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This morning. The sheep rustlers who carried out a sickening attack | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
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on a flock above the moors in Hello and welcome to Thursday's | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Crimewatch Roadshow. We are live and we have been on the air for | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
almost four week, we start with great new, yesterday, we featured | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
the case of a burglary at a house in Rotherham, yet again as a direct | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
result of one of your calls two men have been arrested. They were | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
interviewed overnight and have been charged. Keep watching because your | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
calls are making a difference. Coming up today. On the hunt for | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
the quick handed conman who cheated a Post Office cashier. Towed away, | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
the thieves behind the hedge making off with a brand-new caravan, do | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
you recognise this car? And the police puppies taken in by foster | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
families until they are ready for the front line. The roadshow team | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
are nearing the end of their tour round the country, they are still | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
in South Yorkshire, in charge, is Dave Guest and you really are top | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
dog today, aren't you? Yes, that is right. We have come to the police | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
dog training centre, in Sheffield, and we have a new member of the | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
team today. Meet ticker, now, Ticker is a very useful member of | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
the team because he comes with his own camera on his head. Find out | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
what he does with that later. Also once again I am joined by Nicola | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
Rees of Look North. You have a new chum as well. Yes, this is gorgeous | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Georgia, she is a hand.. She is born and bread here, a mini police | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
dog in training. This is one of the few centres that trains them from | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
start to end, and we will hear more about that later. How cute! Let us | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
get straight down to business and this is an unusual stories an | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
attack on dozens of sheep above the moors over in Sheffield. Sheep | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
rustling sound like something from a bygone rear but it is happening | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
in modern Britain, in this case with disturbing consequences. A | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
peaceful night on the moors above Sheffield was about to be shattered. | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
By the time this gang finished its work in the field, 47 sheep were | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
dead. Their bodys taken off to be butcher and sold off for meat. | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
so much to produce and time and money, you know, it is a great loss. | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
It is a great loss for anybody. Killed them sheep, they have killed | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
them in a painful way. Sheep are allowed to roam freely on the moors | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
in Yorkshire, they preserve the natural beauty of the landscape by | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
feeding on grass and bracken. They are not afraid of hue moorns car, | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
that freedom and friendliness makes them vulnerable to poemps. Farmer | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
David Robinson tends his flock near long Shaw in the Peak District. The | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
sheep from John Elliott's farm next door graze on the same common land. | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
There will be 1500 to 2,000 sheep between us, so you know, you don't | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
notice until you count up. It is early autumn on the peaks above | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
Sheffield. The nights are getting longer giving the thieves enough | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
time to carry out their crimes. Their target, David and John's | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
sheep, roaming on the moor. With each carcass worth more than one | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
hundred pounds, they have their yiens tidy profit. The men are | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
about to slaughter the flock, to sell the meat on the black market. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
The shooters used a slerns, and adds the moors deserted at night, | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
the crime went unnoticed. The farmers didn't even realise | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
anything was wrong, until the time came to gather the flock. When we | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
gathered in November, we knew when we were sorting the sheep out we | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
were so many short. But we didn't just twig straight away, but we | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
knew we were so many missing. first you think they are missing, | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
when your neighbour has some miss, and then he finds some tho has been | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
shot, some dead and alsome alive. You put two and two together and | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
you know, realise what's happened. But the killers hadn't finished the | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
job. Three sheep had been shot but had managed to escape. David | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
discovered to his hor row three had terrible injuries. What happened? | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
What did you do? I took, I took the the two when we gathered we got out, | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
and we put them down. Humanly. To put them out of their suffering. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
