What's Going On in Briss Valley?

I'm sure many of those who regulary head to the valley have noticed an increase in the presence of undercovers and police activity over the past few weeks/months - but its just becoming absolutely ridiculous now.
I swear they must be really desperate to crack the big one, cause they're searching high and low - and have now resorted to targeting personal users.
Over the past few weeks, several mates (inc. females) have been escorted by police to be searched for drugs, after following them throughout the club over the period of the night. On no such instance has anything been found, cause my mates aren't fucking dealers. Fair enough we have nothing to worry about, cause we don't carry anything on us into clubs - but just cause we're holding a water bottle and dance pretty hard makes us look like dealers?
Last nights effort in the valley was a absolute joke, these guys were so obviously undercovers (an doing a bad job at it), that I felt like offering them some tips on how to fit in a little better.
* These guys were too old for the type of music that was on last night, and they all looked like the same person dressed them.
* There was three *couples* - but strangely enough they never kissed or were intimate over the entire night.
* When one guy introduced himself to me and my girl - he wrote our names in his mobile phone! What the fuck?
* He asked us outright "so are you guys on anything tonight?"
* When I asked him if he was on anything, he replied "yeah, im on ecstasy tablets". Come on dude... I don't recommend you refer to them as tablets, all you goto say is "yeah man, i'm fucking chopped... these pills rock"
* Later on in the night, one guy said to me "man, I'm a bit worried about this ecstasy, they're more like sleeping tablets. Have you got anything?"

You undercovers are wasting your time hitting up personal users - in the three hours you were watching us, your 6 man possie (let alone any other resources you had in the club) could have been put to better use stopping violence/abuse/and theft in the valley streets... Leave us personal users alone, we're not hurting anyone, we're not doing major drug deals, we're just there for a good time, not to be harrased by ur amateur, cliche' slinging actors.

The QLD police have recently been granted the power to take sniffer dogs into clubs too. They've already started taking the sniffer dogs around train stations and other public places picking up random people for minor possession.

This current round of police activity will probably get worse before it gets better.

yep the clubs in the valley have been packed with undercovers over the last couple of weeks. at one stage i believe they outnumbered normal club goers... wtf. gonna have to be extra carefull if you wanna go valley clubbing these days...

hehe, they must be desperate....
some peeps tell me this has been happening in adelaide aswell.

randoms comming up, asking dumbass questions "you off-tap?"
be carefull who you talk too.

glad i dont go out or take drugs anymore.

what can you do if you do get asked to be searched? at the club in my city last night the undercovers were trying to pick off anyone they could.

These pigs are jus lookin for trouble goinup to randoms an askin stupid questions lyk that. Hopefully they ask sum1 whos charlie-ing off his head and he knocks them back in2 the real world. If there after sum1 to bust y not bust there colleagues. plus what do they take ppl for-amateurs. if your dum enuf to open up to sum1 u dont know then you need to rethink your ways

next time they ask ya these questions, just plain out ask em if they are cops. dont be blank about it, just say ARE YOU A COP??
they cant do you for anything if u havent got anything on ya, so it might be worth something. just see if youy can make them look like asses in the process.

I had a mate that was in the police acadamy in Adelaide and i asked him about this. He reckons they have to tell you if they are police and you ask, and they can't search you if all you have is a water bottle and dilated pupils.
They can only ping you if you're caught dealing.

I'm not friends with this guy any more, which is a pity since i'd like to know the full extent of these laws. This is for SA by the way.

Police frequent this website don't they? Perhaps they'd like to contribute to the discussion

from what i know * i could be very wrong so don't flame* but there is no entrapment laws in australia that make us be able to say to cops before i say / do such and such r u a cop...i don't think they have to answer...this is just of the knowledge i have please correct me if i am wrong...but i don't belive i am ...

hhc_king said:

from what i know * i could be very wrong so don't flame* but there is no entrapment laws in australia that make us be able to say to cops before i say / do such and such r u a cop...i don't think they have to answer...this is just of the knowledge i have please correct me if i am wrong...but i don't belive i am ...

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On that note would anyone have verification of that..

What ur saying sounds right, I would simply like to know what the actual law states

Thanks

i know of a recent case, where a person who was known to be a cop, was asked if they were, and they simply said NO, what makes you think im a cop?

No entrapment laws. If you ask them, they can reply as they see fit to not blow their cover and to further their case.

Just tell them to fuck off. They're undercover, and thus can't really do anything about it. You can't rightly know they were cops, can you?

It's simple .. go report them to security for dealing

Duno if this will be considered a good idea but i think once undercover cops have been identified in a club word should get around as to which club and that should be boycotted for abotu 2 weeks. The club owners will start making noise if the cops are costing them a lot of money.

eccitude said:

It's simple .. go report them to security for dealing

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LMAO :D i like this one


great idea... io mean having undercovers in the club is bad for business aint it...

I think most people here know which club in the valley has been the focus of undercover activity of late... But I don't want to outright name it since that's not really necessary. I guess the most positive thing to come out of this thread is the importance of not carrying excessive amounts of *enhancements* on you to clubs. Even better don't carry anything on you at all...
I think it would be quite entertaining to give them some shit if you pick some undercovers out. If you have nothing on you then you have nothing to worry about...

the police activity around the valley has been ridiculous lately. so many cops around targetting the wrong people. these are truly sad days for brisbanes recreational drug culture

as for sniffer dogs in clubs, has anyone seen an actual dog INSIDE a club? i have yet to see this

it seems wierd to hear this, as here, in WA, i never see undercover cops in clubs and around, looking dodgy and trying to score...

^LOL! You're just not going to the right clubs mate. No specific names, but in any given club on James Street on a Saturday night you'll see at least a couple of Her Maj's finest up there. I'll give them credit, the boys in Perth at least were more subtle and blended in OK, plus I never heard of anyone street-level or users being busted. They were mostly there to investigate the big boys. This is going back a few years, but I doubt much has changed from what my mates tell me.

The sniffer dogs haven't been used in clubs yet, but they will be soon. Have a look at this thread for more info on the use of sniffer dogs in public places in Queensland.