Backup is Three Hours Away

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Mark 'Trigger' Tregellas is a country copper through and through, and has served in various towns around Victoria during his three decades in the job.

They were tough towns full of tough people, and even though Mark is definitely among the toughest, he's managed to retain his sense of humour.

Mark has written a book called "Backup is Three Hours Away" and he joins us on Australian True Crime to tell us more about the time his life was saved by a truckload of Bega Cheese and many other examples of the unpredictable life of a country cop.

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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram

Guest: Mark 'Trigger' Tregellas

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0:00.0	Can We Be Be Real? This is the other podcast I host and we are about to hit 1 million downloads.
0:05.7	You can show your support by hitting the subscribe or follow button to get the latest episodes in your feed.
0:11.8	Search, Can We Be Real, wherever you get your podcasts?
0:20.0	You've stopped someone carrying a large amount of drugs. He's just a teenager.
0:25.3	He's exhausted, scared, not giving you his name, where he's from or where he's going.
0:32.3	He's broken the law but maybe he really needs your help so how do you get him
0:37.8	talking if you think you could be a regular or volunteer police
0:42.0	constable such met careers.
0:45.0	Change needs empathy.
0:47.3	Change needs you.
0:51.1	This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests so please consider this your
0:55.3	warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will contain content
0:59.4	that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian true crime
1:03.6	podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
1:06.7	listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of
1:09.6	deceased people. The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders
1:27.0	past, present and those emerging.
1:32.0	He's standing at the back of the boat. He's lifting up a 20-liter
1:39.0	jury can of petrol. He's pouring it over himself. Now he's walking towards the
1:46.7	campfire carrying the Jerry can. And I went crap.
1:53.0	Mark Tregelis, also known as TrIGA is a country copper through and through.
2:04.0	He served in various towns around Victoria during his three decades in the job,
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