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Katie Woolf spoke with NT Police Senior Sergeant John Ginnane on the police on the road over Supercars weekend · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf on Mix one oh four
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  Speaker 1: point nine thanks to Joyce Main Darwin Well. Plenty of
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  Speaker 1: you in contact with us this morning, and we did
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  Speaker 1: have a message earlier today from one of our listeners
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  Speaker 1: saying that they weren't able to book online for the
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  Speaker 1: COVID JAB Now we have just received a phone call
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  Speaker 1: from the Minister's office letting us know that you can
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  Speaker 1: now book with Danilla Dilberg as I understand it on
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  Speaker 1: that online booking system, so it does seem as though
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  Speaker 1: there are still some spots available. But we have also
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  Speaker 1: had a message from another listener saying, Katie, I just
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  Speaker 1: left the hospital at the COVID Vaccine Center, they're booked
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  Speaker 1: out until the end of July and they're also looking
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  Speaker 1: for a larger facility to do the vaccinations. That is
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  Speaker 1: what the staff had told them out there. Also got
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  Speaker 1: an email from Peter three sixty at Mix one O
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  Speaker 1: four nine dot com dot au Bradley brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Keira's nt the three sixty in box and it
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  Speaker 1: says hi again Katie went to visit a friend in
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  Speaker 1: RDH yesterday and as usual, the staff are doing a
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  Speaker 1: great job and in good humor. The current problems there
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  Speaker 1: are not caused by the staff spot on, Peter, they
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  Speaker 1: do a wonderful job. And well, speaking of people doing
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful job, our Northern Territory Police are incredibly busy,
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  Speaker 1: there is no doubt about that. And joining us on
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  Speaker 1: the line right now, Anti Police Senior Sergeant John Ganaine,
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  Speaker 1: good morning to you, John.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katy. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for joining us. Now. I know John that
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  Speaker 1: the Territory Police quite disappointed over the weekend with the
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  Speaker 1: behavior of motorists on territory roads.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we had a lot of motoring activity across the
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  Speaker 2: roads all through the NT over the weekend, Katie, and
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  Speaker 2: most we're generally well behaved. However, it must be said
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  Speaker 2: that the people that did play up more than made
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  Speaker 2: up for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So one hundred infringement notices to drivers for various offenses.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of offenses are we talking?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we had one hundred and eleven infringement notices solely
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  Speaker 2: in the Greater Darwinie over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, mostly
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  Speaker 2: in the evening. Eighty five of thoys were for speeding
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  Speaker 2: to various degrees and the rest of it was this
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  Speaker 2: mattering of not wearing seat belts, using your mobile phones,
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  Speaker 2: all the things that are involved with the fatal five
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  Speaker 2: that we try and reinforce whenever we can. And given
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  Speaker 2: some of the behavior of the motorists on the roads,
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  Speaker 2: particularly in Tiger Breann and Drive McMillan's road, we are
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  Speaker 2: very lucky that we were dealing with another loss of life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know some of this stuff is just
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  Speaker 1: such common sense, well all of it really, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: not putting your seat belt on, I just don't understand it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a very basic thing to do. And seat
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  Speaker 2: belts only became only became fitted to cars around about
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  Speaker 2: nineteen seventy. And I think in Victoria before seat belts
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  Speaker 2: came in, the road toll in nineteen sixty nine, I
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  Speaker 2: think it was in nineteen seventy was over a thousand
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  Speaker 2: for twelve for a twelve month period. And there's just
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  Speaker 2: no doubt that wearing a seatbelt in the event that
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  Speaker 2: something goes wrong will save your life. It just will.
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  Speaker 1: And John, I know that's on Friday night you actually
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  Speaker 1: had to impound a motorcycle.
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  Speaker 2: What happened, Well, on Friday night, a young young fellow
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  Speaker 2: decided to perform a wheel stand up and down McMillan's
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  Speaker 2: raid on Friday night. It was seen by the public,
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  Speaker 2: seen by the police. The young gentleman involved clearly didn't
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  Speaker 2: see us, but we saw him. So that was the
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  Speaker 2: end of that young fellow. He got a ticket for HENI,
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  Speaker 2: He got a thousand dollar fine and his motorbike was
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  Speaker 2: impounded as well.
