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Speaker 1: Back to youth crime. The target is to reduce it

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Speaker 1: by fifteen percent, but ministerial briefing papers we got this

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Speaker 1: morning show the Minister is potentially not doing enough to

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Speaker 1: reach it. Too much is being expected to police, apparently

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Speaker 1: not on our focus being given to the role of

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Speaker 1: partner agencies like OT and youth support providers. Blue Light

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Speaker 1: CEO Brendan Crompton back with us. Brendan, very good morning

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Speaker 1: to you.

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Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, Mike. How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm very well indeed, thank you. So the police intervene,

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Speaker 1: the argument being they need back up, would that broadly

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Speaker 1: be your view of matters?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, as you know on my expliceman myself. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: the pleasure there to do enforcement day you plan to

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Speaker 2: get the young person into court or into a family

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Speaker 2: group conference and then order on company and its providers,

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Speaker 2: of which we are. We provide services to young people

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Speaker 2: who offended production doing this for thirty years. We do

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Speaker 2: that in community support for those young people.

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Speaker 1: It's important to point out Mark Mitchell, the Minister concern

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Speaker 1: points out they've got all the resources they need, so

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Speaker 1: he said, he said, anyway, how much of the crime

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Speaker 1: in your view or experience requires intensive levels and intervention

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Speaker 1: as opposed to a clip round the ear may be

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Speaker 1: a change, maybe maybe something of the kids straightened out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I suppose mikeel I listen often to the

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Speaker 2: to your radio station. People going to really mention all

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Speaker 2: the kids that we deal with have that the same

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Speaker 2: one with three of these factors. The failed mainstream education,

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Speaker 2: so they're not in school or any sort of training.

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Speaker 2: The second factor they have just dysfunctional family and friends.

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Speaker 2: So there's family violence, criminality, drugs, alcohol, certainly no positive

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Speaker 2: role are male role models. And they're not in anything organized,

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Speaker 2: so they're not in clubs, they're not in church or

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Speaker 2: sports or kappahucker. And there's fantastic examples of the kids have

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Speaker 2: offended who have been brought into a sports team or

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Speaker 2: boxing or all those examples that you get and they

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Speaker 2: no longer offend. So all those all those things we

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Speaker 2: can identify at primary school. And so when people talk

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Speaker 2: about early intervention, I've been doing us for thirty years

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Speaker 2: that we've always known that, but no one puts money.

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Speaker 2: You know that. All the government agencies talk about early intervention,

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Speaker 2: and the police unfortunately, their job's not to do early intervention.

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Speaker 2: Their jobs the police and then people point the finger

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Speaker 2: of them when you crimes high. But free work's not

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Speaker 2: be getting done. And there's lots of programs. If you

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Speaker 2: look at the military boot camps, whatever you want to

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Speaker 2: call it, if you actually look at the pillars of

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Speaker 2: what they're teaching the kids, respect for yourself, respect for others, commitment, motivation, routine.

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Speaker 2: You have to get up in the morning, make your bed,

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Speaker 2: spend the day engaged. That's pretty good if you want

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Speaker 2: to get a job. Our teamwork and they will work

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Speaker 2: on health and well beings. So the extra what the

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Speaker 2: program is. I think people need to stop focusing on

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Speaker 2: the name and actually say, well, this is what we're

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Speaker 2: trying to do. But that intensive support that they're going

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Speaker 2: to get way deep into the cycle of offending. So

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Speaker 2: the intervention is coming, but that early stuff has never

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Speaker 2: been earlier.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good insight, Brandon, as always appreciated Brandon Crompton, who's

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Speaker 1: the Blue Lights CEO.

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