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The Muster- Snr Sgt Gary Iddenten: Gore Police · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: What you gonna do when they come for you?
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  Speaker 1: Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do? This is
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  Speaker 1: the muster on a Friday afternoon. Senior Sergeant Gary Eddington
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  Speaker 1: of the Gore Police joins us. Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Andy. Good afternoon, community.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds better than three little pigs.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, look, it's been a busy couple of weeks down
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  Speaker 1: here in the south. From a policing perspective, though, there's
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things we need to talk about today
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  Speaker 1: that have occurred in the town recently.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously, probably most people are getting away in social
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  Speaker 2: media and community and keyboard warriors. We've had a bit
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  Speaker 2: of graffiti around this week, and it doesn't look good
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  Speaker 2: for the community, for the businesses, for the people and
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  Speaker 2: the image, and we get that. And what we're just
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  Speaker 2: trying to do is reach out to people. If you've
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  Speaker 2: seen anything, got any dash cams, CCTV, or... I've actually
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  Speaker 2: known someone, give us a ring, Crime Stoppers 105, or
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  Speaker 2: come into the station, come and talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of it around town too. That's
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  Speaker 1: been the unfortunate thing. And when you're going past with
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  Speaker 1: the kids in the car and they're trying to comprehend
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  Speaker 1: what's there, we're not going to go into detail what
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  Speaker 1: was said, but it was pretty gross.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. And also, you know, sometimes these comments are made,
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  Speaker 2: might not be based on fact, but trouble is once
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  Speaker 2: it's out there like the media, it's hard to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of. And so we're just trying to sort of
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  Speaker 2: safeguard It has a massive impact on the community, and again,
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  Speaker 2: the businesses are just as hard times as it is,
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  Speaker 2: never mind trying to pay bills and repair stuff.
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  Speaker 1: That's one thing about Gore in general, though. Graffiti generally
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  Speaker 1: isn't a problem, so this looks like somebody with an agenda.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it would be the minority as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to the majority, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And keyboard warriors... Stuff going on there. I mean, everyone's
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  Speaker 1: got an opinion. They're like buttholes. Everyone's got one and
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  Speaker 1: they're keen to let you know what they think about things.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a lot of misconstrued ideas. Look, I've said before,
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  Speaker 2: social media is good. It's got a place in society
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  Speaker 2: and community. We also, people look at community Facebook messages
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  Speaker 2: and then we get information that leads sometimes to an
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  Speaker 2: arrest or information, which is great. But what I am
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  Speaker 2: saying to people is if you've got your entirety opinions,
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  Speaker 2: you've got freedom of speech, But if you've got things
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  Speaker 2: that you're seeing or know about, come and talk to
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  Speaker 2: us at the station. Gore is a great place to live.
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  Speaker 2: We don't always get it right across the community, and
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  Speaker 2: we've all got to take responsibility, including the people. So
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  Speaker 2: just be careful what you say and how you say it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it's a bit like that at the
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  Speaker 1: moment because of the election and just emotions running high?
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  Speaker 2: It could be, but some people have been like it
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  Speaker 2: for their life, basically.
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  Speaker 1: So the one thing you're saying today, Gary, is if
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  Speaker 1: you've got any issues or dramas, come and see us.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You're there at the station.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, come and see me personally. I've said it all before.
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  Speaker 2: If you've got issues, come talk to me. And if
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  Speaker 2: there is things going on in the community, I want
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  Speaker 2: to know about it. We want to know about it.
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  Speaker 2: And we don't get anywhere without the community working together.
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  Speaker 2: It's all purpose, all together.
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  Speaker 1: Do people actually do that, though? Do they physically come
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  Speaker 1: and see you if they've got issues? How often do
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  Speaker 1: you see that?
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  Speaker 2: Some people now and again, but not many.
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  Speaker 1: Not as many as what you'd like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. My door's always open.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing as well is drinking with young people
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  Speaker 1: and party seasons kicking off, I suppose, is want of
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  Speaker 1: a better word. It's just that time of year, plan B. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And I think plan B, as we know, we're both fathers,
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  Speaker 2: is know where your kids are going, having those conversations
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  Speaker 2: with them. We've all been there. We've all had a
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  Speaker 2: bit of drink when we start getting to 15, 16, 17,
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  Speaker 2: 18 sort of thing. But what we're saying to people
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  Speaker 2: is know where your children are going, And what they're drinking,
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  Speaker 2: because we've had a couple of incidents where teenagers have
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  Speaker 2: been found asleep on the side of the road, intoxicated,
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  Speaker 2: not in the recovery position, vomiting, and no one knows
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  Speaker 2: how to look after them. And the last thing we
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  Speaker 2: want is someone getting seriously injured and end up in hospital, life-changing.
