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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now now joining me live in this studio this morning is
(00:02):
the acting Commander for the Darwin Region for the Northern
Territory Police, David Moore. Good morning to.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You, Good morning Kati and to your listeners.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Now, Commander, first off, can I get a bit of
an update from you in relation to the situation that
we saw that was pretty frightening, I think for everybody
at the Royal Darwin Show on Saturday night an alleged
fifteen year old offender stabbing a fifteen year old. Where
are things at with that investigation?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, thank you, Katie. I won't go into more of
the details that I heard you in the media clip
pride of this and the information is still the same.
All I can say is the victim is still in
Royal dar in hospital and is in a stable condition,
which is fantastic. And the offender is actually to appear
the court on the fifth of August this year, so
obviously we'll go for the first appearance on that. Still
(00:49):
in remand and in.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Custody, Okay, so still being remanded, do you know? So
he obviously wasn't granted bail at this point in time.
So fifth did you say? Fifth?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Of all this of August will be the appearance.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Then.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I'm not too certain there may be a barl application,
but I haven't been informed of that.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Do we have any further idea in terms of, you know,
what had sort of happened beforehand or anything like that.
Obviously it looked like there was a scuffle or a
fight beforehand, but there's not a great deal further info
at this point now.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Unfortunate, Kate. I don't have that information. Crime may have,
but I don't. All I know is the incident has
been reported, so unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, all right, well, we will certainly hear more about it.
I'm sure as the days go on. Now, overnight or
in the early hours of this morning, I believe we'd
actually been contacted by one of our listeners in relation
to an incident in Molden. Do you know if something's
gone on in Molden this morning or late last night?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, yes, Katie, to answer your question, yes, so what
I can So, what we do know is that we
have arrested a twenty eight year old Marl in relation
to an aggravated assault which did occur in Molden this morning.
So around seven twenty am, the Joint Emergency Services Communications
Center received port of a stabbing at the shopping complex
in Malden Terrace. It's alleged the male had stabbed a
(02:06):
female known to him before fleeing the scene on foot.
What I can say is that the relationship between both
of those parties are actually cousins, So therefore this would
form a domestic violence incident under our legislation. So such
how it's being looked at.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
So somebody stabbed allegedly stabbed their cousin, that's correct at
the Malden There at Molden near the shops there is
that correct.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
The complex itself like, it seems.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
As though there is issues around that area quite regularly.
I mean, is it somewhere that is a hotspot for
the Northern.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Terra is well known, and it is well known as
a hot spot. We quite often do regular patrols. More importantly,
we put a CCTV camera there regularly, so we do
have visibility. This is just another poor incident obviously, But
what I'd like to say obviously that twenty eight year
old is in custody and if anyone has seen that incident,
I know anything, please contact one three one Triple four
in relation or crime stoppers.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
All right, So twenty eight year old in custody. Look,
I know, David, that some people listening might think to themselves, like,
you see people drinking, they're they're they're drinking throughout the
day and then that bad behavior escalates. Why don't the
police sort of intervene earlier in the day to maybe
stop something like that before it gets to that point.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, well, that's something Katie, we're definitely working on. It
depends on our jobs and what's happening during the day,
but there's certainly definitely a lot of particularly operations and
a lot of really good work that's going on jointly
with the Territory Safety Division and a number of my
staff from my command that we've allocated back to that
area to go and look at doing the anti social
behavior stuff, hitting the drinkers and that nine o'clock period
(03:39):
through lunchtime. To me, I've found that if you can
hit that period, that is that is the essence in
relation to really stops alcohol few of violence later on.
