:00:15. > :00:25.Today, on Crimewatch roadshow. The distraction theft scam that is
:00:25. > :00:45.
:00:45. > :00:48.sweeping the country. Now you see Hello, welcome to the final week of
:00:48. > :00:51.Crimewatch Roadshow, as ever, we are live today, we have had some
:00:51. > :00:54.great results so far. Six people arrested, but we want some more.
:00:54. > :01:00.Let's put criminal where is they belong, behind bars. On the
:01:00. > :01:05.programme this morning: A night out that ended in violence.
:01:05. > :01:11.Police need your help to find the men who attacked three students
:01:11. > :01:15.with a gun and CS gas. Predicting the next burglary, how
:01:15. > :01:21.police in Leeds know where thieves are going to strike next.
:01:21. > :01:25.And the quick-handed thief tarting your mobile phones.
:01:25. > :01:30.The rest of the roadshow team are travelling the country helping to
:01:30. > :01:34.solve crimes where you are, they are kicking off the week in Leeds,
:01:34. > :01:40.West Yorkshire. In charge there we have Dave. Where exactly are you?
:01:40. > :01:44.Good morning, we are on the Cramber Bank Estate in Leeds. They are
:01:44. > :01:48.pretty hot on neighbourhood policing in West Yorkshire. When
:01:48. > :01:51.this parade of shops became victim of a mini-crime wave, the police
:01:51. > :01:56.moved in with a special operation to combat T we will look at that
:01:56. > :02:01.later. Throughout this week I'm joined on the road by reporter
:02:01. > :02:05.Nicola Reece, she covers this patch for BBC Look North. From inside the
:02:05. > :02:08.community centre we are today. A little later I'll be on the
:02:08. > :02:13.frontline with police officers in the area, as they crack down on
:02:13. > :02:16.drugs, burglaries and a bit of sheep rustling.
:02:16. > :02:22.Our first appeal, pay attention and watch carefully, this is a crime
:02:22. > :02:25.that could happen to any of us. I felt really frustrated at myself
:02:25. > :02:29.like I should have known what was going on t had lots of pictures and
:02:29. > :02:33.video was my two-year-old child, I won't get it back. It is a
:02:33. > :02:36.distraction type of offence, they are asking for directions or
:02:36. > :02:44.begging for a money saying they need money for an operation so,
:02:44. > :02:48.people are engaged in conversation. A busy afternoon at Cafe Nero in
:02:48. > :02:53.hudles field in May this year. It is a convenient area for Sarah to
:02:53. > :02:56.get together with a colleague. had the laptop out doing a bit of
:02:56. > :03:02.work. Waiting for an important call from her husband, Sarah had her
:03:02. > :03:11.mobile phone out on the table. Unbeknown to her, a thief was
:03:11. > :03:19.operating in town that day and on the prowl for his next victim.
:03:19. > :03:22.He has had a full walk around Cafe Nero, and looking for mobile
:03:22. > :03:31.telephones. He has seen Sarah's mobile phone on the table, and he
:03:31. > :03:34.has purposely targeted Sarah. He came over, he had, what I
:03:34. > :03:38.detected as a European accent. I was trying to establish really what
:03:38. > :03:42.was wrong, what he wanted. Trying to look at this piece of paper,
:03:42. > :03:45.which was some kind of certificate. I asked him if he was asking for
:03:45. > :03:54.money, because the two things were clicking together. And he pointed
:03:54. > :03:59.to his eye saying he needed an eye operation. Obbliftkwrous what the
:03:59. > :04:03.man is really doing, -- Oblivious to what the man is really doing,
:04:03. > :04:09.Sarah tries to get rid of him. explained we were in a work meeting,
:04:09. > :04:12.and I should go, it took only 30 seconds for him to come over to us.
:04:12. > :04:18.Thinking the incident was nothing more than an annoyance, the women
:04:18. > :04:22.continued to work. It was only really an hour later I
:04:22. > :04:25.realised what happened, while he was asking me those questions and
:04:25. > :04:31.distracting me, the piece of paper he was holding out was actually
:04:31. > :04:36.covering my phone. The thief had brazenly stolen Sarah's �250 phone,
:04:36. > :04:39.from right under her nose. He was very confident when he was doing T
:04:39. > :04:43.he maintained eye contact with me the entire time. It was very
:04:43. > :04:49.difficult to tell the that he was doing anything at all. However, the
:04:49. > :04:54.thief had no idea that his con had been caught on camera.
:04:54. > :04:57.This footage shows the crime taking place. Sarah's phone is clearly on
:04:57. > :05:02.the table before the man speaks to her. But then, just moments later,
:05:02. > :05:06.as he leaves, her phone is gone. is like a magic trick. They are
:05:06. > :05:09.very clever at what they. Do they are going up to the victim,
:05:09. > :05:13.distracting them, either by talking to them or putting their hand on
:05:13. > :05:17.their shoulder, and they put the piece of paper over the property,
:05:17. > :05:22.they actually take the property away, so it is very clever and very
:05:22. > :05:25.quick. I took it at face value, I didn't for one second suspect this
:05:25. > :05:29.was something coming over to steal something off me. The loss of her
:05:29. > :05:33.phone was more than just an inconvenience to Sarah. The thief
:05:34. > :05:37.had walked away with her most precious photographs. Today your
:05:37. > :05:43.phone is more than something to ring people on t had lots of
:05:43. > :05:49.pictures and videos of my two-year- old child, which I won't get back.
