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Neighbourhood policing has come a long way since the days of Dixon Of Dock Green. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:06 | |
Good evening, all. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:07 | |
From inner-city estates to suburbia... | 0:00:07 | 0:00:10 | |
..this new generation of community police officers are on the front line. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:17 | |
INDISTINCT VOICES | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
Police! | 0:00:19 | 0:00:20 | |
Their aim is to develop a stronger bond with the community... | 0:00:20 | 0:00:24 | |
Have you had any problems, then, over the last week? | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
..crack down on the crimes taking place on their doorstep... | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
-Have you been drinking today? -No. -Why is your speech slurred, then? | 0:00:29 | 0:00:33 | |
..formulate fast action plans to take down the criminals. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
VOICE FROM WALKIE-TALKIE | 0:00:36 | 0:00:37 | |
-Who do you think you are? -BLEEP. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
In this new series of Neighbourhood Blues, | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
we go to the Humberside police region, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
and get exclusive access to 24 teams of neighbourhood police officers... | 0:00:47 | 0:00:52 | |
You're under arrest, mate. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
..as they tackle the problems blighting local people. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
You are now under arrest on suspicion of possession with intent to supply a controlled drug. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:01 | |
And rise to the challenge of making the streets a safer place. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
Coming up, the neighbourhood team go after the dodgy dealers | 0:01:32 | 0:01:36 | |
selling counterfeit wares. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
In his pocket we've got a small bag with about... | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
Says about 100 tablets there. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:44 | |
We go inside the imposing mansion house hiding a very weedy little secret. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:50 | |
-Police! -Police! -Police! | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
SHOUTING | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
And after a neighbourhood officer spots a puppy | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
in the garden of a woman banned from owning dogs, the RSPCA move in. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:02 | |
So, we can do it now difficult way, or we can do it now the easy way. It's entirely up to you. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
The police are often criticised for not being tough enough | 0:02:11 | 0:02:15 | |
on the types of everyday crimes that can ruin people's lives. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
Neighbourhood policing was brought in to change this and, | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
at the same time, make the police more approachable. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
But are they really making a difference? | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
Community policing has been in place across the UK for some time, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
but it has taken a lot of work to get the public on side. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:38 | |
I think neighbourhood police teams do a great job. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
I live very near to a very large council estate, | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
and so you would think there would be quite...problems from there, | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
but there isn't, and I think that's due to the fact that the police are visual in our area. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:54 | |
They seem to be able to engage people a lot more on a human level than they used to. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:58 | |
Across the Humberside police area, the neighbourhood teams believe that by winning the trust of the public, | 0:03:00 | 0:03:04 | |
they are beginning to see a significant drop in the types of | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
grass root crime that can blight everyday life. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
A major way the police connect with the community is by making themselves available | 0:03:13 | 0:03:18 | |
and approachable to listen to criticisms and concerns. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
Being there to talk to people as they do their weekly shop is a clever way of doing this. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:27 | |
Today we're doing a drop-in surgery at Asda in Scunthorpe, | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
meeting with the members of the public, letting them speak to us... | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
..and if they want to ask us any questions, we can give them advice, crime prevention advice. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:46 | |
Local man Benny knows first-hand the difference community policing has made where he lives. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:50 | |
Sorting things out. And they have sorted things out. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:53 | |
Over the past ten years, as he will tell you, | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
it's gone from before you couldn't walk out the house, you couldn't leave it, | 0:03:56 | 0:04:01 | |
without getting into an argument with somebody or something. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
Well, now, different altogether. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
Everybody talks to each other, is civil and that's it. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
We're neighbours. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:12 | |
It's all down to the hard work of these and the council. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
but they've had to gain the trust, and we've had to gain the trust of them. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
See you. Ta-da. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:21 | |
To be fair, Benny was one of the ones who, when we first started... | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
He did talk to us, didn't he? | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
He did, but he was a bit... He was a bit anti, he was a bit anti-police, to be fair. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:34 | |
It's crucial for the police to foster good relations with locals like Benny, | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
because it means they are much more likely | 0:04:38 | 0:04:40 | |
to come forward with any worries or concerns about criminal activity in their area. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:45 | |
There you are, young man, would you like a balloon? | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
And, as we're about to find out, this information-sharing can lead to the neighbourhood team | 0:04:47 | 0:04:52 | |
