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Speaker 1: I know, we know that there was some terrible vision

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Speaker 1: emerge over the weekend on social media. It has also

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Speaker 1: ended up making national news headlines. This incident outside the

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Speaker 1: hotel near the airport, which sees a group of people

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Speaker 1: causing a ruckus before someone in a four wheel drive

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Speaker 1: use appears to run down at least one person. Now

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Speaker 1: joining me in the studio to talk more about this

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Speaker 1: and also about the crime statistics is Commander of Darwin

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Speaker 1: and Roade Policing, Danny Bacon. Good morning to you, Danny. Danny,

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Speaker 1: what happened on the weekend with this incident near the hotel.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the incident could in regards to I suppose it's

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Speaker 2: a spillover from what I regards to feuding families. So

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Speaker 2: that the footage has been captured there encapsulated some of

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Speaker 2: the circumstances of going both that feuding. The gentleman that

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Speaker 2: was struck by the vehicle that's been spoken to, he's

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Speaker 2: got no significant injuries from that. We're obtaining a statement

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Speaker 2: from him. We're making a number of inquiries and wegaringing

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Speaker 2: the offenders involving that melle and that matter has been

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Speaker 2: a sign to our serious.

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Speaker 1: Crime era goodness me, so a couple of families here

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Speaker 1: from what I and unfortunately engaged in some pretty poor behavior.

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Speaker 2: Very very poor behavior, in fact, criminal behavior. So yes,

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Speaker 2: they are from that community, and I suppose Darwin is

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Speaker 2: feeling some of that displacement given some of the issues

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Speaker 2: affecting that community that currently is and Darwin really over

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Speaker 2: this the last wet season has you know, I suppose

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Speaker 2: received a significant amount of displaced people. Generally speaking, we

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Speaker 2: average around seven hundred itinerants within the Greater Darin area,

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Speaker 2: and you know through our wet season that increased significantly

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Speaker 2: to around three thousand. So that number has gone down

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Speaker 2: greatly with the assistance of our partners, particularly Larrakee Nation

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Speaker 2: returned to country, but also you know, with the ranges,

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Speaker 2: with the town councils and other service providers as well.

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Speaker 2: So I think we're looking now at that terrant cohort

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Speaker 2: certainly under a thousand now and probably around it six

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Speaker 1: So Okay, that's a big decrease compared to what we've

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Speaker 2: It's a large decrease and certainly I'm certainly not putting

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Speaker 2: some of a lot of the behavior on those particular

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Speaker 2: been associated with them.

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Speaker 1: Hey, just on that incident. Firstly, you said that the

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Speaker 1: victim was okay, yes, yep, was that car stolen?

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Speaker 2: Information that we have is yes, the vehicle was style

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Speaker 1: Time, And has anybody been arrested at this point or

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Speaker 1: still outstanding?

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Speaker 2: All offenders for that particular matter are outstanding. But the

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Speaker 2: individuals or some of the individuals are known to police

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Speaker 2: and there's some active investigation ongoing. We're still calling on

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Speaker 2: members of the public that certainly have any further information

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Speaker 2: that could assist us with that investigation to come forward. Now.

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Speaker 1: I know there's been some sort of discussion on well,

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Speaker 1: on social media, some saying that the police appeared to

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Speaker 1: be driving away from the incident, but that wasn't the case,

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Speaker 2: No, we're involved in a short purship with that particular

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Speaker 2: vehicle at a time, and then that ship was discontinued.

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Speaker 2: But no, yeah, we didn't drive away from that particular area.

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Speaker 1: Though, No. So obviously we are still still waiting to

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Speaker 1: apprehend those offenders. But definitely the police are calling for

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Speaker 1: himfel if you've got any information that could assist one

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Speaker 1: three one, triple four is the best number to call through.

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Speaker 1: Now let's move along because we know that the crime

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Speaker 1: and some of the numbers are a real worry. In Darwin,

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Speaker 1: those commercial break ins up eighty seven percent. I know

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Speaker 1: in Palmerston as well they are up about eighty three percent.

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Speaker 1: Commercial break ins in the likes of Alice, which I

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Speaker 1: know you're not Commander for Alice Springs or Catherine, but

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Speaker 1: Alice Springs up seventy four percent, Catherine similar Sturing ninety

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Speaker 2: Commander.

