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Speaker 1: Now we know our Northern Territory police are always busy,

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Speaker 1: and I tell you what Strike Force Trident they seem

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Speaker 1: to be out at everything, all that property crime and

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Speaker 1: joining us in the studio at the moment from Strike

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Speaker 1: Force Striden it is. It is Senior Sergeant Christopher Humphries.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Good a Katie, and good out

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Speaker 1: all your listeners. Lovely to have you in the studio.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what you guys have been busy.

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Speaker 1: First off, much to report from overnight.

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Speaker 2: Well a little bit happened overnight, but whistles sort of

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Speaker 2: sorting that out. But we had a busy day yesterday

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Speaker 2: with six arrests, which was which was.

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Speaker 3: A pretty standard but busy day for us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, So six arrests for the sort of property

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Speaker 1: crime or what had happened.

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Speaker 3: Well, it was a few different incidents.

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Speaker 2: We had a thirteen year old sort of arrested for

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Speaker 2: a robbery that was outstanding. Another fourteen year old was

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Speaker 2: arrested for six different thefts. We had a seventeen year

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Speaker 2: old that we arrested for driving a stolen motor vehicle

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Speaker 2: and preaching his parole, and three other arrests that were

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Speaker 2: relating to breach of bows and warrants and things like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, So Christopher, were they sort of they were

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Speaker 1: outstanding jobs or were they things that had happened like

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Speaker 1: in the twenty four hours prior.

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Speaker 3: Look, we have a.

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Speaker 2: Pretty big list of people to be arrested and a

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Speaker 2: bit of a backlog of jobs from last week, and

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Speaker 2: it's locating these people after the investigations as well. So

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Speaker 2: it was most of those offenses happened last week and

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Speaker 2: of last week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, you guys have had I mean you always

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Speaker 1: seem to have a pretty busy time, but a busy

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Speaker 1: few days. I mean, even going back to last Thursday,

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Speaker 1: it arrested eight youths and one adult in relation to

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Speaker 1: a stolen motor vehicle on well, on the I think

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Speaker 1: it was last Thursday morning when there was that vehicle

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Speaker 1: stolen being driven around the rural area then between Elizabeth

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Speaker 2: So the vehicle was pursued by Trident and DOU members

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Speaker 2: for a bit and then TDD spiked and all the

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Speaker 2: offenders ran off into some bush land. Four were captured

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Speaker 2: pretty quickly, and then we had to set up set

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Speaker 2: up a cordon which sort of rolled where the Dog

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Speaker 2: Operations Unit who were tracking the offenders sort of kept

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Speaker 2: moving towards. So we encapsulated in an area and the

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Speaker 2: Dog Ops members, who always roll out with us all

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Speaker 2: the time and they're just a key asset to try

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Speaker 2: it and managed to locate the other outstanding five offenders

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Speaker 2: and they were hiding up a tree.

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Speaker 3: So they were all brought.

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Speaker 2: Into custody and it was a safe and successful situation resolved.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, Were they quite high up?

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Speaker 3: They were? They were high up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got in there. That's one of the last

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Speaker 2: guys to get in there, was on the out of cordon.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, they were were well up the tree. And

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Speaker 2: I think unless Wedge, I think it was, was sitting

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Speaker 2: there barking at him from down the below. Unless he

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Speaker 2: was there, we probably wouldn't have found them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, But those dogs they are I mean, and

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Speaker 1: they handlers. They do an incredible job in terms of

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Speaker 1: being able to locate people when they run away, don't.

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Speaker 2: They And that's right, And they come out at every

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Speaker 2: call out with us, at any time of the day. Ye,

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Speaker 2: So they're a very valued asset and they'd be impossible

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Speaker 2: to replace with other police officers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's it. And being able to you know, like

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Speaker 1: you said, sitting there at the bottom of the tree,

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Speaker 1: they know exactly where these young people have gone. You'd

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Speaker 1: thinking oh I've been busted, and probably.

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Speaker 3: Makes them less likely to try and run away exactly right.

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Speaker 1: Hey, on Monday as well, and certainly we'd reported on

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Speaker 1: this from Sunday night, it actually happened. So the police

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Speaker 1: arrested you guys, that arrested multiple youths and one adult

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Speaker 1: after a property crime spread across Darwin on the weekend,

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Speaker 1: So kicking off by the look of it, about two

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Speaker 1: collided with a power pole.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I believe from memory they cited four offenders

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Speaker 2: We're on the scene pretty quickly and three of them

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Speaker 3: Sort of just steamrolled from there.

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Speaker 2: So we called in some more members then, and then

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Speaker 2: earlier in that morning there was another car that was

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Speaker 2: too long later, I think it was about half an

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Speaker 2: hour later, a vehicle stopped in Malac on the newly

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Speaker 2: installed ballards in the parkland there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, ballards went in there.