scoring major results that make headlines nationwide. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
Every day, neighbourhood police officers take dozens of calls from worried residents | 0:04:58 | 0:05:03 | |
concerned about drug dealing and taking where they live. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
These tip-offs are often turned into action plans that have seen the teams | 0:05:08 | 0:05:11 | |
launch a massive offensive against the drug trade in the region. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:16 | |
Who do you think you are? | 0:05:16 | 0:05:17 | |
I don't give a... | 0:05:17 | 0:05:18 | |
-Full of it, in there. -About 22 missed calls on this phone. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:26 | |
If I was to hazard a guess, I would say that was a dealer's phone, yeah. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
Showing that even suburbia doesn't escape unscathed | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
from the scourge of drugs, | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
suspicions have been raised by comings and goings at a luxury home | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
that could be hiding a secret behind the curtains. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
Sergeant Colin Jarratt has picked up the case, | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
and has been granted a warrant to launch a raid on the property. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
He briefs his team of over 20 officers. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
First thing that we're going to do, we'll get the house surrounded. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 | |
Force entry or we'll get entry to the property, | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
we'll keep the surround on, because then we'll be looking at doing a systematic search of the house. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
If we let our guard down on the outside, anyone can do a runner. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
We're going to come from the Waltham direction, | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
all the way down through Waltham Road. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:11 | |
-Right, so it's this side that we're going to be going to? -Yep. -This one here? -Yep. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:16 | |
The main thing is making sure that you're | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
looking after and looking out for yours and your colleagues' welfare. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
With the crew up to speed on the job, | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
they head off in convoy to the location. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
The neighbourhood team are hoping that upmarket suburbia | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
may just be the perfect cover for a major criminal to operate out of. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
On arrival at the house, Colin musters his men into two groups - | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
a strike unit to enter the house, and a group to create a cordon. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
Got them ladders, Paul? Because there's gates here. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
The police need to lock down the grounds of the property to prevent anyone escaping. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:55 | |
Mindful that a watchman may have seen them coming, | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
the team move in fast, entering the property by force. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:02 | |
We'll get through, we just need the crow bar. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
-Police! -Police! -Police! -Police! | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
On entering the house, they begin a systematic sweep of the rooms, | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
looking for any signs of criminals or crime. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
The house is suspiciously empty of furniture, and the curtains are all drawn. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:23 | |
As the search inside heightens, | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
outside the lock-down unit patrol the grounds, looking to catch any would-be fugitives. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:32 | |
Police! | 0:07:32 | 0:07:33 | |
Back inside, the team score their first arrest in one of the empty bedrooms. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:38 | |
-Clear. -Police! | 0:07:38 | 0:07:39 | |
-INDISTINCT SHOUTING -I've got one here! | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
There's a Vietnamese man looking to make a break for it. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
Police! | 0:07:46 | 0:07:47 | |
Further down the corridor, the first signs of equipment | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
used for industrial-scale cannabis farming are found, | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
including a fuse box wired to draw large quantities of electricity off the grid, | 0:07:54 | 0:07:59 | |
to possibly power growing lamps. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
When an officer draws back a plastic curtain, | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
every suspicion they ever had is confirmed. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
They find dozens of cannabis plants carefully potted and cultivated under hot lamps. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:16 | |
With one suspect apprehended and evidence of cannabis production unearthed, | 0:08:16 | 0:08:20 | |
the team send in the sniffer dog to track down more culprits and cannabis. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:26 | |
No, come. Frosco, come. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
So he's just running round on his own at the moment, | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
now we're just going to do what we call a systematic search. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
The dog leads his handler down another corridor to another room filled with potted cannabis plants. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:38 | |
It's quickly becoming apparent that this is a large-scale growing operation | 0:08:38 | 0:08:43 | |
worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
And the dog isn't done yet. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
His nose is thousands of times more sensitive than a human being's, | 0:08:48 | 0:08:52 | |
and, as we find out later, | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
the type of bark he's giving tells his handler he's caught a whiff of something or someone. | 0:08:54 | 0:09:00 | |
The dog's barking to tell me there's people up there. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:02 | |
Putting the bad boys of the drug trade out of business | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
makes big headlines for the neighbourhood teams, | 0:09:12 | 0:09:14 | |
but more important is the work they do building close ties with the local community. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:19 | |
This can lead to information about crimes being passed from the public to the police, | 0:09:19 | 0:09:24 | |
