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Commander Danny Bacon says people displaced from communities is a big factor in recent crime stats, particularly a brawl in Jingili at the weekend · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: I know, we know that there was some terrible vision
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  Speaker 1: emerge over the weekend on social media. It has also
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  Speaker 1: ended up making national news headlines. This incident outside the
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  Speaker 1: hotel near the airport, which sees a group of people
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  Speaker 1: causing a ruckus before someone in a four wheel drive
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  Speaker 1: use appears to run down at least one person. Now
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  Speaker 1: joining me in the studio to talk more about this
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  Speaker 1: and also about the crime statistics is Commander of Darwin
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  Speaker 1: and Roade Policing, Danny Bacon. Good morning to you, Danny. Danny,
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  Speaker 1: what happened on the weekend with this incident near the hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the incident could in regards to I suppose it's
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  Speaker 2: a spillover from what I regards to feuding families. So
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  Speaker 2: that the footage has been captured there encapsulated some of
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  Speaker 2: the circumstances of going both that feuding. The gentleman that
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  Speaker 2: was struck by the vehicle that's been spoken to, he's
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  Speaker 2: got no significant injuries from that. We're obtaining a statement
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  Speaker 2: from him. We're making a number of inquiries and wegaringing
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  Speaker 2: the offenders involving that melle and that matter has been
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  Speaker 2: a sign to our serious.
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  Speaker 1: Crime era goodness me, so a couple of families here
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  Speaker 1: from what I and unfortunately engaged in some pretty poor behavior.
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  Speaker 2: Very very poor behavior, in fact, criminal behavior. So yes,
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  Speaker 2: they are from that community, and I suppose Darwin is
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  Speaker 2: feeling some of that displacement given some of the issues
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  Speaker 2: affecting that community that currently is and Darwin really over
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  Speaker 2: this the last wet season has you know, I suppose
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  Speaker 2: received a significant amount of displaced people. Generally speaking, we
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  Speaker 2: average around seven hundred itinerants within the Greater Darin area,
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  Speaker 2: and you know through our wet season that increased significantly
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  Speaker 2: to around three thousand. So that number has gone down
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  Speaker 2: greatly with the assistance of our partners, particularly Larrakee Nation
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  Speaker 2: returned to country, but also you know, with the ranges,
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  Speaker 2: with the town councils and other service providers as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I think we're looking now at that terrant cohort
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  Speaker 2: certainly under a thousand now and probably around it six
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  Speaker 2: or seven hundred, and.
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  Speaker 1: So Okay, that's a big decrease compared to what we've
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  Speaker 1: seen previously.
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  Speaker 2: It's a large decrease and certainly I'm certainly not putting
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  Speaker 2: some of a lot of the behavior on those particular
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  Speaker 2: individuals but certainly a large proportion of the behavior has
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  Speaker 2: been associated with them.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, just on that incident. Firstly, you said that the
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  Speaker 1: victim was okay, yes, yep, was that car stolen?
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  Speaker 2: Information that we have is yes, the vehicle was style
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  Speaker 2: all the.
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  Speaker 1: Time, And has anybody been arrested at this point or
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  Speaker 1: still outstanding?
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  Speaker 2: All offenders for that particular matter are outstanding. But the
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  Speaker 2: individuals or some of the individuals are known to police
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  Speaker 2: and there's some active investigation ongoing. We're still calling on
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  Speaker 2: members of the public that certainly have any further information
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  Speaker 2: that could assist us with that investigation to come forward. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's been some sort of discussion on well,
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  Speaker 1: on social media, some saying that the police appeared to
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  Speaker 1: be driving away from the incident, but that wasn't the case,
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  Speaker 1: was it.
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  Speaker 2: No, we're involved in a short purship with that particular
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  Speaker 2: vehicle at a time, and then that ship was discontinued.
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  Speaker 2: But no, yeah, we didn't drive away from that particular area.
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  Speaker 1: Though, No. So obviously we are still still waiting to
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  Speaker 1: apprehend those offenders. But definitely the police are calling for
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  Speaker 1: himfel if you've got any information that could assist one
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  Speaker 1: three one, triple four is the best number to call through.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's move along because we know that the crime
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  Speaker 1: stats they came out obviously towards the end of last week,
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  Speaker 1: and some of the numbers are a real worry. In Darwin,
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  Speaker 1: those commercial break ins up eighty seven percent. I know
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  Speaker 1: in Palmerston as well they are up about eighty three percent.
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  Speaker 1: Commercial break ins in the likes of Alice, which I
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  Speaker 1: know you're not Commander for Alice Springs or Catherine, but
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  Speaker 1: Alice Springs up seventy four percent, Catherine similar Sturing ninety
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  Speaker 1: four percent.
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  Speaker 2: Commander.
