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Speaker 1: Well, joining us in the studio is the Assistant Commissioner

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Speaker 1: of the Northern Territory Police, Matt Holland B. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning, Katie, and good morning to your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Now, unfortunately some terrible incidents in fact from overnight. I

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Speaker 1: might just start with the fact that the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: Police are investigating a fatal crash that occurred on Girrowen

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Speaker 1: Road involving a motor vehicle and two off road dirt motorcycles.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, Katie. About quarter past eight last night,

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Speaker 2: a car there was a report of a crash on

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Speaker 2: Girroween Road. Would appear that a car struck two dirt

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Speaker 2: bikes that were on the road. As a result of

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Speaker 2: fifteen year old died and a fourteen year old suffered

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Speaker 2: serious but non life threatening injury. So real tragedy for

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Speaker 2: those children, a real tragedy for their families. What I

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Speaker 2: will say is that a thirty eight year old man

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Speaker 2: who was driving, he stayed at the scene and provided

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Speaker 2: assistance and reported the crash to the police. Also, he

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Speaker 2: tested negative for alcohol and drugs and he's assisting police

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Speaker 2: with the investigation. So would appear two murder parks traveling

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Speaker 2: on a bitumin road at nighttime that didn't have lights

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Speaker 2: and they were struck by a car.

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Speaker 1: So do we have any idea if those if those

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Speaker 1: motorbikes were stolen or anything.

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Speaker 2: They're not reported stolen as far as we know, but

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Speaker 2: I will say condolences to the families. Yes, it's a

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Speaker 2: lifelong tragedy for them. Absolutely, it's also a lifelong tragedy

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Speaker 2: for the unfortunate driver who was just driving on Girowen Road.

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Speaker 3: It is absolutely terrible stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, Love, no doubt there'll be some further detail I'm

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Speaker 1: sure in relation to that.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately.

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Speaker 1: Also last night, Northern Territory police have arrested a man

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Speaker 1: following an altercation at a shopping center car park at Casharina.

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Speaker 3: Just after nine.

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Speaker 1: Pm, police received report of a serious stabbing incident involving

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Speaker 1: two men.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, Katie. About nine pm last night we

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Speaker 2: received a report of a serious stabbing at a shopping

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Speaker 2: center car park in Casherina. The best we can gather

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Speaker 2: at this stage is that the thirty nine year old

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Speaker 2: victim was walking in the car park when he was

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Speaker 2: confronted by another man. Confrontation seems to have stemmed from

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Speaker 2: alleged damage to the offender's vehicle leading to an argument.

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Speaker 2: It's alleged that the offender then produced a knife and

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Speaker 2: stabbed the man multiple times. So, in terms of the investigation,

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Speaker 2: a thirty two year old man was arrested yesterday evening

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Speaker 2: at Coconut Grove and he's currently assisting police at the

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Speaker 1: Do we have any idea how that thirty nine year

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Speaker 1: old victim is going at the moment.

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Speaker 2: As we understand, he's in a he was taken to

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Speaker 2: Royal day In Hospital. He's in a stable condition.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, it's not the first time that I've

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Speaker 1: heard about some bad incidents having at that Casuarina Squad

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Speaker 1: car park, you know.

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Speaker 3: Is that I'm assuming that's where it was.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to the best of my knowledge, that's where it was,

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Speaker 2: and it's at nine pm at nighttime, so you know,

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Speaker 2: usually the car park is mostly unintended at that point

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Speaker 2: in time. But it would seem that these two people

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I suppose for a lot of people listening, they're

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Speaker 1: going to be wondering because there are cafes or restaurants

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Speaker 1: and things that you can obviously access later in the

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Speaker 1: evening there at Casuarina. Is it safe to be able

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Speaker 1: to go, you know, to be able to be in

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Speaker 2: Look, this is a fairly isolated incident. What I will

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Speaker 2: say is that, you know, it's like anywhere in the world,

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Speaker 2: just take precautions at nighttime. You know, the obvious safety precautions,

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Speaker 2: and you know generally it's safe. There's security guards all

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Speaker 3: There's a water security around there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So but this was a one off incident that will

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Speaker 2: clearly disturb the community.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But what we can say is the offender was arrested

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Speaker 2: very quickly and is currently helping us with our enquiries.

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Speaker 3: But not known to each other.

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Speaker 2: That's our understanding is they don't know each other.

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Speaker 1: I guess to sort of to just kind of peel

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Speaker 1: it back a tiny bit. There is a lot of

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Speaker 1: anti social behavior that goes on around that area, and

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Speaker 1: the management and the security do their best to try

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Speaker 1: and to keep those issues under control. But I know,

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Speaker 1: even myself, I've been in that car park during the

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Speaker 1: It can be quite disconcerting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, it can be very confronting to some people.

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Speaker 2: And as I say, just take basic security preautions for

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Speaker 2: it's a need to be in a state of panic

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Speaker 2: at this point in time. But this is a one

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Speaker 2: off incident that will alarm and quite rightly should alarm our.

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Speaker 1: Community, and so serious crimes now taken carriage though of

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Speaker 1: that matter, Yes, they have.

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Speaker 2: That matter in hand and as I say, later early

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Speaker 2: this morning or yesterday afternoon, the thirty two year old

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Speaker 2: man was taken into custody and is currently assisting police

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Speaker 3: Now Assistant Commissioner.

