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Speaker 1: Now joining me live in the studio from the Northern

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Speaker 1: Territory Police. It is Commander Danny Bacon. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: A sexual assault in Palmerston overnight.

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Speaker 2: Can you tell me exactly what's happened?

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Speaker 3: Okay, eight o'clock last night in Parmesan an unknown male

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Speaker 3: sexually assault today a woman that was out walking her dog.

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Speaker 3: She contacted police after she would managed to escape. As

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Speaker 3: a result of her contacting police and quick investigation results,

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Speaker 3: we've been able to apprehend a twenty seven year old

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Speaker 3: male this morning. He's been arrested for sexually assaulting her

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Speaker 3: last night and he's currently in custody.

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Speaker 1: Commander, do we know the age of the victim?

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Speaker 4: I do, but.

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Speaker 1: I don't not at liberty to say. I mean that

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Speaker 1: is a horrifying situation. So she's out walking her dog

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Speaker 1: at eight pm last night and is approached by a

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Speaker 1: man who's unknown to her and sexually assaulted.

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Speaker 2: Did she so? What?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 2: What happened next? Did she manage to fight him off?

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Speaker 4: She did?

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Speaker 3: She fought him off and defend herself with a stick nearby.

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Speaker 3: He's fled the scene. She's contacted police immediately. Crime scene

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Speaker 3: was declared and that said investive. Yeah, has undertaken overnight

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Speaker 3: and this morning he's been that branded.

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Speaker 1: Which is Look, I find this absolutely horrifying for a

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Speaker 1: whole raft of reasons. But I, as most of our

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Speaker 1: listeners would know, Look, I'm somebody who goes off exercising

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Speaker 1: very often. I think that as a female, you worry

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Speaker 1: about your own safety every time you go out exercising, right,

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Speaker 1: Like I go. I make sure that I go places

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Speaker 1: that I know there's going to be plenty of other

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Speaker 1: people around.

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Speaker 2: That's the biggest thing for me.

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Speaker 1: And one would think as a woman, you would actually

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Speaker 1: think that if you are out with your dog, presumably

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Speaker 1: you know, a large dog, that you're gonna be relatively safe.

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Speaker 1: So then to have something like this happen in Palmerston

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Speaker 1: at eight o'clock last night, it actually makes me really furious.

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Speaker 3: It's horrendous. Furious makes you seek it really does. We

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Speaker 3: talk about gender boase violence, you know, very frequently on

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Speaker 3: the show, as you're aware, and domestic violences is primarily

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Speaker 3: what we talk about because this is epidemic, but gender

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Speaker 3: based violence more generally.

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Speaker 4: Instance of this note are here.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's just, yeah, it is, it's so wrong,

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Speaker 1: so he's been charged now this morning with he's.

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Speaker 3: Been arrested, so you the investigations obviously still ongoing, but

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Speaker 3: we expect him to be lad a charge today.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, no doubt we will hear more in

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Speaker 1: relation to those charges as the day progresses.

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Speaker 2: Commandro'll just ask you about one that happened to a

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Speaker 2: little earlier in the week.

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Speaker 1: Two people were charged after allegedly stealing a car from

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Speaker 1: a Darwin City servo. Police informed were informed, I should

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Speaker 1: say that a Hyondai Kona was taken allegedly by a

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Speaker 1: man on Saturday night.

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Speaker 3: Yes it was, and the owner confronted the offenders. Fortunate enough,

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Speaker 3: he wasn't injured significantly at all, but he did receive

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Speaker 3: some minor injuries that required treatment four miles at Awful

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Speaker 3: End of the premises at Clargi Road, in an attempt

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Speaker 3: to steal the tyle Land Cruiser. He heard the vehicle

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Speaker 3: start and the confront of the males. One of the

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Speaker 3: males ud of the vehicle and around the front gate.

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Speaker 2: So that's that. Sorry, I reckon, I reckon.

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Speaker 1: We've joined two pressure releases there, so one of them

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Speaker 1: was from Darwin City, but that one was yarrawonga, wasn't it?

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Speaker 4: Yes? It was?

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Speaker 1: Now go to that because that sounds actually horrendous. What's so,

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Speaker 1: just talk us through exactly what happened in that situation.

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Speaker 3: Cody, the owner was alert of the theft and when

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Speaker 3: he heard the vehicle start, he was at the premises

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Speaker 3: at the time, so he's confronted the males. The males

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Speaker 3: were armed, which this is another thing about confronting people

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Speaker 3: when the community offenders. Your life is not worth your vehicle.

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Speaker 3: It really is not. So we really need to get

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Speaker 3: that message out that way to not engage. We really

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Speaker 3: do because and we don't want victims to be heard

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Speaker 3: in any shape or form. But going back into itself,

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Speaker 3: the vehicle club of the Trees teim was locked street

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Speaker 3: in control and the offenders fled the seat at the time.

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Speaker 3: So that mattis still under investigation. There's a number of

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Speaker 3: investig avenues that we hope to wrap that matter up

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Speaker 3: as soon as we can.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, because I know that we've interviewed Dale Marty

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Speaker 1: Barnard from Strike Force Strident just a week or so ago,

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Speaker 1: and he told us about the number of vehicles that

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Speaker 3: That is the cave that we are seeing across Greater Darwin,

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Speaker 3: particularly for run law for use as a motor vehicle,

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Speaker 3: and it is predominantly that particular region where we're seeing

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Speaker 3: those vehicles, yeah, go to and being recovered and defenders

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Speaker 3: being arrested.

