:00:16. > :00:26.Today it on Crimewatch Roadshow: The crook who went on a thieving
:00:26. > :00:44.
:00:44. > :00:48.spree but forgot all about the Hello and welcome to Crimewatch
:00:48. > :00:52.Roadshow. We are live and on air every week day for the next three
:00:52. > :00:57.weeks. Police asking for your help to catch criminals committing
:00:57. > :01:01.crimes which blight lives up and down the country. On the programme
:01:01. > :01:06.today, police want to find the thieves who smashed their way into
:01:06. > :01:10.Whitchurch to steal their precious antique silver. -- into a church.
:01:10. > :01:13.We are out on patrol with the traffic cops, clamping down on
:01:13. > :01:19.drink-driving on the roads of Sussex.
:01:19. > :01:24.Do you know this brazen thief? He spent hours choosing his mood at a
:01:24. > :01:28.charity warehouse in Rye. The Roadshow team is travelling the
:01:28. > :01:33.country investigating crimes happening where you are. Today is
:01:33. > :01:38.the last day in Sussex and you are by the seaside today, Dave. Is the
:01:38. > :01:44.sun shining? The sun is already cracking the flags here in Brighton
:01:44. > :01:48.and it has only gone 9:15am! By lunchtime, the beach will be full
:01:48. > :01:53.of people. We are going to look at what the police are doing to cut
:01:53. > :01:57.crime on the seafront and BBC South East's Colin Campbell has more.
:01:57. > :02:01.We'll be seeing what the police are doing to tackle bicycle Thieves. We
:02:01. > :02:05.will be finding a what they use this for later in the programme.
:02:05. > :02:10.But first, to the historic town of Rye, which is home to a charity
:02:10. > :02:17.that helps teenagers struggling in school. Those teenagers have been
:02:17. > :02:21.left devastated by not one but two burglaries. The entertainment
:02:21. > :02:25.workshops in Rye are working hard to give kids who do not do well in
:02:25. > :02:30.school a second chance. People give their time and money for freezer
:02:30. > :02:34.young teenagers can get their lives back on track. The charity was set
:02:34. > :02:41.up primarily to help young people to actually proceed into the
:02:41. > :02:47.entertainment business. If the truth is, I never really got on
:02:47. > :02:52.with school. Never really got on with it. Always in trouble. Coming
:02:52. > :02:58.here, they give you time and tell you that you are good at things.
:02:58. > :03:02.They give you chances to try things. But all that work took a knock in
:03:02. > :03:05.November when thieves broke into the charity and made off with
:03:05. > :03:13.�18,000 worth of equipment. The insurance company paid out but the
:03:13. > :03:16.premium was raised, and then it was not just about the money. On those
:03:16. > :03:21.computers and PCs and cameras, there was an awful lot of these
:03:21. > :03:26.young people's work. It was horrid. They were distraught because their
:03:26. > :03:31.work had gone missing. Despite the setback, they all worked together
:03:31. > :03:35.to get the charity back on its feet, and just a month later, days before
:03:35. > :03:42.Christmas, they celebrated with an end-of-term party. We had a great
:03:42. > :03:50.time. We had video-games, food, soft drinks. And everybody had a
:03:50. > :03:59.jovial mood. We were getting a huge community spirit back again.
:03:59. > :04:02.students and staff headed home at around 6pm. Shaun stayed behind to
:04:02. > :04:06.make sure everything was locked. The last thing he wanted was
:04:06. > :04:12.another burglary. When everything was locked up I calorie assume we
:04:12. > :04:16.were being closely watched by the person -- I can only assume that we
:04:16. > :04:19.were being watched by the person from the adjacent industrial estate.
:04:19. > :04:24.But Christmas was definitely not come in early for this charity.
:04:24. > :04:29.Just weeks after the first burglary it was about to be hit again. This
:04:29. > :04:34.man, picked up by CCTV, is no Father Christmas. He is working out
:04:34. > :04:38.how to break in. He spends quite a lot of time outside and he can be
:04:38. > :04:43.seen lifting a pothole and smashing the security light, and it takes in
:04:43. > :04:48.a couple of hours to break into the building. He has gone through a
:04:48. > :04:52.window, which caused considerable damage as he entered the property.