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Speaker 2: So that was great because that stopped the vehicle and

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Speaker 2: then subsequently a short time later tried and dou arrested

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Speaker 2: another five offenders from that vehicle.

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Speaker 1: So those bollards that have gone in that the council

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory Police about putting them in there, hadn't they

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Speaker 1: because it was obviously an area where there'd been some concern.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there was a lot of feedback from

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Speaker 2: our team that went as well as a Territory Safety

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Speaker 2: division and it got pushed up and yeah, plans were

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is good, good to hear.

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Speaker 1: Now we also know that on Monday we were told

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Speaker 1: that two youths were arrested after a burglary occurred in Marha.

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Speaker 1: Now that was ten youths entering the rear of a

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Speaker 1: shopping center on McMillan's Road. The youths allegedly stole a

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Speaker 1: quantity of non alcoholic beverages. Then they got into by

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Speaker 1: the look of it, fast food restaurant as well. But

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Speaker 1: certainly they were apprehended pretty fast.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was the food van was in Malac, Okay,

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Speaker 2: and there was a.

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Speaker 3: Business in Marara as well.

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Speaker 2: There's quite a bit of difference there, so I think

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Speaker 2: it might have been a bit early on to confirm

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Speaker 2: that they were the same group. But the group in Malac,

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Speaker 2: who was actually two, were apprehended and then later released

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Speaker 2: for further investigations or you know, to be done with

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Speaker 2: under Use Justice Act. But it turns out that the

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Speaker 2: owner of that van doesn't want to proceed with a complaint. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so that matters sort of. You know, we got some

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Speaker 2: information from that matter anyway, but the other matter in

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Speaker 2: Morara is still under investigation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, So it does sound as though it had

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Speaker 2: You know, if there was, look, because tried and we

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Speaker 2: don't normally the patrol stuff and the investigation stuff, so

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Speaker 2: that would probably be a better question for TSD or

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Speaker 2: you know, the individual stations. But I'm sure they would

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Speaker 2: have responded if they said they were going to, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, look we can find out a little bit more,

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Speaker 1: has it. It does sound like it's been a pretty

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Speaker 1: busy time in terms of property crime and those car fiffs,

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Speaker 1: four strike force strident, has it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been Like I mean, property crime comes in

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Speaker 2: peaks and troughs, and sometimes it can be.

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Speaker 3: Quite hard to predict.

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Speaker 2: But I did a couple of bit of mass before

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Speaker 2: tried and we've had seventy five arrests and submitted ninety

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Speaker 2: two prosecution files. So it's been a very busy time

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Speaker 2: for us. But you know, like I said, it comes

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Speaker 3: Us at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds like bloody busy. I mean, seventy five arrests.

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Speaker 1: Are they sort of people of all ages or do

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Speaker 1: you find that it is predominantly youths.

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Speaker 2: We deal with people of all ages, and you know,

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Speaker 2: some of our a lot of our most of our

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Speaker 2: rests are property crime, but we because we're so active

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Speaker 2: in the community, we come across a variety of different

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Speaker 3: But a large.

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Speaker 2: Proportion you know, I have to have a guest, but

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Speaker 2: probably sixty five ish percent would be used. Yeah, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's a space that we sort of work in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know that you guys work, you know,

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Speaker 1: like you work pretty closely then with those youths as well,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, And I don't expect you to go into,

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Speaker 1: I would I would assume that sometimes you've sort of

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Speaker 1: you're apprehending them and trying to encourage them to why

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Speaker 1: do you stop breaking into places and stop stealing stuff?

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Speaker 2: Of course, Katie and we try and engage with the families,

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Speaker 2: and you know, we do referrals to other agencies and

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Speaker 2: things like that, and a lot of our stakeholders in

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Speaker 2: the community have engagements with repeat offenders as well, So

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Speaker 2: we're constantly getting contacted by people we engage with regularly

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Speaker 3: The sort of people that sort of help us get

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Speaker 3: the results we do. Yeah. Yeah, they're just pivotal to

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Speaker 3: what we do at Trident.

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Speaker 1: That is good to hear. Hey, this probably isn't one

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Speaker 1: for you guys for Strikeforce Trident, but I will just ask.

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Speaker 1: Norman called in to say that there was a city

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Speaker 1: bus pulled over in Wilagi yesterday afternoon with police blocking

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Speaker 1: the road off about five pm. He's wondering what was

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Speaker 1: going on. I'm guessing that that wasn't something to do

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Speaker 2: Look, we have been known to pull over buses and

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Speaker 2: arrest people before, but that wasn't us.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't you guys, not as far as I'm a week. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we'll see what we can find out with that. One.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate you coming in and having a chat with

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Speaker 1: us this morning. Strikeforce Trident Senior Sergeant Christopher Humphries. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for your.

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Speaker 3: Time, NAS Katie, thanks a lot, and thanks to you listeners.

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Speaker 3: Thank you