and it's not just the welfare of people the teams are concerned about. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:29 | |
Each year, the RSPCA seize tens of thousands of pets from owners. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:35 | |
BARKING | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
BARKING | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
Most of these irresponsible owners are then banned from keeping animals. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:53 | |
Malnourished. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:54 | |
He seems to be having difficulty walking on his back legs. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
I don't know whether it's a disability. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
But for some, this isn't enough of a deterrent. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
Today, one of the neighbourhood teams has given PC Rich Watson | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
some worrying information about a young dog being kept nearby. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:09 | |
Yesterday, one of our PCSOs has spotted an akita puppy | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
in the back garden of a property nearby. No shelter for the puppy. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:22 | |
It transpires that, through checks made, | 0:10:22 | 0:10:26 | |
that the lady who lives at that address who has this dog, | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
she's actually been issued with a ten-year banning order on dogs, | 0:10:29 | 0:10:33 | |
so she's not allowed to keep dogs, and it would appear that she has yet another dog. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:37 | |
So we're going to go around there now, seize the dog from her, | 0:10:38 | 0:10:42 | |
and the RSPCA officer will deal with her for the relevant offences. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
It's RSPCA inspector Sarah Keith who will seize any dogs they find | 0:10:49 | 0:10:53 | |
being kept illegally at the property. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
I've come to see you, mate. It's about your dog. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
Why, what about it? | 0:10:58 | 0:10:59 | |
Rich and Sarah head to the house. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
On the way they meet the woman's partner. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:03 | |
Is the dog in the house? | 0:11:03 | 0:11:06 | |
-Is -BLEEP -in? | 0:11:07 | 0:11:08 | |
We need to speak to her. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
I need to interview her in relation to breaching her disqualification. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
We can arrest her now, because that is an arrestable offence for breach of disqualification. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
if there's issues over the dog and the way the dog's being kept, | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
you can be interviewed in relation to that. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
So we can do it now the difficult way, or we can do it now the easy way, it's entirely up to you. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:29 | |
Do you want to show me where the dog is at the moment and where it's being kept, | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
and I'll decide whether I need to interview you, as well? | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
She's got a ten-year ban from dogs, so she's the registered tenant at the address, | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
there is a dog living at the address, so she's in breach of her disqualification. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
So we're here today to get the dog and interview her about that offence. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:48 | |
They head inside to speak to the woman, | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
but a tough line needs to be taken by both Sarah and Rich to get to the dog. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:55 | |
-She's in breach of the disqualification order. -It's my dog. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
I don't care. It's in her house. | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
You don't live here, do you? Officially? | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
-So basically, -BLEEP, -we're seizing your dog, all right? | 0:12:02 | 0:12:04 | |
It's under Section 19 of PACE. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
The puppy is seized, | 0:12:06 | 0:12:08 | |
and Sarah's relieved to find him in a reasonably good condition. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:13 | |
It's in reasonable nick, yes. The girl who was being interviewed is claiming it's not her dog, | 0:12:13 | 0:12:17 | |
and it belongs to her boyfriend who lives at the address | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
but isn't actually registered as living there as far as the council are concerned. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
The likelihood is we will have to wait and make the... | 0:12:24 | 0:12:27 | |
Let the courts decide, make a decision as to the fate of this dog. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
Find out later if his owner will face prosecution. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
The UK trade in fake designer gear | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
is worth over a billion pounds a year. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:46 | |
Eager for a bargain, many people don't think twice | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
about picking up an imitation at a fraction of the high street price. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
Many of these knock-offs are made in sweatshops from materials | 0:12:52 | 0:12:56 | |
that are toxic and the proceeds used to fund drug-smuggling and people trafficking. | 0:12:56 | 0:13:00 | |
Across the country, people are getting wise to the dangers. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
Counterfeit goods being sold without the quality control is wrong. It's wrong to very wrong. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:09 | |
You get issues obviously with toys that are made abroad | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
and have dangerous paints on them, dangerous dyes in them. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
They're not well put together, and you take them apart and they've got sharp edges. | 0:13:14 | 0:13:19 | |
I think it's... Counterfeit goods starts from being bad to going to be extremely serious. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:24 | |
I think especially with children's toys, it's kind of horrendous because | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
especially, you know, when you hear all the stories of there being lead paint being used | 0:13:27 | 0:13:31 | |
and things like that, and there can't be that kind of quality control with counterfeits, | 0:13:31 | 0:13:35 | |
so it's a big problem. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:37 | |
He went out, he came back in. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:38 | |
Over in Hull, a dramatic rise in the sale of counterfeit goods | 0:13:38 | 0:13:43 | |
at market stalls and by street pedlars has seen the team take action. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:46 | |