:04:52. > :04:56.With the light smashed comedy with and a burglar would be in a hurry
:04:56. > :05:00.to get the job done, but not this cool customer. He forces his way in
:05:00. > :05:05.through the barred window but as soon as he enters, he is in for a
:05:05. > :05:08.nasty surprise. Then he gets camera-shy. You can see he looks
:05:08. > :05:16.straight at the CCTV camera pointing in the direction of his
:05:16. > :05:21.entry. He goes up to try to disable it but then you go to clear view of
:05:21. > :05:27.his face, so he knows somebody must know him. He eventually decides it
:05:27. > :05:31.is time for action but he is in no Russia. Here he is, systematically
:05:31. > :05:37.stealing expensive computers and cameras. This is equipment it has
:05:37. > :05:43.taken the charity months of fund- raising to buy. He was outside for
:05:43. > :05:50.that an hour trying to get in but he was in no hurried inside.
:05:50. > :05:53.season of goodwill is now well and truly ruined for the charity. This
:05:53. > :05:58.thief has stolen Christmas. Fat that is as bare-faced as you
:05:58. > :06:02.will get and we will have more on that brazen thief later on. If you
:06:02. > :06:07.already recognise him, we need to hear from you.
:06:07. > :06:12.Now time to hear from -- see some dodgy deeds caught on camera.
:06:13. > :06:17.April Fools' Day, but what is about happen is no joke. It is a service
:06:17. > :06:22.station in Rossendale, Lancashire, and these men are asked to change
:06:22. > :06:27.�160 worth of notes into coins. Whilst the assistant crouches down
:06:27. > :06:32.to sort it out, a man leans over the counter and grabs a cashbox. At
:06:33. > :06:38.�200 has just been emptied from the till in to it. If tell us who they
:06:38. > :06:44.are so they do not get away with falling any body else.
:06:44. > :06:50.This train is travelling between Putney and Mortlake in May last
:06:50. > :06:54.year. After two men get on the -- two women get on, this man stands
:06:54. > :06:58.behind them. As the train approaches the station, he makes a
:06:58. > :07:02.grab for one of the women before he leaves the train. He should not be
:07:02. > :07:08.allowed to get away with this. Tell us who he is.
:07:08. > :07:12.Next, a bike shop in Croydon. July last year. A customer is showing a
:07:12. > :07:18.lot of interest in a bygone display. He then moves away to have a look
:07:18. > :07:23.through the catalogue. -- interest in a bike on display. He comes back
:07:23. > :07:27.and fiddles with the bike. He gets it loose and we'll sit pass the
:07:27. > :07:33.shop assistants and through the door. They gave chase but because
:07:33. > :07:37.he is on two wheels, he gets away. If you recognise him, give us a
:07:37. > :07:41.call. Those of a kind of everyday crimes
:07:41. > :07:46.being committed up and down the country. If you recognised anything
:07:46. > :07:53.in those clips, you know what you need to do. This is our number. You
:07:53. > :08:00.can send us a text as well. Leave a space between the number and the
:08:00. > :08:08.message. If you don't, the message will not get through.
:08:08. > :08:12.Dave? Thank you. When it is bathed in sunshine on a day like this, the
:08:12. > :08:17.front pit in Brighton looks marvellous. But even here there is
:08:17. > :08:20.crime. Dave is a police and Community Support Officer. What
:08:20. > :08:25.sort of problems to face? Unfortunately, the biggest issues
:08:25. > :08:29.are in relation to theft. A large percentage takes place in the
:08:29. > :08:34.night-time economy - the pubs and clubs. People are intoxicated and
:08:34. > :08:40.leaving their things around. People are not taking the security
:08:40. > :08:46.seriously. Biking is very popular. Bike theft is also a big issue for
:08:46. > :08:52.you. You have a secret weapon. What is this? This is the Sussex Police
:08:52. > :08:55.bait bike. It has got a tracking device hidden somewhere on it. We
:08:56. > :09:00.lock it up as we would a normal bike and lead it and wait for the
:09:00. > :09:07.alarm. You wait for somebody to try and steal it? And when they do,
:09:07. > :09:11.Lizzie steps in. If this is a digital tracking receive. It uses
:09:11. > :09:16.state-of-the-art GPS technology. It tracks the spike anywhere across
:09:16. > :09:23.the world to within one centimetre. Anywhere across the world? Yes.
