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Speaker 1: We know Northern Territory police will be out enforced this

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Speaker 1: Easter as part of Operation Thalan. To talk more about

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Speaker 1: it is anti traffic Police, Acting Senior Sergeant Craig gill Us. Craig,

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Speaker 1: good morning, go on, Maddie, here you go. Well, thank you, Craig. Craig.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little bit more about Operation Thalan?

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Speaker 1: Is it Thalan or Salean.

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Speaker 2: Salon? I'm calling you? Let's it differently.

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Speaker 1: Let's take that one go with that. What will police

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Speaker 1: be targeting in their Easter blitz?

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Speaker 2: Okay, going to be after the normal things, the drink

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Speaker 2: and drug driving and unroadworthy vehicles. And we'll also ask

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Speaker 2: people to make sure that the their boat, trailer, camper, trailer,

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Speaker 2: caravans and all that sort of thing registered because some

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Speaker 2: of these, obviously because of COVID won not have been

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Speaker 2: used for over twelve months. And we'd hope for your

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Speaker 2: easter plans to get sidelined by us, and you can't

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Speaker 2: tow your boat or tow your caravans the holiday destination

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Speaker 2: until you get it registered, Craig.

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Speaker 1: Will police have extra resources out on the road policing this, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, will say your territory wide operation, and even

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Speaker 2: the Darwin traffic offices are going to be operating in

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Speaker 2: the rural area as well across the weekend. So no

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Speaker 2: matter where you go, you should see your presence of

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Speaker 2: us and be prepared to get pulled up at any

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Speaker 2: time for road worthy inspections, roadside breath tests and roadside

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Speaker 2: drug tests because ideally we just want to make sure

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Speaker 2: that everyone makes it a home over issa and everybody

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Speaker 2: has a good time.

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Speaker 1: Is there any areas of the territory in particular that

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Speaker 1: you'll be targeting or police will be stationed at well?

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Speaker 2: Like I said, it's a territory of wide operations for

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Speaker 2: all stations will be taking part. They said the Darwin

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Speaker 2: traffic ops were going to be around Adelaide, River, Bachelor, Jabboru,

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Speaker 2: Litchfield and that robbery, and obviously we'll be set up

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Speaker 2: around the city as well, and we're going to be

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Speaker 2: popping up all over the shop. So it might be

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Speaker 2: might just stop at one spot for fifteen minutes and

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Speaker 2: we'll move on, so you won't know where we are.

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Speaker 2: So if you rely on Facebook saying but where there's

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Speaker 2: an RBT on this ring to that by the time

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Speaker 2: we get there, we would have moved, and obviously you

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Speaker 2: just don't want anybody to any the offenses that we're

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Speaker 2: looking for.

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Speaker 1: Graig, can you talk us through if Territorians are hitting

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Speaker 1: the road this easter, what do they need to do

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Speaker 1: to get their car ready, because obviously driving from Palmerston's

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Speaker 1: into the city each day might be very different driving

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Speaker 1: conditions and what your car should look like as opposed

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Speaker 1: to perhaps heading down to the Douglas Daily or Catherine,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe even down to Alice Springs.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's all the main things obviously. Oh, yes, the basics.

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Speaker 2: Make sure your tires have a tread or, your head

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Speaker 2: lights and lights work, your wife blades and your windscreen,

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Speaker 2: you know, make sure you're decent wife blades in cases

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Speaker 2: a trenchial downfall, obviously there were your lights working. And

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Speaker 2: as far as the trailers and all that, make sure

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Speaker 2: you got spent hires and things like that obviously, and

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Speaker 2: it's pretty much a general just have a quick overall

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Speaker 2: condition and if your vehicle that's means service for a while,

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Speaker 2: it might be an idea to get that done before

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Speaker 2: you start to head down the track, for instance, just

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Speaker 2: so it's nice and reliable and taste and obviously when

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Speaker 2: need to get your carts, so we'll generally tell if

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Speaker 2: there's any other parts of vehicles that need looking into

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Speaker 2: for a roadworthy point of view.

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Speaker 1: Craig, we're in that kind of middle ground between the

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Speaker 1: end of the wet and the start of the dry.

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Speaker 1: It is still quite overcast in the city today. What

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Speaker 1: are road conditions expected to be like over the east

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Speaker 1: to break.

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Speaker 2: I'm not entirely sure. I'm going to tell you what

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Speaker 2: I know historically over eas as you know, we get

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Speaker 2: the occasional downpours, it's going to be hot new but

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Speaker 2: I dare say so, just check the road reports and

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Speaker 2: if there is any local life flooding, because as you know,

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Speaker 2: can pop up. We'll get a couple of decent days

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Speaker 2: of rain and all of a sudden some of the

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Speaker 2: crossings are no longer passable. So one hundred percent checked

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Speaker 2: the road reports and obviously the PFS homepage of the

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Speaker 2: Anti Police because if we have road closures, they're generally

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Speaker 2: put up there as well. And it's the same thing

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Speaker 2: was pouring down of the rain or whatever. Turn on

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Speaker 2: your lights, slow down, drive to the conditions and make

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Speaker 2: sure you and your family and the other road us

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Speaker 2: just get home safely after the East long weekend.

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Speaker 1: And Craig, whilst this is obviously a road traffic operation,

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Speaker 1: will there be an increased police presence or will police

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Speaker 1: be out on the water as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't spoken to the fisheries apartment. I'm fairly

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Speaker 2: confident that the water police will be out and about

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Speaker 2: and obviously there being a long weekend, there'll be a

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Speaker 2: big foot print of our policeman Dalwin for the city

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Speaker 2: safe type stuff and it'll just be business as usual.

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Speaker 2: Everyone else has got a day off except for us,

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Speaker 2: and we generally have additional resources just to tackle areas

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Speaker 2: that we've known in the past could be problems.

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Speaker 1: Just finally, Craig, what is your final message for territory

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Speaker 1: and hitting the road over the easter break.

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Speaker 2: Drive nice, keep safe and be heard each other road

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Speaker 2: users and make sure you get home in one pace.

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Speaker 1: Great advice, Good on your Craig, Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Cheers, have a good day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you too. That is Anti Traffic Police Acting Senior

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Speaker 1: Sergeant Craig gill Us there with a reminder that Operation

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Speaker 1: thal And kicks off next week as part of that

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Speaker 1: easter traffic Blitz campaign, so police will be out in

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Speaker 1: force