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Today on Crime And Punishment,

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a fatal stabbing in Birmingham caught on camera.

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I just lifted the t-shirt and I could see the blood was pouring down.

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And drugs behind bars.

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Here at Bristol Prison, they're clamping down on an age-old problem.

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Hello and welcome to Crime And Punishment.

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The way police catch criminals today has changed dramatically

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since the Queen came to the throne 60 years ago.

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Back then, a crime with no witnesses and no forensic evidence

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often went unsolved.

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But that's not the case today - as we're about to see in a film

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that tells the story of the shocking murder of 19-year-old Jay Sudra.

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This is the actual CCTV footage that was taken just moments before

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21-year-old Jay Sudra lost his life.

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Jay is taking his last steps.

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20 seconds later, he was attacked with a knife.

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The youth in the white t-shirt is following him,

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intent on violence.

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Within seconds, Jay has been fatally stabbed in the chest.

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This is Jay's story

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and the story of how his killer was brought to justice

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using technology that would not have been available 60 years ago.

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At his 18th birthday celebrations with his family,

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Jay had everything to look forward to, enjoying his music

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and planning to study design at university.

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Happy birthday, Jay. Cheers!

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A perfect son. But the following year proved tragic.

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Just three months later, his father died.

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At 18, Jay became the bedrock of his family.

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Jay was a lovely son.

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A very caring brother and a very caring uncle as well.

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He would do anything for anybody. He was good. He was a lovely kid.

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And, as if their father's death wasn't enough to cope with,

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soon after, his sister Sonya

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lost her own 37-year-old husband to cancer.

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Jay became a father figure to her two young children.

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You don't expect your little brother to be taken away from you

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so soon, especially the way he was taken.

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Every day is difficult and people say it gets easier,

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but I think it gets harder.

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It's when you walk into this house.

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Even if he's not in the particular room that you walk into,

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you know he is either upstairs, he's doing something,

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just coming into the gates, the front of the house, you know?

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He's not there any more, and you just miss him all the time.

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There are certain times when he just pops into your head,

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you'll hear a song or somebody will look like him, dress like him.

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It's just constant, just miss him constantly.

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For Varsha, Jay's last night began as usual.

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I was in the kitchen because he told me

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to go cook him a few things which he liked.

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After 20 past, I heard the bell.

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So I said, "Oh, that's Jay, I'd better hurry up and open the door."

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As I went there, near the door, it was him

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and I heard as if he was in pain or something.

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I thought, "God, why is he making that noise?"

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But then I opened the door and he could hardly say anything to me.

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He was just... I was shocked as well, and he just stood there.

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I said, "What's happened to you?"

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At this stage, Varsha had no idea how seriously hurt her son was,

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but her screams alerted neighbours.

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They didn't know what had happened to him.

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Although Jay had managed to get himself home,

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he was fatally injured.

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I just lifted the t-shirt and I could see the blood pouring down.

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So we said, "Jay, Jay, don't go to sleep.

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"Just wake up, keep waking up, the ambulance people will be coming.

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"And they'll help you."

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But I think while he was in my arms, he actually died.

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Jay had died from a single stab wound to the heart.

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It was the start of a major murder investigation.

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Detective Inspector Paul Joyce was in charge.

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We have what we call the golden hours,

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which is a period of time when we really need to focus very closely

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on what is likely to take us in the right direction

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in terms of, is it CCTV evidence?

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Is it fast-track actions around forensics admissions?

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Will it be house enquiries, will that lead us to potential offenders?

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So really it has been focused in the early stages on exactly that.

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When we initially attended the scene,

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hundreds of metres of ground had been taped off

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and was being guarded by police officers at the time.

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The reason for that is to keep the scene area

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as sterile as possible and uncontaminated.

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So any forensics seizures are uncontaminated

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and worth more evidentially.

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What we also do in terms of the traditional policing tactics

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is stuff we've always done - we look for witnesses.

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We knock on doors and we speak to people,

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we speak to the media and we ask them to help us.

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But there were no obvious leads.

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There were no eyewitnesses to this crime,

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there wasn't anybody anywhere who had seen the incident take place.

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And what we know now is that it was an extremely quick incident,

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it was over within a matter of seconds.

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So the challenges were nobody had seen or heard anything,

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there were no known motives at that time.

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More from Paul Joyce and his team later,

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as they make what could be a crucial breakthrough

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in the hunt for Jay's killer.

