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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now joining us live in the studio is the head
(00:03):
of Strikeforce Strident, Detective Senior Sergeant Darren Burns. Good morning
to you, Good morning, thanks for joining us in the studio.
Now just move that microphone a tiny bit closer for you.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yesterday afternoon, about three pm in Alaura, I understand Strikeforce
Strident was involved in an arrest after a stolen vehicle.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Is that right, Yeah, that's correct. It was Annulla in
the Northern suburbs. That vehicle was stolen over the weekend
from a residence in gun and at about three o'clock
yesterday afternoon, we were notified by a member of the
public who'd recognized that vehicle as being stolen, that it
was in the Northern suburbs and it was actively driving around.
She called us directly, which was great. The team deployed
along with members of the Dog Operations Unit. They set
(00:46):
up a cordon, located the vehicle and a short time
later a small pursuit commenced intro through a school zone
and for safety reasons, was terminated, which is the right decision.
The vehicle unfortunately failed to take the next turn and
crashed through fence of a residence and the offenders fled
the location.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah right, so crash through that fence they've fled. What
happened next?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
The Dog Operations Unit and Trident again established a great
cordon and a short time later, a twelve year old
male it's correction, a twelve year old female and eleven
year old male and a sixteen year old male were
taken into custody.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I mean, Darren, they are so young to be behind
the wheel of a car as well.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, an a stolen car in a pursuit. Eleven year
old in that vehicle is it's very surprising.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Like, it blows my mind. I've got kids that are
around that age, so it absolutely blows my mind to
then think of them in a vehicle driving around and
the danger that they're putting themselves in, but also the
danger to everybody else.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
On the road. Look, it's inherently risky any kind of
police pursuit, but with those youth offenders it obviously exacerbates
that risk.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So where are things at now? So obviously you guys
arrested them yesterday AVO.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, that's correct. The eleven year old was later released
for youth diversions eligible for itxteen year old male and
the twelve year old female were reminded in custody over
night to face court today.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay, so no doubt we'll hear some further detail in
that space as it comes to hand. Hey, on Monday
as well, the Northern Territory Police Strike Force Trident. Of course,
an adult male and two male youths were arrested following
an aggravated burglary and assault police incident that occurred in Palmerston.
What exactly happened out there?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, that was a break in at the Bakewell shopping center.
Those youths were chased on foot away away from the offending.
As one of the Trident members attempted to arrest one
of the youths, the twenty three year old male completely unrelated,
decided to intervene and assaulted that member by punching him
to the head.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So someone who had nothing to do, nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
To do with it and punched the member. He's okay.
He deployed OC spray and detained both of those offenders.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Good on him. I mean that's horrible though, for him
to be punched in the head while he's out there
doing his job.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Really really senior, well respected member as well, yeah, yeah,
very calm member. So for it to happen to him,
it's to happen to any police officers bad enough.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
But yeah, yeah, well I hope he's all right. I mean,
that's as I say, it's not acceptable. Nobody goes to
work and expects to have to face those kinds of dangers.
But I know that it's something that our Northern Territory
Police deal with regularly. Unfortunately now Darren also then there'd
been some vision which had gone I think it's safe
to say to being sort of had gone fairly viral
(03:28):
online of an incident that occurred I believe it Nirvana
last week, where this this guy's inside the restaurant with
a pole I think it is, or was it a
machete a pole and looking very very erratic, pretty scary
for the person who was in there working. I understand
(03:50):
that Strikeforce Trident then took carriage of this one just yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Was just yesterday we took carriage of that, and so
where are things at?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
You're obviously you were trying to locate this bloke.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
He was immediately identified by the team. He was located
late yesterday afternoon and I'm happy to say taken into custody.
He's a nineteen year old male and he was reminded
overnight again to face court today.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So obviously if he's immediately identified by you guys, you've
seen that vision and gone, we know who this person is.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Rather Yeah, the team definitely knew who he was.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah. Look, I don't know whether it's something you can
or cannot say, but to me, it looked like he
was heavily impacted by drugs or buy something and erratic.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
He appeared intoxicated.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, Like, it's a frightening situation. I think then for
anybody that's sort of near somebody that is in that
kind of state, whether they're intoxicated or whatever they've potentially taken.
I mean, like, I don't really know what I guess
the best thing for people to do is call the
police right as fast as they can.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, absolutely, and police will try to respond as quick
as we can obviously try to avoid any kind of confrontation.
We don't recommend it at all. Yeah, just cool police.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Hey, one of the other incidents had occurred last week.
