Bikies aren't so bad, says South Australia's Police Commissioner Mal Hyde | Herald Sun: "BIKIES have cultivated an image of committing more crime than they actually do, the Police Commissioner says.
In a new book, Mal Hyde says 'there is a great deal of public concern that may not necessarily match the serious crime that they are committing'.
His views are in stark contrast to those of South Australian Premier Mike Rann, who said in 2007 that bikies were as bad as 'terrorists'.
Mr Rann had said national laws were needed to stop them organising their activities.
'I have also indicated that in addition, the national counter-terrorism laws that have been appropriately modified and adopted could provide a nationally consistent approach to ban and control outlaw bikie gangs,' he said of the now-stalled laws.
Mr Hyde said bikies presented two problems - the 'serious' and 'organised type' crime they committed, but also a 'public face which most organised criminals don't have' which portrayed them as 'above the law'."
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