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

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Speaker 1: Assistant Commissioner for the Northern Territory Police, Daddy Bacon. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Caddy.

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Speaker 1: Now, unfortunately incredibly sad news from overnight. Devastating in fact,

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Speaker 1: a nineteen year old employee was assaulted with a knife

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Speaker 1: at a bottle shop on McMillan's road and has passed away.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes he has. He's a very senseless loss of

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Speaker 2: life and certainly my condolences to found in his colleagues.

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Speaker 2: It's just tragic.

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Speaker 1: Now do we know a huge amount about what has

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Speaker 1: sort of unfolded beforehand?

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Speaker 2: No, it's an ongoing investigation. A Sister Commissioner White from crime.

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Speaker 2: We'll do a more fulsome brief later on today, but

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Speaker 2: I suppose for your listeners just to everybody know that

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Speaker 2: the offender has been arrested. There's no ongoing threat to

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Speaker 2: the community that regards. He is in custody, as is

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Speaker 2: another person assisting with inquiries, so that investigation is obviously

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Speaker 2: taking priory this morning, and a more fulsome brief we

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Speaker 2: provide later on today.

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Speaker 1: Now, we have had people get in contact with us

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Speaker 1: here at the station and say that there was also

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Speaker 1: an incident occur at the Beachfront Hotel. Do we know

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Speaker 1: if that incident relates to the same alleged defenders or

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Speaker 1: do we have any further detail at this point?

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Speaker 2: Certainly, I ken convene there was another incident at the

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Speaker 2: Beachfront Hotel we're sitting in this period, but the matter

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Speaker 2: is an ongoing investigation, as I said, so mister White

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Speaker 2: will probably not probably well revides a bit more for

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Speaker 2: particulars later.

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Speaker 1: On today, all right, so we will certainly make sure

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Speaker 1: that we have that detail for our listeners following on

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Speaker 1: from that press conference. Can I just ask Assistant Commissioner,

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Speaker 1: have we I mean, it's pretty obvious to everybody that

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Speaker 1: we've seen a real escalation in some of the violence

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Speaker 1: inside bottle shops in recent weeks, but also some of

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Speaker 1: that behavior where people are just going in, grabbing what

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Speaker 1: they want and leaving. Has it been something that's been

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Speaker 1: on the agenda for the police for a little while now.

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Speaker 2: It certainly has, and we've been having a lot of

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Speaker 2: discussions with our stakeholds, particularly industry, are regarding what that

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Speaker 2: looks like and how we can sort of improve in

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Speaker 2: that space. It certainly is a trend it's a trend

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Speaker 2: that we're working close with, as I said, government, licensing

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Speaker 2: and industry to see how we can strengthen some resolve

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Speaker 2: around that particular area.

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Speaker 1: I mean, are we in a situation where we're going

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Speaker 1: to need to see sort of you know, restrictions like

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Speaker 1: what we've seen in places like Central Australia.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think we're very very different to Central Australia.

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Speaker 2: We are, and every community is very different, they really

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Speaker 2: are in regards to certainly know how they approach crime reduction,

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Speaker 2: what sort of things are occurring in their particular community.

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Speaker 2: There's no one one that fixes everything and each area

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Speaker 2: has to adapt and do things differently. But certainly, as

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Speaker 2: you've indicated, it is a trend that we are noticing,

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Speaker 2: particularly regards to alcohol, and it is commodity that features

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Speaker 2: prominently within our commercial breaks, features prominently within our residential breaks,

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Speaker 2: features predominantly with our youth crime. So it is a

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Speaker 2: legal commodity, but it's also a commodity that needs a

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Speaker 2: lot more strengthening around the sale, supply security. And so

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Speaker 2: there's a wide variet of discussions, as I said, involved

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Speaker 2: with the range of stakeholders to see how we can strengthen.

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Speaker 1: That area, I know towards well, it was probably about

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Speaker 1: this time last year we had seen an increase in

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Speaker 1: the number of people that were in Darwin from different communities.

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Speaker 1: Are we in a similar situation at the moment, Well.

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Speaker 2: Certainly, and I suppose. I know there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: commentary about visitation and visitors committing a range offenses. So

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Speaker 2: if I could put the community a little bit of these,

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Speaker 2: you know, the tragic events of last night, unfortunately was

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Speaker 2: in regards to our crime trends, some of those people

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Speaker 2: that are sleeping rough and then the visiting for pure

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Speaker 2: and simply for alcohol purchases. But you know, a lot

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Speaker 2: of the trends that we're saying at the moment, unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: is a mixture of all three. It's a bit of use,

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Speaker 2: it's a bit of local, it's a bit of visitation.

