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Speaker 1: Now yesterday you would have heard on the show we'd

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Speaker 1: spoken to the Assistant Commissioner, Matt Hollanby and he said

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Speaker 1: that there'd been some issues from the night prior. We

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Speaker 1: the look of things now other areas targeted by a

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Speaker 1: I believe. Now joining me in the studio though, the

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Speaker 1: man who's got all the details it is the head

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Speaker 1: of Strikeforce Trident, Senior Sergeant Dale Matter Barnard. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Dale.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, Good morning to all your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Now, mate, I believe up until late yesterday there'd been

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Speaker 1: eleven arrests. Talk me through where things are at at

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Speaker 3: So we had nine arrests in relation to the crimes

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Speaker 3: free from overnight as of this morning, and as of

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Speaker 3: current it's now eleven members from Triden have gone out

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Speaker 3: this morning made a further two arrests. But yeah, we

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Speaker 3: or related to an overnight crime spree which is quite

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Speaker 3: extensive span from Adelaide River and then obviously made its

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Speaker 3: Berrima Whenellie Nakara, you know, the casino and a couple

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Speaker 3: of other places as well were also impacted and it

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Speaker 3: basically resulted in a total of eight cars being stolen.

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Speaker 3: At the time of us being called out, we only

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Speaker 1: Look, it's an enormous number of cars in one night.

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Speaker 1: It's an enormous number of offenders so far. Eleven arrested

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Speaker 1: so far in relation to this crime series. How many

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Speaker 1: do you think it's still outstanding.

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Speaker 3: Look, we think the group that traveled in in the

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Speaker 3: school bus that they stole from Adelaide River was in

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Speaker 3: the realms of around eighteen nineteen individuals all sort of

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Speaker 1: And so you're obviously still on hunt for those that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, we've still got a number of outsounding offenders.

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Speaker 3: We believe most of them are still in the Darwin area.

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Speaker 3: We don't think any of these cars that they've still

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Speaker 3: that they're still in town. Just going to take us

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Speaker 3: We need some further evidence into who they all are

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Speaker 3: because at this stage that's still unknown for us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, were they giving you the correct info, you know,

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Speaker 1: yesterday or how did that all go?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: One of the offenders that we arrested tried to pull

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Speaker 3: who he was, made out to be a first time offender.

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Speaker 3: Since been revealed that he's certainly not a first time offender.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: Turns out he was a twenty year old adult on

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Speaker 1: I wish I could say I was dumbfounded, but unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: you know, we see these kinds of incidents, don't we

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Speaker 1: But I know the big question that people are asking

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Speaker 2: Now? Look, this isn't the Jovie Boys.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, in that Western Daily region we have quite a

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Speaker 2: But this wasn't the Jovie Boys.

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Speaker 1: Now. One of the other things that I have noted,

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Speaker 3: Look, it's certainly something we encounter quite frequently with this

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Speaker 1: Look, I don't want to get you involved in a

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to deter them so much

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Speaker 3: It's got to be a more community led change. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, those standards need to change. Now. In terms of

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Speaker 3: So five of the offenders that were arrested were subject

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Speaker 1: Wow, look, people listening are just going to be I

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Speaker 3: Look, I think in the space of about three hours,

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Speaker 1: That's incredible. Now, as part of the arrest that you

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Speaker 3: So it was in the mix of all this. So

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Speaker 3: we're getting very good at it. But around four thirty am,

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Speaker 3: out it wasn't a stolen car. It's just a twenty

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Speaker 3: But it wasn't a stolen car. It's just an unrelated

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Speaker 3: or It's still extremely concerning, extremely frustrating for us, but

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Speaker 3: it's just one of those things. This is what happens

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Speaker 3: when you're out there doing this, you come across these

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Speaker 1: That's horrifying. So a twenty five year old woman allegedly

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Speaker 3: Yes, there was a single cabu her and her partner

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Speaker 1: Mate, I'm lost for words. That doesn't happen very often

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And look, we've submitted the referrals through to territory families.

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Speaker 3: I've had some communication with them this morning, but it

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Now, just going back dale to the crime series, I

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Speaker 3: Look, so in the Acacia Hills region there was a

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Speaker 3: certainly frustrating that we're having to repair a vehicle or

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Speaker 1: And that people are targeting the Northern Territory Police and

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Speaker 1: what you know, what the plan is today? It sounds

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Speaker 3: Well, look, we're still following up from that crimes Free

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Speaker 3: but we believe overnight the same group have been involved

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Speaker 2: They were unsuccessful in that attempt.

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Speaker 3: That older model land Cruise was fitted within a mobilizer,

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Speaker 1: Dale, do people need to be quite vigilant. I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously we need to make sure we're looking up. If

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Look, it's all old model cars, sort of pre two

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Speaker 3: thousand and five, before a mobilizer has become standard. These

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Speaker 3: guys are exceptionally quick and skilled at stealing them, and

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Speaker 3: they deliberately target them, and they spend their daytimes walking around,

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Speaker 3: steal them. And we know that it is quite often targeted.

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Speaker 3: The same businesses get hit repeatedly, but they also are

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Speaker 3: targeting residential properties. So if you do you own an

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Speaker 3: they make some models forwards Missins and the like, try

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Speaker 3: and fit them within a mobilizer or some sort of

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Speaker 3: theft prevention device because these guys will get it and

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Speaker 1: Well, Dale malt Barnard, the Strike Force Trident Senior Sergeant, Mate,

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Speaker 1: I always appreciate your time I know that you've had

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Speaker 1: an incredibly busy, well forty eight hours if not longer

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Speaker 1: by the sounds of it, but we really appreciate you

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Speaker 1: coming in the studio having a chat with us, making

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Speaker 1: people aware of what's going on so that they can

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Speaker 1: try to secure their vehicles and stay vigilant. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: the work that you guys are doing, and I am

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Speaker 1: sure that you're going to get those outstanding offenders very quickly.

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Speaker 2: No worries. Thanks Katie, Thank you,