Bikie numbers on the Gold Coast could dramatically swell if proposed tough new laws to ban them are passed in NSW.A leading criminologist has warned that passing such laws in the southern state could see a surge of the outlaw gangs move across the border where they were legally allowed to operate.University of Queensland organised crime expert Dr Andreas Schloenhardt also said banning the gangs would magnify the problems as clubs went underground.
He said he strongly believed NSW's push for jail terms of two to five years for bikie gang members caught associating with one another after the gang was banned would not work.A Supreme Court judge would decide the fate of the outlaw clubs and if they should be banned.
The fatal brawl between rival gangs the Hell Angels and the Comancheros in Sydney last Sunday prompted the proposal to change the legislation.
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