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Commander Danny Bacon says it’s been a busy weekend for officers with a woman found dead, school chickens killed and students banned from Casuarina Square · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Northern Territory police are calling for witnesses after a thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven year old woman was found dead in a Casuarina
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  Speaker 1: car park on the weekend. Shortly before three pm on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Police located her unresponsive in a car park near a
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  Speaker 1: shopping center on Trail Road. Now joining me on the
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  Speaker 1: line is Commander for the Darwin Region, Danny Bacon. Good
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  Speaker 1: morning to you, Danny.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Canny.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Commander, what do we know so far about this situation?
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  Speaker 2: All very limited information, okay, and that's why we've called
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  Speaker 2: for members of public they have any information or footage
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  Speaker 2: from around that particular area at that particular time at
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  Speaker 2: the Keshitty car park there around three pm. But it
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  Speaker 2: was reported that a lady was found unresponsive. We've responded
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  Speaker 2: infirmacy deceased. The circumstances that are unknown, and that's why
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  Speaker 2: we treat every matter as suspicious until the circumstances are known.
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  Speaker 1: So, Commander, do we know which shopping center it was.
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  Speaker 2: Or yes, it was Kasharina. Question we see in the
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  Speaker 2: cart park near the Casharina Club around that particular area itself.
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  Speaker 2: So just asking for people if they were in that
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  Speaker 2: particular area that particular time and saw anything at all
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  Speaker 2: that they considered to be suspicious. If that they could
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  Speaker 2: call crimestoppers.
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  Speaker 1: And was she located, Was she located by members of
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  Speaker 1: the public.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she was, Yeah, and yeah, information was relating to
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  Speaker 2: the police and police attended all right.
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  Speaker 1: So at this point in time, if anybody out there
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  Speaker 1: listening's got any information at all which could assist the police,
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  Speaker 1: best thing to do, get in contact on one three
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  Speaker 1: one triple four. Yes, yeah, Commander. Onto another situation that
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  Speaker 1: we've been notified by a number of parents about over
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  Speaker 1: the course of the weekend chickens that the Jingly Primary
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  Speaker 1: School were killed. The school understandably devastated, children and parents devastated.
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  Speaker 1: Are the police investigating, Yes, we are.
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  Speaker 2: The incident was reported to police in regards to the
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  Speaker 2: law w entry to the chicken cooper. A number of
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  Speaker 2: chickens were killed and another chicken was also stolen. So
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  Speaker 2: we've again coing for members of the public Ausair aware
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  Speaker 2: that information is to again report that through the christ
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  Speaker 2: stopers or one through one triple four. Our strike force
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  Speaker 2: tried and will work with the school and Department Education
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  Speaker 2: as well in regards to that particular.
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  Speaker 1: Matter and from what we're told it was a pretty
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  Speaker 1: horrifying situation for those who actually found what had gone on.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly would have been frunning for anyone to confront.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously a number of livestock that have been killed.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Now, another issue over the weekend that we've been
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  Speaker 1: contacted about by listeners is vision sent to US of
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  Speaker 1: security a licensed premises in Palmerston, vision doing the rounds
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  Speaker 1: of a security guard being very heavy handed with patrons,
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  Speaker 1: one in particular being thrown down the stairs. Has this
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  Speaker 1: been reported to the Northern Territory Police?
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  Speaker 2: Certainly has. There's two lots of footage if you're not
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  Speaker 2: aware of two separate incidents, both within the landmark itself,
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  Speaker 2: involving a crowd control of that particular premises. We're working
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  Speaker 2: with that particular security company and Department of Licensing in
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  Speaker 2: regards to examining the nature of those two particular incidents.
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  Speaker 2: I can advise that the security officer in particular has
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  Speaker 2: been stood down pending that for the investigation regaining those incidents.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, because I mean, without knowing a lot about it,
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  Speaker 1: without having any context, it was pretty horrifying to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly, I think the footage of the gentleman that had
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  Speaker 2: the hand around his throat and thrown down the stairs.
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  Speaker 2: Was quite sickening in particular. But as I said, those
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  Speaker 2: particular matters, both of them are being examined in conjunction
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  Speaker 2: with licensing and we're working with that particular.
