Speaker 1: You start.
Speaker 2: Jason Lawrence P.
Speaker 3: Cheesy's in the house, Superintendent Wayne Cheese man our friendly
Speaker 3: police office.
Speaker 4: That morning.
Speaker 5: Cheer Cheesy, Good morning. Everyone's been happening in the wild
Speaker 5: western Melbourne.
Speaker 1: Same thing. Really, it's the police are still out there
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven, arresting more than more people than ever.
Speaker 1: Good news is we've seized more knives than we ever have,
Speaker 1: over fifteen thousand this year, So that is.
Speaker 5: It's sort of good news but sort of bad news.
Speaker 5: They're all out there, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, you're right. Anyone shouldn't be out there indeficially.
Speaker 5: Is anyone putting their knives in those silly little bins?
Speaker 1: There actually have been, really, there have been machetes. Has
Speaker 1: been several thousand machetes handed in. I don't know whose hands,
Speaker 1: I don't know the right people are handing them in.
Speaker 1: But but and he's having an effect, believe it or not.
Speaker 5: Great.
Speaker 2: But these are the ones that the officers on the
Speaker 2: beat seizing from people, right.
Speaker 1: So these fifteen thousand are separate to the one. These
Speaker 1: are the ones where we're doing search warrants and we're
Speaker 1: searching people under our different powers and having quite a
Speaker 1: bit of success.
Speaker 2: Of One of the debates that's happening right now Cheese
Speaker 2: is around Jack's Law, which is in Queensland, brought in
Speaker 2: on the back of a horrendous death involving a teenager there.
Speaker 2: It gives police the powers to wand wand people on
Speaker 2: the streets.
Speaker 4: Like a metal detechnique.
Speaker 2: It's effectively what the state opposition is calling for the
Speaker 2: government to bring in. Here would something like that change
Speaker 2: the game?
Speaker 1: So we have we have similar powers under what we
Speaker 1: call these omni operations where we get areas declared so
Speaker 1: we can we can have that leading up to protest
Speaker 1: activity we have around the side. We are running that
Speaker 1: operation in the CBD across the CBD for the next
Speaker 1: six months leading up to Christmas in the new year,
Speaker 1: because we know the influx of people and the influx
Speaker 1: of young people into the.
Speaker 4: City and you can just ward people occurring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can if the area has been designated.
Speaker 3: And is that where you're finding these kids that are
Speaker 3: caring knives and stuff? Is a train station, a shopping centers, right, to.
Speaker 1: Be honest, everywhere it's in shopping centers, it's in train stations,
Speaker 1: it's in the streets, in schools.
Speaker 6: And are they protesting, like we're not protesting in the
Speaker 6: literal sense, But are they objective when you go up
Speaker 6: to them and say, hey, we're going to search you.
Speaker 1: No, they don't. It's a different culture now, so people
Speaker 1: are a lot more confident around the police now. So
Speaker 1: there is a there is a definite lack of respect
Speaker 1: towards the police, and there's no fear of the police
Speaker 1: probably like there was when I was younger. But generally
Speaker 1: if we have the power, they comply. But generally they
Speaker 1: know when we have power and when we don't, and
Speaker 1: if we don't have it, they they know that.
Speaker 4: They know they find.
Speaker 6: A machete on someone, are they what's the consequence for
Speaker 6: that person?
Speaker 1: Well, it can be depending on their history and if
Speaker 1: they're on bail and all this. But if it's just
Speaker 1: a one off piece, I think it could be someone
Speaker 1: to go to court down the track.
Speaker 2: A lot of that confidence kids, especially even younger than sixteen,
Speaker 2: have is because of how social media has empowered them.
Speaker 2: Do you think in this is just a random question
Speaker 2: of random thought, but the social media band which comes
Speaker 2: in in what ten days time? I think eighteber ten yep,
Speaker 2: will that have any impact? Do you think on how kids,
Speaker 2: especially under sixteen are thinking and behaving potentially, because there
Speaker 2: are a number when it comes to policing.
Speaker 1: So there's no doubt that social media has influence and
Speaker 1: there's a connection through social media. It's not always the
Speaker 1: sites that are influencing. It can be the dialogue between people.
Speaker 1: And what we're finding is there's a lot of networked
Speaker 1: youth defending. So the networks talk together, not necessarily looking
Speaker 1: at something on Instagram or on YouTube, but that definitely
Speaker 1: does it.
Speaker 2: But this could break a network potentially.
Speaker 1: This could have an influence where probably it's not as
Speaker 1: glorified some of the behaviors we're seeing.
Speaker 3: Well, the videos that I see online of the kids
Speaker 3: breaking into houses half the time, they're not even stealing anything.
Speaker 3: They just want to go like, look, we're in someone's house,
Speaker 3: waving a machete everywhere.
Speaker 5: It's like stupid, crazy, crazy.
Speaker 3: Thirteen twenty four ten is our number. Cheesey's in the house.
Speaker 3: Any questions, give us a ring. We're going to take
Speaker 3: some calls and then Lauren's got something that we need a.
Speaker 4: Question about Clint.