The feedback I've had from my trips in veins is
that when they do an evening or a night shift
and we're able to get out proactively and put a
lot of resources into that then they find they have
a quiet night well.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And this is the thing, you know, I suppose if
if you're able to do that, and you've got the
boots on ground to be able to do that, it
will like it does hopefully make a big difference in
terms of that community safety more generally.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And it really goes back to crime prevention and that's
what that's what we're all about at the moment.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Hey, I also know that the Northern Territory Police have
arrested five females following a disturbance in Yarrawanga. It actually
happened yesterday afternoon, I believe.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, that's correct, Katie. This is a pretty bad situation
for police. What I do know is that we did
arrest the five females and the disturbance of Yarrawonga afternoon,
so it was about three point twenty five pm. The
Palmerston Social Order officers we're conducting proactive patrols within the
Yarrawonga area and they're actually approached by the group of
females who became quite aggressive. It's allegs the groups around
(04:47):
the offices and to de escalate the situation, the officers
attempted to withdraw from that location given the numbers they
had versus the numbers they were facing. As the officers
rendering the vehicle, one of the females is actually slammed
the door shut, trapping the officer's hands our fingers in
the actual door, so there's some injuries caused there. A
fifty year old female there at that stage was immediately
(05:08):
arrested for doing that. But during the arrest, another female
allegedly armed herself with a large log and threatened to
threaten the officers. Actually OC spray was then successfully deployed,
so this was a really escalating situation as you can see.
But as the officers left the area, a third female
allegedly threw a glass bottle at the police vehicle, coursing
damage to the rear passenger window. So it's been quite heated.
(05:31):
What I can say is that additional police units were
then called from Palmerston, so we had a good contingent
of police officers that arrived at that stage. We then
arrested the further four females, with one already in custody,
and obviously they've been charged with the damage and assaulting police.
I can say the injured officer was taken to Palmston
Regional Hospital for treatment to her hand. Is she okay?
(05:53):
My understanding, she's going okay.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
There wasn't any broken bones my understanding. It was just
bruising to the things. But nevertheless, quite army, could have
been quite more serious.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I mean, David, look to me. I'm listening to that
and thinking to myself, if a group of people have,
you know, have that level of aggression towards the Northern
Territory Police when you guys are out there in uniform
like what hope does an everyday person have if they
want to steal your car or do something.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, it's not a really nice incident. It's not a
nice one to report on. And again out a whole
few of violence is really the key element here and
really curving that. So we had people out doing that
type of work. Nevertheless, those sort of those people are
now in custody. They're off our streets.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Ye, But do you know if they were local or
if they're visiting from somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No, I don't, but I do know we've had a
large content of community people that are in town, obviously
from the Royal daw And show and as a result
of that, there are a number of things that where
we're doing to counteract that, and so.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
There was I know, even towards the end of last
week the Northern Territory Police issuing a statement saying that
there was going to be an operation to get people
home if they had come in to town for the
show and they were experiencing any difficulty sort of being
able to get home more or loitering around and not
being productive in the Darwin city and in our inner community.
(07:12):
Where are things at with that operation?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, so we've got an operation called Home Safe. It
actually commenced on Monday. I actually had some statistics from
today and yesterday in relation to it. Now, let me
first go in to say that this is a joint
operation from a number of agencies. So that includes Department
of Housing, Larachie, Nation, City of Daren which really targets
the ranges and their engagement team, and Northern Territory Police.
(07:35):
The whole idea of this is to return people back
to country and do it in a respectful professional manner.
And obviously the idea of that is to stop the
rough sleepers to getting people obviously relocate and obviously it
helps with our crime prevention and also in our cohol
fuel violence. So some of the statistics, for example, just
in two days, we've had one hundred and seventy people
(07:56):
spoken to, We've had five referrals to education. One hundred
and seventeen of those referrals we're actually returned to country program.
