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Speaker 1: Now we know the Northern Territory Police are always busy

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Speaker 1: and certainly the Dog Operations junits are as well. And

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Speaker 1: joining me in the studio right now is the Dog

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Speaker 1: Operations Units Senior Sergeant Meacham King. Good morning, Meetjah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: really good. Good to have you in the studio. And

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Speaker 1: I know dog operations have been involved in quite a

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Speaker 1: large number of incidents over recent recent days. I might

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Speaker 1: kick off first, Northern Territory Police no longer hold concerned

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Speaker 1: for the welfare of a bloke that was missing in

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Speaker 1: I believe where was he missing in Nooka, Yeah, Nooka

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Speaker 1: a little earlier in the week. Talk us through how

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Speaker 1: he was found.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole division has been pretty busy the last week, Katie.

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Speaker 2: So Monday morning, about three o'clock in the morning, police

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Speaker 2: received the call that a nineteen year old mail having

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Speaker 2: returned for motorbike wide and family. So local police did

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Speaker 2: their inquiries and search. A rescue section was notify and

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Speaker 2: they rolled out the next morning. We had a pretty

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Speaker 2: big operation. We're two helicopters. We bought the Challenger Search

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Speaker 2: to Rescue aircraft over from cans to come and assist

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Speaker 2: with that as well, and we're obviously search and rescue members,

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Speaker 2: local police. We had a couple of members from TRG

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Speaker 2: You Go Down has helped local rangers were involved with

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Speaker 2: their tests, and then through the efforts of the coordination

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Speaker 2: search and rescue, they located the motorbike by the helicopter

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Speaker 2: and the landed nearby and found our missing person and

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Speaker 2: managed to get him to the clinic for help which

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Speaker 2: could slightly dehydrate it. Over the overall not too bad,

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Speaker 2: but I think it was mainly through the efforts of

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Speaker 2: so quickly that we found him quickly and prevented any

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Right, was it a pretty sort of you know,

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Speaker 2: It's to be a savannah country. Lucky this time of

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Speaker 2: year it's not as hot hot during the day, but

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Speaker 2: as it gets to the dry season less water around.

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Speaker 2: So there's always a concern for those sort of areas,

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Speaker 2: and it's extremely fortunate that the family got onto us

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Speaker 2: early to let us know a lot of these times,

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Speaker 2: he might be back. He might be back before we

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Speaker 2: know it. The longer it takes notified police, the longer

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Speaker 2: it takes, and the tyranny of distance. The NTI is

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Speaker 2: really a challenge for us. It's a long way to

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Speaker 2: drive people, and we flew people through police ear wing

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you know what his reaction was when

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Speaker 1: the police located him. I reckon he would have been

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think of individually, it was probably a little

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Speaker 2: bit grateful to see the helicopters flying over him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I approached him, they grabbed him and got Hi back

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Speaker 2: to the clinic, which is really really good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff, And he's going to be okay by

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Speaker 2: Now that he's getting the medical care that he needs.

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything seriously wrong with him because

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Speaker 2: we've found him so early. But yeah, I'm not done

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Speaker 2: he details.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that is good to hear it now, I know.

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Speaker 1: On Monday afternoon as well, the Northern Territory Police arrested

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Speaker 1: domestic violence disturbance. Him were laging. Now I've been told

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Speaker 1: there was quite a large police presence for this arrest.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so police communication has got a

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Speaker 2: triple zero core from a distressed female saying there was

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Speaker 2: young infant child. I've listened to that Triple O call.

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Speaker 2: It's it is pretty distressing the way she's portraying what's happening,

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Speaker 2: So obviously we took it very seriously. Local General Duties

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Speaker 1: Goodness me, that sounds like a terribly frightening situation. And

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Speaker 2: But they rolled in and did it. Ay good a job,

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Speaker 2: appreciate there was a little bit of a it's almost alarmed,

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Speaker 2: But these are the jobs we do. We put cordons in,

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Speaker 1: And I guess it's a bit of a juggle for

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Speaker 2: That this whole thing of being aware not alarmed, so

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Speaker 1: Yeah things, How like, how do the dogs help in

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Speaker 2: The canine Yeah, so the general duties or the patrol

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Speaker 1: Yes, and draxill wedge out and form Yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: The Northern Territory Police also arrested five years after they

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Speaker 1: There's a number of offenders armed with edged weapons had

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Speaker 2: You do the right thing, lock yourself in your bedroom

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Speaker 2: It's just, it's just it's the word. I can't explain

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Speaker 2: so they called police and obviously police got there pretty quick.

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Speaker 1: Pretty tragic one hundred percent. I mean, like the thought

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Speaker 2: It is. And then how do you talk about the

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Speaker 1: So it's yeah, your spot on, And then you said

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Speaker 2: Of those So did you the fact that Wedge tracked

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Speaker 1: Come back and do stuff well, and again sort of

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Speaker 2: And Harry and fits were called out and awesome. And

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Speaker 2: the dog, which is good, and Matt just talked him

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, And you know then being able to

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Speaker 2: So there's well, there's only one operational control dog with

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Speaker 2: Well that's exactly right. They could have crashed. It could

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Speaker 1: That's awesome.

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Speaker 2: It Ben's done a fantastic job and taking this on

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Speaker 1: It truly is. May tell me, can the dogs have

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Speaker 1: Right, we'll make sure that if we're allowed to put

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