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On today's Crimewatch Roadshow, the scam turning a visit to the | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
supermarket into a nightmare. There are cases reported every week. Help | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
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us catch one of the gangs Welcome to this morning's programme. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
We have got a packed show for you, but we won't catch any crooks | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
without your help. Coming up today: A school left in ashes. Police need | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
to know who started the fire. Metal thieves are ripping community | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
halls and churches to pieces. We are out with the police trying to | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
crack down on one of the biggest crimes of our times. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
And who is looking over your shoulder when you use your PIN | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
number? Can you really keep it safe? | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Today we have moved into a new country. We are heading into Wales | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
where we are hooking up with Gwent and South Wales forces. We' are | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
starting right on the border. Miriam O'Reilly is in Chepstow. So | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Miriam, are you actually in England or Wales there? | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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You can see Chepstow Castle over there. That is in Wales. Behind me, | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
the River Wye marks the border between these two countries. So, | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
technically speaking we are in England. But for our last three | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
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days on-air, we are working alongside two Welsh police forces. | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Now, on to our first appeal. This crime happened here in Chepstow, | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
but it is happening in supermarket car parks right across the UK. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
It was just the regular weekly shop when Maureen Trip became the latest | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
victim of this scam plaguing the country. I had just finished work, | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
went to my local Tesco's to do shopping. I walked round, bought | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
all my bits and pieces, went to the checkout, paid, then went out to | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
the car park, unloaded my trolley, put the trolley back in the trolley | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
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As I went back to the car, a chap approached me and asked me for | :02:36. | :02:44. | |
directions. Excuse me, can you show me how to | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
get to Leysester. He wanted Leicester. He pronounced | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
it Leysester. Do you mean Leicester? | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Yes, Leysester. He got out a map and spread it over | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
the back window. So we were looking and I was showing him the way. I am | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
possibly the worst person to ask for directions. And I had to | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
explain to him several times how to get there and I thought, he has got | :03:11. | :03:20. | |
a map, why doesn't he use the map? Thank you, thank you. I drove out | :03:20. | :03:29. | |
of the car park. As I was driving out of the car park, I noticed a | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
black BMW a couple of cars in front of me turn left into the staff car | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
park. I was aware that the chap in the back seat leaned forward and | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
looked right at me. It was the man that asked me for directions. I | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
thought they wanted to go to Leicester, what are they doing in | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
the staff car park? Anyway, I didn't think any more of it. I went | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
home. Later on that evening my husband was checking online our | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
bank account. Did you draw �300 out of your | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
account today at Tesco's? No, why would I? | :03:57. | :04:07. | |
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Well, somebody has. Better check your purse. My card has gone. | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
My card had gone. But how does this scam work? How was Maureen's card | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
and PIN number taken? While I was talking to the chap trying to | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
explain directions to him, he looked over my shoulder a couple of | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
times behind me and I thought, what's he looking at? I turned | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
round once and looked and I was aware there was a lady. I did not | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
think much of it at the time, then I thought afterwards maybe he | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
distracted me and she was the one that actually went round the | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
passenger side and got in the car. Because of the way I was stood, I | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
couldn't see inside the car. I didn't hear anybody open the door. | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
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The criminals then used the card at the nearest cash machine to | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
withdraw money. I have thought quite a lot about it since the | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
episode and I can't understand how they managed to get my PIN number. | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
I was in the queue on my own. There was nobody behind me. There was | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
