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Speaker 1: Now we've been talking federal budget. We'll park that for

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Speaker 1: a few minutes because there's been quite a bit happening

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Speaker 1: when it comes to issues that the Northern Territory Police

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Speaker 1: have been dealing with, particularly overnight. And joining me in

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Speaker 1: the studio right now is the acting Commander for the

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Speaker 1: Darwin Region, David Moore.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, morning Katie and to the listeners.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to have you in the studio. Now tell me

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Speaker 1: overnight we'd seen Crystal had covered a little bit of

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Speaker 1: detail of an incident from overnight. Can you talk us

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Speaker 1: through exactly what's going on, Yes.

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Speaker 3: Certainly, and I will provide a little bit more detail

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Speaker 3: of the offenders we do have in that where they

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Speaker 3: were located. So the incident, So the incident occurred obviously

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Speaker 3: there were a number of males that we were looking

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Speaker 3: at in relation to a number of burglaries that occurred

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Speaker 3: over the Greater Darwin Region overnight. So this is from

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Speaker 3: last night onwards, so early in the night of the

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Speaker 3: group alleged defenders a tenet of residence in Australia Street

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Speaker 3: and Stuart Park. They gained entry whilst armed with a

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Speaker 3: actually they then managed to get inside and still actually

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Speaker 3: fifteen am police received reports of one of these vehicles

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Speaker 3: ramming a residential gate in Malden whilst brandishing a machete

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Speaker 3: quite concerning. A short time later, the group attended a

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Speaker 3: and security screens. The second style of Moti vehicles actually

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Speaker 3: recovered in Caconut Grave, so they dumped that vehicle. So

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Speaker 3: at three am this morning, the group were observed by

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Speaker 3: All the offenders then self extracted from the vehicle and

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Speaker 3: What I can say is that as a result of that,

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Speaker 3: five males have now been arrested the ages of thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

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Speaker 3: the second as to where they were located in vicinity

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Speaker 2: So some of the really.

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Speaker 3: Good work of our dogs at the moment. As a result,

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Speaker 3: so patrol dog FITSI tracked three of these offenders, with

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Speaker 3: The third was located hided in thick vegetation and was

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Speaker 3: to the cordon and obviously smelling, obviously looking at articles

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Speaker 3: go and locate obviously another offender. We also have another

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Speaker 3: who was obviously found in thick grassland hiding in the

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Speaker 3: mangraves as well. So really fantastic work by the dog

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Speaker 3: unit to apprehend these offenders. Without that sort of thing,

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Speaker 1: Well bet it would have been. And it just goes

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Speaker 1: to show you. I mean they are an integral part

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Speaker 1: they do a phenomenal job. I mean with these with

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's correct, Katie.

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Speaker 3: So obviously anything you can do to barricade that when

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Speaker 2: But more importantly, if they can grab car keys.

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Speaker 3: What this obviously does your their ability to grab your

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Speaker 1: Can you just remind me so? They also in that

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Speaker 1: Are those residents all right? I'm assuming the police have

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Speaker 3: My understanding they are. They're probably very shaken, obviously and concerned.

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Speaker 1: When does that, especially a group of people rocking up

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Speaker 3: Stuff in most cases, most people in that in that

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Speaker 3: A stolen car is one thing, you've properly being stolen.

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Speaker 3: The risk of you being hurt is another. And I

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Speaker 1: So they So you've apprehended now all of those alleged

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Speaker 2: That they're all before the court.

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Speaker 1: Yep, they'll be before the courts, all right. In Catherine,

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Speaker 1: we also know that there's been some incidents there of late.

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Speaker 1: I know that there was a situation where there was

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Speaker 3: So it was really concerning for the community at that stage,

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Speaker 3: I don't have those details. What I can say there's

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Speaker 3: and what I'd probably want to give us a massive

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Speaker 3: We obviously had the detectives from Cerberus that were obviously involved.

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Speaker 2: And I must give the big shout out to Territory

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Speaker 3: Well who were doing initially a lot of that work

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Speaker 1: Yeah, David, it must be a concern to the police

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Speaker 2: Yeah, correct, Katie.

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Speaker 3: And look, we've done a lot of work in relation

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Speaker 3: That's on the back of some cranial recommendations that have

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Speaker 3: by the territory duty super Everyone that's involved continually does

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Speaker 3: the patterns, the driving, the behavior, the kids where if

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, I know this. Earlier in the week as well,

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Speaker 1: we'd reported on some ram raids in the Winnelli area.

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Speaker 3: Yes, crazy Yeah, So on Monday morning that occurred. So

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Speaker 3: there's two ram raids. So what I can say is

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Speaker 3: that they did review CCTV and what I can say

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Speaker 3: stolen from that area, is what we've got. But what

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Speaker 3: I can say, both vehicles have been recovered. What I

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Speaker 3: the findings that was two males. It's actually a thirteen

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Speaker 2: Was arrested and a nineteen year old male.

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Speaker 3: The thirteen year old female is considered for youth diversion

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I arrested you hey very quick one before

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Speaker 1: I let you go. On Friday, the police also charged

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Katie, that was a really good result. So

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Speaker 3: all I can say is that Northern Territory Police chart

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Speaker 3: we have charge to twenty six year old Mile for

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Speaker 3: sixty grands of ecstasy tablets from that residence. The offender

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Speaker 2: Which was witch.

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Speaker 3: So on Friday, the twenty sixth of March, they did

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Speaker 1: Okay, well that is good news. So I'm glad that

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Speaker 1: he has. He's been you know, he was indeed arrested

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Speaker 1: sounds as though it's been a busy time for you guys.

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Speaker 1: We do keep getting a message every like somebody keeps

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Speaker 1: down on petrol station drive offs. This person's called through

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Katie, Look that's one of those offenders. So one

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Speaker 3: of those offenses that's quite common and obviously it's privately

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Speaker 3: It's very difficult at certain stages because if we're responding

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Speaker 2: So it is a triarging type of job.

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Speaker 3: But yes, it is becoming quite alarming and obviously it's

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Speaker 2: But in the scheme of things, when.

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Speaker 3: It becomes down to where we're tasking and allocating our resources,

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Speaker 3: to really to address that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, is it happening quite often?

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Speaker 2: I don't have that in front of me. We do

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Speaker 3: We do, particularly with some of these stolen cars, particularly

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Speaker 3: This is when you will see a number of these

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Speaker 1: Well, Acting Commander David Moore, good to speak to you

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Speaker 1: this morning. I really appreciate you taking this through, particularly

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Speaker 1: those incidents from last night. Thank you very much for

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Speaker 2: Thank you everyone, Thank you,