Australia - Victoria's police union wants dedicated laws to control motorcycle gangs, with a confidential police report revealing that two notorious outfits are looking to set up new chapters in the state.
The report says the Finks and the Comancheros are scouring appropriate areas of Victoria to set up their first Victorian chapters.
It says the Comancheros have been looking for locations in the Melbourne suburbs of Richmond or Port Melbourne, while the Finks are already operating a tattoo parlour in Port Melbourne.
Police Association secretary Greg Davies says Victoria should follow the lead of other states - including South Australia and Western Australia - and introduce anti-association legislation to deal with bikie gangs.
Victoria may be more attractive to gangs who find laws in other states too difficult to operate within, Mr Davies warned.
"That seems to be the inescapable conclusion that we come to," he told reporters on Thursday.
"It's a little ironic that it was in fact the Victoria police force that proposed nationally anti-bikie gang laws almost a decade ago and that several other states have taken up the cudgels in that regard and Victoria hasn't.
"It would be easier and more efficient if there were specific laws."
But police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland says the state's powers are already tough enough.
"I think we have a very strong range of organised crime powers here in Victoria," Mr Overland said on Thursday.
"The thing that gets lost in this discussion, South Australia is touted as having the harshest laws - they don't have coercive powers, we do.
"And our coercive powers are operating, unlike the supposed tough-on-bikie legislation that's not because it's been struck out by the Court of Appeal."
He emphasised that while there were no laws that prevented people or organisations setting up in Victoria, any criminal behaviour would be monitored.
"What we will do is if we believe that they're coming here for criminal reasons we'll obviously monitor that," he said.
"If we get evidence or information that they are behaving criminally we will target them, we will arrest them, we will charge them and put them before the courts."
The leaking of a confidential police report to the Herald Sun newspaper was a criminal offence, Mr Overland said.
"If I find the person who's done this they can expect to be charged and if they're convicted we will then look at their continued employment within the organisation but I would expect them to be dismissed."
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