I'm going down to work with one of our partner agencies, | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
Trading Standards. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:51 | |
We're going to be working at one of the local markets | 0:13:51 | 0:13:54 | |
where they believe that there are some counterfeit toys being sold. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
They're dangerous, they can fall apart, they can injure children. | 0:13:57 | 0:14:00 | |
People are buying these, they're buying them cheap, | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
they think they're getting the real thing, and it isn't. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
Last year, thousands of counterfeit toys were seized in Hull. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:17 | |
The neighbourhood team have arranged to meet Trading Standards officers in a market car park, | 0:14:17 | 0:14:23 | |
and they will be on hand to provide support when they seize any goods. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:26 | |
Yeah, yeah. Are you splitting into two separate teams? | 0:14:26 | 0:14:30 | |
-Yeah, if you follow on behind. -Yeah. -In about a minute or so. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:33 | |
Yeah, no problem. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:34 | |
Penalties for those caught selling fake goods | 0:14:34 | 0:14:38 | |
can be as much as a £5,000 fine or six months in prison. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:42 | |
It's confirmed this is the stall they're after, | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
so with the help of the neighbourhood team, Trading Standards begin seizing the goods. | 0:14:46 | 0:14:50 | |
They're obviously being quite compliant at the minute, as you can probably tell. | 0:14:52 | 0:14:56 | |
Which is good, which is always nice. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:58 | |
But this doesn't seem to be putting off the shoppers. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:02 | |
It just amazes me, the amount of people that are still coming up. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
They can see, we're quite obviously taking things off the stall, | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
they're being bagged up, you know, we're here, Trading Standards are here, | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
and yet people are still trying to buy things. It beggars belief sometimes. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:15 | |
Counterfeit toys are often poorly made and don't meet safety standards. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:22 | |
With the potentially hazardous goods off the stall, | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
Lorraine now wants to ID the trader. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
It's PC Summerfield, I'm just down on Walton Street Market at the moment. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
Could you oblige me with a person check, please? | 0:15:32 | 0:15:34 | |
But the details he's giving Lorraine just don't add up. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:38 | |
Have you got any bank cards or anything on you to prove your name? | 0:15:38 | 0:15:43 | |
Driving licence? | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
-Am I not down at that address? -No, you're not down at that address, -BLEEP. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:49 | |
Are you registered as a voter there? | 0:15:49 | 0:15:51 | |
-I haven't voted since I've been there, so probably not. -Right. -Should be that address, though. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:56 | |
With no trace of the man on the police database, Lorraine decides to ask around | 0:16:03 | 0:16:07 | |
the other traders if they know him, and she gets to put a name to the face. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
The hat man knows you, he knows your name. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:13 | |
-Do you know his surname? -BLEEP. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
LORRAINE LAUGHS | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
With the named trader now placed under investigation, the team head back to the station. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:26 | |
No, no trouble. Everybody was compliant. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
All details obtained, no issues. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:31 | |
Really we were just there to sort of stand by, just in case it did get a bit heated, | 0:16:31 | 0:16:35 | |
but thankfully it never, which is always nice. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
Still to come, the neighbourhood team go after the dodgy dealers selling counterfeit wares. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:43 | |
-Police! -Police! -Police! -Police! | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
Earlier, the team raided a very unlikely looking drugs factory, | 0:16:54 | 0:16:57 | |
housed in an executive-style home. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:00 | |
On searching the property, they found cannabis ready to crop with a street value of £113,000. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:08 | |
The sniffer dog may be done with searching out the drugs, | 0:17:08 | 0:17:12 | |
but something or, more precisely, someone has caught his attention. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:17 | |
DOG BARKS | 0:17:17 | 0:17:18 | |
Up in the attic. The dog's barking to tell me there's people up there. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:22 | |
The officers enter the attic space through a trap door. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
Hiding amongst the shadows in the rafters is another Vietnamese man. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
With two arrests under their belt, Colin Jarratt marshals the team | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
into a fresh search group to explore the vast and rambling mansion. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:48 | |
We'll get these sorted and then we'll have a good look around and see the exact scale of it. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:56 | |
-C'mon. -He's cleared the building now, | 0:17:56 | 0:17:59 | |
we've just told them there's someone in the loft. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
It's bone time for the sniffer dog who, with his job done, is taken for a well-earned treat. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:06 | |
Do you understand English? | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
Back outside, another officer is taking one of the apprehended men to the van | 0:18:08 | 0:18:12 | |
so he can be transferred to custody for questioning. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:14 | |
Stand there for me, I'm going to search your pockets, OK? | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
Just in case he's got any objects. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:19 | |
Obviously he's going in the back of the van now, | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
whether he's got any objects on him that obviously he can | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
cause harm to himself with or harm to anybody else. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