:09:23. > :09:27.we could be in Lewes, Llandudno, anywhere! Has it worked? Have you
:09:27. > :09:31.been able to catch people in the act? We have had lots of really
:09:32. > :09:35.good results in Brighton. One in particular was last summer, web of
:09:35. > :09:43.the bike was stolen on the other side of the city and within half an
:09:43. > :09:50.hour, we managed to track it back. The man was taken into custody.
:09:50. > :09:54.must have been quite shocked? His face was quite shocked.
:09:54. > :09:58.you're looking for somebody to steal the spite? Yes, but we have
:09:58. > :10:02.got it locked up quite securely using a decent lock, and there we
:10:02. > :10:06.leave it alone. We don't monitor it. We just wait for the alarm to go
:10:07. > :10:12.off. Even when you lock your back- up, there are still those
:10:13. > :10:18.determined thieves who will get it? -- clock your bike up? Yes. We
:10:18. > :10:22.encourage people to double lock and to use a Darlton have to lock and
:10:22. > :10:32.another lot on the front. And you have to do all Buchan to protect
:10:32. > :10:33.
:10:33. > :10:37.your property? -- all you can. Thank you very much indeed. In this
:10:37. > :10:41.lovely weather it might be tending to hop into way car and drive out
:10:41. > :10:45.to a country pub, which is why police forces are using this time
:10:45. > :10:48.of year to run anti- drink-drive campaigns. I have been out with
:10:48. > :10:57.offices in Sussex. It is a warm summer evening and
:10:57. > :11:03.many are enjoying a drink after work. But for these two officers,
:11:03. > :11:07.the shift will be spent looking out for drink-drivers. In a hot weather,
:11:07. > :11:12.people have finished work and it is a social thing to do after work,
:11:12. > :11:16.have a drink, and that leads to another and another. People want to
:11:16. > :11:20.go somewhere warm, sit outside, maybe a country pub. In order to
:11:20. > :11:25.get there, you have to drive, and in the spirit of having a good time
:11:25. > :11:29.they might have one too many and then drive home. We deal with road
:11:29. > :11:34.death and one of the contributing factors is some sort of impairment
:11:34. > :11:38.in a person's system. And a lot of the time, with the impairment is
:11:38. > :11:47.the alcohol which is more common. He is Sussex last year, almost one
:11:47. > :11:53.in five fatal collisions was ajar, or-related. -- in Sussex. -- was
:11:53. > :11:58.alcohol-related. We have seen somebody drinking from a bottle of
:11:58. > :12:01.beer as he is driving along. He has passed over this road so we are
:12:01. > :12:06.going to see if we can catch up with him and do a breath test on
:12:06. > :12:10.the driver. We have in 10 minutes, the car is in sight. This is a car
:12:10. > :12:14.straight ahead of us. We're just going to wait for an appropriate
:12:14. > :12:18.place and then we will be pulling it over and speaking to the driver.
:12:18. > :12:24.This is the first motorist to be Paul Dover this evening. Police get
:12:24. > :12:29.their intelligence from a number of sources. -- to be pulled over.
:12:29. > :12:34.have seen you drinking beer in the front seat of a car. I am going to
:12:34. > :12:37.need a specimen of breath for analysis. Even if he had not been
:12:37. > :12:43.over the limit, the driver would have been distracted by drinking at
:12:43. > :12:48.the wheel. The officers suspect he has been drinking recently. He has
:12:48. > :12:51.to wait and a police car for 20 minutes so any alcohol he has had
:12:51. > :12:55.can into his system. Then it is time for him to blow into the
:12:55. > :13:01.breathalyser. If the result is positive, he could face a ban for a
:13:01. > :13:11.year. I am going to hold on to this, so deep breaths, and when you are
:13:11. > :13:13.
:13:13. > :13:20.ready, blowhard. Stop. Thank you. Take the tube off the end there...
:13:20. > :13:27.You have passed. Be very careful and do not drink any more on your
:13:27. > :13:30.journey. OK. Why is it a risky thing to do? He had three friends
:13:30. > :13:35.in the car and he was disregarding their safety and drinking whilst
:13:35. > :13:41.driving. The certainly will not be the team's last encounter with
:13:41. > :13:47.alcohol tonight. -- this certainly. They join the team in Brighton for
:13:47. > :13:52.roadside checks. We are doing a big cheque in Preston part in Brighton.
