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Speaker 1: Because we do know that plenty of people are looking

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Speaker 1: who knows a lot about how people will try and

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Speaker 1: do is Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Bland, who is in

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Speaker 1: charge of Strikeforce Trident. Good morning to you, Mark.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, and good morning to you listeners.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time now, Mark, I

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Speaker 1: know it's probably been an incredibly busy year for you

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Speaker 1: in terms of well keeping all that property crime trying

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Speaker 1: your best to catch those who are engaged in it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Katie, it has been a very very busy year

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Speaker 2: and it remains that way. Just hopefully we can saw

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Speaker 2: things down a little bit heading into Christmas. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now, over the Christmas period, it is a time where

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Speaker 1: a lot of people choose to go on holidays, they

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Speaker 1: maybe haven't given it as much thought as they should.

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Speaker 1: What are the sort of simple things that we can

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Speaker 2: Okay, to start with, if your vehicles I'm going to

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Speaker 2: be parked in your drive, I just ensure that you

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Speaker 2: you if possible. Keep your valuables out of sight from

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Speaker 2: the front door of the windows. Lock all your doors

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Speaker 2: remove the care as well, because people will push their

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Speaker 2: gain entry. Let your neighbors and family know that you're

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Speaker 2: going away and ask them to keep an eye on

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Speaker 2: you can, or an alarm system. Also, if you get

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Speaker 2: just so it looks in case someone is sort of

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Speaker 2: friends are family going to come and check on it.

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Speaker 2: And also collect your mail. Get someone to collect your

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Speaker 2: mail quite often if you leave your mail building up

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Speaker 2: in a letter box. Over a period of time, it

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Speaker 1: And Mark a lot of these stuff seems really common sense,

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Speaker 1: like for a lot of us listening. But do you

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Speaker 1: find I know you've been a territory police officer for

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Speaker 1: a lot of years. Do you find over the Christmas break,

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Speaker 1: you know that people sort of leave that common sense

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Speaker 1: out the door sometimes and do things that they really shouldn't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Unfortunately at times they do, whether that's just the

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Speaker 2: excitement of perhaps the Christmas holidays and going away and

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Speaker 2: you know, looking forward to a well earned break, they

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Speaker 2: I could just ask them public just to keep that

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Speaker 2: in mind if you are going away, to try and

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Speaker 2: take note of all any safety precautions so you don't

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you see again, I know you've been around

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Speaker 1: those breakings increase or is it more just you know,

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Speaker 1: like that it's just that opportunistic sort of crime.

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Speaker 2: It's just opportunistic coatie. We don't see increase just because

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Speaker 2: Christmas time. It's sometimes that actually works in their favorite

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Speaker 2: because a lot of people might be on leave that

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Speaker 2: they actually don't take holidays, so people are home and

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Speaker 2: on school holidays at home through the day, so less

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Speaker 2: chance of breaking through the daytime on holidays if you

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Speaker 2: are home or the kids that are home, which is

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Speaker 2: a good thing.

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Speaker 1: Hey, before I let you go, I know that you know.

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Speaker 1: Like I said before, it does seem pretty common sense.

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Speaker 1: But for some people they might want some further detail.

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Speaker 1: They can head over to the neighborhood Watch website, can't they?

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Speaker 1: And is there still that you know those market pens

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can go over to the day would watching

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Speaker 2: crime stoppers for information and we still do here at

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Speaker 2: our office have those marking bents which are a good thing.

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Speaker 2: Here you can mark your property and can't be seen

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Speaker 2: on us with an ultraviolet light.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Mark Bland, good to hear from you this morning.

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Speaker 1: I hope it's a nice quiet Christmas for our territory police,

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Speaker 1: particularly for you with Strikeforce Trident. Mate. Good on you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time this morning, and

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Speaker 1: I know that you and your team work really bloody

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Speaker 1: hard to make sure that you do catch those people

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Speaker 1: who are involved in property crime. So thank you for

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Speaker 2: That you do. Thank you very much, Katie, and thank

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Speaker 2: you to all your listeners. I appreciate it.