Speaker 6: But before we get to Clint, I've got a quick
Speaker 6: question for you, cheese Now we have cameras in our house,
Speaker 6: like oh sorry, on the outside of our house like
Speaker 6: many people, and we get a little thing that sets off.
Speaker 6: We've got like a little sectioned off area, and we
Speaker 6: get a little notification on our phone if there's an
Speaker 6: intruder that comes up intruder. And the other day I
Speaker 6: got a thing saying intruder alert, and it was we've
Speaker 6: got some flats next to us, and it was a
Speaker 6: guy who had run and jumped their back fence like
Speaker 6: he'd clearly had he was in a rush to get
Speaker 6: away from someone. And with this vision of this guy
Speaker 6: who looked like he'd just robbed someone's house or done something,
Speaker 6: but he hadn't done anything to our house, what should
Speaker 6: I do with that vision? Should I go to my
Speaker 6: local police station and say, I don't know if this
Speaker 6: is going to be helpful to you, but this guy's
Speaker 6: clearly on the run from someone.
Speaker 1: He had a backpack full of stuff, So I guess
Speaker 1: anything can help if there's an investigation going on. So
Speaker 1: you could ring your local police station and say, my
Speaker 1: alarm was triggered. I have some vision. If it's of
Speaker 1: interest to anyone, here's my number.
Speaker 4: Let me know.
Speaker 1: We can then do some internal comms. We will know
Speaker 1: what's going on in the area, so it could be helpful.
Speaker 5: So always hand that over.
Speaker 4: If we have your partner. More cop would have been
Speaker 4: all over it.
Speaker 5: He called me more cop persistent when.
Speaker 4: You sounded like Paul just then.
Speaker 2: But I guess to your point, if there was a
Speaker 2: report from a neighbor of a breaking enter or something
Speaker 2: that aid that investigation, definitely help you.
Speaker 5: She was climbing over a back fence into a lane
Speaker 5: way with the.
Speaker 4: Bag falls thirteen twenty four ten.
Speaker 3: If you got a question for the cheese, what's Clinton?
Speaker 5: Healks kind of funny.
Speaker 6: He called me yesterday in an absolute flap cheese and
Speaker 6: he was driving down highway to Geelong and there's all
Speaker 6: the cameras, some of them are attached to bridge, and
Speaker 6: there's some free standing ones.
Speaker 5: And he called me and said, hey, Loss, this is.
Speaker 4: Your area, isn't it. That's your sort of hood.
Speaker 6: You know those cameras highway.
Speaker 4: Just because he's your friend. He's not here to are they.
Speaker 6: Filming inside the car? I said, oh, it depends. I
Speaker 6: think the ones on the bridge is a speed cameras.
Speaker 6: And he goes so glasy he goes because I was
Speaker 6: eating some pineapple out of the tub, and I'm a
Speaker 6: bit concerned that I'll be charged as a distracted driver.
Speaker 6: Am I allowed to be eating while I'm driving? And
Speaker 6: I said, oh, cheese is in tomorrow?
Speaker 5: We'll ask him. That's so embarrassing you won't text me.
Speaker 2: But it's a good question. Can I be charged or
Speaker 2: fined with eating pineapple behind the wheel?
Speaker 1: So you there's two parts to it. No, you would
Speaker 1: be very you will not be charging eating food in
Speaker 1: the car or having a drink or whatever. But if
Speaker 1: you had too handfuls of pineapple and you were steering
Speaker 1: with your knees rexample, if you could get charged with
Speaker 1: careless driving, right.
Speaker 3: But if you're getting a massive accident and it was
Speaker 3: because you dropped bloody kebab sauce on you and look down.
Speaker 1: Then it could be declared careless.
Speaker 6: Yeah rightch cabab is too hard to eat in the car, that's.
Speaker 3: Care cheesehe no going? You be the new campaign of
Speaker 3: a Christmas no go.
Speaker 2: Little cheeseburger is fine, right, Little Cheeseburger's time, little cheap
Speaker 2: that's a too bad job.
Speaker 5: And then you're asking the cheese man.
Speaker 3: Cheese Superintendent Wayne Cheeseman is in the house. We're doing
Speaker 3: pray the paper this morning. Hey Cheesey, thanks for coming
Speaker 3: in pleasure.
Speaker 4: Is this last time I got cheesy? This is the
Speaker 4: last time I got Cheesey in this ship mate.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: You have been the best addition to this show. We
Speaker 4: love having you on me.
Speaker 1: Can I just say to everyone who's been listening on
Speaker 1: the community and to you and your team, Merry Christmas,
Speaker 1: Happy New Year. Thanks for all the support you give
Speaker 1: to Victoria Police. It's really refreshing. It's really nice, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of everybody, but I wish you were a
Speaker 1: safe and happy New Year.
Speaker 4: Christ and all the best everyone.
Speaker 5: You next year, yes, will you come back?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you're back next year.
Speaker 3: I'm driving in here and bloody Rachel and ross across
Speaker 3: the road and they go, jesus here, I'll be like, no, no, no, yeah, yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: it has just gone a minute, all right, Jason.
Speaker 5: Lauren Lauren wake up feeling good. Following them on the socials,
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