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Speaker 1: Joining me live in this studio right now is the

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Speaker 1: acting Police Commander for the Greater Darwin Region, David Moore.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, David.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katie and to your listeners.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Now I understand it's actually been quite a busy night

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Speaker 1: for the Northern Territory Police.

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Speaker 2: Talk us through what's happened around Darwin.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks, Katie.

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Speaker 4: Look, overnight about six am yesterday morning, please received a

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Speaker 4: phone call from staff in relation from the Hilton Gardens Inn,

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Speaker 4: Darwin City. They advised they'd just disturbed multiple uths that

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Speaker 4: were breaking into a restaurant there. They described those uses

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Speaker 4: wearing a shirt wrapped with around their head and one

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Speaker 4: of them actually was armed with a hammer and they

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Speaker 4: were last seen running towards the Esperanade. So obviously pretty

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Speaker 4: shocking really and as a result of that, obviously through

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Speaker 4: our CCTV and our tried and officers were called on

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Speaker 4: the duty in relation to that. They did identify several

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Speaker 4: members of those us three were actually wearing electronic monitoring

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Speaker 4: devices and that is how we're able to track those

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Speaker 4: ues and their movements.

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Speaker 3: They did walk to.

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Speaker 4: A bus stop on Kavanagh Street, they caught a bus

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Speaker 4: in the city and that bus was obviously followed by

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Speaker 4: Trieden and upon hopping off the bus, they're actually apprehended

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Speaker 4: on back at Raid caconut Grave at about six thirty

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Speaker 2: So was that this morning or yesterday morning? This morning?

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Speaker 3: So I came chasing him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, five male us were taken into custody and their

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Speaker 4: ages ranged from thirteen, fourteen and fifteen. All five are

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Speaker 4: on bar for extensive involvements with police which obviously wow,

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Speaker 4: it's quite alarming. A fifteen year old youth is also

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Speaker 4: lested to an assault that occurred at Casarina yesterday Casarina itself,

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Speaker 4: so there's obviously other offending that's occurred. All us are

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Speaker 4: believed to be involved in multiple incidents that have occurred

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Speaker 4: between Casarina Square, Meworhead Darwin City, and that was between

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Speaker 4: yesterday and obviously this morning.

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Speaker 3: So what I would say, obviously some.

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Speaker 4: Great work obviously by our triedy members and by the

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Speaker 4: CCTV operator which led to those arrests. There were multiple

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Speaker 4: offenses obviously that US were causing and as a result

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Speaker 4: now there in custody.

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Speaker 1: So five male youths I've now been arrested aged thirteen,

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Speaker 1: fourteen and fifteen. I mean, it sounds like they've been

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Speaker 1: running a mark obviously caught this morning at the Hilton

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Speaker 1: Garden with a claw hammer, with a hammer, most a hammer, sorry, okay,

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Speaker 1: with a hammer.

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Speaker 2: Just tell me as well.

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Speaker 1: In terms of that assault that it occurred at Casuarina,

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Speaker 1: do you have any more detail on that?

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Speaker 4: No, I don't unfortunately on that, but I know that

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Speaker 4: it did occur obviously yesterday, but I don't have any

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Speaker 4: more information on that at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Now all of them, did you say, had ankle monitoring

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Speaker 1: braces out of.

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Speaker 4: The five, four out of the five are ankle monitoring bracelets,

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Speaker 4: and that's how we're able to track them, and they

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Speaker 4: are all all five. Though of those youths were on

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Speaker 4: bail for further forfending previous so it probably goes towards Wow,

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Speaker 4: that's legislation that's just coming and there'll be some of

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Speaker 4: the charges that dot no doubt be resulting in relationships.

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Speaker 3: The matter will still matter obviously still.

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Speaker 2: Before yah, yeah, absolutely have they been reminded.

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Speaker 4: At this stage they're helping us with our inquiry, so

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Speaker 4: so it's still.

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Speaker 2: A bit of a way to go.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, I know, people listening are going to

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Speaker 1: be furious thinking to themselves. You know, four of them

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Speaker 1: Remand and it just points to, you know, the concerns

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Speaker 1: that I think a lot within the community have had.

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Speaker 1: It must feel sometimes for you guys when you are

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Speaker 1: dealing with some use that you know that you're coming

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's correct, Katie, and it is quite It does

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Speaker 4: There is volumes of youths that are obviously on our

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Speaker 4: i would say targeted for us, on our hot list

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Speaker 3: That it continue to reoffend.

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Speaker 4: But as a result of that, obviously we're very active

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Speaker 1: The moment, David, do you know how much damage they've caused,

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Speaker 1: you know, in terms of what they've like, what they've

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Speaker 1: done over the last twenty four hours, you know, do

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Speaker 3: I don't, Cady.

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Speaker 4: In the reason I say that is because it's still

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Speaker 4: still a lot of that information's coming in and that

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Speaker 4: will form part of our prosecution brief, so I probably

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Speaker 4: won't allude to some of the information that I may have,

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Speaker 4: but nevertheless, there's still obviously victims that may be contacted.

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Speaker 4: But obviously if anyone has any further information, please contact

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Speaker 4: police on one three one triple four.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely good advice and no doubt still piecing it

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Speaker 1: all together. But as you've touched on there as well,

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Speaker 1: really important if there is somebody that's been impacted by

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Speaker 1: I hear people go, oh, I'm not going to report it.