:05:49. > :05:52.They were really great moment his captured forever, that I hadn't
:05:52. > :05:55.downloaded, and has got those, to have someone else having those
:05:55. > :05:58.images of my child is really upsetting. It is really upsetting
:05:58. > :06:06.that I personally don't have access to those memories any more, they
:06:06. > :06:13.are in my head and I can't share them with anybody else.
:06:13. > :06:17.Serpbt Mandy Mallor is the officer investigating this case, and we
:06:17. > :06:22.think that this man might be operating as part of a group?
:06:22. > :06:26.have had many offences around the Huddersfield Town centre and
:06:26. > :06:31.descriptions of people involved, we believe it is a team of people
:06:31. > :06:35.committing these distraction thefts. We heard it described as a magic
:06:35. > :06:38.trick, it was pretty brazen, isn't it? The suspect is entering the
:06:38. > :06:41.cafe and distracting the person with a piece of paper, they are
:06:41. > :06:46.putting the piece of paper over the mobile phone, and stealing the
:06:46. > :06:49.mobile phone and taking the paper away. We know this wasn't the first
:06:49. > :06:54.time that man had done this, we have footage of the same man n the
:06:54. > :07:00.same cafe a week later. We see him strolling in, talking to people,
:07:00. > :07:03.touching people, he has that piece of paper in his hand and he steals
:07:04. > :07:08.another phone from another customer? We have had a few
:07:08. > :07:13.incidents in CafeEr in ro, on the day of the offence against Sarah he
:07:13. > :07:17.was wearing a distinctive jacket, one of the arms was white and one
:07:17. > :07:23.purple. I appeal to anyone knowing someone with this jacket, to
:07:23. > :07:29.contact the police. This is the kind of phone arra had, if you were
:07:29. > :07:35.offered this at a knockdown -- Sarah had, if you were offered this
:07:35. > :07:40.at knockdown price let the police know. Sarah had a Samsung Galaxy,
:07:40. > :07:45.this had life moments on for Sarah, I urge anyone with any information
:07:45. > :07:50.to contact the police. A brazen act, you know the effect on Sarah's life,
:07:50. > :07:53.you know what to do if you can help on this.
:07:53. > :08:02.Time for today's wanted faces. These are the people police would
:08:02. > :08:06.really like you to find. First up, this guy, Neil Ian Van Acre, he's
:08:06. > :08:09.wanted for conspiracy to supply controlled drugs. He has
:08:09. > :08:17.connections to Merseyside and Holland. He's broadly built, and
:08:17. > :08:22.the symbol of Liverpool, the liver bird tattooed on his left arm. Next,
:08:22. > :08:26.30-year-old Wayne Michael Jackson, he's wanted by officers for
:08:26. > :08:33.absconding from prison and burglary offences. He's six foot three tall,
:08:33. > :08:37.with a Liverpudlian accent, he has the name, "Lee" tattooed on his arm
:08:37. > :08:41.E has connections to great Manchester and Southampton. Jason
:08:41. > :08:46.Chadwick, he was due to appear before Chester Crown Court on fraud
:08:46. > :08:49.charges in 2009, but didn't turn up. Detectives believe he's likely to
:08:49. > :08:52.be staying in Bed & Breakfast accommodation, caravans or hotels,
:08:52. > :09:01.he has connections to the Blackpool, Manchester and Cheshire areas. If
:09:01. > :09:07.you know where he is, let us know. Last one for today, Ceri Wilmot,
:09:07. > :09:11.he's wanted for questioning in Merseyside for conspiracy to supply
:09:11. > :09:20.controlled drugs, he is has connections to the south of England
:09:20. > :09:22.E as a distinctive tattoo on his back "Tafi made in Wales", and on
:09:23. > :09:32.his right foot. If you recognise any of these faces and know where
:09:33. > :09:33.
:09:33. > :09:38.they are, call the numbers on the screen.
:09:38. > :09:42.Leave the space in your text number or the message won't get to us.
:09:42. > :09:46.Back to Nicola in Leeds now. We're here in West Yorkshire for
:09:46. > :09:49.the next few days, this is an area I know really well, I cover and
:09:50. > :09:52.report from this area every day on the local news programme. I know
:09:52. > :09:58.what a busy patch this is for police. Here is just a flavour of
:09:58. > :10:03.some of the work they do. It is not all Last of the Summer
:10:03. > :10:06.Wine, and picturesque countryside around here. This is the frontline
:10:06. > :10:11.reality of policing in West Yorkshire. It is one of the great
:10:11. > :10:15.urban areas of England. 2.2 million people spread across the cities of
:10:15. > :10:19.Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield, together with smaller towns like
:10:19. > :10:24.Halifax and Huddersfield. This region's seen everything from
:10:24. > :10:30.kidnap cases to serial murders. Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire
:10:30. > :10:36.ripper, was convicted in 1981 and in 2008, Karen Matthews was found
:10:36. > :10:40.guilty of kidnapping her own daughter, Shannon. Please come home
:10:40. > :10:45.Shannon. Two successes for the West Yorkshire Police, that put them in
:10:45. > :10:49.the national spotlight. Policing isn't something you can do at a
:10:49. > :10:53.distance, you can only do it at the heart of the community with the
:10:54. > :10:58.consent and support of the community. In the murky world of
:10:58. > :11:00.drug crime, West Yorkshire is getting ahead of the dealers, using
:11:00. > :11:04.information directly from the communities blighted by the problem.
