 Well this morning sees the end of phase one, our QPS response and the response from the Department of Communities and other agencies for schoolies 2013. I must say we're very pleased with the outcome of this year's event. We had a lot of cooperation from our volunteers and other government departments and we've seen a 33% drop in arrests of schoolies this year and a 30% drop in those non-schoolies who are arrested. So we believe that the early intervention, the cooperation of the agencies that are involved in this response has worked to make it a much safer schoolies. Yes we did about nine o'clock last night at the eastern end of Cattlemore. A number of young schoolies were involved in a verbal argument. A fight broke out, a young 16-year-old intervened and was kink hit and as he fell he hit the ground and he now has a fractured skull and a serious gash to his forehead. He's in hospital in a serious condition, he's stable and pleased to investigate in that manner. Yes when that happened what did you notice there in the crowd? Was there a definite change, the fun went out of it all of a sudden? I don't think, I think the way it transpired it appeared that the two groups of males who were involved in the altercation knew each other so there had been some previous engagement. So it wasn't like a mass group, it was a selected group and the verbal argument escalated. You said that he was 16-year-old intervened, was he trying to break it up? It appears that's correct, he was trying to assist a friend. He was, I mean as a kid trying to do everything? Yes part of the two groups he stepped in and that's when he was hit from behind. Are they local? The gentleman who ended up in hospital, the young 16-year-old victim is a Gold Coast police pursuing two people, they believe can assist them with their investigation and their New South Wales school is in custody though. No, there's no one in custody at this stage, yes it was a cowardly attack. It was particularly nasty and from all accounts which were captured on CCTV it was nothing more than a person stepping in and hitting someone from behind which of course is completely heinous. And obviously it made no mistake, it wasn't like someone was in there just windmilling and accidentally clipping it. From the initial investigations it doesn't appear to be an accident. It was tracking New South Wales school with kids with Gold Coast. Well there's two gentlemen from New South Wales aged 17 and 18 which police would like to speak to which will aid them in their investigation. Have you been in New South Wales this morning? Nobody's been located this morning, the police are still investigating and are trying to take a number of witnesses' interviews last night to get the facts and that's what they focus their attention on last night and early hours of this morning. Is there any concern they might leave today with the schoolies and the changeover that they might leave before they're called? Well it doesn't really matter where they go, police are satisfied with the identity, we'll pursue it. To place me at a 16-year-old knew the man who hit him? I can't confirm that. There were just two groups that had an altercation prior to this and so we're unaware of if the victim was known to the offender. Do you know what it started over? No, we don't. You had two similar incidents like within the last two days. That's correct. Does that worry you that everything seemed to be going along okay and then right at the back end of it? Well I think what's worrying is that it becomes a trend of young people not knowing what the boundaries are. Bear in mind that 99% of the young people who came to schoolies were excellent. Certainly the report card for this year gives them huge marks. The 1% that can't follow rules who don't know what the boundaries are are the ones who get involved in these types of offenses. The results were particularly nasty. They were unprovoked, which is a concern for the police. But can I say I'm so pleased with the investigation of our officers who have continued both of these matters and we will have a successful conclusion. It applies to many ways. That's correct. What's the tip then from looking at it from your point of view then, for next year, when you see that sort of behaviour firstly from police and government agency response we are going to continue with our early intervention with the education programs to the schools. But I think that the parents of these young people need to get involved more heavily and I think they need to start conditioning their children who they know are going to schoolies in 2014 and condition them to what's right and what's wrong. And I know that's a problem throughout society but this 1% who can't follow the rules need to understand that they won't be able to hide under the cloak of being schoolies. They will in fact be feeling the full effects of the law and police will have no sympathy for these types of offenders. The balcony hopping was something was so over and over this year. That's frustrating. And to be honest, I think the balcony hopping is something we've seen every year. I think it was prominent this year because the media focused on that type of dangerous behaviour. And it is a concern of ours because we're looking to have a very safe schoolies event. But again, that small portion of people who can't follow the rules cause us a lot of concern. So this year we use social media a lot more so we've got to identify some of the offenders. We've taken action. We arrested four schoolies this year for balcony hopping. And there's a couple of other investigations continuing to try and find the locations of offenders. What the stupid thing is that these people are putting their own photos on social media and basically flaunting the law which is not a smart thing to do. Do you like to see more buildings what their balcony is next year? I don't think that's a call for the police. I think really that's up to accommodation blocks. What we want to see is we want to see young people coming down here and enjoying their schoolies and not undertaking this down just to help them. Which is an offence. The 1% that obviously played up they've been caught a lot in the majority of cases and they've got to face courts and things like that. Do you hope that that is actually followed through and that the ramifications of that poor behaviour that it isn't just sort of swept away and they get a free pass? Well certainly that's not the call of the police. We have to leave the penalties to the judiciary. What I'm pleased about is that our officers work very hard and diligently to locate the offenders and take the action. I think that's an important thing from the police side and it's an important message for these people who come to 2014's schoolies is that we won't just sweep it under the car but we will take action and they will appear in court and they will suffer the consequences long term when they're looking for jobs trying to travel overseas and they've got criminal convictions against their name. I'm not really into giving marks but can I say they've got a really good report card this year. The arrests were well down as we mentioned earlier and their behaviour, I walked through the precinct a couple of nights this week on the first night Saturday there was lots of high-fiving, lots of screaming lots of running up and down the moor and my heart sort of sunk a little bit thinking this was going to be a big week. By Thursday night walking around there was lots of people but there wasn't a lot of high-fiving and laughter I think they were just about over it. So we're really pleased that today marks the end of phase one we've got some great kids now entering the workforce and moving away from that schoolies I suppose there will be a lot of depressed kids because their schoolies year is over but we won't be depressed because we know we've always got next year. How's the focus changed for the second week to their specific areas? So yes, today marks the phase two of our response and we have some strong partnerships with the Office of Living Gaming Regulations and also we will have our volunteers, our red frogs will send up a new batch of fresh young people to assist on the streets and our focus is now on behaviour in and around licensed premises the 18 year old Southerners are able to go into the night spots and the hotels there won't be a hub that closed down last night as of midnight so our focus will be on the regulations associated with licensed premises and also the early intervention will be kicked up and we'll be making sure that enforcement takes place 24-7 for public consumption and intoxication and public nuisance You keep just as many police we saw lots of police out on the street patrolling around will that still maintain those numbers? That's correct so phase two will involve over 300 police and they will continue to be vigilant in their enforcement activities Is there usually much of a differentiation in behaviour between week one and two? Do you see more clients coming into the second wave? We probably see about 10,000 less young people of course they're older and they are actually a little bit more mature because they have had that experience with alcohol and able to go into licensed premises so on the whole we usually have a good response however there's still those troublemakers and we'll deal with those accordingly So just going back to the... I think the parents of both young people are very concerned as I would be if it was one of my children we worry when our children come to school and we always hope that they're going to come home safe for two young people to end up in hospital in a serious condition with head injuries would be an extreme concern and both young fellows' parents are concerned about that The first young fellow is speaking now and is up and will remain in hospital for another couple of days of course the young victim that was admitted last night is still in a serious bestowed condition