nobody at the checkout next to me. It has been suggested to me people | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
could have used their mobile phone and taken a quick shot of me. It's | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
not unusual these days for people to be carrying their mobile phones | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
round supermarkets. We are naturally concerned about this | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
emerging crime pattern. We would like to stress this isn't confined | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
to Chepstow. It is actually a nationwide problem. We ask people | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
to be guarded when using cash cards, chip and PIN devices and cashpoint | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
machines, to make sure nobody is standing close by that could read | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
their number. I was quite shocked afterwards. I felt a bit silly. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
They are obviously very clever people that worked it all out very | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
well because I was totally unaware of what was going on, but I will be | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
now. We would ask people, no matter how | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
small or insignificant they think any information they have is, to | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
contact us. By withdrawing cash and buying items online, the gang | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
managed to fleece Maureen out of �500. But it could have been so | :06:29. | :06:38. | |
much worse. Maureen Trip, the victim of that crime is with me. | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
You felt uncomfortable when it was going on, it was only later when | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
you check your account that he knew that money was gone. Why did you | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
feel uncomfortable? Well, as he asked me for directions but he had | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
a map, which seemed strange. He kept glancing over my shoulder, it | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
seemed a bit odd. His behaviour was on. What was his description | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
because you remember him clearly? would say he was Mediterranean, | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
dart here, a fairly small and slim, 5 ft 8, jeans, white shirt and | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
jacket. You're very careful with your PIN number. They got hold of | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
it somehow. I do not know how, but I now have the PIN number all the | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
time without fail. All of this week we are joined by Louise Elliott | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
from BBC Wales. She is with the investigating officer. Thank you, | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
Inspector Mike Boycott, the figures on these crimes are incredible. For | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
every day of the year, �1 million is stolen in card fraud. What are | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
you doing about it? Incidents of this right -- incidents of this | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
nature are very rare in Gwent, but anyone who notices any and usual | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
activity on their card should reported to the police. | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
understand you have CCTV stills of the gang members? Yes, we're very | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
keen to trace this individual, because we know he used the stolen | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
car at the cash. To obtain money. If anyone knows where he is, we | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
would ask you to contact us straightaway. How can we protect | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
ourselves? Maureen made the point that she had no idea she was being | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
watched when she was putting in her PIN number? It is very important | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
that anyone who is using a card at a cashpoint or cash machine become | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
aware of people around them. They should protect their PIN number by | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
shielding it with their hands or their body and make sure that | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
nobody sees the PIN number going in. If they see anything unusual, they | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
should report it to the police straight away. Thank you, Inspector, | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
the numbers are on our screens. Overnight to Rav with our Wanted | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Faces today. Let's take a look at who we have | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
got for you today. Do you recognise this man, Ronald Brian Grimes? He | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
was convicted of robbery and assault in May 2004 and jailed for | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
seven and a half years. But when he was released early on licence he | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
failed to keep to his conditions and is now wanted back in jail. | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
Grimes has a Liverpudlian accent and scars on his left arm. He also | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
has Chinese letter tattoos on both arms. Have you seen him recently? | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
If so, please let us know. And take a look at this man. 67- | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
year-old Peter Miveld is wanted by police in connection with a large | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
scale money laundering operation, linked to the sale of controlled | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
drugs. He has connections to Merseyside as well as Cyprus and | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
Spain. He has tattoos on his arms of an eagle and a sacred heart with | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
the words "mum and dad". Do you know where he is now? If so, give | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
us a call. Do you know this man? Balkar Singh Dhesi. Police in | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
Leicestershire want to talk to him about a money laundering case | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