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Bristol Prison, like many others,

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is working hard to break the cycle of drug addiction and crime.

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A high proportion of all prisoners

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have committed drug-related offences.

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But breaking the habit, inside or out, is never easy.

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The percentage of offenders who turn up at Bristol Prison's gates

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with a drug or alcohol addiction is staggering.

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A prison like this will receive around 2,500 new prisoners a year,

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and from that 2,500,

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over half will need some sort of service in substance misuse.

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We have had to up our game in terms of treatment and support

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and how we actually tackle something that is causing such

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a massive impact on communities.

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They came up with IDTS,

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the Integrated Drug Treatment Scheme, also known as Drug Services.

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It's a new approach designed to rehabilitate prisoners off drugs,

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which in turn reduces crime.

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And it works. It works well.

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Drug-related crime in Bristol is now down by up to 40%

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and it's believed the scheme has played a massive part in the reduction.

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We will endeavour to treat

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and interact with everybody who comes in with a substance issue.

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Lee was using hard drugs and prison had been a familiar place for him.

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But this time he has been on the IDTS scheme.

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If I can go out, get myself a job

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where I have to get up at 6 in the morning, go to work -

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I like building, you see - go to work all day,

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six till four, come home and have some tea,

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have mess around with my little boy

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and then I'm just going to want to go to bed.

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I won't have time to go out with...

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I don't call them my mates, I call them associates,

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the people I was hanging out with before.

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I've got to cut them loose.

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Lee arrived here just five months ago with the type of story

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the staff are used to hearing.

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There's my mum, my dad, four sisters, two brothers,

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so that makes seven of us.

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We had a good upbringing, really.

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Up until I was 14, 15, and then I was causing so much trouble at home

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and there were so many of us that I was put into care.

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I got myself kicked out of school at 16 and it just led to drugs,

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crime, police stations, prison.

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What I know now, if I knew it then, I would lead a totally different life.

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So, how does drug services help people like Lee

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turn their life around?

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They have a whole wing of the prison to themselves, C Wing.

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As well as prison staff, there are doctors, nurses, councillors

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and detox experts,

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who all work to target the care efficiently under one roof.

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After an initial assessment, they are taken up to C3's landing,

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also called the stabilisation unit.

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We house them on these wings here.

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They come in overnight, they may well have been to court last night,

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they may have been using illicit drugs on the streets

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yesterday, so when they come here they are usually very confused,

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mixed up, unstable, sometimes really difficult to talk to.

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Staff remain vigilant for any signs of violence or suicide,

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and may prescribe medication to help with the prisoner's detox.

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-Are you feeling OK? Are you OK?

-Yeah.

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Bit by bit over the next few days new arrivals are enticed to

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join in with the other prisoners on rehabilitation programs.

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We're going to try to entice them out of their cell into groups

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where they will meet other guys and feel better for being out

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of their cell, and engage with us in a positive way.

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The length of time it takes a prisoner to stabilise

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can vary a great deal.

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You'd have thought that the harder the drug, the longer it would take,

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but it's surprising which addiction proves the most difficult.

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The hardest challenge my staff have is stabilising people who

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have alcohol abuse.

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We would expect the stabilisation of somebody on alcohol to run

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from anywhere up to three to four weeks,

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whereas stabilisation of most other drugs we expect an average

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of 5 to 10 days before they progress to the rest of the unit.

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The prisoners' detox is one thing, but to keep them from spiralling

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back into drug use once they're released, takes a lot more work.

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A little later,

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we'll see the next stage in the battle to fight drug addiction.

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Keeping drugs out of prison and off the streets is a huge challenge.

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One of the best detectors of illicit drugs is a dog's nose.

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Sniffer dogs, introduced in the 1970s, have been a huge success.

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So who breeds and trains them?

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Dogs destined for a life in the police used to be donated

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by the public, or were provided by rescue centres

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like Battersea Dogs' Home.

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Now, some police forces like the West Midlands are breeding

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their own specialist dogs.

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We couldn't rely on the temperament of any of the dogs

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when we were getting donation dogs.

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We wanted certain characteristics that we breed for now.

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And you've got some dogs out here, tell me who you've got.

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You've got Jet, he is 30 months old,

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German Shepherd from Czechoslovakian bloodlines.

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We've got Russell, the rottweiler.

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-He's yours.

-He is living with me currently at the moment.

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May is an 11-month-old, a German Shepherd,

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and on the end is Pippa, who is six and a half months.

