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Speaker 1: Christian Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: I was out walking my dog over the weekend, chatting

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Speaker 2: to two VIC police officers and they were chatting about

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Speaker 2: my dog, a German shepherd ofs And as they got

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Speaker 2: back in the car, there's two of them right, and

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Speaker 2: they obviously knew which one was the driver and which

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Speaker 2: one was the co pilot.

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Speaker 3: And I was thinking, how.

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Speaker 2: Do they decide who gets to drive the police car?

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Speaker 2: Because you never see two police officers running and one

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Speaker 2: pushing the other one out the way and go shut gun.

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Speaker 2: You drive everyday day?

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Speaker 3: They is it seniority?

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Speaker 2: Is that how it's decided who gets to drive the

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Speaker 2: police car and who is the co pilot?

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Speaker 4: Also a question is is it better to be the

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Speaker 4: driver or do they want to be the passenger? And

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Speaker 4: then you're on the CBE radio and looking out for

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Speaker 4: bad guys.

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Speaker 2: And also if you're on if you're the co pilot,

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Speaker 2: because you don't have a lot of rights as a

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Speaker 2: co pilot when you're in the car and you're at

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Speaker 2: the half is driving do you really you can't even

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Speaker 2: decide what's on the radio.

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Speaker 3: If you're the co pilot.

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Speaker 2: Are they guy the guy wan who then punches up

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Speaker 2: the button that presses up the siren to go, and

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Speaker 2: are they doing the walkie talkie stuff or units or

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Speaker 2: units to Coburg.

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Speaker 3: They're trying to reopen that drive through. Again, I think.

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Speaker 5: It's by rank. It's by rank as to who gets

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Speaker 5: to drive. So if you've got a constable as opposed

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Speaker 5: to a senior Connie, I think the senior member, Connie.

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Speaker 3: If I just said those guys, hey, Connie's let's try

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Speaker 3: talk talk, try about if.

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Speaker 2: They're not a constable or senior constable, they still have

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Speaker 2: someone will still have to drive the car.

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Speaker 5: Well, they're a rank of some sort, aren't they?

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Speaker 2: Of course they are. But how do they decide this?

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Speaker 2: So this morning I need to I need to know.

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Speaker 2: If anyone is a former serving police officer, can you

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Speaker 2: just please let me know how do you decide who

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Speaker 2: gets to drive the police car and who's the co pilot?

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Speaker 2: I don't want to get any police in trouble if

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Speaker 2: you are a serving officer and you listen to us

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Speaker 2: right now, do they have car radios in there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Surely, Yeah about if they need to hear as get

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Speaker 2: well wherever?

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Speaker 3: How does that cut into us?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: You know, hey, where were you Unit fifty one?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 2: They were doing the secret sound on Fox. We were

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Speaker 2: lucky line nine. Get through what happened?

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Speaker 3: Mister bang Robber's getting away?

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Speaker 4: If your questions are, do you listen to gold or

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Speaker 4: do you listen to any radio in the in the

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Speaker 4: cup pit?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Do you?

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Speaker 4: Who gets to drive?

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Speaker 3: Also?

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Speaker 2: Another question you've just generated is it called the cockpit?

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Speaker 2: How do they get to decide who is that? Who's

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Speaker 2: driving and who's the co pilot? Now, if you are

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Speaker 2: a serving offers to listen to this, you can just

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Speaker 2: call us and tell us not fair. Obviously, I don't

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Speaker 2: want to get you in trouble if you stakeout right

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Speaker 2: now and the bad guys sneak out the back because

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Speaker 2: you're chatting to me. I just I'm just seriously have questions.

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Speaker 2: Who gets to decide who drives the car?

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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcasting.

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Speaker 3: To this well star asking us when TV showed a

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Speaker 3: proper theme tune, we got jazz fault workout? Isn't it.

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 3: I have questions this morning. I want to know this.

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Speaker 2: The weekend, I was talking to two officers from VIC

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Speaker 2: Police and as they got back in the car. They

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Speaker 2: did it calmly and I was running. How do I

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Speaker 2: decide which one gets to drive the car? Who's driving,

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Speaker 2: who's the co pilot? On the line now, topefully shed

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Speaker 2: some light to what goes on inside the police cars.

