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Speaker 1: Favorite time of the week. I want you, Jason Lawrence,

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Speaker 1: tell me what's you know? Every couple of weeks so

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Speaker 1: we like to get in a different area of the

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Speaker 1: Victorian Police. Those sub guys can take a joke.

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Speaker 2: I liked them.

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Speaker 1: They were great. They were great. Just shoot you and

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Speaker 1: go straight up for nuggets. There's no mucking around with

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Speaker 1: that division of the coppers. This week, we have a

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Speaker 1: brother and sister combo and we are heading too. Oh

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Speaker 1: that music, How doesn't that bring back some memories?

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Speaker 2: One of the great movies of all time.

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Speaker 1: We're heading to the Police Academy Anthony and Olivia who

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Speaker 1: are both in training to be constables, and they are

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Speaker 1: brother and sister.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, morning morning, Thanks for having us.

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Speaker 2: Is it actually like Police Academy? The movie?

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Speaker 3: I'm going to admit I have never.

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Speaker 1: Watched you go to watch How Old are You? Olivia?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Twenty four.

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Speaker 6: That's one of the great movies before Dreams and Grabs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lie.

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Speaker 6: It should be part of the training, you know, like

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Speaker 6: at school when there's a rainy day and they don't

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Speaker 6: want you outside, so they wheel in back in the day,

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Speaker 6: wheel in the video player and you'd watch it.

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Speaker 2: You should all sit down and watch it together.

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Speaker 1: We work at the police Academy. We'll watch movies today,

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Speaker 1: learn the guns tomorrow.

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Speaker 6: In the feedback, So you guys are both recruits. You're

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Speaker 6: both in the police academy as brother and sister. You're

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Speaker 6: not twins with different ages.

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Speaker 5: No, we're different ages thirty four.

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Speaker 2: But did you decide to join together?

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Speaker 5: Listen? We did.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, We've always had a pretty big passion for wanting

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Speaker 7: to work in the emergency services. What section we won't

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Speaker 7: really took too short at the time. Obviously, both coming

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Speaker 7: from somewhat relatable experience from from before joining Victoria Police

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Speaker 7: Olivia or Court Register. I was working with Triple zero Victoria.

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Speaker 7: That's when you know we're drawing that experience. It was

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Speaker 7: into policing and that that that that aspect and line

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Speaker 7: of work. So it's always been something that I feel

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Speaker 7: like it was built into us and now we've decided

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Speaker 7: to pursue it.

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Speaker 2: Were your parents police officers.

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Speaker 7: The only member in our family that's a police member

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Speaker 7: is our brother in law, Michael. He's a detective sergeant

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Speaker 7: at it in Melbourne, in the city with the drugs?

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Speaker 1: Were they criminals? Was there any sort of link to

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Speaker 1: law enforcements?

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Speaker 5: Mum and dad? Maybe an illegal immigrant come over?

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Speaker 4: These two are very very fit, very striking, look like

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Speaker 4: supreme athletes.

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Speaker 3: They do.

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Speaker 1: So here's the thing, because let's be honest, there would

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Speaker 1: be a lot of people listening right now who might

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Speaker 1: not be happy in their line of work. I might

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Speaker 1: be looking for a career or a lifestyle change. Is

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Speaker 1: there an age limit into joining the police academy?

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Speaker 5: Do you know you have to be eighteen to come out?

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Speaker 7: However, now they've changed, I believe that the minimum standards

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Speaker 7: to get in, you know, you don't need to be

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Speaker 7: I think at one point it maybe have been twenty

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Speaker 7: one or so, as long as you've got a driver's license.

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Speaker 5: Whether fitness.

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Speaker 4: Do you look at jas is Jace up to being

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Speaker 5: Get him out?

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Speaker 2: Can you do the beat test?

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Speaker 1: What do you mean? Beat the horn?

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Speaker 3: Like you can do it?

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Speaker 6: Is there an age though, because obviously eighteen is the youngest.

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Speaker 6: Is there an age cap if you want to join

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Speaker 6: and you're a bit older like my fiance Paul. We

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Speaker 6: call him mall cop because he's a frustrated, want to be.

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Speaker 2: Policeman, that's what he used to call me.

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Speaker 6: Paul walks around and he's like, there's an incident, like

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Speaker 6: he needs a know everything going on?

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Speaker 2: Is he too old? Is who were the older recruits?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 7: Listen, there's there's people in our squad that are you know, parents.

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Speaker 7: In my squad, there's a bloke who's forty odd. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: there's a couple getting around. I believe in one of

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Speaker 7: the more mature squads there's maybe a fifty odd year old.

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Speaker 3: So anyone can join, anyone can It's like there's so

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Speaker 3: many different people in there with different circumstances, Like there's

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Speaker 2: It's crazy.

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Speaker 1: How how long is the whole police training?

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Speaker 3: Thirty one weeks?

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Speaker 1: Right? Yeah, okay, first couple of weeks. Do you guys

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Speaker 1: live on campus? Is it like a school dorm situation?

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Speaker 7: We do, Yeah, we're on campus, But the longest part

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Speaker 5: That's took us.

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Speaker 7: I mean, well, blessed well only you know, six to

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Speaker 7: eight months for the both of us. Right, it can

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Speaker 7: take people three four years to get in and multiple attempts. However,

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Speaker 7: once you start, we start off. We're going on a

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Speaker 7: Sunday night, get our room. It's like we're checking into

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Speaker 4: Any you've already been sort of tackling parts of the job.

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Speaker 4: You've been doing the traffic, traffic work.

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Speaker 1: In the city.

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Speaker 7: I'm currently for two weeks in at Melbourne West doing

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Speaker 7: what we call safe Streets.

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Speaker 5: So our first few days is traffic or point guard

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Speaker 5: which we call it.

