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Katie Woolf spoke with the New Puppy Recruit and The Dog Operation Unit Sergeant Tyron Bellman and Senior Constable Matthew Houghagen · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Mix ONEOT four point nine dot com dot au for
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  Speaker 1: all the latest news and information. Now three sixty with
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  Speaker 1: Katie Wolf. Everyone is listening Mix one oh four point
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  Speaker 1: nine one.
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  Speaker 2: Now if you can hear me giggling, that is because
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  Speaker 2: we've got the police puppy, the brand new electric routed
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  Speaker 2: in the studio and he's got my headphones. But let's
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  Speaker 2: let's introduce our next guest before I before I lose
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  Speaker 2: it laughing and joining me in the studio right now
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  Speaker 2: from the police, well, the Police Dog Operation Unit. I've
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  Speaker 2: got Tyrone Bellman, sergeant, good morning to you.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, how are you good? Thanks, thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 2: And I've also got Matthew Hohagen, Senior constable with the
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  Speaker 2: Dog Operations Unit. How are you, Maddie. That's good. Now
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  Speaker 2: we are joined in the studio by this gorgeous little
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  Speaker 2: German Shepherd puppy. He's a little boy. Oh tell us.
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  Speaker 2: First off, Matthew, you're his handler, aren't you. Now, how
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  Speaker 2: do you go through the process of of you know,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, receiving the dog to the Northern Territory. I'm
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  Speaker 2: assuming that it's had to come from somewhere else and
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  Speaker 2: just sort of integrating ash into into its life and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's life in the police force.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so he's nine weeks older at the moment. We've
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  Speaker 4: got we've actually got two of them, two brothers. They've
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  Speaker 4: come from a breeder in New South Wales. We actually
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  Speaker 4: have an operational dog from the same breeder, a big
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  Speaker 4: fellow called Drafts.
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  Speaker 2: I've met Tracks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a fair favorite.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we picked him up last week. He resides with
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  Speaker 4: me at home. I'll be his handler for the foreseeable future.
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  Speaker 4: He's not a he's not a pet. There's some strict
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  Speaker 4: rules at home. You know, we've got to keep him,
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  Speaker 4: keep him in check, and you know, but the first
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  Speaker 4: few weeks now it's just about familiarization, just getting him
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  Speaker 4: used to the northern territory to start with, climatization and
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  Speaker 4: all the different things. So it's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: He is a gorgeous, gorgeous little dog, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: that his brother is as well. How do you sort
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  Speaker 2: of go through that process of you know, trying to
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  Speaker 2: I guess you know what, usually when somebody gets a
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  Speaker 2: puppy a little bit naughty, they're probably allowed to get
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  Speaker 2: away with a bit more than what, you know, what
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  Speaker 2: this little blowcise.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so that there's some things I guess well, like
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  Speaker 4: with the natural traits, so you know, with a bit
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  Speaker 4: of a he's a bier and that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we don't want to we don't want to
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  Speaker 4: take that away from him obviously for future development. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he does get away with a few things. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's under close monitoring and.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, oh, I'm so excited to have him in the
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  Speaker 2: studio now, Tyrone. You've been in here with us a
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  Speaker 2: few times for various different things, but mate, this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Now people might be thinking why you're telling us the
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  Speaker 2: dog's name, but he doesn't actually have one at this point,
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  Speaker 2: does he.
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  Speaker 3: That's correct, both both brothers don't have a name. So
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  Speaker 3: we've run a competition through our police media unit with
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  Speaker 3: Channel nine. There's a story the other day and it's
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  Speaker 3: the aim the puppies. We wanted a bit of a
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  Speaker 3: territory and flavor to the name. So apparently there's over
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  Speaker 3: five hundred comments on the Facebook page already, so if
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  Speaker 3: you haven't checked it out, please do. And it closes
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  Speaker 3: midnight Thursday night and it'll be announced on Channel nine
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  Speaker 3: on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome, and you're looking for names with two syllables and
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot of territory and spirit.
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  Speaker 3: I'm being told, yeah, preferably two syllables. It just makes
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  Speaker 3: it a bit easier when you're calling them out. If
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  Speaker 3: they missed the first part of the name, they can
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  Speaker 3: get the second part of the name. And also if
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  Speaker 3: it's not too long, we don't want a really long
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  Speaker 3: long name. Enough. So yeah, there's plenty of good good
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  Speaker 3: names come up there, some I like, but we will
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  Speaker 3: have to wait and see what wins the wins it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, how long does it take to train this little fella?
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  Speaker 2: How many weeks is it? Well, how many months is
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  Speaker 2: it going to take before he's sort of out on
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  Speaker 2: the job and out catching people doing the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's a few answers to that. They're always in training,
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  Speaker 4: you know, their whole career, potentially operationally, twelve to eighty months.
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  Speaker 3: About the eighty month mark. If everything goes to plan
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  Speaker 3: and we hit all our benchmarks, eighty months old, he'll
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  Speaker 3: be out and about doing any thing in the streets
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  Speaker 3: of Darwin Made. Maddie and Puppy unnamed are going to
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  Speaker 3: be stationed in down.
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  Speaker 2: I just reckon, it's amazing what these police dogs can do.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we've had Drags in the studio on
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  Speaker 2: a couple of occasions. I've also seen him out, you know,
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  Speaker 2: doing his seeing out on the streets with his handler.
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  Speaker 2: And the thing that I'm really fascinated with, and the
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  Speaker 2: thing that I think so cool these days with the
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  Speaker 2: police dogs is that you know, they're very sociable now
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  Speaker 2: in terms of coming in here, they're really friendly and everything.
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  Speaker 2: But then once they know that it's going on, they
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  Speaker 2: do their jobs.
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  Speaker 3: Don't they Absolutely. That's a big part of the training
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  Speaker 3: is the control and being able to let them do
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  Speaker 3: their thing when they have to do it, yep. But
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  Speaker 3: when they don't have to do it, they're sociable, how
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  Speaker 3: to do pr events, come and meet people like you, schools,
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  Speaker 3: things like that. It's really important.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so cool. I am very distracted by the dog
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  Speaker 2: right now, and luckily he's away from my headphones.
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  Speaker 1: For a little while.
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  Speaker 2: But I always appreciate it when you guys come in
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  Speaker 2: and let us meet the police dogs and the other
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  Speaker 2: animals that are obviously part of the force. And once again,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much for your time this morning. But
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  Speaker 2: just if anybody's out there listening and they are thinking
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  Speaker 2: they'd really like to get involved in this naming competition.
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  Speaker 2: They can head to the police Facebook yep, and they'll
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  Speaker 2: be able to jump on there and just comment underneath
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  Speaker 2: yes yep.
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  Speaker 3: All the instructions and what to do are there, and
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  Speaker 3: join join the names everyone's got or if they like
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  Speaker 3: something that is there, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome, Oh good stuff. Well, Sergeant Tyrone Bellman, always lovely
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  Speaker 2: to have you in the studio, and Senior Constable Matthew Hohagen,
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  Speaker 2: lovely to have you in the studio this morning, and
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  Speaker 2: thanks so much for bringing the puppy in having us.
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