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Speaker 1: Joining us live in the studio at Traffic Police Senior

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Speaker 1: Sergeant Paul Faussman. Good morning, FAUSTI.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, how are you mate?

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for joining us this morning. I

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Speaker 1: know we're going to be talking about Operation Roland, which

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Speaker 1: is all about tackling poor driving behavior over the Christmas period.

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Speaker 1: Before we do that, can I very quickly ask you outside.

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Speaker 1: We know it is quite wet at the moment. I

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Speaker 1: know there's not much rain around right now, but there

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Speaker 1: has been a bit of wet weather around and it's

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Speaker 1: always a good reminder for people to really take things

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Speaker 1: a little more slowly.

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Speaker 3: Well absolutely this time of the year as we reach

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Speaker 3: Christmas as a little bit of panic setting in. I

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Speaker 3: think everyone's trying to get ready for Christmas, getting Christmas shopping,

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Speaker 3: get the presents all ready, Christmas parties and the like,

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Speaker 3: and so people are certainly out and about. I'm noticing

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Speaker 3: on the weekends and during the week a lot of

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Speaker 3: people out and about. Take care on the roads. They

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Speaker 3: are slippery, they are wet, it is dangerous driving conditions.

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Speaker 2: Take a little bit longer, make sure you arrive where

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Speaker 2: you need to be.

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Speaker 1: Very good advice and a good reminder to everybody. Hey, now,

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Speaker 1: tell me a little bit about Operation Roland. What is

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Speaker 1: it and what are you going to be targeting?

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Speaker 3: Okay, Operation Rollin is our Christmas and New Year's traffic campaign.

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Speaker 3: It's a territory wide campaign, so it's not confined to

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Speaker 3: do and it's territory wide.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 3: In our urban and rural settings throughout the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 3: There will be an emphasis on keeping people safe on

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Speaker 3: our roads via the operation. We'll be conducting large and

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Speaker 3: small scale RBTs and increasing our footprint and relation to

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Speaker 3: the traffic matters on our road So we'll be targeting

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Speaker 3: obviously alcohol, but the one thing that I really want

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Speaker 3: to bring to the attention of people in our community

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Speaker 3: is will also be targeting drug driving. So the days

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Speaker 3: of it being a random breath test, it may also

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Speaker 3: be a random drug test. So the technologies there now

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Speaker 3: the Nordon Territory Police have that technology and the equipment

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Speaker 3: to actually.

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Speaker 2: Conduct that test. So that will be part of our

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Speaker 2: emphasis this year.

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Speaker 3: And then obviously we'll be targeting speeding, seat belts, fatigue

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Speaker 3: and driver in attention.

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Speaker 1: Now, just on that drug testing, is it the same

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Speaker 1: as it's obviously a little bit different to when you

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Speaker 1: do your breath like I've never actually been drug tested

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Speaker 1: on the road side, So.

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Speaker 3: Drug testing it's actually a sample of your saliva. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so you'll be asked to take a bugle squab and

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Speaker 3: place it in your mouth and swab your mouth, and

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Speaker 3: then it will actually detect six of our well known

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Speaker 3: drugs that are dangerous drugs and i llegal and you're

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Speaker 3: not supposed to be driving a motor vehicle whilst r

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Speaker 3: under the influence of those drugs.

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Speaker 1: And so what it can pretty much it comes back

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Speaker 1: straight away or very quickly, unless you know.

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Speaker 3: It certainly comes back quickly. So what I ask is

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Speaker 3: the members of the public can be a little bit patient.

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Speaker 3: They do take a little bit longer than a normal

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Speaker 3: random breath test, and also with the COVID nineteen safety

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Speaker 3: responsibility that we have, the breath testing will take a

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Speaker 3: little bit longer so that we ensure that everything is

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Speaker 3: sterilized and meets community expectations.

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Speaker 1: But so very important in my opinion that we are

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Speaker 1: still able to do all of that testing, particularly over

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Speaker 1: the Christmas period. You know, we just don't want people

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Speaker 1: getting behind the wheel, drinking, taking drugs, any of that

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Speaker 1: stuff and putting their own lives and everybody else's lives

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Speaker 1: in danger.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: My concern is last year, December twenty nineteen, we lost

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Speaker 3: twelve people on Northern Territory roads. Now and I speak

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Speaker 3: with the OIC of major crash and it's a discussion

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Speaker 3: we have regularly, and it's frustrating that that level of

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Speaker 3: trauma did occur last year and we don't want it

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Speaker 3: to happen again.

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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, it's such a you know, any time of

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Speaker 1: the year to lose somebody on the roads is a

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Speaker 1: terrible time, but around Christmas, you know, thinking about not

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Speaker 1: having your loved ones at the Christmas table is just

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Speaker 1: heartbreaking and everybody needs to keep that in mind.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to be the grinch here.

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Speaker 3: Last year on Christmas Day, yep, we had a fatality

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Speaker 3: in which three people died. So that's just horrendous. But

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Speaker 3: it's horrendous for the members, it's horrendous for all the

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Speaker 3: emergency services, it's horrendous for the family, and we don't

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Speaker 3: want it.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're so right, you know, you don't sometimes

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Speaker 1: we don't even think about that, like how it is

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Speaker 1: as well, It's like you pointed out, it's obviously horrendous

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Speaker 1: for the family. It's obviously horrendous for everybody involved, but

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Speaker 1: for our police officers, our frontline services who then go

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Speaker 1: out to those crashes on Christmas Day. It's the last

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Speaker 1: thing that you want to be doing on your Christmas

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Speaker 1: Day when you're working anyway, is you know, then having

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Speaker 1: to go around to somebody's home to tell them that

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Speaker 1: they've lost members of their family.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's one of those things that sits very

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Speaker 3: close to the heart of many police officers who have

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Speaker 3: to walk in those shoes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's not a job that anyone enjoys.

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Speaker 1: No, So everybody, please just do the right thing over Christmas.

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Speaker 1: You know, we know that the police are going to

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Speaker 1: be out in force making sure that you do the

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Speaker 1: right thing. Like you said, FASTI, you're obviously focusing on

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Speaker 1: those RBTs, the drug testing as well as the alcohol testing, speed,

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Speaker 1: all the other factors as well, aren't you.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 3: The last thing I will bring to our listener's attention

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Speaker 3: is there will be large random breath breath testing stations occurring.

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Speaker 3: But with seventy percent of our fatals occurring on rural roads,

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Speaker 3: you can expect to find us in the rural area

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Speaker 3: conducting smaller scale, more targeted, quite strategically operated RBTs. So

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Speaker 3: if you think it's confined to Darwin City, you'll be

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Speaker 3: very disappointed. If you drink and drive on our roads

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Speaker 3: in the rural area or in our smaller towns around

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Speaker 3: the territory, there's a good chance we'll get you.

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Speaker 1: Well, you've been warned, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: Do you usually lock?

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Speaker 1: Do you find that are there particular areas of Darwin

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Speaker 1: or of the surrounds where you do pick up more

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Speaker 1: drunk drivers or is it really just everywhere?

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately it's across the board yep.

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Speaker 3: But as I stated, there's a higher proportion of persons

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Speaker 3: dye on our roads in the territory, on rural roads.

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Speaker 1: Well, Paul Faussman, I always appreciate your time, and I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate your time this morning. Really just reminding everybody

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Speaker 1: make sure you're safe on the roads, particularly in the

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Speaker 1: lead into Christmas. Senior Sergeant Paul Faustman, good to speak

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Speaker 1: with you this morning. Thank you so much for coming in.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you,