We've had forty three foot patrols that's by police and
everyone else in those particular target at hotspot areas. Twelve
leaders of alcohol tipped out, and we've actually had three
arrests as a result of that operation. This operation will
(08:18):
continue for at least another couple of weeks, and as
a result of that we should see some really good
numbers and hopefully to see a great decrease in the
amount of itinerants and rough sleepers we have within our
greater day.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah, have you like I know you sort of touched
on this at the start, but do you reckon There's
been quite a few people come into Darwin from the
like for the show from community.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, I definitely can say that I've visually seen it myself, yea,
having been to the show myself on the weekend as
well as prior and look at the events and things
that are going on. I can definitely say and even
even today out on the streets today you can see
there's just a large contingent of people.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And there's no issue with people coming into town and
heading to the show like we all do that. You know,
some of us head to Catherine for the show, some
of us head down to Olie Springs for the show,
that kind of thing. But it's the fact that then
if there's people staying in town, you know, not doing
the right thing. Then if they are living on the
street or sleeping rough on the street, consuming alcohol, and
(09:15):
then the last thing any of us want to see
is people involved in any form of crime.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, and that's correct, Katie, and look for me, it's
also you do see it a fair bit too. It's
the children that come in as well, not them having
to go to school. They're not got good places to sleep,
eat healthy, that type of stuff. So that's a good
key as well. You know, that's a good thing, while
this operation is a good thing. Referring your education, etc. Yeah,
you're spot on.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Well, it's always good to catch up with you, Acting
Commander David Moore. Really appreciate your time this morning. Now
I know we have got people in contact with us
about some of the issues in Catherine. Your remit is
obviously Darwin. I mean to anybody listening in Catherine this morning, though,
like other police sort of amping things up a little
bit at the moment given some of the violent offending
(10:01):
and quite frightening offending we've seen. I mean even last
night a home invasion where two women were at home
and they've ended up with blokes breaking in with a
machete like it's bloody scary stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Really, it's a horrible offense and it is a scary
incident or have heard it. I'm aware of it. I
can say that last week I approved my Triedent team
being six members go down to Catherine to really help
with their recidters, defending in some of the youth crime
that they're getting there. There were a number of rest
made last week. I'm not above doing that as far
(10:31):
as giving that support to any other region that needs it.
Alice Springs is another one, but particularly Catherine at the moment,
we do seem to have a lot of crime that's
occurring and whatever support I can give I will.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah excellent, and I know that those the Trident crew
would work incredibly hard there in Catherine, so pleased to
hear that that is happening. David Moore, Acting Commander for
the Darwin Region, thank you as always for your time.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Thank you, Katie, my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Thank you,
Now now joining me live in this studio this morning is
(00:02):
the acting Commander for the Darwin Region for the Northern
Territory Police, David Moore. Good morning to.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You, Good morning Kati and to your listeners.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Now, Commander, first off, can I get a bit of
an update from you in relation to the situation that
we saw that was pretty frightening, I think for everybody
at the Royal Darwin Show on Saturday night an alleged
fifteen year old offender stabbing a fifteen year old. Where
are things at with that investigation?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, thank you, Katie. I won't go into more of
the details that I heard you in the media clip
pride of this and the information is still the same.
All I can say is the victim is still in
Royal dar in hospital and is in a stable condition,
which is fantastic. And the offender is actually to appear
the court on the fifth of August this year, so
obviously we'll go for the first appearance on that. Still
(00:49):
in remand and in.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Custody, Okay, so still being remanded, do you know? So
he obviously wasn't granted bail at this point in time.
So fifth did you say? Fifth?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Of all this of August will be the appearance.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Then.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I'm not too certain there may be a barl application,
but I haven't been informed of that.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Do we have any further idea in terms of, you know,
what had sort of happened beforehand or anything like that.
Obviously it looked like there was a scuffle or a
fight beforehand, but there's not a great deal further info
at this point now.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Unfortunate, Kate. I don't have that information. Crime may have,
but I don't. All I know is the incident has
been reported, so unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, all right, well, we will certainly hear more about it.
I'm sure as the days go on. Now, overnight or
in the early hours of this morning, I believe we'd
actually been contacted by one of our listeners in relation
to an incident in Molden. Do you know if something's
gone on in Molden this morning or late last night?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, yes, Katie, to answer your question, yes, so what
I can So, what we do know is that we
have arrested a twenty eight year old Marl in relation
to an aggravated assault which did occur in Molden this morning.
So around seven twenty am, the Joint Emergency Services Communications
Center received port of a stabbing at the shopping complex
in Malden Terrace. It's alleged the male had stabbed a
(02:06):
female known to him before fleeing the scene on foot.