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And these are quite a way through their training,

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because you start pretty much as soon as they're born.

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Straight away we look at socialisation with the dogs,

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getting them confident with people, with different environments

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and surroundings, and starting basic play work with little rags

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and balls on a rope, just getting the dogs to respond to you.

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-Clever puppy!

-OK, so it starts right at the beginning.

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Do you want to show me how it's done?

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Yes, I'll show you a toy first and then we'll work on the sleeves.

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Initially, we were getting Jet to bark for this pillow.

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Once he's barking and settling, and not interfering with me,

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we reward him with a bite on the pillow.

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If you're standing still, a police dog's not allowed to bite you.

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And for people at home, they are barking because they can see

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all the equipment, and that's what they are trained for.

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They're barking at us as people working, and the equipment as well.

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-This is a big game, it's lots of fun.

-Go on, then, you play the game.

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Speak, speak, speak, speak, speak, speak. Hold.

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All we do, we want a firm bite on there.

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No movement, just patting him, letting him win it.

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He's working that, bit of tension, then we let him win it and run round.

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Brilliant, he's had the pillow, been rewarded for it.

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The next one, this is what would happen in real life.

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Initially, with a young dog, we do it off the arm.

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Because he's already on the sleeve,

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I'll get him settled from barking again, and when I move,

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he will bark, and as soon as I move, he'll attach himself to the sleeve.

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So we'll get him settled again.

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Speak, speak, speak, speak, speak, speak, speak. Hey!

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And again, he's holding really steady.

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Would that go through somebody's sleeve if you didn't have that on?

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Yes, definitely.

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Unfortunately. We don't want the dogs to create any damage,

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we just want to detain a person.

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-But damage presumably does happen.

-It does happen occasionally.

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And they are trained to go for arms, not other parts.

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They will go for other parts later on, but it's what's on offer.

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Sometimes people kick out at the dogs,

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so we get our dogs used to leg movement around them -

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hand movement, if somebody was going to strike the dog,

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they would fix on the arm.

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That is amazing. There he goes. Well done, Jet.

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Obviously, they can be quite terrifying. They're scaring me.

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They are all police dogs and they have got a job to do,

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but we breed... The main thing is social ability in our dogs.

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The majority of them are very sociable.

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OK, I know they want to go and play and work with you,

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so I'm going to leave you and I'm going to walk to a safe distance!

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-And Russell, goodbye. He's your favourite, isn't he?

-He is at the moment. Thank you.

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19-year-old Jay Sudra was murdered just yards from home.

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As we've seen, a CCTV camera recorded the horrific crime,

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but the image of the perpetrator was too blurred to make a positive ID.

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But thanks to 21st-century technology,

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Paul Joyce and his team are beginning to close in on the killer.

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As lead detective on the Jay Sudra murder,

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Paul Joyce's first job was to piece together his last walk home.

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He'd been to work on that evening.

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In fact, it was his first late shift he'd ever done.

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It was a nice summer's evening,

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he was dressed in a casual shirt uniform for the shop where he worked.

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He was using public transport at the time.

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This is the station where he got off the train after his night at work.

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He only had a journey of about 15 minutes to walk in this direction.

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Somewhere in those 15 minutes, his attacker struck,

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but they have no clues as to why.

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Traditional forensics, which would have been all they had

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60 years ago, revealed virtually nothing.

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There were forensics submissions like nails scrapings,

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like the deceased's clothing, and following the search

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we actually recovered a knife we believe to be the murder weapon

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from a drain. Again, they were all forensically tested

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and not found to be of any use to the investigation.

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Potentially, the loss of blood from the deceased may have

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contaminated other key evidence like DNA, like fingerprints.

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We will never know if that is the case.

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But the investigators did have one stroke of luck,

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and it was to prove crucial.

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It was really clear to me that early on in this investigation

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it would be based around CCTV evidence.

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We were extremely fortunate in the very early stages to find

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some CCTV that showed us part of the incident,

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showed us the victim being followed by his attacker, and this was

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from both commercial CCTV and some CCTV from a residential premises.

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Jay was 150 metres away from home listening to music,

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oblivious to the man behind him.

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The footage shows the man speed up, he covers his face and moves in.

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The initial CCTV that showed us

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the attacker wasn't enough to facially identify the perpetrator.

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However, what it did show was the attacker was male,

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it also showed us what he was wearing,

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and, in this instance, he had a distinctive T-shirt on

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which showed different colouring on the sleeve and shoulder.