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Speaker 1: We spoke yesterday on the show to John Koenig, who

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Speaker 1: owns John John's in the CBD. He told us of

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Speaker 1: a situation just over the last couple of days where

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Speaker 1: there's people fighting and carrying on in the park there

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Speaker 1: near his business. He's then had a situation where someone's

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Speaker 1: threatening to kill him with.

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Speaker 3: An unaged weapon.

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Speaker 1: He's really complementary if the police work and said that,

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Speaker 1: you know they'd been out there to help, but it

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Speaker 1: really points to a bit of a broader issue that

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Speaker 1: we've got around our CBD at the moment where we

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Speaker 1: do still have these issues of crime and anti social

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Speaker 1: behavior making it difficult for businesses to operate, but making it,

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Speaker 1: you know, a place where a lot of people are

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Speaker 3: Not that safe to go sometimes of the day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I fully understand that from the community perspective.

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Speaker 2: Just in relation to John, John, I can say that

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Speaker 2: we attended that business at about six pm on Saturday

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Speaker 2: after receiving a number of reports of disturbances. Witness statements

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Speaker 2: are still required, no rests have been made at this stage.

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Speaker 2: But in terms of the the you know, the amenity

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Speaker 2: of the of the CBD, we work very hard. We

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Speaker 2: work with you, private security, the Council, Laroche Nation, and

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Speaker 2: a variety of other service providers to to keep the

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Speaker 2: of the wet season, the anti social behavior becomes more evident,

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Speaker 2: more more visible. During the wet season and and hopefully

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Speaker 2: as the as the dry progresses, we can get a

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Speaker 3: Do we need a more visible police presence in our city?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think we're as visible as visible as we

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Speaker 2: can be. We you know, the CBD is obviously one

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Speaker 2: of our target areas. You know, we have a City Safe,

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Speaker 2: a dedicated unit for specifically for the CBD and the

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Speaker 2: entertainment precinct, and we'll keep working hard to abate anti

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Speaker 2: social behavior as best we can, knowing that we can

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Speaker 2: probably never stop it completely.

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Speaker 1: Well, I suppose, so there is that real sense in

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Speaker 1: the community at the moment where something, if something goes wrong,

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Speaker 1: there may not be police available to head out there.

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Speaker 1: How are you sort of grappling with that? I suppose

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Speaker 1: at the moment, we know that there is sort of

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Speaker 1: a surging of police numbers or there's set to be,

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Speaker 1: and there's lots of recruitment underway. The government's announced plenty

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Speaker 1: of extra money for it. But how do you sort

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Speaker 1: of deal with those concerns from the community.

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Speaker 3: At the moment that are feeling like we just don't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, you know, we we're feeling the pinch, and

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Speaker 2: domestic violence is still our key priority. They are Priority

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Speaker 2: one jobs. We have established the Territory Safety Division, which

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Speaker 2: which has a primary focus on anti social behavior in

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Speaker 2: the Darwin Greater Darwen area. So that's a good thing

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Speaker 2: we be targeted and they won't be diverted to other

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Speaker 2: other priorities. But yeah, we're looking forward to the recruitment

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Speaker 2: phase and you know, the the Kelly reviewers over a

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Speaker 2: four year period, so we're really looking forward to, you know,

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Speaker 2: a boost in our in our numbers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I reckon everybody. Is just a very quick one

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Speaker 1: before I let you go this morning. Has there been

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Speaker 1: any updates on a press release that was sent out

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Speaker 1: over the weekend about a woman forced into a car

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Speaker 1: at Howard Springs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, Katie, that was a somebody made that report,

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Speaker 2: but that person we couldn't wasn't in a position to

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Speaker 2: event that it was there was you know, there was

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Speaker 2: credence to it, but nobody has come forward and said

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Speaker 2: that that they know anything about that incident. You know,

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Speaker 2: it may be just one of those things that was

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Speaker 2: just the part of life, but nobody has reported or

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Speaker 2: added any evidence to that person aducted.

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Speaker 1: No concern that a woman has been abducted from the

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Speaker 1: rural area.

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Speaker 2: No, but if anyone has any information, please bring it forward.

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Speaker 2: But at this point in time, nobody has come forward

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Speaker 2: and says they said that a woman has been abducted

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Speaker 3: Sorry, just one other one we did.

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Speaker 1: We did get some reports on Anzac Day that there'd

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Speaker 1: been cars broken into while people were at the dawn

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Speaker 1: service and at some of those Anzac Day events in Catherine.

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Speaker 3: Have you got any infol on that.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't Canty. I went to the Adelaide River

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Speaker 2: dawn service. It was magnificent and fully and pretend to

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Speaker 2: go back again as many times as I can. It

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Speaker 2: was brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, but so nothing from no reports from Catherine

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Speaker 2: I don't have anything. Yeah, I don't have any information

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Speaker 2: on that. Katie. Just give a shout out to our firefighters.

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Speaker 2: Fourth of May is International Firefighters Day, so please everyone

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Speaker 2: just acknowledge the fires on the fourth of May.

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Speaker 3: Good idea.

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Speaker 1: Matt Hollanby, the Assistant Commissioner of the Northern Territory Police.

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Speaker 3: Good to speak with you this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for your time, Thanks Katie, and always a pleasure