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  Speaker 1: There is obviously some real issues right now when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to those commercial break ins. Also, home homes being
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  Speaker 1: broken into speak quite a concern for the police.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly is, and those figures are horrendously high, But
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  Speaker 2: there are some figures that are low as well. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the house break ins are at seventeen percent, were commercial
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  Speaker 2: eighty four. So there is a bit of a mixed
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  Speaker 2: bag in regards to the crime statistics themselves. These are
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  Speaker 2: statistics too from the period ending in April, so you
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  Speaker 2: know they're about six weeks delayed from there, so we're
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  Speaker 2: expecting these to come down. This is at a period
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  Speaker 2: of time. We're now our large itinerant cohort were with
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  Speaker 2: the Greater Dale region as well a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: commercial breaks as Indica before, K's predominantly alcohol related, so
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  Speaker 2: there's people searching for alcohol, particularly those commercial premises that
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  Speaker 2: stock alcohol, and so they were mainly the target of
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  Speaker 2: those particular offenders, but certainly we also have youth offenders
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  Speaker 2: as well, so that's the makeup of those particular on
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  Speaker 2: all ful entries of those youth offending and those offenders
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  Speaker 2: looking for alcohol those times. So we hope to see
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  Speaker 2: those figures come down significantly given the work that the
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  Speaker 2: proactive work that a lot of our stakeholder are actually
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  Speaker 2: working in particular that cohort of it, but also young
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  Speaker 2: people as well.
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  Speaker 1: So I suppose if I can break it down a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, I know it does seem as though with
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  Speaker 1: the alcohol related crime, those patrols have been sort of
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  Speaker 1: reintroduced or I've noticed some numbers coming out from police
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  Speaker 1: media that there's quite a bit of alcohol being tipped out.
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  Speaker 1: There's people being arrested when they're drinking publicly if they're
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  Speaker 1: doing the wrong thing. So obviously that's been introduced to
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  Speaker 1: try and curb some of that behavior.
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  Speaker 2: OP Newhammer is basically anti social behavior operation or team.
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  Speaker 2: We have two specific arms of those teams, one at
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  Speaker 2: Nightcliff looking out for the greater dal Casher and Dalham
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  Speaker 2: one that Parmesan looking after Litchfield and Parma scenario. They
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  Speaker 2: work particularly with our ranges from our town councils, but
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  Speaker 2: also our Lawyer Care Patrol and we also partners those
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  Speaker 2: that operate with the crown Lands Area Parks and Wildlife.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a been more coordinated in that space with
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  Speaker 2: the ASP and that's what we're looking at to try
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  Speaker 2: and reduce that area there and that's, as I said,
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  Speaker 2: had some significant wins in regards to you know, I
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  Speaker 2: suppose moving on those particular people living in those terrant areas.
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  Speaker 1: And what about them with the youth crime or with
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  Speaker 1: the youth offending. What work's being done by the territory
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  Speaker 1: police to try to combat that.
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  Speaker 2: Strike force trident is our primary. I suppose strike force
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  Speaker 2: that looks at a youth offending, particularly in Greater Dayen area.
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  Speaker 2: They are a well well worked team. It's when offense occurs,
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  Speaker 2: generally speaking, the clear uprate is very high with that
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  Speaker 2: particular team they know, they know the offenders, they know
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  Speaker 2: the area, they know the particular offending patterns. So that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't help with the volume of crime. So all we
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  Speaker 2: can do is put use before a cord or before
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  Speaker 2: diversion process and also look at referring those youth to
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  Speaker 2: appropriate areas, to also look at how we can support
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  Speaker 2: that youth in their current family environment or what environment
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  Speaker 2: that they're currently operating in.
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  Speaker 1: So now, just with that mentioned that you'd said at
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  Speaker 1: the start about that incident you know in Jingly where
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  Speaker 1: it had actually been families from what air involved, How
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  Speaker 1: are things going out in what air? I know that
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  Speaker 1: it's obviously not your command, but how are things going
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  Speaker 1: out there at the moment?
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't give you an operation down on the ground today,
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  Speaker 2: but certainly I know that government and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the government service providers are working with the community out
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  Speaker 2: there to look at how they can assist with community
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  Speaker 2: safety in that particular region. Nothing in what air can
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  Speaker 2: be sold overnight. A lot of the issues and what
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  Speaker 2: go about generations between family groups and skin groups. So
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  Speaker 2: it's unfortunately a slow process, but it's a process that
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  Speaker 2: all service providers need to be engaged in, and all
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  Speaker 2: elders in the community need to be engaged in because
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  Speaker 2: that's the only way that things can be addressed in
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  Speaker 2: that particular community.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Danny Bacon, the commander of Darwin and Road Policing,
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  Speaker 1: we might have to leave it there actually before I
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  Speaker 1: let you go, just very quickly, how did things go
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  Speaker 1: with the supercar on the weekend? Did people generally behave
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  Speaker 1: pretty well on our roads?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely fantastic, Absolutely fantastic on our roads, but also absolutely
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  Speaker 2: fantastic within the venue itself. It was really pleasing to
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  Speaker 2: see the crowd behavior, as I said, in the venue,
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  Speaker 2: but also outside the venue was great. We had a
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  Speaker 2: huge increase with our traffic enforcement obviously leading up to
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  Speaker 2: the weekend the weekend itself given the nature of the event,
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  Speaker 2: and we had very insignificant offending and very low level.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, credit to the territories that attended that event,
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  Speaker 2: and we're driving around our roads because it was a
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  Speaker 2: great result.
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  Speaker 1: Good to hear well, Danny. Always good to catch up
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  Speaker 1: with you. Thank you so very much for your time
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  Speaker 1: this morning. We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks you