all the BOLF spolos that we put out on a daily basis, that their night work had been on night work the night before and that they recognised this vehicle as being a stolen vehicle and took the appropriate action. Well, the five regions that I've nominated, they will have officers involved in it as well as a number of officers from Crime Operations Branch and the Property Crime Squad in particular. Oh, surveillance will be involved in it. All the areas that we need to join part of the task force, they will become a part of it, yes. No, about all of the offences, etc. that have been committed. I can't confirm that, no. No, no, that is between the three so far. They've been to court today and we've preferred further charges on them again this afternoon and there'll be further charges laid. So we'll be able to give you an update on the exact amount of charges within the next couple of days. Oh, yes, Baal was opposed this morning. No, no, he's been under guard at the hospital and has been in surgery on two occasions this morning, so police have not actually interviewed him at any time. We will wait until he has recovered sufficiently that he is able to be interviewed. It would have to be in its hundreds because it was, I mean, so far we've identified 190 offences and we also have 30, in excess of 30 persons of interest. So you could have five or six involved in in half of those offences. So I would think that the charges will run into the hundreds most definitely. As police officers, we don't normally give out our own personal opinions as to why things do occur. I think that we've seen this type of offences being committed over a long period of time. It's just that these all happen to to be connected and which is why we have such a massive amount at this point. No, no, no, the task force will be set up at crime operations branch and officers from each of the regions will be working out of the task force. So any offences that were committed at the Gold Coast, if there is any on the on out of the 190 Gold Coast officers will be working out of the task force in Brisbane. I would like to think that the arrests we've made overnight may make some of the offenders think twice about continuing to do that the offences are ram-raised, etc. Whether it slows them down, any time we'll tell on that. I can't make any comment in relation to that. I'm sorry, that's a part of ethical standards commands investigation. It does make it difficult, but with the amount of scientific evidence that we can glean from scenes this day, it does help us greatly. The CCTV footage is is one of our best tools to assist us. But it is they are very, very difficult investigations to do. I mean, we would like to think that we could have them all solved in a very short space of time, but we can't say that that will occur, because the investigations have to run their course. And as you know, we have to be able to prove all the elements of all the offences before we actually charge someone with them. I think it's, it is a good start for us in that we have been able to arrest four of the people that have been involved. And hopefully our investigations with these four will lead us to other offenders as well. No, they're a real passenger. Yes, that is correct. Look, that would be something that we'll have to go through all for with the task force and look at all the offenses that have been committed. It's but it is several years. But there has been a lot of stolen vehicles involved in these offenses. So it'll take a little bit to put which vehicles been used in which offense. Yes, with that's probably another thing that for the general public that we all seem to forget. We get home every afternoon. We put the keys on the table beside the front door so we know where they are tomorrow morning. But if your home is broken into and that's where your keys are when you get home, if you've gone out, your keys and your car will be gone. So with a lot of the more modern vehicles that have the locking mechanisms, etc. that you can't get through, they're actually doing breaks on residents to get the keys. Or some people are leaving their car parked in their garage with the garage unlocked or in the driveway with the vehicle unlocked. And of course the keys are in the ignition. So it does make it a little bit difficult. So we do urge people to think of somewhere else to put the keys except in the place where it's first to grab in the morning. And that is a growing trend and it is quite worrying. I don't think you can elaborate on why they're only targeting those sorts. You think the four wheel drives and the use perhaps for the ram rate effect that maybe they're stronger. I really don't know. I'm not a mechanic or a car enthusiast. But I'd suggest that's what their appeal is. No, because they're still in custody at this point in time. No, two were pleaded guilty this morning and were given probation. And one was remanded in custody. The two that were given probation were arrested by detectives from Castle Dine on further charges. And Ipswich detectives will be with them at the moment, interviewing them in relation to those. So they will reappear again tomorrow in court. I would suggest that it'll be at the Pine Rivers Court. But that would be something you would need to follow up in the morning. They're all still in custody, yes. Yeah, have a