Page 5128 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 28 November 2017
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solution to address organised crime. The government is obliged to assess both the operational effectiveness and the human rights compatibility of proposed legislation. We will continue to do the hard work to strike the right balance in giving police effective powers to address crime without diminishing the values and freedoms we hold dear in our community.
MS CHEYNE: Minister, could you please update the Assembly on the recent successes of Taskforce Nemesis, which is targeting criminal gangs?
MR GENTLEMAN: I thank Ms Cheyne for her supplementary question and her interest in safety across the ACT. Between 1 July 2016 and 7 November 2017, ACT Policing charged 28 criminal gang members with 84 offences.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR GENTLEMAN: I thought Mr Hanson might like to listen to these statistics. They are quite important. It has executed 56 search warrants. It has attended 12 shooting incidents, with two people shot receiving non-life threatening injuries, attended 13 arson incidents, some of which also involved shooting, and prepared for and monitored nine criminal gang motorcycle runs. In a recent success on 1 November this year search warrants were executed which resulted in two automatic rifles being seized, one live hand grenade being seized, one pump action shotgun seized, two double-barrelled sawn-off shotguns seized and two self-loading .22 calibre rifles, one with a silencer attached, seized.
Mrs Jones: Why are you so pleased about this?
MR GENTLEMAN: Yes, I am talking about it because it is important that the community and the opposition understand the work the police are doing—
Opposition members interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Resume your seat please. Stop the clock. Members of the opposition, the minister has been subject to your interjections the entire time he has been on his feet. Can we at least get to the last 44 seconds in some level of silence in appreciation of the standing orders?
MR GENTLEMAN: Thank you Madam Speaker. They are doing the hard work on the ground and we really do appreciate their work. As I have said, search warrants executed resulted in two automatic rifles seized, live hand grenades seized, a pump-action shotgun seized, two double-barrelled sawn-off shotguns seized, two self-loading .22 rifles seized, one bullet-proof vest seized, a large quantity of various ammunition for the above firearms seized and a 24-year-old man arrested and a 24-year-old man summonsed to appear in court at a later date.
Mr Barr: It is about the 50-minute mark when the attention starts to drop on that side of the chamber. I ask that all further questions be placed on the notice paper.
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