:11:04. > :11:07.The main thrust of it was to put the fear back on the toes of the
:11:07. > :11:10.criminals. I feel we have achieved that today. We have a drugs problem,
:11:10. > :11:15.and drug dealers use firearms to exert their authority, it is
:11:15. > :11:20.worrying for the public. Like every other police force, West
:11:20. > :11:23.Yorkshire is facing big cuts to its funding. But the Chief Constable's
:11:23. > :11:29.determined this won't affect the way they police. What I can tell
:11:29. > :11:33.the people of West Yorkshire is, that the 2,000 bobbies out in the
:11:33. > :11:38.neighbourhood policing teams, are there to be visible, accessible and
:11:38. > :11:41.familiar in the local communities of West Yorkshire.
:11:41. > :11:45.This parade of shops is pretty much like a parade of shops you would
:11:45. > :11:49.find in many towns. Like many of those parades they have had their
:11:49. > :11:53.fair share of anti-social behaviour year. Problems with gangs of youths
:11:53. > :11:58.hanging around outside, customers feeling intimidated, vandalism,
:11:58. > :12:02.theft. The pizza place down there had its window shot with an air
:12:02. > :12:08.rifle. Eventually the police and community decided enough was enough
:12:08. > :12:14.and wanted to do something about it. You decided to put hidden CCTV
:12:14. > :12:19.cameras around this area. Why hidden one, I thought they were
:12:19. > :12:26.supposed to be on view for people? People were reluctant to give crime
:12:26. > :12:30.and statements which would be used to prosecute offenders. Is it
:12:30. > :12:34.ethically acceptable? We needed to do something covertly, and using
:12:34. > :12:39.cameras like that is tightly regulated. You caught people doing
:12:39. > :12:44.things, what was the result of it? We issued ten warrants and arrested
:12:45. > :12:50.15 people. We made a six-minute DVD of the anti-social behaviour
:12:50. > :12:53.activities going on here, we showed it to the parents and the young
:12:53. > :12:59.people involved. Some of the parents were visibly shaken by what
:12:59. > :13:03.they saw. Is it continuing? We have received funding for lifetime
:13:03. > :13:09.cameras, much better over CCTV, which will prevent crime in the
:13:09. > :13:14.future and instill confidence in the public. Have you reduced crime?
:13:14. > :13:17.We have, April to June compared to last year anti-social behaviour has
:13:17. > :13:20.dropped 06% in this area. People are saying they feel safer, which
:13:20. > :13:23.is important, to keep the communities strong. Thank you very
:13:23. > :13:26.much indeed. Nicola's now inside with one of the
:13:26. > :13:30.local residents to see what they think.
:13:30. > :13:34.Janet Pike, you run the community centre here on the estate. You have
:13:34. > :13:38.had your fair share of problems over the years, at one point you
:13:39. > :13:45.were burgled twice within a two- week period? It was a while ago now,
:13:45. > :13:50.but most of the shops on the parade were burgled. They use the same
:13:50. > :13:53.modus oprand die, by throwing a brick through the kitchen window.
:13:53. > :13:58.First they took the safe through the window, two weeks later they
:13:58. > :14:02.came back and took the computers and the cameras. It is devastating,
:14:02. > :14:05.we are such a small charity serving the community to think someone in
:14:05. > :14:09.the community is doing that. This is before the cameras went up,
:14:09. > :14:12.obviously they are up now, how have the community responded to this, do
:14:12. > :14:18.they feel they are being spied on? I don't think so, everybody feels a
:14:18. > :14:22.lot safer. We certainly. Do we have had to put back the safety grills,
:14:22. > :14:26.but I think it is serving the community to be able to catch the
:14:27. > :14:31.criminals who were stealing from it. Thank you very much for talking to
:14:31. > :14:36.us. Time to go back to the studio. Time for a progress report on some
:14:36. > :14:40.of our appeals, thanks to you we're getting results. On Wednesday we
:14:40. > :14:43.asked for information on a theft from a mosque in Newport, South
:14:43. > :14:48.Wales. After the programme we were contacted by a police officer in
:14:48. > :14:53.Plymouth who thought he recognised the suspect we showed on CCTV.
:14:53. > :14:56.Since then 43-year-old Anthony Cheek, has been charged in relation
:14:56. > :15:02.to this crime and 34 other offences. Another good result, after we
:15:02. > :15:05.showed you some CCTV of alleged theft in the Uxbridge area of
:15:05. > :15:07.London a31-year-old woman handed herself in at the Police Station.
:15:07. > :15:13.She was charged with theft and will attend the Magistrates' Court later
:15:13. > :15:16.this month. Still to come this morning, on Crimewatch Roadshow.
:15:16. > :15:21.A frightening attack, which left three students fearing for their
:15:21. > :15:27.lives. And predicting the next burglary.
:15:27. > :15:31.How police in Leeds know where thieves are going to strike next.
:15:31. > :15:36.But first, have a look at these crooks on CCTV, in case you spot
:15:36. > :15:42.someone you know. Just to warn you, there are some really nasty
:15:42. > :15:45.incidents here. It is gone midnight outside the
:15:45. > :15:50.Posh Nightclub in Burnley, Lancashire, December last year.
:15:50. > :15:56.Here is a guy who could do with a few lessons in etiquette. He has
:15:56. > :16:00.been thrown out. Things get heated and he leaves. But then seven
:16:00. > :16:06.minutes later he's back. Standing in the queue this time, there he is.
:16:06. > :16:10.As soon as he gets to the front, he takes his chance and throws a punch,
:16:10. > :16:14.leaving the doorman with a broken jaw. These are clear pictures f you
:16:14. > :16:19.know this nightclub brawler, get on the phone.
