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Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Bland tells of two dangerous car thefts involving kids under 15 in recent days · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now, there's always plenty happening around the territory, and we
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  Speaker 1: know that our Northern Territory police work incredibly hard. Now
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  Speaker 1: they have arrested four youths after a premises in Darwin
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  Speaker 1: City was unlawfully entered yesterday morning. Joining me on the
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  Speaker 1: line to tell us a little bit more about this
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  Speaker 1: is Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Bland.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you. Blandy, Good morning Katie. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, goodness, wonderful to have you on the show. Now
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  Speaker 1: tell us a little bit firstly about what had happened
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  Speaker 1: yesterday morning in Darwin City.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, about t fifty amsday morning, a vehicle stolen from
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  Speaker 3: a residence in Leanna. About now later that vehicle we
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  Speaker 3: used to remorad a licensed premises in Buffalo Court and
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  Speaker 3: Dawn City. As a result of that, substantial amount of
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  Speaker 3: alcohol was stolen. Police located of the vehicle not long
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  Speaker 3: after driving dangerously through Winnelli. But michud was initiated but
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  Speaker 3: quickly terminated just to the manner of driving. It's quite dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Not long after that police sired the v streeting gun
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  Speaker 3: where the occupants abandoned it and fled on foot. We'll
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  Speaker 3: manage to recover a fair bit of the stolen alcohol,
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  Speaker 3: which was good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. How much alcohol did they steal?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they stole in excess of eighteen borrels of spirits
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  Speaker 3: and over one hundred cans of Premix. Wow, I fair whack.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, we managed to get the majority of
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  Speaker 3: that back, which was good. And then just through some
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  Speaker 3: investigations late yesterday afternoon, we arrested four miles of age
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  Speaker 3: fourteen at a residence in Palmerston.
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  Speaker 2: So they were all aged fourteen, All age fourteen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, two were turned up being charged with a number offenses,
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  Speaker 3: including a gravida on all for use of a motive,
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  Speaker 3: a gravailable for entry of a building and stealing, and
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  Speaker 3: the other two fourteen year olds were released to be
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  Speaker 3: dealt with under the provisions of the Youth Justices Act.
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  Speaker 2: It must get frustrating for you.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that seems so young to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people listening this morning, They're going to think, good, just
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  Speaker 1: me fourteen years old.
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  Speaker 3: It is young. It's just it's frustrating for police and
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  Speaker 3: the victims in the martain know the senseless damage to
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  Speaker 3: the roller doors and the theft of the vehicle. Not
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  Speaker 3: to mention the just the driving, the dangerous driving along
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  Speaker 3: the highway puts all the other road users that were risk.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're spot on, and that is the concern, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: You know that they end up injuring themselves or somebody
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  Speaker 1: else on the road. And you can understand then why
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  Speaker 1: you guys are in a situation where you have to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where you have to terminate those pursuits pretty
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  Speaker 1: quickly sometimes, oh you do.
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  Speaker 3: You have to obviously take in all the risk, the
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  Speaker 3: risk assessment and weigh it all up. But yeah, number
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  Speaker 3: on priorities obviously to keep everyone safe on the roads,
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  Speaker 3: and if that means not pursuing a vehicle, that's what
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  Speaker 3: it is. We've just got to make sure that day
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  Speaker 3: we want.
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  Speaker 2: Safe absolutely now.
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  Speaker 1: We also yesterday we spoke to one of our listeners, Caroline,
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  Speaker 1: who'd had her vehicle stolen.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was in Jingly.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure whether you've got any infole on that one, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: but I know that unfortunately, we do end up in
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  Speaker 1: a situation sometimes where we have you know, where we
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  Speaker 1: have vehicles taken from well, people getting inside the home,
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  Speaker 1: stealing the keys and then getting away with the car.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a jockey. What happened, Kadie? A vehicle signed
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  Speaker 3: from a single early yesterday morning, it was sighted down
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  Speaker 3: at Rapid Creek where it was reported to police. Police
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  Speaker 3: attended and ended up locating the vehicle with a number
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  Speaker 3: of years fleeing from it. We managed to arrest the driver,
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  Speaker 3: who was twelve years old, and he was arrested and
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  Speaker 3: charged and reminded and custody.
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  Speaker 2: Goodness may twelve years old? Bloody hell?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I think the other youth that managed to
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  Speaker 3: evade police at the time roughing around the same ages.
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  Speaker 2: And mate, do we know know?
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  Speaker 1: I was was the damage or was the car in
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  Speaker 1: a situation where you know where it was damaged?
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  Speaker 2: Or how was that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? It wasn't too bad. It's just probably more where
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  Speaker 3: it went down the embankment where the kids did abandon.
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  Speaker 3: It actually rolled down a bit of the embankment, so
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  Speaker 3: it received some damage from there, which is unfortunate for
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  Speaker 3: the owner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that.
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  Speaker 1: I hope she's able to get it back and able
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  Speaker 1: to drive it again. Mark, is there anything much else
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  Speaker 1: going on that we should be aware of?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, just pretty much keeping very busy. But just
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  Speaker 3: ask everyone out there. Yeah, just vigilant obviously, like we
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  Speaker 3: say most of the time on the radio when I'm speaking,
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  Speaker 3: just mindful to lock your doors, keep your car keys
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  Speaker 3: out of side to stop those opportunist, opportunistic thefts vehicles
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  Speaker 3: which obviously we can see result in more serious offending
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  Speaker 3: down the track.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're spot on and we really appreciate you coming
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  Speaker 1: on the show. But also the work that you guys
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  Speaker 1: do is part of Strikeforce Trident On that you are
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  Speaker 1: there for a lot of those different property crimes. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the time unfortunately where we do see
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  Speaker 1: youth crime and cars stolen and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: You guys do a phenomenal job in making sure that
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  Speaker 1: you know that you apprehend those people that are doing
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  Speaker 1: the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you very much, Katie, very much appreciate.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, anytime, mate, Thank you for the work that you
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  Speaker 1: do and we'll talk to you again very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Mark