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Speaker 1: Yes. What is your advice like if you own because

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Speaker 1: it does seem as though the vehicle of choice is

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Speaker 1: older model toyotas Like it seems like you you know,

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Speaker 1: your land cruisers, your Troopers, you you.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I can't think your high luxes.

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Speaker 1: What's your advice like if you own one of those vehicles?

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Speaker 1: You know, do you need to take some I know

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Speaker 1: it sounds ridiculous, right, I get that people are going

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't have to go down that path. But I

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Speaker 1: also know that it would be your pride and joy.

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Speaker 1: So what extra measures can people kind of take to

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Speaker 3: Well, I would certainly have a conversation with your insurance

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Speaker 3: companies as well as a number of measures you undertake

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Speaker 3: to additional security measures to your vehicle itself to both

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Speaker 3: enable disable the vehicle itself so it can't be driven away.

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Speaker 3: This is also matters of you know, so we can

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Speaker 3: number of different measures you could sort of undertake regards

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Speaker 3: to securing your propery itself. And this isn't victim blaming

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Speaker 3: any shape or formance, protecting your property but also allowing

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Speaker 3: I suppose, maximum opportunity for police to recover the vehicle

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Speaker 4: So you know, unfortunately, vehicle.

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Speaker 3: Theft is high across the territory, not just in daw

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Speaker 3: they are they do. Spike Strike Force try and do

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Speaker 3: an amazing job in regards to certainly that quick recovery.

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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day is you know,

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Speaker 3: So there's a huge body of work in that space.

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Speaker 3: But certainly in regards to the curing your vehicles itself,

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Speaker 3: as I said, have a conversation with your insurance companies,

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Speaker 2: There's a number of thinglea this morning.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm not sure if you're across this one, but

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Speaker 1: apparently between eight thirty and nine thirty last night there

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Speaker 2: Do you know. It looks as though there were.

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Speaker 1: A couple of units that ended up out there, do

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Speaker 1: you know what the situation was.

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Speaker 3: I don't have the four particulars before me today, Kabri.

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Speaker 3: What I'll certainly do is undertake to get that information

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Speaker 3: for go one hundred and twenty eight outstanding very matters

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Speaker 3: those matters also were Priority one matters, which are a

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Speaker 3: greater response which require an urgent notification. So I will

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Speaker 3: have a look at that particulars and come back to

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Speaker 3: that our demand for services are still quite high as

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Speaker 3: still again, you know, features quite probably with that you're

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Speaker 3: we've had four domestic violence deaths, you know, just within

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Speaker 1: So and then eight I think it is for this

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Speaker 3: It's just horrendous for yourself, you know, go back that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough because obviously everybody understands the police absolutely

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Speaker 2: But then when you look at something.

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Speaker 1: Like that where you've got groups of people attacking each

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Speaker 1: hard to sort of imagine that that's not a priority one.

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Speaker 3: Jobs are prioritized according to the risk, and they really are.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that was not It may have

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Speaker 3: been escalated or probably one time. Obviously police did at

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Speaker 3: are quite home. Yeah, and domestic violence still features in

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Speaker 1: Look, Commander, one of the other areas that we continue

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Speaker 2: However, you look.

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Speaker 1: At it, this just seems to be something that is

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Speaker 3: Five deaths in November and we haven't even finished November yet.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're seeing at a level of fifty seven

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Speaker 4: Year, and we haven't reached the peak of that. We

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Speaker 3: We've doubled our our road safety offices, both in our

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Speaker 3: Springs and Darwin. We're trying to get out there and

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Speaker 3: put that message well. But it's not just the drivers,

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Speaker 4: It really is.

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Speaker 3: We're not out there to force we actually want people

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Speaker 2: Be doing the right Thank you, he commander.

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Speaker 1: One other thing I'm king to ask you about just

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Speaker 1: Cyclone Tracy survivors are planning to protest on the twenty ninth,

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Whether that's right or not, but what I do know

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Speaker 2: Are the police aware of them protesting?

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Speaker 1: Is that something that they need permission from you guys

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Speaker 3: So they they've let us know what they're doing, what's

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Speaker 3: process that protesting is a healthy sign of democracy of

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Speaker 3: their organization. Really with our society is as long as

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Speaker 3: it's done safely and you know they're not threatening anybody itself.

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Speaker 3: So I'm quite satisfied that you know that there's nothing

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Speaker 3: untowards going to come from that particular protest itself. As

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Speaker 3: I said, we were engaging with the protest organizer themselves,

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Speaker 2: It's not illegal for them to go and protest down there,

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Speaker 4: No, No, it's not with counsel as well.

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Speaker 3: So you know protesting, yes, you do sometimes need a

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Speaker 3: permit to protest, but that'll be relevant to the town council,

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Speaker 3: not police. Counsel will consult police if needed in regards

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Speaker 3: to occupying public space which is owned by council. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they'll need to engage counsel and have discussions with them

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Speaker 3: as I said, I welcome people's you know, a right

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Speaker 4: I really do.

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Speaker 3: And I'm very comfortable that that engagement is occurred between

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Speaker 2: Group protest out well. Well, sounds like he's doing the

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Speaker 2: right thing.

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Speaker 1: Commander Danny Bacon always good to catch up with you,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 4: No worries Ka, thank you, thank you,