SHOULD Sydney police be in the business of deciding who runs a strip club in Kings Cross? The liquor regulator thinks not.

The authority warned giving police the unprecedented power to influence hiring at the Darlinghurst Road establishment may ”potentially compromise” officers and reopen the door to ”official corruption” in Sydney’s vice district.

The move against Show Girls – which is owned by the Kings Cross identity Michael Koutra – stemmed from the arrest last year of the strip club’s manager and bouncer for allegedly dealing cocaine from the premises.

In the aftermath of the cocaine arrests, Kings Cross police moved to slap 14 new licence conditions on the Show Girls licensee, Cathie Downie, a single mother from western Sydney who police say is on the premises just three nights a week, from Sunday to Tuesday.

See the full article from “Sydney Morning Herald”



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