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Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf. Join the conversation with Katie Wolf.

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Speaker 1: You are our eyes and ears in the Territory Mixed

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Speaker 1: one oh four point nine. It is just twenty minutes

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Speaker 1: after ten o'clock.

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Speaker 2: If you'd like to call through eight nine four one

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Speaker 2: one oh four nine and joining us on the line

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Speaker 2: right now. Northern Territory Traffic Police Sergeant Scott Aiken, Good

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Speaker 2: morning to you, Scott.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: How have things been on the road over the last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks?

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Speaker 3: Not too bad. We've just completed a six week operation

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Speaker 3: for ob Jansen with a drug and alcohol testing and

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Speaker 3: that's seen us test just over seven and a half

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Speaker 3: thousand people. Wow, couple weeks. Al'm just in bread tests?

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Speaker 2: Goodness may So did you say that was over a

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Speaker 2: six week period, Scott, Yes.

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Speaker 3: That's over January and the first two weeks in February

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Speaker 3: just after Christmas and seven.

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Speaker 2: And a half thousand people tested. That's some good going.

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Speaker 2: Were many people still sort of our roads either drinking

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Speaker 2: or taking illicit substances?

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Out of the seven a half thousand was a

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Speaker 3: fifty six tested positive for alcohol and fourteen for drug

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Speaker 3: mislanged drugs. So there's still a few there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and how did you go in terms of those

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Speaker 2: readings with the alcohol any of them quite high.

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Speaker 1: Or most sort of you know, middle to low range.

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Speaker 3: There was a six high range, fifteen medium and sixteen

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Speaker 3: low range, so and a few sorry eight that words conditions.

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Speaker 3: So basically pea players that had alcohol blood which is

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Speaker 3: not a good sign.

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Speaker 1: No, not at all.

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Speaker 2: And it's als you know, like it's just that reminder

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Speaker 2: yet again that police are out on the roads just

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Speaker 2: don't do the wrong thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. And with this operation we've done multiple

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Speaker 3: large scale RBTs basically popping up at random locations, aren't

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Speaker 3: and multiple places across Humdido, Darwin City, Caserina name it

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Speaker 3: so open and shutting them during the day.

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Speaker 2: And Scott has has it also been happening in Central

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Speaker 2: Australia as well? Or has this one mostly just been

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Speaker 2: for the top end.

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Speaker 3: This has been all territory police springs and even the

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Speaker 3: remote stations doing their part where they can at a

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Speaker 3: local level. So they're the combines that's for territory for

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Speaker 3: the operation.

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Speaker 2: There go and Scott, I mean, I know you guys

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Speaker 2: say it all the time, you know, the message is

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Speaker 2: really just follow the road rules. But has there been

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Speaker 2: much else happening around the place that we should.

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Speaker 1: Be aware of.

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Speaker 3: I think that's the main thing. And a slight increase

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Speaker 3: if I can reinforce anything, is people to bade the

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Speaker 3: red light and the yellow lights at the intersections read

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Speaker 3: as stop and the yellow light. You can't proceed through

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Speaker 3: the yellow light if it's safe to do so, we

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Speaker 3: need to stop because it is actually a fence. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: through the yellow light.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes wonder whether people think that that yellow light means,

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Speaker 2: you know, speed up and go fast through the through

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Speaker 2: the lights, but you know you've got to slow down. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you do.

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Speaker 3: And if it's if it's a yellow light and it's

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Speaker 3: safe to do so. Obviously, if you're doing the speed limit,

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Speaker 3: you should have plenty of time to stop with that

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Speaker 3: pair of set up, So you need to try and

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Speaker 3: stop it's safe to do so. And you know, going

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Speaker 3: through a yellow light is one hundred and forty dollars

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Speaker 3: penalty and the red light's two hundred and eighty. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: you can't speed up. You need to try and stop

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Speaker 3: and put out blocking the intersection of course.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And Scott, how are things going in terms of people

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Speaker 2: being on their phones while they're driving, because that's always

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Speaker 2: a bit of a concern as well, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: It is. There hasn't been too many there. I think

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Speaker 3: there's only four mobile on infringements in that six week period,

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Speaker 3: so it's not not that bad. But it is a

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Speaker 3: hard thing to sort of us to target. We do

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Speaker 3: the best we can with it. Yeah, yeah, a few people.

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Speaker 1: Doing that, yeah, Scott. Anything else we should be aware

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Speaker 1: of this morning, I.

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Speaker 3: Know that basically. Yeah, we'll be out and about and

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Speaker 3: continuing on with the targeted operations for so yeah, be

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Speaker 3: prepared to be pulled over for bread testing and drug testing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yep.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you do the right thing. Scott Aiken. Always

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Speaker 2: good to catch up with you, mate. I really appreciate

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Speaker 2: your time today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: That's Northern Territory Traffic sergeant there, Scott Aiken. I tell you,

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Speaker 2: what's seven and a half thousand people tested over that

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Speaker 2: six week period. Fifty six of those done for for

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Speaker 2: drinking and driving, fourteen of them drugs while driving, unbelievable,

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Speaker 2: six of them high range as well. If I wrote

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Speaker 2: that down correctly. Just a reminder, do not get behind

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Speaker 2: the wheel after you've been drinking