How do you feel about what has happened? It is a cruel way to die, | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
to be shot. When usually they would go to, when they finally go to | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
slaughter, they go to a proper slaughterhouse and be killed | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
properly. So really, scenic beauty spot this, but we are walking | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
towards the scene of a crime here, aren't we? It is sickening, really, | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
the fact an animal can be allowed to suffer in that way, been left | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
out for so long, the animals are left with facial injuries, the jaw | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
is hanging off for numbers of weeks and they are left out in the | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
elements. What the killers hadn't taken into account was the meat | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
wasn't ready to be eaten. The sheep had routine inject shuns and were | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
due have three months of detox to allow the drugs to leave their | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
systems. They have been injected for worms, and they have been | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
injected for scab, and they have a period on them for 104 days after | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
that. Mine were injected with a chemical, so if that gets into the | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
food chain somebody will be poorly somewhere. It will be butchered | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
without any cleaning facilities, and given straight to the public, | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
and loifb the fact that the sheep have been treated with chemicals | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
within a certain period ant it shouldn't enter the food chain that | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
the point. The loss of their breeding stock has far-reaching | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
implications for the running of both farms. Financial implications | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
are, we will be some lambs short, lambs short next year, until we | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
have bred the sheep back into the flock again. It is not just the | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
financial loss that hurts them, it is their way of life that has been | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
attacked. We didn't think anything like that would happen. But it has. | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
It is a terrible thing, isn't it. You know, we feed us animals before | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
ourself, so we think a lot about them. I know we run it as a | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
business but we think a lot about us animals. We have bad lambing | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
times and we are out in all wetter, bringing the lambs in the house and | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
putting them in front of the fire to keep them warm and alive and | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
someone shoots them and takes them away, how would you feel? Well, a | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
really sad tale there, you saw PC Matt Duffy, she the wildlife | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
officer investigating the crimes. We talked about the effects on the | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
farmer and how inhumanely the animals were killed, but more | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
importantly is some dangerous chemicals could have got into the | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
food chain here. It was only recently that the farmer had | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
injected them with the chemical. If they are eaten they will cause | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
sickness. Where might this meat have ended up? More than likely | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
ended up in the backs of pubs, restaurants and just basically sold | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
to friends and family. Is this something you are seeing more of? | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
Is it an increasing problem? It s last year 60,000 were taken across | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
the UK and with the price of meat going up it will get worse. | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
need the catch them and they might still be operating, even though | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
this happened last year you are keep to hear from people at the | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
moment. Why is that? Anyone who has information about these people, kit | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
anybody who has access to a van and firearm. We think they will be | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
going out and doing it and putting the public at risk. You know what | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
to do. The numbers are on the screen, in the meantime back to you | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
Rav. Time for today's wanted faces, and first up this fellow. Westley | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Linnen although he goes by the names of Allan Collins, Westley | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Fisher and Billy King. He is wanted by six police forces for | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
questioning in connection with 17 different burglaries. He has strong | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
connections to East London and Canvey Island in Essex, he has one | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
tattoo with the name bill loin his left forearm and another of a | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
bulldog on the top of his right arm. Next is Daniel Gheorghe Plesca, she | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
wanted for questioning by detectives in connection with | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
affray earlier after an incident outside a bar in Leicester in | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
November town 10. He has a tattoo of the word "Box". He is known to | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
work in car washes and has connections to the Leicester Rugby, | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
Watford and Birmingham areas. Next look at this man, Darren Cowland. | :09:54. | :10:02. | |
He also goes by the name Darren Tear. He is wanted by Devon and | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Cornwall Police. He has contacted in the Slough and Kent areas and it | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
