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The Times of London profiles biker gang members who are taking hard to fill jobs at Australian mines, rising up through ranks to management and then running Asian prostitution rings.
Prostitution is mostly legal in Australia.
Bikers are finding women who will work longer and work for lower wages, usually through coercion, which undercuts legal sex workers.
Bikie gangs, as they are known here, run much of the organized crime in Australia and the mines have proved fertile ground, according to Paul Biggin, district inspector of Mount Isa police.
“It’s hard to get people with certain skills, like diesel mechanics, in the mines,” Inspector Biggin says. “Bikies take these jobs then work their way into management, and that makes it easy to run their business. They coerce young, vulnerable Asian girls into sex work and they take them from mine to mine, putting them to work for a week at a time in rooms on the perimeter of the camps.”
6 Comments
FOREVER 1%er
yet another spin and web of lies from our fine upstanding mount isa community police, when will it end…. i do believe that your position as head of illegal prostitution in mount isa is copping a hefty budget cut due to the fact that there is no illegal prostitution ring mr biggun, perhaps the old ” lets blame it on the bikies ” routine might bite you on the arse up here mate, the community is not so easily lead up this way.
Mineral Man
This is also extremely degrading to those members of biker clubs that work in the mining industry without incident and have little to no interest in using their employment as a mechanism to encourage, endorse or profit from alleged criminal enterprise.
R.F.F.R
thats news to us !! I was 98% sure the asain girls stay right next door to biggins fellow officers villa, correct me if im wrong but most of mt isa knows. Very miss leading to the public mate and readers of careermine etc.
tater
hookers need love too…!
Mineral Man
This is possibly the biggest load of crap I have heard today.
“Rising up to management level”?!?!?!?!?
Pull the other one mate.
MARRA
The police would be upset with bikers running prostiution as it would be cutting into their profits. We all know who runs organised crime in Australia