:13:52. > :13:56.This is the first lovely sunny day we have had in months! So I think
:13:56. > :14:00.people will be drinking this afternoon either in their homes or
:14:00. > :14:04.in pub gardens. I would like to hope they will not drink-drive but
:14:04. > :14:10.we are likely to find somebody. If we will be back with the traffic
:14:10. > :14:14.cops later. First, though, it is time for our Wanted Faces. It is
:14:14. > :14:19.different today. These are wanted from Northern Ireland. Before we
:14:19. > :14:21.get into the detail, Inspector Jon Burrows from the Police Service in
:14:21. > :14:28.Northern Ireland is going to tell us a bit more about Operation
:14:28. > :14:32.Relentless. Tell us what you are doing? For the operation was
:14:32. > :14:37.launched in 2011 and it is designed to attract people down who have not
:14:37. > :14:41.appeared in court but for an arrest warrant has been issued. We are
:14:41. > :14:46.determined to track them down and bring them to justice. He pioneered
:14:46. > :14:51.this and you're very passion about -- a -- you pioneered this and you
:14:51. > :14:57.are very passionate about it? are people who are persistent
:14:57. > :15:01.offenders across the country. Burglaries, assaulting people very
:15:01. > :15:05.by an -- violently in public. We need to make sure we bring these
:15:05. > :15:10.people before the court to stop crimes being committed. We are not
:15:10. > :15:20.talking about rapists and murderers. You onto the volume crime that
:15:20. > :15:20.
:15:20. > :15:23.Young children can't sleep at night. There is a sense of violation. We
:15:23. > :15:27.have people being violently assaulted which traumatise his
:15:27. > :15:31.people. People with injuries, they are left disfigured and it affects
:15:31. > :15:36.the quality of life. We want to reduce crime in Northern Ireland
:15:36. > :15:44.and make it a safer place for everybody. 350 arrests already
:15:44. > :15:48.pulled up let's make it more. They are actually looking for to wonder
:15:48. > :15:52.people so let's see if we can help them with their next four for the
:15:52. > :15:59.Brian Maxwell is wanted with a number of offences including two
:15:59. > :16:04.accounts of assaulting a police He allegedly bit off part of
:16:04. > :16:12.another man's ear for the very unpleasant. He has connections to
:16:12. > :16:17.Londonderry and speaks what a Derry accent. Neil O'Brien, burglar,
:16:17. > :16:21.theft of a motor vehicle and drink- driving. The police really need
:16:22. > :16:29.your help to find him. He has connections with Derry and County
:16:29. > :16:36.Donegal. Where is he now? This is Thomas mallet and wanted for 5
:16:36. > :16:42.counts of burglary. He also has connections to Derry and speaks
:16:42. > :16:47.with a Derry accent and the last one for today, Steven Patrick
:16:47. > :16:52.wanted for car crime. He was arrested and charged but failed to
:16:52. > :16:57.appear at court and has been on the run. He has a scar on his left
:16:57. > :17:02.eyebrow and speaks with a County Tyrone accent. We need to track
:17:02. > :17:12.these men down. If you recognise any of those faces get in touch on
:17:12. > :17:13.
:17:13. > :17:18.Still to come. The precious silver stolen from a Brighton church. The
:17:18. > :17:23.community is devastated and the police want answers. And how well
:17:23. > :17:31.our traffic cops get on with a drink-driving crackdown as night
:17:31. > :17:35.falls in Brighton? Let's go back to Brighton. When a criminal is sent
:17:35. > :17:37.to prison you may think that for the victim that is the last they
:17:37. > :17:40.hear of them. But increasingly there are moves to bring the
:17:40. > :17:45.victims face to face with the person who committed the crime
:17:45. > :17:51.against them. It is called restorative justice. Rachel, tell
:17:51. > :17:56.us about your burglary. We had some gold jewellery stolen from my house.