is believed he may be in Blackpool. He has a receding hairline and | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
speaks with a London accent. And last one for today is 42-year-old | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
Laimonis Kleins, he is wanted for questioning by officers in | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Merseyside, in connection with burglary offence, he is wanted on a | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
European arrest warrant issued by the Latvian authority, he has | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
connections to the Lancashire and Merseyside areas. So, if you know | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
where any of our wanted faces r please get in touch. The numbers | :10:33. | :10:43. | |
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are on the screen. Or you can email us. Now, let us go back to Dave. | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Thanks, we have all heard of blood hound and here at the Sheffield | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
centre they train a certain number of dogs to sniff out traces of | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
blood. They can find even the tiniest speck that is not advice to | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
believe the naked eye. Richard is one of the trainers here. At the | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
moment on the floor we have something that resembles the | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
contents of my washing machine, what is this about? We have items | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
of clothing which they are going to screen, the dog will run over them | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
and one has got human blood on and hopefully the dog will indicate it. | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
This is not what you would do in a real life case. This is purely for | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
a training exercise and for the cameras. Step to one side. Can we | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
bring in the dogs. -- in the dog. Perhaps you could explain what is | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
going to happen. Simon is going to set him up. Buster is going to work | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
along the clothing and hopefully indicate with a bark. So he will | :11:44. | :11:53. | |
bark when he has found it. That is the positive indication. OK. Let us | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
look down here. See what he has got. Using the gloves. You open this, | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
and on the label there. The blood son there is a bloodstain there. | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
What is the advantage of using dogs for this kind of work? It saves a | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
lot of money. If nothing is evident, on the clothing, you would have, it | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
would be guesswork to which items were sent off. The dog will come | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
along and give forensic science a better chance of identifying where | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
blood is. What success stories have you had? Simone and Buster and one | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
of the others went down to Norfolk, crime scene had been through a | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
murder scene or what they believed was a murder scene, cleared it, the | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
dogs went in and indicated on blood that was on a carpet. He found | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
something that the humans didn't. For the training exercise you have | :12:46. | :12:56. | |
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to use real blood, where did it come from? Donation, officers, | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
occupational health help us out and we are tight with health and safety. | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
The fact is that the training they do here is so unique these dogs are | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
in demand all round the country. And although Buster is celebrating | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
his latest victory he has to go off to a live investigation elsewhere | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
so goodbye to Buster and hello to you Rav. Now, still to come on the | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
roadshow this morning P The foster families looking after the police | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
dogs of the future. Sand this policing on the cheap? Increasing | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
the role of Police Community Support Officers. Plenty to come, | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
now it is time for seat and all these clips are from last summer's | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
riots. These people still haven't been caught, and police really want | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
your help. Now, the the riots last August and police need to identify | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
people. This man had quite a night in the Greenwich area of London. | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
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Here he is only doing under And the same night, he goes into a | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
At Argos he hangs about with some loot. He wears stolen sunglasses, | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
that he sports with the label still on. Going anywhere nice? And the | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
same guy was picked up later in superdrug, dodging through the | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
broken door, and helping himself. Quite a night but with your help we | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
can make the morning after. Riots again. This time Tower Hamlets. | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
First, this guy smashes at a police car window with a weapon. This | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
bureau dechange had its window kicked in. A Police Community | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
Support Officer is hit over the head by this man and has to take | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
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The police would like to formally introduce themselves to these three. | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
If you recognise anything or anyone in these clips, you know what to do. | :15:10. | :15:18. | |
