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Speaker 1: Joining me in the studio right now is the commander

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Speaker 1: for the Darwin Region, Danny Bacon. Good morning to you, commander,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time this morning. Now, first off,

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Speaker 1: I do just want to take you across to a

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Speaker 1: story which is being run by the ABC online this

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Speaker 1: morning that emergency departments across the Northern Territory are seeing

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Speaker 1: an increase in serious injury presentations due to family and

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Speaker 1: domestic violence. We know the Northern Territory already sees very

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Speaker 1: high rates of this type of violence. But the Australasian

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Speaker 1: College for Emergency Medicine, their president, Stephen Gooley has Well

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Speaker 1: works as the director of the Alla Springs Hospital Emergency

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Speaker 1: Department and said that the department collected data throughout the

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Speaker 1: territory on the incidents of family violence and found there

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Speaker 1: was a steady increase over time. I've got to say

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Speaker 1: I'm probably not surprised by this because in every conversation

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Speaker 1: you and I have, we talk about these instances of

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Speaker 1: family and domestic violence, and even this week it seems

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Speaker 1: like it's been a terrible week.

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Speaker 2: It has, and you know the sad thing is it's unabating,

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Speaker 2: It's constant. You know, those comments are accurate. I think

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Speaker 2: it's Thursday last week, you know, like it's about six

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Speaker 2: fifteen pm around casherin a bus exchange. Two separate, unrelated incidents,

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Speaker 2: but you know, two miles, twenty seven year old Mile

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Speaker 2: the twenty eight year old Mile, you know, both serious

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Speaker 2: domestic violence involving a weapon against their partners. You both

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Speaker 2: have been apprehended pretty quickly in regards to that, but

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Speaker 2: that is a daily occurrence. And you know, I'm not

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Speaker 2: here to demonize men, but am here to hold men

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Speaker 2: be a safer place if we address men's behavior and totality.

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Speaker 2: More importantly, men of their own issues should stand up

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Speaker 2: and hold themselves to account. They hold themselves to account,

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Speaker 2: not just themselves, but their brothers, their fathers, their uncle,

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Speaker 2: sons and nephews. Unfortunately, men are killing each other, men

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Speaker 2: are killing women. Men are behaving badly property space. Men

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Speaker 2: are behaving barely on our roads. Yes, we are seeing

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Speaker 2: female offenders and all those property spaces, but male offending

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Speaker 2: far out ways the female offenders across all our property

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Speaker 2: crime type. So it's disgusting behavior. So it really it's

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Speaker 2: about men waking up to themselves, but also men having conversation,

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Speaker 2: and friends. So until that changes, we're on that same pathway.

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Speaker 1: Look, what do you reckon is going on at the moment?

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, I know we always sort of see

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Speaker 1: these instances of violent domestic violence. I know that we

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Speaker 1: often see instances of assaults and various different types of

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Speaker 1: issues around that kind of behavior.

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Speaker 3: But what do you think is going on at the moment.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of systemic issues across our communit poverty, education,

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Speaker 2: lack of education, lack of housing, overcrowding. You know, if

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at offenders down the track when they're older,

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Speaker 2: you know, if I go back and have a lot

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Speaker 2: of their history and interactions with police or any other agency,

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Speaker 2: I can tell you that they've been involved as a

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Speaker 2: domestic valves, child of the witnessing or being part of

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Speaker 2: a domestic family violence situation. It is it's a lot

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Speaker 2: of those underlying issues is what we need to address.

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Speaker 2: We really are just seeing the stuff at the end

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Speaker 2: of the line. It really is having a lot of

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Speaker 2: that education, that housing, that poverty side.

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Speaker 1: Of the house.

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Speaker 3: Hey, We've also like it's been a shocking week on

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Speaker 1: We've had fatal crashes just this morning, yesterday morning, I

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Speaker 1: think it was in fact yesterday afternoon, I should say,

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Speaker 1: that fatal crash at Berry Springs. Police investigating that fatal

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Speaker 1: received reports in a white Toyota high lux utility was

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Speaker 2: Three fatalities since last Friday, Cody, and unfortunately we've also

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Speaker 2: is still in a serious life threatening condition in the hospital.

