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Speaker 1: Joining me live in the studio is Darwin Commander Matt

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Speaker 1: hollandb with the Territory Police.

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Speaker 2: Goodbarding.

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Speaker 3: Matt, Goodbarding, Katie, and good morning to your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Now we will talk about crime stats in a couple

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Speaker 1: of moments, but I understand that the Northern.

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Speaker 2: Territory Police had quite a busy weekend.

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Speaker 1: You're out targeting people who are on the road who'd

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Speaker 1: been drinking.

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Speaker 2: How did it go?

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Speaker 1: Look, Katie?

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Speaker 3: We announced Operation Roland last Thursday, which is our Christmas

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Speaker 3: holiday road safety campaign. That's a territory wide campaign. But

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Speaker 3: in terms of Darwin, on Friday night, we had a

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Speaker 3: number of significant random breath testing sites. We tested a

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Speaker 3: total of seventeen hundred people for drink driving and fifty

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Speaker 3: one for drug driving. Sadly, there was a woman who's

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Speaker 3: been issued with a notice to appear for driving under

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Speaker 3: the influence of amphilamines and there was fifteen people that

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Speaker 3: tested positive for drink driving, So it's a bit sad.

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Speaker 3: You know. We alerted the public that were we were

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Speaker 3: going to do it, and some people obviously just didn't listen.

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Speaker 1: I just don't understand why it's so hard for people

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Speaker 1: to not get behind the wheel after they've been drinking.

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Speaker 2: Were those readings high or how were they?

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Speaker 1: Look?

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Speaker 3: Most of them were actually quite low. It's you know,

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Speaker 3: the people who had a few drinks after work type scenario.

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Speaker 3: But there was one person that was arrested with a

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Speaker 3: reading of point two zero six. Wow, So that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: That's ridiculously high. And you know, I think we probably

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Speaker 3: saved a significant crash on the night I reckon.

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Speaker 1: I mean, when you arrest somebody who's got such a

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Speaker 1: high reading, are they quite visibly intoxicated?

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Speaker 3: Look, it depends CADI, It depends on the person's tolerance.

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Speaker 3: You know, people like yourself and myself, I'd probably be

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Speaker 3: unconscious at point to point two, you know, the readings

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Speaker 3: you know up around the point three. You basically have

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Speaker 2: It's quite unbelievable. That's what I thought to myself. You know,

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Speaker 2: I can't I can't even imagine reading being that high.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, you know, I will say that nine

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Speaker 3: of the readings were low range. That's low range has

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Speaker 3: been between point zero five and point zero eight. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: they are the people that just had one too many

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Speaker 1: And just that reminder really for those people, for all

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Speaker 1: of us, because I guess that's certainly much easier to

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Speaker 1: do to have one too many, you know, I guess

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Speaker 1: it's a good reminder for us to either get a taxi,

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Speaker 1: have a you know, have a sober ball, or call

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Speaker 1: you know, get an uber. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. And look, you know, nearly fifty percent of our

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Speaker 3: fatal crashes are caused by drink driving. It's a causal factor.

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Speaker 3: And I think you know, if if you seriously hurt

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Speaker 3: or drugs, it's going to ruin your life forever. And

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Speaker 3: you know, we've had thirty people die in our roads

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Speaker 3: this year and Christmas, we know it was a time

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Speaker 3: of celebration, and we just asked people to be sensible

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Now we also know that Northern Territory Police had to

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Speaker 1: issue one driver a notice to appear and seized another

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Speaker 1: driver's vehicle after a honing incident in the city on

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Speaker 1: the weekend. As I understand that police were conducting foot

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Speaker 1: patrols on kitchen A Drive when a holden commodore was

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Speaker 1: observed honing before losing control, crashing into the curb. As

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Speaker 2: Is that officer okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the officer is okay. He's got bruising, fairly substantial

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Speaker 3: bruising to his leg. You know, this is just a

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Speaker 3: honing incident by young people that were being idiots, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: it hurt somebody in the process and now they're going

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you.