The numbers are on the screen. Lots of people dream of owning a | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
caravan. What with it the freedom of the open road, and of course | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
cheap holidays. But for one family, that dream turned into a financial | :15:30. | :15:39. | |
nightmare when their new caravan was stolen. This CCTV footage shows | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
a caravan park on 16th June, and a car is driven into the site. At | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
caravan is pulled out from its storage place. The caravan is | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
hitched up and ready to go. The car is driven out of the storage area | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
and disappears down a side road. The next time we see it, it his | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
being driven away with the caravan. The caravan belonged to Donald | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
Sanderson. It was heartbreaking for you because you saved a long time | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
for this. The that's right. It has affected my wife because she is | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
disabled, and this has left us in financial difficulties, because the | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
insurance doesn't cover the cost of the caravan, and I have to find | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
�4,000. There is no way will be able to afford another one. | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
must have been shocked. We are absolutely gutted. There is nothing | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
we can do about it, just hope that someone sees it and brings it back. | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
He had made plans to have happy times in a caravan. That's right. | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
We had just retired. There is another instalment to this story. I | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
am joined by Stephen Lister investigating the case. This car, | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
what do we know about it? It is a grainy sound, stolen in a burglary | :17:11. | :17:21. | |
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in Liverpool. -- Nissan. We don't know where it was for two weeks | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
between May 31st and 14th June. On 14th June it didn't drive off at a | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
petrol station. So it was used to steal petrol? In it was. We have | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
some CCTV images from that incident. Yes, quite good images of the | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
people who we are sure the same people involved and the theft of | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
the caravan. And the car has turned up about a week ago. We are still | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
awaiting the results of the forensic examination. You can | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
always call us here on the number on the screen, or if you want to | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
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remain anonymous, call Crimewatch - Staying with the animal theme, we | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
have some creatures here in the studio. These creatures will steal | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
all sorts -- people will still all sorts if they think it will turn | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
into a quick buck. John here investigates pet theft. Why are | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
these guys here? Thank you for having me here to do the appeal on | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
behalf of a family living in Banstead in Surrey. They recently | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
had their two little Herman tortoises stolen. We are here today | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
to put the appeal out to try to track them down. It is not the | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
value, it is the welfare of these animals. Whoever stole them would | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
not know how to look after them or what they need to feed them on. | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
have three times of tortoises here. Which one is the Herman? This one | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
here. We can see on the screen now of the ones that were stolen. One | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
has a little red mark on, and the owner put that on there to tell the | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
difference between the two. You can show us hear how distinctive each | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
animal is. The great thing about tortoises is they are all totally | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
different with the features of the shell and the underside. Show us | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
the underside now. You can see markings on here. Can we zoom in on | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
that? The pigmentation and frustration markings is unique to | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
this individual tortoise. The underside is absolutely unique to | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
this actual animal. We recommend that all tortoise keepers are | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
regularly photograph the underside, critically focus, so that we have | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
all those marks, and that really is the passport for this tortoise. We | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
call it the tortoise fingerprint. So you would encourage people to | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
take pictures? And there are other ways. I want to talk about what you | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
have here. This wouldn't just apply to tortoises, but all animals. | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
animals, pets in particular, must be positively identifiable if they | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
are ever lost or stolen. The first thing the police were last is, what | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
do they look like? Will rely so much these days on the microchipped | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
system. We have now got on the market the new Mini microchip, and | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
you can see from the size that it is much smaller. We are talking a | :20:51. | :20:59. | |
few pounds, but it is worth it? You would advise all pets to be | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