:16:19. > :16:24.Just after Christmas last year, in the tower jam lets area of London,
:16:24. > :16:30.and the fest -- tower hamlets area of London, and the festive spirit
:16:30. > :16:34.is gone on the 22 from Ilford. Look at the man there as he tries to
:16:34. > :16:37.snatch a mobile phone from a passenger. The victim does his best
:16:37. > :16:45.to hang on to it but gets punched for his trouble. The thug leg it is
:16:45. > :16:48.off the bus, he got away with it this time, but let's make sure he
:16:48. > :16:54.doesn't get away with it again. A night in February in Southwark. As
:16:54. > :17:00.a woman walks along the street, the CCTV picks up a man cycling behind
:17:00. > :17:05.her. Then in random and unprovoked
:17:05. > :17:12.attack, he stops, punching her three times until she falls to the
:17:12. > :17:18.floor. The camera then shows him cycling away, and the victim lying
:17:18. > :17:23.in the street. As he makes his getaway, he removes his hood. Theam
:17:23. > :17:29.glance arrives, the woman had to undergo -- the ambulance arrives,
:17:29. > :17:38.the woman had to undergeoemergency surgery and left in a coma for
:17:38. > :17:44.three days, this man if you know him tell us. We need names. Now
:17:44. > :17:49.back to nick LA You can, of course, catch criminals
:17:49. > :17:53.the good old fashioned way by putting bobbies on the beat, on
:17:53. > :17:56.streets like this, in the hope of catching them in the act. That is
:17:56. > :17:59.time-consuming and, even more nowadays t costs a lot of money as
:17:59. > :18:04.well. Here in West Yorkshire, the police are trying a high-tech new
:18:04. > :18:09.computer system which, they hope will dramatically reduce crime. We
:18:09. > :18:12.all dread coming home to find our house has been burgled. Almost
:18:12. > :18:15.800,000 break-ins were reported in the UK last year. But in some parts
:18:15. > :18:19.of Leeds, they are happening at three-times the national average.
:18:20. > :18:24.Which means clamping down on the thieves and those who receive their
:18:24. > :18:28.stolen goods, has to be a priority for the police here.
:18:28. > :18:33.We received recent reliable intelligence to suggest that the
:18:33. > :18:37.shop owner is actively sourcing stolen goods. It is 7.00am, and
:18:37. > :18:40.these officers are getting ready to raid a secondhand shop in Leeds,
:18:40. > :18:46.where they believe the owner has been involved in receiving stolen
:18:46. > :18:49.goods. The shop is opened at 9.30am, it is not perceived that any
:18:49. > :18:54.customers will be present, make sure you are wearing stab vests.
:18:54. > :18:57.One of the most effective ways to track burglars is to track down the
:18:57. > :19:01.goods they have stolen, which is why evidence gaergd on raids like
:19:01. > :19:04.this is so important. The officers go in as soon as the shop opens,
:19:04. > :19:08.and the owner is arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen
:19:08. > :19:12.property. For your safety and mine, I will cuff you, OK.'S In the
:19:12. > :19:16.process of being arrested. Behind me you can see police officers are
:19:16. > :19:20.now searching the shop. This is very much a traditional form of
:19:20. > :19:24.policing, they receive information and they track down the suspects.
:19:24. > :19:28.And whilst this traditional form of policing is very effective, police
:19:28. > :19:32.in North West Leeds are getting one step ahead of the burglars, by
:19:32. > :19:39.using a revolutionary new system, which aims to stop the break-ins
:19:39. > :19:44.happening in the first place. This is Operation optimal, and in
:19:44. > :19:49.the three months that these computer boffins have been at work,
:19:49. > :19:54.the number of reported break-ins has gone down by a dramatic 25%.
:19:54. > :19:57.This is the intelligence centre for the Leeds authority, where police,
:19:57. > :20:00.local authority work together, analysing intelligence, and
:20:00. > :20:05.obviously planning how we are going to combat some of the issues around
:20:05. > :20:09.crime within Leeds. This is how it works. Every single
:20:09. > :20:14.burglary in North West Leeds is logged, then, by analysing three
:20:14. > :20:18.weeks worth of break-ins, the computer produces maps which can
:20:18. > :20:23.predict where the next hot spots will be, street by street, hour by
:20:23. > :20:27.hour. The optimal project is emerging new technology, -- it is a
:20:27. > :20:32.merging of new technology with good old fashioned policing techniques.
:20:32. > :20:37.It gives us a precise steer on how we deploy our officers and where.