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Speaker 1: What's so lucky that that police officer is actually okay

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Speaker 1: with something like that happening, isn't it. Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think he's in good spirits. You know, he

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Now, Commander, we know that the crime stats

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Speaker 1: as though things like house breakings, commercial break ins and

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Speaker 2: Are on the decline.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, we've had quite big increases in things like alcohol

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Speaker 1: related assault and domestic violence. I mean, do you think

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Speaker 1: I guess statistics are always a bit difficult because they

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Speaker 3: Look Katie, These these statistics are twelve months, a snapshot

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Speaker 3: you know, sometimes it really it more depends on what

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Speaker 3: having said that, we've had we had a good run

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Speaker 3: of six months of very very you know, record low

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Speaker 2: That was during COVID.

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Speaker 3: Was that during COVID? Yeah, but you know, year on

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Speaker 3: a year it's down. But in terms of the here

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Speaker 3: know there was a spike in the rural area for

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Speaker 3: obviously got a lot of attention of late. But you know,

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Speaker 3: statistically crime is down. Some people will say, oh, yeah, whatever,

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Speaker 3: but you know, the fear of crime and the perceptions

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Speaker 3: of crime are really important as well as you'd appreciate.

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Speaker 3: So you know, we we probably need to do some

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you talk about the rural area and Karama

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Speaker 2: How are things going with those areas?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, Karama and Malac in terms of house breakings,

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Speaker 3: house breakings weren't as high as people thought. What was

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Speaker 3: it was nuisance crime of predominantly children doing stupid things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you sort of stop that? Because I

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Speaker 2: It's hard if you're at home.

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Speaker 1: With little kids, and while it's nuisance crime, it feels

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, as I say, I don't mean to

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Speaker 3: that crime, it's not a nuisance, it's really bad. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: we're working with territory families. We've obviously got our youth

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Speaker 3: operation that's going over the Christmas holiday period. Still it's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, last time you and I spoke, I know that

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Speaker 1: you'd said that there were some nights where your officers

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Speaker 2: Has that improved much?

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Speaker 3: Look, I think it has, But for some of the

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Speaker 3: more encourageable kids, it was a bit of a game

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Speaker 3: a bit of a game. But again it's about reassuring

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Speaker 3: the community that not every child that you see on

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Speaker 3: are committing dumb crimes, stupid crimes. Yeah, but you know,

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Speaker 3: it's not always the case. Well, you know, Carima and Malac,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Matt, can I just ask very quickly just back

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Speaker 3: Look, I think it does in part. But you know,

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Speaker 3: the awareness of domestic violence is you know, we do

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Speaker 3: which is a positive. But having said that, domestic violence

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Speaker 3: reports are going up. That's really really sad, and I

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Speaker 3: don't really think it gets enough airtime in terms of

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Speaker 2: It's terrible.

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Speaker 1: It's a terrible situation and it seems to be something

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Speaker 1: that we've got a real issue with in the territory.

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Speaker 1: I know how police are certainly trying to focus on it. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And look, Christmas is a time for family, but

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Speaker 3: it can also be a stressful time for families that

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Speaker 3: aren't doing well or they're struggling, whether it's financially or

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Speaker 3: But we you know, we ask it to be a

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Speaker 3: happy time and a good time for for families. And

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Speaker 3: you know, if if if you get worked up, just

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Speaker 3: take a walk. It's assaulting. Is assaulting a family member

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Speaker 3: is never on It's never It's never acceptable.

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Speaker 1: No, Absolutely, well, Commander Matt Hollanby, we are going to

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Speaker 1: have to leave it there. Thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: your time this morning. All the best, hope you have

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Speaker 1: a lovely Christmas and to all your.

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Speaker 2: Team as well.

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Speaker 3: Always a pleasure, Katie, and have a merry Christmas to

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Speaker 3: you and to all of your listeners as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, thank you. We'll talk to you again in

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Speaker 1: the new year, all

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Speaker 2: Right, have a good one you too,