It's a cursory search before we get him to custody. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
Step up there. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
Just have a seat. Sit down for me please, sit down. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:35 | |
The heavy police presence on this normally peaceful street is beginning to attract a crowd. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:50 | |
Somebody just phoned me this morning who'd driven through the village and said, "What's going on?", | 0:18:50 | 0:18:55 | |
and I wasn't aware of anything, so I just had a walk down to see what was happening. | 0:18:55 | 0:18:58 | |
And it seems the neighbourhood team get a big thumbs up from local people | 0:18:58 | 0:19:03 | |
for the interest they take relating to residents' concerns about crime. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:08 | |
In Waltham, they come along to the parish council meetings, | 0:19:08 | 0:19:11 | |
give regular reports to the parish council. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
They even use the parish office in Waltham as one of their local bases, | 0:19:13 | 0:19:17 | |
so it's a very effective partnership. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:20 | |
Back inside the house, the neighbourhood team | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
comb the property for further evidence linked to the manufacturing and distribution of drugs. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:28 | |
A hot spot is identified in the garage, | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
where assorted gardening gear and tied sacks filled to the brim demand Colin's close scrutiny. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:37 | |
They've clearly had a crop. What's in the bags, do we know? | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
-Soil. -Soil? Is it in all of these? | 0:19:40 | 0:19:44 | |
-No. -No? | 0:19:46 | 0:19:48 | |
This could be the crop. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:51 | |
And on opening one of the bags, it's apparent that the team have hit the jackpot. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:55 | |
That's, that's the cannabis leaf that's been cropped, by the looks of that. | 0:19:55 | 0:20:01 | |
While some of the evidence of cannabis production will be bagged | 0:20:05 | 0:20:07 | |
to be used at trial, the majority of the crop is uprooted. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
It'll be sent for immediate destruction at a furnace facility | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
used by the police to destroy the spoils and wares of crime. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:19 | |
Are we smashing a hole in this? | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
Yeah, one more. Even the new ones. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:30 | |
Another problem Colin needs to tackle is to get the experts in to make the illegal wiring safe. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:36 | |
Could you contact the Electricity Board, please, | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
and arrange for someone to come down and isolate this property? | 0:20:39 | 0:20:42 | |
There is a bypass here. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
Scenes of crime officers and CID have also arrived on the scene, | 0:20:44 | 0:20:48 | |
looking for any identifying marks that can link the criminals | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
to the cultivation of cannabis. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:53 | |
-Is it off? -Well, there's still lights on in there. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
And it's not just extra coppers who've arrived to take a look. | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
As we find out later, the team round up their suspects | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
and begin to examine the major haul of illegal drugs. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:05 | |
In Hull, the team have been launching a crackdown to put people | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
who trade in counterfeit goods out of business. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
They know that market stalls can also be outlets for stolen goods, | 0:21:17 | 0:21:20 | |
and it's an illegal trade they're determined to call shop on. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:24 | |
I know the damage counterfeit goods could do to the perfume industry, the make-up industry. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:31 | |
I think people, most people, are pretty aware | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
if they go to a market and find something really cheap, | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
you know, I'd certainly know that there was something suspicious about it. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:40 | |
I think I'm always really wary of counterfeit goods. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
I would be, especially buying something on a market stall that's clearly branded, | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
a brand that you would maybe know and that you wouldn't necessarily expect to see on a market stall. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:51 | |
I think I would personally be really wary of buying it. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
But I have, I bought perfume once that was sort of quite a big brand, | 0:21:54 | 0:21:59 | |
and it was clearly not the real perfume. It was actually really horrible. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:03 | |
The neighbourhood team have got a suspect on their books that they've been monitoring for some time. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:09 | |
Information suggests he is not only selling fake goods, but also | 0:22:09 | 0:22:13 | |
genuine designer gear stolen from freight trucks, offloading it | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
to market stall owners and independent retailers in the region. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:21 | |
Sergeant Mick Stevenson updates his team on the intel | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
they have on the suspect. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
About eight weeks ago, CRT and Trading Standards did a joint operation | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
on the market in relation to counterfeit goods. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:32 | |
Now, we seized about 1,000 items. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:34 | |
Of those 1,000 items, about £100,000 worth has already come back as being counterfeit. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:41 | |
But from this one particular guy, we seized about 605 items | 0:22:41 | 0:22:45 | |
out the back of his lorry that, at the time, we thought were counterfeit. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:49 | |
But it's transpired that they are not. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:51 | |
They'd actually been stolen in thefts-cum-robberies from HGVs in the West Midlands area. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:57 | |
-On one job, there was a million pounds' worth of -BLEEP -jeans stolen, | 0:22:57 | 0:23:01 | |
-and the bulk of what we recovered the other week is -BLEEP -jeans. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:07 | |
