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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Earlier this week, police arrested a man who jumped into

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Speaker 2: a lagoon in Girowen to evade officers after allegedly crashing

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Speaker 2: through the fence of someone's home. Extra resources were deployed

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Speaker 2: to help arrest the thirty two year old who allegedly

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Speaker 2: tried to grab an officer's gun. Now, the Dog Operations

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Speaker 2: Unit were among those who responded to that incident. And well,

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Speaker 2: I'm pleased to say that joining me in the studio

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Speaker 2: right now, I've got Senior Sergeant Meacham King, Good morning

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Speaker 2: to you. I'm very well. And then I've also got

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Speaker 2: Seenior Constable first Class matthew Anwen, Good morning to you, Matt.

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Speaker 2: And we've also Gosh in the studio brand new patrol dog, Leo,

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Speaker 2: little puppy dog. Leo's only nine weeks old.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you addition to the fleet weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: And we're keeping a very close eye on him because

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Speaker 2: the last time we had one of the new recruits

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Speaker 2: in the studio, they did their business behind me and

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Speaker 2: I could not stop laughing or dry reachings.

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Speaker 3: I We're just hoping for the best one of your

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Speaker 3: chairs right now, so.

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Speaker 2: That's okay that we can manage now let's talk about

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Speaker 2: this incident. First, taught me through what's alleged to have

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Speaker 2: happened in this incident and how the police managed to

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Speaker 2: get this blog out of the lagoon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so the Humptydo police responded to a report of

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Speaker 1: a single vehicle crash on the corner of Guirrowine Road

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Speaker 1: and Daniel Road Daniel Circuit out in Herbert Guirrowine area.

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Speaker 1: When they've arrived, the driver, who we believe was the

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Speaker 1: single occupant, has fled the scene. And we got some

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Speaker 1: reports not long after that of some of a male

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Speaker 1: matching the description of the driver behaving in an unusual manner.

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Speaker 1: He entered a couple of properties, he was in somebody's

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Speaker 1: shed and he climbed up a power pole and just

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Speaker 1: displaying some unusual behavior. So when he's spotted the police

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Speaker 1: come during their patrols, he's fled from them, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: we've deployed pity wedge to track through a couple of

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Speaker 1: rural blocks and then out towards Christian's Lagoon. And who

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Speaker 1: spotted him out in the middle of the water. And

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Speaker 1: initially I thought is that him or is that just

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Speaker 1: a dude going for a swim and then I thought, no,

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Speaker 1: that's him. That's silly. Nobody else would do that. Who's

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Speaker 1: sound mind. The residents believe that there isn't but it

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Speaker 1: does look very Crocodiley in there.

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Speaker 2: You never know in the northern right. Yeah, And so

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Speaker 2: what happened next.

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Speaker 1: We sort of coordinated surrounding the billabong to try and

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Speaker 1: make sure that he couldn't escape into bush land. And

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Speaker 1: there's a number of rural blocks that sort of surround

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Speaker 1: that billabong as well. And then we called we called

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Speaker 1: for assistance from our search rescue section and they came

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Speaker 1: down with a with a tinny to try and get

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Speaker 1: him out of the water. He provided. He was actually

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Speaker 1: in there for a little over two hours, so he's

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Speaker 1: I think he might have been suffering from a little

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Speaker 1: hypothermia by the end of it, and I wulder thought

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Speaker 1: he'd be happy to get out, But he tried to

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Speaker 1: attack the members and grab hold of one of the

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Speaker 1: take him into custody without without too much incident.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank goodness, because he sounds like he was erratic.

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Speaker 2: He sounds like he was dangerous, I mean, trying to

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Speaker 2: grab one of the officer's firearms is a pretty frightening situation.

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Speaker 2: So well done to the police on apprehending that bloke.

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Speaker 2: And also, I guess demonstrating the way in which the

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Speaker 2: police dogs, those patrol dogs get involved. And I mean

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Speaker 2: we've heard it before on this show. Certainly Wedge and

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Speaker 2: Drags regulars on the show, and we know the wonderful

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Speaker 2: work that they do. But this is why we've sort

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Speaker 2: of got the next generation of dogs coming up through

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Speaker 2: the ranks as well.

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Speaker 3: Right, we just got another ties, but it mattered and

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Speaker 3: turned up with the dog. He would have been run

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Speaker 3: off of the bush. We'd had to launch a search

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Speaker 3: for him, significant amount of resources would have to be allocated.