involving over �200,000. He is known to have connections to the | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
London and Leicester areas and police want your help to track him | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
down. And if you know where this man is, Terence McGinley, then | :09:59. | :10:09. | |
please don't approach him. If he is believed to be violent. He is | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
wanted on a European arrest warrant in connection with two charges of | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
conspiracy to blackmail. McGinley is a member of the travelling | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
community, and has a southern Irish accent. He sports a number of scars | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
on the left side of his face, right eyebrow, nose and right wrist. Do | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
you know where he is? If you recognise any of these faces, the | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
number to call is 08000 468 999. Or text us on 63399. Text CW, space | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
and then your message. Please leave the space or your message will not | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
get through. Or email us. Do not forget, all the Wanted Faces from | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
the series are on our website. Now, we are in the area covered by | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
South Wales and Gwent forces for the rest of the week. Here's Louise | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
with a look at the challenges local police face. | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
Cross the Severn Bridges and you are into the busiest part of Wales. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
As you travel down the M4, Gwent and then South Wales Police are the | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
forces keeping an eye on things. Between them, they cover around | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
two-thirds of the entire population of Wales. So that means that they | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
share resources, including this state-of-the-art helicopter. With | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
its combination of cutting edge technology and highly-trained crew, | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
the helicopter is invaluable when it comes to tracking down missing | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
people, fugitives and drug runners. Listen up, listen up! | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
The unique thing about Wales is we have a helicopter that we share | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
with South Wales Police. The teams come from South Wales and Gwent | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Police so the officers that are on that team understand the policing | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
dynamics of both force areas. South Wales has a strong history of | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
industry and farming, and is made up of ex-mining towns, rural | :11:45. | :11:54. | |
villages and coastal cities. The vast majority of the crime in the | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
Gwent and South Wales areas happens in the big urban centres. That is | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
Newport, Swansea and right here in Cardiff. Chief Constable Peter | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
Vaughan is the man in charge of the challenges facing South Wales | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
Police. Last year we dealt with almost an | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
incident every minute of every day. We have got a proud tradition of | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
driving crime down within the area, dealing with major events. We | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
anticipate the demand for policing major events is going to go up with | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
Swansea going into the Premiership. Apologies to anyone from Reading | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
who is watching this! With 186 events to police last year, | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
and over 12 million visitors to the capital, it is an ongoing challenge | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
because not all these visitors are welcome. Organised crime groups are | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
trying to get a foothold within Cardiff and Swansea. And the valley | :12:43. | :12:52. | |
communities and other city centres and town centres. Go! Police! | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
disruptive influence that drug misuse can have on our communities | :12:54. | :13:03. | |
is all too apparent. Police! Anyone here? The officers | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
have gone upstairs to see if the suspect they want is up there. | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
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In neighbouring Gwent, Chief Constable Carmel Napier has to | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
constantly juggle which crimes to prioritise. We have seen more | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
property-related crime. We have actually targeted our specialist | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
resources working closely with neighbouring policing teams and | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
local authority resources to both reduce them and to capture the | :13:30. | :13:38. | |
baddies that are doing it. Well, we are now following the police | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
support group to the first of two addresses where officers believe | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
there could be suspects involved in metal theft. We will be asking for | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
your help with these and other unsolved crimes. �10,000 has just | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
vanished. We may never get these things back again. Let's bring the | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
criminals to justice. I couldn't think straight. I was just scared | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
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The rest of the week will be very busy. Let's start by taking a look | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
at this. An air rifle and in a few moments these people from the | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
special search unit will have to find it from in there, the River | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
