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Katie spoke with Shelley Lay from Zuccoli IGA about how they're using a security dog to deal with ongoing break ins at the store · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now throughout the year, we have heard from my next
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  Speaker 1: guest on a number of occasions, unfortunately at different times
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  Speaker 1: when there's been some pretty ordinary situations unfold at her
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  Speaker 1: and her husband's wonderful shop out in Zacholi And well,
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  Speaker 1: fortunately they have they've had a few situations of late
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  Speaker 1: where any break ins have been stopped, and that is
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  Speaker 1: because they've got Canine which is patrolling for them. It's
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  Speaker 1: Shelley Lay on the line from Zacholi, IgA. Good morning
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  Speaker 1: to you, Shlley, Morning Katie, Helly very well. Shelley, tell
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  Speaker 1: us a little bit more about Jumbo, who's been patrolling
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  Speaker 1: the area and helping you guys out enormously.
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  Speaker 2: He is amazing, that's for sure. He's got his job
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  Speaker 2: cut out for him. But he's been Yeah, he really
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  Speaker 2: has been doing a great job and deterring at least
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  Speaker 2: six different groups that have come since he started with
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  Speaker 2: us about six weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: Now, well, I know that it's been like it's been
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  Speaker 1: such a tough time for you guys in some ways
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  Speaker 1: in terms of those various breakings. So obviously you decided
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  Speaker 1: to get the Canine security onto it, and Jumbo's been
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  Speaker 1: patrolling for six weeks tell us about some of the
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  Speaker 1: situations that he's sort of had to had to help
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  Speaker 1: with so far.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I guess the most confronting one was the
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  Speaker 2: last one when there were three people that turns out
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  Speaker 2: to be in a stolen car, came out started yelling
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  Speaker 2: that they were going to kill the dog, produced a
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  Speaker 2: metal object, and as Jumbo got closer, they retreated back
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  Speaker 2: into their car and new he meant business. He is
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  Speaker 2: certainly not a dog that you would want to come
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  Speaker 2: across late at night with his handler there. So they
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  Speaker 2: got back in their stolen car and took off, so
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  Speaker 2: certainly deter that which would have been potentially the sixth
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  Speaker 2: robbery on top of the four where they've already actually
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  Speaker 2: gotten in.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, Shelley, when did that most recent one happen?
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like it would have been very scary.
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  Speaker 2: Terrible case. That was actually on Friday night, so just
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  Speaker 2: a week ago now. And look, the police were great day,
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  Speaker 2: were there very quickly, and they were able to from
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  Speaker 2: the car up the road and got one of the
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  Speaker 2: offenders then, but there were three of them, so there
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  Speaker 2: were two that weren't caught at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Shelley, I mean, do you and your husband, think to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: why are we in a situation where we even have
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  Speaker 1: to have, you know, a canine patrol dog and his
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  Speaker 1: handler there at the shop.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god. Of course we are at our WIT's
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  Speaker 2: end with the expense number one. And my plan was
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  Speaker 2: just sort of have this until we were able to
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  Speaker 2: get roller doors installed, but at a very big stand
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  Speaker 2: still at the moment because we can't get approval for
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  Speaker 2: them to be installed because of the it's doocking the
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  Speaker 2: fire exits, and if we do want to do that,
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  Speaker 2: I need to put in an extra fire exit door,
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  Speaker 2: which of course is structural. It's a massive job. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to deal with and find a work around
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  Speaker 2: about that at the moment. So whilst I thought that
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  Speaker 2: this expense would end sort of at Christmas time when
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  Speaker 2: rollerdors were being installed, it's just going to keep on going.
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  Speaker 2: And we do feel like we can't sustain this, that's
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  Speaker 2: for sure. And as we've seen, if we didn't have
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  Speaker 2: extra protection there, we would have been robbed at least
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  Speaker 2: six times since the other four. So I guess we've
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  Speaker 2: decided started to think of other ways that we can
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  Speaker 2: try and protect the area and just make people more aware,
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  Speaker 2: and neighborhood Watch came to mind, and we thought, we've
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  Speaker 2: got an amazing community there and people do want to help,
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  Speaker 2: and if we can just get people more involved, more vigilant,
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  Speaker 2: getting to know their neighbors, knowing if they're.
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  Speaker 3: Away, just getting phone numbers, and just been community minded,
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  Speaker 3: getting in there and go, hey, I don't recognize that
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  Speaker 3: kid that's in that backyard.
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  Speaker 1: Or what have you?
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  Speaker 2: Neighbored the more crimes going on than any police or
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  Speaker 2: people driving past, et cetera. So we just thought maybe
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  Speaker 2: this might be an additional way that we can try
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  Speaker 2: and move forward from this situation that we're in.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon it sounds like a good idea. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's something that used to happen so often, like in
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  Speaker 1: years gone by. There well, and there is still the
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  Speaker 1: actual neighborhood watch, but you know, I think that communities
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  Speaker 1: used to kind of keep a bit more of an
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  Speaker 1: eye out for each other in days gone by.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they probably did. And these days, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: could live next door to somebody and not even say
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  Speaker 2: hello to them because we're all so busy and going
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  Speaker 2: off in our own little w world. But just even
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  Speaker 2: if it initiates a neighbor going over to the next
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  Speaker 2: door neighbor and saying, hey, I'm a member of the
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood watch. I've gested that we meet. Get your phone number,
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  Speaker 2: so if you're away and I noticed something, I can
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  Speaker 2: give you a quick call. And that camaraderie within the
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  Speaker 2: community is going to I think be amazing for us.
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  Speaker 1: Aught. Yeah, well, I reckon, this sounds like a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: So you want to try and kick it off from
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  Speaker 1: early next year, you reckon?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just thinking, and I've had an amazing
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  Speaker 2: response already, messages coming in, people giving me their phone numbers.
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  Speaker 2: They want to be involved. Just thought, even if we
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  Speaker 2: met once a month at the plaza and just saw
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  Speaker 2: got together, maybe we have a bit of a police
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  Speaker 2: report on what's going on in the area and just
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  Speaker 2: really getting to know your neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let us know, Shelly, how it all goes. But
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  Speaker 1: let us know as well, you know, from early next
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  Speaker 1: year when you are sort of planning on having that
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  Speaker 1: first meeting, and we will try to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: you know that for our residents out iCal area or
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  Speaker 1: even you know, around that area in Palmerston, if they
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  Speaker 1: want to get involved, how they can do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be amazing, Katie. Thank you very much. We
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  Speaker 2: appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: No worries at all, and thank you for you know,
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  Speaker 1: for all of our chats throughout the year. I know
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  Speaker 1: that it's been tough for you guys in many way,
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  Speaker 1: but in many ways, but you've also kicked some massive goals,
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  Speaker 1: won a national award just recently as well, and we
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate you coming on air and chatting with us.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, thank you. I know it's certainly been some lows,
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  Speaker 2: but there's been some highs always.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good on you. You and your husband run a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful business and we really appreciate you chatting today.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Shelly, Thanks Mary, Christmas everyone, you too.