Bikie cops monitor Qld funerals

POLICE enforcing Queensland's anti-bikie clampdown have turned up at the funerals of recreational motorcyclists, including one who died from cancer.

Both services in Townsville were targeted after motorcyclists gave police prior warning of the ride routes and timings, mourners said.

Patrol cars attended anyway, sparking outrage from the Australian Motorcycle Council (AMC), which said it was completely unjustified.

"It is beyond ridiculous that law-abiding members of the community cannot see their family and friends off without the police making a nuisance of themselves," AMC executive member Eva Cripps told AAP.

At the male cancer-victim's funeral officers captured number plate details while riders who provided an honour guard to his coffin were in the crematorium service, witnesses say.

They also followed a group of riders attending the funeral of a woman motorcyclist.

Mum-of-three Nic Emmins, 34, was a motorcyclist at the man's funeral and said police followed riders who arrived late for the procession.

"The funeral was taking place when they rocked up, so they did a loop and took note of the bikes," she told AAP.

"We had gone through all the appropriate channels and done everything that was asked of us."

The only badged bike group represented at the funeral last month was the Patriots, a legal group made up of former service personnel, she said.

Townsville Custom Cycles' owner Leeroy Donovan, 48, attended the funeral of the woman, a customer's wife, at the end of October along with other riders.

They had told police about the ride several days earlier, he said, and were just setting off for the crematorium when local officers arrived.

"We are doing all the things they are asking and we are still getting smashed," he said.

Recreational motorcyclists have previously criticised the Newman administration's new laws, saying riders with no criminal gang affiliation are unjustly getting stopped by police.

Police say they have no record of being contacted by motorcyclists planning funeral rides.

"Townsville Police regularly conduct traffic enforcement operations across the city and district," a spokeswoman said.

"Inquiries made reveal there has been no recorded contact with Townsville District Police advising of any motorcyclists providing a guard of honour for any funeral in the last three weeks."

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