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  Speaker 1: So it's all about using– this is where, ironically enough, though,
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  Speaker 1: social media, we talk about it before, but there are
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  Speaker 1: apps out there. For example, a lot of people use Snapchat,
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  Speaker 1: Snap Maps, know where their young people are. There are
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  Speaker 1: apps out there that tell you where people are if
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  Speaker 1: need be, so there are options.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, having those conversations, you know, and sitting down and
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  Speaker 2: talking and being a family together, we know kids sneak
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  Speaker 2: out of the– it's not just one type of child.
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  Speaker 2: There's a few that hang around. There's always some influencers
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  Speaker 2: out there. We're just trying to make sure that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're up to no good– We want to know
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  Speaker 2: about it. Ring it in. Crime Stoppers 105 and if
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  Speaker 2: it's urgent, 111.
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  Speaker 1: Being a Friday, people going for a few drinks. Same
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  Speaker 1: applies for adults, even more. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Longer nights coming in now. Christmas is coming up. It's
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  Speaker 2: been a long year. People have all been working hard
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  Speaker 2: and we're just asking people at the end of the week,
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  Speaker 2: if you had a good long week, just be mindful
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  Speaker 2: if you are drinking before you go home, what you've eaten,
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  Speaker 2: you've had a long day, no fluids, it will affect
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  Speaker 2: people in different ways. You could be over the limit.
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  Speaker 2: So just Make some good choices and plan your way home.
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  Speaker 2: The year's gone too fast. Mentally, I think we should
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  Speaker 2: still be in August. It doesn't feel like Christmas is coming.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon it's because I'm over 50 now. All of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, you start getting philosophical.
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  Speaker 2: It's weird. You start life at 50.
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  Speaker 1: What's the ad? It's not the ending. It's the next chapter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, hey, security as well. It's an ongoing thing too,
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  Speaker 1: but just lock up your possessions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think with Christmas coming, there's presents, trees are out,
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  Speaker 2: lights are out, just making sure you lock your doors,
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  Speaker 2: make sure nothing's sort of in full space in your
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  Speaker 2: cars that can be seen, and just take those, if
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  Speaker 2: you're going away, cancel your milk, papers, whatever, or talk
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  Speaker 2: to your neighbours, just reach out to each other, make
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  Speaker 2: life difficult for these small minority that go out there
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  Speaker 2: ruining people's lives.
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  Speaker 1: Just make communication. Talk to your neighbours, let everybody know
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  Speaker 1: what the goal is.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: What else is going on with you guys what else
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  Speaker 1: has been happening gary.
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  Speaker 2: Uh well we're still actively recruited at the moment so
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  Speaker 2: if there's people in the community that are looking at
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  Speaker 2: or interested in joining the police um again come and
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  Speaker 2: talk to me or colleagues or new cops on the
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  Speaker 2: website um there's some good people in this community i
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  Speaker 2: think we'd be invested and be good police officers so
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  Speaker 2: we're really trying to sort of um trying to track
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  Speaker 2: people locally if we can um we're still at the
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  Speaker 2: old state at temporary station still Temporary station, yes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: temporary station, still a work in progress. But yeah, for
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  Speaker 2: those that don't know, we're at 241 Main Street, which
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  Speaker 2: is the old ambulance station.
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  Speaker 1: Let's face it, you don't go by addresses in Gore,
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  Speaker 1: you go by landmarks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you do.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the way out of town on the left,
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  Speaker 1: not far from the showgrounds. Hey, good on you, Gary.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy the weekend, and you guys keep doing the job
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  Speaker 1: you're doing with the team in blue.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, Andy, to your team, and thanks to the community.
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  Speaker 1: Boys, what you gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: What you gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: Senior Sergeant Gary Eddington of the Gore Police catching up
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  Speaker 1: on a regular basis. Elliot Smith's up next from Gore
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  Speaker 1: over to Edinburgh. Newstalk ZB's rugby correspondent. Bad boys, bad boys.