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Speaker 1: Another crackdown on the boy raised. His presumptive sentences are coming,

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Speaker 1: meaning automatic crushing. More powerful the police to monitor and

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Speaker 1: close areas like roads. You're pinged if you run or

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Speaker 1: fail to identify. Assistant Police Commissioner Mike Johnson with US Mike,

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Speaker 1: very good morning to you, morning, Mike. How real Is

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Speaker 1: the boy raise a problem? Or is this just a

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Speaker 1: Sunday headline for a government?

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Speaker 2: No, not at all. Our staff are seeing this most

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Speaker 2: weekends or every other weekend around the country. You do

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Speaker 2: read about it gathers a lot of a lot of attention.

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Speaker 2: I suppose we had a lot of calls about it.

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Speaker 2: It disturbs the public, and there is absolutely a safety

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Speaker 2: aspect to this.

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Speaker 1: Is this hard core or just a collection of buffoons

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Speaker 1: who were bored and if you told them not to

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Speaker 1: do it again, they probably wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: Mike. I think that's a very good question. It's a

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Speaker 2: mixture of both. We certainly see hardcore organized events which

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Speaker 2: react badly as the way I'll put it, or illegally

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Speaker 2: when our staff turn up and look to disperse them.

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Speaker 1: Is it a laws thing, in other words, you're getting

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Speaker 1: what you want? Or is it a resource thing? Even

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Speaker 1: if you had the laws, you don't have the people.

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Speaker 2: No, we believe we can do this with the people

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Speaker 2: we've got. We're already sending staff and to these events

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Speaker 2: in sufficient numbers. We're always looking to plan, but the

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Speaker 2: nature of these things is the people organizing them are

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Speaker 2: trying to keep them out of our eye so that

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Speaker 2: we can't organize a response.

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Speaker 1: So that was my next question. How much of what

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Speaker 1: you do is anticipatory versus you having to go afterwards

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Speaker 1: and clean up because you didn't know.

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Speaker 2: It's a mix of both. When we hear about these

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Speaker 2: we attend obviously, and they usually Friday Saturday nights to

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Speaker 2: be honest, or public holidays, as we've seen in a

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Speaker 2: number that have been advertised. Get where we're aware of them,

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Speaker 2: we put an operation into effect. We had one of

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Speaker 2: those last weekend in the Belly and Wire Wrapper, which

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Speaker 2: was particularly effective. But we try to get on the

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Speaker 2: front foot mic as you'd expect, but there's times where

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Speaker 2: we've got to react and respond a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of people texting Section one two nine of the

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Speaker 1: sentencing Actors. The problem it's not you guys rounding them up,

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Speaker 1: it's the judges letting them out. Is that fair?

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Speaker 2: Look that's a matter for the courts. Were really what

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Speaker 2: I can say is we are please to have some

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Speaker 2: more tools than the toolkit to deal with this issue

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Speaker 2: that's growing from our perspective.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, go well with it. Mike Johnson, who's the

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Speaker 1: Assistant Police Commissioner.

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