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Speaker 1: Now we know that the Catherine Police have arrested sixteen

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Speaker 1: youths in a targeted operation to tagle property related crime

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Speaker 1: in Catherine, CBD. The three day effort, conducted between October

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Speaker 1: fifteen and seventeen, involved the local police, but it also

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Speaker 1: involved Will Strike Force, Cerebus and community partners, resulting in

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Speaker 1: a number of charges. Now joining us on the line

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Speaker 1: is the acting sergeant in Catherine, Rebecca Styles. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Rebecca.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. How are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, really good, lovely to have you on the show. Now,

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Speaker 1: can you tell us a bit more about this operation

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Speaker 1: and the drivers behind launching it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course. So the operation is basically just a

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Speaker 2: highlight of what we do day today. Anyway, Like you said,

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Speaker 2: it was a three day operation targeting property crime. We

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Speaker 2: worked closely with Kolano Community and circuit breakerware. We just

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Speaker 2: basically patrolled the streets, got rid of any people on

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Speaker 2: the streets that should work out at nighttime where they

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Speaker 2: shouldn't be. Basically just ensuring safety community and high visibility

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Speaker 2: patrols by police.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, So tell me a bit about you know,

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Speaker 1: with that high visibility policing, and it sounds like a

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Speaker 1: really sort of proactive way to get out there on

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Speaker 1: the streets. Tell me about some of what you saw

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Speaker 1: and what the operation really resulted in.

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Speaker 2: So as it mentions in the media release, we strike

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Speaker 2: for service arrested sixteen youths kind of unrelated to the operation.

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Speaker 2: By the operation itself saw over sixty youths engaged with

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Speaker 2: and taken home. And that also those starts also include

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Speaker 2: adults we're engaged with by Kolano community as well.

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Speaker 1: Goodness me, I mean it's like sixteen moths being arrested

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Speaker 1: and then you know, engaging like with with more than

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Speaker 1: sixty youths. It's quite a large number of people that

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Speaker 1: were out on the streets potent like doing the wrong thing,

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Speaker 1: I suppose.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that's where there's a bit of confusion.

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Speaker 2: So the children on the streets, they're not always committing offenses. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's they're out, they're wandering the hanging out with their friends.

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Speaker 2: They're the ones that we're picking up, we're taking home.

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Speaker 2: The ones that are committing offenses, we are picking up

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Speaker 2: and we're dealing with them as as needed. But it's

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Speaker 2: not always the story when if a kid's on the

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Speaker 2: street that.

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Speaker 1: In terms of though the charges that were laid, like

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Speaker 1: it does sound as though there were quite a few

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Speaker 1: charges laid. What were some of those? What was some

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Speaker 1: of the offending that was going on.

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Speaker 2: So we had a big investigation in relation to a

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Speaker 2: stolen motor vehicle. One in particular was stolen from a

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Speaker 2: residence here and Catherine and driven by a group of

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Speaker 2: youths to Tenant Creaking Back. So that saw a lot

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Speaker 2: of our arrests and a lot of our charges come

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Speaker 2: from that.

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Speaker 1: Driven to Tenant Creaking Back. Goodness me, that's a long

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Speaker 1: That's a long drive in a stolen car, it is, indeed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So talk me through in terms of you know those

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Speaker 1: Obviously those charges were laid, but I know there was

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Speaker 1: also We actually spoke to NTY Emergency Services in Catherine

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Speaker 1: on Friday following a break in with some items stolen

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Speaker 1: and equipment damage. Has there been much of an update

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Speaker 1: or where's that investigation?

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Speaker 2: Ash So Catherine CIB members continue to investigate that one.

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Speaker 2: To my knowledge, there was footage released of the burglary,

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Speaker 2: and we do believe that members of the public will

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Speaker 2: know who these offenders are, and as always, we just

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Speaker 2: kind of urge everyone to call through with any information

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Speaker 2: that they do have.

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Speaker 1: So, Rebecca, in relation to you know, how things are

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Speaker 1: sort of tracking after the operation was conducted there in

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Speaker 1: the Catherine CBD and you know plans for more operations

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Speaker 1: like this, is that sort of what you're hoping to

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Speaker 1: do that you are hoping to have more of these

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Speaker 1: operations to really keep things dice and calm in the city.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. Like I said before, the operation is something

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Speaker 2: that we do day to day anyway. It's just we

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Speaker 2: focused and made a highlight over the last those three

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Speaker 2: specific days, and so we always work closely with Kolano

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Speaker 2: and other agencies to help youth, adults, all that kind

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Speaker 2: of stuff. So it's definitely something that we will continue

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Speaker 2: to do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, collecting Sergeant Rebecca Styles in Catherine. Good to catch

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Speaker 1: up with you this morning. I appreciate your time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you