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Bikies set to comply with police demands

The Adelaide chapter of the Mongols bikie gang is set to comply with police demands to remove fortification at its local clubrooms.

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The Mongols bikie gang is set to comply with police demands to remove structures protecting the club's Adelaide compound.

Police demands to remove a reinforced steel gate, railway sleeper fences, a steel cage structure and other items came before the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

Their application argued that the structures amounted to "heavy fortification" in contradiction of anti-fortification laws.

Counsel for the Mongols, Craig Caldicott, asked the court for a three-week adjournment to allow for a settlement to be negotiated.

He said he expected most of the issues to be resolved in that time.

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Solicitor General Martin Hinton agreed to the delay but said he also wanted to be ready to proceed and expected to call 10 witnesses if the matter went to a hearing.

"I'm confident we'll get to a negotiated outcome," Mr Hinton said.

"But I don't want to take my foot off either."

Magistrate Simon Smart adjourned the case until December 12 for mention with a hearing, if necessary, to be scheduled in the new year.


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