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Clearly, that for us was quite significant.

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The police set about widening their search.

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The next decision was to devise a strategy around recovering

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further CCTV in the whole area of Erdington, and specifically

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around potential escape routes.

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That's exactly what we did.

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We looked at a certain radius

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and recovered all CCTV within that radius.

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In fact, we recovered in excess of 45 separate CCTV sites

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in the days leading from that.

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They were looking for more images of the man they had seen following Jay,

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and they had to establish a timeline for his movements.

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During the course of the investigation,

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we recovered thousands of hours of CCTV.

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We have to make some very strict decisions around what we're

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going to view, how long for and exactly what

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we are trying to identify from that viewing.

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Eventually, they were able to trace this man's movements

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on the fatal night.

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He was picked up on camera at a fast-food restaurant with friends.

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The next click I move on to will show the same group of people

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leaving the fast-food restaurant, and here they are just here.

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There is our offender there,

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again drawing the attention to the dark sleeves.

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I'm moving on now to the point where our offender

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has walked down the high street. This is him now with an associate,

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and he is about to stand at this bus stop and wait for the bus

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to arrive, which is the 11A bus which takes him towards home.

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What this next clip shows is our man getting onto the bus,

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and you see him quite distinctively, you can recognise him facially,

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and he takes a seat at the back of the bus.

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This next clip is extremely important.

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What this shows us is our offender is sat here,

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he is having some dialogue with another male on the bus,

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and it's very relevant now that you can see the dark under the arms,

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the distinctive logo here,

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and the pattern of walking is extremely unique, really.

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They also enlisted the help of an image analyst

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to match up the clearer pictures with the blurred pictures

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of the man they had seen accosting Jay.

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The sole purpose of the exercise is to conduct a comparison which

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allows me to provide a level of support for the fact that

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person on the bus, who is accepted to be the suspect,

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is indeed the person that actually attacked the victim.

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Clive focused on the t-shirt the attacker was wearing.

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Colour is always difficult when we're looking at CCTV footage,

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purely because of the way an individual's eyes

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can interpret colour differently,

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and that TV systems can be setup to display different colours.

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So we frequently revert to grey scales

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and talk about tone rather than colour.

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Man A, the offender,

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was clearly wearing a t-shirt with short sleeves.

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The yellow arrow depicts the dark sleeves and the red arrow

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depicts an area of darker tone in the centre of the chest.

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When we compare that with Man B, our suspect, you can clearly see

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there is a similarity in the form of the shirt as well as

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the dark tone of the sleeves and the feature of the logo on the chest.

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The CCTV footage had more secrets to reveal. Bit by bit,

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Clive pieced together all the evidence that linked

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the man on the bus with the man who attacked Jay.

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We'll return to discover how

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the attacker's distinctive way of walking

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provided another vital clue in the investigation.

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It's horrific enough to be the victim of a crime, but to have to

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then go and point out your attacker only adds to the stress and upset.

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Once, the only option was an identity parade like this one.

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-Number six.

-Number six is the one, did you hear that?

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But now, there's a high tech alternative.

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Hi, Frank. Nice to see you. Now, if I was a suspect coming in here,

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what's the procedure? What would you be doing with me?

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First thing, sort the paperwork out. Make sure it all agrees.

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Next, offer you an alternative top.

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-Why?

-It's compulsory,

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because you may have something on which was used in the crime scene.

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So I've got to offer you something that isn't.

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You have a little wardrobe in here! There are glasses in here too.

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So would I be able to put these on?

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Only if you were normally wearing them.

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So, just to make that clear, if I wasn't wearing

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a pair of glasses, I couldn't put a pair of glasses on for the picture.

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-I wouldn't suggest that.

-What if I had a tattoo?

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We would try and do it here,

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but probably it would be done with technical bits at the house.

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OK so I might be taken up.

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So, have I got anything distinctive on me or would I just be OK?

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-No, you're fine.

-What do I do then?

-Just take a seat over there.

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Usually the holiday snaps, but slightly different!

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Just slightly different.

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AUTOMATED VOICE: Please press the button,

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then prepare to hear the instructions.

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-Look to the right now. Look to the front now.

-OK.

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So that's the end of the procedure for me,

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there is my picture, what happens to it now?

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That goes straight to the house.

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I'm here with Paul - Paul, what's your role?