:17:56. > :17:59.When the man was caught, he admitted four burglaries and 39
:18:00. > :18:06.other offences and you were offered the chance to meet him. Why did you
:18:06. > :18:10.say yes? When we spoke to the police and he said he wanted to
:18:10. > :18:13.make different choices and stop offending, we thought people
:18:13. > :18:17.deserve a second chance and if we can explain the impact of his
:18:17. > :18:22.offence on us, it might make a difference. What was the meeting
:18:22. > :18:26.like? We met him at the prison, seven of us. And it was very
:18:26. > :18:30.emotional. A lot of emotions from both sides and anger but, at the
:18:30. > :18:35.end of it, a feeling that people wanted him to make the right
:18:35. > :18:39.decisions and get the support he needed. When your house has broken
:18:39. > :18:44.into, you must have felt angry but did that changed once you'd spoken
:18:44. > :18:48.to him? Yes, he was extremely remorseful. As soon as he was
:18:48. > :18:53.arrested he told a breeze where he had taken my jewellery, and the key
:18:53. > :18:58.piece which was most sentimental to me was retrieved and I got it back.
:18:58. > :19:03.This is a locket which belonged to your grandmother. Great sentimental
:19:03. > :19:10.value, and because the co-operate with the breeze, they were able to
:19:10. > :19:14.retrieve it. Absolutely. You would recommend other people to do this?
:19:14. > :19:24.Yes, for closure and to make a difference. Rachel, thank you very
:19:24. > :19:33.
:19:33. > :19:37.much. How often do victims come face-to-face with their offenders?
:19:37. > :19:41.In West Sussex we have run of four of these meetings. Three are
:19:41. > :19:50.prolific burglars and one is a repeated violent crime offended. --
:19:50. > :19:55.offender. We have to make sure it doesn't affect the victim and make
:19:55. > :20:00.sure the perpetrator is remorseful. For the victim, it seeks closer.
:20:00. > :20:03.Speaking to the offenders, seeing what they look like a rather than
:20:04. > :20:11.having that image in your head and then work know what they did with
:20:11. > :20:18.the property. What is in it for the offender? It is done after
:20:18. > :20:21.sentences. For them, we are trying to rehabilitate them. We can't look
:20:22. > :20:29.the same people up each time and we have to give people the opportunity.
:20:29. > :20:35.It also looks at reduction in crime. Can they get a lighter sentence?
:20:35. > :20:41.it is done after sentencing. Thanks very much. But now it's over to
:20:41. > :20:46.Dave. Thanks, St Georges Georgeham Brighton is a hub of the community
:20:47. > :20:56.in Kemp Town, so when thieves broke in ironically on St George's Day,
:20:57. > :20:57.
:20:57. > :21:02.April 23rd, the congregation was Some years ago, when I was a bit
:21:02. > :21:08.younger, we could leave this church open and nobody was looking after
:21:08. > :21:14.it, knowing nothing would be stolen but you can't do that anymore.
:21:14. > :21:17.think it's really sad that the Church's Trust has been betrayed.
:21:17. > :21:22.St Georges Church in Brighton has been a haven of peace for nearly
:21:22. > :21:27.200 years. It's a really special place. Over a week, we had
:21:27. > :21:34.something like 2000 people passing through the building. We have the
:21:34. > :21:39.church and congregation. Dog- walking ribs, support groups for
:21:39. > :21:42.people in recovery from alcoholism and drug abuse. -- walking groups.
:21:42. > :21:49.But the piece of the church was brutally shattered one night in
:21:49. > :21:52.April this year. We believed to people broke into the church. They
:21:52. > :21:57.used crowbars to gain entry through one of the main front doors causing
:21:57. > :22:02.quite a lot of damage to that door. They then use the crowbars on an
:22:02. > :22:08.internal door. When they came into this area of the church, they used
:22:08. > :22:11.a crowbar to smash the Cabinet behind me which contained a large
:22:11. > :22:16.quantity of silverware which had been with the Church for several
:22:16. > :22:22.hundred years. Much of it was bequeathed to the church by Queen
:22:22. > :22:27.Adelaide, the wife of William the 4th. She was crowned Queen in 1831
:22:27. > :22:31.and used to worship there. Adelaide silver was part of the
:22:31. > :22:35.history of this place, very much a visible sign of what used to be
:22:35. > :22:40.happening and something people could come into and show their
:22:40. > :22:43.friends and show that they are part of a living, continuing history.
:22:43. > :22:47.These days, churches hide their treasures away but so endured as
:22:47. > :22:55.did not want to do that. We decided a long time ago that that was not a
:22:55. > :23:01.good idea. We wanted to use these pieces in the liturgy but also to
:23:01. > :23:05.have them visible so people could come and see them. The silver was
:23:05. > :23:09.valued in 1970 as being worth around �13,000. It is likely to
:23:09. > :23:14.have more than doubled by now. But, for the church, it's worth far more
:23:14. > :23:21.than that. The real loss is not anything to do with money at all.
