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Speaker 1: And joining me in the studio right now because we

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Speaker 1: know that well. The latest crime statistics are in and

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Speaker 1: show a thirty seven percent jump in home break ins,

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Speaker 1: a sixty eight percent jump in business break ins and

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Speaker 1: forty percent increase in Karthiff's in the Greater Darwin in

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Speaker 1: the last year to October. Now here to talk further

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Speaker 1: about this is the commander for Darwin and Road Policing,

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Speaker 1: Danny Bacon. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie, thank you now thanks.

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Speaker 1: For joining us, Commander. What major changes to the latest

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Speaker 1: crime statistics show from your perspective.

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Speaker 2: I think the major changes that are actually being demonstrating

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Speaker 2: these statistics, and mind you these are statistics from September

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Speaker 2: to September twenty one to twenty two. But whilst these

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Speaker 2: numbers are quite high, and particularly in the increase, that's

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Speaker 2: they're actually decreasing month on month, and I suppose that's

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Speaker 2: the main thing that we take home from this. Yes,

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Speaker 2: you did mention commercial break ins by sixty eight percent,

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Speaker 2: but that's improved by seven percent from the last month,

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Speaker 2: so and the house break ins again thirty seven but

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Speaker 2: down improved by two percent, So it's ending in the

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Speaker 2: right direction. So I'm not having an escalating of crime

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Speaker 2: within the territory, which is fantastic news from from a

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Speaker 2: dawn perspective. So those sorts of things where the struggle

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Speaker 2: was in regards to motive eicle theft, Yes, we went

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Speaker 2: backward to the motive ecle theft that was up for

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Speaker 2: one percent, but that was in Darwin. You know, Parmeerson

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Speaker 2: actually improved by twenty percent and so it's actually only

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Speaker 2: increased by three percent in Parmesan. So we're getting I

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Speaker 2: suppose better month on month crime statistics, and a lot

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Speaker 2: of that is actually a better coordination not just with

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Speaker 2: us but other service providers.

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Speaker 1: So I guess it'll be cold comfort, you know to

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Speaker 1: people who've had their vehicle stolen or their car or

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Speaker 1: their business broken into. But I wonder as well, with

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Speaker 1: that increase in the motor vehicle thefts over that period

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Speaker 1: of time, we had seen that period where there was

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Speaker 1: a lot of older model toyotas, the land cruisers, that

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Speaker 1: been taken out to remote communities certainly.

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Speaker 2: Where and that was the trend. As I said, there's

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Speaker 2: a September statistics and that trend was identified particularly around

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Speaker 2: the the airport area in those northern suburbs area, so

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Speaker 2: we expect to see in the month on month that

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Speaker 2: that would decrease significantly. We're not getting those reports now,

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Speaker 2: those volumes from that and certainly, as I said, it's

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Speaker 2: decreasing in the Parmesan area as well, so that's quite

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Speaker 2: positive itself. You know, the long term trend with property crime,

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Speaker 2: particularly in Darwen is decreasing over the ten year trend itself.

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Speaker 2: So it's just about us making sure that we're flexible

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Speaker 2: and adaptable to respond to these spikes. And really that's

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Speaker 2: what they are. There's spikes in crime, and you know,

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Speaker 2: any instant of crime bleed to violent crime or property

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Speaker 2: crime that happens to individuals witten by an individual is

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Speaker 2: obviously can be quite traumatic. And I'm not taking away

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Speaker 2: that traumatization. But what I'm trying to tell your listeners

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Speaker 2: is that yes there are problem areas and yes there

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Speaker 2: are crime spikes, but we are getting on top of

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Speaker 2: that and they are decreasing month on months.

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Speaker 1: What works happening around the greater Darwin region to try

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Speaker 1: to really get on top of that, because I know,

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Speaker 1: like you've pointed out, you know from what you're saying,

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Speaker 1: we're seeing a decrease month or month, but it's still

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Speaker 1: a assive increase from what it was the previous year.

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Speaker 1: What work is happening to try to really minimize that

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Speaker 2: In essences when I say it's not a police responsibility.

