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Katie Woolf spoke with Police Commander Janelle Tokin about First Responder Day! · 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, Katie Wolf has it covered on three sixty
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  Speaker 1: every one is Listening Mix one oh four point nine.
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  Speaker 2: Today is First Responded Day.
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  Speaker 3: It is really a day for us to thank our
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  Speaker 3: first responders and show our support for these wonderful people
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  Speaker 3: who do so much in our community.
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  Speaker 2: Now joining us on the line right now to.
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  Speaker 3: Talk a little bit more about first Responder's Day, but
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  Speaker 3: also some of that work that they do is the
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  Speaker 3: police Commander Janelle Tonkin, Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Katie. Thank you very much for having me.
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  Speaker 3: It's great to have you on the show. It's been
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  Speaker 3: a while since we last caught up. It has Yeah, Janelle,
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  Speaker 3: I know that you're obviously a commander and you are
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  Speaker 3: well you're part of that team yesterday that rescued Maggie,
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  Speaker 3: the missing lady in Lichfield. Can you talk us through
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  Speaker 3: exactly what happened and really give us that context of
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  Speaker 3: the way in which our first responders operate.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Katie. Yeah, So an amazing result yesterday with this
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  Speaker 1: successful rescue of that seventy one year old tourist in
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  Speaker 1: the Northern Territory. So Maggie went hiking in Litchfield National Park,
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  Speaker 1: not far from one guy falls. Unfortunately, on her walk,
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  Speaker 1: she became disorientated and was able to find her way
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  Speaker 1: back to camp. Now she spent two nights sleeping out.
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  Speaker 1: Fortunately though she was very well prepared with enough food,
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  Speaker 1: She found some fresh water, and she had a silver
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  Speaker 1: blanket with her. Now, police, emergency Services, Parks and Wildlife volunteers,
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  Speaker 1: members of the public commenced a large scale multi agency
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  Speaker 1: land and air search on started on Sunday night and
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  Speaker 1: then really rammed up on Monday morning. We were able
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  Speaker 1: to successfully locate her yesterday. She waved down helicopter with
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  Speaker 1: a police spot her in it just just around lunchtime yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: So an amazing result. And I certainly think every single
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  Speaker 1: person that was involved in that operation for their efforts
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  Speaker 1: and their professionalism.
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  Speaker 3: And Maggie had a big thank you for our first responders.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen to this from the ABSA.
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  Speaker 3: I can only say that guys here and girls have
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  Speaker 3: done an absolutely fantastic job.
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  Speaker 2: I'm eternally greatful to all of them. You're lucky you've
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  Speaker 2: got them up here.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean it is just such an example, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Janelle of the way in which all of those coordinated
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  Speaker 3: services can work together for a great outcome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is. Look, certainly, everybody does in the
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  Speaker 1: an extraordinary job every day to save lives, protect our community.
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  Speaker 1: And what today is really about is it's an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for the community to say thank you to those people.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple of ways that you can do that.
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  Speaker 1: You can do that through our social media Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: but what's really important is that you can actually just
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  Speaker 1: walk up to a first responder in the street and
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  Speaker 1: thank them, just let them know that you are grateful
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  Speaker 1: for the work that they do every day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I reckon, that's a really nice way of doing it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's at the end of the day. I
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  Speaker 3: know that you guys probably think to yourself while we're
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  Speaker 3: just doing our jobs, but so often some of those
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  Speaker 3: different situations that our first responders are involved in, they
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  Speaker 3: are actually situations that are quite life changing for the
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  Speaker 3: people that you're helping. And you know that thank you
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  Speaker 3: from those people that you've assisted, even if you've not
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  Speaker 3: in that real sort of face to face way, but
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  Speaker 3: if you have been able to help in different ways
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  Speaker 3: throughout the community, it is something that thank you is
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  Speaker 3: always a nice thing to hear, I would imagine when
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  Speaker 3: you're out there, you know, doing that hard work each
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  Speaker 3: and every day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're absolutely right. It's really important I think to
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge though that that hero label actually doesn't sit very
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  Speaker 1: well with a lot of personness. Most of us do
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  Speaker 1: this work out of a desire to help others. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but we are all.