microchipped indeed. We had better move on, because we have had a | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
little bit of an accident here! If you know the whereabouts of those | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
tortoises we showed you, please let us know. | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
This is a Georgia. We met her earlier. She is only 13 weeks old, | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
and she was born here at the training centre, as were her | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
brother and sister behind us. This is one of the very few centres that | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
train and breed dogs specifically for the police force. One their | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
first-born, they can't go through full-time training, they go out to | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
foster families for their first year. We spent some time with | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
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Georgia and her foster family. Good girl. This is Georgie. We have | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
had an about five weeks now, and we will have to give her back probably | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
at when she is about a year old so she can start her training to | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
become a police dog. We have had one before her, and we gave him | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
back about two months before we got Georgie, and it was really hard, | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
but you know you are getting another puppy, which is most of the | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
fun for me, and he couldn't have been anything else than a police | :22:22. | :22:30. | |
dog, he was born for it. He would have been bored being a pet. The | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
police pay for all her worming, fleas, vet bills, food, anything | :22:35. | :22:45. | |
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you need they provide you with. We are asked to just do simple things | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
with them, get them to walk on the lead, sit, he'll, get them to speak | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
on command, bark when you ask them to. A little bit of tracking - we | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
played hide and seek in the woods with the dogs, and it is great for | :23:04. | :23:14. | |
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when they have to go and find I love having the companionship of | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
the dock, and being able to go out for walks and teach her things. I | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
love to see her grow up, and I love to teacher and see her learn. She | :23:29. | :23:38. | |
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Now, when Georgie is a big girl, she will be able to do what these | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
guys are doing behind. They have all graduated from the training | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
centre. It is a big commitment, isn't it? It is really hard work, | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
but great fun at the same time. Have you ever had one fail? No. I | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
had one, and he passed. It must be heartbreaking when you have to give | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
them back. Yes, but you know they are going to go on to do good | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
things, and then you get another one. Georgi's really keen to have a | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
go, but it is not quite time yet. Harry, how much training do these | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
dogs have to have before the going to the field? We do a puppy Sunday | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
on the first Sunday of every month, and all puppies and the volunteers | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
are together. Puppies who have just graduated to a 12 week course. | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
is the benefit of breeding and training the main house? The beauty | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
is that these dogs or reducing the Times on the courses, so we just | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
have one handler who has completed a course in seven weeks. End you do | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
rely heavily on Foster has to take the dogs in the first place? Yes, | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
the Foster has deserve medals. They do all the hard work, and we can't | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
do it without them. He how many of them fail to make the grade? We do | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
have one or two who don't make the grade, but they are all offered to | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
the Foster Walker's first as their pet, because they have spent time | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
with them. What makes a dog suitable for police work? We test | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
the temperament, the courage. It is a very hard test. And any one of | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
the items can make them unsuitable. Because they have got to be | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
ferocious, professional when needed, but also a sociable when needed. | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
The ones we have seen today have been quite happy to be petted or | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
fed. That comes as part of the puppy walking scheme. It allows the | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
dog to be socialised, makes them friendly, until the time that they | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
need to go into action. Harry, thank you very much. Contrary to | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
popular opinion, I'm not going to be having a go at this course! | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
Spoilsport. Criminals are increasingly using trickster, their | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
victims almost like a sleight of hand that magicians use - at least | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
that seems to be what happened in this Mickey theft. | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
It was the way he was acting. It wasn't right. These people are | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
professional criminals and excellent at their trek, and the | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
trick is to perform confusion and get away with money. Absolutely | :26:32. | :26:41. | |
devastated that week had been Thursday 12th April, and a man | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