The team are going to try to intercept the suspect before dawn. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:11 | |
He's due to make a delivery of goods to traders at the local street market, | 0:23:11 | 0:23:15 | |
but instead of buyers, he's about to be greeted by the coppers. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:20 | |
OK, soon as we sight him, we'll let you know. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
They put the area under surveillance and sit and wait. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:27 | |
We'll let you know when it passes by, we'll follow it down, | 0:23:27 | 0:23:31 | |
and then we'll let you do the dirty deed at that end. Over. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:34 | |
'Roger.' | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
After a few minutes, they spot the suspect's vehicle. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:40 | |
He's just coming on now, followed by a smaller, white van. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:44 | |
He's taken the first right into Walton Street Market. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
No sooner has he stepped out of his van, the team move in to arrest him. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:52 | |
To let you know we've been doing some enquiries in relation to that property | 0:23:52 | 0:23:57 | |
-that we seized from you the other week. -Yeah. | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
-And it's, it's come back as stolen property. -Right. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:03 | |
-So obviously we need to speak to you about that. -Right, yeah. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:07 | |
As the cuffs go on, the police break more bad news - | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
he's not just losing his dodgy stock, but his truck too. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:15 | |
-Mr -BLEEP, -what we're going to do, | 0:24:15 | 0:24:17 | |
because your vehicle has obviously been used in the commission of crime, | 0:24:17 | 0:24:20 | |
i.e., the last time that we seized the articles from you, | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
and there's possibly some more this time, we're going to seize the vehicle. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
so we're going to recover it to the police station at the moment. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
Both the man and his van are taken back to the station so the team can investigate further. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:35 | |
As day breaks, the team make an inventory of the contents of the man's truck, | 0:24:35 | 0:24:39 | |
and it's not long before they find boxes and boxes of what could be incriminating evidence. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:45 | |
Well, from what we've taken off the van so far, | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
some of that is identical to some of the property already identified as being stolen, | 0:24:48 | 0:24:52 | |
so clearly we've got the batch numbers and that to sort out, | 0:24:52 | 0:24:55 | |
and get them off to manufacturers and see if they can identify them for us. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:59 | |
The man has subsequently been charged with facilitating the acquisition of criminal property | 0:24:59 | 0:25:03 | |
and is awaiting his day in court. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:04 | |
Still to come, the team round up their suspects | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
and begin to examine the major haul of illegal drugs. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
The police team up with the RSPCA to arrest a woman banned from keeping dogs. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:25 | |
She's saying she doesn't own it and she doesn't keep it. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
She participates in that keeping on a daily basis, simply by living in a house with it. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:32 | |
And a man pedalling more than just fake designer goods gets nicked. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:37 | |
Basically, he's got a large quantity of counterfeit aftershaves, watches, Ralph Lauren T-shirts. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:43 | |
Sergeant Steve Lamb and PC Gareth Walker are two of Hull's most familiar faces. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:53 | |
Most days they can be seen out and about or responding to direct calls for help. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:59 | |
For me, neighbourhood policing is all about trying to provide | 0:25:59 | 0:26:05 | |
a really good policing service to the communities that we serve. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:10 | |
They are both good, old-fashioned coppers at heart... | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
Please. Don't insult my intelligence, please. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:17 | |
..who know that community police work makes a real difference. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:20 | |
Within a neighbourhood, most of the complaints that we receive are, | 0:26:20 | 0:26:24 | |
we have lots of neighbour disputes to resolve. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:28 | |
Working in a busy town centre, | 0:26:28 | 0:26:30 | |
we have lots of complaints. Retail crime takes up a lot of our time. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:35 | |
Other incidents that happen in the town centre, | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
people are blighted by street drinkers, | 0:26:38 | 0:26:41 | |
so a lot of our everyday work is geared towards that, | 0:26:41 | 0:26:45 | |
particularly in the town centre during the... | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
Well, both the daytime and the night-time economy. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
A key skill of any neighbourhood police officer is to know your patch and the people on it. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:55 | |
Within a neighbourhood team, you really do know the people | 0:26:55 | 0:26:58 | |
that are affecting you every day, the people that are harming your communities most | 0:26:58 | 0:27:02 | |
so they're the ones that you're going to target regularly | 0:27:02 | 0:27:06 | |
and try and do something positively. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:09 | |
But Steve knows that it's crucial to keep the public on side in the fight against crime. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:14 | |
We obviously encourage our communities to speak to us. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
A number of different... We use... | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
We have regular meetings, surgeries, | 0:27:21 | 0:27:25 | |
we use social, sort of, networking sites. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
Some of our information comes to us | 0:27:28 | 0:27:32 | |
via our partners within the Hull City Council. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:35 | |
Just by simply speaking to people on the streets. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
We're only as good as the information that we're getting, really, | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
