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Speaker 1: Joining me in the studio as he does most weeks,

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Speaker 1: is the Police Commander Danny Bacon. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Commander Morning Katy mornings.

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Speaker 1: Great have you in the studio now, before we get

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Speaker 1: into some of the other issues from throughout the week,

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Speaker 1: I know that investigations are underway after a child was

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Speaker 1: allegedly locked in a cage at a top end work site. So,

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Speaker 1: according to the Northern Territory News, Territory Families and NT

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Speaker 1: Work Safe are investigating reports of a child being secured

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Speaker 1: inappropriately at an industrial site last week. Is this something

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Speaker 1: that the police were notified about?

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Speaker 2: It was Caddy. Obviously the incidents raised some concerns, so

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Speaker 2: the matter was reported. It's been appropriately referred to Territory

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Speaker 2: Families and Work Safe to work have a look at

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Speaker 2: that particular incident and work with a family.

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Speaker 1: And so it doesn't sound like it's a police investigation

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Speaker 1: or a police issue at this point.

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Speaker 2: No, it's a child protection matter and regarding the health

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Speaker 2: and well being of the child. The most appropriate agency

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Speaker 2: that is Territory Families to work with the family itself

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Speaker 2: to have a look at the circumstances surrounding that.

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Speaker 1: And so the police not really investigating, not it's been

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Speaker 1: handed over.

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Speaker 2: It's been handed over to Territory Families and Work Safe

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Speaker 2: Face particular agencies throughout their investigations and need to come

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Speaker 2: back or refer back to police, and then they will

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Speaker 2: do that. But at the moment, the information that we

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Speaker 2: have before us is it's within their purview. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: it's with them to follow up.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we'll keep an eye on that now. I know

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Speaker 1: that Northern Territory Police are continuing investigations after multiple large

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Speaker 1: disturbances were reported in the Victoria River region over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: I know that doesn't fall into your region. However, I've

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Speaker 1: no doubt that it does have a bit of an

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Speaker 1: impact across the board, given the fact that I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: additional police have potentially been surged into the area.

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Speaker 2: Certainly they have over that period of time. So there's

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Speaker 2: nothing occurring today in regards to that search capacity, but

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Speaker 2: isolating instance of this nature when they do flare up,

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Speaker 2: then obviously we do need to surge resources in particular

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Speaker 2: is back to order for areas of that nature. Predominantly,

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Speaker 2: it's looking at the rtal roads as well on the

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Speaker 2: airports and looking at how we can restrict particularly illegal

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Speaker 2: So but at the moment, you know, that area is

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Speaker 2: it's quite okay, and and you know.

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Speaker 1: By the look of it, there has been some worries

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Speaker 1: in the daily there's been some you know, some concerns

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Speaker 1: obviously in the Victoria River region. I know there've been

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Speaker 1: reports of certain groups. I don't want to name them

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Speaker 1: certain groups really sort of running a bit of a

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Speaker 1: mark I mean of the police well and truly onto

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Speaker 1: those people that you know that are not really you know,

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Speaker 1: that seem to have no care for anybody else.

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Speaker 2: What I can say is there's a lot of issues

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Speaker 2: within that particular region. A lot of that is socio

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Speaker 2: economic reasons, a lot of that's the educational reasons, health reasons.

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Speaker 2: Community safety is key to stabilizing the area. To do that,

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Speaker 2: but this is a body of work with a number

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Speaker 2: involved in now that coordination by the Department Chief Minister

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Speaker 2: is critical and bringing other agencies into that space to

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Speaker 2: do that. This is not going to be fixed overnight

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Speaker 2: in any shape or form. That really isn't. There's some

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Speaker 2: entrenched behaviors and certainly entrenched issues within that particular region

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Speaker 2: that will need that ongoing coordination and dialogue and action

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Speaker 2: by a wide variety of people in that space.

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Speaker 1: Commander. We also know Northern Territory Police on Monday issuing

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Speaker 1: a statement calling for infeign relation to an aggravated assault

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Speaker 1: that had occurred in the early hours of Monday morning

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Speaker 1: A thirty four year old employee confronted the youths at

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Speaker 2: That's correct, Cody. Four youths attended the center. It's a

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Speaker 2: The weapon caused an injury to his arm. That injury

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Speaker 2: a group of youths in that rama area. We are them,

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Speaker 1: Forward, Danny, do you have a situation sometimes at those

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Speaker 2: It's a rarity, so this is not a common incidence,

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Speaker 2: but certainly, you know youth that do find themselves in

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Speaker 2: So it is it is uncommon, but obviously on this

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Speaker 2: occasion it did occur, and we are we're seeking witnesses

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Speaker 1: Commander I know as well, and look, this is something

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Speaker 1: that's more going to be implemented by the sounds of it,

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Speaker 1: by the Police Commissioner. So feel free to you know,

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Speaker 1: to push me along with this question if required. But

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Speaker 1: we know that they curfew legislation past the Parliament yesterday.

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Speaker 1: It is going to mean that the Northern Territory Police

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Speaker 1: are able to implement a curfew as required only for

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Speaker 1: that to happen. I mean, from your perspective as the

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Speaker 1: Is this legislation that's going to help you, guys to

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Speaker 2: The legislation will be a part of legislation that will

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Speaker 2: form part of a toolkit of legislation that we'll be

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Speaker 2: able to enact should the right situation determine. The legislation

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Speaker 2: itself has just provide special powers to prevent, stop and

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Speaker 2: reduce public disorder. So it's just an amendment to our

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Speaker 2: necessary about a curfew at all. It's about a location

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Speaker 2: So it could be for any period of the day

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Speaker 2: apply to the Commissioner for a seventy two hours for

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Speaker 2: Doesn't have to be for a particular late night, but

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Speaker 2: it can be for the whole period. It's a range

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Speaker 2: of different messages. It's not just a curfew bill as

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Speaker 2: being described. It is a geographical location for specific times

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Speaker 2: for specific groups.

