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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting and Whip with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Great event happening this week in at Sydney Motorsport Park.

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Speaker 1: It's called Beat the Blue. This is your opportunity to

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Speaker 1: beat the cops.

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Speaker 2: This is in your car obviously. This is run by

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Speaker 2: volunteers and one hundred percent of the proceeds from participation

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Speaker 2: in merchandise go directly to the New South Wales Police Leaguer.

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Speaker 2: See one man will he be racing this week in

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Speaker 2: his Sergeant Stephen planinik He's part of the Auburn Highway

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Speaker 2: Patrol and he joins us now sergeants.

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Speaker 1: Day, thank you good I Sergeant Steve.

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Speaker 3: So can I come down with my own car?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, we you can't use our cards unfortunately.

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Speaker 3: So it's like if Tommy comes down he drives a

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Speaker 3: Toyota Yaris. Yeah, is going to be the twenty ten

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Speaker 3: yarras trying to beat one of your patrol cars. That's correct, Tommy,

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Speaker 3: stay away off, Yes, all right. That's an exciting opportunity

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Speaker 3: for people to come down, it is.

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Speaker 4: That's the biggest draw card of the event, to test

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Speaker 4: their drive and skill against the police. What is the

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Speaker 4: average police car, Well, the higher patrol cars that will

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Speaker 4: be in us will be the five point thirty D

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Speaker 4: which is a sedan and now the higher patroler using

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Speaker 4: X five BMWs SUVs.

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Speaker 3: Right, okay, that's.

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Speaker 2: My good And tell us about your driving, Steve. I mean,

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Speaker 2: how often do you actually have to get out in

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Speaker 2: the track and you know, for moments when you are

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Speaker 2: on highway patrol. We do see it on the news

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Speaker 2: quite a bit where someone decides to go for it

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Speaker 2: and get away from the cops. I mean, say, how

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Speaker 2: much are you practicing on the road.

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Speaker 1: So it comes down to your training.

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Speaker 4: So a lot of our training is around scenario work

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Speaker 4: on a racetrack. So and that's where we started Beat

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Speaker 4: the Blue so that we could recreate that in a

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Speaker 4: safe environment and show people that if you drive safely

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Speaker 4: and correctly generally, you're quicker. So each year, this is

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Speaker 4: our fifty year running Be the Blue. The cops of

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Speaker 4: one of the matchups with the plow. So with your

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Speaker 4: question with the pursuit stuff, again, it's that we get

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Speaker 4: that much training and oversight with what we do, which

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Speaker 4: is what we should have, that we we try and

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Speaker 4: our best. We're still humans, we make the mistakes, but

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Speaker 4: we do our best to prioritize that safety and switch off.

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Speaker 2: Now we've thrown it out there this morning, Sad and

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Speaker 2: Steve ae'en twenty fourteen. If you like Sad and Steve

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Speaker 2: to debunk any myths or clear up some laws for

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Speaker 2: our listeners. Julie has given us a girl from Pennant Hills.

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Speaker 1: What's your question, Jules, I was wondering if I'm allowed

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Speaker 1: to drive with my dog in the car without him

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Speaker 1: being strapped in.

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Speaker 4: We animals and in cars, and that they'd recommend it

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Speaker 4: heavily that they're strapped in.

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Speaker 1: The biggest defense around that.

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Speaker 4: So what you would get a ticket for is if

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Speaker 4: your dog was on your lap while you were driving.

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Speaker 4: So as long as they're not on your lap or

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Speaker 4: impeding you, you're you're fine. Fell on the back seats, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's right, it's just safer for them and strapped in.

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Speaker 4: I've got a lab at home, and you've got a

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Speaker 4: great little setup for the back seat so he doesn't

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Speaker 4: destroy it or eat it. He's strapped in and he's

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Speaker 4: nice and safe. Because again, you can be the best

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Speaker 4: driver in the world, and if something happens around you,

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Speaker 4: you don't want your loved lives to get hurt.

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Speaker 3: Great question, Julia, thank you Lucky in camera for Sergeant

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Speaker 3: Steve Flucky.

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Speaker 4: Not really a question about the laws, but more just

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Speaker 4: what's the fastest you've ever gone in your police car

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Speaker 4: and also your regular cars?

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Speaker 1: Jeez, would that be at the track? It has to

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Speaker 1: be at the track. That's a good disclaimer there.