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  Speaker 1: Security company and by the sounds of it or as
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  Speaker 1: you've said, that that security that staff member stood down
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  Speaker 1: at this stay.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, advice is that from that particularly company is
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  Speaker 2: they have stood the officer down whilst that investigation is ongoing.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Commander, we also know there's been a lot actually
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  Speaker 1: happen over the course of the weekend. It's always a
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  Speaker 1: busy time for the Northern Territory Police. But late on
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  Speaker 1: Friday we learned that Casharina Square management have imposed a
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  Speaker 1: forty eight hour ban on students from six Darwin schools
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  Speaker 1: from attending the shopping center due to a proliferation of
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  Speaker 1: fights between students at the complex. So from the commencement
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  Speaker 1: of trade today to close tomorrow, a forty eight hour
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  Speaker 1: ban is going to be imposed on imposed sorry on
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  Speaker 1: all school students from Casarina Senior College, Samson Middle School,
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  Speaker 1: Dripstone Middle School, Darwin Middle School, Darwin High School and
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  Speaker 1: Nightcliffe Middle School. What exactly happened there over the last
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  Speaker 1: few days from a police perspective, Well.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, there's been another incidents at that particular location. It's
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  Speaker 2: obviously very unfortunately pleasure to see the center tak some
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  Speaker 2: a furid of action. We're going the behavior there we got,
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  Speaker 2: the use of the complex and use acting out in
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  Speaker 2: this manner is nothing new. Forty years ago. Going to
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  Speaker 2: school here in Twimming and go to Day One High
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  Speaker 2: School I think the old thirteen mile here in Parmiston
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  Speaker 2: where the landmark currently used today, I think we used
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  Speaker 2: to see unfortunate instance of this on a daily, if
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  Speaker 2: not a weekly basis. So it's really good to see that,
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  Speaker 2: as I said, the center taking some action of this nature.
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  Speaker 2: We have a number of patrol of networks within that
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  Speaker 2: particular location that we'll work with and continue height and
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  Speaker 2: patrols of that particular location just to continue to monitor that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you reckon it's going to be enough or is
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  Speaker 1: it going to be difficult for the shopping center to
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  Speaker 1: be able to sort of, you know, to stop young
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  Speaker 1: people from going in there.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's some challenges there, There really are, but
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  Speaker 2: I certainly think by making a stand and putting a
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  Speaker 2: band in place, I think it sends a strong message
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  Speaker 2: to not just the students, but also to the schools
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  Speaker 2: and author to the parents. You know, there's a number
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  Speaker 2: of people there that need to have some responsibility regarding
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  Speaker 2: youth behavior, let alone the youth themselves. So and I
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  Speaker 2: think having these bands as in a generic in place,
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  Speaker 2: I think it also applies a bit of peer pressure
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  Speaker 2: to those particular individuals that choose to behave in this
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  Speaker 2: way to stop behaving this way.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pretty ordinary situation, isn't it. When there's that
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  Speaker 1: many kids behaving badly that the school I mean that
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  Speaker 1: the shopping center has actually got to ban them all.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say the majority of kids. I certainly would
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  Speaker 2: say it's a small majority of kids from particular schools.
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  Speaker 2: And yes it Whilst this might seem a very heavy
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  Speaker 2: hand approach, I think it's a very appropriate approach. And hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: as I said, the kids that behave in this matter
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  Speaker 2: will hopefully be held account well, not hopefully they will
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  Speaker 2: be held account All these matters that have been reported
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  Speaker 2: to police will be followed up both with parents, the
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  Speaker 2: schools and the kids themselves.
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  Speaker 1: A commander, I also understand. And I'm not one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent sure whether you've got this info or not, but
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  Speaker 1: we believe there was a ram raid in Catherine overnight.
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  Speaker 1: Was there also one in the CBD here in the
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  Speaker 1: city or was it just the CBD in Catherine.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not aware of a Captain medicadis you know? I'm
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  Speaker 2: Darwin and trying to keep on top of dar You all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So no, I can't help you now, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: that's all right. Hey. We also know that the Northern
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  Speaker 1: Territory Police release the latest crime statistics on Friday at
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  Speaker 1: a press conference, and Commander you confirmed that there had
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  Speaker 1: been twenty nine domestic violence incidents in the Darwin region
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  Speaker 1: alone overnight last Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's correct. And then I suppose what I try
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  Speaker 2: to do when i'm release in those crime stats is
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  Speaker 2: just to give a bit of perspective of where our
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  Speaker 2: workload is and where the predominantly crime type is that
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  Speaker 2: our offices are dealing with, and what's occurring in the community.
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  Speaker 2: So I know property crime is on the forefront of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people's minds. It certainly is on social
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  Speaker 2: media well and the more broader media, and so I
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  Speaker 2: just why I sort of let people know that is
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  Speaker 2: that over that particular period over night was twenty nine
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  Speaker 2: domestic violence incidents competed to unlawful entry. So I don't
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  Speaker 2: mean to downplay the unlawful entries, but what I really
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  Speaker 2: want to highlight to your listeners and members of the
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  Speaker 2: community is domestic violence is by farther the worst and
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  Speaker 2: significant more crime type that we have in Dale.