It was actually on Wednesday last week, so about a
week ago, we got a phone call from a dear
friend of the show Sue Shearer, who's the CEO of
the Counsel of the aging. She had said to us
that she'd just been a victim of an incident a
little bit earlier in the morning where these youths that
allegedly assaulted her. One of them, as I understand from
(05:16):
what she'd said, thrown a rock at her. I believed
strike Force strident. You guys were the ones who then
arrested them a little bit later, I think that same day.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, that's correct, there was a police officer just walking
past her intervene. The youths ran away from there, but
they were later apprehended. They committed some further offending out
in drama later in that afternoon. They're well known to us.
They were taken back into custody and put back before
the court.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Darren, obviously, you know, looking at those incidents that have
occurred over the last week, I know it's always busy
time for you guys, but for Tried. You know, like
there was a while there where I was catching up
with your crew, hearing from them almost daily about some
of the issues that they were dealing with. How are
things going at the moment from your PERSPECTI.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Look, we in relation to property crime in daw And
we're definitely seeing a downward trend, which is great. The
offending is still occurring, and if you're the victim of
the offense, it's traumatic, it would be quite confronting, but
statistically the property crime is heading in the right direction
for us. It's good. We're seeing the bail laws be effective,
our reserves. Offenders are spending longer inside, which is great,
(06:23):
pretty common sense.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well especially for you guys, because that is one of
the things that I was hearing pretty often is that
you would be you know, you'd be making those arrests
and then almost a couple of days later, you're potentially
seeing those same people again.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well often on the same day, often before the team's
knocked off, we'll find out that those offenders had received bail.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And whilst that may still occur on occasions, we're definitely
seeing it track in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, well, that is a good thing, I know, like
you touched on, I think it's a really important point
to make that even when you do see those trends,
sometimes if you're a victim of crime, it doesn't mean
a lot to you. You know, you're still to buy
those issues, But you guys I know out there work
and bloody hard. There is no doubt about that Strikeforce Strident.
(07:08):
I have no doubt that when somebody does or are
the victim of one of those property crimes or some
of that other offending, you guys are out there trying
to help people. So I know there's a lot of
our listeners that appreciate that work. So good to catch
up with you this morning. Thanks so much for your time.
Detective Senior Sergeant Darren BYRNS, who's the head of Strikeforce Strident.
(07:29):
Thanks for joining us.
Now joining us live in the studio is the head
(00:03):
of Strikeforce Strident, Detective Senior Sergeant Darren Burns. Good morning
to you, Good morning, thanks for joining us in the studio.
Now just move that microphone a tiny bit closer for you.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yesterday afternoon, about three pm in Alaura, I understand Strikeforce
Strident was involved in an arrest after a stolen vehicle.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Is that right, Yeah, that's correct. It was Annulla in
the Northern suburbs. That vehicle was stolen over the weekend
from a residence in gun and at about three o'clock
yesterday afternoon, we were notified by a member of the
public who'd recognized that vehicle as being stolen, that it
was in the Northern suburbs and it was actively driving around.
She called us directly, which was great. The team deployed
along with members of the Dog Operations Unit. They set
(00:46):
up a cordon, located the vehicle and a short time
later a small pursuit commenced intro through a school zone
and for safety reasons, was terminated, which is the right decision.
The vehicle unfortunately failed to take the next turn and
crashed through fence of a residence and the offenders fled
the location.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah right, so crash through that fence they've fled. What
happened next?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
The Dog Operations Unit and Trident again established a great
cordon and a short time later, a twelve year old
male it's correction, a twelve year old female and eleven
year old male and a sixteen year old male were
taken into custody.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I mean, Darren, they are so young to be behind
the wheel of a car as well.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, an a stolen car in a pursuit. Eleven year
old in that vehicle is it's very surprising.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Like, it blows my mind. I've got kids that are
around that age, so it absolutely blows my mind to
then think of them in a vehicle driving around and
the danger that they're putting themselves in, but also the
danger to everybody else.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
On the road. Look, it's inherently risky any kind of
police pursuit, but with those youth offenders it obviously exacerbates
that risk.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So where are things at now? So obviously you guys
arrested them yesterday AVO.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, that's correct. The eleven year old was later released
for youth diversions eligible for itxteen year old male and
the twelve year old female were reminded in custody over
night to face court today.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay, so no doubt we'll hear some further detail in
that space as it comes to hand. Hey, on Monday
as well, the Northern Territory Police Strike Force Trident. Of course,
an adult male and two male youths were arrested following
an aggravated burglary and assault police incident that occurred in Palmerston.
What exactly happened out there?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, that was a break in at the Bakewell shopping center.
