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Katie Woolf spoke with Australian Police Medal Recipient Senior Constable Chris Kilian from Water Police · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Yesterday, there was obviously some wonderful Territorians who were recognized
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  Speaker 1: as part of the Australia Day Honors, and included on
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  Speaker 1: that list were two members of the Northern Territory Police
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  Speaker 1: Force named as recipients of the Australian Police Medal. And
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  Speaker 1: one of those recipients joins me in the studio right now.
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  Speaker 1: It is Senior Constable Chris Killian from the Water Police.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Chris, Good morning, Katie, Good morning listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Lovely to have you in the studio and a big congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: How are you feeling.
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  Speaker 2: I'm feeling terrific, feeling really toughed. Good on you and
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  Speaker 2: what use the opportunity for your platform just to say
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  Speaker 2: thank you the people who sent a lot of nice
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  Speaker 2: kind words my way. It was a really nice data
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  Speaker 2: hear all that was Yeah, I drank a lot of
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  Speaker 2: my own basketlord, No good on you.
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  Speaker 1: You know, our Northern Territory Police works so bloody hard
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's really wonderful to see our police
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  Speaker 1: recognized and it was you along with another detective scene well,
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  Speaker 1: you were obviously one of the one of the one
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  Speaker 1: of the ones recognized. And then there was one other
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  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to find. I believe it was Senior
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  Speaker 1: Constable first Class Bindi Burnor.
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  Speaker 3: And I you know, it's I think it's.
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  Speaker 1: Just so important that we've got such wonderful territorians in
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  Speaker 1: our community like yourself, that we recognize the work that
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  Speaker 1: you guys do and how much you do that's sort
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  Speaker 1: of outside your normal jobs as well. Were you pretty
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  Speaker 1: shocked when you got the call or got the letter
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  Speaker 1: letting you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was absolutely shocked, not shocked by Bindy Burnell.
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  Speaker 2: She's a champion. Yeah, I think that the police force
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  Speaker 2: in the society generally owes her enormously. There to gratitude. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you probably wouldn't know her name from a bar's opener.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, And so you know, I know it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: talk about yourself when you when something like this happens,
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  Speaker 1: But what would you say about Bindi.
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  Speaker 3: I know that you've said she's an amazing person.
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  Speaker 2: She's a really good teacher. Yeah, she has taken charge
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  Speaker 2: of the she's asked the victims identification field. That's just
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  Speaker 2: one thing I know about her. But she's obviously my
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  Speaker 2: long term forensics officer. She just does a job. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and it makes a difference if the copper
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  Speaker 2: that turns up is a good copper or bad copper. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: she's the highest quality copper.
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  Speaker 1: Good on her, Well, good on both of you. Now
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  Speaker 1: you've been working in the You've seen you've sort of
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  Speaker 1: worked across various fields within the territory police, including the
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  Speaker 1: water Police, the drug Squad, general duties and remote service
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  Speaker 1: with the water Police at the moment, and I know
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  Speaker 1: that you're pretty.
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  Speaker 3: Passionate about marine safety, aren't you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a real bugbear that we just don't seem
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  Speaker 2: to be progressing as a society taking it seriously enough.
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  Speaker 1: What do you reckon we need to be doing in
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  Speaker 1: this space to try and to take it a bit
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  Speaker 1: more seriously.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think, without getting too political, we've got to
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  Speaker 2: start insisting people learn the rules of the road on
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  Speaker 2: the water. That means getting a license before you drive
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  Speaker 2: a boat. I'm treading into pretty dangerous territory here, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the commissioner.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, which is I appreciate me, But obviously you want.
