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Speaker 1: Lawrence, tell me what's you know?

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Speaker 2: We love for the Victorian Police.

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Speaker 3: They're an important part of our.

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Speaker 2: Show YEP, and they're an important part of Grand Final

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Speaker 2: day as well making sure everyone is safe. They're actually

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Speaker 2: setting up a command center at the MCG. The man

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Speaker 2: running it all, Superintendent Troy Patworth, is joining us. Good morning,

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Speaker 2: Troy morning.

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Speaker 3: You've got a big weekend ahead, huge week so you

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Speaker 3: had up a lot of Melbourne's major events with command centers.

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Speaker 3: What does that mean?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, there's probably not too many events that I

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Speaker 1: haven't run as the police commander except for Pubbly, the

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Speaker 1: Grand Prix and the Moto GP. But so essentially what

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Speaker 1: I will do is I will sit in the in

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Speaker 1: the command center and we have a varying number of police.

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Speaker 1: For the Grand Final, we have a lot of police.

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Speaker 3: On because you always see them on the horses and

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Speaker 3: you see them roaming and you see the cars stopping traffic.

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Speaker 2: And when you say command center like a giant caravan.

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Speaker 1: Pretty much well for the MCG, it's actually in the MCG.

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Speaker 1: We sit just to the side of the members. Are

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Speaker 1: we sitting there with mcc security, Ambulance, Victoria Fire, metro trains, trams,

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Speaker 1: we're in there with everyone.

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Speaker 3: Do you get to watch the game as well or

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Speaker 3: you busy.

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Speaker 4: Just CCTV Lawrence.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a little bit going on, you know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you're going to be watching Snoop Dog. Are

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Speaker 3: you going to be watching the crowd?

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Speaker 1: I might be watching the crowd.

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Speaker 4: By and large, Troy, I did say footy crowds are

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Speaker 4: well behaved, but there's that sort of just that minuscule

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Speaker 4: element that can go a bit rogue from time to time.

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Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, there is passions get the better people

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Speaker 1: depending on who you barrack for, and generally the police

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Speaker 1: are there to keep everybody safe, and the police are

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Speaker 1: really excited about being there as well. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: a huge day and it's amazing happens amazing atmosphere. But

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Speaker 1: every now and then somebody will do the wrong thing

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Speaker 1: and we need to step in. But that's that's part

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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 3: In police, we saw those scary scenes not that long

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Speaker 3: ago where someone was found with a pistol inside the ground.

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Speaker 3: How do we ensure people going to the game can

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Speaker 3: feel confident that that's not a situation that's going to

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Speaker 3: happen again.

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Speaker 1: So going to the ground on Saturday you'll see a

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Speaker 1: lot of police on the outside of the ground, so

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Speaker 1: we deployed really early outside of the ground because there's

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Speaker 1: heaps going on in yarraw Park. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: who can't get tickets to get in, they go to

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Speaker 1: Yarra Park and they'll have fun with the family. There's

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Speaker 1: lots of attractions and things there, so you'll see us

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Speaker 1: out there really early. You see the mount of police

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Speaker 1: there as well, having a really strong presence. Everyone's in

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Speaker 1: uniform and we really we stick out because we're wearing

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Speaker 1: a glow in the dark uniforms. And then you've got

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Speaker 1: the layers of security there with the MCG as well,

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Speaker 1: which is you know, it's really top notch security. They're

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Speaker 1: going through the gates and stuff like that. And then

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Speaker 1: on the inside you've got even more police and security

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Speaker 1: as well, working hand in hand.

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Speaker 3: So the police and security work together if there's a

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Speaker 3: situation like.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely yeah, and that's what my role is there in

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Speaker 1: the command center is to work with security, work with

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Speaker 1: the venue and bring together the response so everyone is safe.

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Speaker 2: Troy, you mentioned the cops like being there. How does

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Speaker 2: it work because I imagine everyone to be putting their

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Speaker 2: hand up to work Grand Final day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Is there a bit of a ballad raffles system, Jerry, Yes,

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Speaker 2: you get the boundary line.