walked into a bank near Sheffield. He was picked up on CCTV at the | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
counter, where he embarked on a complex request for a large amount | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
of money to be changed into smaller denominations. But staff got | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
suspicious and sent him on his way. But this man wasn't ready to call | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
it a day. His next stop would be the post office next door, where | :27:03. | :27:11. | |
his luck was about change. Joanna Gregory was in charge that day. | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
were quite busy in the afternoon. There were only two of us there. | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
The postmaster was on holiday, and I was running it. But I'm just | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
double-checking on fail, because he is new and only work Saturdays. | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
man went up to the counter and handed over �500 to the Lancashire. | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
The gentleman came in and asked for notes to be changed into lower | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
denominations. He counted them out to the gentleman. After the �500 | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
had been counted out in 20 panic, the man said he had changed his and | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
now wanted his money in tens instead. See what �10 notes making | :27:53. | :28:00. | |
up to �500? I asked him what he was doing, and is at the guy wanted | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
lower denominations, but I was a bit suspicious, and I have heard of | :28:04. | :28:12. | |
these schemes. So I asked him to stand to one side, and I took over. | :28:12. | :28:22. | |
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Phil was the UN witting victim of a scam. It is a sleight of hand. They | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
ask you to change the notes into different denominations, then | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
halfway through a change their mind, or they change from 20 to tens, and | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
then to fives. And that creates the element of confusion. The cashier | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
is wanted to help these people. There may be people waiting to be | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
served after, and using that as an element of confusion forms part of | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
the trick. And this is exactly what happened at the Post Office. While | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
the young cashier had been distracted by the changing request, | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
the man had swiftly removed some of the money before handing the one of | :28:59. | :29:05. | |
notes back across the counter. Before we gave the guy the money, | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
he said, where did you put the money we already counted, and he | :29:08. | :29:15. | |
said, I put it in my drawer. I counted him out �500. But Joanne | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
was concerned. After the man had left, she double-checked. We did a | :29:22. | :29:31. | |
till check on his Kanter. The guy had stolen �175. Anyone can be | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
tricked by these, because they are so good. This is their profession, | :29:36. | :29:42. | |
and there cashier must not feel let down. Once we realise that we were | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
�175 down, I was gutted, because I was running the office, and they | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
didn't want to be the one to tell Rob that we had lost in this money. | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
Absolutely devastated that this had happened. You never think it will | :29:55. | :30:04. | |
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It is a simple scam but bold. All it boils down into is a sleight of | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
hand trick and clever distracting. Professional magician Stuart Watkin | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
iss with me. You saw that then you are going to show us how you can | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
use a sleight of hand to make money disappear. As the video portrayed, | :30:18. | :30:25. | |
it is a classic sleight of hand misdirection. There are a number of | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
�20 notes. He has brought them in very close, done a bit of fumbling, | :30:30. | :30:39. | |
and then he has made a few of them disappear. You only have two left! | :30:39. | :30:46. | |
That is where they were I have no idea how you did that. On a serious | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
note what you did was what we wanted you to do. You got us to | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
look where we want and the conmen work in that way. Yes the hand is | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
doing the talking and the mouth, and at the same time. To nice | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
people, we want to be helpful and we fall for in all the time. We are | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
very polite. Now, what have we got here, there is one two, three, four, | :31:08. | :31:14. | |
five, eight �20 notes. This is a similar scam. People are obtaining | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
large amounts of cash and claiming to be short changed. You will show | :31:19. | :31:25. | |
us that I have counted those up. They get a couple of notes and then, | :31:25. | :31:34. | |
distracting. You are going to claim... False counting, less. | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
count eight and simple as that you can change you say you are short | :31:40. | :31:46. | |
change andly give you more money. It is a scam they use.Ly Hand over | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
the extra cash. Time for dodgy deeds on CCTV. Look closely because | :31:50. | :31:56. | |
police think all three thefts were carried out by the same man. First | :31:56. | :32:01. | |
off, the cycle racks at Maidenhead station January this year. This | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
guy's carrying a helmet and looks as if he is about to get on a bike. | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
But under the jacket, he has got bolt cutters and he is quick. The | :32:10. | :32:17. | |
lock is cut and he is wheeling the bike away all in less than a minute. | :32:17. | :32:23. | |
Let us see that again. Now take note of the jacket, helmet and | :32:23. | :32:29. | |
glasses because you are about to see them again. A few weeks later | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
