 Police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at the Kira Sports Club in Hotel Street Kira early this morning at just before 6 a.m. an employee of the club attended the club to open up upon opening the front doors. A single male offender has approached the employee and demanded to open the door. The offender was armed with a handgun. The offender has then taken the employee of the club inside. He's demanded to be taken to an area of the administration area of the club where he asked the employee to open the safe. The employee was tied up and a large sum of money was taken. The male person, the male offender was last seen escaping through the car park of the of the Kira Sports Club on foot. He's been described as between 175 and 180 centimetres tall. The offender was wearing all dark clothing, a balaclava, a dark jacket and dark pants and was wearing gloves. We would be asking any member of the public who saw anything suspicious suspicious who saw anything untowards in that area this morning to contact crime stoppers or their local police concerning sorry is this concerning any offense involving firearms or weapons is concerning to us. There have been any sightings of this fellow at all other than one from the victim. We're still investigating that. At this point of time we're not aware of any further witnesses. Was the victim touched or pushed or anything like that of that nature? The victim was not harmed but was obviously there was some physical contact between the two but he was not harmed at all but obviously he's quite shaken by the experience. His report said he was bound. Can you expand? No that's all I can tell you at this point of time. Security pictures of the incident there are some. We do have some CCTV footage which I'll try and make available to you immediately. Now we only just received it two minutes ago. Okay. So we're just checking that now and it should be available for you by the time we've finished here. Have you seen that at all? Just now, yes. Can you just talk us through briefly what it is? I mean is it fairly violent sort of stuff? Well in answer to your question, will any robbery involving a weapon is violent even though physical violence may not be used? We do consider it an offensive violence but the footage shows the manager arriving or the employee arriving at the club, the offender then approaching him at the front door, they enter the club and then he commits the offense and then he leaves the club or in the space of you know 15 to 20 minutes. Are you able to say how old the victim was? No I'm not. So he lasted that long about 20 minutes? Roughly between 15 to 20 minutes. How is he? He must be careful. He's quite shaken yes. Given that he complied did he react as you would expect someone or you would like someone to do in the situation? Certainly yes. We would not advocate people take things into their own hands. We will not advocate that people confront anyone who's armed with any sort of weapon. It's probably too early to say but any from looking at the footage or does he very resemblance or act in any way to similar crimes that we've seen down here? It's too early to say at this point in time. It's been some similar hold-off sit-down in Molymo and Condon at sports clubs as well. Is there any relation do you reckon on? It's too early to say at this point in time but we have been conversing with our colleagues in NSW in relation to similar offences. What are you looking for from the public Brian? Anyone who's got any information at all about who may have committed this offence and anyone who may have seen anyone acting suspiciously in the vicinity of the Kira Sports Club early this morning before 6am if they could contact their local police or crime stoppers on 1800 triple three triple zero. There was some reports apparently that somebody saw a suspicious character yesterday lurking around because would you have to know that the club would be open at 6am? Isn't that very usual? Well not able to comment on that. If your question is if you think if there was a degree of planning in this offence well there does appear to be a degree of planning in the commission of the offences. How long was he sort of tied up and before somebody else came to? I couldn't say at this point of time. Is it now? No it wasn't that long. No. No less it was certainly less than now. Was he able to free himself to phone? Yes he was. I don't know if we'll be getting that into that in a moment but is this a matter for the new task force as well? Yes we're working closely with our colleagues from State Crime Operations Command. And I did hear one officer say that it was a shame it's happened the day before the funeral tomorrow. Must be pretty high branching for officers today. It is a very difficult time for any police officer but in particular detectives in this region. Of course we as we remember the events of last week but you know they are a very good group of professionals here and they're just doing their job as best they can.