:20:37. > :20:43.Once the danger zones have been identified by the optimal computer
:20:43. > :20:48.programme, patrols are sent out by control room to saturate those
:20:48. > :20:51.areas. The computer is using the exact times and locations of
:20:51. > :20:54.burglaries to forecast where the next crimes will take place. This
:20:54. > :20:57.is the map produced at the moment. The red bits you can see are
:20:57. > :21:05.patrols, police patrol that is have been deployed to streets where the
:21:05. > :21:10.thieves are likely to strike next. Optimal is based on the premise
:21:10. > :21:14.that burglars are like foraging animals, always returning to the
:21:14. > :21:18.richest feeding ground. Most burglars are lazy and like familiar
:21:18. > :21:23.surroundings. Which means if they feel comfortable in the area, they
:21:23. > :21:27.know the area and the escape routes and the houses, there is a good
:21:27. > :21:33.chance they will return to the same area, time and time again to commit
:21:33. > :21:37.offences. Later we will be out on the road with the Optimal teams as
:21:37. > :21:41.they patrol Leeds. You saw in the film there police officers using
:21:41. > :21:45.one of these, it is a hand held scanner, and it allows you to track
:21:45. > :21:50.down stolen goods, such as mobile phones and computers. Let's find
:21:50. > :21:54.out a bit more about how it works. I will hand it to you, tell as you
:21:54. > :21:59.little bit about how it works? we do any raids of secondhand shops
:21:59. > :22:02.or house searches, we can scan them with the barcode and find out
:22:02. > :22:07.straight away if they are lost and stolen. What do you need to do if
:22:07. > :22:09.you have equipment at home, and worth a lot of money a computer or
:22:09. > :22:16.mobile phone, how to you register it? Anything with a barcode you
:22:16. > :22:21.have in your house, TVs, laptops, anything like that, if you register
:22:21. > :22:25.the barcode on to immobilise.com, it will be on the national database
:22:25. > :22:28.and the police will have access to it. You have brought a stolen phone
:22:28. > :22:33.with you today, show us how it works then? We will scan the phone,
:22:33. > :22:38.that is the barcode t tell uss on this screen here, that the -- it
:22:38. > :22:42.tells us on the screen here that the barcode tells us it is a mobile
:22:42. > :22:46.phone stolen from south Yorkshire, it is west Yorkshire, and stolen
:22:46. > :22:52.property does get about. The owner will get it back, and the inquiry
:22:52. > :22:56.is on going, and the owner will get it back. You have details of when
:22:56. > :22:59.they had it stolen and name and address, what do you do to return
:22:59. > :23:02.it? We have it in our property now, it is out of the hands of the thief,
:23:02. > :23:06.at the conclusion of the investigation they will get the
:23:06. > :23:09.phone back. What was life like for you before you got this gadget, it
:23:09. > :23:13.seems to have really improved things? It was quite time-consuming,
:23:13. > :23:19.really, we would have to put everything manually into a computer,
:23:19. > :23:24.if you are doing a secondhand shop with thousand of computers and TVs
:23:24. > :23:29.it will ages. Now we can scan them, and it scans every 24 hours to
:23:29. > :23:32.check if it is stolen since I have scanned it. It is slowly working,
:23:32. > :23:35.there is not that many people registered and you are keen to get
:23:35. > :23:41.more people on-line? The more people on-line the more successful
:23:41. > :23:46.it will be, it is still in early stages in West Yorkshire, and
:23:46. > :23:51.people need to register on immobilise.com, and people can do
:23:51. > :23:54.that today. Get on-line, register your goods, back do you.
:23:54. > :23:58.Wet put a link to that on the website.
:23:58. > :24:03.If you are on a computer, registering your mobile phone, why
:24:03. > :24:06.not have a look at the on-line map that allows you to check crime in
:24:06. > :24:13.your area, at least in England and Wales.
:24:13. > :24:17.Joining me is David from the national policing unit. Tell us
:24:17. > :24:20.about the cripe map what it is and how we work it? It enables the
:24:20. > :24:23.public to go on-line and have a look at the crimes occurring in
:24:23. > :24:27.their local yafrplt what is exciting for us, we have launch
:24:27. > :24:30.have the ability to look at crime outcomes, people can go on-line and
:24:30. > :24:35.look at the crimes have happened, and look at the action the police
:24:35. > :24:39.have taken and what the courts have done subsequently. We have the
:24:39. > :24:43.postcode for the CF5 here, that is where we are in Cardiff. If we just
:24:43. > :24:48.click on here, this is a map that I brought up of the area around where
:24:48. > :24:51.we are right now here in Wales. There is a number of figures and
:24:51. > :24:56.numbers here, talk me through it here.
:24:56. > :25:01.The point point you have located, goes out one-mile radius. You can
:25:01. > :25:04.see in the last month, or in the month of April, there were 230
:25:04. > :25:08.crimes that have occurred in that crimes that have occurred in that
:25:08. > :25:11.area. You can see a number of black dots with a number attached to them,
:25:11. > :25:15.if you click on any of those it will take you down to street level
:25:15. > :25:19.and help you see where the crimes have occurred, and which streets
:25:19. > :25:22.the crimes have taken place, if you hit on the outcomes associated with,
:25:22. > :25:27.that can you see what action the police have taken, and what happens
:25:27. > :25:29.when the case goes to court. This is really important for us. If
:25:29. > :25:34.enables local communities to hold their police to account. Later this
:25:34. > :25:40.year, when there will be an elected police and crime commissioner, it
:25:40. > :25:42.basically means the police will be -- able to see what crimes are
:25:42. > :25:46.being commited and holding people to account. Which is the objective.
:25:47. > :25:50.As simple as this, we have here the overall crime statistics for the
:25:50. > :25:54.area we are in, if I click there, we can actually even see the
:25:54. > :25:58.progress and outcomes of what is happening with those crimes. That
:25:58. > :26:01.is a new addition to this? That is what we have launched this month,
:26:01. > :26:04.at any one time you can see what has happened to the crimes that
:26:04. > :26:07.have been displayed on the site, what action the police have taken,
:26:07. > :26:11.and what happens to those cases when they subsequently go to court.
:26:11. > :26:16.That is brilliant wrecks can see here, for example, we have all --
:26:16. > :26:20.brilliant, we canly seer, for example, still under investigation
:26:20. > :26:24.141, 11 charges here. These are the things that surely people will want
:26:24. > :26:28.to see. It is fantastic. That is very general area. You can actually
:26:28. > :26:32.zoom in a bit closer? You can take that down to street level. That is
:26:32. > :26:36.the big difference here. You can put a postcode in, as you can see
:26:36. > :26:40.from that, within a one-mile radius you can see what has happened. You
:26:40. > :26:45.can look at particular streets. Also you can go on and look at
:26:45. > :26:47.parks, or certain roads, public houses, places like that, where
:26:47. > :26:51.there is a particular point of interest, and then the public can
:26:51. > :26:56.look to see what the relevance of that particular location is. When
:26:56. > :27:01.you say street level, there will be people who think this is a bit
:27:01. > :27:05.intrusive, and identify homes and brem misses from victims? That is
:27:05. > :27:09.not the point, -- Premises of victims? That is not the point, we
:27:09. > :27:13.have made sure that won't happen. You can see crimes that have
:27:13. > :27:17.occurred within eight postcodes, not one postcode, you are seeing a
:27:17. > :27:20.crime that happened on or another that location. That way you can see
:27:20. > :27:23.the information and we can present it in a way that is useful, but at
:27:23. > :27:26.the same time we preserve people's privacy. That is really important,
:27:26. > :27:30.I think it is an absolutely fantastic thing, it is very easy to
:27:30. > :27:32.use, I'm not very good at computers and I can use it. It is brilliant.
