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Speaker 1: Now, there's always plenty happening around the territory, and we

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Speaker 1: know that our Northern Territory police work incredibly hard. Now

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Speaker 1: they have arrested four youths after a premises in Darwin

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Speaker 1: City was unlawfully entered yesterday morning. Joining me on the

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Speaker 1: line to tell us a little bit more about this

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Speaker 1: is Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Bland.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you. Blandy, Good morning Katie. How are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, goodness, wonderful to have you on the show. Now

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit firstly about what had happened

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Speaker 1: yesterday morning in Darwin City.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, about t fifty amsday morning, a vehicle stolen from

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Speaker 3: a residence in Leanna. About now later that vehicle we

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Speaker 3: used to remorad a licensed premises in Buffalo Court and

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Speaker 3: Dawn City. As a result of that, substantial amount of

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Speaker 3: alcohol was stolen. Police located of the vehicle not long

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Speaker 3: after driving dangerously through Winnelli. But michud was initiated but

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Speaker 3: quickly terminated just to the manner of driving. It's quite dangerous.

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Speaker 3: Not long after that police sired the v streeting gun

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Speaker 3: where the occupants abandoned it and fled on foot. We'll

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Speaker 3: manage to recover a fair bit of the stolen alcohol,

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Speaker 3: which was good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. How much alcohol did they steal?

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Speaker 3: Well, they stole in excess of eighteen borrels of spirits

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Speaker 3: and over one hundred cans of Premix. Wow, I fair whack.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, we managed to get the majority of

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Speaker 3: that back, which was good. And then just through some

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Speaker 3: investigations late yesterday afternoon, we arrested four miles of age

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Speaker 3: fourteen at a residence in Palmerston.

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Speaker 2: So they were all aged fourteen, All age fourteen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two were turned up being charged with a number offenses,

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Speaker 3: including a gravida on all for use of a motive,

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Speaker 3: a gravailable for entry of a building and stealing, and

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Speaker 3: the other two fourteen year olds were released to be

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Speaker 3: dealt with under the provisions of the Youth Justices Act.

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Speaker 2: It must get frustrating for you.

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Speaker 1: You know, that seems so young to a lot of

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Speaker 1: people listening this morning, They're going to think, good, just

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Speaker 1: me fourteen years old.

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Speaker 3: It is young. It's just it's frustrating for police and

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Speaker 3: the victims in the martain know the senseless damage to

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Speaker 3: the roller doors and the theft of the vehicle. Not

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Speaker 3: to mention the just the driving, the dangerous driving along

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Speaker 3: the highway puts all the other road users that were risk.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're spot on, and that is the concern, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: You know that they end up injuring themselves or somebody

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Speaker 1: else on the road. And you can understand then why

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Speaker 1: you guys are in a situation where you have to,

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Speaker 1: you know, where you have to terminate those pursuits pretty

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Speaker 1: quickly sometimes, oh you do.

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Speaker 3: You have to obviously take in all the risk, the

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Speaker 3: risk assessment and weigh it all up. But yeah, number

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Speaker 3: on priorities obviously to keep everyone safe on the roads,

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Speaker 3: and if that means not pursuing a vehicle, that's what

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Speaker 3: it is. We've just got to make sure that day

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Speaker 3: we want.

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Speaker 2: Safe absolutely now.

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Speaker 1: We also yesterday we spoke to one of our listeners, Caroline,

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Speaker 1: who'd had her vehicle stolen.

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Speaker 2: I believe it was in Jingly.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure whether you've got any infole on that one, Mark,

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Speaker 1: but I know that unfortunately, we do end up in

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Speaker 1: a situation sometimes where we have you know, where we

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Speaker 1: have vehicles taken from well, people getting inside the home,

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Speaker 1: stealing the keys and then getting away with the car.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a jockey. What happened, Kadie? A vehicle signed

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Speaker 3: from a single early yesterday morning, it was sighted down

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Speaker 3: at Rapid Creek where it was reported to police. Police

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Speaker 3: attended and ended up locating the vehicle with a number

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Speaker 3: of years fleeing from it. We managed to arrest the driver,

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Speaker 3: who was twelve years old, and he was arrested and

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Speaker 3: charged and reminded and custody.

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Speaker 2: Goodness may twelve years old? Bloody hell?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I think the other youth that managed to

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Speaker 3: evade police at the time roughing around the same ages.

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Speaker 2: And mate, do we know know?

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Speaker 1: I was was the damage or was the car in

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Speaker 1: a situation where you know where it was damaged?

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Speaker 2: Or how was that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? It wasn't too bad. It's just probably more where

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Speaker 3: it went down the embankment where the kids did abandon.

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Speaker 3: It actually rolled down a bit of the embankment, so

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Speaker 3: it received some damage from there, which is unfortunate for

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Speaker 3: the owner.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: I hope that.

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Speaker 1: I hope she's able to get it back and able

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Speaker 1: to drive it again. Mark, is there anything much else

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Speaker 1: going on that we should be aware of?

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Speaker 3: No? No, just pretty much keeping very busy. But just

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Speaker 3: ask everyone out there. Yeah, just vigilant obviously, like we

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Speaker 3: say most of the time on the radio when I'm speaking,

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Speaker 3: just mindful to lock your doors, keep your car keys

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Speaker 3: out of side to stop those opportunist, opportunistic thefts vehicles

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Speaker 3: which obviously we can see result in more serious offending

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Speaker 3: down the track.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're spot on and we really appreciate you coming

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Speaker 1: on the show. But also the work that you guys

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Speaker 1: do is part of Strikeforce Trident On that you are

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Speaker 1: there for a lot of those different property crimes. You know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the time unfortunately where we do see

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Speaker 1: youth crime and cars stolen and that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: You guys do a phenomenal job in making sure that

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Speaker 1: you know that you apprehend those people that are doing

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Speaker 1: the wrong thing.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you very much, Katie, very much appreciate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, anytime, mate, Thank you for the work that you

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Speaker 1: do and we'll talk to you again very soon.

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Speaker 2: Thanks.

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Speaker 3: Mark