and if the information is current, it's up-to-date, | 0:27:41 | 0:27:45 | |
then we will react to it and we'll work with it, | 0:27:45 | 0:27:47 | |
and we'll try and do something with it. | 0:27:47 | 0:27:49 | |
As Gareth confirms, | 0:27:49 | 0:27:51 | |
it's all about making neighbourhoods safer, happier places. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
Neighbourhood policing has a key role to play within the policing structure as a whole, | 0:27:54 | 0:27:59 | |
as CID do, as the incident response teams do. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
Our main focus is about improving the quality of life for local residents | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
and making their lives easier to live with. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
If they've got constant anti-social behaviour that's taking place, | 0:28:08 | 0:28:12 | |
or they've got neighbours that are causing them annoyance, then somebody has to deal with that. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:15 | |
Before neighbourhood policing was introduced, | 0:28:15 | 0:28:18 | |
their problems would get passed from the police to the council to Social Services, | 0:28:18 | 0:28:22 | |
to different departments, whereas now neighbourhood policing can take a grip of the problems | 0:28:22 | 0:28:25 | |
and actually get results for the people that it's affecting. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:29 | |
In my 11 years of policing, this is the best job that I've done, | 0:28:29 | 0:28:32 | |
and I think it's just this particular neighbourhood team | 0:28:32 | 0:28:35 | |
because you have got a very busy city centre, | 0:28:35 | 0:28:38 | |
it changes on a night-time, moves into that night-time economy, | 0:28:38 | 0:28:42 | |
but outside of that, we've got some very busy, sort of, housing estates | 0:28:42 | 0:28:46 | |
and all the problems that that brings in. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:49 | |
There's all sorts of stuff, so, for me, | 0:28:49 | 0:28:51 | |
it's certainly the best job that I've done in the service, yeah. | 0:28:51 | 0:28:54 | |
We've come to see you, mate. | 0:28:59 | 0:29:01 | |
Earlier, a neighbourhood officer out on a beat walk | 0:29:01 | 0:29:04 | |
spotted a puppy in the garden of a home belonging to a woman | 0:29:04 | 0:29:06 | |
banned from owning a dog following acts of cruelty upon a previous pet. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:10 | |
The team's response is a reminder of just how wide a range of problems they deal with on a daily basis. | 0:29:11 | 0:29:18 | |
Well, that's right, that's the beauty of the community policing. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:22 | |
The officers in a given area will generally know who's who | 0:29:22 | 0:29:27 | |
and what's been going on. | 0:29:27 | 0:29:29 | |
So obviously with my colleague, she's a PCSO in the area, | 0:29:29 | 0:29:33 | |
and she was aware of the previous incident | 0:29:33 | 0:29:37 | |
and therefore had concerns that if they had a dog in the future, | 0:29:37 | 0:29:43 | |
you know, there may be some welfare issues for that dog. | 0:29:43 | 0:29:47 | |
Your local policing teams gather intelligence which is | 0:29:47 | 0:29:50 | |
relevant to your local neighbourhood. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
I think without that, it's quite probable that this, | 0:29:53 | 0:29:58 | |
this incident with the dog would have gone unnoticed. | 0:29:58 | 0:30:01 | |
Rich went with RSPCA inspector, Sarah, to move the dog to safety. | 0:30:01 | 0:30:06 | |
He's also placed the woman under arrest for questioning about the alleged offence | 0:30:10 | 0:30:14 | |
and takes her back to the station. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:16 | |
There she will be interviewed by an RSPCA Officer. | 0:30:16 | 0:30:20 | |
-Thank you, -BLEEP. | 0:30:20 | 0:30:21 | |
No, it'll be the RSPCA, they've got all the powers to deal with | 0:30:21 | 0:30:24 | |
these types of incidents, so they'll interview her. | 0:30:24 | 0:30:27 | |
We just obviously have the power of arrest, | 0:30:27 | 0:30:29 | |
so we're facilitating that. | 0:30:29 | 0:30:31 | |
-You don't have to -BLEEP -film me, do you? | 0:30:32 | 0:30:35 | |
Sarah explains exactly what she believes the woman may have been guilty of. | 0:30:35 | 0:30:40 | |
The ban, the way the disqualification is worded, | 0:30:40 | 0:30:43 | |
is that she's not allowed to own, keep or be responsible for. | 0:30:43 | 0:30:47 | |
It says "ownership or participating in the keeping of dogs." | 0:30:47 | 0:30:51 | |
So even if she's saying she doesn't own it and she doesn't keep it, | 0:30:51 | 0:30:54 | |
she participates in that keeping on a daily basis | 0:30:54 | 0:30:58 | |
simply by living in a house with it. | 0:30:58 | 0:31:00 | |
Akitas, if they're trained to, can be aggressive. | 0:31:00 | 0:31:04 | |
They can make brilliant family dogs, as well, | 0:31:04 | 0:31:07 | |
but unfortunately they're sought after for the wrong reasons. | 0:31:07 | 0:31:10 | |
What Sarah's going to do next is basically interview the female we've arrested for the offence. | 0:31:10 | 0:31:16 | |
And then if she is, if it's decided she'll be prosecuted, | 0:31:16 | 0:31:20 | |
I will get sent a summons to serve on her. | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
The case against the woman who breached her dog disqualification order is ongoing. | 0:31:31 | 0:31:36 | |
But, for the team in their fight against the sale of counterfeit goods, | 0:31:48 | 0:31:52 | |
they're proving that their bark IS as strong as their bite, | 0:31:52 | 0:31:55 | |
especially when they know that the sale of knock-offs is often linked to other crimes, | 0:31:55 | 0:32:00 | |
such as drug-dealing. | 0:32:00 | 0:32:01 | |
In Hull's city centre, the team have been launching a crack down against counterfeit goods-sellers. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:08 | |
Knowing that the trade of knock-off perfumes and handbags is | 0:32:08 | 0:32:11 | |
often linked to wider criminal activity such as drug dealing. | 0:32:11 | 0:32:17 | |
Whilst many of these goods are sold from market stalls, others are sold | 0:32:17 | 0:32:21 | |
by pedlars who sell in pubs or on street corners. | 0:32:21 | 0:32:24 | |
Over at one of the city's shopping precincts, the store security have called in the police. | 0:32:24 | 0:32:30 | |
A man was initially detained by security on suspicion of stealing headphones, | 0:32:30 | 0:32:33 | |
but when searched by the police, he was found to be innocent of shop theft. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:37 | |
but new suspicions were raised by something else he had in his bag. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:40 | |
We've then come in, had a chat with him. | 0:32:40 | 0:32:43 | |
He's given us a sort of semi-plausible excuse for what he was doing with the headphones. | 0:32:43 | 0:32:47 | |
However, he's got bags full of counterfeit goods, | 0:32:47 | 0:32:50 | |
which, by his own admission, are counterfeit. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:53 | |
We've got headphones, aftershaves, watches. | 0:32:53 | 0:32:58 | |
But it's not just counterfeit goods he was carrying. | 0:32:58 | 0:33:01 | |
I've asked him if he's got anything else about his person, he said no. | 0:33:01 | 0:33:04 | |
I can clearly see he's got something in his pocket that he's not bringing out. | 0:33:04 | 0:33:08 | |
Checked his pocket, and in his pocket got a small bag | 0:33:08 | 0:33:12 | |