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  Speaker 1: People doing the right thing on the water, I'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: and you know you'd see firsthand sometimes people not doing
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  Speaker 1: the right thing and the impacts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately, it's it's all too common and fingers crossed.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have a disaster, but it's we've dodged that
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  Speaker 2: bullet so many times, just the simple fact that people
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  Speaker 2: mooring in the shipping channel. It's people don't realize how
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  Speaker 2: dangerous that can be. When you can't get your ankorrupt
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  Speaker 2: in a hurry and the big boat's coming, they won't
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  Speaker 2: move'll run straight over the top of her, and it's
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  Speaker 2: good night. Yeah, And I know Mixwino Ford to do
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  Speaker 2: a fair bit of highlighting those things, and I thank
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  Speaker 2: you for that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we certainly try our best.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Chris, what's how did you How did you get
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  Speaker 1: into the police force all those years ago?
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  Speaker 3: How long have you been there? And how did you get
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  Speaker 3: in there?
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  Speaker 2: Look, I came through a scheme that was a cadet
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  Speaker 2: scheme back in the day, and they read recruited kitties
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  Speaker 2: straight out of school. Now, I was out on the
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  Speaker 2: oval kicking the footy or being a rat bag at
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  Speaker 2: lunch and I go called Bob Bradford was walking around
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  Speaker 2: the oval sothing hello and telling people about the scheme.
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  Speaker 2: It was a brand new scheme at the time, and
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  Speaker 2: I thought, to be honest with you, I thought that's
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  Speaker 2: a good way to get out of school. I could
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  Speaker 2: join the police cadets. So I save two years a
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  Speaker 2: cadet and then joined the job after that.
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  Speaker 3: What's it been like for you?
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  Speaker 1: Forty years is such a long time in one career,
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  Speaker 1: but you've worked across so many different areas. What's it
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  Speaker 1: been like to be a police officer in the territory
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  Speaker 1: for forty years?
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  Speaker 2: Quite friendly? I don't know other I don't know a
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  Speaker 2: life outside the police force. I'm hopefully I'm not so
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  Speaker 2: indoctrinated on I don't think so insular. But when you're
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  Speaker 2: working the police force, you say one career, Well, when
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  Speaker 2: you change jobs within the within the different sections, it's
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  Speaker 2: an entirely different career. So when you get sick of
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  Speaker 2: the flavor of one sort of work, off you go.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, working in water police is very different
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  Speaker 2: to working in TRG. It's very different to working at TV.
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  Speaker 2: One town is very very different from the other town.
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  Speaker 1: And what would you say to anybody listening this morning
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  Speaker 1: who's maybe thinking to themselves that they wouldn't mind joining
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  Speaker 1: the police force? Is it? Is it?
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  Speaker 3: The type of career that's you know, that's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say you investigate it, make sure you're the right
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  Speaker 2: fit because it does take a certain personality to flourish
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  Speaker 2: in the job.
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  Speaker 3: But go for it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a really good job. It's there's so many rewards.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a it's a great it's a great job
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  Speaker 2: to be in and you're you're meeting such characters.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you would. No day would be the same. I'm
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  Speaker 3: guessing no.
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  Speaker 2: Inside and outside the job you'll get a lot of laughs.
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  Speaker 1: Be an interesting one, no doubt about it. Well, Chris Skillion,
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  Speaker 1: the Senior Constable, Chris Skillian, I really appreciate your time
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Thank you so much for coming into the
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  Speaker 1: studio and thank you for the work.
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  Speaker 3: That you do as well within the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 1: I think that it's really wonderful to see our territories
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  Speaker 1: recognized in this way, particularly those of you in the
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  Speaker 1: police force to do a wonderful job.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, and there before I go, I should use
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to congratulate you and.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: That's really well deserved. When you took the show over
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  Speaker 2: from Pete Davies, we thought that was at the end
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: Year.
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  Speaker 2: You've grown this show and you're a credit to what
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  Speaker 2: you've been able to achieve over the years.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I really appreciate your kind words.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, And as you pointed out when you came in,
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  Speaker 1: we worked together when I used to work for the
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  Speaker 1: police about bloody fifteen years ago. I reckon it was
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  Speaker 1: one of my first jobs out of university in the
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  Speaker 1: police media unit and it was a good, great job,
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  Speaker 1: great way to learn about the work that our territory
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  Speaker 1: police do.
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  Speaker 2: You did a terrific job there.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks mate, Thanks so much for coming in this morning.