POLICE have compared an operation at a burnout show that attracted scores of outlaw bikies and was labelled "extraordinarily heavy-handed", with an operation targeting people attending a Wiggles concert.

The Daily reported yesterday that Councillor Anna Grosskreutz was furious with police over what she said was a large-scale operation aimed at Bandidos bikies as they left the annual Beerwah Car Bike and Burnout Show on Saturday.

Cr Grosskreutz, who attended the event and said it was a great family day out until it was "ruined" by police, described officers as "over-zealous".

As people left the event, they were steered into a cordoned-off area and filmed, questioned and breath-tested.

People and vehicles were also searched, while some officers were reportedly wearing bullet-proof vests.

The Daily has been unable to confirm if officers were wearing bullet-proof vests at what police have described as a similar "traffic interception", "traffic management" operation outside the Wiggles Big Birthday in the Big Tent concert at Sunshine Coast Stadium, Kawana, on Sunday.

"This afternoon (Sunday) a similar traffic interception site (to the Beerwah operation) was conducted nearby at a children's concert event at Kawana," a police spokeswoman said.

Sunshine Coast police superintendent Terry Borland stated before the Beerwah show that there would be no specific operation targeting the some 400 Bandidos who were expected to attend.

In response to Cr Grosskreutz's stinging rebuke, Supt Borland has continued to maintain the notorious bikie gang was not singled out for special attention.

"We're committed to making Sunshine Coast roads the safest they can possibly be and will use whatever resources are necessary to do this," he said.

A police spokeswoman said the Beerwah event was one of three separate traffic interception operations on the Coast last weekend that were part of regular traffic management practices carried out by police.

The third operation was conducted in Caloundra.

The spokeswoman said officers from throughout the district, including plain clothes and uniformed police and State Crime Operations Command officers, conducted more than 700 random breath tests and numerous random drug tests in the operations.

She said numerous offences were detected at each site, such as drug-driving, drink-driving, unlicensed driving and vehicle defects.

Police were unable to give a breakdown of offences.