TWENTY extra detectives will hit the streets of the Gold Coast and Brisbane as the Newman Government attempts to crack down on bikie gang crime in the wake of yesterday's double shooting at Robina Town Centre. Police Minister Jack Dempsey this morning also committed an extra $750,000 to boost crime operations. Illegal hand gun laws are also likely to be strengthened, with minimum mandatory sentences introduced, and new unexplained criminal proceeds legislation will be developed. In the meantime, the LNP Government will use Labor's anti-bikie laws - despite repeatedly criticising the measures while in opposition. The laws, which allow police to declare some groups illegal and step up its response, have never been used despite being introduced more than two years ago. "That is just here and now as a stop-gap until we get the chance to go to Parliament and really do some good there," Premier Campbell Newman said. "Two and a half years they haven't been used, we're going to give it a go now. We hope they stick and if they do, well so be it, we'll come in here and say they were better than we thought. "We will use every single possible mechanism to deal with the activities of these criminals (but) we don't have confidence because these laws have been challenged interstate and they could be subject to challenge (in Queensland)." Mr Newman said Labor had been soft on crime but the LNP "will not allow these things to happen". "Our streets and our shopping centres are not going to be battlegrounds where people play out these sort of crazy criminal fantasies because perhaps they've been watching too many movies or something," he said. "It's just not on, it will not be tolerated." But Mr Newman again backed away from a ban on bikies wearing their colours or jackets in public. "This is Australia. We don't put people in jail for wearing leather jackets, having tattoos or a particular hairstyle," he said. "But if we have now a situation where the Police Commissioner can say this particular group have been involved in the activities that we've seen particularly in the last 10 days, then the Government will look at using the laws that we've inherited from Labor even though we are concerned about them." Mr Dempsey said the new measures would "send a clear message that those types of illegal activities are not condoned in public places". "If they commit these illegal crimes they will go to jail," he said. Ten extra detectives will be added to the Gold Coast's 20-strong Serious and Violent Crime Squad, which will be renamed the Major and Organised Crime Squad. Another 10 detectives will be added to the state's anti-bikie Taskforce Hydra, bringing its numbers to 43.