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  Speaker 1: So what can be done in this space Because while
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  Speaker 1: domestic violence, while the police can be there at the
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  Speaker 1: pointy end to help out, you know when there is
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  Speaker 1: a domestic violence incident, there needs to be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of work before it actually gets to that point.
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  Speaker 2: I don't disagree Cuddy at all, and there is a
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  Speaker 2: lot of work that are being undertaken and certainly you
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  Speaker 2: would have seen some of the crime sets that we
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  Speaker 2: released and across Darwen domestic viile A salts have decreased
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  Speaker 2: by eleven percent throughout the day and the northern suburbs
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  Speaker 2: and Parmesan by two percent of previous here to date
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  Speaker 2: from the December period. I'll put it down to a
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  Speaker 2: lot more coordination work with a range of different stakeholders
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  Speaker 2: both at that critical end but also in the early
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  Speaker 2: early intervention end. So we've also introduced Strike Course Leader
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  Speaker 2: as you're well aware, from January last year, and that
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  Speaker 2: allows us to provide a lot more quicker investigative time
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  Speaker 2: for particular matters that come to our notice and holding
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  Speaker 2: fenners to account and hopefully stop some of that recidivism
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  Speaker 2: that we see in domestic violence and repeat offending. So
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  Speaker 2: it's also a lot of work in the NGO space
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  Speaker 2: with support services there, but also working with our other
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  Speaker 2: government partners through Territory Families in particular and also through
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  Speaker 2: the youth outreach area as well and Health and education.
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  Speaker 1: That number twenty nine in one night, I mean, is
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  Speaker 1: that an uncommon number or is that something that you
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  Speaker 1: see more often than you should?
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  Speaker 2: It is is always that more, much more significant than
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  Speaker 2: what we have with our property crime itself, and it
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  Speaker 2: is a number that we are decreasing slowly. But it
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  Speaker 2: is a number that our officers, as I said, have
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  Speaker 2: to deal with on a daily basis, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: really want to put it in the term of what
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  Speaker 2: our officers have to deal with that I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: our twenty nine victims of domestic violence and to put
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  Speaker 2: it Frank, that's in potentially twenty nine. Women is the
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  Speaker 2: predominant victims of this advance. Men are subject of domestic violence.
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  Speaker 2: But I think you're going to be realistic and say
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  Speaker 2: the majority of victims are female and unfortunately Norman Terty
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  Speaker 2: majority of our victims are also Indigenous.
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  Speaker 1: It's horrifying, Like it is absolutely horrifying to think that
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  Speaker 1: that is happening in one night alone, and it is
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  Speaker 1: such a scourge I think on the Northern Territory, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's right across Australia, but what's happening in
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  Speaker 1: the Northern Territory, and there is no doubt that it
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  Speaker 1: is keeping Northern Territory police incredibly busy. On top of that,
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  Speaker 1: we also know that looking at those crime stats, there's
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  Speaker 1: plenty of other things that our police are dealing with,
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  Speaker 1: including commercial break ins. I know that they were up
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  Speaker 1: forty five percent, the house break ins twenty three percent
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  Speaker 1: in Palmerston. The car they's up twenty two percent, property
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  Speaker 1: damage twenty eight percent. Why do you reckon you're seeing
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  Speaker 1: a spike in those areas at this point in time.
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  Speaker 2: These particular crimes that were over the December period cutting
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  Speaker 2: and compared with December period last year Unfortunately. December traditionally
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  Speaker 2: is a period where a lot of people going to
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  Speaker 2: state for holidays. It's also an area for Christmas and festivities.
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  Speaker 2: Some families don't have the festivities that I suppose that
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  Speaker 2: they all deserve, and sometimes it's quite a depressing time
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  Speaker 2: as well, with family separated bits of place to see.
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  Speaker 2: You generally do see a rise of certainly personal offenses,
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  Speaker 2: but you also do generally a rise around your property
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  Speaker 2: offense around that particular time. Motor vehicle theft in Darwin
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  Speaker 2: sort of improved that period of time compared to the
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  Speaker 2: previous year, but yes, the other probably crime there matters
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  Speaker 2: went up again. The target commodity predominantly for commercial businesses
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  Speaker 2: is alcohol. Alcohol is that target see commodity both by
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  Speaker 2: adults and by youth. And we are seeing the offenders
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  Speaker 2: predominantly being Northern territory, but Darwen residents all visitors from
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  Speaker 2: northern remote communities.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah right, So, Commander, at this point in time, since
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  Speaker 1: we've seen some of those alcohol restrictions in Central Australia,
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  Speaker 1: have you seen as the commander of Darwin Region much
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  Speaker 1: of much movement when it comes to some of those
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  Speaker 1: different crime issues. Hearing Darwen have you seen much movement
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  Speaker 1: in terms of people coming from Alice to try and
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  Speaker 1: get their hands on alcohol in Darwin.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all. There. Certainly, yes, we have people
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  Speaker 2: that have come from southern remote communities to Darwin, but
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  Speaker 2: certainly the number have not been large and certainly they
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  Speaker 2: have not impacted predominantly within our criminalofeni or asp behavior.