:23:21. > :23:26.It really is to do with the fact that people use them in their lives
:23:26. > :23:32.and its special in that way. They were locked in a special display
:23:32. > :23:38.case made it unbreakable glass. But that did not stop the thieves. They
:23:38. > :23:41.did manage to get the silver but it would not have been easy. There's a
:23:41. > :23:44.large amount of damage to the Cabinet which must have taken some
:23:44. > :23:48.time and would have made a lot of noise so somebody must have had
:23:48. > :23:53.something. In the morning, the parishioners could not believe what
:23:53. > :23:58.had happened. I was horrified. I was in the supermarket and somebody
:23:58. > :24:01.told me and they came running along here to find out what had happened.
:24:01. > :24:08.The community was blocked because it was so sad to see it happening
:24:08. > :24:12.like that. It seems to me that these days a lot of people don't
:24:12. > :24:16.respect the Church or any other important place. What would-be
:24:16. > :24:20.thieves have done with this valuable historic silver? I spoke
:24:20. > :24:24.to people in antiques, who believe that those items are actually quite
:24:25. > :24:31.popular at the moment so they may have been stolen with a view to
:24:31. > :24:35.selling them as they are, as opposed to melting them down.
:24:35. > :24:39.People ask me about what I've been about the people who did this. They
:24:39. > :24:49.seem to think they are above community and that is really quite
:24:49. > :24:53.
:24:53. > :24:56.dreadful. I wouldn't want to live like that. Now that theft has
:24:56. > :24:58.obviously had a big impact on that community. DC Gemma Holley is
:24:58. > :25:03.running this investigation. Those thieves would have made quite a
:25:03. > :25:07.noise getting in to that case, wouldn't they? Absolutely. It was
:25:07. > :25:12.museum quality standard. They would have spent a long time hitting it
:25:12. > :25:15.and made a large amount of noise. You want someone to come forward.
:25:16. > :25:20.Yes, we appeal to anyone who has information and if they saw
:25:20. > :25:22.anything to come forward. There was building work going on at the time
:25:22. > :25:28.and they may have associated it with that when in fact it was a
:25:28. > :25:35.burglary. Remind us about the stuff that was stolen. There is items of
:25:35. > :25:39.silverware. All of a religious nature. Anything else which could
:25:39. > :25:42.trigger people's memories? It was on St George's Day is the people
:25:42. > :25:47.may have been going to and from celebrations. Hopefully that will
:25:47. > :25:52.remind them of the day it happened. They used a crowbar and they would
:25:52. > :25:55.have made quite a racket. Thank you ever so much for joining us. If you
:25:55. > :26:01.had any information get in touch with us. The number is on screen
:26:01. > :26:05.now. Thanks, Colin. They did not get away with all the silver
:26:05. > :26:10.because we have some of it here. Let's talk to Alice from the Art
:26:10. > :26:15.loss Register. Explain to us what it is. We maintain the world's
:26:15. > :26:19.largest database of lost, stolen and missing at the facts of art and
:26:19. > :26:23.things like this. The art market can check with us before they buy
:26:23. > :26:28.or sell items to make sure they're not stolen. Really, they should not
:26:28. > :26:32.be an excuse for somebody doing it by accident. Let's look at these
:26:32. > :26:36.two pieces. These were left behind by the robbers thankfully. They are
:26:36. > :26:40.now securely locked away and have been allowed out for today. What
:26:40. > :26:45.would you be looking for on a piece like this? There are hallmarks to
:26:45. > :26:51.look out for and the unique design on both of these. The pieces are
:26:51. > :26:57.also church silverware. If you're offered them, you should ask
:26:57. > :27:02.questions, shouldn't you? Absolutely. It's not often churches
:27:02. > :27:06.give up something is valuable as this. Is it the fact going to be
:27:07. > :27:13.that they have got to face up to this will be having been melted
:27:13. > :27:19.down? Not necessarily. The value of medleys increasing but these pieces
:27:19. > :27:24.have additional value because of historical significance. People
:27:24. > :27:29.could take them for valuation. They could be consigned for a specialist
:27:29. > :27:33.or silver dealer. You told me that one piece turned up six years after
:27:33. > :27:39.it disappeared? Yes, we have identified piece is working with
:27:39. > :27:45.the police were to have stolen six years before. In 2000 made, we
:27:45. > :27:49.discovered an item stolen in 1961 for the -- 2008. If people are
:27:49. > :27:58.offered this, what they do? Contact the church, the appropriate police
:27:58. > :28:06.force, or bass, use our website to check. And we will work to return
:28:06. > :28:16.to the rightful owner. The message is, by the -- buyer beware. If you
:28:16. > :28:16.