:27:32. > :27:40.Thank you for joining us this morning.
:27:40. > :27:44.morning. Let's go back over to Dave in Leeds.
:27:44. > :27:51.Now to the frightening story of what happened to three students as
:27:51. > :27:55.they headed home after a night out iners field. You knew they were
:27:55. > :28:01.there and following us. In my head it was like is this really
:28:01. > :28:08.happening to me. It was only a second for me seeing
:28:08. > :28:12.the gun to deciding to grab it. Huddersfield Town centre, on the
:28:12. > :28:16.24th of April this year. It had been a typical night out for these
:28:16. > :28:20.three students, who were looking forward to the end of their degree
:28:20. > :28:25.course, after four years of study. A few drinks had turned into a late
:28:25. > :28:29.finish. And, at about 3.00am, they set off home, along a route their
:28:29. > :28:34.university advises students to take. There is no reason for us to be on
:28:34. > :28:38.edge, or paranoid that someone's following us, or someone's going to
:28:38. > :28:42.jump out and try to mug us or attack us. It has never happened
:28:42. > :28:47.before, you never really hear about it in that area. But little did
:28:47. > :28:52.they know, that nearby, two men had every intention of making sure
:28:52. > :28:55.their night out didn't end happily. And it was when the students
:28:55. > :29:03.reached this road, that the two began to follow them.
:29:03. > :29:06.We were just crossing over the bridge, and Luo, said to me, -- Luo,
:29:06. > :29:10.said he thinks the guys were following us, we turned around to
:29:10. > :29:14.have a look. They looked shifty. I didn't get a good look at them, but
:29:14. > :29:17.they had their hoods up, maybe about 100 yards behind us.
:29:17. > :29:20.Eventually Lewis managed to convince his friends that they were
:29:20. > :29:25.being followed, and they quickly came up with a plan. The plan was
:29:25. > :29:30.to walk up to the street that our house is on, but not go to our
:29:30. > :29:35.house directly, we didn't want them to follow us to our door. But the
:29:35. > :29:39.two men weren't that easily fooled. We turned into our street, I hear
:29:39. > :29:44.them shout behind us. They ran at us and said give us your wallet and
:29:44. > :29:50.your phone. With that one of them produced a gun. But even when he
:29:50. > :29:55.was confronted by what appeared tob a firearm, ar Ron -- to be a
:29:55. > :29:59.firearm, Arron decided he wasn't going to give in that easily.
:29:59. > :30:03.was stood so close to me I didn't consider it a threat i just tried
:30:03. > :30:07.to grab it off him straight away. It was like a split second decision.
:30:07. > :30:11.The guy himself was a bit smaller than me, I thought I could maybe
:30:11. > :30:15.have him. Whilst Arron was locked in battle with the armed man, his
:30:16. > :30:22.friend Lewis saw an opportunity to raise the alarm. The second attack
:30:22. > :30:26.her picked out Thomas as his victim. He said he had this gas and will
:30:26. > :30:31.spray it in my face. I didn't want to give him my stuff. I didn't
:30:31. > :30:34.believe I was in that much danger, so I stood there.
:30:34. > :30:41.Despite his frantic attempts to get help from their neighbour, Lewis
:30:41. > :30:46.failed to get a reply, by that time, events had taken an even more
:30:46. > :30:52.dramatic turn for Arron. He didn't expect me to take the gun at all,
:30:52. > :30:55.he hit me around the head and again, then he realised his mistake in
:30:55. > :31:00.getting too close. At that point the assaliant pointed the gun
:31:00. > :31:07.straight at Arron. I thought what can I afford to lose,
:31:07. > :31:13.I went to my pocket, and I had a couple of quid in spare change, I
:31:13. > :31:17.threw them at him. I don't know if he knew what I had thrown at him,
:31:17. > :31:24.or he was freaked out thinking I was a bit of a nut. He didn't do
:31:24. > :31:30.anything, he bolted straight away. The impression we got is they
:31:30. > :31:35.weren't very used to doing this. I can't really describe how angry I
:31:35. > :31:40.feel towards them, it sickens me. I'm more worried they will get
:31:40. > :31:43.confident and go out and do it again. The next people won't be as
:31:43. > :31:48.lucky. I'm more cautious, I walk quickly and check behind me. It was
:31:48. > :31:55.shocking to see a gun. You see them in films and stuff. But to see it
:31:55. > :32:01.in the flesh was scary. The investigating officer is here
:32:01. > :32:04.now. One of the worrying aspects of this is the use of a gun and CS gas
:32:04. > :32:07.cannister? Arron didn't believe it was a real gun, but the only person
:32:07. > :32:11.who knows the answer to that question is the suspect. Real or
:32:11. > :32:15.not, this thing is ount the street, it is frightening -- out on the
:32:15. > :32:20.street. It is frightening for people if it is pointed in your
:32:20. > :32:24.face? It is important to get that off the streets. There were two men
:32:24. > :32:28.around at the time, why do you want to talk to them? Those two men are
:32:28. > :32:32.in the right person at the right time, they are vital to my
:32:32. > :32:36.investigation. They might have seen or heard something? Absolutely.