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  Speaker 2: So and you know, traditionally those numbers have always been
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  Speaker 2: there as well. You know, we've always had visitation from
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  Speaker 2: around the territory, so that's not unique in that space.
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  Speaker 2: People come to Darn for a wide variety of reasons.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly medical appointments is one of those. In particular, as
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  Speaker 2: I've explained before in regards to the dar On Parmers
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  Speaker 2: in Litchfield I c G which is our Tasking Coordination
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  Speaker 2: Group only, our focus is on rough sleepers within the
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  Speaker 2: greater Darwin area and we work with the local town
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  Speaker 2: councils and certainly other patrollers in that particular space, particularly
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  Speaker 2: Larochia Nation and Crown Lands, and we work with those
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  Speaker 2: people that are particularly sleeping rough to find them better
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  Speaker 2: places of safety. And what we found is by concentrating
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  Speaker 2: on that and getting in doing some of that early
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  Speaker 2: intervention work and finding people places to be safe and
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  Speaker 2: be safe in that. Generally, what we're seeing is a
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  Speaker 2: lot less of offending, particularly around the ASP space, but
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  Speaker 2: also around that property offending as well.
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  Speaker 1: Now just on the car theft so I know that
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  Speaker 1: something that has been raised with us in the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks is some of those car thefts then
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  Speaker 1: actually being shared on social media by the look of it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as is always the car of choice, by
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  Speaker 1: the looks of things, you know, the older model toyotas,
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  Speaker 1: your land cruisers, your troopies, that kind of thing, but
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  Speaker 1: then being shared on the socials with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: you know that commentary like you know, if the police
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  Speaker 1: and things like that. I mean, like, how does that
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  Speaker 1: make you guys feel? And are you seeing an increase
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  Speaker 1: in this or in terms of it being shared on
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  Speaker 1: the socials.
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  Speaker 2: No, not in particular, but certainly it is a trend
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  Speaker 2: of I suppose youth across Australia even internationally, there is
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  Speaker 2: a I suppose an air of arrogance, taunting in regards
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  Speaker 2: to and awful entries assaults I'm stealing your motor vehicles
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  Speaker 2: where they place it on social media to try and
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  Speaker 2: make a name for themselves. We're not dissimilar to any
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  Speaker 2: other jurisdiction of doing that. We certainly haven't seen any
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  Speaker 2: large spikes in that particular area at all. As I said,
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  Speaker 2: certainly a motivehicle theft has been improving across darn, which
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  Speaker 2: is good to say.
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  Speaker 1: Well commanded, Danny Bacon. We always appreciate your time. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much for having a chat with us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: No before I do okay, as I always try to do,
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  Speaker 2: is I try to talk about lives lost on our
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  Speaker 2: territory road. You know, we've lost one life already this year.
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  Speaker 2: This year, this time last year we had eight lives loss,
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  Speaker 2: which is quite significant. But last year we also had
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  Speaker 2: a total of fifty two and eighty eight percent of
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  Speaker 2: those fatalities were alcohol drug related. So just asking people
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  Speaker 2: to drive responsibly on our particular road networks, and also
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  Speaker 2: just to remind everybody well that we now have active
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  Speaker 2: auto make a number plate recognition across the number of
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  Speaker 2: our traffic fleet to check registrations. There's an excess of
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  Speaker 2: thirteen thousand uninterested vehicles within the Northern Territory and we're
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  Speaker 2: just asking people to make sure they check their own
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  Speaker 2: red Joe before we do. We don't want to find
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  Speaker 2: people at all. We prefer you register your vehicles if
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  Speaker 2: you choose to drive them on the roads, because also
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  Speaker 2: if you're unregistered, your also un insured. And certainly if
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  Speaker 2: an accident does occur to the gific point of a
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  Speaker 2: fatal or even serious injuries, then you're not insured for that.
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  Speaker 2: So just encouraging territories to make sure they're redgised their
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  Speaker 2: vehicle and drive safe.
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  Speaker 1: Good advice, and you know advice that I'm sure people
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  Speaker 1: will hopefully go and just double check that their vehicles
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  Speaker 1: are registered. Commander, thank you so much for your time
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Much appreciated.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you, Catie, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you