Wye. Turnaround, we don't want you to see where we throw it. No | :14:39. | :14:48. | |
cheating. Are you all said? Off you go, throw it in. There we are. In | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
the River Wye. You might have noticed there was a wire attached. | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
That is in case these get called away and we can retrieve the gun | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
from the river. Get to work. Sergeant Peter Allan, you run this | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
team. Tell us about the conditions the officers face. | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
Primary problems are the flow of the outgoing tides. Three hours | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
after high tide. Battling the flow. Poor visibility. Down to about one | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
inch in front of their face. Thick sludge mud. I think we can get an | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
idea from some pictures of the kind of conditions Basie. Literally they | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
cannot see their hands in front of their face. Nothing. The mud, how | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
deep would that be? It looks very sticky. | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
It is between 6 ft and 10 ft deep. You would be engulfed. Explain | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
about how the officers undertake research. The visit lability is bad, | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
the tide is flowing, it sounds like searching for a needle in a | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
haystack -- visibility. There are several sorts of search parties we | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
can use. It involves weighted lines which we late in a grid system, a | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
bit like an underwater archaeological search. What kind of | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
things are they trained to a church -- search for? Stolen property, | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
firearms, body recovery, counter- terrorist searches. Is there a risk | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
to the officers in going into situations like this? Certainly | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
there is a risk assessment which has to be done. Diving has it and | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
problems. It is dangerous. Her one of your officers said if it is in | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
there to be found, I will find it. Fingers crossed. I wish you and | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
your team the best of luck. There are preparing to go in. | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
I hope they find it. Still to come, when a building is wrecked as badly | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
as this it means thieves are after only one thing, Merkel. And when | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
fire gutted this primary school it ripped the heart out of a community. | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
Bash metal. We need your help to catch those responsible. | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
We have been getting some great called and information. We still | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
need more help. Take a good look at this latest batch of CCTV. | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
It is the early hours of March 6th in his Notting Hill nightclub in | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
London. Most of the revellers are starting to call it a night that | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
keep an eye on the guy in the light coloured shirt and tie. He is | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
having a chat with the man in the suit jacket but things turn nasty | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
and he decides to smash an ice bucket into the other man's face. | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
The attacker is ushered out by his friends while his victim seeks | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
medical treatment. Let's put his thuggery on ice. Let us know who he | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
It is a quiet night for staff at this Bromwich bookmakers in January. | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
But the peace is shattered when two men barge in brandishing a gun. | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
They are wearing hoods and their faces are covered. They point the | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
gun through the security screen and demand to be letting to the counter | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
area. The quick thinking staff run into the bark of the shop forcing | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
the robbers to give up and leave. Help the police probe the Booker | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
them and tell us who they are. -- throw the book at them. It is | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
February and these teenagers are having a chat in London. But the | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
mood changes when the guy in the white jumper turned up. There seems | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
to be an argument before he punches one of the youths so hard he is | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
sent crashing to the ground smashing his head on a door. Help | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
us stop this violent thud doing this to somebody else. | :18:53. | :19:03. | |
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A bonus if you know anything about If you want to be anonymous you can | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
phone Crimestoppers. Back to marry him in Chepstow. | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
The tension is building -- marry him. The police dive team are | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
getting into the water to retrieve that gun. The conditions are really | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
difficult. Lots of sticky mud. We will tell you more about how they | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
get on later. As they are preparing let go over to Lee Rees because she | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
has news of a crime that is costing the country �770 million every year | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
-- Louise. The aftermath of a break-in. Chaos, | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
