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Speaker 1: And we're always busy in here, always so much happening.

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Speaker 1: And well this week we've got some more police recruits

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Speaker 1: who are going to be graduating. And it's actually our

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Speaker 1: axillaries now joining me in the studio to tell us

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Speaker 1: a little bit more about this. Superintendent of Police Recruitment,

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Speaker 1: Neil Hayes, Good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, morning, Katie.

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Speaker 1: How are you very well? Now? I've also got Caroline

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Speaker 1: Morrison who is a senior auxillary. Good morning to you, Carolyn,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, And I've got well a police auxillary recruit,

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Speaker 1: Jade Palmer. That's your surname, isn't it. Did I write

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Speaker 1: that down correctly? Good morning to now for our listeners

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Speaker 1: out there, we literally just rush these guys in. There's

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Speaker 1: not a lot of time during the ad breaks, but

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Speaker 1: I like to keep the conversations very organic anyway when

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Speaker 1: you are on air. Now, Neil, firstly, how many recruits

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Speaker 1: have we got graduating this week?

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Speaker 2: This week, I think we've got nine graduating for Communication axillary.

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Speaker 2: So these are the ones that work in our desk

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Speaker 2: that's based up here in Darwin. They take the phone

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Speaker 2: calls and dispatch people on the radio, so they're behind

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Speaker 2: the scenes that keep the guys on the road informed

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Speaker 2: with what's going on. But there's also another squad that's

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Speaker 2: in there, which is our front line axiliary squad, which

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Speaker 2: are the guys that do the watchhouse, the front counters,

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Speaker 2: and the liquor inspect to work down the track.

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Speaker 1: And so how many of those, I think.

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Speaker 2: We've got seventeen that are due to grade tuate, but

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Speaker 2: they are a few weeks away. They're halfway through their training.

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Speaker 1: So seventeen of those and nine are this week, but

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Speaker 1: those other seventeen are a couple of weeks away. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I think at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: the auxiliaries, it is a pretty full on role as well.

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Speaker 1: For our police auxiliaries. You just spoke then about the

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Speaker 1: ones that are going down the track to do various different,

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Speaker 1: various different things. It is very busy for our auxiliaries.

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Speaker 2: It is. Look, they're the backbone of what the guys

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Speaker 2: on the road do. So without them, our watchhouses don't run,

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Speaker 2: the front counters aren't serviced, and you know we're getting

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Speaker 2: the guys dispatched to the job. So it's a really

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Speaker 2: key role to what we do. So I think sometimes

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Speaker 2: they get they're the unsung hero. So you know, it's

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Speaker 2: really important to have.

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Speaker 1: Well and Caroline, I know that you are obviously a

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Speaker 1: senior auxiliary, so I understand you're actually do you coordinate

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Speaker 1: the auxiliaries and new recruits?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we do, so we do it a little bit

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Speaker 3: of recruiting obviously, sorry, co coordinating with the squads over

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Speaker 3: the college. That can include anywhere basically from delivering components

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Speaker 3: of their training to just supporting them in their time

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Speaker 3: in the college.

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Speaker 1: How important is this work and how I mean how

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Speaker 1: what's a regular day like for you?

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Speaker 3: For me at the college? It will start really early,

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Speaker 3: so depending on whether they've got a PT session or

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Speaker 3: anything in the morning, so we can start as early

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Speaker 3: as six point thirty, finishing up at about four thirty

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Speaker 3: five o'clock in the afternoon. It is pretty busy. The

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Speaker 3: recruits are going from classroom to classroom pretty much learning

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Speaker 3: different skills. They learn anything from unconscious bias training, mental health,

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Speaker 3: first aid, customer service work, cultural awareness, as well as

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Speaker 1: It were very busy, Yeah, it would be very busy.

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Speaker 1: And then what is it like, what's a typical day

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Speaker 1: like I guess seen for some of our auxiliaries when

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Speaker 1: they get out on the job. What can Jade expect

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Speaker 1: when she does do that.

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Speaker 3: Well, she'd be moving into communications, so she will be

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Speaker 3: definitely very busy. They work a twelve hour roster as

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Speaker 3: far as I'm with, so they'll be doing two nights,

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Speaker 3: two days, obviously days off in between. But it is

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Speaker 3: communicating with the community and the public, so answering general

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Speaker 3: police assistance calls that come through on the one, three, one,

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Speaker 3: triple fours as well as the triple zero as well.

