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Speaker 1: West Coast Cops is premiering tonight at seven thirty on

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Speaker 1: Channel nine and nine Now British Cops embarking on a

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Speaker 1: new beat down under.

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Speaker 2: One of them is Sergeant Ben Wood's good.

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Speaker 3: Morning, good morning, exact very well, from.

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Speaker 1: West End to the West Coast, something like that. What

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Speaker 1: made you decide to make the big move?

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Speaker 4: Oh, look, there was a number of factors. I think

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Speaker 4: that all fell into place at that moment in time

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Speaker 4: when wa Police came to the UK tempting us with

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Speaker 4: this new life recruiting. Yeah, you know, but yeah, I

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Speaker 4: just think that my mantaries you get one life, right,

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Speaker 4: and I think we've got to We've got to make

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Speaker 4: the most of it. Yeah, and why not take this

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Speaker 4: fantastic opportunity to come to a beautiful location in a

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Speaker 4: beautiful country and just give it a good go.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, there was no one factor.

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Speaker 4: That's made me go I'm leaving the UK, I'm leaving

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Speaker 4: everything behind that I've built over the first part of

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Speaker 4: my life. But it was a number of things. You know.

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Speaker 4: The job wasn't great at the time, the country wasn't

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Speaker 4: great at the time. Things you know, helped push me

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Speaker 4: towards making this because It's not an easy decision leaving

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Speaker 4: everything behind it.

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Speaker 2: It's a huge decision.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: And I think you see that in the program. You

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Speaker 4: see that in the program how tough things things are.

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Speaker 2: We anytime you make a job move is a huge decision.

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Speaker 2: But when you're.

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Speaker 1: Talking about going from one side of the planet.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that's what's good about this program

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Speaker 4: is you're seeing the story. This isn't just about lights

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Speaker 4: and sirens and locking up the bad guys. This is

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Speaker 4: the person behind the uniform.

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Speaker 1: Because do you have a family that So it wasn't

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Speaker 1: just your decision either other people.

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Speaker 4: So for me, I am I did come here alone completely.

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Speaker 4: So you'll see my colleagues that have made that in

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Speaker 4: the show as well. Some of those have families, some

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Speaker 4: of those have children, some of those are single. And

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Speaker 4: I think whatever your situation is, there are there are

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Speaker 4: challenges to overcome with your single with you've got children

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Speaker 4: with you or a partner, you know, And again you

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Speaker 4: see that in the show.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I would have feel right to not say hello, Hello, Hello.

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Speaker 3: What's going on?

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Speaker 5: Do you know Lisa? Had you heard of Lisa mchune before,

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Speaker 5: who's the four time Gold LOGI winner? Who narrates the show.

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Speaker 5: She's very famous in Australia.

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Speaker 4: I didn't, but obviously i've I've managed to see episodes

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Speaker 4: one and two when they did the promo down and

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Speaker 4: I think it was I think it was Bustleton or yeah,

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Speaker 4: so I did. I managed to see one and two

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Speaker 4: already and obviously hearing her voice since she's got a lovely,

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Speaker 4: lovely soft.

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Speaker 1: Also she famously played a police officer, did a very

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Speaker 1: famous show.

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Speaker 2: For quite a while.

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Speaker 3: Perfect person for the job.

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Speaker 1: Then maybe Yeah, so you were a seasoned officer in

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Speaker 1: the UK before moving here.

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Speaker 2: How does it compare?

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Speaker 1: What the what's the first thing that you thought, Oh,

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Speaker 1: this is different to being a cup on the beat there?

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Speaker 4: So I think if you're going to do a bit

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Speaker 4: of compare and contrast, there are a lot of similarities actually,

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Speaker 4: so because of our shared history, the laws are pretty similar.

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Speaker 4: It's just the acts, the sections, all the boring bits

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Speaker 4: are very different, right, But in terms of the powers

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Speaker 4: and policies available to us here, I would say, actually

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Speaker 4: they're in a bit more streamlined so British legislation and

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to get boring about it, but it's

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Speaker 4: a bit complicated, right, with the old English English words.

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Speaker 4: Australian legislation is very to the point. It's really easy

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Speaker 4: to understand and it's really easy to use. It is refreshing,

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Speaker 4: you know. So so actually I feel like they got

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Speaker 4: it right here. You guys have got it right, you know.

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Speaker 4: I think it's so that's the difference is I think

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Speaker 4: that was your question where mainly really like.

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Speaker 3: The cultural stuff.

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Speaker 4: So you've got you've got things to do with our

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Speaker 4: indigenous communities, a lot of that to get your head around.