heartbreak and despair. And here at the building has been ripped to | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
pieces. But why? What were they after? At first it looks as if | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
nothing had happened. He walked in the main room, noticed a copper | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
piping had gone. We went from there to the second floor, all the | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
radiators had been pulled off the wall and every carpet removed. The | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
top Broomes, they had pulled the ceiling down and all they have | :20:21. | :20:30. | |
taken his copper. All the devastation had been duped to this. | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
Metal theft is a growing crime wave. The thieves don't care what effect | :20:34. | :20:44. | |
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their actions have on a community. Just ask the people of Fleur-De-Lys. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
The effect they made for groups that use the miners' Institute, it | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
is devastating. It is something they have taken away. We set up a | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
group, ex-miners and miners' wives and widows and it has proved to be | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
popular. The venue is crucial to the group continuing and the ladies | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
and meant that come here like the fact they meet in a mine as well, | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
it is significant. A great shame. - - miners' hall. To combat medal | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
that went police are staging special operations and they have | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
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got we criminals in their site -- Gwent police. 20 metal thefts | :21:32. | :21:42. | |
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An early-morning raid on a scrap metal dealers caused a result. A | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
quantity of stolen lead. Two suspects are taken away. But that | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
is not the end of it because police had new technology at their | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
disposal which may prove where the metal it originated. | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
More on that technology later. Throughout this series we have been | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
showing you criminals caught on camera. It is estimated there are 2 | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
million CCTV cameras in the UK. DCM at Neville has not looked at all of | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
those himself but he has looked at a lot of images -- Mick Neville. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
Are we making the best use of the footage? We are using images like | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
fingerprint and DNA. We are looking at getting the images, making sure | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
their protest, identified, making sure criminals are arrested. It is | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
not a case of how many you have, it is what you do with them. Other | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
criminals deterred by it? I more and more so. At first it was just | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
putting the cameras up but now we have got the system so they fear | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
not just the camera but the getting caught. Even academic research has | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
shown that prisoners were frightened of the cameras because | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
they were caught. We know the quality can vary from job to job. | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
Is that frustrating? Sometimes. But you have to imagine even in a major | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
crime blurry CCTV can read this to the point where a criminal was and | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
lead us to taking fingerprints and DNA from that place a week | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
identified the criminal. Sometimes fears might think it is blurred but | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
it can still solve cases. What makes you unit special. The idea we | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
treat it as forensic imagery, a proper circulation of images and, | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
even to the media. And when it is identified we sent a senior | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
reporter to make sure the criminals are arrested. That is the real | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
difference. You have got to images you want to appeal for today. | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
is a burglary of an art gallery in central London. He broke through a | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
two-door cast box in April. Made off on a bicycle. We know that is | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
serious enough. People are concerned about burglaries of homes. | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
50% of people who burgle office blocks have convictions for | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
burgling houses to getting these identified is important. Another | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
one. This shows how we have developed not just CCTV but | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
forensic images. He possibly has died in his own mugshot. This is a | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
crime in Greenwich in January. A man was threatened, told if you | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
:24:47. | :24:51. | ||
don't hand over your life then you will be stabbed. -- iPhone. We | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
believe he has taken his own mugshot. We are keen to get him | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
identified. Cameras all around us. They can do their bit if you catch | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
-- tackle crime. Yesterday we asked for information | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
on this guy, Robert Kerr who picks on Christians and takes their money. | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
We have had one of the biggest responses were 30 calls common | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