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Speaker 2: Community safety is everybody's responsibility. And there's a number of

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Speaker 2: agencies that are funded both within government and in private

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Speaker 2: really is, And so what about what's all about? It's

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Speaker 2: about that working together, that coordination, So everyone working in

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Speaker 2: they need to inject themselves, and so we can have

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Speaker 2: that coordinated activity too. Basically either a whole defenders to

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Speaker 1: Now, often when we talk about crime stats, we do

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Speaker 1: are we seeing, you know, are we seeing a lot

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Speaker 2: I certainly not just in the last month. That's certing

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Speaker 2: changed in the last seut of six months. In regards

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Speaker 2: the moment you're probably looking at between five to five

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Speaker 2: hundred one thousand people probably sleeping rough. But there's a

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Speaker 2: number of I said, organizations that are really working in

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Speaker 2: Department chief men's ourselves really working with those individuals to

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Speaker 1: And it's hard, I suppose because sometimes you know, we

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Speaker 1: are definitely seeing criminal behavior around the place, but other

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Speaker 1: times you are literally it's like anti social behavior, which

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Speaker 1: I guess that you know, if people are yelling and

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Speaker 2: Yes and no, any sort of behavior, any social or otherwise,

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Speaker 2: is it also work in that particular space as well.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes people see what they deem in any social

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Speaker 2: behavior incident was actually a domestic violence incident, you know,

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Speaker 2: So there's a range of different reasons that behavior is

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Speaker 2: happening in our public space. It's about identifying what those

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Speaker 1: I have noticed as well, you know, when I've been

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Speaker 1: that there does seem to be a greater police presence.

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Speaker 1: Is that something that you as the commanders pushing for

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Speaker 1: at the moment for more police out on the base.

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Speaker 2: Certainly our resource numbers haven't changed, but obviously over the

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Speaker 2: And it's also making sure that there's more high visibility

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Speaker 2: I want to say. It's not you, it's not just

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Speaker 1: So Commander, before I let you go, is there going

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Speaker 1: to be some extra sort of programs or you know,

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Speaker 2: Most definitely, and there's a number of I suppose operations

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Speaker 2: or operational tartans that will transpire over that period, principally

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Speaker 2: our Christmas campaign. As you're probably be aware, we've had

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Speaker 2: forty eight lives lost throughout the Northern Territory over this

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Speaker 2: year to date on the roads. You know, this time

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Speaker 2: lost in our roads themselves, but nominally through the fatal

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Speaker 2: So you'll see a lot more enforcement activity not just

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Speaker 2: what that looks like over that school holiday period as well.

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Speaker 2: We're looking at also making application to the Alcohol Policy

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Speaker 2: Coordination Unit in regards to making the Caserinea Precinct a

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Speaker 2: designated area so we could issue for banning notices and

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Speaker 2: banning drinking orders from that.

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Speaker 1: Particular location so people can't drink around that Casualina Precinct area.

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Speaker 2: That's what we're looking at doing ideas to try to

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Speaker 2: minimize the any social behavior in that particularly as well.

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Speaker 2: So I said, we'll work with a lot of agencies

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Speaker 2: to try and strengthen those up. We'll also obviously maximize

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Speaker 2: our on duty and high visibility patrols not just in

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Speaker 2: the traffic area, but also through our Strike Force LERA

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Speaker 2: that looks at our domestic violence but also our Strife

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Speaker 2: Force Triden as well. It looks our properly offending.

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Speaker 1: That casual what you're looking at potentially doing at Casuarina.

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Speaker 1: Does that sort of involve around the shopping center area,

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Speaker 1: the and the bus interchange and that kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: There's designated areas across the territory regards to where we

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Speaker 2: think the cash mat of precinct probably having get our

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Speaker 2: we've made an application of the process of making an applications.

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Speaker 2: So we hope to have that in place over that

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Speaker 2: Christmas periods well to assist and it is just one tool,

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Speaker 2: but it's another tool to sort of hopefully decrease any

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Speaker 1: Yeah, be keen to find out if that goes ahead.

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Speaker 1: Commander Danny Bacon, Darwin and Rhode Policing Commander, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Ca