26 March 2008

Police Conduct Machine Gun Raid At Dickson

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Turkish restaurant next to Trinity at Dickson last night got raided by police with machine guns and bullet proof vests. Busted out of a plain marked van and stormed the back entrance. *Apparently* a massive cocaine bust. Anyone know anything ?

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StenzOne said :

Anyone else had similar situations?

Yeah, heaps back in the day…

Deadmandrinking3:15 am 31 Mar 08

Cops don’t like to pay for their weed.

About 3 years ago I got busted in a carpark smoking bongs with my friends, 2 police cars rocked up and interrogated etc..
After about 5 minutes, no names were recorded, no fines/warnings issued, police just took our containers and smoking devices and took off. Even let us all drive home under the influence.

Something doesn’t seem right there..

Anyone else had similar situations?

I took it as a sign of corrupt police involvement in the organised over-the-counter drug sales, but who knows?

“I once reported hard drug sales out of a takeaway at Dickson, to Canberra police and they weren’t interested.”

Perhaps they were enjoying the burgers with the lot?

I always buy my drugs from dickson

SOT/SRS – same thing, different name. But yes, now SRS in ACT, ORT overseas.

This is more than likely the Police who conducted the raid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialist_Response_and_Security

Sepi, as addictive as KFC’s popcorn chicken is … it’s not classified as a “drug” under the Prohibited Substances Act 🙂

I once reported hard drug sales out of a takeaway at Dickson, to Canberra police and they weren’t interested. Maybe Canberra police have turned a corner.

Couldn’t agree more Nath, imagine copping an eyeful of tabouli – ouch! With all that garlic etc it’s gotta sting.

After seeing what the Turks did to the ANZACs at Gallipoli in 1915, I’d be going in fully armed too. 😉

Tabouli can be pretty dangerous if left out of the fridge … I’d be going in with a Kevlar vest too …

Absent Diane3:13 pm 26 Mar 08

maybe they didn’t like the food.

and i thought that was just icing sugar on the turkish delight…

I worked there behind the bar for a short stint about a year and a bit ago.

Never even had the slightest idea anything dodgy was going on.

It does explain why he never wanted the store room tidied up.

There were some rumour about videos made in fun of cutting up coke on the front bench. Apparently an employee who quit last week was involved in this.

The SOT are called in when “lethal force is authorised” – which generally means anti-terror operations or they are expecting to meet armed resistance (say an armed robbery where an offender has discharged a weapon) – presumably they had intel that suggested that the baddies in the restaurant were armed with something a bit more dangerous than tabouli…

Would they really need machine guns to raid a restaurant? It’s hardly a heavily-armed headquarters for the Popular Liberation Front of Dickson (PLFD)

Special Operations Team in the AFP use Heckler and Koch MP5 sub machine guns (9mm) – capable of semi automatic fire (one round per squeeze of the trigger), three round bursts or fully automatic. The MP5s have laser sights. SOT also have other cool toys such as stun grenades and really big pump action shotguns. Having met some of the SOT boys I would suggest that a van load crashing in through your back door would see you wishing you had been wearing brown underpants.

machine guns? Why lie..

mutley...again11:07 am 26 Mar 08

Maybe it’s a followup to the bad review that was posted on here a while ago.

Perhaps this will encourage restaurants to pull their socks up on service.

Anyone know anymore about this? I have a friend who used to work there.

barking toad10:58 am 26 Mar 08

Machine guns?

Plod will be interested to know they’ve got those in the armoury.

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