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Speaker 4: You know, there's all those the history that you know,

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Speaker 4: you need to be very careful of. So that's probably

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Speaker 4: the more challenging thing is that's new to us. That's

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Speaker 4: new to us as officers from a different country coming

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Speaker 4: here and actually to respect that and understand it and

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Speaker 4: actually try and build that bridge and what what what

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Speaker 4: better for some with fresh eyes to try and to

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Speaker 4: try and look at something differently and maybe try something new.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, do you ever copy from someone who you're

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Speaker 5: chatting to when they hear the accent what's going on?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Because people will sometimes yeah, sometimes you know, disrespectful

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Speaker 4: of course, you know, I think actually pretty cultured. I

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Speaker 4: think there are many accents here in perfect So actually

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Speaker 4: I think that you guys, you know, the born and

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Speaker 4: bred wa people are just so used to hearing all

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Speaker 4: these different accents. But I think I'm quite lucky. My

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Speaker 4: surname being Woods is actually an indigenous, very popular indigenous surname.

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Speaker 4: So a lot of the time they see the surname

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Speaker 4: and they like, oh you're Woods, Yeah, okay.

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Speaker 1: Cool, you're on patrol in Northbridge tonight. At some stage,

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Speaker 1: will you say you're nicked?

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Speaker 3: So I actually have that slipped out of few times.

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Speaker 2: I really have.

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Speaker 4: The British caution may have slipped out a few times

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Speaker 4: as well, and I have had to catch myself and go, no, no,

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Speaker 4: that's not quite right, because.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling than British cop shows, you guys make the

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Speaker 1: best shows.

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Speaker 2: Is it?

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Speaker 3: The cops?

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Speaker 4: And make the breath shows with the fact there's so

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Speaker 4: much crime over there, that's what makes it interesting.

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Speaker 2: Make really good police TV.

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Speaker 1: Do you do you part of the hope to show

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Speaker 1: you know, the I mean, I think cops are fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I love police, but sometimes they get a bad rap from.

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Speaker 2: You know, from the bad guys.

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Speaker 1: So it shows a positive light on on on.

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Speaker 3: Things, it does?

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Speaker 4: It really does you know when I was agreed to

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Speaker 4: do this, This filming part of the worries when it's finished,

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Speaker 4: you go, oh my god, what am I going to

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Speaker 4: look like? How am I going to come across?

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Speaker 5: The perception?

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Speaker 4: Perception right from my phones and family in the UK

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Speaker 4: that have managed to watch this, because it adds slightly

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Speaker 4: earlier over there is the positive feedback has been nothing

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Speaker 4: but positive.

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Speaker 3: Oh good.

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Speaker 4: It's because it shows you it's not just about, like

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Speaker 4: I said earlier, lights and signs and looking at the

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Speaker 4: bad guys. You're getting to see the person behind the badge.

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Speaker 4: You're getting to see tears, you getting to see laughter,

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Speaker 4: You're getting to see tears from laughter, right, you know,

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Speaker 4: you getting to see a person, not just a uniform.

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Speaker 4: And that's what's so important, is it's giving you, guys

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Speaker 4: a new perspective that actually police officers really are just

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Speaker 4: normal people that have lives, they have friends, They do

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Speaker 4: the same stuff. It's just that we do a job

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Speaker 4: that can sometimes be confronting and challenging.

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Speaker 3: And that's what it is. That's what it is.

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Speaker 4: And you know, it's about remembering just see as you

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Speaker 4: find and not everybody in all walks of life are

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Speaker 4: going to be good people. But for the most part,

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Speaker 4: my colleagues and I are just normal people trying to

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Speaker 4: do a difficult job.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and in that group of people that run towards

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Speaker 1: tough things while the rest of us are running away

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Speaker 1: from them.

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Speaker 2: So respect to that.

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Speaker 5: I've been something fundamental with Australia. How many shifts did

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Speaker 5: you do during the day in Australia before you felt

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Speaker 5: you went, oh, I think I need a bit more

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Speaker 5: sun to him, that's so creat because it's just one

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Speaker 3: It's day one I was just very conscious of.

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Speaker 4: So my first shift actually was Christmas Day, so that was.

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Speaker 3: My first shift. So it's very much like sun cream on.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, take care of it.

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Speaker 1: I have.

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Speaker 4: I have been a bit, you know, I've got about

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Speaker 4: a couple of times when you can't put the sun.

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Speaker 3: Cream on because you're just stuck at a job.

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Speaker 4: But you know, I'm lucky enough to ride the bikes

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Speaker 4: around the city as well, so you see.

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Speaker 1: Them, right, Okay, Well I will give you a wave

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Speaker 1: because I sometimes said the bikes.

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Speaker 2: Were heading out here.

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Speaker 1: West Coast Cops premieres tonight at seven thirty on Channel nine.

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Speaker 1: Sergeant Ben Woods, thanks for coming. In and welcome to

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Speaker 1: you know, to doing it here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, welcome and I see I've got

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Speaker 5: a big head mate. Now you're famous.

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Speaker 1: Okay, they'll be lining up to get arrested now yeah,