NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell's tough talk on crime going nowhere Premier Barry O'Farrell. Picture: Simon Chillingworth Source: NewsLocal PREMIER Barry O'Farrell may have come out swinging on drive-by shootings and bikies, but key crackdown legislation he announced - such as getting rid of the "right to silence" - has yet to be made law despite passing parliament months ago. The right to silence laws were passed in March but have yet to be sent to the Governor for sign-off while laws enforcing penalties for outlaw motorcycle gang members who own tattoo parlours passed in October are also yet to be proclaimed. The Opposition said the delay showed it was all just "a PR stunt" by the Premier but the government insisted yesterday changes would occur. The controversial right to silence changes mean judges and juries can draw an adverse inference against an alleged criminal who refuses to speak to investigating police but later produces "evidence" at trial in a bid to be found not guilty. Along with that, the government introduced laws creating a "mandatory pre-trial defence" which requires defence lawyers to set out their case, if the prosecution discloses theirs, a number of weeks before a trial. However, despite this being passed in March, it also has yet to be proclaimed. And while legislation banning bikies owning and operating tattoo parlours passed last October, the second part of it which relates to imposing penalties -$11,500 fines - is also yet to become law. The Premier held a press conference to announce the "right to silence" changes last August. Opposition Leader John Robertson said the Premier "trumpeted these new laws when he rushed them through parliament as a way to 'crack down' on criminal gangs shooting up our suburbs - however his government has failed to actually implement the laws." Police puzzled by latest Sydney shooting "We have now seen 70 shootings this year and 252 shootings since Barry O'Farrell came to office," Mr Robertson said. Yet more than a year after laws passed the NSW parliament allowing criminal gangs to be outlawed and shut down, Barry O'Farrell is still yet to use them. It's understood the the introduction of the right to silence laws were opposed by senior figures in the Attorney-General's department and Crown Solicitor's office. The Premier's office yesterday referred the issue to ministers with a spokeswoman for Attorney-General Greg Smith saying the Acts regarding the "right to silence" and pre-trial statement reforms were due to be proclaimed on September 1. "Agencies involved in the criminal justice system needed time to get ready to apply the reforms in court," she said.