What I can say is that the relationship between both
of those parties are actually cousins, So therefore this would
form a domestic violence incident under our legislation. So such
how it's being looked at.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
So somebody stabbed allegedly stabbed their cousin, that's correct at
the Malden There at Molden near the shops there is
that correct.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
The complex itself like, it seems.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
As though there is issues around that area quite regularly.
I mean, is it somewhere that is a hotspot for
the Northern.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Terra is well known, and it is well known as
a hot spot. We quite often do regular patrols. More importantly,
we put a CCTV camera there regularly, so we do
have visibility. This is just another poor incident obviously, But
what I'd like to say obviously that twenty eight year
old is in custody and if anyone has seen that incident,
I know anything, please contact one three one Triple four
in relation or crime stoppers.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
All right, So twenty eight year old in custody. Look,
I know, David, that some people listening might think to themselves, like,
you see people drinking, they're they're they're drinking throughout the
day and then that bad behavior escalates. Why don't the
police sort of intervene earlier in the day to maybe
stop something like that before it gets to that point.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, well, that's something Katie, we're definitely working on. It
depends on our jobs and what's happening during the day,
but there's certainly definitely a lot of particularly operations and
a lot of really good work that's going on jointly
with the Territory Safety Division and a number of my
staff from my command that we've allocated back to that
area to go and look at doing the anti social
behavior stuff, hitting the drinkers and that nine o'clock period
(03:39):
through lunchtime. To me, I've found that if you can
hit that period, that is that is the essence in
relation to really stops alcohol few of violence later on.
The feedback I've had from my trips in veins is
that when they do an evening or a night shift
and we're able to get out proactively and put a
lot of resources into that then they find they have
a quiet night well.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And this is the thing, you know, I suppose if
if you're able to do that, and you've got the
boots on ground to be able to do that, it
will like it does hopefully make a big difference in
terms of that community safety more generally.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And it really goes back to crime prevention and that's
what that's what we're all about at the moment.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Hey, I also know that the Northern Territory Police have
arrested five females following a disturbance in Yarrawanga. It actually
happened yesterday afternoon, I believe.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, that's correct, Katie. This is a pretty bad situation
for police. What I do know is that we did
arrest the five females and the disturbance of Yarrawonga afternoon,
so it was about three point twenty five pm. The
Palmerston Social Order officers we're conducting proactive patrols within the
Yarrawonga area and they're actually approached by the group of
females who became quite aggressive. It's allegs the groups around
(04:47):
the offices and to de escalate the situation, the officers
attempted to withdraw from that location given the numbers they
had versus the numbers they were facing. As the officers
rendering the vehicle, one of the females is actually slammed
the door shut, trapping the officer's hands our fingers in
the actual door, so there's some injuries caused there. A
fifty year old female there at that stage was immediately
(05:08):
arrested for doing that. But during the arrest, another female
allegedly armed herself with a large log and threatened to
threaten the officers. Actually OC spray was then successfully deployed,
so this was a really escalating situation as you can see.
But as the officers left the area, a third female
allegedly threw a glass bottle at the police vehicle, coursing
damage to the rear passenger window. So it's been quite heated.
(05:31):
What I can say is that additional police units were
then called from Palmerston, so we had a good contingent
of police officers that arrived at that stage. We then
arrested the further four females, with one already in custody,
and obviously they've been charged with the damage and assaulting police.
I can say the injured officer was taken to Palmston
Regional Hospital for treatment to her hand. Is she okay?
