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Qld, Katarina Carroll, Mark Ryan, Gold Coast, knife-carrying teens, metal detectors
Queensland’s top cop has put young nightclubbers on notice and says they can expect to be “wanded” as part of a crackdown on youths carrying knives in the Gold Coast nightclub precinct.
New laws were introduced into parliament on Thursday under a raft of youth justice reforms that would give Gold Coast police enhanced powers.
The laws are likely to come into effect in April, and that’s when Gold Coast Police will have the power to use metal detectors to target knife crime as part of a new trial.
If a person refuses to have a metal…
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