 Yomanto Station with Superintendent Mark Kelly and obviously Detective Inspector Lou Strowfield. And as a government and as a community I'm here to congratulate the great work that the police and the Ipswich community are doing in reducing crime. We've obviously reinforced the front line with more police officers and more equipment and more technology but it gets down to the old adage of basically ensuring that the community and police work together and as a government we're going to ensure that we maintain and make Queensland and Brisbane and Ipswich and all the other suburbs in between a safer community. And I'd just like to congratulate this particular operation that has been running since November last year. Over 500 offenders arrested on over 1500 charges that affected mums and dads and business owners right across the Ipswich area. It's been a remarkable result obviously reducing tens of thousands of dollars of property damage ensuring that these offenders are brought before a judicial process and making sure that Ipswich and the wider communities kept safe. We've seen some remarkable results since the inception of this particular team as well as the increase of operations in relation to criminal motorcycle gangs legislation across the state. Here in Ipswich we've seen a reduction of robberies by 33 percent by unlawful entries by 20 percent and that is only by the hard work local police on the ground on the beach like never before working in with their local communities. So inspector if I'd like to get you to make some comments I'll just be in the middle. Thank you very much minister. The Ipswich District Property Team as a visitor said in November last year that's a significant success in relation to that. That's totally due not just to the operation being run by officers but also to the Ipswich community and the assistance that they've provided us throughout our operational duties. On Tuesday and Wednesday we closed our latest operation with the property team Operation Mike Snowshoe which resulted in nine offenders being charged with almost 70 offences. These offences are related to mainly related to premises, coffee shops, Boyle Drive accessories businesses in Ipswich North Brisbane and in South Brisbane. The operation was conducted in conjunction with the property team from both of those police districts and it's a really good example of the borderless police which is going on within the southeast corner of Queensland. What do you think of these? In their 30s most of them what do you think of the behaviour of these adults? It is atrocious they're targeting businesses predominantly doing significant amounts of damage and stealing large amounts of property and cash. We at this time haven't covered a lot of the property at this point but it is good that we have been able to apprehend these and two of the alleged offenders were remanded in custody yesterday in the Ipswich major straight school. Just one thing there is particularly I'd like to congratulate the community here in Ipswich and around Brisbane. There's been an increase of over 300 percent of reports to crime stoppers. We've seen our neighborhood watch and our my police blogs grow right across the whole of the state. My police blogs with over 20 million hits and particularly here in the Ipswich community where people have said enough is enough and they are working in because at the end of the day police are as only as good as the information they receive and whilst we've got police on the beat like never before getting remarkable results they can only be achieved by the partnership with the community particularly here in Ipswich and around Brisbane. Would you be able to describe some of the offenses that they committed with a particularly targeting fast food stores that sort of thing? There are a number of offenses on the subway fast food outlets coffee shops and they were targeting four wheel drive accessories and as you can imagine those the items stolen were very expensive after the top end items that they could dispose of easily and as I said we haven't recovered a lot of that property we have some of it at this point but we're attempting to recover more actually as we speak. Expensive winches and four wheel drive accessories some of these things cost thousands of dollars per item and they're readily disposable items. Smashing their way in usually we're alleging that they're using implements such as sledge hammers and axes to to get into the buildings and causing lots of damage significant damage. So did you say nine offenders? So nine offenders for just under 70 charges so far and that's the other spine I was just today. And they're all working as a gang? They're all working as together they're all known to each other I suppose they're a loose association in that we allege that different different people within these this group work with different people different times they're all known to each other and run in the same suit. So there's sorry so there's the overall operation commenced from the Ipswich district property team in November last year and a culmination of that and the success of that we've seen the recent operation which is commenced which is obviously targeting and these hard hit areas because as we have now as the inspector alluded to we no longer have these small operational police units working independence we have a borderless policing approach towards our police response so we're able to accumulate large groups of police gather give them the the infrastructure and the technology now to be able to target certain individuals but one thing important and I do implore the community you will not leave a thousand dollars on the bench or you will not leave ten thousand dollars or twenty thousand dollars sitting on your kitchen bench so please take the opportunity to put your items away so then that these particular offenders do not have the the opportunity of committing these offences. So there's some way robberies and all that was that going back until November is that just in April? The investigation in relation to these current offences commenced in April but some of the offences could have been committed before from the beginning of the year so our property team which was put together which is 22 full-time officers in there commenced in November and Mike Snowshoe was just one operation that they have conducted during that time which started in April. So robberies and Zarafa coffee robberies last year I think it was like mid last year not related to this? Not this point though. They'd be part of the other 500 offenders arrested on over 1500 charges. So they were targeted under the November starting operation? Some of them were but the ones you're talking about were to do with the previous operation no there's no no homes in this one it's all commercial premises so they are up to cash cash tins a number of safes, tills but with the forward of accessory stores it was the high end expensive equipments like winches and recovery gear and things like that which are easily disposed of. No we haven't been able to tell you. $45,000 dollars easily in damage to premises. The property team's continuing it won't be stopping we're not going to let up on this whilst we've identified these persons and they're before the courts there's others out there there's still crime being committed and the property team is there to attack property crime that's being committed within the district work in conjunction with the property teams in the North Brooklyn district, South Brisbane district and also the CRB and other detectives in hope to win them. Are they sort of breaking in at a certain time at night or anything like that was the MO the same the whole way through? That's how this operation started when it was identified that there were similarities in a number of these offences which included times the the means in which the off the breaks were being committed and the like and that's when the operation was put together to identify offenders or we alleged we have identified those offenders and we have put those before the court. How are they at risk? We believe so yes in this case. Yes we did have a good good response from the public crime stoppers as as the minister's alluded to is a magnificent tool for police something that we couldn't do without and we'll promote it at every chance we get because it is it's what we have to have we cannot so far without the community helping us.