and this time we are at another station eight miles away. It is | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
that jacket again, heading for the bikes. He loiters for a while. Then | :32:39. | :32:44. | |
the bolt cutters are out once more and it looks as if he is at it | :32:44. | :32:52. | |
again. Goodbye bike, and off he goes. Now this happened in October | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
last year, back in Maidenhead, and the police think this is the same | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
man too. The helmet and glasss are certainly familiar, different | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
jacket but same method. The belt cutters are out and the bike is | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
stolen, if you recognise the person in any of these three pictures get | :33:12. | :33:18. | |
in touch. So come on, if you can help with any of those do the right | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
thing, the numbers are on the screen. Let us go back to Nicola at | :33:22. | :33:27. | |
the dog training centre. Thank you Rav. Look at this handsome boy. | :33:27. | :33:32. | |
This is Ticker and this you saw earlier this is what South | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
Yorkshire Police have nicknamed FIDO. If it is working you should | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
be getting a live stream of me talking to you now from dog cam | :33:39. | :33:42. | |
this is really important because Ticker is a especially trained | :33:42. | :33:45. | |
firearms dog. He works with especially trained officers here in | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
so, shie, you can tell us more about this Richard. What is he | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
wearing that for? Ticker is wearing a camera that he wears when he goes | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
into search buildings as part of a firearms operation. It projepblts | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
an image on the screen, we can see inside. The nature of his job is | :34:04. | :34:10. | |
highly dangerous, very risky for the dog.. He works in firearms | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
operations alongside officers so it has a risk. I feel sorry for him | :34:15. | :34:18. | |
because I see this beautiful creature. So we will have a go, | :34:18. | :34:21. | |
sending him in, you will show us an operation as it would happen with | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
the live stream, somebody is in there a suspect and you will track | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
them down. We will be given the option to come out and if he | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
doesn't respond Pat would issue a challenge, if not he releases the | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
dog. Clear the building. Show yourself or the the dog will come | :34:39. | :34:46. | |
and find you. Last chance to show yourself before I send the dog. | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
so dramatic stuff. Ticker is searching. Once he finds something | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
he will indicate. So you are watching on the monitor and | :34:52. | :34:55. | |
hopefully keeping that live stream. We hope we are still seeing the | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
live pictures inside. Is that still working? He is barking he has found | :35:00. | :35:07. | |
somebody up there. He will bark. High pitched noises. Ticker, here | :35:07. | :35:12. | |
he comes. Wow, look at that so he has found the suspect. Does he get | :35:12. | :35:16. | |
a reward. In training he will get a reward which for Ticker is a ball. | :35:16. | :35:21. | |
How does the training of these dogs differ to regular police dogs? They | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
look the same? Yes, all the general purpose dogs we use are able to | :35:26. | :35:31. | |
search. Not all of them are able to use the camera. It is amazing. An | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
amazing piece of kit and a privilege to see it in action. | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
Thank you for showing us. Now back to you. Of course we are heard in | :35:39. | :35:46. | |
the news about cuts to front line policing and on Monday they | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
estimated there could be 6,000 fewer front line officers in the | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
next three year, it is no secret that all forces are having to save | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
up to 20% of their budget at the moment. Here they have decided to | :35:59. | :36:05. | |
try and beef up the powers of their PCSOs, their police and community | :36:05. | :36:07. | |
support officers. It is controversial, some say it is | :36:07. | :36:11. | |
police on the cheap. But what do they do? We spent some time out | :36:11. | :36:19. | |
with a couple of ethem during a typical day. North of Sheffield is | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
where PCSOs Deb and Steve are based. They are on patrol on their usual | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
base. It is a general patrol. When you are out and about you are | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
looking for things, you know, that could happen, you areied for | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
something and deal with it as and when it happens. These two need to | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
know their community. And keep an eye on what is going on. It is good | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
old fashioned neighbourhood policing. The first job today, is a | :36:45. | :36:55. | |
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friendly warning to someone parked up on a bus stop. Come on. The | :36:55. | :37:01. | |
royal has been from the beginning high visibility. Reassurance, | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
patrol, reassure members of public. Even though they are wearing a | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
uniform they don't have the same powers as regular officers. For | :37:08. | :37:12. | |
example, they can't issue Fixed Penalty Notices and don't have | :37:12. | :37:18. | |
powers of arrest. They also get paid less, a starting salary of | :37:18. | :37:24. | |
round �16,000, compared to �23,000. They do work alongside regular | :37:24. | :37:29. | |
officers, and today Steve and Deb are drafted in to help search the | :37:29. | :37:35. | |
area. A job has just gone out, a youth has snatched a graing a lady | :37:35. | :37:40. | |
and has been seen running through a local park. Keep an eye out for a | :37:40. | :37:46. | |
male, he has a hat on, so we are looking for a male with a hat on. | :37:46. | :37:52. | |
South Yorkshire is considering beefg up police community support | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