texts, and the mouse. -- with over 30 calls, text messages, and e- | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
mails. We told you that there guy he stole | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
PIN numbers from NHS staff. More of you have called in believing you | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
may have fallen victim to the same scam. | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
Good information on a wanted face, Patrick Paul Hull,, who featured | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
last week who breach the terms of his early release -- Patrick called | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
Ocana. -- Patrick Paul O'Connor. | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
At the beginning of the mind of fire ripped through a school in | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
Chepstow causing devastation. Within hours of the fire starting | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
Crimewatch Roadshow learnt it was a possible arson and our cameras were | :26:10. | :26:20. | |
:26:20. | :26:26. | ||
The noise, the smell, it was horrific. It was heartbreaking. | :26:26. | :26:36. | |
:26:36. | :26:37. | ||
Three weeks ago the community of Bullwork in Chepstow work to Friday | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
scene of devastation. Large parts of Thorn will primary school had | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
been burnt to the ground. I had a teller for current -- telephone | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
call at 145 am which is quite alarming because you think | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
something is wrong. It was my caretaker informing me he had had a | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
call informing him the school was on fire. I was stunned. I do have - | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
- drove here as quickly as I could to be greeted by flames, smoke, six | :27:09. | :27:17. | |
fire tenders, and chaos. It was well established by the time we got | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
here. Most people in the vicinity were asleep. It is basically the | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
noise which goes with a fire, or waiting until people have woken up, | :27:30. | :27:40. | |
:27:40. | :27:44. | ||
The bricks and mortar can be replaced. What cannot be replaced | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
on memories, history, and heritage. It took 45 officers more than four | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
hours to get the flames under control. Were there arrived about | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
30% of it was engulfed in flames and our priority was realising that | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
that blog was written off, to be it the other buildings within the | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
school complex to make sure they went damage. The blaze destroyed | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
the entire nursery unit and infant school costing hundreds and | :28:16. | :28:23. | |
thousands of pounds. Unfortunately the Playhouse has caught fire. It | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
has caught fire to the wooden structure and hence to see the | :28:26. | :28:35. | |
damage. You note youths congregate in that area. They also used tea | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
lights. This may well have been a cause of the fire. According to the | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
mud of recklessness involved we are treating it as arson. -- the amount. | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
The impact on the community has been massive. It looked like a bomb | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
had gone off. We were absolutely gutted. It was awful. I did break a | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
tear. The children's work has gone and all the things. Not very nice. | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
You have to explain to them all the staff has been bed and it is gone | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
and they are not getting it back. It is not their fault but you | :29:12. | :29:19. | |
cannot easily explain it to a There is one person in particular | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
that officers are keen to track down. The description we have got | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
is basically a male person, wearing a grey hooded top who was seen | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
running from the area. It may well have been an accident, but somebody | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
somewhere knows who is responsible and we need that person to come | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
forward, or persons who are involved in it and I would urge you | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
to come forward. The thought that perhaps it could be somebody within | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
the community who possibly at some point in the past had attended this | :29:43. | :29:52. | |
school makes what has happened even harder to come to terms with. | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
Graeme Smith is from South Wales Fire and Rescue Service. Let's be | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
clear right away, you believe that this fire was our son but you do | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
not think it was started deliberately? The conclusion of our | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
investigation team was a group of young people were using the Wendy | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
house attached to the building as an illicit drinking den, and | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
perhaps use some candles to eliminate that particular area. | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
Then under the influence of alcohol they have not put the candlelight | :30:22. | :30:28. | |
and it has spread to the Wendy house. Candles like this, most of | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
us use them in the garden during the summer. The danger is when you | :30:32. | :30:39. | |
leave them. But basically this was teenagers having a party? Yes, and | :30:39. | :30:45. | |
something as innocuous as that candle can cause devastation. | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
were two school fires in Wales yesterday. How many nationally | :30:48. | :30:55. | |
every day across the UK? There were three yesterday. We had two last | :30:55. | :31:01. | |
night so we have had our share of that ratio. How much does it cost? | :31:01. | :31:07. | |
In the UK, the cost of our son is around the 6 billion mark. That is | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