:28:16. > :28:25.have any information, contact crime stoppers anonymously. Or you can
:28:25. > :28:29.contact us direct on this number. 08000 468999. Or text us on 63399.
:28:29. > :28:32.Now, let's get back to the theft of 18 grand's worth of state-of-the-
:28:32. > :28:34.art equipment from a charity in Rye just before Christmas last year. On
:28:34. > :28:38.the Friday before Christmas last year, young people at this workshop
:28:38. > :28:42.charity in Rye were getting into the festive spirit. They had a lot
:28:42. > :28:45.to celebrate. There charity helps young people who are struggling at
:28:45. > :28:49.school and as a great results also they were just getting back on
:28:49. > :28:53.track after a burglary the previous month. And the children were
:28:53. > :28:58.looking forward to the new year. Since I came here, I have started
:28:58. > :29:03.doing GCSEs. I have also joined police cadets and I had been
:29:03. > :29:13.promoted twice to second in command. They help you out with a lot of
:29:13. > :29:15.
:29:15. > :29:21.But then, on this Silent Night, a burglar breaks into the building by
:29:21. > :29:26.forcing the bars on the window. But once inside, he seems surprised to
:29:26. > :29:31.be caught on CCTV again. It is the sheer audacity of the man! He seems
:29:31. > :29:36.to be doing his Christmas shopping. You can see him browsing the items,
:29:36. > :29:46.lifting things up to see what they are made of. But without reindeers
:29:46. > :29:46.
:29:46. > :29:49.and a sleigh, how will he carry everything? Problem solved! He then
:29:49. > :29:54.collects all of the stuff and put it in the wheelbarrow, which he
:29:54. > :29:59.uses to take it out of the building. Here's one Santa Clause who does
:29:59. > :30:05.not need any little help us. He is quite happy to help himself. Next
:30:05. > :30:11.on his list, some electric guitars. There will be no presents under
:30:11. > :30:17.this Christmas tree tonight. All in all, he has got away with �30,000
:30:17. > :30:23.worth of stuff. Merry Christmas! You couldn't imagine the effect
:30:23. > :30:29.that had on them. On all of us. I just felt physically and utterly
:30:29. > :30:35.sick! That somebody has come into this promises again and stolen if
:30:35. > :30:40.the equipment, but more importantly, stolen the young people's work, and
:30:40. > :30:43.it was sickening. It was not just the theft of the items that upset
:30:43. > :30:49.the students. Coursework they had spent months working on also
:30:49. > :30:53.disappeared. I have this stop frame animation, 30 pictures per second,
:30:53. > :30:58.and I had nearly finished it. It was nearly three minutes and then
:30:58. > :31:05.it had all gone. The hard drives were gone, once again. Computers we
:31:05. > :31:10.had just got back. Everything. After that, I just felt as though I
:31:10. > :31:14.could not carry on. It was too much doing it all over again. But the
:31:14. > :31:19.guys here helped us to regain confidence and do it all over again,
:31:19. > :31:24.and we have pretty much soldiered on. It is work they designed
:31:24. > :31:27.themselves and somebody can come along and steel that and Take That,
:31:28. > :31:33.and don't have any regard whatsoever of the time and effort
:31:33. > :31:38.those young people have put in. -- and take it. It is absolutely
:31:38. > :31:43.disgraceful. It disgusts me. joined now by Sergeant Paul Graham.
:31:43. > :31:51.You have got a feel for these guys, haven't you? Go through the list of
:31:51. > :31:57.what was missing. In total, six Apple computers, two expensive
:31:57. > :32:03.cameras, a number of laptops, three guitars, but, more importantly,
:32:03. > :32:09.three hard drives and the work that children have put on there. If were
:32:09. > :32:17.there any distinguishing marks on the computers? We have serial
:32:17. > :32:23.numbers but otherwise nothing. the total was �30,000? No charity
:32:23. > :32:28.can afford to lose that? No. the computers contain bits and
:32:28. > :32:32.pieces of the children's work? They were doing their course work
:32:32. > :32:37.and the evening before, they had filmed a local show at a local
:32:37. > :32:41.school. And photos were still in the cameras that were stolen.