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My role is to compile identification parades for West Midlands Police.

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-Which is exactly what you've done for me today.

-It is.

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How have you gone about that?

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We've received your image, I then put your details into a search criteria,

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where I put your age, your hair colour, your build.

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That then brings back matches which are similar.

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-What sort of search is it?

-It's a national database that we use here.

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-It's brought back 667 matches.

-667 people look like me in Britain?

0:23:450:23:50

-They do.

-Who are they? Who are these people?

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These are all volunteers and they are on the national database.

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So there would be a line-up of nine for a witness.

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-This is very different to the old system, isn't it?

-It is, yes.

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The old system was a lot like live identification parades

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where the witness would go and see a lineup

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and there would be confrontation, maybe, with the suspect.

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Here, the witness is going to a private room, seeing each

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individual video and they can view the video as many times as they want.

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-So there's a lot less pressure on the witness.

-Definitely, yes.

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And they're far more relaxed to be able to focus on the nine.

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And they're not faced with the person who may have committed the crime.

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So how quickly can you put this together?

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We can only turn a parade around within one hour from first receiving the image.

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-Have you got my video there?

-I have. Shall we have a look?

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So, a witness would see this and then eight other videos.

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That's correct.

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Thanks, Paul.

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We're going to meet three men, all police officers from the same family

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with a joint experience that spans nearly 100 years.

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There's Arthur, who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1913,

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his grandson, Bill, who joined Staffordshire Police in 1963, and

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great-grandson James, who currently serves with West Midlands Police.

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This film starts with the words of PC Arthur Holland in 1913.

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"Well, I must tell you I am now a policeman, and what a fine chap, too!

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"Fancy me in uniform!

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"I'll get my mug sketched the first opportunity I get,

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"and then you'll see for yourself."

0:25:260:25:28

A mug sketch, is that a photo? A photograph?

0:25:280:25:31

You've got that old photograph of him, haven't you?

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That could well be the photograph he's referring to in his letters.

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That's right.

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It was 1913 when PC Arthur Holland

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had his mug sketched for the family to see.

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Nearly one century on, his grandson, a former policeman,

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and great-grandson, a serving policeman,

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are reliving his experience.

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Back then, unmarried police officers lived in lodgings.

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"I am now in lodgings, and I tell you they are lodgings, too!

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"I'm with four of my pals from Peel house as well as three more,

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"so there's a happy family."

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Even when Bill joined the force in 1963,

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young recruits lived in lodgings.

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Whereabouts were your lodgings, Dad?

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Well, my first lodgings were in a multi-storey block of flats.

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I can remember one day when I was on nights my bedroom door opened,

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and my landlady brought in a load of ladies from the house

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to look at the policeman in bed!

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Bill and James began their police careers

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not in London like Arthur but in an old mining town near Birmingham.

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Today, they are pounding the same streets again.

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Years ago, I can remember walking along here with my truncheon

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strap hanging down, and the superintendent was driving past

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and stopped and said it looked too aggressive

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to have your truncheon strap hanging down, you shouldn't do it.

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-Right.

-So what they'd make of it now when you have

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stab vests and all the equipment you carry!

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Bill started in the force in the early '60s.

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Nearly 50 years on, it's a world away from the policing Jim does now.

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I think there's certain parts of the job which are quite

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similar in respect to upholding the law, arresting people,

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doing general police duties.

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But I think that in modern times there are certain aspects

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which he'd have great difficulty coming to terms with, really.

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ASBOs, for a start - unheard-of in the '60s.

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Now, Anti-Social Behaviour Orders

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are an everyday part of modern language and life.

0:27:450:27:48

We are en route to a lady who has reported some antisocial behaviour

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inside a block of flats.

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It got so bad that we secured two antisocial behaviour

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injunctions taking out against the resident of the block of flats

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and his former partner.

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Both of them create an absolute misery for the other residents

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who live in the block of flats. Hello, it's Jim. You all right?

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Ultimately, we want him out the block of flats, don't we?

0:28:210:28:26

That will be that.

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If he's not a resident here, that's the problem solved, isn't it?

0:28:280:28:31

In his day, Bill did some things that would never happen now.

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When my dad was in service, he was chasing an armed criminal

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up the motorway with a hostage and a bundle of cash and a firearm.

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He was unarmed with his colleague on the traffic department.

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In this modern day and age, that certainly wouldn't happen.

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And for Arthur, cars weren't for chasing, they were for dodging.