the overall economic cost, loss of production for businesses, | :31:11. | :31:17. | |
disruption to schools, overall about 6 billion. Thank you very | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
much. If you know anything about the fire at Thornwell School, | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
please get in touch. Time for a quick look at some more criminals | :31:26. | :31:32. | |
caught on CCTV. Take a look at this health- | :31:32. | :31:36. | |
conscious shoplifter as he strolls into this London health food shop | :31:36. | :31:41. | |
in July and has a look at the products on offer. But then he | :31:41. | :31:47. | |
picks up a box from the top shelf. Then another, and places them on a | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
different shelf. Then when he thinks the coast is clear, he picks | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
the contents in his jacket before having to take a phone call and | :31:55. | :32:01. | |
walking out. The cameras caught him in the act. Let's help the police | :32:01. | :32:11. | |
:32:11. | :32:12. | ||
catch him. Carlos with his name. -- it tell us his name. This is one | :32:12. | :32:17. | |
determined bike thief. He sets about this bike near the Elephant | :32:17. | :32:23. | |
and Castle in London last year. But the bike owners bought him and | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
chases him off. Or does he, a few minutes later and he is back for | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
another go. The owner sees him again and makes a desperate grab | :32:32. | :32:39. | |
for him, but it is too late, the thief is on his bike. Let's put an | :32:39. | :32:46. | |
end to his thieving ways. It will this year and it is a busy | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
day at his central London pub but this man does not seem interested | :32:50. | :32:56. | |
in the bar. He heads to the tables and settles down, but he is seen | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
fidgeting. He does the old court over the chair Craik and while it | :33:00. | :33:05. | |
looks like he is doing so -- looking for something in his own | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
code, C is rifling through the pockets of the man behind him. Help | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
us catch him. Give us a call if you know anything | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
about those images. 08000 468 999. Or text us on 63399. Text CW, space | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
and then your message. Please leave the space or your message will not | :33:20. | :33:28. | |
get through. Or email us. [email protected]. Back to Louise. | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
Earlier we set the South Wales diving team a challenge to find an | :33:31. | :33:41. | |
:33:41. | :33:46. | ||
air rifle I tossed into the river. How are you getting on? You have | :33:46. | :33:52. | |
got it? Brilliant, let's see. They will ask one of the men now to | :33:52. | :33:59. | |
surface. They it is. The air rifle with the diver. Magnificent work, | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
very well done. They did say that if it was in there to find, they | :34:04. | :34:10. | |
would find it. You were never in any doubt, were you? No. They are | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
pretty good. You told us how challenging these waters are, it is | :34:15. | :34:20. | |
tidal, we have discussed the mudflats, but what are conditions | :34:20. | :34:28. | |
like under there and how do the officers carry out research? Most | :34:28. | :34:33. | |
people will be familiar to the line search on land across the grass. It | :34:33. | :34:40. | |
is similar down there, painstaking, along the bottom, inch by inch. | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
Today they are using a very tight line, but they could use a weighted | :34:43. | :34:50. | |
line. What about communication? Today they are using a buddy system. | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
There is a transponder over the edge and they can speak a diver to | :34:55. | :35:05. | |
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diver and the surface. Here comes the rifle now. Thanks. It is a | :35:07. | :35:12. | |
needle in a haystack, stuff like this. A lot of training must going | :35:12. | :35:18. | |
to the officers? That is right, each diver does an eight-week | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
training course. As you say, it is painstaking, low visibility, and | :35:22. | :35:29. | |
the conditions make it a difficult job. He has done a grand job. He is | :35:29. | :35:33. | |
just being hosed down. At any time you can be called out, you're quite | :35:33. | :35:39. | |
busy? Yes, we look after four forces surrounding South Wales and | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
we can be called out at any time of the day or night. Thank you, | :35:43. | :35:47. | |
Sergeant. Now back to the story of metal | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
theft we featured earlier, and how technology is helping track down | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
stolen lead and copper. The results of a malicious break-in | :35:53. | :35:56. | |
at a community centre in the Gwent Valleys. Thieves have ripped out | :35:56. | :36:05. | |
copper. Scrap metal is worth a lot on the black market. Almost every | :36:05. | :36:07. | |
day Gwent police are dealing with metal theft. Today they have | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
launched an operation at a scrap yard near Pontypool where two | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
suspected thieves are questioned as they try to pass on some stolen | :36:13. | :36:23. | |
:36:23. | :36:25. | ||
lead. There is a fair bit of lead and it looks like it has come off a | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
roof. Both are taken into custody. Gwent police are aware of the | :36:28. | :36:31. | |
effect metal theft has on local communities. It is a crime they | :36:31. | :36:37. | |
take very seriously. Vans on the way now for those two. When we | :36:38. | :36:40. | |
arrived here there were a couple of people delivering scrap metal that | :36:41. | :36:45. | |
looks as though it has been stolen. So they have been arrested and | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
obviously we have seized quite a large amount of scrap lead this | :36:48. | :36:53. | |
morning. And in terms of the scrap metal dealer, what part does he | :36:53. | :37:00. | |
play in your investigations now? are using a new sort of thing at | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
the moment called SmartWater which shows up on the lead. The main | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
concern is that he has been using that to check the metals delivered | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
