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Speaker 1: It's always a good day in this studio when we've

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Speaker 1: Senior Sergeant Meacham King from the Dog Operations Unit. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you, really good, great to have you in

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, thanks for having us.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to have you in the studio. And we have

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Speaker 1: also got our drug detection dog, Elsie, she's roaming the studio.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry, Elsie. The only thing you might find in

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Speaker 1: that ben is an old banana or something. Nothing out

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Speaker 1: it was a busy week for you guys last week

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Speaker 1: before we sort of talk about exactly what you know,

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Speaker 1: what happened last week, talked me through what is like

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Speaker 1: you know, on the job, for our for our drug dogs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so for us, Katie, it's always a busy day,

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Speaker 3: busy week, especially last week. So predominantly our work is

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Speaker 3: So yeah, so we spent a significant amount of time

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Speaker 1: And last week was a busy week. Elsie's just here

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Speaker 1: sniffing the sniffing the everything basically to make sure we

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what we find, Katie, is there A lot of

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Speaker 3: our work comes from, like you saying, regional flights and

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Speaker 3: We take advantage of those services that are available to

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Speaker 1: Like, what kind of quantities are we talking about from

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Scott with des I've got eleven kilo as a

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Speaker 4: car we're going out on a barge yesterday last week

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Speaker 2: Yeah, from Darwin.

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Speaker 4: We had d with Ram and Pete with Faye down

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Speaker 4: over three hundred thousand dollars worth of legal vapes and

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Speaker 4: a significant purchase there or seizure there. And we had

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Speaker 2: So we've been pretty.

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Speaker 4: Busy the last week with the drug stuff and overall

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Speaker 4: last couple of months we're pretty busy race. We've taken

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Speaker 4: one point six million dollars worth of drugs off the

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Speaker 2: By the guys out there and the girls doing the

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Speaker 4: That's enormous, a signific amount of money and that all

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Speaker 4: pretty much is all based for remote areas, which takes

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Speaker 1: And so when you talk about that value, that's obviously

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and obviously painting significant higher amounts out of the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it does sound like it's quite a big concern.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we always think of illicit drugs as being

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Speaker 4: It's starting to get a lot of stuff come up

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so is that something that you'll sort of

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Speaker 3: One hundred percent cod It's it's opportunistic, you know a

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Speaker 2: Make sure that we bring people before courts for it's a.

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Speaker 2: When we do the drug stuff, well there'll be other

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Speaker 4: So we find the drugs, a cigarettes r with that,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right now. Elsie's obviously here in the studio with us.

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Speaker 3: We've got her from a specific breeder from down south,

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Speaker 3: So it's good that we can develop that inquisitive nature

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Speaker 1: Now, you know, to me, it does seem like it

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Speaker 4: Well, from our perspective, is this going to be a

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Speaker 2: And we don't really know the damage is going to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we have been flat out. Actually we've had quite

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Speaker 1: So that was in Palmerston.

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Speaker 4: Did you say northern suburb. Yeah, so he's been done

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Speaker 4: Two Council of Salt police, breach off flintry and stealing fences.

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Speaker 1: And you said then that it was actually someone with

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Matt challenge and they surrendered peace, which is really good.

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Speaker 1: certainly would. They look pretty frightening.

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Speaker 4: Last night they and recognized if vehicle recognized Matt and

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Speaker 4: they just so the presence just by the handles themselves

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Speaker 4: of force, which is really advantageous.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, do you reckon the you know, do you

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Speaker 1: I mean, they have always been such an integral part

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the capability is brought up.

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Speaker 4: We've got a whole new training we're doing with our

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Speaker 2: The teams getting better at what they're doing.

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Speaker 4: They've been experienced, we've had to had a lot of

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Speaker 4: And done some really good work and we already start

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Speaker 4: see their fruits the reward what they're doing now, and

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Speaker 4: they work pretty independence as a fair bit of trust them.

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Speaker 4: They go out and just do their job, which is awesome.

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Speaker 4: And they're just out there catching cooks, Kat and that's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they certainly are. I mean, I tell you all

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Speaker 1: Great to have you all in the studio this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time. Of course, oh

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Speaker 1: I see or the officer in charge of the dog Squad,

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Speaker 1: Senior Sergeant Meacham King, thank you, and Sergeant River Zeo

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Speaker 1: and and of course Elsie, thank you both.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, se