1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Now joining us live in the studio is the head 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: of Strikeforce Strident, Detective Senior Sergeant Darren Burns. Good morning 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: to you, Good morning, thanks for joining us in the studio. 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: Now just move that microphone a tiny bit closer for you. 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: Thank you. 6 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 2: Now. 7 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: Yesterday afternoon, about three pm in Alaura, I understand Strikeforce 8 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: Strident was involved in an arrest after a stolen vehicle. 9 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 2: Is that right, Yeah, that's correct. It was Annulla in 10 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 2: the Northern suburbs. That vehicle was stolen over the weekend 11 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 2: from a residence in gun and at about three o'clock 12 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 2: yesterday afternoon, we were notified by a member of the 13 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 2: public who'd recognized that vehicle as being stolen, that it 14 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 2: was in the Northern suburbs and it was actively driving around. 15 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 2: She called us directly, which was great. The team deployed 16 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,559 Speaker 2: along with members of the Dog Operations Unit. They set 17 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:48,919 Speaker 2: up a cordon, located the vehicle and a short time 18 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,480 Speaker 2: later a small pursuit commenced intro through a school zone 19 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 2: and for safety reasons, was terminated, which is the right decision. 20 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 2: The vehicle unfortunately failed to take the next turn and 21 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 2: crashed through fence of a residence and the offenders fled 22 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 2: the location. 23 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: Yeah right, so crash through that fence they've fled. What 24 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: happened next? 25 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 2: The Dog Operations Unit and Trident again established a great 26 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 2: cordon and a short time later, a twelve year old 27 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 2: male it's correction, a twelve year old female and eleven 28 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 2: year old male and a sixteen year old male were 29 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 2: taken into custody. 30 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: I mean, Darren, they are so young to be behind 31 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: the wheel of a car as well. 32 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, an a stolen car in a pursuit. Eleven year 33 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 2: old in that vehicle is it's very surprising. 34 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: Like, it blows my mind. I've got kids that are 35 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: around that age, so it absolutely blows my mind to 36 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: then think of them in a vehicle driving around and 37 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: the danger that they're putting themselves in, but also the 38 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: danger to everybody else. 39 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 2: On the road. Look, it's inherently risky any kind of 40 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 2: police pursuit, but with those youth offenders it obviously exacerbates 41 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 2: that risk. 42 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: So where are things at now? So obviously you guys 43 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: arrested them yesterday AVO. 44 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct. The eleven year old was later released 45 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 2: for youth diversions eligible for itxteen year old male and 46 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 2: the twelve year old female were reminded in custody over 47 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 2: night to face court today. 48 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: Okay, so no doubt we'll hear some further detail in 49 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: that space as it comes to hand. Hey, on Monday 50 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: as well, the Northern Territory Police Strike Force Trident. Of course, 51 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: an adult male and two male youths were arrested following 52 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: an aggravated burglary and assault police incident that occurred in Palmerston. 53 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: What exactly happened out there? 54 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a break in at the Bakewell shopping center. 55 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 2: Those youths were chased on foot away away from the offending. 56 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 2: As one of the Trident members attempted to arrest one 57 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 2: of the youths, the twenty three year old male completely unrelated, 58 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 2: decided to intervene and assaulted that member by punching him 59 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 2: to the head. 60 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: So someone who had nothing to do, nothing. 61 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 2: To do with it and punched the member. He's okay. 62 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 2: He deployed OC spray and detained both of those offenders. 63 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: Good on him. I mean that's horrible though, for him 64 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: to be punched in the head while he's out there 65 00:02:58,400 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: doing his job. 66 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 2: Really really senior, well respected member as well, yeah, yeah, 67 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 2: very calm member. So for it to happen to him, 68 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 2: it's to happen to any police officers bad enough. 69 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, well I hope he's all right. I mean, 70 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: that's as I say, it's not acceptable. Nobody goes to 71 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: work and expects to have to face those kinds of dangers. 72 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: But I know that it's something that our Northern Territory 73 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: Police deal with regularly. Unfortunately now Darren also then there'd 74 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: been some vision which had gone I think it's safe 75 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: to say to being sort of had gone fairly viral 76 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: online of an incident that occurred I believe it Nirvana 77 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: last week, where this this guy's inside the restaurant with 78 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: a pole I think it is, or was it a 79 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: machete a pole and looking very very erratic, pretty scary 80 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: for the person who was in there working. I understand 81 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: that Strikeforce Trident then took carriage of this one just yesterday. 