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"There's a lot to see in the streets, plenty of life and traffic -

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"too much at times, especially when you want to cross the road."

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Little did Arthur know that in the early '70s,

0:29:050:29:07

his grandson would work on the traffic division

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and drive the first car over the world famous Spaghetti Junction.

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REPORTER: 'You can see why they call it Spaghetti Junction.

0:29:200:29:23

'The engineers point out that, unlike a plate of spaghetti,

0:29:230:29:27

'it stands up and is highly planned.'

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I declare this motorway open!

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'We were the first vehicle over the junction.

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'But there was a lot of national interest on it,

0:29:390:29:42

'so to be first over that was quite an experience.'

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If they know where they're going, if they drive according

0:29:460:29:50

to motorway standards, that is they know what they are doing,

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and they are able to read the signs, they will have no problem at all.

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I have vivid memories of what he used to say,

0:29:560:29:59

and being a traffic officer for my dad was a large part of his career.

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If ever there were anything that was on the top section

0:30:050:30:09

that was an accident, I didn't like that.

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Bill was also there when the police started to formalise the way

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they dealt with public order offenses.

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West Midlands police introduced special training

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for some of its officers.

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Bill took part and was sent to help Merseyside police

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deal with the riots in 1981.

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I can see a lot of parallels

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with when my dad first joined and when I joined.

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Perish the thought, going into a riot situation

0:30:410:30:44

with a flimsy plastic visor over your normal police helmet

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just seems absurd.

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Now we obviously have crash helmets, flameproof suits, body armour,

0:30:490:30:54

stab proof vests.

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For PC Arthur in 1913,

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dealing with civil disorder was an altogether more civilised affair.

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"I was listening to a suffragette last night at top of Regency Street.

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"Talk about tongue! There was plenty of that.

0:31:090:31:12

"She didn't half give it votes for women."

0:31:120:31:14

After the Great War,

0:31:170:31:18

waves of industrial unrest rippled through Europe.

0:31:180:31:21

Many workers were in dispute, including the police.

0:31:210:31:25

Their pay matched that of an unskilled labourer,

0:31:250:31:27

so when they downed truncheons, Arthur joined them.

0:31:270:31:30

It led to the end of his career.

0:31:300:31:33

Those who went on strike, including my grandfather,

0:31:330:31:36

were required to resign their posts.

0:31:360:31:39

Arthur was dismissed on 1 August 1919,

0:31:400:31:43

after five years as a policeman.

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As it was then, as it is now, it is against the law for police officers

0:31:450:31:50

to strike and he paid the price with his career.

0:31:500:31:54

Arthur's career in the police force ended prematurely,

0:31:570:32:01

but his inspiration lives on through his family.

0:32:010:32:03

When a murder happens, it is often front-page news.

0:32:080:32:11

Then, it begins to be forgotten.

0:32:110:32:13

But away from the headlines, the police work goes on.

0:32:130:32:16

The team working on the Jay Sudra killing is closing in.

0:32:160:32:19

First, they have to link the youth seen on the bus CCTV

0:32:190:32:22

to the one following Jay on his last journey home.

0:32:220:32:27

In the hunt for Jay Sudra's killer,

0:32:290:32:31

Clive's painstaking work on the CCTV images eventually link

0:32:310:32:35

this very clear image

0:32:350:32:36

to the man caught on camera following and attacking Jay.

0:32:360:32:41

And not only did they have a picture of his face,

0:32:440:32:46

this man also had a very distinctive walk.

0:32:460:32:49

Just like the man following Jay.

0:32:490:32:51

One of the things we saw

0:32:530:32:55

when viewing the imagery was that the suspect actually moved

0:32:550:32:59

with a foot pattern that seemed to be quite pointed out.

0:32:590:33:04

Using the yellow arrows to demonstrate

0:33:040:33:06

general direction of movement

0:33:060:33:08

and the red arrow the broadness of the movement of the foot

0:33:080:33:12

out splaying as he walked,

0:33:120:33:14

it was clearly evident on the imagery of Man B as he was walking

0:33:140:33:18

that he demonstrated the same general mannerism.

0:33:180:33:21

And in this case, we were able to view Man A over

0:33:210:33:24

a period of CCTV footage where it became evident that he tended

0:33:240:33:29

to walk with his toes splayed out quite widely.