(05:53):
My understanding, she's going okay.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
There wasn't any broken bones my understanding. It was just
bruising to the things. But nevertheless, quite army, could have
been quite more serious.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I mean, David, look to me. I'm listening to that
and thinking to myself, if a group of people have,
you know, have that level of aggression towards the Northern
Territory Police when you guys are out there in uniform
like what hope does an everyday person have if they
want to steal your car or do something.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, it's not a really nice incident. It's not a
nice one to report on. And again out a whole
few of violence is really the key element here and
really curving that. So we had people out doing that
type of work. Nevertheless, those sort of those people are
now in custody. They're off our streets.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Ye, But do you know if they were local or
if they're visiting from somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No, I don't, but I do know we've had a
large content of community people that are in town, obviously
from the Royal daw And show and as a result
of that, there are a number of things that where
we're doing to counteract that, and so.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
There was I know, even towards the end of last
week the Northern Territory Police issuing a statement saying that
there was going to be an operation to get people
home if they had come in to town for the
show and they were experiencing any difficulty sort of being
able to get home more or loitering around and not
being productive in the Darwin city and in our inner community.
(07:12):
Where are things at with that operation?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, so we've got an operation called Home Safe. It
actually commenced on Monday. I actually had some statistics from
today and yesterday in relation to it. Now, let me
first go in to say that this is a joint
operation from a number of agencies. So that includes Department
of Housing, Larachie, Nation, City of Daren which really targets
the ranges and their engagement team, and Northern Territory Police.
(07:35):
The whole idea of this is to return people back
to country and do it in a respectful professional manner.
And obviously the idea of that is to stop the
rough sleepers to getting people obviously relocate and obviously it
helps with our crime prevention and also in our cohol
fuel violence. So some of the statistics, for example, just
in two days, we've had one hundred and seventy people
(07:56):
spoken to, We've had five referrals to education. One hundred
and seventeen of those referrals we're actually returned to country program.
We've had forty three foot patrols that's by police and
everyone else in those particular target at hotspot areas. Twelve
leaders of alcohol tipped out, and we've actually had three
arrests as a result of that operation. This operation will
(08:18):
continue for at least another couple of weeks, and as
a result of that we should see some really good
numbers and hopefully to see a great decrease in the
amount of itinerants and rough sleepers we have within our
greater day.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah, have you like I know you sort of touched
on this at the start, but do you reckon There's
been quite a few people come into Darwin from the
like for the show from community.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, I definitely can say that I've visually seen it myself, yea,
having been to the show myself on the weekend as
well as prior and look at the events and things
that are going on. I can definitely say and even
even today out on the streets today you can see
there's just a large contingent of people.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And there's no issue with people coming into town and
heading to the show like we all do that. You know,
some of us head to Catherine for the show, some
of us head down to Olie Springs for the show,
that kind of thing. But it's the fact that then
if there's people staying in town, you know, not doing
the right thing. Then if they are living on the
street or sleeping rough on the street, consuming alcohol, and
(09:15):
then the last thing any of us want to see
is people involved in any form of crime.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, and that's correct, Katie, and look for me, it's
also you do see it a fair bit too. It's
the children that come in as well, not them having
to go to school. They're not got good places to sleep,
eat healthy, that type of stuff. So that's a good
key as well. You know, that's a good thing, while
this operation is a good thing. Referring your education, etc. Yeah,
you're spot on.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Well, it's always good to catch up with you, Acting
Commander David Moore. Really appreciate your time this morning. Now
I know we have got people in contact with us
about some of the issues in Catherine. Your remit is
obviously Darwin. I mean to anybody listening in Catherine this morning, though,
like other police sort of amping things up a little
bit at the moment given some of the violent offending
(10:01):
and quite frightening offending we've seen. I mean even last
night a home invasion where two women were at home
and they've ended up with blokes breaking in with a
machete like it's bloody scary stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Really, it's a horrible offense and it is a scary
incident or have heard it. I'm aware of it. I
can say that last week I approved my Triedent team
being six members go down to Catherine to really help
with their recidters, defending in some of the youth crime
that they're getting there. There were a number of rest
made last week. I'm not above doing that as far
(10:31):
as giving that support to any other region that needs it.
Alice Springs is another one, but particularly Catherine at the moment,
we do seem to have a lot of crime that's
occurring and whatever support I can give I will.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah excellent, and I know that those the Trident crew
would work incredibly hard there in Catherine, so pleased to
hear that that is happening. David Moore, Acting Commander for
the Darwin Region, thank you as always for your time.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Thank you, Katie, my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Thank you,
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