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Speaker 1: Joining me live in the studio is the Acting Assistant

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Speaker 1: Commissioner for the Northern Territory Police Peter Maley.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Good morning, Coty.

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Speaker 1: Good to have you on the show. Now, before we

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Speaker 1: get into some of the incidents that you guys have

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Speaker 1: been called out to over our recent days, I know

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Speaker 1: we're due to catch up with the Northern Territory Police Association,

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Speaker 1: the union saying it's well, there's a clear show of

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Speaker 1: unity and frustration at the moment with one and twenty

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Speaker 1: members of the anti police force. We'll voting against the

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Speaker 1: government's latest payoffer. Peter, what do you make of it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's overwhelming that we have eighty one percent voting

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Speaker 3: against it and the association gave the membership, you know,

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Speaker 3: their advice and that was to vote no, and that

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Speaker 3: they've certainly done that. So yeah, that'll go back to

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Speaker 3: the government now and we'll wait and see what happens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see what happens next and we will catch

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Speaker 1: up with, like I said, the Northern Territory Police Association

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Speaker 1: president shortly, so we'll go into bit more detail about

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Speaker 1: it then. Now there's a bit happening. There was a

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Speaker 1: fire overnight Northern Territory Police and also Fire and Rescue

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Speaker 1: Service obviously called out to this structure fire which happened

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Speaker 1: in perap Well just after five o'clock this morning. How

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Speaker 1: many occupants were inside that building?

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Speaker 3: There was two in there, Cotie. They were able to

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Speaker 3: get out safely with no serious injuries. Investigations are ongoing,

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Speaker 3: but it's very early so I don't have a cause

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Speaker 3: of the fire or anything at this stage, but fire

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Speaker 3: investigators will be there this morning with the police and

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Speaker 3: for egics and we'll come up with the cause of

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Speaker 3: that very quickly.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I guess no word at this point in time

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Speaker 1: as to whether it's suspicious or not. All right, we'll

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Speaker 1: keep an eye on that now. As I said, a

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Speaker 1: bit to cover, I want to head to Central Australia. Well,

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Speaker 1: first off, we started the week with some good news.

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Speaker 1: A twenty six year old man who'd been missing for

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Speaker 1: five days. Well, he was found near one of the communities,

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Speaker 1: some local women there actually spotting him first. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is it's quite the story of survival really.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Cady.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So look, we held serious concerns for his welfare.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's very cold overnight down in the desert.

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Speaker 3: So but yeah, great news that he was found safe

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Speaker 3: and well, and yeah, it's a it's a great story

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Speaker 3: of survival. But we put a lot of resources into

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Speaker 3: locating him, a lot of work when in there for

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Speaker 3: that week. So a great result at the end of it.

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Speaker 3: But you know, it was a dre on police resources,

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Speaker 3: but we're happy with the result.

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Speaker 1: Well, and obviously the police search had sort of been

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Speaker 1: called off by that stage, hadn't it. And just it

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Speaker 1: turned out that then he was sort of seen staggering

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Speaker 1: into the community I guess dehydrated and presumably struggling after

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Speaker 1: being lost for quite a long time.

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, Catie.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, we we figured that, you know, maybe we'd

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Speaker 3: But great news we got him back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is good news. Hey, I'm also in Central Australia.

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Speaker 1: Some pretty ordinary news overnight. Northern Territory police had to

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Speaker 1: arrest six mail offenders after a stolen car that they

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Speaker 1: were traveling in rammed a police vehicle in Alice Springs.

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Speaker 1: Now this happened just after eleven o'clock. An unmarked police

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Speaker 1: car observed a beij Toyota land Cruiser. Now it was

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Speaker 1: driving in Gillen. This land cruiser had previously been reported stolen,

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Speaker 1: stolen on the weekend. It's then driven at the police

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Speaker 1: car without any warning, ramming at are those police officers? Okay?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look police officers.

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Speaker 3: Was taken to a hospital just for a precautionary assessment,

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Speaker 3: but wasn't injured luckily. But you know, it was really serious,

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Speaker 3: risky behavior and we understand that our job's dangerous, but

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Speaker 3: you know, we don't need that sort of behavior. But strikeforce,

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Speaker 3: fireer in general duties members would deploy and police drow

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Speaker 3: and CCTV operators. We located and tracked the vehicle to

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Speaker 3: Saturday and where it was abandoned. But we saw eleven

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Speaker 3: males fourteen, fourteen, fifteen, fifteen at sixteen, and a twenty

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Speaker 3: remain in police custody with investigations ongoing at the moment.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, just so it is crazy, five of them

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Speaker 1: still remain outstanding. I mean, it's like when you look

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Speaker 1: meant to be an adult. And then you've got these

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Speaker 1: ages of the others that have been involved here, but like,

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Speaker 1: it just sort of makes me question whether you've got

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Speaker 1: well whether they're all in it together.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know either, Cody.

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Speaker 3: But obviously you'd expect a twenty year old would exhibit

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Speaker 3: a little bit more maturity in relation to this risky behavior.

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Speaker 3: You know, fourteen year olds on board style a vehicle

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Speaker 3: driving at police.