0:33:290:33:32

Over a series of frames, we were able to assess his general

0:33:320:33:36

direction of movement and the angle in this case of his left foot,

0:33:360:33:41

and the angle tended to be consistent throughout that period of footage.

0:33:410:33:45

It was a Charlie Chaplin-style walk.

0:33:450:33:47

Paul had this very clear image to show,

0:33:470:33:50

but as yet he did not have a name in the frame.

0:33:500:33:52

He decided to release it to the press and put out an appeal.

0:33:520:33:56

At that stage, we didn't have any suspects,

0:33:560:33:59

and the reason for the appeal

0:33:590:34:01

was to enlist the help of the community where it took place.

0:34:010:34:04

Watching the footage of Jay's final moments

0:34:040:34:06

was very difficult for the family.

0:34:060:34:08

It wasn't nice because we knew that was Jay's last steps,

0:34:080:34:12

his last breaths.

0:34:120:34:14

It was hard, it was really difficult to watch.

0:34:140:34:17

Before I saw it, I could just picture him walking home,

0:34:170:34:21

his head down, minding his own business,

0:34:210:34:24

listening to his music, thinking to himself,

0:34:240:34:27

"Oh, I'll go home, play guitar and spend time with my mum."

0:34:270:34:31

That's the person Jay was.

0:34:310:34:33

The press appeal gave the police the breakthrough they needed.

0:34:330:34:37

As a direct result, a 15-year-old handed himself over to the police.

0:34:370:34:42

His name was Lamah Prince.

0:34:420:34:44

He admitted to being the man on the bus,

0:34:440:34:46

but refused to say anything else to the detectives.

0:34:460:34:50

There was still more work for them to do, and most of that work was

0:34:500:34:53

gathering evidence made available through modern technology.

0:34:530:34:57

It was also clear to me as the officer in charge of the case

0:35:000:35:04

that everything we did in every decision we made

0:35:040:35:07

needed to really be in support of that CCTV evidence.

0:35:070:35:10

What we did in order to achieve that was looked for opportunities

0:35:100:35:13

with telephones, analysis and computers, to really try to

0:35:130:35:18

support any dialogue that took place after the actual incident

0:35:180:35:21

between the offender and his associates or family members.

0:35:210:35:25

Cell site technology which tracks mobile phone signals helped

0:35:250:35:30

to place him in the right area, and, on top of that,

0:35:300:35:34

analysis of the 15-year-old's computer confirmed that,

0:35:340:35:37

in the days following the killing,

0:35:370:35:38

he had been researching all the news put out about it.

0:35:380:35:41

With all the evidence gathered,

0:35:410:35:43

Lamah Prince appeared in court to face a murder charge.

0:35:430:35:46

That was a real tough two weeks at the court every day,

0:35:490:35:53

really draining, listening to everything.

0:35:530:35:57

At the end of every day, we would ask the police

0:35:570:35:59

and the officers, how do you think it's going to go?

0:35:590:36:02

They'd say, we don't know.

0:36:020:36:04

But at the end of those two weeks,

0:36:040:36:05

Prince was sentenced to life to serve a minimum of 14 years,

0:36:050:36:10

well over the statutory minimum at his age.

0:36:100:36:13

A great result for the police in a case that could never have

0:36:130:36:16

been solved 60 years ago.

0:36:160:36:18

In my opinion,

0:36:180:36:19

and owing to the great significance

0:36:190:36:21

placed on the CCTV during this investigation,

0:36:210:36:24

I don't believe we would have had a successful

0:36:240:36:26

outcome had we not had the help and support

0:36:260:36:30

and the technical advice from the imagery analyst.

0:36:300:36:34

This case was extremely emotive for all concerned,

0:36:360:36:39

and I know it really touched the hearts of lots of people

0:36:390:36:42

involved in the investigation, right through to our press team,

0:36:420:36:48

and some really experienced police officers were also very touched

0:36:480:36:51

by Jay, by the warmth offered to us from his family.

0:36:510:36:55

When he was sentenced, when a jury stood up and said they found him

0:36:590:37:04

guilty of murder, that was just the best possible result

0:37:040:37:09

we could have got, because we were scared

0:37:090:37:11

he was going to get manslaughter.

0:37:110:37:13

For him to get murder, justice has been done.

0:37:130:37:18

Amazing police work and a really brave family.

0:37:260:37:30

In Bristol, as we've heard,

0:37:330:37:35

they have a successful drugs rehabilitation programme.