to him and he seems to be doing everything correctly. This | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
technology is a significant breakthrough in the detection of | :37:12. | :37:14. | |
stolen metal. It is a special liquid, detectable under | :37:14. | :37:17. | |
ultraviolet light, that allows the metal to be traced to its original | :37:17. | :37:25. | |
owner. There was lead found here today. Yes. And you've had a look | :37:25. | :37:34. | |
at that. What have you found? have found samples, what appears to | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
be SmartWater, that had been brushed onto lead which I suppose | :37:37. | :37:41. | |
has probably come off a roof. that then link the lead that we | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
find here to the exact roof that it would have come off? Yes, it can. | :37:44. | :37:48. | |
Under ultraviolet, that is SmartWater. Each bottle has its own | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
unique chemical combination registered to a particular owner. | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
It can be used on any type of building, offering reassurance that | :37:54. | :37:57. | |
if metal is stolen it could be identified and help secure a | :37:57. | :38:05. | |
prosecution. The lead found on the police raid was traced back to | :38:05. | :38:10. | |
Pontypool Market. We were told that some lead had been stolen and that | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
it has been found at the back of a car. We lost about a third of a | :38:15. | :38:17. | |
tonne of lead overnight which we later found the police have | :38:17. | :38:23. | |
recovered and have now since given back to us. The technology is so | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
good and so successful that we've now rolled it out across all the | :38:27. | :38:33. | |
buildings in the authority. These are tough times for all of us and | :38:33. | :38:36. | |
that includes the criminals but after what happened here today and | :38:36. | :38:38. | |
with the rise of innovative technology like SmartWater, police | :38:38. | :38:41. | |
hope that will send out a message to criminals, hat our homes, our | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
community centres and our churches will no longer be soft targets for | :38:44. | :38:53. | |
thieves. -- that our homes. Aron Craven is from SmartWater, the | :38:53. | :38:57. | |
system used to track down some of the stolen metal we saw in that | :38:57. | :39:07. | |
:39:07. | :39:07. | ||
report. Stallone metal is not just a problem for companies but | :39:07. | :39:13. | |
communities as well? -- stolen metal. Yes, there are known to | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
target utility companies and they take a small amount of metal and | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
did very little from it. But the impact on communities, you could | :39:21. | :39:27. | |
lose your broadband or your power. If you had a SmartWater solution on | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
the gun and that we saw it taken out of the River Wye there, would | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
you be able to trace it even though it has been taken out of muddy | :39:36. | :39:41. | |
water? Yes, we have successfully traced items taken from muddy | :39:41. | :39:49. | |
streams. How do you do it? It is very simple to spot, it glows | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
bright yellow under ultraviolet light. We send it to our | :39:53. | :39:58. | |
laboratories and check the result against air database. We can tell | :39:58. | :40:03. | |
where the need Bacher forensics solutions was registered to. The | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
police can use it as evidence because it links a criminal to a | :40:06. | :40:12. | |
specific crime scene. How can you make it so specific? We used a very | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
clever chemical formal and we have over 1 billion of those at our | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
disposal. There is an annual subscription for this technology, | :40:21. | :40:27. | |
but will the criminals not get wise to it? Our clients actively | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
publicise the fact that the use SmartWater on warning signs at the | :40:31. | :40:39. | |
site. It raises the fear factor for the offender. Hopefully it will | :40:39. | :40:44. | |
deter them from targeting our clients' premises. Have you any | :40:44. | :40:49. | |
evidence that it is? Yes, our clients report significant | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
reductions in metals that, but where they have been targeted, we | :40:53. | :40:59. | |
have been able to provide valuable evidence for prosecutions. Just an | :40:59. | :41:04. | |
update for today, we have had a great response from yesterday. We | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
had back -- we have had a response on the care home conman who struck | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
in Gloucestershire. The investigating officer is following | :41:13. | :41:19. | |
up. We have had information up on a wanted face from yesterday, here he | :41:19. | :41:27. | |
is. He is wanted it for conspiracy to supply drugs. We have also had | :41:27. | :41:34. | |
information on this man, who is part of Operation Return. Thank you | :41:34. | :41:40. | |
to everyone who got in touch. Miriam and Louise, what have you | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
got lined up for tomorrow? Rav, our all-action last week of the series | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
continues. We have had divers today and we're meeting up with the | :41:48. | :41:50. | |
helicops tomorrow. I've been given exclusive access to | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
the team and some of the footage it takes from hundreds of feet up. | :41:53. | :42:03. | |
:42:03. | :42:11. | ||
This is the helicopter that covers This is the main piece of equipment | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
on the aircraft. This is the forward-looking infra red camera. | :42:16. | :42:22. | |
Take it up, take it up. We have got this eye in the sky which is just | :42:22. | :42:29. | |
fantastic for us. You get that find that you know no-one would have | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
found without you. That is extremely rewarding. | :42:32. | :42:35. | |
And tomorrow, the helicopter should be touching down live on the | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
programme. That's at Kenfig Nature Reserve which over looks Swansea | :42:40. | :42:47. | |
Bay. We will see you tomorrow. Thank you, both. For more details | :42:47. | :42:49. | |
about the crimes on today's programme, go to | :42:49. | :42:52. |