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Speaker 2: It was just this, or it was just that.

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Speaker 1: But it can help you guys in terms of putting

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Speaker 1: all of that level of detail together that contest.

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Speaker 4: It does Cardie, it does give us that timeline, and

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Speaker 4: it does help with prosecution, and obviously prosecution for user

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Speaker 4: sometimes is not where we want to be heading, obviously,

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Speaker 4: but nevertheless, in this particular case, with serious offending whilst

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Speaker 4: on bail wearing electronic monitoring devices, you don't get hooked

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Speaker 4: up with electronic monitoring devices and left there's a genuine

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, Hey, I want to ask you about a

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Speaker 1: pressure release that was issued yesterday, we know the Northern

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Speaker 1: Territory Police have arrested a youth after an alleged attempted

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Speaker 1: sexual assault in Woodroff on Monday. At about seven thirty pm,

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Speaker 1: as I understand it, police received a report that a

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Speaker 1: woman was allegedly sexually assaulted in the vicinity of Verena

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks, Katie.

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Speaker 4: Look not a very nice instidment to talk about it all,

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Speaker 4: but nevertheless, what I can say is that at seven

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Speaker 4: our sexual assault had occurred at that address. As you've highlighted,

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Speaker 4: we can say that a sixteen year old male has

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Speaker 4: been arrested in relation to it. He currently does remain

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Speaker 4: sexual intercourse without consent and aggravated assault.

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Speaker 3: What I'd like to say.

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Speaker 4: On that, and obviously protecting the victim he's a fair

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Speaker 4: bit and the circumstances. I won't go into details of

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Speaker 4: is no domestic relationship.

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Speaker 3: There's been a stout wish however, they are known.

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Speaker 4: To each other, Okay, but I would like to further say,

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Speaker 3: Obviously that's before the courts.

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Speaker 4: But the tectors from Sex Crimes Unit continue to investigate

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Speaker 4: that incident. We urge an you under contact police obviously

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Speaker 4: on one three to one, triple four of crime Stoppers

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Speaker 4: on one eight double zero, triple three, triple zero if

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Speaker 4: they have any information as a result of that incident.

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Speaker 1: All right, So just to repeat, no domestic relationship between

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Speaker 1: those two people, the victim and the offender, but they.

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Speaker 2: Were known to one another, correctly.

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Speaker 1: Another incident that I do want to ask you about.

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Speaker 1: We all saw yesterday the vision that had really done

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Speaker 1: the rounds of a bus driver being assaulted. Now the

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Speaker 1: vision was actually from an incident as I understand it,

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Speaker 1: back in September. But has there been some movement from

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there has.

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Speaker 4: I can report obviously that the incident occurred on the

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Speaker 3: It was in Pinelands.

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Speaker 4: It occurred on a bus on the Stewart Highway when

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Speaker 4: it was traveling through Pinelands. Actual driver of the bus

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Speaker 4: itself was forced to stop and the offender actually fled

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Speaker 3: But what's occurred.

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Speaker 4: Is that obviously is a serious assault that's occurred as

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Speaker 4: them coming to work and feeling safe. More importantly, also

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Speaker 4: that the people getting on the bus want to have

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Speaker 3: So it is a horrible incident. Nevertheless, we have an

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Speaker 2: Yep. I'm glad to hear that now.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, just before we wrap up for the morning, I

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Speaker 1: understand that our road deaths have risen very sadly. The

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Speaker 1: Territory for this year now stands at fifty two. That

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Speaker 1: follows on from an incident that had occurred a.

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Speaker 2: Little earlier, well last week I think in Burry Springs.

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Speaker 1: But unfortunately, that driver, as I understand is now succumbed

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's correct, Katie.

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Speaker 4: So what I do know is that it occurred at

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Speaker 4: four pm on Tuesday, the fifteenth of October. We did

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Speaker 4: it is tragic. It's not a statistic we're very proud

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Speaker 4: of and shouldn't be as territory as fifty two. My

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Speaker 4: message probably to the community to obviously really take care

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Speaker 4: and to really just pay attention to other road news

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Speaker 4: is because that's statistic that we don't want to continue.

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Speaker 1: No, absolutely, and we're about to sort of head into

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Speaker 1: as you touched on the wet season, but also that

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Speaker 1: busier time of the year as well around the Christmas

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Speaker 1: break where people get out.

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Speaker 2: On the roads.

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Speaker 1: You know, they maybe go away or head into state

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Speaker 1: or whatever. But so, I mean, we're just in a

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Speaker 1: situation where it's too many lives lost on our territory roads.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's correct, Katie, and you're spot on when it

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Speaker 4: comes to it, particularly our Christmas period. We have a

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Speaker 4: which is fantastic, but obviously they need to be mindful

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Speaker 4: It is something a little bit by slowing down, by

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Speaker 4: You never want to need to rush somewhere to be

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Speaker 4: on time, where you can just be there when you.

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Speaker 1: Need to be absolutely well, acting a commander for the

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Speaker 1: Greater Darwin Region, David Moore, really appreciate your time this morning,

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Speaker 1: and you know, well done to the police on those

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Speaker 1: arrests from overnight as well those five years that were

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Speaker 1: all on bail.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Katie my pleasure, thank you