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Speaker 2: We've got Kirsty on the line. Good morning, Kirsty, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: So Kirsty, you were a serving officer, yes.

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Speaker 6: About ten years ago now.

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Speaker 3: Right, brilliant?

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Speaker 2: Okay, And what can you tell us about how how

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Speaker 2: is it decided who gets to drive the car?

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Speaker 6: We're talking back in the early two albums. So senior

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Speaker 6: member Paul's rank is his choice where or not he drives.

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Speaker 3: Not so sometimes if he's not feeling he can go. Dave,

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Speaker 3: you drive today? I don't feel like it.

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Speaker 6: Well, there's pros and cons to being the driver. So

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Speaker 6: if you're the driver, then you get choice of all

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Speaker 6: the briefs of evidence against crooks.

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Speaker 2: So tell us a bit more about that.

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Speaker 3: What does that mean?

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Speaker 6: Okay? So if you get so you catch someone for

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Speaker 6: a burglary, he can choose whether or not he wants

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Speaker 6: to charge defender and all the paperwork.

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Speaker 2: All right, Everything in life is admin, isn't it? Even

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Speaker 2: in this job we have Adminton. Also these days, I

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Speaker 2: guess an the amount of paperwork you have to do

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Speaker 2: is just bigger and bigger of a year.

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Speaker 3: Isn't it.

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Speaker 6: Look there was a heap of paperwork back when I

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Speaker 6: was in but I think everything's all computerized now. I'm

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Speaker 6: not one hundred percent right, Okay. So the thing with

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Speaker 6: the paperwork is if you were and we do call

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Speaker 6: them connies and senior connies, if you were the sorb

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Speaker 6: yeap very common. If you're the driver and you're going

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Speaker 6: and say for a detective position or if you wanted

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Speaker 6: to be a traffic police officer, you would drive so

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Speaker 6: you would get all the briefs of evidence and then

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Speaker 6: when you put in for a position, that would look

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Speaker 6: good on your resume, all right.

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Speaker 2: Because you need to be good at doing the adminber

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Speaker 2: because obviously the chain of evidence when it goes to

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Speaker 2: court to be everything's.

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Speaker 6: Going to be right, Yeah, pretty much. You want the

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Speaker 6: stets and you want the experience to in certain.

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Speaker 2: Briefts, right, and tell me this. Do you have a

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Speaker 2: car radio there? Can you listen to the radio?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 3: You can?

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Speaker 6: Yeah. We had pretty just stock standard commodols and I'm

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Speaker 6: holding CD players a MSN CD players.

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Speaker 2: Little Monday tape on and of course the first track

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Speaker 2: that's on there, well, we know what the track is,

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Speaker 2: is this.

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Speaker 3: Tearing around the streets, the mean streets of Melbourne.

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Speaker 6: Queen back in mild Station had the Benny Hill Sea music.

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Speaker 3: That's incredible.

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Speaker 2: And tell me this then, who gets to decide who

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Speaker 2: gets to push the button that puts the siren blaring on?

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Speaker 6: Ah, that's a bit of a mix.

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Speaker 2: Two hands go at the same time and go oh,

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Speaker 2: I went first.

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Speaker 6: Do you what? Usually it would be the driver. It's

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Speaker 6: his choice for that. Everything else is pretty much done

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Speaker 6: by his partner. He's her partner, I should say nowadays.

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Speaker 3: Excellent.

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Speaker 2: All right, well listen, Donna, this has been very very interesting.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for Kirsty. Kirsty, all right, sorry,

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Speaker 2: I thought that was a pseudonym that you know, former

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Speaker 2: members of the four often do that. You know, there

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Speaker 2: was a trick they do, Kirsty, I knew that, Kirsty,

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Speaker 2: that's right. Donna's another friend of mine. Anyway, Kirsty, thank

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Speaker 2: you very much for the information today.

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Speaker 3: All right, have a good day. Bye by Christian

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