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Speaker 2: But you know, there's no one particular trend you could

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Assistant Commissioner, I know that we are certainly

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Speaker 1: going to find out a little bit more detail. Major

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Speaker 1: crime have taken carriage of the incident from last night

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Speaker 1: an incredibly tragic situation, and no doubt there'll be some

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Speaker 1: further detail throughout the day. Can we move along and

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Speaker 1: just talk about the most recent crime statistics that were

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Speaker 1: released on Friday. Now, by the look of things around

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Speaker 1: a fair assessment from your perspective?

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Speaker 2: Certainly, and it's pretty good wins in regards to where

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Speaker 2: we are, not particularly from a policing perspective. From a

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Speaker 2: crime types is domestic valance, and certainly it's domestic violence

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Speaker 2: we see kids acting out in our community as well. So,

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Speaker 2: So we're really seeing some good winds in the area

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Speaker 2: of domestic violence and our corelated assaults. And I do

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Speaker 2: certainly we've seen a bit of an increase in the

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Speaker 2: about one percent, that says of this morning. But where

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Speaker 2: seeing some good I suppose work around that area. We

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Speaker 2: are seeing some challenges in those in those breaks, as

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Speaker 2: increase in house breaks by sixteen percent, but you know,

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Speaker 2: nine but that's improvement by six percent of the previous month.

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Speaker 2: So we we're seeing some small winds in that regard,

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Speaker 2: but our biggest winds have been in that domestic violence

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Speaker 2: if you're looking at the crime types and the volume setting,

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Speaker 2: domestic violence features quite prominently within our community, far above

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Speaker 1: So and it does look, unfortunately though, it does look

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Speaker 2: I'd hate to pump that up to forty five, but

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Speaker 2: four point seven or so forty five percent, that's correct,

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Speaker 2: And that's across darn Cash Aerina, that's Palmerston actually is

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Speaker 2: increased by nine percent. That's the improvement in Parlas So Damas.

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Speaker 2: And that was no change from our December quarter either,

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Speaker 2: and that's the trend, as we indicated before in regards

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Speaker 1: How have things been going in the Casuarina area, because

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Speaker 1: obviously for a few weeks there it was something that

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Speaker 1: you and I had discussed on a number of different occasions,

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Speaker 1: even at the shopping center as well. And some of

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Speaker 1: the incidents that we're seeing with young people inside the

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Speaker 1: that ban in place. How have things been going from

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Speaker 2: In they ca before, Casher at ASP has gone up

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Speaker 2: one percent across the broader Kasher in a suburb itself.

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Speaker 2: When you apply a range of resources and stakeholder a

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Speaker 2: particular location, you generally get a movement of activity. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: you get a lesson of activity more broadly speaking, but

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Speaker 2: by and large there's a movement into other areas. So

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Speaker 2: we're seeing it a little bit of that in Casherrou

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Speaker 2: At the moment, we're continuing to apply and work with

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Speaker 2: our stakeholders within the Casher in our environment, but also

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Speaker 2: we need to be ensuring we're not pushing it into

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Speaker 1: Can I just ask as well? I know that obviously

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Speaker 1: we do still have the Howard Springs facility being managed

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Speaker 1: out there with people who've been evacuated from flooded areas.

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Speaker 1: Have we still got everybody out there or are some

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Speaker 1: of those people from communities being taken and home? Yes,

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Speaker 1: so what's the situation?

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Speaker 2: Certainly know they're all doing house at the center of

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Speaker 2: national resilience there at how It Springs. The emergency management

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Speaker 2: I don't have the specific timings at play, but I

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Speaker 2: of the critical infrastructure wasn't damaged. But they need to

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Speaker 2: obviously ensure that the community is safe and it's for

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Speaker 1: Now, I know that there had been some questions raised

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Speaker 1: about whether there'd been any damage or domestic violence or

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Speaker 2: Well, certainly I can't comment on any particular incident within

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Speaker 2: three communities within a three separate community calcing you, Darga

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Speaker 2: Argue and Pigeonhole Community. They're all within a closed in area.

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Speaker 2: You know, we talk about our domestic violence incident across

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Speaker 2: the Greater Dayan area twenty that's one in every three suburbs.

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Speaker 2: You know, you would probably trends write that to any

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Speaker 2: sort of articulate incidents within CNR. There's certainly, from a

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Speaker 2: but there always is a level of matters that require

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Speaker 2: police to respond to.

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Speaker 1: Well, Assistant Commissioner Acting Assistant Commissioner Danny Bacon, we really

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time this morning. Thank you so very much

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Speaker 1: for coming in and as we heard, we are going

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Speaker 1: to have a bit of an update throughout the morning

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Speaker 1: as well in relation to the situation from overnight that

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Speaker 1: major crime I have now taken carriage of thanks. Thank you,