offer's powers but they are adamant they -- adamant they won't replace | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
bobbies on the beat. I don't see them take over from constable, it | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
is a team activity and where they can both complement each other. | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
Back on the search, even with the combined strength of the regular | :38:08. | :38:15. | |
officers, the PCSOs and the police helicopter, the bag snatcher gets | :38:15. | :38:20. | |
away. We do pick up dealing with neighbour disputes and low level | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
crime to help police officers, give them more time to do the job and | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
pursue things that need doing, that have a greater effect on the | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
community. In the afternoon, the neighbourhood policing team and a | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
specialist task force are acting on intelligence. They raid a local | :38:36. | :38:44. | |
flat. But when they turn up, the suspects not there. Community | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
officers are there to reassure the locals about the police presence. | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
It reassures the members of the public, the areas where they live, | :38:52. | :38:56. | |
work, go to school, go to church they are safe areas, and they | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
should feel reassured that you know, they can go out on the street, they | :39:00. | :39:06. | |
can go and meet members of the families and friends, and there are | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
people -- police on the street. that kind of incident wasn't | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
typical and soon Steve and Deb are back on their community patrol. | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
When the PCSOs were first on the street their role wasn't understood. | :39:18. | :39:23. | |
The more you get to talk to people, the more you get in with the | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
community group groups they understand more. They are working | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
the same areas every day, they build up good contacts. On many | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
occasions I have referred to them as the glue that sticks | :39:34. | :39:39. | |
neighbourhood policing together. But with reductions in the number | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
of regular police officers, only time will tell whether the role of | :39:42. | :39:50. | |
the support officers will change. PCSOs at work there. I am joined by | :39:50. | :39:57. | |
Shaun morely what changes are you proposing to the role of PCSOs? | :39:57. | :40:03. | |
are enhancing the training of them so they have more capability to | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
undertake problem solving activity and we are intending to increase | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
the number of powers available to them, so they can more effectively | :40:11. | :40:15. | |
intervene in community based issues. At the moment they can't arrest | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
people, will they be able do so in the future? They won't be able to | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
arrest people, but at the moment there is 58 powers available to | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
them. We use 37. We are going to give them additional powers | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
including the right to confiscate alcohol, the right to issue fixed | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
penalty tickets and the right to detain people for a short period | :40:36. | :40:39. | |
until the arrival of a police officer. They would detain the | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
person in a police vehicle or something until a police officer | :40:42. | :40:47. | |
arrived to execute the arrest. could detain an offender until the | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
arrival of a police officer to make the arrest. All this is coming as | :40:51. | :40:56. | |
you are losing front line officers due to cuts, is it policing on the | :40:56. | :41:02. | |
cheap? No, quite the contrary, really, we are not losing police | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
officers, in fact our Chief Constable has said we are going to | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
maintain the levels of front line operation. You are losing police | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
officers but maybe not on the front line. We are not losing front line | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
operational police officers, what we have described is our attempt to | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our community | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
based teams. That has been very effective, because this year we | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
have seen the 10% reduction in crime and a 20% reduction in anti- | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
social behaviour. And that is despite the cuts. Shaun, thank you | :41:31. | :41:38. | |
very much indeed. So, more powers possibly for PSCOs in South | :41:38. | :41:44. | |
Yorkshire. Just time to give you an update. I can tell you that one of | :41:44. | :41:48. | |
our wanted faces, Daniel Gheorghe Plesca, we have had a some | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
information come in on him that police are following up he is | :41:52. | :41:59. | |
wanted for questioning on affray and a possible sighting of another | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
wanted face, this time Laimonis Kleins. We have had a possible | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
sighting of him. So very encouraging coming through from you | :42:07. | :42:12. | |
today, only minutes after it has been on air. Dave and Nicola, where | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
are you tomorrow for our last show? We are going to an amazing place | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
which is like a film set they have fake houses, streets and a | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
courthouse. You have heard of unmarked police car, we are on the | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
road with unmarked police lorries.. I went on that it is very exciting. | :42:30. | :42:36. | |
She wants to take Ticker home. I? He is a working dog. So back to | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
you Rav. Cheers guys. See you tomorrow. That is it for today. We | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
are back for the final bit of crime fighting. Remember our wanted faces | :42:44. | :42:50. | |
and the clips are on the website. In the meantime, have another look | :42:50. | :42:54. |