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Speaker 1: Thank you for your feedback. Heaves the texts coming in

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Speaker 1: Jack being on a benefit is busier than a full

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Speaker 1: time job. Come on what planet is Ricardo Minen? There's

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Speaker 1: march on ninety two to ninety two if you want

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Speaker 1: to lick us a message. This evening, cops are back

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Speaker 1: patrolling the streets of christ Church. The city's new community

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Speaker 1: beat teams have officially launched today in an attempt to

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Speaker 1: make the city safer. Eighteen police officers will provide seven

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Speaker 1: day coverage and since they started patrolling, the apprehended two

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Speaker 1: prolific shoplifters and recovered one thousand dollars worth of stolen property.

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Speaker 1: Leanne Watson is the CEO of Business Canterbury and joins

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Speaker 1: us now Calderly and are people noticing their presence?

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Speaker 2: They definitely are and it's really positive to see. It's

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Speaker 2: been an issue that our Business Canery members have consistently

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Speaker 2: highlighted the need for greater presence and just visibility from

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Speaker 2: the police in some of those areas that we have

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Speaker 2: had some antisocial behavior, some criminal activity. It's not an

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Speaker 2: issue that's unique to christ Church. We've seen it nationwide,

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Speaker 2: so it's really really good to see this sort of

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Speaker 2: activity come back and see more police presence on some

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Speaker 2: of those key areas.

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Speaker 1: So how bigger differences it actually make to criminals if

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Speaker 1: they know law enforcement are in the area.

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Speaker 2: I think it certainly exes it as a deterrent. And

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Speaker 2: what it does do is it provides some comfort and

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Speaker 2: some assurance for not only you know, the people coming

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Speaker 2: into these areas, whether they're shopping, whether they're coming out

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Speaker 2: for you know, meals, whether we're you know, for tourists.

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Speaker 2: It provides a level of comfort and assurance, and it

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Speaker 2: also helps the business owners and operators know that there's

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Speaker 2: some extra support there for them. You know, these businesses

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Speaker 2: have been doing it really tough for a number of

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Speaker 2: years and this added pressure of antisocial behavior, and a

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Speaker 2: lot of it is antisocial behavior as well as some

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Speaker 2: of that criminal activity. This certainly helps and you know,

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Speaker 2: some of those things like shoplifting, if there's more place presence,

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Speaker 2: you know, hopefully we'll just see that decrease over time,

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Speaker 2: and that in itself will be helpful for those business lies.

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Speaker 1: And so do the officers literally just just walk around

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Speaker 1: or have businesses got their number? Can you kind of

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Speaker 1: call them quickly when something happens.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a combination of both. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: really important that businesses continue to report any of these

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Speaker 2: sorts of incidences through the right channels because when they

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Speaker 2: do that, that provides really good data for the place

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Speaker 2: that then helps the police prioritize, you know, where they

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Speaker 2: spend their time and where they deploying their efforts. So

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Speaker 2: I think it's a combination of both. Obviously, is there

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Speaker 2: something that happens on the spot and the police are

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Speaker 2: in close proximity, I'm sure they'll address those things. But

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Speaker 2: other than that, it's just continuing to make sure that

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Speaker 2: they report those sorts of activities as well.

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Speaker 1: Very good, Thanks for your time. Leeann Leanne Watson is

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Speaker 1: the CEO of Business Canopy.

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