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Speaker 1: For footy games and sporting events. We've got a process

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Speaker 1: called voluntary duties, So you can sign up for voluntary

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Speaker 1: duties and you work on your you work on your

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Speaker 1: rest day essentially, so and usually if you've done a

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Speaker 1: lot of footy and stuff like that through the year,

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Speaker 1: then and you get you'll get the big everyone wants

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Speaker 1: to do, the end wants to do one coach of

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Speaker 1: the team, Do you get to pick the team? Not

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Speaker 1: quite right?

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Speaker 4: Do you have cells at the MCG We did?

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Speaker 1: You used to? Yeah, years ago, and that's where the

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Speaker 1: police rooms are now. So I think it's under m

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Speaker 1: thirty three.

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Speaker 4: Right down in the bows, down the cricket nets, do

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Speaker 4: you So, what do you do if someone's be it intoxicated,

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Speaker 4: gets into a punch on, found with something they shouldn't

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Speaker 4: have on them? What do you do with them?

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Speaker 1: So we've got a couple of what we call brawler vans,

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Speaker 1: So they're the larger look they look like a larger

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Speaker 1: v van. They're a little BW transporter thing and so

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Speaker 1: if someone gets arrested, they'll get arrested, they'll get taken

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Speaker 1: back to where we're working out of in the bowels.

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Speaker 1: They'll either get processed for what they're doing, or if

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Speaker 1: it's something that we can't deal with there, they'll get

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Speaker 1: popped in the in the back of the van in

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Speaker 1: the event I remember that. Do people still do that?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: More cricket, Troy. Do you practice for how you bring

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Speaker 2: down a streaker?

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Speaker 3: That's the security normally that do that.

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Speaker 1: We don't do that.

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Speaker 2: You don't like to do you touch them when they're clothed?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, yeah, and generally security You are better at

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Speaker 1: running on the grounds.

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Speaker 3: And they never put the fastest runners on.

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Speaker 2: You're watching you like Jeremy, He's win sheet.

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Speaker 4: I gave you that job, mate.

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Speaker 3: I need running races to work out who should work.

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Speaker 1: We're carrying a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 4: We're going to Headica if the situation required it. Though,

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Speaker 4: now you're a Carton fan. Do you think the offender

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Speaker 4: would get caught holding the ball if you were tackling.

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Speaker 1: Them, if I was tackling them, Yes, yeah, probably.

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Speaker 3: He must not back the luck this weekend. You guys

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Speaker 3: are do an amazing job. And how are the Victoria

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Speaker 3: police holding up because I know it's been a very

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Speaker 3: trying few months for you and you've very much been

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Speaker 3: in our thoughts. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Look, it's been a tough time, but the support from

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Speaker 1: the public has been overwhelming. So yeah, we're getting there.

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Speaker 1: There's still a lot going on up there in poor Punker,

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Speaker 1: that's our number one priority, but yeah we're getting there.

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Speaker 1: We've got police, remember and stay coming up on Monday,

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Speaker 1: which will be a really big day and another day

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Speaker 1: to remember all our fallen comrades.

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Speaker 2: We are thinking. I'll be mating and thanking you for

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Speaker 2: the work you guys do.

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Speaker 3: And if you are at the MCG this weekend, be

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Speaker 3: nice to the police. Remind them they're doing an amazing

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Speaker 3: job keeping us well.

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Speaker 4: You'll be going home in the back of a brawler van.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing we.

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Speaker 2: Need to learn. Hey, shout out to your wife and

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Speaker 2: daughter as well. I know they're listening at home and

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Speaker 2: they're fans of the show.

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Speaker 1: Their names Joe's my wife and Zara my daughter.

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Speaker 3: Hello Joe and Zara. Lauren wake up feeling good following

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Speaker 3: them on the socials hell By