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Speaker 1: Police say that there was an organized criminal element at

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Speaker 1: a large boy racer meeting in Wye coup All over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. Four police vehicles were rammed during the event,

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Speaker 1: and in one incident, a white reversed its speed towards

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Speaker 1: a police car that officers were standing in front of.

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Speaker 1: Now here's what police Inspector Neil Faulkner said in an

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Speaker 1: interview on TV and z's Breakfast program this morning concerning

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Speaker 1: for police as the organized criminal element that's coming into

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Speaker 1: it and they're looking for sort of any opportunity to cause.

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Speaker 2: Maximum um where they can, which is act a really

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Speaker 2: good stand.

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Speaker 3: Mark Mitchell is the policeman assumed with us. Now, hey, Mark,

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Speaker 3: how are you? I'm very well, thank you. What is

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Speaker 3: this organized criminal element?

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Speaker 2: He's probably talking about the gangs taking advantage of the

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Speaker 2: fact that this meet. It sounds like this meet was spontaneous.

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Speaker 2: The police have actually been outstanding and policing the ones

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Speaker 2: that they get intelligence on they are going to happen.

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Speaker 2: This one was probably more spontaneous. So I'd say that

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Speaker 2: he's probably referring to the fact that you will have

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Speaker 2: game members come out and join it because they see

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Speaker 2: as an opportunity of having a crack at the police

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Speaker 2: and join a bit of disorder and violence, which is

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Speaker 2: the sort of thing they like to spail it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And when we're talking about gangs, are we talking

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Speaker 1: about you know, the old gangs, the mongerl Mob and

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Speaker 1: the Black powt or these new guys coming from Australia.

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Speaker 2: It could be a mix. I mean, they're all into related,

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Speaker 2: they're all working together, so you know, I could be

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Speaker 2: a mix. I can't say which gangs. And he sort

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Speaker 2: of referred to an organized crime element so money sort

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Speaker 2: of assuming that that's what he's referring to. But I'd

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Speaker 2: say that's I'm pretty sure that that is who is

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Speaker 2: referring to. I mean, the fact of the matter is

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Speaker 2: is that we've got whether it be gigs, whether it

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Speaker 2: be boy racist, whether it be these violent youth offenders,

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Speaker 2: they all think they're above the war. They got no

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Speaker 2: respect for the police, they got no respect for the public.

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Speaker 2: And that's why we've got a massive, you know, public

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Speaker 2: safety program currently under underwey and government.

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Speaker 3: Okay, just explain this to me though.

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Speaker 1: So when we're looking at this, we are seeing some

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Speaker 1: pretty bad behavior and as members of the public, we're going, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's the whole lot of them. But are you saying actually,

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Speaker 1: for the most part, they're just kids wanting to have

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Speaker 1: a bit of a hen around and there are a

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Speaker 1: few bad eggs in there.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're all bad eggs. I'm sorry, but you know

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Speaker 2: kids are having a horn around. I get around the country.

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Speaker 2: They go out into our rural areas, they terrorize the locals,

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Speaker 2: they damage year, they in just stock, they terrorize the

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Speaker 2: communities that they're in. So they're not going to be

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Speaker 2: treated with kid puffs. And that's why we've we're working

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Speaker 2: on some pretty tough legislation at the moment that will

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Speaker 2: come through cabinet to give the police additional powers to

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Speaker 2: be able to stop these boy racism. What powers, Well,

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Speaker 2: I can't go into detail on that because it hasn't

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Speaker 2: been through cabinet, but they're going to be significant and

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Speaker 2: I think they'll go a long way to stop to

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Speaker 2: being able to stop the sort of things.

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Speaker 3: Is it impounding the cars, because you've talked to us

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Speaker 3: about that before.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it'll be it is down there, definitely going down

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Speaker 2: that road.

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Speaker 1: Do you have the kind of power where when they

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Speaker 1: get together, given past behavior and living and the white couple.

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Speaker 1: You can actually go in there, may be potentially with

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Speaker 1: new laws, go in there and just break the thing

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Speaker 1: up before it becomes.

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Speaker 3: Out of hand.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, it's going to be. They'll be proactive powers,

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Speaker 2: but you know they'll also be the fact as well,

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Speaker 2: so they'll be broad wide ranging, and they'll give the

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Speaker 2: police the additional powers that I think they need to

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Speaker 2: be able to really clep down on this because you know,

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Speaker 2: not only they're putting the public at danger. You can

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Speaker 2: see that there's a lot of respect for our frontline

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Speaker 2: police officers and they are and big danger too when

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Speaker 2: they're trying to deal with these things. Cool.

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Speaker 1: Hey, thank you very much for runningus through that. Looking

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Speaker 1: forward to seeing you take this through a cabinet. That's

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Speaker 1: Mark Mitchell, the Police Minister.

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