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  Speaker 1: And these people, there's a lot of people by the
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  Speaker 1: look of it, driving at incredibly high speeds. A thirty
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  Speaker 1: three year old clocked doing one hundred and fifty two
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  Speaker 1: kilometers an hour in one hundred zone.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we had that one, Cody. We had another young
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  Speaker 2: fellow way seven year older believe, doing one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: forty five in an eighty zone down in the rural area.
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  Speaker 2: And we had two sets of drag races within half
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  Speaker 2: an hour of each other on Tiger Brendon Drive and
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  Speaker 2: they were clocked at one hundred and forty four and
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty six kilometers an hour.
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  Speaker 1: So, John, are you talking about people like they're actually
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  Speaker 1: racing each other on the road.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we are. We are definitely talking about that. And
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  Speaker 2: make no mistake, these people are endangering the lives of
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  Speaker 2: themselves and the lives of other people. And if they
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  Speaker 2: expect the police to have any sense of humor about
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  Speaker 2: this sort of thing, they're going to be sorely mistaken
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  Speaker 2: because they're going to have a date with a magistrate,
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  Speaker 2: They're going to have their car impounded, and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be very expensive, And at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: people will realize that they do not, in fact have
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  Speaker 2: what I think is referred to as mad skills.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they certainly don't have mad skills. They sound like
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  Speaker 1: I can think of more colorful work, but let's just
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  Speaker 1: say idiots. I mean, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, they are putting the lives of innocent
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  Speaker 1: people at risk on the roads in some of these locations.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're talking about places where families could be
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  Speaker 1: driving at the same time, even people in their vehicles
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  Speaker 1: on their own. But everybody deserves to be able to
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  Speaker 1: use the road in a safe manner and should not
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about idiots behaving like this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Peter Brock East. When Peter Brock was around, he
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  Speaker 2: used to give safety lectures to primary school kids. And
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  Speaker 2: I know this because I was one of those kids, yep,
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  Speaker 2: And I remember him saying to this day that a
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  Speaker 2: racetrack is much safer than driving on a highway because
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  Speaker 2: all the cars are going in the same direction. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I understand the concept of people having fun in the
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  Speaker 2: cars and doing this and just doing things in their
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  Speaker 2: cars because their cars will let them, and all that
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  Speaker 2: sort of stuff. But what these people fail to comprehend
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  Speaker 2: is that they are endangering other people. And if they
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  Speaker 2: if they only need one small thing to go wrong,
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  Speaker 2: because they are not great drivers. Because if they were
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  Speaker 2: great drivers, they'd be driving this weekend at Hidden Valley.
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  Speaker 2: But they're not. So they're not great drivers. And the
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  Speaker 2: smallest misstep means that the police will be knocking on
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  Speaker 2: someone's door over the weekend to inform someone's mother, father, brother,
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  Speaker 2: sister that their relative has died in a preventable traffic collision.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the thing, you know, We want to
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  Speaker 1: keep everybody on the road safe. John, you mentioned the
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  Speaker 1: supercars and Hidden Valley on the weekend. Will there be
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  Speaker 1: additional additional police presence on our roads if anybody does
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  Speaker 1: try to get out and drive like a race car driver,
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  Speaker 1: well there will be, Katie.
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  Speaker 2: There's already a significant police operation just for the precinct
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  Speaker 2: around the sports complex of Hidden Valley. The traffic Police,
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  Speaker 2: marked and unmarked cars will be out and about. You
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  Speaker 2: might see some, you won't see all of them, but
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  Speaker 2: rest assured if you act up, you are very likely
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  Speaker 2: to be seen, particularly after the activity of last weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Well, John gana Northern Territory Police Senior Sergeant, we really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate your time today. Thanks so very much for having
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  Speaker 1: a chat with us.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks again, Katie, thank you