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Speaker 1: Mix one O four point nine dot com for all

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Speaker 1: the latest news and information. Now three sixty with Katie Wolf.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is listening. Mix one oh four point nine one

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Speaker 2: Now joining me in the studio from the Northern Territory

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Speaker 2: Police Commander of Darwin and Road Policing, Matt HOLLANDB.

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Speaker 3: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 4: Good morning Katie, and good morning to your listeners.

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Speaker 2: Now, firstly, Commander, can I just ask we know that

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Speaker 2: just before eight pm last night, two males allegedly entered

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Speaker 2: the sexy Land store in Stuart Park, one of them

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Speaker 2: armed with a machete. As I understand it, they threatened

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Speaker 2: the female staff member.

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Speaker 3: Where are things at with this incident?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Katie, I can confirm that we are investigating an

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Speaker 4: incident of that nature. I just got to be a

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Speaker 4: little bit careful because we have a fourteen year old

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Speaker 4: youth in custody at the moment. But we will allege that, yes,

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Speaker 4: they did enter the Sexy Land with a weapon. We'll

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Speaker 4: also investigating an incident that happened shortly before they with

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Speaker 4: what we will alleges the same two people.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so it was beforehand the alleged car jacking.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's our understanding. So they happened in a very

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Speaker 4: close space of time, close period of time. Police responded

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Speaker 4: really quickly and apprehended the fourteen year old, and we're

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Speaker 4: still searching for another person in relation to the both incidents.

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Speaker 2: Can I just ask, are the victims in these cases,

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Speaker 2: the people that were obviously working at sexy Land and

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Speaker 2: also the victim inside that car, are they okay?

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Speaker 3: From what you can gather, from what.

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Speaker 4: I can gather physically, they're okay, but obviously it'll be

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Speaker 4: a traumatizing experience. So you know, our thoughts are with

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Speaker 4: them to they are victims, and we hope that they

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Speaker 4: make a quick recovery.

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Speaker 2: Now, Matt, can I just ask how quickly were the

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Speaker 2: police able to apprehend that fourteen year old?

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Speaker 4: Look, it was within a very very short space of time.

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Speaker 4: I won't say minutes, but within a short space of time.

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Speaker 4: So very quick response and very quick apprehension of that individual.

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Speaker 4: Founder and obviously there's a bit more work to do.

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Speaker 2: Yet, So still searching for the second alleged defender. If

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Speaker 2: there is anybody out there listening, if they've got any information,

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Speaker 2: get in contact with the police.

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Speaker 4: Look, please do if you have any information about the incident.

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Speaker 4: We think we know the identity of the suspect, but

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Speaker 4: if anyone does have any further information, please contact the police.

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Speaker 2: So by the sounds of things and tell me if

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Speaker 2: you can't say, but it does sound as though they

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Speaker 4: Look, I can't go that far. What I will say

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Speaker 4: is we do have a fourteen year old in custody

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Speaker 4: at the moment in relation to that incident.

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Speaker 2: All right, Commander, can we go through the latest crime stats?

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Speaker 2: I do want to take a closer look at these,

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Speaker 2: But before we do, can I ask what period of

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Speaker 2: time are these crime stats for? Because I feel like

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Speaker 2: sometimes that gets a little bit confused.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, So these crime stats are for the last

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Speaker 4: twelve months to the end of February compared to the

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Speaker 4: twelve months before that. So these current stats include all

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Speaker 4: of the crimes reported to the police in the last.

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Speaker 3: Twelve months, so really during that lockdown period.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So look, if you look at the incredible low

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Speaker 4: last year where we had record lows. So they are

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Speaker 4: still captured in the last twelve month figures starting next

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Speaker 4: start sliding back into the year before figures. But what

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Speaker 4: these we've been using these stats for fifteen ic years,

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Speaker 4: they're not really the ones we use for policing purposes.

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Speaker 4: So we used daily, weekly, monthly, as well as longer

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Speaker 4: the months were lower than the previous months. But just

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Speaker 2: So really, I guess reading between the lines, we could

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Speaker 2: anticipate that we're going to see some an upward trend

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, statistically it may appear to be an upward trend,

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Speaker 4: but our job is to is to know crime prevention

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because some of those I guess some of those

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Speaker 2: while domestic violence related as one jumped twenty six percent.

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Speaker 2: I mean, some of those figures are quite staggering. But

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Speaker 2: what are police doing to try and work on those stats?

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Speaker 4: Firstly, Yeah, look, it's as I say, it's a it's

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Speaker 4: a twelve month trend. Yeah, and you know, over the

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Speaker 4: last twelve months we've seen some things that I don't

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Speaker 4: think we'll ever see again end of the future with

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Speaker 4: you know, lockdown's boarder control points, biosecurity control points, repatration

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Speaker 4: the list goes on and on and on. But having

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Speaker 4: said that, yes, assaults and particularly alcohol related and domestic

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Speaker 4: violence related assaults are trending upwards in Darwin, Parmerstan is

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Speaker 3: What do you reckon the cause of that is?

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Speaker 4: Look, I think the you know, there has been more

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Speaker 4: resurgence of people coming to Darwin from regional areas, and yeah, look,

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Speaker 4: alcohol has played a key role in it, and you'll

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Speaker 4: be aware of, you know, some of our alcohol preventative

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Speaker 4: measures that that have occurred over that period of time.

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Speaker 4: But there's still a lot more work to be done

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and so are you looking at maybe doing some

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Speaker 4: Well, it is a causal factor, so we have to

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Speaker 4: trying to will prevent assaults and prevent people from being hurt. So, yeah,

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Speaker 4: very disturbing and obviously a lot more work.

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Speaker 2: To be done, absolutely, and I guess it's one of

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Speaker 3: As well as vehicle theft.

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Speaker 2: We have seen a massive decrease by those by the

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Speaker 2: standard of those statistics. But from what I can gather

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, I mean the these you know, we need

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Speaker 4: to deal with the hero and now as well. And

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Speaker 4: in terms of the here and now, you'll be aware

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Speaker 4: of our recent Casuarina operation that was a quick response

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Speaker 4: you know, we discovered some other issues out of it,

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Speaker 4: like anti social behavior and the Casurina era. And that

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Speaker 4: operation has been going for just under two weeks. Technically

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Speaker 2: And you've got some pretty good, pretty good numbers in

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Speaker 2: terms of that operation as well, didn't you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely. I think a media release will come out

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Speaker 4: later today on some firm numbers. But it highlighted an issue.

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Speaker 4: We reacted quickly and we put a put a stop

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Speaker 2: Can I ask I know that there again, there'll be

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Speaker 2: some people listening thinking, well, you know, these record low

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Speaker 3: What would you say to those listeners?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thoroughly agree. Look that crime is not at

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Speaker 4: the same record low levels as it was mid last year,

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Speaker 4: crime is played out in the social media, it's played

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Speaker 4: does influence people's perceptions. So you know, there is technically

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Speaker 2: So we have got a message from one of our

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Speaker 4: Attempted breakings usually involve damage to property. It's a standalone crime.

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Speaker 4: It's attempted unlall flentry, so it is counted as an

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Speaker 4: unlall flintry, as an attempted unlall flintry. So yeah, it certainly,

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Speaker 4: it certainly counts as a crime, and it counts towards

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Speaker 2: So it is still included in those in those crime stats. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 4: Look, I think you know, we have a challenging time

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Speaker 4: in terms of our community reassurance messaging, in terms of

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Speaker 4: to be difficult and challenging to meet the same positive

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Speaker 4: can help. I mean, the community are our eyes in ears,

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Speaker 2: It's yeah, well it's one of the things that we

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Speaker 2: you know, look, we didn't report it because it was

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Speaker 2: going to you know, they're so busy, they're not going

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Speaker 2: maybe feel isn't as significant, they still need to report

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Speaker 2: it to you guys.

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Speaker 4: Well, the thing about reporting to the police is that

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Speaker 4: we can then build up trends and issues and patterns

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Speaker 4: and identify hot spots, identify crime series, identify RECIDVIS defenders

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Speaker 4: and work out how we're going to stop it. So

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Speaker 4: you know, we do rely on the community. We rely

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Speaker 4: on the community reporting suspicious people and suspicious activities in

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Speaker 4: the community and at the end of the day, we

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Speaker 4: are here to serve and protect our.

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Speaker 3: Community absolutely well.

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory Police Commander for Darwin and Road Policing Matt

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Speaker 2: Hollanby always appreciate your time.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, always a pleasure, Katie