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Speaker 1: I've got a child that age, Like, there is no

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Speaker 1: a car properly. I don't know who was behind the wheel,

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Speaker 1: But then ramming it at a police vehicle is just

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Speaker 1: a borring behavior.

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Speaker 2: It is, Codie. Look, it's really serious offending.

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Speaker 3: And we'll wait and see what charges will be, you know,

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Speaker 3: hopefully they can identify the driver because that'll be the

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Speaker 3: serious offending. But yeah, yes, it's still investigations ongoing.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Well, yesterday we received a statement from the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: police saying that on Monday night at about six forty

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Speaker 1: five well a woman was allegedly robbed by two youths

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Speaker 1: while walking near Robin Leslie Park. Now, the alleged victim

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Speaker 1: was approached by a male and a female youth, one

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Speaker 1: her phone and money. A short time later, the Casuarina

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Speaker 1: General Duties Offices located and arrested three youths. Now in

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Speaker 1: this case, they were ten, twelve and fourteen holding a

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Speaker 1: woman up, allegedly with on each weapon presumably a knife. Again, like,

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Speaker 1: I cannot wrap my head around kids this young being

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Speaker 3: No, it's very troubling, Katie, ten, twelve and fourteen. So

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Speaker 3: the fourteen year old female was the girl that was

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Speaker 3: arrested for the aggravated robbery and the ten or twelve

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Speaker 3: before the courts and engaging in.

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Speaker 1: And they're already on bail yep at ten and.

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Speaker 3: Twelve crazy risky behavior. And look, at the end of

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Speaker 3: the day, it's really serious offending.

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Speaker 1: It is. It's incredibly serious, and you know, you think

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Speaker 1: you're thinking to yourself, Oh, they're little kids. But then

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Speaker 1: if they've got an edged weapon, it's like, you know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really traumatic for the victims of these type

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Speaker 3: street offenses. Yeah, and we'll put them before the courts

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Speaker 3: and they'll be hedle caountable for their actions.

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Speaker 1: Well, which it sounds as though they are already. Well,

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Speaker 1: one of them is going to face court, I believe,

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Speaker 1: either today or yesterday. So we'll keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: things as best we can. Peter, I want to ask you.

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Speaker 1: I understand that the Northern Territory Police have actually been

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Speaker 1: out in what Air conducting some some investigations and getting

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Speaker 2: What's going on, correct, Coatie.

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Speaker 3: So over the weekend we ran a proactive traffic operation

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Speaker 3: on the what Air Main access road and Saturday at

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Speaker 3: around six thirty pm, we searched a vehicle coming into

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Speaker 3: that vehicle and that total will be thirty five letters

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Speaker 3: of alcohol. So a significant seizure of alcohol going into

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Speaker 3: a remote community. We arrested a twenty three year old

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Speaker 3: male who was charged with a number of traffic offenses

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Speaker 3: and liquor related offenses and he'll be appearing in what

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Speaker 3: are caught on the ninth of September, And we also

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Speaker 3: seized the vehicle.

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Speaker 1: Was he a local figure?

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Speaker 2: Wise?

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Speaker 1: Yesh, forty three bottles of rum? What kind of street

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Speaker 1: belly do you reckon that had had?

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Speaker 3: So they also got another four bottles to run from

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Speaker 3: another vehicle, and they picked up two hundred and forty

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Speaker 3: the cannabis is about seventy four thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: So holy moly, how much to people? Like how much

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Speaker 1: are they selling a bottle of rum for?

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Speaker 2: On the straight can go for three or four hundred bucks?

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Speaker 1: Holy molely. And that's and obviously, you know people want it.

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Speaker 1: What is dry like, it's obviously a dry community. So

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Speaker 1: then you've got a situation where people are trying to

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Speaker 1: take you know, trying to get alcohol in there. So

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Speaker 1: presumably they can profit of selling it.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely secondary supplies all about cash.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what kind of impact then do you think

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Speaker 1: it has more broadly in terms of that alcohol not

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Speaker 1: being distributed throughout the community.

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Speaker 3: Really hard one to measure, but in terms of domestic

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Speaker 3: violence and other violence offenses, it's absolutely huge. I mean,

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Speaker 3: this could have prevented a homicide.

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Speaker 1: So in terms of you know, the police doing these

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Speaker 1: kind of operations as well, where you're sort of you know,

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Speaker 1: you're going on to the main roads that lead into

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Speaker 1: some of the various communities around the Northern Territory that

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Speaker 1: are dry. Is that something that you're planning on doing

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Speaker 1: a bit more off when we.

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Speaker 3: Have the time and the resources, we definitely want to

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Speaker 3: do it. We have to be a proactive police force

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Speaker 3: involved in crime prevention, not just reacting. And if we're

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Speaker 3: just reacting to crime, we're out of business. So we

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Speaker 3: need to be doing that crime prevention piece and that's

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Speaker 3: part of what we were doing there at.

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Speaker 2: What Air Well.

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Speaker 1: Acting Assistant Commissioner Peter Maley really appreciate your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for joining us on the show.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Katie, thank you