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Speaker 1: And Jade, I understand, well, your background's actually sort of

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Speaker 1: in the media, isn't it. Yes, that's correct, So what

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Speaker 4: Look, I've been working in the media since I was seventeen.

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Speaker 4: My partner is an Aboriginal community police officer, and as

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Speaker 4: I just got older, I just kind of felt that

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Speaker 4: I needed a change of scenery, a change of skills really,

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Speaker 4: so I looked into the police auxiliary communications found that

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Speaker 4: you know what, this might be right up my alley.

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Speaker 4: Learned something new, try something different. So I applied, got

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Speaker 4: accepted into the role, and now I graduate on Friday,

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Speaker 4: and I am so excited.

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Speaker 1: That is awesome and so wonderful. I think, what a

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Speaker 1: great job to do. And it seems to me as

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Speaker 1: well that within the police force there's actually so many

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Speaker 1: opportunities to further your career and further yourself as well. Neil.

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Speaker 2: Look, the auxiliary role has really evolved over the last

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Speaker 2: few years. So years ago it used to be pretty

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Speaker 2: much the front counter the comms and their watchhouse, whereas

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Speaker 2: we've seen in recent times where we've gone to the

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Speaker 2: frontline role, so the liquor inspectors like I say, Dan,

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Speaker 2: Lieutenant Catherine Analyis and we're now going to the school

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Speaker 2: based roles as well. So the opportunities are starting to

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Speaker 2: become a lot more varied. And there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: people that use it as a sort of stepping stone

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Speaker 2: in the police as they come in, they test the

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Speaker 2: waters and see where the policing might fit for them

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Speaker 2: and then go on to apply and become constables later on.

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Speaker 2: Then there's others that just love the role they fit in,

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Speaker 2: and Carolyn has been in that role for a long

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Speaker 2: time now with a former winner of a Year as Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and that's the people that are just suited to that

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Speaker 2: role and love what they do. So, like I say,

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Speaker 2: it's such a key role and it's just amazing to

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Speaker 2: have these guys on board.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so Caroline, you are former Police Auxiliary of

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Speaker 1: the Year.

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Speaker 3: And for twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I got on you, and I mean, what is

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Speaker 1: it that you love about your job?

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Speaker 3: I like the variety, to be honest. I started off

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Speaker 3: in communications. I did five years in the desk, absolutely

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Speaker 3: loved the work that I was doing there, but felt

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Speaker 3: that I wanted to do more. I had more to offer,

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Speaker 3: so I applied for as to comment believe it or not,

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Speaker 3: in recruitment yep. So went over to recruitment for on

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Speaker 3: and off for about eighteen months, worked in the selections

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Speaker 3: unit within there as well, and then went on from

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Speaker 3: there to work in firearms, palmersan front, counter forensics and

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Speaker 3: now at the college. So I like the variety. The

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Speaker 3: comfortable stream is obviously a good one as well, but

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Speaker 3: this suited my family sort of style at that time.

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Speaker 3: I've got young children, so this was something that was

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Speaker 3: great for myself as well as for family.

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Speaker 1: I reckon it sounds awesome and I know that you're

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Speaker 1: sort of always on the lookout for good people really

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Speaker 1: to join the force, whether at the auxiliary level or

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Speaker 1: at the constable level, aren't you. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So at the moment, we're still recruiting actively for a

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Speaker 2: squad that's due to comments in late October. So there's

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Speaker 2: anyone out there that's listening that thinks that this could

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Speaker 2: be for them, then get on our Facebook page, jump

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Speaker 2: on the website, have a look and, like I say,

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Speaker 2: we're taking applications and you never know, it might be

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Speaker 2: the change that you're looking for.

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Speaker 1: Oh good stuff, Well it's really do it. Yeah. Wonderful

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Speaker 1: to catch up with you all this morning, Neil, Jade, Caroline,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time and all the best. Jade,

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Speaker 1: once you become an auxiliary, I reckon, it's fantastic. Good

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Speaker 1: on you. Thank you,