Amaroo weed bust

dungfungus said :

Did anyone hear the AtlasAir B747 carrying global party celebrites Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Fox take off for Las Vegas from Canberra airport at about 3.00am yesterday morning?

WTF?

LSWCHP said :

Earlier in the year an AFP chopper flew endless circles over Canberra at night for several weeks which featured on RA. Maybe I’m imagining things, but there seems to have been an increased number of drug busts in Canberra after that.

I wonder if they were using IR cameras to look for unusual heat signatures indicating grow houses, unusual activity around houses at night indicating dealer action etc.

You are on the money – the police have gathered massive amounts of intelligence using the methods you have described.
I note DrKoresh is complaining about the police working with the helicopters in the middle of the night. I found that they were orbiting at a very high level and were difficult to hear (for the benefit of the crims obviously).
Did anyone hear the AtlasAir B747 carrying global party celebrites Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Fox take off for Las Vegas from Canberra airport at about 3.00am yesterday morning? Stephen Byron’s dream has come true at last, namely international flights from Canberra in the middle of the night.

DrKoresh said :

LSWCHP said :

Earlier in the year an AFP chopper flew endless circles over Canberra at night for several weeks which featured on RA. Maybe I’m imagining things, but there seems to have been an increased number of drug busts in Canberra after that.

I wonder if they were using IR cameras to look for unusual heat signatures indicating grow houses, unusual activity around houses at night indicating dealer action etc.

Whatever they’re doing I wish they wouldn’t do it in the middle of the lumping night.

I dated a young lady who worked for the CSIRO many years ago, who told me that there were ways to scan for chemical concentrations using satellites, and soon after there were many large-scale busts of Marijuana plantations in sometimes fairly remote areas. This is the closest thing I could find in a brief search- http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Satellite_sniffs_out_chemical_traces_of_atmospheric_pollution
I suppose with the smaller sized set ups in the suburbs, the FLIR application would be more effective. Pretty cool science anyway.

LSWCHP said :

Earlier in the year an AFP chopper flew endless circles over Canberra at night for several weeks which featured on RA. Maybe I’m imagining things, but there seems to have been an increased number of drug busts in Canberra after that.

I wonder if they were using IR cameras to look for unusual heat signatures indicating grow houses, unusual activity around houses at night indicating dealer action etc.

Whatever they’re doing I wish they wouldn’t do it in the middle of the lumping night.

Earlier in the year an AFP chopper flew endless circles over Canberra at night for several weeks which featured on RA. Maybe I’m imagining things, but there seems to have been an increased number of drug busts in Canberra after that.

I wonder if they were using IR cameras to look for unusual heat signatures indicating grow houses, unusual activity around houses at night indicating dealer action etc.

DrKoresh said :

NoImRight said :

Why oh why are Police resources wasted chasing this stuff when they should be chasing the real criminals?? Like bad parkers and drivers in the right lane of dual carriageways?

Shouldnt every copper in Canberra all be working on the one crime that I decide is real and ignoring all others?

Yeah, nice work beating down that straw-man there, guy, but I don’t think that’s what anybody here said. Maybe you should saddle-up that high-horse and take your vitriol elsewhere.

Yes your right. Not one complaint about police resources in this thread. Vitriol? Not really. Might want to check hyperbole when googling definitions and fancy words to use. Or else maybe lighten up a little. If someone doesnt agree with your pet peeve it doesnt make it a high horse just a different opinion.

NoImRight said :

Why oh why are Police resources wasted chasing this stuff when they should be chasing the real criminals?? Like bad parkers and drivers in the right lane of dual carriageways?

Shouldnt every copper in Canberra all be working on the one crime that I decide is real and ignoring all others?

Yeah, nice work beating down that straw-man there, guy, but I don’t think that’s what anybody here said. Maybe you should saddle-up that high-horse and take your vitriol elsewhere.

Why oh why are Police resources wasted chasing this stuff when they should be chasing the real criminals?? Like bad parkers and drivers in the right lane of dual carriageways?

Shouldnt every copper in Canberra all be working on the one crime that I decide is real and ignoring all others?

What a valuable use of police resources. Honestly, the sooner a serious discussion about prohibition starts, the better. But you could probably squeeze close to six grand out the much ganja, if you sold it in 50’s at a time.

Oh good. I’ll be able to sleep well knowing this crime syndicate has been crushed.

What a waste of time and resources.