:32:36. > :32:40.have CCTV pictures, it is only a brief clip, we can see the guy on
:32:40. > :32:45.the right is wearing a jacket with a large logo which is distinctive.
:32:45. > :32:52.Yes, Arron and his friends also describe a jacket that is too large
:32:52. > :32:56.for the wearer. Basically, those two people you would like them to
:32:56. > :33:00.come forward. This is a residential area a busy area, presumably
:33:00. > :33:05.somebody must have seen something coming home that night, or maybe
:33:05. > :33:11.woken up by the incident outside? It happened at 3.30am on Tuesday
:33:11. > :33:15.24th of April, they made a lot of noise to raise the alarm. You need
:33:15. > :33:17.to track these guys before they do this to somebody else, and
:33:17. > :33:21.something more serious than that. Thank you very much. You have seen
:33:21. > :33:27.the images, if you recognise the guys, if you are the guys, please
:33:27. > :33:31.come forward. You can contact anonymously on this case on the
:33:31. > :33:39.numbers below. Next, more dodgy dealings caught on
:33:39. > :33:42.CCTV. Lunchtime, April this year in
:33:42. > :33:47.Woking, Surrey. Two men and a woman enter a pub. They find a table
:33:47. > :33:52.behind a small group, who are sitting together. This man reaches
:33:52. > :33:57.into the Tote on the chair behind him, and takes out a purse. He
:33:57. > :34:01.removes some cash, before replacing it. He moves chairs before rumaging
:34:01. > :34:05.in the other jacket pocket. After just four minutes the group leave
:34:05. > :34:12.the bar. They get away with �90 in cash and a mobile phone. Someone
:34:12. > :34:17.must know them. Give us a ring.
:34:17. > :34:22.May this year, a Post Office in Uxbridge Middlesex. An elderly
:34:22. > :34:28.woman sits at the counter writing a birthday card, when suddenly there
:34:28. > :34:32.is a crowd around her. And while she's distracted, the bloke behind
:34:32. > :34:41.her leans over and grabs her purse out of her bag.
:34:41. > :34:48.It has �50 in it. She soon realise it's gone and the theft is reported
:34:48. > :34:53.only 13 minutes later. Help police catch this mean purse snatcher, by
:34:53. > :34:58.telling us his name. May this year, Ruislip in Middlesex. This man's
:34:58. > :35:00.about to fit a device to a cashpoint machine intended to steal
:35:00. > :35:05.people's cards, and film them entering their pin numbers. Let's
:35:05. > :35:09.see him again. He filmed this footage himself, with his own
:35:09. > :35:13.camera, thank you very much. He fits the device to the machine.
:35:13. > :35:17.He stick it is over the key pad. This time it was intercepted by
:35:17. > :35:27.police before any cards were stolen. If you know this cashpoint chancer,
:35:27. > :35:27.
:35:27. > :35:33.key our number in. Don't forget you can see the CCTV and faces on the
:35:34. > :35:36.website. Now, back to Operation Optimal, the
:35:37. > :35:42.campaign to reduce crime on the streets of Leeds.
:35:42. > :35:46.The control room for Operation Optimal, it is the West Yorkshire
:35:46. > :35:51.Police force's new crime fighting tool. A computer the police claim
:35:51. > :35:55.can predict crime, and more importantly, stop it happening.
:35:55. > :35:58.The system has just been updated with details of the most recent
:35:58. > :36:01.burglaries across North West Leeds. But rather than just sending an
:36:01. > :36:04.officer to the scene of the crime. This system is designed to stop
:36:04. > :36:08.more crime happening in the same area.
:36:08. > :36:12.The idea is based on something the police have long known. When
:36:12. > :36:17.something like a burglary happens, a new crime is likely to occur soon
:36:17. > :36:20.afterwards, and close to where the first one happens. What we are find
:36:20. > :36:24.anything the 13 weeks since we started, is we are sustaining
:36:24. > :36:30.significant reductions, some of the areas have seen reductions of up to
:36:30. > :36:35.60%. Since we implemented Operation Optimal. I have been working on
:36:35. > :36:40.burglary on and off throughout most of my career. I have never seen
:36:40. > :36:45.anything as accurate as this before. It's getting dark, and the Optimal
:36:45. > :36:49.team have been deployed to Armley in North West Leeds, this area has
:36:49. > :36:55.been identified by the system as the latest, late night burglary hot
:36:55. > :36:59.spot. According to the scenes of optimal, in order to -- science of
:36:59. > :37:02.Optimal, in order to stop break-ins, police have to be on the streets
:37:03. > :37:06.identified by the computer at exactly the time it says. The idea
:37:06. > :37:10.is to saturate the area where it is identified there is likely to be
:37:10. > :37:16.aburgry, for example the hot spot area of the peak times where
:37:17. > :37:26.burglaries have been occurring. I have been to a number of
:37:26. > :37:30.burglaries over the past few days, it has turned into an Optimal area,
:37:30. > :37:35.between 8.00-12.00am. Patrolling the hot spot areas we like to get
:37:35. > :37:40.out on foot. Patrolling these dark back streets where you don't
:37:41. > :37:47.normally get vehicles down, we like to check windows, doors, all the
:37:47. > :37:53.dark areas where people could be hiding or burgling, a prime example.
