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Katie Woolf spoke with NT Traffic Police Senior Sergeant Paul Faustman · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Joining us live in the studio at Traffic Police Senior
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Paul Faussman. Good morning, FAUSTI.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, how are you mate?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for joining us this morning. I
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  Speaker 1: know we're going to be talking about Operation Roland, which
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  Speaker 1: is all about tackling poor driving behavior over the Christmas period.
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  Speaker 1: Before we do that, can I very quickly ask you outside.
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  Speaker 1: We know it is quite wet at the moment. I
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  Speaker 1: know there's not much rain around right now, but there
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  Speaker 1: has been a bit of wet weather around and it's
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  Speaker 1: always a good reminder for people to really take things
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  Speaker 1: a little more slowly.
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  Speaker 3: Well absolutely this time of the year as we reach
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  Speaker 3: Christmas as a little bit of panic setting in. I
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  Speaker 3: think everyone's trying to get ready for Christmas, getting Christmas shopping,
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  Speaker 3: get the presents all ready, Christmas parties and the like,
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  Speaker 3: and so people are certainly out and about. I'm noticing
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  Speaker 3: on the weekends and during the week a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people out and about. Take care on the roads. They
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  Speaker 3: are slippery, they are wet, it is dangerous driving conditions.
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  Speaker 2: Take a little bit longer, make sure you arrive where
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  Speaker 2: you need to be.
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  Speaker 1: Very good advice and a good reminder to everybody. Hey, now,
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  Speaker 1: tell me a little bit about Operation Roland. What is
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  Speaker 1: it and what are you going to be targeting?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Operation Rollin is our Christmas and New Year's traffic campaign.
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  Speaker 3: It's a territory wide campaign, so it's not confined to
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  Speaker 3: do and it's territory wide.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 3: In our urban and rural settings throughout the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 3: There will be an emphasis on keeping people safe on
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  Speaker 3: our roads via the operation. We'll be conducting large and
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  Speaker 3: small scale RBTs and increasing our footprint and relation to
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  Speaker 3: the traffic matters on our road So we'll be targeting
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  Speaker 3: obviously alcohol, but the one thing that I really want
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  Speaker 3: to bring to the attention of people in our community
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  Speaker 3: is will also be targeting drug driving. So the days
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  Speaker 3: of it being a random breath test, it may also
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  Speaker 3: be a random drug test. So the technologies there now
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  Speaker 3: the Nordon Territory Police have that technology and the equipment
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  Speaker 3: to actually.
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  Speaker 2: Conduct that test. So that will be part of our
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  Speaker 2: emphasis this year.
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  Speaker 3: And then obviously we'll be targeting speeding, seat belts, fatigue
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  Speaker 3: and driver in attention.
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  Speaker 1: Now, just on that drug testing, is it the same
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  Speaker 1: as it's obviously a little bit different to when you
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  Speaker 1: do your breath like I've never actually been drug tested
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  Speaker 1: on the road side, So.
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  Speaker 3: Drug testing it's actually a sample of your saliva. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so you'll be asked to take a bugle squab and
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  Speaker 3: place it in your mouth and swab your mouth, and
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  Speaker 3: then it will actually detect six of our well known
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  Speaker 3: drugs that are dangerous drugs and i llegal and you're
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  Speaker 3: not supposed to be driving a motor vehicle whilst r
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  Speaker 3: under the influence of those drugs.
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  Speaker 1: And so what it can pretty much it comes back
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  Speaker 1: straight away or very quickly, unless you know.
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  Speaker 3: It certainly comes back quickly. So what I ask is
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  Speaker 3: the members of the public can be a little bit patient.
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  Speaker 3: They do take a little bit longer than a normal
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  Speaker 3: random breath test, and also with the COVID nineteen safety
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  Speaker 3: responsibility that we have, the breath testing will take a
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  Speaker 3: little bit longer so that we ensure that everything is
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  Speaker 3: sterilized and meets community expectations.
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  Speaker 1: But so very important in my opinion that we are
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  Speaker 1: still able to do all of that testing, particularly over
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas period. You know, we just don't want people
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  Speaker 1: getting behind the wheel, drinking, taking drugs, any of that
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  Speaker 1: stuff and putting their own lives and everybody else's lives
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  Speaker 1: in danger.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: My concern is last year, December twenty nineteen, we lost
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  Speaker 3: twelve people on Northern Territory roads. Now and I speak
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  Speaker 3: with the OIC of major crash and it's a discussion
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  Speaker 3: we have regularly, and it's frustrating that that level of
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  Speaker 3: trauma did occur last year and we don't want it
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  Speaker 3: to happen again.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, it's such a you know, any time of
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  Speaker 1: the year to lose somebody on the roads is a
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  Speaker 1: terrible time, but around Christmas, you know, thinking about not
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  Speaker 1: having your loved ones at the Christmas table is just
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  Speaker 1: heartbreaking and everybody needs to keep that in mind.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to be the grinch here.
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  Speaker 3: Last year on Christmas Day, yep, we had a fatality
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  Speaker 3: in which three people died. So that's just horrendous. But
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  Speaker 3: it's horrendous for the members, it's horrendous for all the
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  Speaker 3: emergency services, it's horrendous for the family, and we don't
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  Speaker 3: want it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're so right, you know, you don't sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we don't even think about that, like how it is
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  Speaker 1: as well, It's like you pointed out, it's obviously horrendous
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  Speaker 1: for the family. It's obviously horrendous for everybody involved, but
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  Speaker 1: for our police officers, our frontline services who then go
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  Speaker 1: out to those crashes on Christmas Day. It's the last
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  Speaker 1: thing that you want to be doing on your Christmas
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  Speaker 1: Day when you're working anyway, is you know, then having
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  Speaker 1: to go around to somebody's home to tell them that
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  Speaker 1: they've lost members of their family.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's one of those things that sits very
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  Speaker 3: close to the heart of many police officers who have
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  Speaker 3: to walk in those shoes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's not a job that anyone enjoys.
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  Speaker 1: No, So everybody, please just do the right thing over Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we know that the police are going to
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  Speaker 1: be out in force making sure that you do the
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  Speaker 1: right thing. Like you said, FASTI, you're obviously focusing on
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  Speaker 1: those RBTs, the drug testing as well as the alcohol testing, speed,
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  Speaker 1: all the other factors as well, aren't you.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: The last thing I will bring to our listener's attention
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  Speaker 3: is there will be large random breath breath testing stations occurring.
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  Speaker 3: But with seventy percent of our fatals occurring on rural roads,
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  Speaker 3: you can expect to find us in the rural area
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  Speaker 3: conducting smaller scale, more targeted, quite strategically operated RBTs. So
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  Speaker 3: if you think it's confined to Darwin City, you'll be
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  Speaker 3: very disappointed. If you drink and drive on our roads
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  Speaker 3: in the rural area or in our smaller towns around
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  Speaker 3: the territory, there's a good chance we'll get you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've been warned, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you usually lock?
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  Speaker 1: Do you find that are there particular areas of Darwin
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  Speaker 1: or of the surrounds where you do pick up more
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  Speaker 1: drunk drivers or is it really just everywhere?
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately it's across the board yep.
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  Speaker 3: But as I stated, there's a higher proportion of persons
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  Speaker 3: dye on our roads in the territory, on rural roads.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Paul Faussman, I always appreciate your time, and I
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate your time this morning. Really just reminding everybody
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  Speaker 1: make sure you're safe on the roads, particularly in the
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  Speaker 1: lead into Christmas. Senior Sergeant Paul Faustman, good to speak
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  Speaker 1: with you this morning. Thank you so much for coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you,