PERFECT LITTLE ANGELS
HELLS ANGELS, COPS FLOOD INTO LORNE
HELLS Angels bikies who descended on Lorne across the weekend were met with an increased police presence in the seaside town.
Police said two drug buses and dozens of extra police were dispatched from Melbourne to monitor the bikie gang’s movements after it was revealed they would take part in a planned 60-strong ride along the Surf Coast for a weekend stay.
Officers from Victoria Police’s Operational Response Unit based themselves in Colac in case there was trouble, but locals reported no major incidents.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman said police would work with other crime agencies as they continued their outlaw motorcycle gang enforcement across the state.
“Victoria Police is aware that a number of Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang members are on the move in Victoria,” she said.
She said local police and Taskforce Echo members, along with South Australian, Tasmanian, ACT and New South Wales police, and Australian Federal Police, will closely monitor the gang members’ movements and will take action to detect and disrupt any of the motorcycle gang members who commit crimes, road safety or public order offences.
“Victoria Police will continue to work with other agencies as part of a national approach to OMCG enforcement,” the spokeswoman said.
Police previously refused to say if the Hells Angels bikies were looking to set up a chapter on the Surf Coast after reports of the Lorne meeting and talk the club was looking to expand its Victorian network.