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Speaker 1: Mix ONEOT four point nine dot com dot au for

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Speaker 1: all the latest news and information. Now three sixty with

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Speaker 1: Katie Wolf. Everyone is listening Mix one oh four point

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Speaker 2: Now if you can hear me giggling, that is because

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Speaker 2: we've got the police puppy, the brand new electric routed

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Speaker 2: in the studio and he's got my headphones. But let's

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Speaker 2: let's introduce our next guest before I before I lose

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Speaker 2: it laughing and joining me in the studio right now

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Speaker 2: from the police, well, the Police Dog Operation Unit. I've

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Speaker 2: got Tyrone Bellman, sergeant, good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, how are you good? Thanks, thanks for having us.

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Speaker 2: And I've also got Matthew Hohagen, Senior constable with the

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Speaker 2: Dog Operations Unit. How are you, Maddie. That's good. Now

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Speaker 2: we are joined in the studio by this gorgeous little

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Speaker 2: German Shepherd puppy. He's a little boy. Oh tell us.

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Speaker 2: First off, Matthew, you're his handler, aren't you. Now, how

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Speaker 2: do you go through the process of of you know,

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Speaker 2: I guess, receiving the dog to the Northern Territory. I'm

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Speaker 2: assuming that it's had to come from somewhere else and

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Speaker 2: just sort of integrating ash into into its life and

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Speaker 2: it's it's life in the police force.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so he's nine weeks older at the moment. We've

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Speaker 4: got we've actually got two of them, two brothers. They've

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Speaker 4: come from a breeder in New South Wales. We actually

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Speaker 4: have an operational dog from the same breeder, a big

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Speaker 4: fellow called Drafts.

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Speaker 2: I've met Tracks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a fair favorite.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we picked him up last week. He resides with

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Speaker 4: me at home. I'll be his handler for the foreseeable future.

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Speaker 4: He's not a he's not a pet. There's some strict

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Speaker 4: rules at home. You know, we've got to keep him,

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Speaker 4: keep him in check, and you know, but the first

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Speaker 4: few weeks now it's just about familiarization, just getting him

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Speaker 4: used to the northern territory to start with, climatization and

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Speaker 4: all the different things. So it's a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: He is a gorgeous, gorgeous little dog, and I'm sure

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Speaker 2: that his brother is as well. How do you sort

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Speaker 2: of go through that process of you know, trying to

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Speaker 2: I guess you know what, usually when somebody gets a

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Speaker 2: puppy a little bit naughty, they're probably allowed to get

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Speaker 2: away with a bit more than what, you know, what

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Speaker 2: this little blowcise.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so that there's some things I guess well, like

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Speaker 4: with the natural traits, so you know, with a bit

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Speaker 4: of a he's a bier and that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 4: You know, we don't want to we don't want to

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Speaker 4: take that away from him obviously for future development. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: he does get away with a few things. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: he's under close monitoring and.

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Speaker 2: Yep, oh, I'm so excited to have him in the

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Speaker 2: studio now, Tyrone. You've been in here with us a

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Speaker 2: few times for various different things, but mate, this morning.

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Speaker 2: Now people might be thinking why you're telling us the

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Speaker 2: dog's name, but he doesn't actually have one at this point,

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Speaker 2: does he.

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Speaker 3: That's correct, both both brothers don't have a name. So

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Speaker 3: we've run a competition through our police media unit with

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Speaker 3: Channel nine. There's a story the other day and it's

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Speaker 3: the aim the puppies. We wanted a bit of a

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Speaker 3: territory and flavor to the name. So apparently there's over

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Speaker 3: five hundred comments on the Facebook page already, so if

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Speaker 3: you haven't checked it out, please do. And it closes

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Speaker 3: midnight Thursday night and it'll be announced on Channel nine

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Speaker 3: on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, and you're looking for names with two syllables and

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Speaker 2: a whole lot of territory and spirit.

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Speaker 3: I'm being told, yeah, preferably two syllables. It just makes

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Speaker 3: it a bit easier when you're calling them out. If

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Speaker 3: they missed the first part of the name, they can

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Speaker 3: get the second part of the name. And also if

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Speaker 3: it's not too long, we don't want a really long

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Speaker 3: long name. Enough. So yeah, there's plenty of good good

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Speaker 3: names come up there, some I like, but we will

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Speaker 3: have to wait and see what wins the wins it.

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Speaker 2: Now, how long does it take to train this little fella?

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Speaker 2: How many weeks is it? Well, how many months is

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Speaker 2: it going to take before he's sort of out on

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Speaker 2: the job and out catching people doing the wrong thing.

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Speaker 4: Well, there's a few answers to that. They're always in training,

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Speaker 4: you know, their whole career, potentially operationally, twelve to eighty months.

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Speaker 3: About the eighty month mark. If everything goes to plan

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Speaker 3: and we hit all our benchmarks, eighty months old, he'll

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Speaker 3: be out and about doing any thing in the streets

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Speaker 3: of Darwin Made. Maddie and Puppy unnamed are going to

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Speaker 3: be stationed in down.

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Speaker 2: I just reckon, it's amazing what these police dogs can do.

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Speaker 2: And you know, we've had Drags in the studio on

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Speaker 2: a couple of occasions. I've also seen him out, you know,

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Speaker 2: doing his seeing out on the streets with his handler.

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Speaker 2: And the thing that I'm really fascinated with, and the

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Speaker 2: thing that I think so cool these days with the

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Speaker 2: police dogs is that you know, they're very sociable now

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Speaker 2: in terms of coming in here, they're really friendly and everything.

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Speaker 2: But then once they know that it's going on, they

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Speaker 2: do their jobs.

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Speaker 3: Don't they Absolutely. That's a big part of the training

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Speaker 3: is the control and being able to let them do

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Speaker 3: their thing when they have to do it, yep. But

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Speaker 3: when they don't have to do it, they're sociable, how

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Speaker 3: to do pr events, come and meet people like you, schools,

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Speaker 3: things like that. It's really important.

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Speaker 2: Oh so cool. I am very distracted by the dog

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Speaker 2: right now, and luckily he's away from my headphones.

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Speaker 1: For a little while.

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Speaker 2: But I always appreciate it when you guys come in

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Speaker 2: and let us meet the police dogs and the other

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Speaker 2: animals that are obviously part of the force. And once again,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for your time this morning. But

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Speaker 2: just if anybody's out there listening and they are thinking

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Speaker 2: they'd really like to get involved in this naming competition.

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Speaker 2: They can head to the police Facebook yep, and they'll

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Speaker 2: be able to jump on there and just comment underneath

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Speaker 2: yes yep.

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Speaker 3: All the instructions and what to do are there, and

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Speaker 3: join join the names everyone's got or if they like

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Speaker 3: something that is there, yep.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, Oh good stuff. Well, Sergeant Tyrone Bellman, always lovely

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Speaker 2: to have you in the studio, and Senior Constable Matthew Hohagen,

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Speaker 2: lovely to have you in the studio this morning, and

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Speaker 2: thanks so much for bringing the puppy in having us.

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