0:37:350:37:38

Once prisoners are stabilised, it's time to move them on,

0:37:380:37:42

but at all times, they are carefully monitored.

0:37:420:37:45

OK, one sample kit.

0:37:450:37:46

What I would like you to do now if you can is give me a urine sample,

0:37:460:37:50

please, as much as you can, but a minimum of below that line there.

0:37:500:37:54

Thank you very much.

0:37:540:37:56

Benji takes part in voluntary drug tests,

0:37:560:38:00

but also undergoes mandatory tests like this one, something

0:38:000:38:03

all prisoners must do at Bristol in full view of the officers.

0:38:030:38:07

And he's happy to do it because it proves he's stayed off the drugs

0:38:070:38:10

and is something he's proud of.

0:38:100:38:12

You know the results will come back to me,

0:38:120:38:14

you'll get a sheet on the Tuesday night

0:38:140:38:16

-and a certificate on Wednesday morning. Thank you.

-Cheers, mate.

0:38:160:38:21

Benji has been through the IDTS, or drug services unit, on C Wing.

0:38:210:38:27

Its methods are designed not just to get prisoners off drugs

0:38:270:38:29

while they are inside, but to get them to stay off them

0:38:290:38:33

-when they are living back in the community.

-Are you lot OK?

-Yes.

0:38:330:38:37

Come on, lads, lock the doors. Let's go.

0:38:390:38:41

After new prisoners have finished this stint detoxing

0:38:410:38:44

in the stabilisation unit, they moved to C1's landing, AKA Recovery.

0:38:440:38:49

Down here, they get involved in drug

0:38:490:38:51

and alcohol group work for an hour in the mornings,

0:38:510:38:55

they can do the sports and games courses, go outside on the Astroturf.

0:38:550:39:00

A bit of circuit training, just build up momentum.

0:39:040:39:07

They're down here for about 28 days, we have to keep people moving on

0:39:070:39:10

because there's always people coming in.

0:39:100:39:12

The purpose of recovery is for prisoners to regain their weight,

0:39:120:39:17

get healthier and to begin to look to the future without drugs.

0:39:170:39:20

When you are a drug user, you tend to be quite insulated, so the people

0:39:200:39:25

you mix with are all drug users, so it becomes a small, insular circle.

0:39:250:39:29

By using sport, we break that circle,

0:39:290:39:31

so when they go outside they mix with people who use the gym, and

0:39:310:39:34

they have another circle of friends apart from the drug-using friends.

0:39:340:39:38

And this approach is proved to work.

0:39:380:39:41

Since we set up this project, there has not been a single member

0:39:410:39:45

of people engaged in this who have tested positive for drugs in prison.

0:39:450:39:49

So it is a massive, massive thing that has happened.

0:39:490:39:53

Once prisoners have completed their 28 days of assessment on C1,

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they move to B Wing.

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This is B Wing. When prisoners have finished detox

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and gone through the 28-day psychosocial module,

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a lot of them come here.

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It's known as the voluntary drug testing unit,

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because when they're on here, they sign up to a contract where

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they agree to be voluntary drug tested at any time.

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Staying off drugs on B Wing brings benefits.

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Prisoners are given single cells and not having to share is a big bonus.

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Also, they work every day either in a job or in a class.

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We have to start thinking about how we get people

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back into the lifestyle that you and I would live,

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and that is getting up in the morning, going to work, doing

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a day's work, coming back at night and maybe then going to the gym.

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It's important we get them back into mainstream education

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within the establishment, or mainstream employment.

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Throughout their time in prison,

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close ties are made with probation staff and drug workers

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from many different agencies in the community, so on release

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there will be continued support from familiar faces.

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There are a lot of things here that, if you want it, that is,

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you can achieve.

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The way I'm feeling, this is the final step in my journey.

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When I get out this time, I'm on nine-month's licence,

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probation in here have started working on me now,

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I am hoping to work when I am out. That's what I want.

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The Bristol Prison team has won awards for its work.

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They have helped reduce crime in the city by a considerable amount,

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and violence in the prison itself has also dropped off steeply

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since they started the scheme.

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Ultimately, we never lose touch with reducing reoffending,

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we never lose touch with the fact that this will benefit

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our local community in the city of Bristol by sending people back

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out with that sense of value and a fresh set of addictions, if you like.

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If that is just scoring a goal in football,

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then it's a better addiction than crack cocaine.

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That's all from us on Crime And Punishment for now,

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we'll see you next time.

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