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Katie Woolf spoke with NT Police Recruitment Superintendent Neil Hayse and Serge Bouma · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: I know that there's been quite a bit of negative
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  Speaker 1: discussion this morning following on from that vision that was
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  Speaker 1: released by the ABC, but we're going to step away
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  Speaker 1: from that for a minute because I actually want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about some of the really positive stuff that's going
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  Speaker 1: on right now in terms of recruitment to the Northern
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  Speaker 1: Territory Police Force and joining us in the studio right
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  Speaker 1: now is Superintendent Neil Hayes.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, morning, Katie.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very well?
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  Speaker 1: And Senior Sergeant Surge Boomer, good morning to.
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  Speaker 4: You morning, Katy.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you what you guys on.
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  Speaker 1: The weekend you had the come and try day out
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  Speaker 1: there at Bhrima. You made me go out and try
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  Speaker 1: and do the fitness test to see if I was
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  Speaker 1: fit enough to join the police force.
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  Speaker 2: Neil, am, I.
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  Speaker 3: You did all right, Katie. I was very impressed. Quite
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  Speaker 3: beat me, but very impressed.
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  Speaker 4: I've got a letter of offer here for you.
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  Speaker 2: No, I will look.
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  Speaker 1: I think my boss might have a heart attack if
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  Speaker 1: I say I'm leaving to go and join the police force,
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  Speaker 1: so we better not do. But it was it was
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  Speaker 1: really great to be out there. There seemed to be
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  Speaker 1: a massive turnout. Is that more people than what you
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  Speaker 1: usually expect.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the first one we've running, dah, and so
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  Speaker 3: we've done the ones up and down the track. As
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  Speaker 3: you're aware, we spoke out previously and you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: trying to sort of get the word out. We've had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of interests prior to it. So I think
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  Speaker 3: on the day we ended up having about forty or
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  Speaker 3: fifty people turn up, which was really positive and lots
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  Speaker 3: of really interested people, which was great for us.
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  Speaker 1: So what's the process now for those people that turned
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  Speaker 1: up to that come and try day? Are they able
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  Speaker 1: to you know, is there going to be like a
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  Speaker 1: proper opportunity for them to try and join the force?
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  Speaker 4: What's the process so they can get onto our website
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  Speaker 4: and download the information packs and their application forms and
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  Speaker 4: start the ball rolling. We're taking applications all the time,
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  Speaker 4: so when they're ready to do so, put the application in.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people we spoke to on the weekend
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  Speaker 4: they were very keen. Yeah, and I think it sort
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  Speaker 4: of peaked their interests as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just see a few people that you thought, oh
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  Speaker 1: they looked pretty good, they might be able to to
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  Speaker 1: join the force.
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  Speaker 3: There were some really good people there and I think
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  Speaker 3: it was a great opportunity to not just for them
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  Speaker 3: to do the fitness test, but they got to speak
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  Speaker 3: to the recruits that are currently in the college. They've
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  Speaker 3: got to speak to the recruitment team they're there, and
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  Speaker 3: they got to ask questions in a less formal environment.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not via the web page or it's not
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  Speaker 3: over the phone. They was face to face and there
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  Speaker 3: was some genuine interest and it was really nice to
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  Speaker 3: see some families come along as well. So the partner's
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  Speaker 3: got to ask the questions of any concerns they might
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  Speaker 3: have about their family members joining the police. So I
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  Speaker 3: think it was really good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 1: And now I know that you two have also been
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  Speaker 1: traveling to sort of try and and interview different people
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  Speaker 1: that you might want to recruit to the police force.
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  Speaker 2: How's that all gone. Good.
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  Speaker 3: We've we've been all around the country actually since the
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  Speaker 3: launch of the Facebook page only a month or so ago.
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  Speaker 3: We generated a fair bit of interest and as I
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  Speaker 3: spoke COVID, I think has put a lot of people's
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  Speaker 3: lives into perspective and so we're getting a lot of interest.
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  Speaker 3: So we've just finished interviews in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane,
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  Speaker 3: and we've had a really good response. I think all
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  Speaker 3: there is about one hundred and fifty interviews conducted over
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  Speaker 3: a couple of week period and we're still an interviewing
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  Speaker 3: but hopefully we'll have the outcome for those people that
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  Speaker 3: were in the mix in the next week or so.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, so one hundred and fifty interviews. How many people
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  Speaker 1: are you trying to recruit?
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  Speaker 3: The next squads due to start in February and it
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  Speaker 3: could be up to sixty that's done on that squad
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  Speaker 3: and we're hoping to have a few in the bank
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  Speaker 3: for us, a few what in the in the bank,
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be people that are fans suitable that
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  Speaker 3: may not have an opportunity on this course, and so
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  Speaker 3: with that continual recruitment, we're hoping to create a pool
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  Speaker 3: of applicants for any future continent.
