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Speaker 1: You're listening to Mix one oh four point nine's three sixty.

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Speaker 1: Now have you ever thought about becoming a police officer? Well,

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Speaker 1: police are currently recruiting and joining me in the studio

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Speaker 1: right now to talk more about it is Serge Boehmer,

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Speaker 1: the Oicee of Police Recruitment. Good morning to your search.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Katie, and we've also got Neil Hayes, the

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Speaker 1: Superintendent of Police Recruitment. Good morning, Neil, morning Katy. Great

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Speaker 1: to have you both in the studio. Now, well, what

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Speaker 1: does it take to be a police officer?

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Speaker 2: First off, what we're.

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Speaker 3: Really looking for is at the moment, local people we want.

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Speaker 3: We want Territorians to step up and work for the community.

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Speaker 3: You know, we want fit people. And we're about to

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Speaker 3: head down the track and go and see the people

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Speaker 3: in Catherine, Tennant Creek, and al Springs and see if

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Speaker 3: we can get some of those interested in joining our ranks.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is the thing you're hitting the hitting the

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Speaker 1: road the recruitment road show in Catherine, Alice Springs and

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Speaker 1: Tenant Creek.

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Speaker 2: What exactly will you be doing when you go to

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Speaker 2: those places?

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Speaker 4: So, first stops Catherine. We'll be down there for the

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Speaker 4: next four days while we're down there, we'll be meeting

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Speaker 4: with some corporations down there and telling people about what

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Speaker 4: it's involved to become a police officer. We're going to

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Speaker 4: have a stall set up in the Catherine Central as well,

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Speaker 4: so an opportunity for people to come and stop and

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Speaker 4: chat to us and ask the questions that you might

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Speaker 4: be burning away on. What does the job involve? Any

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Speaker 4: day's other questions, how much do we get paid, what

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Speaker 4: other conditions you know, come and see us, ask any

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Speaker 4: of those types of things. And then finally on Saturday morning,

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Speaker 4: we'll have a come try day for our fitness testing,

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Speaker 4: so you'll have the opportunity to come give it a go,

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Speaker 4: see what it's about, and that way if you're serious

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Speaker 4: and you can get some training in awesome.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is something that we all talked about last

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Speaker 1: time you guys were in and we'll talk more about

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Speaker 1: those fitness tests in a moment, but just firstly, so

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Speaker 1: in Catherine today and then heading to when will you

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Speaker 1: be heading to Alison Tenant.

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Speaker 4: So we hit Alice Springs Wednesday next week. We're down

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Speaker 4: there for a couple of days. Again, we'll be setting

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Speaker 4: up in the upper in the Shop center down there.

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Speaker 4: And again opportunity for people come chat to us. Then

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Speaker 4: we head up to Tenant Creek on Friday and we'll

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Speaker 4: be available around Tennant Creek. We'll do the same contry

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Speaker 4: day on Saturday morning and Tenant Creek and then Sunday

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Speaker 4: next week.

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Speaker 1: And so then there will also be the opportunity in

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Speaker 1: Darwin for people to hit along to a bit of

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Speaker 1: a come and try day as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're planning for the next one up here.

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Speaker 4: So again we'll get out and we'll put some stuff

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Speaker 4: to our Facebook page and we'll probably come talk to

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Speaker 4: you again, Katie, because when we do our contray day here,

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Speaker 4: I think last time we spoke, you said that you

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Speaker 4: were keen to come and give the fitness sess and

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Speaker 4: they go, well, yes, so you and Ronnie you're welcome.

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Speaker 2: So I reckon we'll do. Well. What is involved though

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Speaker 2: in a fitness test?

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Speaker 3: All right? So there's there's four activities, so we do

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Speaker 3: a we're seeking maximum effort on everything, So what we

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Speaker 2: I'm assuming not girl ones no.

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Speaker 3: No no on the toes. And then we do a

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Speaker 3: timed plank on the elbows and the toes again, grip

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Speaker 2: I don't mind the beep test, all right, I'm keen.

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Speaker 1: I will commit myself to doing it so long as

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Speaker 1: the dates, the dates work. I can't make any promises

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Speaker 1: for Ronnie at this point in time, but we'll see.

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Speaker 2: What she says.

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Speaker 3: Surely she'd be keen.

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Speaker 2: I reckon she will be let's locker in as well.

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Speaker 1: Now, in terms of you know, I guess the fitness

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Speaker 1: test is just really one element of joining the police force.

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Speaker 1: There'll be lots of other elements to it. What exactly

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Speaker 4: So we want people that have got that calm nature,

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Speaker 4: that have got natural problem solving skills. We need people

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Speaker 4: that can think on their feet, can handle stressful situations

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Speaker 4: because there are all things that you're going to be

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Speaker 4: you'll go through a series of psychometric testing, some literacy

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Speaker 4: then into the fitness test. So it is just one

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Speaker 4: part of it, but all rounded. We want people like

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Speaker 4: to serve their community and serve anywhere across the Northern Territory,

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Speaker 4: and that's why we're focused on territories at the moment.