Those youths were chased on foot away away from the offending.
As one of the Trident members attempted to arrest one
of the youths, the twenty three year old male completely unrelated,
decided to intervene and assaulted that member by punching him
to the head.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So someone who had nothing to do, nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
To do with it and punched the member. He's okay.
He deployed OC spray and detained both of those offenders.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Good on him. I mean that's horrible though, for him
to be punched in the head while he's out there
doing his job.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Really really senior, well respected member as well, yeah, yeah,
very calm member. So for it to happen to him,
it's to happen to any police officers bad enough.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
But yeah, yeah, well I hope he's all right. I mean,
that's as I say, it's not acceptable. Nobody goes to
work and expects to have to face those kinds of dangers.
But I know that it's something that our Northern Territory
Police deal with regularly. Unfortunately now Darren also then there'd
been some vision which had gone I think it's safe
to say to being sort of had gone fairly viral
(03:28):
online of an incident that occurred I believe it Nirvana
last week, where this this guy's inside the restaurant with
a pole I think it is, or was it a
machete a pole and looking very very erratic, pretty scary
for the person who was in there working. I understand
(03:50):
that Strikeforce Trident then took carriage of this one just yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Was just yesterday we took carriage of that, and so
where are things at?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
You're obviously you were trying to locate this bloke.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
He was immediately identified by the team. He was located
late yesterday afternoon and I'm happy to say taken into custody.
He's a nineteen year old male and he was reminded
overnight again to face court today.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So obviously if he's immediately identified by you guys, you've
seen that vision and gone, we know who this person is.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Rather Yeah, the team definitely knew who he was.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah. Look, I don't know whether it's something you can
or cannot say, but to me, it looked like he
was heavily impacted by drugs or buy something and erratic.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
He appeared intoxicated.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, Like, it's a frightening situation. I think then for
anybody that's sort of near somebody that is in that
kind of state, whether they're intoxicated or whatever they've potentially taken.
I mean, like, I don't really know what I guess
the best thing for people to do is call the
police right as fast as they can.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, absolutely, and police will try to respond as quick
as we can obviously try to avoid any kind of confrontation.
We don't recommend it at all. Yeah, just cool police.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Hey, one of the other incidents had occurred last week.
It was actually on Wednesday last week, so about a
week ago, we got a phone call from a dear
friend of the show Sue Shearer, who's the CEO of
the Counsel of the aging. She had said to us
that she'd just been a victim of an incident a
little bit earlier in the morning where these youths that
allegedly assaulted her. One of them, as I understand from
(05:16):
what she'd said, thrown a rock at her. I believed
strike Force strident. You guys were the ones who then
arrested them a little bit later, I think that same day.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, that's correct, there was a police officer just walking
past her intervene. The youths ran away from there, but
they were later apprehended. They committed some further offending out
in drama later in that afternoon. They're well known to us.
They were taken back into custody and put back before
the court.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Darren, obviously, you know, looking at those incidents that have
occurred over the last week, I know it's always busy
time for you guys, but for Tried. You know, like
there was a while there where I was catching up
with your crew, hearing from them almost daily about some
of the issues that they were dealing with. How are
things going at the moment from your PERSPECTI.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Look, we in relation to property crime in daw And
we're definitely seeing a downward trend, which is great. The
offending is still occurring, and if you're the victim of
the offense, it's traumatic, it would be quite confronting, but
statistically the property crime is heading in the right direction
for us. It's good. We're seeing the bail laws be effective,
our reserves. Offenders are spending longer inside, which is great,
(06:23):
pretty common sense.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well especially for you guys, because that is one of
the things that I was hearing pretty often is that
you would be you know, you'd be making those arrests
and then almost a couple of days later, you're potentially
seeing those same people again.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well often on the same day, often before the team's
knocked off, we'll find out that those offenders had received bail.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And whilst that may still occur on occasions, we're definitely
seeing it track in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, well, that is a good thing, I know, like
you touched on, I think it's a really important point
to make that even when you do see those trends,
sometimes if you're a victim of crime, it doesn't mean
a lot to you. You know, you're still to buy
those issues, But you guys I know out there work
and bloody hard. There is no doubt about that Strikeforce Strident.
(07:08):
I have no doubt that when somebody does or are
the victim of one of those property crimes or some
of that other offending, you guys are out there trying
to help people. So I know there's a lot of
our listeners that appreciate that work. So good to catch
up with you this morning. Thanks so much for your time.
Detective Senior Sergeant Darren BYRNS, who's the head of Strikeforce Strident.
(07:29):
Thanks for joining us.
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