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Speaker 1: There is obviously some real issues right now when it

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Speaker 1: comes to those commercial break ins. Also, home homes being

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Speaker 2: It certainly is, and those figures are horrendously high, But

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Speaker 2: there are some figures that are low as well. You know,

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Speaker 2: the house break ins are at seventeen percent, were commercial

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Speaker 2: expecting these to come down. This is at a period

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Speaker 2: of time. We're now our large itinerant cohort were with

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Speaker 2: there's people searching for alcohol, particularly those commercial premises that

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Speaker 2: looking for alcohol those times. So we hope to see

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Speaker 2: those figures come down significantly given the work that the

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Speaker 2: proactive work that a lot of our stakeholder are actually

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Speaker 1: So I suppose if I can break it down a

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Speaker 1: There's people being arrested when they're drinking publicly if they're

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Speaker 1: doing the wrong thing. So obviously that's been introduced to

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Speaker 2: OP Newhammer is basically anti social behavior operation or team.

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Speaker 2: We have two specific arms of those teams, one at

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Speaker 2: one that Parmesan looking after Litchfield and Parma scenario. They

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Speaker 2: also our Lawyer Care Patrol and we also partners those

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Speaker 2: So it's a been more coordinated in that space with

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Speaker 2: and reduce that area there and that's, as I said,

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Speaker 2: had some significant wins in regards to you know, I

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Speaker 1: And what about them with the youth crime or with

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Speaker 1: the youth offending. What work's being done by the territory

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Speaker 1: police to try to combat that.

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Speaker 2: Strike force trident is our primary. I suppose strike force

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Speaker 2: that looks at a youth offending, particularly in Greater Dayen area.

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Speaker 2: They are a well well worked team. It's when offense occurs,

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Speaker 2: generally speaking, the clear uprate is very high with that

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Speaker 2: particular team they know, they know the offenders, they know

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Speaker 2: doesn't help with the volume of crime. So all we

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Speaker 2: that youth in their current family environment or what environment

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Speaker 2: that they're currently operating in.

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Speaker 1: So now, just with that mentioned that you'd said at

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Speaker 1: the start about that incident you know in Jingly where

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Speaker 1: it had actually been families from what air involved, How

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Speaker 1: are things going out in what air? I know that

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Speaker 1: it's obviously not your command, but how are things going

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Speaker 2: I couldn't give you an operation down on the ground today,

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Speaker 2: but certainly I know that government and a lot of

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Speaker 2: the government service providers are working with the community out

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Speaker 2: there to look at how they can assist with community

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Speaker 2: safety in that particular region. Nothing in what air can

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Speaker 2: be sold overnight. A lot of the issues and what

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Speaker 2: go about generations between family groups and skin groups. So

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Speaker 2: it's unfortunately a slow process, but it's a process that

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Speaker 2: all service providers need to be engaged in, and all

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Speaker 2: elders in the community need to be engaged in because

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Speaker 2: that's the only way that things can be addressed in

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Speaker 2: that particular community.

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Speaker 1: Well, Danny Bacon, the commander of Darwin and Road Policing,

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Speaker 1: we might have to leave it there actually before I

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Speaker 1: let you go, just very quickly, how did things go

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Speaker 1: with the supercar on the weekend? Did people generally behave

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Speaker 1: pretty well on our roads?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely fantastic, Absolutely fantastic on our roads, but also absolutely

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Speaker 2: fantastic within the venue itself. It was really pleasing to

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Speaker 2: see the crowd behavior, as I said, in the venue,

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Speaker 2: but also outside the venue was great. We had a

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Speaker 2: huge increase with our traffic enforcement obviously leading up to

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Speaker 2: the weekend the weekend itself given the nature of the event,

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Speaker 2: and we had very insignificant offending and very low level.

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Speaker 2: So you know, credit to the territories that attended that event,

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Speaker 2: and we're driving around our roads because it was a

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Speaker 2: great result.

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Speaker 1: Good to hear well, Danny. Always good to catch up

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Speaker 1: with you. Thank you so very much for your time

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Speaker 1: this morning. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thanks you