SOCIT Explainer with Narelle Fraser and her mentor Lorraine Blackwell
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Narelle Fraser and her mentor Lorraine Blackwell discuss the beginning of Victoria Police’s SOCIT, the Sexual Offence and Child Abuse Investigation Teams , among other things. This was originally a Patreon-only episode but we’ve released it as a special companion episode to this week’s main show.
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| 0:00.0 | We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July, |
| 0:04.3 | and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already. |
| 0:07.5 | Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show. |
| 0:10.3 | Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests, |
| 0:15.2 | our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bizina in |
| 0:19.9 | Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:46.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:00.0 | Mom and dad would bring me up that if I had too many conversations or sentences that started with I, my dad would say, stop right there. Stop right there. |
| 1:04.4 | Seems to me that you're doing too much thinking about yourself. |
| 1:06.6 | You need to get out and see and think what you can do for somebody else. |
| 1:10.1 | If you're in Norelle Fraser fan and who isn't, you'll know that Norel's favorite |
| 1:17.5 | boss was her CEO at Broad Meadows, Lorraine Blackwell. |
| 1:21.1 | Norel talks about Lorraine a lot. She tells hilarious stories about her. |
| 1:24.9 | She talks about the fact that Lorraine baked scones for the whole station every Thursday, but also |
| 1:29.7 | she talks about the fact that Lorraine invented what's now known as the sockets. |
| 1:34.3 | They're the sexual offenses and child abuse investigation teams. |
| 1:38.4 | Lorraine Blackwell changed the way sexual assault was investigated in Australia. Basically she made it more |
| 1:44.0 | victim focused because that's what she's always been about which is obviously why she |
| 1:49.0 | and Norell worked so happily together. We asked Lorraine to come and podcast with us months ago and she |
| 1:54.6 | said no. So then we asked Norell to go and ask her again and to tell her nice things |
| 2:01.0 | about us and all that stuff and to tell her we promised to be on our best behavior and eventually |
| 2:07.1 | Norel talked her into it so please enjoy this special episode let's hear from lovely Lorraine who begins by telling us |
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