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Speaker 3: Obviously he was unwell. But Wedge manager to pick the

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Speaker 3: matt tracked him. We got him in the lagoon search

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Speaker 3: wherest you deployed, got him out of the water really quickly.

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Speaker 3: So great example of the acids and special response divisions

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Speaker 3: to do that. But if the dog never had the

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Speaker 3: opportunity to track him, we wouldn't know where he was.

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Speaker 3: We might have picked him up by drying a helicopters,

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Speaker 3: but yeah, one hundred percent much harder, wouldn't Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: That's why it's important to get these little ones brought

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Speaker 3: in because, as I said, with Wedge Tracks and a

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Speaker 3: few others retiring next year, it takes two years to

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Speaker 3: develop them, and we can start investing in the dogs,

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Speaker 3: in the handlers and start raising them up.

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Speaker 2: Well. Part of their training really is to come into

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Speaker 2: the mix one O four nine studio for a bit

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Speaker 3: Of an induction process for.

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Speaker 2: Him on now, how what like Leo is so little?

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Speaker 2: Still he is absolutely gorgeous. It's hard to imagine that

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Speaker 2: these beautiful little fellow's going to end up being a

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Speaker 2: patrol dog that is literally, you know, catching criminals across

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Speaker 2: the Northern Territory. Yep, what level of trainings you got

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Speaker 2: to get under way?

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Speaker 1: Initially, it will start with a whole bunch of this

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Speaker 1: sort of this sort of exposure, exposing him to a

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Speaker 1: number of different environments and social situations where he sees

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Speaker 1: people and other dogs. And I promise, So I did

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Speaker 1: give him a chance to go to the toilet. I

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Speaker 1: didn't anticipate the vomit. He's just done on the floor there,

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Speaker 1: Sorry about that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So we'll keep him pretty indes of your eye

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Speaker 3: up here to get settled. Then we're going to send

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Speaker 3: him to Alice Springs. Adam the hand is down there

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Speaker 3: is going to take him and take take him on

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Speaker 3: with ob his dog and just raise him up. Whould

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Speaker 3: be good to get exposed to Alison. They can all

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Speaker 3: see the puppies. And then then in about probably about

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Speaker 3: a years twelve months time, we'll do our assessment whether

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Speaker 3: we keep him, and then we'll work out which ham

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Speaker 3: is going to take him on from there.

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Speaker 2: Now, how's the last police dog at last? The little

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Speaker 2: puppy that came in, he's like a gangly team one hundred.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's doubled in size now, running him up, chewing

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Speaker 3: things and digging holes. His tails weapon around every where.

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Speaker 3: But here, yeah, very fax and dogs remembers. A lot

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Speaker 3: of us were raising when we first got him. But

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Speaker 3: he is a great Dog's definitely shown the traits and

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Speaker 3: want for their things.

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Speaker 2: So how big is the canine unit? Now? How many

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Speaker 2: dogs have we got operating across the end?

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Speaker 3: Patrol? Dog wise? We're still nine. There's three hours springs

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Speaker 3: and six and do one with our springs is only

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Speaker 3: one operational two about the come operational a couple of months.

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Speaker 3: But there's the six operational handers in patrol. Old Daily

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Speaker 3: had to get some back surgery. He's going to get

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Speaker 3: his final assessment next month. He's been off about five

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Speaker 3: months so spinal surgery, so he should be up and

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Speaker 3: running with him two months, two to three months and

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Speaker 3: we're back to full steam. So yeah, we always do

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Speaker 3: it more, but with the work they do, there are

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Speaker 3: definitely fource multipliers. And then we have the nine drug

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Speaker 3: dog handlers with the group Group Catherine, Alison Darwen and

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Speaker 3: they're doing fantastic work.

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Speaker 2: They do an incredible job, an incredible job. We'll look

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Speaker 2: our listeners absolutely love it when the police puppies come in,

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Speaker 2: so we'll make sure we get some videos, some photos

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Speaker 2: to put up on the mix one oh four nine

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Speaker 2: Facebook page. Meecham Matt thank you both very much for

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Speaker 2: coming in and really for bringing Leo in. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's my favorite part of my job getting to meet

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Speaker 2: the police dogs. Thank you so much for your time

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Speaker 2: this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you