-with about... Says about 100 tablets in there. -There's exactly 100. | 0:33:12 | 0:33:15 | |
Yep, and he's admitted they're his, that he's purchased them. | 0:33:15 | 0:33:18 | |
Sleeping tablets. I use them, I need them. | 0:33:18 | 0:33:20 | |
Sleeping tablets are popular on the black market with clubbers and ravers, | 0:33:20 | 0:33:24 | |
and, if supplied without a prescription, | 0:33:24 | 0:33:27 | |
they can be considered to be a Class B drug under the Misuse Of Drugs Act. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:32 | |
The man is claiming they are for his own personal use, | 0:33:32 | 0:33:34 | |
but the team are unconvinced and call in their governor Sergeant Steve Lamb to search the man. | 0:33:34 | 0:33:39 | |
I just need to do a quick search. You don't have to get any clothes off, it's no problem at all, mate. | 0:33:39 | 0:33:43 | |
-Just a quick pat down just for their safety. -They've searched me already, but... | 0:33:43 | 0:33:47 | |
-OK. Right, so nothing else in your pockets? -No. | 0:33:47 | 0:33:49 | |
-No sharps, nothing at all? -No. -OK, mate. | 0:33:49 | 0:33:54 | |
No more drugs are found, but the team decide to take him back to the station | 0:33:54 | 0:33:58 | |
so he can be searched more thoroughly. | 0:33:58 | 0:34:01 | |
-Do I have to walk out the shop like this? -Yes. | 0:34:01 | 0:34:03 | |
When I haven't even stolen anything from this shop? | 0:34:03 | 0:34:05 | |
-Delta 123. -INDISTINCT VOICE FROM WALKIE-TALKIE | 0:34:05 | 0:34:08 | |
Basically he's got a large quantity of counterfeit aftershaves, watches, | 0:34:10 | 0:34:14 | |
Ralph Lauren T-shirts, Lacoste T-shirts, | 0:34:14 | 0:34:16 | |
which he's admitted they're all imported from Thailand, | 0:34:16 | 0:34:19 | |
and he sells them in the local pubs. | 0:34:19 | 0:34:21 | |
But the counterfeit goods could be the least of his worries. | 0:34:21 | 0:34:25 | |
Yeah, he's got a small package with him which contains about | 0:34:25 | 0:34:29 | |
100 blue tablets which are benzodiazepine, | 0:34:29 | 0:34:31 | |
which he's got unlawful possession of, as well, so that's why he's been arrested, as well, | 0:34:31 | 0:34:35 | |
for possession with intent to supply those tablets. | 0:34:35 | 0:34:37 | |
Back at the station, the man is booked into custody, | 0:34:41 | 0:34:44 | |
but before the team have the chance to search him, something falls from his pocket. | 0:34:44 | 0:34:48 | |
Oh, sorry. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:52 | |
Brilliant. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:54 | |
It's yet more drugs. | 0:34:56 | 0:34:58 | |
Right, just to remind you that you are still under caution. | 0:34:58 | 0:35:01 | |
-Yes. -And obviously they've just dropped from you. All right? | 0:35:01 | 0:35:05 | |
-Can I have an exhibits bag, please? -Yeah. | 0:35:05 | 0:35:07 | |
It's going to look more worse now for him, for what he did in the custody suite. | 0:35:07 | 0:35:11 | |
Cos he kept on saying they were for himself, they were for himself. | 0:35:11 | 0:35:13 | |
When we asked him, when he was first searched, | 0:35:13 | 0:35:15 | |
"Have you got anything more on you?", he said no. So... And now he's been... | 0:35:15 | 0:35:20 | |
Why he dropped them out like that, I don't know. | 0:35:20 | 0:35:22 | |
We was going to find them. | 0:35:22 | 0:35:23 | |
What have we just found? | 0:35:23 | 0:35:24 | |
A second bag of blue tablets. | 0:35:24 | 0:35:26 | |
-We need to -BLEEP -his own confession last time. | 0:35:26 | 0:35:28 | |
I'm Sergeant Bailey, I'm the custody sergeant. | 0:35:28 | 0:35:31 | |
Have you had any today? | 0:35:31 | 0:35:33 | |
Er... Well, I'm only on one, one a day. | 0:35:33 | 0:35:36 | |
-And have you taken today's? -Yeah. | 0:35:36 | 0:35:39 | |
No charges were brought against the man for the sleeping tablets. | 0:35:39 | 0:35:42 | |
However, following a search of his house, | 0:35:42 | 0:35:45 | |
the man was charged with possession with intent to supply Class B drugs and money laundering. | 0:35:45 | 0:35:50 | |
The case is going to court. | 0:35:50 | 0:35:52 | |
Back over in Grimsby, the police have descended on suburbia | 0:35:57 | 0:36:01 | |
to bust a cannabis farm hidden by the facade of an executive home | 0:36:01 | 0:36:04 | |
in one of the most upmarket streets in the region. | 0:36:04 | 0:36:08 | |
Hundreds of plants with a street value of tens of thousands of pounds | 0:36:09 | 0:36:12 | |
have been seized, and two men arrested. | 0:36:12 | 0:36:15 | |
Back at the house, the team have done a final tally of everything they've seized. | 0:36:17 | 0:36:22 | |
-330 plants in total. -Right, good haul, good haul. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:25 | |
And then in the garage from a previous harvest, | 0:36:25 | 0:36:28 | |
we've got pots and root balls of 136. | 0:36:28 | 0:36:30 | |
We're looking at, we're looking at roughly around about £180,000 worth of cannabis plants, yeah. | 0:36:30 | 0:36:35 | |
Which is, you know, it's a significant haul. | 0:36:35 | 0:36:38 | |
That's £180,000 worth of drugs that have been taken off the streets, | 0:36:38 | 0:36:41 | |
so I'm very impressed with that. | 0:36:41 | 0:36:43 | |
The haul means that the neighbourhood police | 0:36:44 | 0:36:47 | |
have seized a staggering 4 million pounds' worth of cannabis this year alone. | 0:36:47 | 0:36:51 | |
Yeah, we've managed to get everything removed from the house. | 0:36:51 | 0:36:55 | |
It'll be a case of getting it as tidy as we can possibly get it, | 0:36:55 | 0:36:59 | |
ready for the occupants or the owners of the house | 0:36:59 | 0:37:01 | |
to obviously return to it, and they'll have to take up the issues of damage | 0:37:01 | 0:37:05 | |
that's been caused by the people inside there. | 0:37:05 | 0:37:08 | |
Obviously the investigation's going to continue. | 0:37:08 | 0:37:11 | |
That'll be going on through to today, possibly into tomorrow, with the serious crime team. | 0:37:11 | 0:37:16 | |
So it's just a case of now the next stage continues. | 0:37:16 | 0:37:20 | |
The two men captured at the house were both found guilty of producing a controlled Class B drug. | 0:37:22 | 0:37:28 | |
Their green fingers earned them both a 30-month stretch inside. | 0:37:28 | 0:37:32 | |
The man who rented the house has been arrested and charged | 0:37:34 | 0:37:38 | |
with being concerned in the production of a Class B drug. | 0:37:38 | 0:37:42 | |
And, as we've seen, the neighbourhood team's always on the lookout for trouble | 0:37:49 | 0:37:53 | |
and willing to lend an ear to listen to residents' complaints about wrongdoing on their doorsteps. | 0:37:53 | 0:37:58 | |
But the information gathering is only worth anything | 0:37:58 | 0:38:02 | |
if the intel leads to criminals getting caught. | 0:38:02 | 0:38:05 | |
Coming up next time... | 0:38:05 | 0:38:08 | |
The sticky-fingered, foul-mouthed shoplifter feeling the full force of the law. | 0:38:08 | 0:38:12 | |
-You think I haven't forgot your face, you -BLEEP. | 0:38:12 | 0:38:15 | |
The team take a zero-tolerance approach to tearaway teens. | 0:38:15 | 0:38:19 | |
You can't stand still for two minutes, | 0:38:19 | 0:38:21 | |
you're asking to be locked up, your eyes are all over the place. | 0:38:21 | 0:38:24 | |
And the police find more than one type of grass growing around this man's shed. | 0:38:24 | 0:38:27 | |
This shed's also full of cannabis. plants, | 0:38:27 | 0:38:30 | |
so we'll be seizing all the plants that are in this one, as well. | 0:38:30 | 0:38:32 | |
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