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Speaker 1: Can be like it could even I don't know, it

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Speaker 1: could be used like it. You know in the CBD,

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Speaker 1: if there's a group of kids that have been running

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Speaker 2: It could be we have some credible intelligence of outlaw

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Speaker 2: and that sort of basis there and you have that

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Speaker 2: is not targeting any particular individual group or ethnicity or age.

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Speaker 2: It is about addressing disorder and anti social behavior that

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Speaker 2: either has occurred or we have credible as occurred. It's

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Speaker 2: a short stop gap measure and it is just a

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Speaker 2: one small part of a legislative framework that we have

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Speaker 2: across the line territory that if certain measures indicate that

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Speaker 2: this would be a successful intervention measure, that will do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that it could actually be used.

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Speaker 2: Checks and balance messages, you know, the ombudsman reviewing legislation

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Speaker 2: So there is a number of checks and balancing that

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Speaker 2: to make sure that we use this legislation again, well

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, it sounds like there's actually a number of

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Speaker 1: different steps that need to be taken before you're going out,

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Speaker 1: and you know, calling a curfew or using this measure,

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Speaker 1: you're not going to be able to do it. Willy

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Speaker 1: Nilly correct. Yeah, hey, you, I know that there's plenty

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Speaker 2: You notice my bage?

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Speaker 1: I noticed it. I noticed your ribbon on your chest there,

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Speaker 1: Danny and I do have one somewhere. I don't know

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Speaker 1: where it's gone, but it is where Orange Wednesday. Just

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Speaker 2: Well, where Orange Wednesday was today Wednesday. It's during Volunteers

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Speaker 2: particularly within our Emergency Services SPACE and TS and the

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Speaker 2: more broke. I think as a jurisdiction was Australia without

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Speaker 2: keep the community safe selfishly, they volunteer their time. They

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Speaker 2: contribute significantly to emergency events throughout the Northern Territory. This year,

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Speaker 2: we've just had the flooding in January of Borolula, you know,

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Speaker 2: there's the razing thing is that volunteers in their own

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Speaker 2: we're orange Wednesday. Wow, it's about celebrating those men and

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Speaker 1: Absolutely com under anything else we should be aware of

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Speaker 1: this morning, anything happened overnight that we need to know.

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Speaker 2: About, not specifically overnight, but as you and me are

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Speaker 2: always talking about, I'm very big on talking about domestic violence.

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Speaker 2: I really you know, over the whole of the Northern Church.

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Speaker 2: You know, we had under twenty nine jobs waiting for

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Speaker 2: dispatch this morning. You know, forty five percent of those

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Speaker 2: we're domestic violence incidents, you know, stilling aet fifty eight

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Speaker 2: crime of our demand of service. It's a hideous crime,

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Speaker 2: in looking at dealing with that. But that's probably a

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Speaker 2: I'd really like to indicate is just asking people that

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Speaker 2: this year in the territory is just horrendous. You know,

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Speaker 2: we've lost twenty two lives already this year. That's compared

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Speaker 2: to four last year, so it's very much higher. You know,

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Speaker 2: twenty three percent of those a pedestrian, sixty eight percent

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Speaker 2: of those are Indigenous territories, and a shocking a nine

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Speaker 2: percent of those of drug alcore related. You know, a

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Speaker 2: lot of that is just preventable. All those desks are preventable.

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Speaker 2: It's you know, the two day blitz we had over

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Speaker 2: the Base of the Grass weekend, seven point five percent

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Speaker 2: of the drivers that we tested were positive to drugs.

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Speaker 1: Unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Now, that is a growing trend of drug driving. You know,

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Speaker 2: out of the amount of tests we did for alcohol,

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Speaker 2: one point five percent tested positive.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Still that was thirty four people tested positive out of

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Speaker 2: the two ninety eight. So people are taking those risks

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Speaker 2: on the roads for themselves, but it's also for other

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Speaker 2: road users. But that another you know, driver on the

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Speaker 2: road or a pedestrian. They really are a death waying

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Speaker 2: to occur, and we've lost two many lives already.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we truly have. Look, I thought it was really

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Speaker 1: good to see the police out doing those big operations

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Speaker 1: on the weekend as well. It's something we sort of

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Speaker 1: I feel like we haven't seen for a little while. Correctly,

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Speaker 1: if I'm wrong.

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Speaker 2: You one hundred percent correct, and we do want to

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Speaker 2: be there. And I suppose that's why I come back

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Speaker 2: to the domestic violence, you know. You know, as I said,

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Speaker 2: we've got a few commission vice job's waiting for our

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Speaker 2: officers to attend this morning. You know, that number is

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Speaker 2: fairly consistent across the board. So whilst we're attending our

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Speaker 2: demands for service, we can't be out there proactively dealing

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Speaker 2: with the road safety side of the house. So it's

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Speaker 2: it's balancing those calls for service while trying to be

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Speaker 2: proactive in that space, and I mean the Anti Police

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Speaker 2: Resource Review indicative that we are short of officers, but

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Speaker 2: it does take a while for us to build that

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Speaker 2: capacity back up. So we will get out there and

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Speaker 2: do some more of that proactive work we want to,

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Speaker 2: we need to, but we also need to make sure

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Speaker 2: we are responding appropriately to those calls for services when

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Speaker 2: we need to know for domestic violence, another top of offending.

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Speaker 1: Well come out of Danny Bacon. We always appreciate your

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Speaker 1: time in the studio. Thanks so much for joining us today.

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Speaker 2: Pleasure to be here. Thank you, Kay, thank you