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Katie Woolf spoke with NT Police Traffic Operations Senior Sergeant Craig Gillis · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: If you want to know what's happening on the local
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  Speaker 1: political landscape, Kay Wolf has it covered on three sixty.
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  Speaker 1: Every one is listening Mixed one oh four point nine
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  Speaker 1: joining us on the line right now. Northern Territory Traffic Operations,
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  Speaker 1: Police Traffic Operations Senior Sergeant Craig Gillis. Good morning to you, Craig.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katie and listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Craig, good to have you on the show, mate. I
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  Speaker 1: know that you've recently operation. Is it thelen? Is that
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  Speaker 1: how you pronounce it? It's wrapped up?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is someson salan, some soon's salon. So I'll
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  Speaker 2: go with salon.
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  Speaker 1: I'll do whatever you tell me to, mate, whichever whichever
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  Speaker 1: pronunciation will go with. Now, is it just starting or
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  Speaker 1: has it just finished?
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  Speaker 2: Just finished? And it was like, apart from the fatal
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  Speaker 2: that happened on the second, it was a it was
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good weekend. It was excellent. We tested a
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  Speaker 2: lot over five and a half thousand people and only
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  Speaker 2: got five drink drivers out of that, so we give
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  Speaker 2: so that a bit of a win. Obviously it would
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  Speaker 2: have been better for zero. Yeah, and on the drug
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  Speaker 2: testing side of it, what tested one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 2: two people and unfortunately detected six people with prohibited drugs
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  Speaker 2: in their blood, so obviously they were dealt with accordingly.
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  Speaker 2: So anecdotally, looks like the drug driving is becoming more
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  Speaker 2: of an issue than the drunk driving this stage, which
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  Speaker 2: isn't too good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just thinking that as you were saying
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  Speaker 1: those numbers, that's I mean, that is a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a concern, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, that's exactly, And these weren't targeted. It was
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  Speaker 2: exactly like the breast testing alcohol regime was just random
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  Speaker 2: people we pulled out the line for secondary tests. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like other states are seeing similar trends as well, I've noticed.
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  Speaker 2: So it's definitely something that we're going to keep up,
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  Speaker 2: and it's only going to happen on long weekends and
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  Speaker 2: special operations. If you're driving around, you can be expected
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  Speaker 2: to be pulled over alcohol testing, anti drug testing.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And as I've said before, it's not even that's not
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  Speaker 2: the matter that you might have had a substance and
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  Speaker 2: then drove. It could be something left over from a
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  Speaker 2: day or two previously, so you've got to be aware.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Craig, any idea, what like do you guys, know,
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  Speaker 1: from those tests, are you able to ascertain what type
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  Speaker 1: of drugs people are taking?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the most prevalent ones amphetamine, methamphetamine, and that seems
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  Speaker 2: to be the drug of choice at the moment. Now
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  Speaker 2: you still get the occasional cannabis ones, but definitely the
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  Speaker 2: amphetamine family is are the ones will come across the moat.
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  Speaker 1: Now, excuse my ignorance, but that is is that the
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  Speaker 1: one that's also known as ice?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like yourself, I'm not a big I don't
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  Speaker 2: know a great deal about the drug. Yeah, that's the
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  Speaker 2: ice and your speed and things like that. It seems
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  Speaker 2: to be the recreation drug of choice at the moment,
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  Speaker 2: and people think that I can take that and I
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  Speaker 2: can drive because I'll get tests and I'll go zero.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously, now that we've got a drug testing regime
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  Speaker 2: well and truly in place, that is no longer the case.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a very good chance again it's caught if
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  Speaker 2: you do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And that's the thing, you know, don't take
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  Speaker 1: anything that is you know, that's the big sort of message. Anyway, However,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you're going to be drinking or you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be taking something, you're getting behind the wheel
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  Speaker 1: of your car. You know you're going to get you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get pulled over, and you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: yourself in some serious trouble if the police catch you.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's exactly right. And like you said, because coming
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  Speaker 2: more prevalent obviously will be doing more of it. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: quite simple process for us to follow. So, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: if you do the drugs, you're going to get caught
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  Speaker 2: and when it comes.
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  Speaker 1: To you know the penalty then for your drunk driving
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  Speaker 1: and your drug driving. Are they similar penalties?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the drug driving is similar penalty to the low
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  Speaker 2: range drink driving at the moment. So your first offense
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  Speaker 2: you get an infringement, and then if you get caught
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  Speaker 2: again within the next for drink driving, you get caught
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  Speaker 2: within the next thing is another low range You get
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  Speaker 2: arrested and you lose your license. But with a drive
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  Speaker 2: prohibited drug in your blood, you get the one infringement.
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  Speaker 2: Then after that, the next time we get you, you'll
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  Speaker 2: be arrested, you'll place in the cells, and you'll lose
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  Speaker 2: your license straight away.
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  Speaker 1: Well and fair enough, now I know that there's also
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's plenty of people sort of out and
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  Speaker 1: about obviously over the Easter weekend, but we'll probably see
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  Speaker 1: a similar situation next week with the school holidays. Any
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  Speaker 1: sort of road safety messages for our listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the main thing is if you're planning on going away,
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  Speaker 2: very similar to what we mentioned on the Easter make
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  Speaker 2: sure that your vehicles are roadworthy, your camper trailers and
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  Speaker 2: things like that. Make sure they're all registered, and if
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  Speaker 2: you're not sure if they are, just download the anti
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  Speaker 2: regio app and you can punch in your registration and
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  Speaker 2: make sure it's all good to go. Because we had,
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately had a few people on Good Friday that I
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  Speaker 2: know because I was working, had about five people come
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  Speaker 2: through with unregistered vehicles and that's sort of sort of
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  Speaker 2: damper on their long weekend because obviously they couldn't get
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  Speaker 2: it inspected being Good Friday in the Easter weekend, so
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  Speaker 2: they were sort of had their holiday plans stash. So
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  Speaker 2: a simple check and you will won't find yourself in
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  Speaker 2: any trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good advice. I reckon Craig Senior Sergeant Craig gillis
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  Speaker 1: always good to catch up with you, mate, Thanks so
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  Speaker 1: much for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. I have a great day, you too, that.
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  Speaker 1: Is, are the NT traffic or anti police traffic operations.
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  Speaker 1: Senior Sergeant there Craig Gillis, I tell you what, I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty interested in, h OR. I found that quite interesting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you talk about the drunk drivers and
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  Speaker 1: then talk about the drug drivers, and over the course
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  Speaker 1: of that Easter long weekend, more drug drivers than what
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  Speaker 1: there were drunk drivers, and people getting on the meth
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  Speaker 1: and fhetamines. So pretty crazy stuff and just a timely reminder, really, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, don't get behind the wheel. If you've been drinking.
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't be taking drugs anyway. Obviously they are prohibited substances,
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  Speaker 1: but certainly do not get behind the wheel.