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Speaker 7: So it's it's going out to a major intersection in

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Speaker 7: the city and just learning, you know, the backgrounds of

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Speaker 7: controlling traffic.

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Speaker 2: Is that the worst part of the job, the traffic controlling.

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Speaker 5: I'd probably have to say so far, it.

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Speaker 6: Looks like down there in the rain, in those raincoats

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Speaker 6: accidentally you guys.

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Speaker 7: Turn them off we ring vic roads and we say

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Speaker 7: chuck them onto Orange and away we go.

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Speaker 6: Because if you just leave them normal like, people would

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Speaker 6: get frustrated.

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Speaker 2: How many times we've been caught in that?

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Speaker 1: A few times? Yeah, okay, you're checking on a Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: First few weeks. Fitness a lot of written exams when

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Speaker 1: get to take cars for a joy riding and how

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Speaker 3: First honestly the first so I've just really finished like

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you take them take the cars

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Speaker 3: for a joy ride, but is there is there.

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Speaker 1: A fake little like almost like movie streets set up?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, movie, well, pretend train station, houses.

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Speaker 1: Station, and they'll do like fake hold ups and then

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Speaker 1: you guys have to arrive on scene and yeah, so.

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Speaker 3: That's that's where I really that's the pretty fun part

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Speaker 2: Is it fun being in the police academy? Oh it's

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Speaker 2: hard work, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 3: But it's hard work. But seriously, it's the best thing

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Speaker 3: I've done. It's like, I'm loving it.

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Speaker 7: It's we recently just completed our active arm offender training

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Speaker 7: in the village and it's using simulation rounds of paintballs

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Speaker 7: and whatnot, so you go into full extensives as to

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Speaker 7: what to do in an active arm of defender situation,

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Speaker 7: hostile vehicle attacks. So it's a lot of running around,

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Speaker 7: it's a lot of adrenaline, there's a bit of sweating,

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Speaker 7: and there's a bit of nerves.

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Speaker 2: So you know what you're.

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Speaker 5: Thinking, No, you don't.

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you don't know what I'm.

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Speaker 7: I think you should go down there and get I

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Speaker 7: can see your brain.

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Speaker 1: Recruit. What about if I have a chat with the

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Speaker 1: popo and we play the role of the.

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Speaker 2: Baddies in the exactly what you want to get here

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Speaker 2: with the paper.

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Speaker 1: Imagine us in the bank. We're not coming, We're coming in.

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Speaker 4: Public. Okay, So what's the dream for both of you?

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Speaker 4: Where do you want to end up? Because there's so

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Speaker 4: many facets at the police Force Olivia. What do you

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Speaker 4: what do you get your eyes on? Commissioner?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know about that. There really is so

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Speaker 3: many different areas you can go to, and I mean

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Speaker 3: maybe that, maybe this, But look, ultimately I want to

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Speaker 3: I've got a lot of family violence kind of background

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Speaker 3: with my previous work. So at the moment that's my

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Speaker 3: current passion, but it changes all the time. But in

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Speaker 3: saying that, I'm just really excited just to get out

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Speaker 3: Like I'm really looking forward to that. So I'm not

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Speaker 1: Many people that drop out through the course just go

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Speaker 1: it's too hard or they fail, and historically I.

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Speaker 7: Think there's been, you know, a few that have dropped

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Speaker 7: out over The academy is very supportive, so it's such

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Speaker 7: an extensive process to get in, so by the time

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Speaker 7: what I want to do. However, I mean, I don't

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Speaker 7: like I said that, the academy get behind you, you know,

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Speaker 7: with stress and fatigue and whatnot, managing that can.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You see Jerry on the

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Speaker 1: gun really enjoying it, you'd be like, hey, Jerry, I

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Speaker 1: don't think this is for you.

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Speaker 6: And as brother and sister, is there a chance you

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Speaker 6: guys could be partners one day or is it like

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Speaker 6: school where they separate siblings?

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Speaker 7: Listen, Absolutely, I believe so a lot of father and

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Speaker 7: out and they organize a shift to go out and

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Speaker 7: do together.

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Speaker 1: So imagine these you put the cups on, you put

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Speaker 1: the cup, I'll ring mum know.

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Speaker 5: That's the thing.

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Speaker 3: And Mum's always yelling at us, and I'm like, you

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Speaker 3: can't be telling me what to do when I I

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Speaker 3: can't tell you what to do.

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Speaker 6: Good on you guys, Well, good luck I think when

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Speaker 6: you finish October and December.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct. Yea. Hopefully we don't run into you

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Speaker 2: in the streets.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully.

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Speaker 5: Music.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is better. The Police Academy are they recruiting

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Speaker 2: at the moment.

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Speaker 7: They're always so if you if you're wanting to join

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Speaker 7: up and throw the blues on, now's the time to

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Speaker 7: know what on.

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Speaker 2: A sitting on campus for six thirty two weeks on

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Speaker 2: my arm mights.

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Speaker 3: You get your food made you all your food's prepared.

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Speaker 5: Dishes.

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Speaker 2: You've got to make your own toast. That's about as

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Speaker 2: hard as good you deserve that. Well, actually might send

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Speaker 2: Paul left.

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Speaker 5: Good on you guys.

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Speaker 1: We will see you out on the streets of Melbourne

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Speaker 2: That's interesting.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people that would want a career change

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Speaker 1: or just not be in the line of work therein.

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Speaker 2: I will definitely recommend Great Care all.

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Speaker 1: Right, that is having the plot. It is just gone

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Speaker 1: six to eight

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Speaker 6: Gonna Jason Lauren, Jason Lauren wake up feeling good on

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Speaker 6: number one hundred Jason Lauren probably on socials.