:37:53. > :37:57.Hello. There is some people breaking into
:37:57. > :38:01.houses in this area, if you close this window when you are not in the
:38:01. > :38:04.room t stops people from sneaking in, taking your things, and then
:38:04. > :38:09.run ago I way. Bear that in mind for the future, OK. OK, OK. Thank
:38:09. > :38:15.you very much. Thank you, cheers.
:38:15. > :38:20.Even though the main Optimal deployments tend to be at night,
:38:20. > :38:30.the predictive reports cover 24- hour periods. The team are back out
:38:30. > :38:31.
:38:31. > :38:35.in Armley, this time in daylight. We are driving through the Armley
:38:35. > :38:37.key zones. I'm out in high- visibility patrol, in a mobile
:38:37. > :38:42.police car. On top of this my officers and colleagues are out
:38:42. > :38:46.both in plain clothes and high- visibility foot patrol. The target
:38:46. > :38:50.area is flooded with police officers, and they start making the
:38:50. > :38:54.residents aware of the threat from criminals in the area. There have
:38:54. > :38:58.been four burglaries in this area in the last 24 hours. All the
:38:58. > :39:03.evidence shows that thieves like to strike in the same area again, that
:39:03. > :39:08.is why today Operation Optimal has landed on this street. Hello, Sir,
:39:08. > :39:16.how are you today? Fine. The reason why we are in the I can't remember
:39:16. > :39:19.is part of an operation. We will do extensive house-to-house
:39:19. > :39:22.calls, explaining to the residents why we are there, and how we can
:39:22. > :39:26.reduce burglaries and what the operation is B it is like any part
:39:26. > :39:30.of the community role we do, you have to give it a shot and try and
:39:30. > :39:33.wait for the feedback n this case it has been positive. People are
:39:33. > :39:37.coming around on the night and trying the garage doors, it is
:39:37. > :39:41.nearly a nightly event, I'm glad they are doing something like this.
:39:41. > :39:46.As far as I'm concerned it is a good thing, increase the security
:39:46. > :39:50.of the area. As an old school police officer, it is difficult for
:39:50. > :39:53.me to put my faith into a computer programme and maps, but when you
:39:53. > :39:57.see the results of deployment of police officers, actually, I'm
:39:57. > :40:02.quite happy to put my officers into a specific area, for a specific
:40:02. > :40:06.time frame, because I know it will keep my figures down and reduce the
:40:06. > :40:13.victims of burglary in Leeds. I'm joined now by chief
:40:13. > :40:16.superintendant David Aldroydn charge of Operation Optimal, has it
:40:16. > :40:22.worked? Absolutely yesterday, in the first 16 weeks of running the
:40:22. > :40:25.operation, we have seen a reduction of 25%, which is 435 less victims
:40:25. > :40:30.ofburgry, compared to the 16 weeks before. In that particular area,
:40:30. > :40:36.what about other areas, are they left uncovered while you
:40:36. > :40:39.concentrate on the Optimal areas? The volume of fewer burglaries we
:40:40. > :40:43.have to investigate, gives us much more time, and helps us to look at
:40:43. > :40:48.problem solving in the community, time we didn't have before. Is one
:40:48. > :40:51.of the problems you are moving the burgalars out of this area and into
:40:51. > :40:54.other areas? There is no evidence of, that we are waiting for a long-
:40:54. > :41:01.term reflection on what's happened, but in the short-term we are not
:41:01. > :41:06.seeing any evidence of displaysment of crime. In these -- Displaysment
:41:06. > :41:10.of crime. In these os effective times, is this a -- cost effective
:41:10. > :41:13.times, is this a cheap way of policing? They are very much more
:41:13. > :41:17.efficient in the way we are using our resources and we are seeing
:41:17. > :41:20.reductions in the amount of overtime that we are utilising.
:41:20. > :41:25.Leeds, because of the historic problem with burglaries, another
:41:25. > :41:29.part of Leeds is trying the scheme where the courts canism pose much
:41:29. > :41:33.stiffer penalties on -- can impose much stiffer penalties on
:41:33. > :41:38.burglaries, is this not a better way? It is an excellent idea, but
:41:38. > :41:43.part of a number of issues helping us reduce burglaries in Leeds, we
:41:43. > :41:45.are grateful for the support of the judiciary in this matter. It is a
:41:45. > :41:48.multilayered approach to burglaries. Thank you very much for joining us.
:41:48. > :41:54.That is the situation here, now back to you.
:41:54. > :42:00.Just got time to give awe quick update on what is coming in, -- a
:42:00. > :42:04.quick update on what is coming in calls and e-mails, a police officer
:42:04. > :42:07.has called in on the distraction theft, potentially vital
:42:07. > :42:11.information has come in. Someone has phoned in with a potential name
:42:11. > :42:17.after we showed you CCTV of an attack on the nightclub bouncer,
:42:17. > :42:21.very good information there. We have lots of calls on the
:42:21. > :42:24.immobilise.com, we have put a link on there as well as the crime map
:42:24. > :42:28.on the website. Dave and Nicola, tell me what you are up to
:42:28. > :42:33.tomorrow? We are going to be heading along the M1 to Wakefield
:42:33. > :42:36.to see how police are targeting known drug users. We will be at the
:42:36. > :42:41.West Yorkshire Police's forensic lab, where they deal with
:42:41. > :42:45.everything from finger printing, DNA technology and e-fits. We will
:42:45. > :42:51.be donning our white coats to get a close up look at what the forensic
:42:51. > :42:54.teams get up, -- get up to, don't fail to join us. Sounds good. We
:42:54. > :42:58.will be back tomorrow, still needing your help to catch those