AUSTRAILA - Queensland Police admit errors in lists of groups, locations in anti-bikie laws

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Queensland Police have admitted to another error in the state's anti-bikie laws, saying that lists of "prescribed" groups and locations included in the legislation will change as a matter of routine.

A list of "prescribed places" in the legislation includes an industrial shed in Caboolture, north of Brisbane, where a man linked to the Rebels motorcycle club once operated a car gearbox repair business.

Yesterday the property owner, neighbours and the new owner of the business, Doug Meikle, told the ABC the man moved out at the end of 2007 and has not been back.

Superintendent Mick Niland, the deputy chief of anti-bikie group Taskforce Maxima, said the property should be removed from the list.

"Because it was introduced so fast, we've had no chance to validate and revalidate [the list]," he said.

Superintendent Niland said another address, thought to be in North Queensland, was also mistakenly put on the list.

Police say list of banned bikie gangs to become 'living document'

Police have acknowledged that the Scorpions bikie gang, , has no contact with criminal gang members in Australia.

"Our intelligence command were sufficiently concerned about that club that they were put on that list of declared criminal organisations," Superintendent Niland said.

"We will look at the links between the US and here and see how tenuous that link is.

"[The list] will become a living document in time."

On Friday night, 20 officers from Taskforce Maxima and Road Policing Command .

Superintendent Niland said the action was not a "raid", as reported by the ABC.

"We intend to have a very good cordial relationship with all the motorcycle clubs in Queensland," he said.

"Where we receive intelligence that there is possibility of infiltration [by banned clubs] we will ... take it up with the club management."

Queensland Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie told ABC Radio that tough new laws that include a list of 26 motorcycle clubs designated "criminal organisations" were also aimed at "mafia-type" groups and paedophile rings.

Superintendent Niland said there were no plans to expand that list.

"We are targeting the criminal motorcycle gangs and that’s a huge challenge in itself," he said.

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