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't really after I've been in the place

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Speaker 4: for twenty years now, most of that in the higher patrol.

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Speaker 1: It's not.

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Speaker 4: There's no board at work. I sort of note down

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Speaker 4: the fastest we go, we don't have there's no limit,

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Speaker 4: and it's all based on the scenario in my race

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Speaker 4: car the racetrack. I've gone over two hundred and forty

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Speaker 4: coos an hour down the main street there park and

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Speaker 4: that's the place to do it, not on the street,

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Speaker 4: regardless if you're a police officer or not.

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Speaker 2: Steve Gimma in Parramotta. You got Serge and Steve, what

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Speaker 2: would you like to ask hello?

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Speaker 1: I'd love to know.

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Speaker 4: Why is it when you pull someone over, but you

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Speaker 4: chap the car and leave your finger prints as you

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Speaker 4: walk off back to your police car.

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Speaker 1: Have you heard this, Steve?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's we don't really tell people why we do

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Speaker 4: it because of the reason why do it, and it's about,

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Speaker 4: like you rightfully said, your fingerprints on the car.

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Speaker 1: So I'll let you use your imagination as.

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Speaker 4: To why I would leave bits of ourselves on someone's car,

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Speaker 4: because if something doesn't go well and that person drives off,

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Speaker 4: you've left something a marker on that car that they

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Speaker 4: can't refute.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's very much deliberate. So it's a couple

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Speaker 1: of things.

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Speaker 4: It's making sure the boot's secured so that no one

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Speaker 4: jumps out of it and leaving a marker on the car.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's quite a few things like that, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we do.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, the training that we get it's pretty

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Speaker 4: extensive and it's all towards our people getting home safely.

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Speaker 3: There's so much technique too, because we were lucky enough

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Speaker 3: to go and see the training center of the Pistol

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Speaker 3: Range at the headquarters here in New South Wales, and

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Speaker 3: even getting the gun from.

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Speaker 1: The holster has a technique.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, and it's all all that training is about

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Speaker 4: muscle memory because when you're in a high stress environment,

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Speaker 4: you're cognitive process it has to be automated. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: just so much repetition in training, and that's what keeps

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Speaker 4: you safe.

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Speaker 1: That's blitz.

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Speaker 2: Second decision, Steve, what you need to pull out, whether

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Speaker 2: it's a taser, pepper spray, your batten or it could

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Speaker 2: be a gun. And I know you tasted Tom just

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Speaker 2: outside the studio.

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Speaker 1: He asked for it.

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Speaker 3: Serena's in five Dog question for Sergeant Steve.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I just want to know if a police car

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Speaker 4: comes up behind me in a hurry, but I'm at

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Speaker 4: a red light, do I go through it to make

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Speaker 4: way for the police car?

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Speaker 1: Or do I stay at the red light? Old question.

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Speaker 1: It's a great question because that happens quite a lot.

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Speaker 1: If you can shuffle out of the way without crossing

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Speaker 1: the line? Yes, what if you can't? No, I wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: Don't move.

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Speaker 2: Do you like the show Highway Petrel Stave.

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Speaker 4: I haven't really watched that, to be honest. I do

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Speaker 4: see clips of it on social media and the like

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Speaker 4: and have a smile, But now I know that it's

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Speaker 4: quite popular. Like the RBT Show and The Force and

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Speaker 4: the like, it does really show people some of the

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Speaker 4: things we deal with on a day in, day out basis.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, Sergeant Steve in the urban area.

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Speaker 3: Got one more call here from Salim Mahaja.

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Speaker 2: Now he's getting married again this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm off duty on Saturday. Actually right, are you

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Speaker 1: around for that wedding?

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Speaker 3: Student?

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Speaker 1: No, I was working somewhere else. Oh thank god.

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Speaker 2: If you want to get involved, to go to Beat

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Speaker 2: the Blue dot org and you can bring the kids.

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Speaker 2: There's a kid zone, there's a large car display, police

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Speaker 2: displays and get involved and go on the website and

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Speaker 2: find out a little bit more. There they are raising

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Speaker 2: money for the new South Wales Police Legacy.

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Speaker 1: You do an amazing job, Steven.

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Speaker 2: We really appreciate your time, buddy.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate having an opportunity to come in

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Speaker 1: and have a chat.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

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