1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Let's look at the rise of the community patrol. So 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: we've got one hundred and seventy of them across the country. 3 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 1: These days police say they rely heavily on them when 4 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: dealing with the rise and crime. Ipsom, which is an 5 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 1: Auckland suburb, has a well established one and founder and 6 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: leader Rod gab is with us road. Very good morning, 7 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: Good morning Mike. How long you've been going and how 8 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:17,119 Speaker 1: successful are you? 9 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 2: We started off in May twenty two and we started 10 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: patrolling in December twenty two, so we're be going patrolling 11 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 2: for the last six months. 12 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: And when you say patrolling, what literally do you do? 13 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 2: Literally we do. We are the minimum of two of 14 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 2: us on a shift on a patrol and we head 15 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 2: out anywhere between two two to four hours or about 16 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 2: two to three hours, and we literally patrol the suburbs 17 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 2: and the streets, both businesses and residences around Ipsom, Renuer, Newmarket, 18 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 2: Parnell up to Royal Oak and West East Mount Eden. 19 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 2: So we've got a large patch. 20 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: Well, I was going to say you're you're on wheels, 21 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: not on foot. 22 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 2: I take it. We've got a combination, so mainly wheels, 23 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 2: but there's a number of areas that we do by 24 00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: foot as well, Mike. So we're taking around the bus 25 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 2: association there is we we tend to get on our 26 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 2: feet and do that. And likewise, in some of the 27 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 2: parks out in the suburbs, we'll walk around the parks 28 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 2: of an evening with a torch and just make sure 29 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 2: when it's under control. 30 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: And what if it's not as well, what do you 31 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 1: do then? 32 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 2: What we do then is we get straight on. If 33 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,479 Speaker 2: it's serious enough, we will get straight into the police. 34 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:21,199 Speaker 2: We'll call one one one or in a recent case, 35 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 2: I actually called them the new Market stations says hey, guys, 36 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: you need to get up here on the Broadway. We've 37 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,199 Speaker 2: got it an inst and unfolding that we need support, 38 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 2: and we had we had four patrol cars and there 39 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 2: in a matter of minutes, about ten minutes. 40 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: Are you in danger ever? 41 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 2: No, not at this junction. No, because we are not. 42 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 2: We're not trained and we're not engaged with criminal activity. 43 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 2: If we said unfolding, we stay in our wagon and 44 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 2: we get onto the police. 45 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: Right and so you don't, you know, go wait or 46 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: something like that. 47 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 2: We don't, we don't, we don't, we don't really will 48 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 2: We prefer to observe and then report it and get 49 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 2: it sort of that way, because as I say, we 50 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 2: don't we're not trained to arrest or to confront people. 51 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: And do you have recruitment issues and people? I mean, 52 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: two to three hours is a lot, and that's the 53 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: first question I would ask, you know, am I going 54 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: to get beaten up? Et cetera? And you need to 55 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: convince me that I'm not. 56 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 2: It's very very safe. We have we do training. We 57 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: have an on learing training model MODUL. We were well 58 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 2: trained by the trainers in the organization. And as I say, 59 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 2: we've never been thus far in the six months that 60 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 2: we've been patrolling have we've been in the uncompromising position 61 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 2: of danger. So we've got a mixture of ages, guys 62 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 2: and girls, different cultures and you know, it's going well, 63 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 2: it's working well. We just need to reverse the numbers 64 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 2: from sixteen to sixty one. 65 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Would you argue that crime is measurably down 66 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: or different because you're there along with the police. 67 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,959 Speaker 2: Well, I certainly read an article last night by Constable 68 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 2: Don Allen out of the Only Hanger station, who said 69 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 2: that crime is down ten percent month a month in 70 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 2: Only Hunger and EPSOM, And I wouldn't say that it's 71 00:02:57,919 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 2: totally due to us, but I'd say we'd be a 72 00:02:59,440 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 2: factor in. 73 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: The fantastic rod Go. Well, that's good community stuff. 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