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Speaker 2: We're sitting at thirty five fatalities our lives lost across

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Speaker 2: Northern Terrety roads. In comparison, this is seven this time

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Speaker 2: one percent of our fatalities involving males out of the

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Speaker 2: this year, and six of those who've been male. It

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Speaker 2: really goes back to this males addressing their own behavior

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Speaker 3: So, look, what do you think needs to happen? Danny?

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Speaker 1: I like, I know, you're a dad, I'm a mom

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Speaker 1: I love all the men in my life. They're great blokes.

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Speaker 2: It's about having conversations with them about where they are,

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Speaker 2: how they're traveling, you know, are they okay? It really

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Speaker 2: There is a lot of help out that, you know,

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Speaker 2: of context. But it really is, unfortunately, a mile dominated

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Speaker 1: One of those look one of the very bloody dangerous

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Speaker 1: Territory police have now rested a nineteen year old, but

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Speaker 1: was this bloke allegedly jumping out of his car in

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Speaker 1: on Mitchell Straight with what appears to be a massive machete?

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Speaker 1: I mean, like that is it's utterly concerning for anybody

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Speaker 3: It's frightening.

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Speaker 2: And this is also on the back of you an

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Speaker 3: So do we believe they're linked?

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Speaker 2: us as not. They're very separate incidents in that life. So, yes,

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Speaker 2: knife crime is an issue. Yes, we are looking at

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Speaker 2: increasing our activity within our hotspot areas in regards to

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Speaker 1: Well, put it this way, like you know, a good

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Speaker 1: any of us expect. In fact, it's really ordinary behavior

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Speaker 3: Like what, you know, what can you.

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Speaker 1: Tell the territory community this morning, because I know that

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Speaker 1: for a lot of people that saw that vision, they're thinking,

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Speaker 2: A Certainly I don't tell your listeners Cody that as

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Speaker 2: soon as that matter came to the attention of police.

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Speaker 2: For me, as you can say, we we apprehended the

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Speaker 2: to thank members of the public supplying that footage and

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Speaker 2: know that with graduation of new recruits more recently, we

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Speaker 2: see a lot more proactive activity by our officers the moment.

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Speaker 2: As I've indicated to you previously, you know, domestic violence

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Speaker 1: So could we expect to see more of that knife

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Speaker 2: Most of your listeners, I'm hoping would have seen some

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Speaker 2: That body of work will continue you in arranging for

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Speaker 2: so you'll see a lot more activity regoing the wanding activity.

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Speaker 2: You'll also see a lot more activity from police in

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Speaker 3: Doney, a couple of quick ones.

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Speaker 1: We have just got a message come through somebody asking

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Speaker 1: if there's any updates on that terrible situation that we've

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Speaker 1: seen in Yarrawanga a couple of weeks ago where man

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Speaker 3: I believe there was a vehicle involved. There was a

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Speaker 1: Some were asking whether that was whether there was going

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Speaker 2: I don't have any particular updates with that particular matter

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Speaker 2: by a major Crime area, and if there's any feather

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Speaker 2: Just sorry if anybody has any further information on that,

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Speaker 2: and we still encourage people to call police if people

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Speaker 1: Now. I know that you are the commander for Darwin,

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Speaker 1: there's any information or any update on that in decent

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Speaker 1: ten youths unlawfully entering this residence in Catherine South, at

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Speaker 1: least one offender armed within each weapon. They've then threatened

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, No, okay, I don't have any particular operational update

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Speaker 3: In that place, and they're still at large by the

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Speaker 2: Still at large. We have some officers from Strike Force

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Speaker 2: they'll be assisting the broader Catherine team to see if

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Speaker 2: we can resolve that matter fairly quickly.

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Speaker 1: Well, Commander for the Darwin Region, Danny Bacon, really appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time this morning.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much for joining us. As always, Thanks

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Speaker 3: very much, Coatie, thank you listening. Thank you