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Member for Katherine Jo Hersey says staff at a local BP servo have been threatened by offenders armed with a spear and machete · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: So joining me on the line right now to actually
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  Speaker 1: tell us a little bit more about this is the
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  Speaker 1: COLP remember four, Catherine, Joe Hersey. Good morning Joe, Good.
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  Speaker 2: Morning Katie, and good morning listening. Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Please tell me this isn't the case. What's happened?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so overnight Katie, the BP and Catherine had about
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  Speaker 2: four people go into with a machete. I've been down
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  Speaker 2: speaking to the manager and she showed me the footage
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  Speaker 2: and I have to tell you it is the two
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  Speaker 2: people on was the woman that was involved before and
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  Speaker 2: her husband and they have high tailed out the back
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  Speaker 2: on the footage of the guy with this massive machete
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  Speaker 2: and another one had a spear in there. He's just
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  Speaker 2: got that kill out and gone. It is just discussing
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  Speaker 2: to watch it and I couldn't even imagine if somebody
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  Speaker 2: came into your business with a machete that he has.
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  Speaker 2: But also the manager of United came just to check
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  Speaker 2: if they were okay. While I was talking to the
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  Speaker 2: manager of BP, and they had an attack at their place.
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  Speaker 2: They had shuttle locked all their doors and were just
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  Speaker 2: using the night window. But he said that obviously wasn't
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  Speaker 2: good enough for some people and they've smashed the window
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  Speaker 2: which by their night window. It is just my god,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that these people, the manager at VP manager said,
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  Speaker 2: these people at this point aren't known to police. So
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  Speaker 2: anyway the police of the lady in BP could not
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  Speaker 2: the manager cannot speak highly enough of the police. But
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  Speaker 2: the disturbing thing. She showed me a whole heap of
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  Speaker 2: files of what happened in the last six months that
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  Speaker 2: they've reported. But fifteen times they have been attacked, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily broken into because they're twenty four hours a day,
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  Speaker 2: but people have been in there, you know, threatening their
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  Speaker 2: stuff with weapons and things. Fifteen times in the last
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  Speaker 2: four months. Absolutely not accepted.
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  Speaker 1: So the thing about this is, you know, obviously the government,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've spoken about what has gone on in
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  Speaker 1: bottle shops, so we've seen what's gone on at bottle shops.
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  Speaker 1: But you are talking about petrol stations.
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  Speaker 2: Now, correct, correct.
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  Speaker 1: It's mortified.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of years ago, there was someone that doubts
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  Speaker 2: themselves in petro and the person, the attendant inside came
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  Speaker 2: out to put that person, you know, tour them out,
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  Speaker 2: and I trouble it. You know, it's just this is
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  Speaker 2: not the kind of thing that people expect to happen
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  Speaker 2: when they go to work. They want to just go
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  Speaker 2: to work, do their job, earn their money, and go home.
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  Speaker 2: They should not be having to deal with this kind
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  Speaker 2: of behavior. They certainly shouldn't feel like they need to
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  Speaker 2: get security guards.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's unbelievable. Honestly, it's this is exactly the kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing that I'm talking about, you know, when I'm
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  Speaker 1: interviewing the Chief Minister and saying that we've all had
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  Speaker 1: a gutfull. But what really I find so disturbing and
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  Speaker 1: upsetting is I think of that poor woman, that young
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  Speaker 1: woman who has already been assaulted. So, Joe, you are
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  Speaker 1: telling me it is the same the same young woman whose.
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  Speaker 2: Same woman and her husband that were on a shift together.
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  Speaker 1: Are they okay?
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  Speaker 2: Probably so she's feel safe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how have you spoken to them today?
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  Speaker 2: No, I haven't spoken to them, Katie. I've just spoken
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  Speaker 2: to the manager of BP. Yeah. But she's you know,
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  Speaker 2: she's angry. She has I said, you need to written
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  Speaker 2: Katie will. She said, they don't want me on. I've
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  Speaker 2: hardly had any sleep, and I'll tell them exactly what
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  Speaker 2: I You know, she's a pretty woman, this woman that
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  Speaker 2: manages VP, and I say, she's exactly the person for
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  Speaker 2: the job. But she is not backward in coming forward
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  Speaker 2: and she doesn't mind, you know, chasing people out all.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not everyone that you know, you shouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: to do that.
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't have to, Joe. You shouldn't have to be
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  Speaker 1: you know, able to be a security guard, to work
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  Speaker 1: in a retail job. It's just unbelievable. It's reached the
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  Speaker 1: point of being beyond ridiculous and beyond frustrating.
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  Speaker 2: We've all had enough. I mean, people have just people
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  Speaker 2: I've spoken me this morning, they have just had a
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  Speaker 2: gutful and to hear the Chief Minister to go on
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  Speaker 2: and on and not answer any questions. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: you've backed yourself into a corner, Yeah, you haven't tolkedble
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  Speaker 2: Joe somewhere along the line, just own it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And the thing I think, the thing I found
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  Speaker 1: your most frustrating is then when there is a discussion
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  Speaker 1: about a global phenomena when it comes to violent crime,
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  Speaker 1: like I couldn't care less. I mean, what is happening
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  Speaker 1: in other parts of the world, Because right now we're
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  Speaker 1: all so concerned about what is happening in our patch
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  Speaker 1: because it's so frightening and so scary for people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, correct, correct, Yeah, it is just beyond beyond fathoming.
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  Speaker 2: What is going to happen next, you know, And if
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  Speaker 2: these people aren't caught, who are they going to go
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  Speaker 2: and harass and potentially you know, you know, put someone
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  Speaker 2: else's life in danger while they're at work.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't even know what else to say. Joe,
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  Speaker 1: I am, I'm really sorry. Yeah, I'm gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: leave it there because we've got a head across to
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  Speaker 1: the National News. Thank you so much for coming on
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  Speaker 1: this morning and letting us know what is going on
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  Speaker 1: in Catherine. We'll probably catch up with you a bit
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  Speaker 1: later in the week if we can.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no worries.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Joe, much appreciated you too. Thanks