82 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 2: Was just yesterday we took carriage of that, and so 83 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 2: where are things at? 84 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: You're obviously you were trying to locate this bloke. 85 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 2: He was immediately identified by the team. He was located 86 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 2: late yesterday afternoon and I'm happy to say taken into custody. 87 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 2: He's a nineteen year old male and he was reminded 88 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 2: overnight again to face court today. 89 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: So obviously if he's immediately identified by you guys, you've 90 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: seen that vision and gone, we know who this person is. 91 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 2: Rather Yeah, the team definitely knew who he was. 92 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, I don't know whether it's something you can 93 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: or cannot say, but to me, it looked like he 94 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: was heavily impacted by drugs or buy something and erratic. 95 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 2: He appeared intoxicated. 96 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, it's a frightening situation. I think then for 97 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: anybody that's sort of near somebody that is in that 98 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: kind of state, whether they're intoxicated or whatever they've potentially taken. 99 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: I mean, like, I don't really know what I guess 100 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 1: the best thing for people to do is call the 101 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: police right as fast as they can. 102 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and police will try to respond as quick 103 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 2: as we can obviously try to avoid any kind of confrontation. 104 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 2: We don't recommend it at all. Yeah, just cool police. 105 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 1: Hey, one of the other incidents had occurred last week. 106 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: It was actually on Wednesday last week, so about a 107 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: week ago, we got a phone call from a dear 108 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 1: friend of the show Sue Shearer, who's the CEO of 109 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: the Counsel of the aging. She had said to us 110 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: that she'd just been a victim of an incident a 111 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: little bit earlier in the morning where these youths that 112 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: allegedly assaulted her. One of them, as I understand from 113 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,679 Speaker 1: what she'd said, thrown a rock at her. I believed 114 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: strike Force strident. You guys were the ones who then 115 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 1: arrested them a little bit later, I think that same day. 116 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct, there was a police officer just walking 117 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 2: past her intervene. The youths ran away from there, but 118 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 2: they were later apprehended. They committed some further offending out 119 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 2: in drama later in that afternoon. They're well known to us. 120 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 2: They were taken back into custody and put back before 121 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 2: the court. 122 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 1: Darren, obviously, you know, looking at those incidents that have 123 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: occurred over the last week, I know it's always busy 124 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: time for you guys, but for Tried. You know, like 125 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: there was a while there where I was catching up 126 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: with your crew, hearing from them almost daily about some 127 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: of the issues that they were dealing with. How are 128 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: things going at the moment from your PERSPECTI. 129 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 2: Look, we in relation to property crime in daw And 130 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 2: we're definitely seeing a downward trend, which is great. The 131 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,039 Speaker 2: offending is still occurring, and if you're the victim of 132 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 2: the offense, it's traumatic, it would be quite confronting, but 133 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 2: statistically the property crime is heading in the right direction 134 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 2: for us. It's good. We're seeing the bail laws be effective, 135 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 2: our reserves. Offenders are spending longer inside, which is great, 136 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 2: pretty common sense. 137 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: Well especially for you guys, because that is one of 138 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: the things that I was hearing pretty often is that 139 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 1: you would be you know, you'd be making those arrests 140 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: and then almost a couple of days later, you're potentially 141 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,039 Speaker 1: seeing those same people again. 142 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 2: Well often on the same day, often before the team's 143 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:42,119 Speaker 2: knocked off, we'll find out that those offenders had received bail. 144 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: That's crazy. 145 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 2: And whilst that may still occur on occasions, we're definitely 146 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 2: seeing it track in the right direction. 147 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that is a good thing, I know, like 148 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: you touched on, I think it's a really important point 149 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: to make that even when you do see those trends, 150 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: sometimes if you're a victim of crime, it doesn't mean 151 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: a lot to you. You know, you're still to buy 152 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 1: those issues, But you guys I know out there work 153 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: and bloody hard. There is no doubt about that Strikeforce Strident. 154 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: I have no doubt that when somebody does or are 155 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: the victim of one of those property crimes or some 156 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: of that other offending, you guys are out there trying 157 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: to help people. So I know there's a lot of 158 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: our listeners that appreciate that work. So good to catch 159 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: up with you this morning. Thanks so much for your time. 160 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: Detective Senior Sergeant Darren BYRNS, who's the head of Strikeforce Strident. 161 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us.