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Speaker 4: People that understand territory issues and the territory and the

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Speaker 4: uniqueness that we deal with up here absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Now, how many people are you looking for.

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Speaker 4: Well, we're always recruiting, so we're now we've opened up

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Speaker 4: that will continuously recruit and we will have a pool

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Speaker 4: that will form. So in the meantime, we've currently got

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Speaker 4: one hundred and six recruits that are going through the

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Speaker 4: Police College at the moment through various streams. Some of

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Speaker 4: those people that have transitioned from other roles, so our

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Speaker 4: auxiliary rolls into constable, our acpos into constable, So we're

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Speaker 4: actually recruiting across all of those streams, so our Aboriginal

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Speaker 4: liaison officers, Aboriginal communities, police officers, police auxiliaries, and police constables.

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Speaker 4: So there's courses that will be running for the next

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Speaker 4: twelve months, so we're looking for people in November May

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Speaker 4: next year, and then other courses that will be fed

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it's not sort of a matter of saying okay,

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Speaker 1: we need a certain number of females or a certain

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Speaker 1: number of of you know, people from this area. It's

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Speaker 1: more a matter of saying we want territories that are

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Speaker 1: really keen and want to serve.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, look, we won't represent the community. So we want

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Speaker 4: a real mix of people within our organization where it's male, females,

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Speaker 4: different cultural backgrounds, and we encourage all of those people

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Speaker 4: to apply, and we generally get really good results when

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Speaker 1: Well, look, there were certain elements of what you were

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Speaker 1: saying you need in police officers that I thought, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I can hopefully do the fitness test. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: an issue for me. Now, when do you start that

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Speaker 1: first round of recruits, Well, when do they start their training?

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Speaker 3: So we got a constable squad commencing end of November, yep,

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Speaker 3: and that'll be around thirty thirty new new recruits and

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Speaker 3: six and a half months, and then actually basically straight

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Speaker 3: after New Years, we've got an auxiliary squad starting. So

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Speaker 3: that's basically to fill those pali spots. Down the track

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Speaker 3: we're pretty busy and it's trying to pump them out. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but we're definitely focused on getting territories if we can.

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Speaker 3: I think it's important that we support the community as

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Speaker 3: a community organization as well. So and the territory community,

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Speaker 3: you know, could always do with extra jobs, and if

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Speaker 3: we get the right people, that's a good thing.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Now to anybody out there listening this morning who might

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Speaker 1: be thinking, Okay, well I'm potentially interested, you know, what

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Speaker 1: would you say to them? What kind of job is it?

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Speaker 1: What's it like being a territory police officer?

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Speaker 4: Look, Katie, I love it. I've been doing it for

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Speaker 4: the last twenty years. Every day is different. It's like

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Speaker 4: twenty careers rolled into one. You're never bored, you never

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Speaker 4: know what's coming next. It's something that you know, if

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Speaker 4: you want to give back. You do feel that sense

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Speaker 4: of satisfaction every day that you go to work. So

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Speaker 4: you know, it's not something for a short term. It's

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Speaker 4: not something to give you an arn, but if you're

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Speaker 4: if you're serious, you get so much out of it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely. It's it's a lifestyle, and you know,

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Speaker 3: I love the job. My wife wouldn't agree, but I'd

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Speaker 3: do it for free.

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Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what, I'm really interested to see

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Speaker 1: how it all goes on these come and try days

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Speaker 1: and where people have got the opportunity to find out

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Speaker 1: a bit more and also have a crack at these

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Speaker 1: fitness tests.

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Speaker 2: How far away is the dar on one? Should I

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Speaker 2: start training?

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Speaker 4: Look, I've seen you one, Katie. I don't think you

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Speaker 4: need to then maybe just push ups. Look away for

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Speaker 4: the next couple of weeks, So it'll probably in a

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Speaker 4: month or so. But once that the day throughout will

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Speaker 4: have that across our socials as well, and maybe we'll

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Speaker 4: come back in and we'll get running in as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good idea, Come do it, Let's do it. I

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Speaker 2: reckon now.

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Speaker 1: If anybody is after a bit more information, is there

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Speaker 1: somewhere where they should.

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Speaker 3: Hit certainly the Police Police website and there's a join

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Speaker 3: us link in there and it's got all the information

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Speaker 3: on the side there. And what we're asking people to

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Speaker 3: do is submit expressions of interest and they can submit

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Speaker 3: expressions of interest for a variety of different streams including

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Speaker 3: constable Auxiliary AHPO. All of those things are available and

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Speaker 3: when we're ready we'll send them an invite to apply.

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Speaker 4: The details for the Cometry Days. I think you've already

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Speaker 4: been posted on Facebook, so they're sitting there now, and

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Speaker 4: both the al Springs and the Catherine Wanes the dets

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Speaker 4: are on there, so get on there.

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Speaker 2: Good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, wonderful to talk to you both this morning, Serge Boomer,

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Speaker 1: the OIC Officer in charge of Police Recruitment and Neil Hayes,

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Speaker 1: the Police Recruitment Superintendent. Great have you in the studio.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again soon. Thanks Katie, thank you.

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