 Good morning everybody. Thank you for coming this morning. We've had our first weekend at Schoolies and we're very pleased to say that we've had a significant decrease in the number of arrests and prosecutions against Schoolies than last year and so we're quite pleased with the behaviour this year of our 2013 Schoolies. Well it is frustrating and it's concerning to us. One of the things that we do in our preparatory work for Schoolies is we make contact with all the accommodation managers and one of the things that is discussed is the balcony hopping and I can assure you that anyone caught undertaking that activity will have their Schoolies adventure cancelled very early and but the safety message for the young people is you really have to think about the consequences before you do any of this sky-larking. There's been two people evicted on the first night from the Hilton and they weren't caught by police but management identified that they were balcony hopping and they were evicted from their premises so there's a substantial financial loss they've experienced plus their Schoolies activities have come to a quick hold. I can't tell you that. Are you happy in those circumstances for management to take over and play that role? Oh definitely definitely well police are out there to make sure it's a secure and safe event but we can't be everywhere. We've got over 300 police but other people have to take responsibility and that's just not the security of the building. It's parents as well so I urge all parents to be contacting their children every day to make sure not only how they are but how their spirits are because this is a time now after a few days of letting their hair down that some young people start to feel a bit lost, a bit sad, a bit depressed and we don't want any dangerous behavior occurring at this time of school. Well we don't have the right to do that of course. This is not a police event this is an event where people come into surface paradise like at any time of the year but at this time of the year we have approximately 28,000 young people who come in it's not up to the police to dictate what people can and can't do if they break the law then of course they'll be dealt with accordingly so it's a it's a group approach and when I say that I mean by accommodation managers are security and accommodations the volunteers are there and that we we are just hoping that the young people come to realize that that sort of behavior is not appropriate. Essentially the money they've spent on accommodations going down the drain? Well if they're evicted from the premises that's correct. No that's correct that's that is just foolish and dangerous behavior. Well I think you know we can't have offenses for every type of sky lighting behavior of course if it was something that was a public nuisance if it was something that caused a police investigation then we would consider that in that public nuisance offense but very difficult to identify other than if you've got cameras on every building and you're watching it 24 hours a day but certainly the message should be that it is behavior that will end your schoolies adventure. Regarding arrest numbers we're again seeing more so-called toolies arrested than schoolies are you finding an increased number of toolies in the precinct this year? No we're not actually it's similar to previous years and the behavior is similar the main offenses of course are public nuisance and those types of street offenses and the number of schoolies of course where the arrests are something like 30% down on previous years for offenses committed by schoolies which is really encouraging. Has that got to do with the weather or what would you put that down to? Well you could put it down to lots of things some years there's good grade 12s and some years there's adventurous grade 12s it could be the weather the weather of course has been particularly nasty earlier on in the evening but it doesn't seem to prevent the young people from coming out on the street. I'd say that early in the piece when the rain's heavy they take shelter in the apartments as soon as it eases they're out there. Do you think they've been affected? I think the fact that we do a lot of planning and preparatory work with all the agencies involved, communities, volunteers, red frogs, fireys, ambulance we all come together and we discuss the strategies that we can employ jointly to make a safe environment and that has over the years proved to be the successful mix. Does it appear that schoolies are essentially making most of that response regarding volunteers, the medical staff who are there to help as well? Yes on Saturday night I was at the triage area on the Esplanade and by about midnight there'd been 20 young people in there and what I found interesting is they were brought in there by their mates and of course this year's message is look after your mates and so I think that has run through. Prior to the event this year there was a lot of school education programs undertaken by the various emergency services and police and I think they've paid off and I think that's a good message to get out there is look after your mates. Despite the messages there's still plenty of inappropriate photos that people are uploading. We haven't seen that. I'm sure that that's taking place and of course you can't legislate the foolishness and we can only give the message if it's not heeded it's very difficult for us to take it forward. Of course if the offence is committed if those images are explicit images then the full force of the law will certainly be placed against those people who commit the offence. There are images of schoolies with small bags of drones of marijuana using them, using it in their rooms. What's the concern? What can you do if they're in their hotel rooms? Well it's very difficult if they're in their hotel rooms like any drug investigation if the police are given information and we quite often get information from other schoolies. If we get information we can take action on the drugs misuse act to take out warrants, enter those premises and undertake searches. What the schoolies need to understand is this sort of behaviour with a record of drugs on your history can have a huge impact on your future employment but also if you want to travel overseas can have a huge impact on your ability to get into a country with a drug conviction. Well it seems to have been timed for about 7 or 8 o'clock of an evening prior to when the entertainment really gets into full swing. So basically what it's done is it's dampened down the roads until about 8 o'clock or so and then the young people still come out to enjoy those hub activities until midnight. Personally if they're out there with their mates and they're enjoying the hub activities that's fantastic but if they're going to be in their rooms all we can say is be responsible for the behaviour be responsible for any alcohol consumption and certainly it's a say no to drugs policy for us. Regarding the roads then you haven't seen too many of them driving in and around the precinct that's not a concern. Well there is a concern in relation to the electric scooters that seem to become more prevalent. These are classified if they're 200 kilowatts or under they're classified as bicycles. They can be ridden like bicycles on footpaths. The concern for us is that the young people these things can get up to 30 kilometres an hour they're on the roads but they're silent. We only need to make one slight error of judgement wearing shorts, a t-shirt and a button push bike helmet and you could have some significant injuries. So what we would like to do is get the message out to the young people on the bikes you need to realise that there's other road users who have a lot bigger vehicles that can hurt.