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  Speaker 1: So you're recruiting for the banks as well.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes the entrance of quirements, we have some people that
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  Speaker 4: are missing a couple of little yeah, so we just
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  Speaker 4: pushed them on to the next one.
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  Speaker 1: And then obviously you'll make sure that you've got plenty
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  Speaker 1: of people ready to join the force and look I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to make this a negative thing because you
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  Speaker 1: guys have done such a great job in terms of
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  Speaker 1: that recruitment, in terms of being really positive. What's been
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  Speaker 1: the sentiment around the place as you've gone and interviewed people,
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  Speaker 1: not just in the territory, but you know in other
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  Speaker 1: parts of Australia, what's been the sentiment.
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  Speaker 2: Are they pretty excited and keen to join the force?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Look everyone I interviewed and I'm sure Neil will be
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  Speaker 4: the same. They were great. They were so keen, so motivated,
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  Speaker 4: absolutely no negativity at all and it was just great
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  Speaker 4: to see and it goes to show that we're attracting
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  Speaker 4: the right people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and likewise, you know, you've got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people we're very clear on the fact that Darwin's not
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  Speaker 3: the place they're going to start their career, and the
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  Speaker 3: majority of the people we spoke to have a real
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  Speaker 3: passion for the community based approach and the remote stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's really good. We're getting the right
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  Speaker 3: type of people with the right temperament that you want
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  Speaker 3: to be part of the territory community, which is fantastic
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  Speaker 3: not just for the police but for the NT.
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  Speaker 1: Now, is there any further opportunity if anybody is listening
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I mean I say this every time you
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  Speaker 1: guys are on, but if there is anybody listening this morning,
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  Speaker 1: who's thinking, yeah, I still want to have a crack
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  Speaker 1: at this, I'd like to become a police officer. What's
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  Speaker 1: the best plan of attack for them?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So look if they had to Facebook page or
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  Speaker 3: onto the website and all the details are there, The
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  Speaker 3: applications are there, the booklets in regards to what the
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  Speaker 3: requirements are for each of the streams. As Surge mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: we now take applications all year round, so you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to wait for the next campaign. If you're interested now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, make sure it's the right thing for you,
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  Speaker 3: Speak to your family, make sure there's no concerns there,
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  Speaker 3: then put your application in and we're going to be
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  Speaker 3: continually assessing people as we go through. There's can be
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  Speaker 3: plenty of opportunities over the next twelve months for people
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  Speaker 3: to jump on board, and we'd love to have more
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  Speaker 3: recruits coming through.
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  Speaker 2: Good stuff. Well, I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 1: I had quite a few people contact me over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend and say I would I have a go at that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, have a try at the fitness test.
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  Speaker 2: I can confirm it's pretty hard.
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  Speaker 1: You did really well, really well, So I had to
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  Speaker 1: I planked for about two minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what we ended up doing two minutes?
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  Speaker 1: Yep, I could do our twenty five bit wobbly push ups.
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  Speaker 3: They were wobbly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go across.
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  Speaker 1: Strength strike bush us and then we did the beat test.
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  Speaker 2: Neil, tell everyone what you got to I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was eleven three or eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Floors being a bit he's being a bit honest, there
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  Speaker 1: is me. Yeah, I was pretty happy I got to ten.
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  Speaker 1: You'd said to me beforehand, what do I want to
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  Speaker 1: get to? And I thought, I've got no idea. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't done this since I was about fourteen. It's a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago.
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  Speaker 4: I got tired watching it. Yeah, and Bailey.
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  Speaker 2: Got your dog yeah over in dolls.
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  Speaker 4: Well he actually did what I ask everyone else to do,
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  Speaker 4: which is vomited.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of you that's right, which I reckon
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people would have felt like doing.
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  Speaker 2: After that beat test.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you I had to push on because I'd
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  Speaker 3: trained that challenging on the beats, me gets automating on
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  Speaker 3: the I was pretty close, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll tell you what it's been.
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  Speaker 1: It was a really good opportunity for me as well
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  Speaker 1: to go out and see what it takes to obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, try and become a police officer. And I
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  Speaker 1: think it was really wonderful as well to speak to
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  Speaker 1: those recruits that are actually going through the process and
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  Speaker 1: hear how passionate they are about it. So well done
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  Speaker 1: to you guys, and no doubt those squads are going
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  Speaker 1: to be pushing through.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully, and maybe we'll get another one up for those
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  Speaker 3: that may be missed out this time, but into the
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  Speaker 3: new year, maybe the beat test so Ronnie can come
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  Speaker 3: join us.
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  Speaker 2: Plan good plan, So.
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  Speaker 4: We'll just find out when she's available before we tell
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  Speaker 4: her what she's doing, and we'll organize it.
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  Speaker 2: For that day. Good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Superintendent Neil Hayes and Senior Sergeant Serge Berma.
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  Speaker 2: Lovely to have you both in the studio. Thank you.
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