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  Speaker 3: Human, Yeah, and I reckon that mostly very humble as well.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of our first responders.
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  Speaker 3: Janelle, you have been a police officer for quite a
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  Speaker 3: long period of time. What are some of those, you know,
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  Speaker 3: some of those incidents that you've been involved in that
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  Speaker 3: I guess sort of stand out in your professional career. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Katie, I've been the police commander now for just
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  Speaker 1: over twelve months in Northern Commands, and in my time
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  Speaker 1: here in just the last six to twelve months, we've
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  Speaker 1: had obviously the larger scale floods of the wet season,
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  Speaker 1: so that affected a number of communities, but particularly Daily River.
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  Speaker 1: We had the evacuation of Jimingen community in February this year.
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  Speaker 1: We've had more recently a vertical rescue in Litchfield National Park,
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  Speaker 1: multiple marine rescues out of Darwin East Darnham. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a fire and rescue services responding at the moment to
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  Speaker 1: a number of grass fires and lots and lots of
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately road crash rescue operations.
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  Speaker 3: And this is the thing, like you said, it is
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  Speaker 3: it's day to day for our first responders, but it
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  Speaker 3: is work that is so incredibly appreciated by the community.
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  Speaker 3: So from us Janelle here at Mix one O four
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  Speaker 3: nine and me personally, big thank you to you to
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  Speaker 3: all of our amazing police officers, all of our emergency
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  Speaker 3: service crews, our paramedics well as we've heard this morning,
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  Speaker 3: you know, our correction stuff. You even pointed out before
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  Speaker 3: our Parks and Wildlife who were helping yesterday with that rescue.
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  Speaker 3: Our volunteers. There are so many out there who respond
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  Speaker 3: to pretty serious situations daily and we are very grateful
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  Speaker 3: for the work.
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  Speaker 2: That you do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And I'm glad that you mentioned volunteers because
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  Speaker 1: they are a crucial part of the emergency services response
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  Speaker 1: in the Northern Territory and right across Australia the way,
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank them as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, Janelle Tonkin.
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  Speaker 3: Great to catch up with you today and we hope
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  Speaker 3: that you have a good day, if you know, I
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  Speaker 3: do hope that people get out there and if they
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  Speaker 3: see you or any of our other wonderful first responders around,
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  Speaker 3: come over and say get a and say a big
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  Speaker 3: thank you for the work you do.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Katie Lovely to chat thank you.
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  Speaker 3: That is Janelle Tonkin there, who is the police commander
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  Speaker 3: of the Northern Command, And it is really a day
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  Speaker 3: for us to make sure that we do recognize the
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  Speaker 3: work that our first responders do. I know that hopefully
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  Speaker 3: I haven't forgotten anybody. I know that there are so
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  Speaker 3: many first responders that are out there each and every
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  Speaker 3: day doing incredible work. As Janelle had said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're not comfortable with that hero.
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  Speaker 2: Label, and I get that.
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  Speaker 3: You know a lot of people do not into those jobs,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for the thank you or for the praise.
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  Speaker 3: But the reality is I reckon that a huge number
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  Speaker 3: of us could actually, you know, could actually recall a
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  Speaker 3: moment where we have required those first responders and that
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  Speaker 3: they've helped us, you know, in massive ways. For me,
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  Speaker 3: I've worked with the Northern Territory Police before in their
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  Speaker 3: media unit, so I've sort of seen firsthand some of
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  Speaker 3: that phenomenal work that not only our police officers do,
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  Speaker 3: but also the Emergency Services crew and indeed the paramedics.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I know myself.
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  Speaker 3: I've been first on the scene at car crashes, a
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  Speaker 3: couple of pretty serious ones, and the work that you
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  Speaker 3: then see those paramedics and our fieries and others do
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  Speaker 3: when they get there is simply amazing and life saving
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  Speaker 3: work in a lot of cases. So a big thank
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  Speaker 3: you to our first responders today.