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Ash Parmar: Dairy and Business Owner's Group Vice Chairperson on the new crime figures · The SME Stream

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  Speaker 1: So the Minister of Police Mark Mitchell doing a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a victory lap yesterday on crime stats. Here they
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  Speaker 1: are ram raids. This is a January to December twenty
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  Speaker 1: three verse twenty four. Ram raids down sixty one percent,
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  Speaker 1: foot patrols up thirty percent. Who would have thought there'd
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  Speaker 1: be a correlation. Total victimizations down three percent, serious assaults
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  Speaker 1: down three percent, aggravated robbery down eleven percent. Theft and
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  Speaker 1: related offenses though up twelve percent. Joining us now is
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  Speaker 1: Ash Palmer. He's the vice Chairpisson for Daring Business Owners
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  Speaker 1: Group Ash.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Rain.
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  Speaker 1: These numbers sound right to.
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  Speaker 2: You, Yeah, they do, especially the ram raids. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it was a big concern for a long, long period
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  Speaker 2: of time and the West cut shocking, especially the human
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  Speaker 2: cost of it when you come to your workplace, which
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  Speaker 2: is quite sacred to a lot of the retailers. They
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  Speaker 2: do spend long time in their workplaces and to come
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  Speaker 2: to work sort of the you know, the night and
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  Speaker 2: alarm goes on and seeing it all completely destroyed, it
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  Speaker 2: is absolutely all crushing. So it's good to see at
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  Speaker 2: least that number is dropping and that was just too
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  Speaker 2: easy for too long. But the police has clammed down
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of these youths who in particular we're
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  Speaker 2: doing it, are getting picked up a lot regularly.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So that's what's made the difference. It's not the
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  Speaker 1: foot patrols because the stuff happens at night, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's there following up on these particular young
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  Speaker 1: people and they're stopping them from doing it again, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you're seeing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I mean the foot patrols would probably help
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  Speaker 2: during the day quite a bit. Yeah, in terms of
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  Speaker 2: that more opportunity crime, you know, they shoplifting or that
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  Speaker 2: sort of coming in, running, running with stuff. But the
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  Speaker 2: ram raids in particular was and I used to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you quite a bit in your previous role as
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  Speaker 2: well about it. It was just we just needed a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more tightening from the police other things. It
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  Speaker 2: seems like the new goverment has done it, especially for
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  Speaker 2: those sort of fifteen to eighteen year olds. You know, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this is not good and we are going to pick
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  Speaker 2: you up. That seems to be happening.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what about with the foot patrols during the days,
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  Speaker 1: just the shop owners feeling do they feel safer knowing
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  Speaker 1: there are cops around the corner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. One of the things we are hoping for
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  Speaker 2: a don now is a lot of our reporting is
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  Speaker 2: going into their one or five tool, but we're not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily hearing back for police sometimes in a timely manner.
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  Speaker 2: So that's kind of like the next next phase. I
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  Speaker 2: guess we're hoping, you know, like, yes, it's good to
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  Speaker 2: have a foot patrol that if a retailer is putting
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  Speaker 2: a one or five board, we wanted to be followed
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  Speaker 2: up in a timely manner and that's just not happening
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  Speaker 2: all the time. So there's definitely a lot more to
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  Speaker 2: be desired.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but on the whole, On the whole, it's an
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  Speaker 1: improvement for you, Ash, which is well, it's great news, actually,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it, Because we've been for years now talking about this,
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  Speaker 1: hoping for some kind of reprie vash Param a vice
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  Speaker 1: chairperson Daring Business Owners Group. There on the stats which
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  Speaker 1: show in particular, ram raids down sixty one percent and
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  Speaker 1: foot patrols up thirty percent. Who would have thought it
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  Speaker 1: could be so simple? You just have police on the
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  Speaker 1: street and criminals don't do as much crime. I mean, wow,
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  Speaker 1: my mind is blowing. Ginny Anderson didn't want to come
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  Speaker 1: on the show to talk about these numbers. By the way,