:32:41. > :32:46.is the sort of thing they cannot replace and it is beyond value for
:32:46. > :32:52.them. Is there a chance they can get any of this back? There is if
:32:52. > :32:58.people come forward. If they buy a camera with such a card in it,
:32:58. > :33:02.there is a realistic opportunity. However, it is slim at the moment.
:33:02. > :33:08.If somebody has bought a camera in good faith and finds one of these
:33:08. > :33:14.cards in it, there is no a comeback on them at all? No. We would not be
:33:14. > :33:24.looking at them like that. Let's just look at the still of the guy
:33:24. > :33:26.
:33:26. > :33:30.go -- guy on the CCTV. He has a very distinguished receding auburn
:33:30. > :33:36.hair line. So I think if you know him, you would recognise him from
:33:36. > :33:40.that image? Yes. So, you have seen the image and heard the story. If
:33:40. > :33:44.you know who he is, you know what to do. The numbers are on the
:33:44. > :33:53.screen. Or you can call Crimestoppers.
:33:53. > :33:58.Time now for an update on how your phone calls, text! -- texts and
:33:58. > :34:03.emails are helping. This is a man who police think is responsible for
:34:03. > :34:13.a number of Ford activities. Detectives say that they are
:34:13. > :34:18.
:34:18. > :34:23.working on some strongThe inquiry thanks to your calls. Some -- some
:34:23. > :34:27.strong, new inquiries. And we featured CCTV footage which
:34:28. > :34:31.appeared to show a woman sneaking into the backroom of a shop in
:34:31. > :34:38.Leicester, trying to open the safe, but leaving when confronted by the
:34:38. > :34:42.shopkeeper. We now have possible names for her after two calls. We
:34:42. > :34:47.will keep you updated. Let's get back to that drink-drive
:34:47. > :34:57.campaign. As night falls, officers said up a roadblock to conduct
:34:57. > :35:00.
:35:00. > :35:08.random breath tests or dash random breath tests.
:35:08. > :35:17.-- random breath tests. Can I ask if you have had any
:35:17. > :35:21.alcohol? Que je pull up next to my colleague just there? -- could you?
:35:21. > :35:24.It is now time to set up a road safety check and the police had
:35:25. > :35:30.these sorts of operations will deter people from having a drink
:35:30. > :35:35.and getting behind the wheel. breath and stop when I tell you.
:35:35. > :35:44.That has come up as the road. There is nothing in your system. Keep
:35:44. > :35:50.going. It has come up as a pass. You had a drink earlier but it is
:35:50. > :35:58.OK. Blowhard until I tell you to stop. An hour into the Czechs, and
:35:58. > :36:06.how will the officer steering? -- an hour into checking and how are
:36:06. > :36:14.the officers doing? Mostly, people have been OK to drive. For many,
:36:14. > :36:21.this might seem extreme, but for those affected by drink-driving,
:36:21. > :36:27.these tests are far better than the consequences many have gone through.
:36:27. > :36:32.Katie was killed five years ago and she left behind her husband and
:36:32. > :36:37.children. She had a five-year-old son. How do you tell a five-year-
:36:37. > :36:42.old? You don't get to say goodbye and her body is in such a bad way
:36:42. > :36:48.that we could not Egypt -- could even see her afterwards. The whole
:36:48. > :36:54.family... Well, yeah, it has affected everybody. Nobody is the
:36:54. > :36:59.same any more. On 29th June 2010, Katie was riding on the back of a
:36:59. > :37:07.friend's motorbike. The driver had been drinking and taking drugs. On
:37:07. > :37:14.the way home, the bike plunged into a traffic island at 100 miles an
:37:14. > :37:18.hour. Katie died instantly. Her body went around a lamp-post. If
:37:18. > :37:27.people realise the actual consequences of just having one too
:37:27. > :37:35.many drinks, on a bike, in a car, if that person realised, took a
:37:35. > :37:40.second and thought, get a taxi, walk where you are going to, it is
:37:41. > :37:46.for the sake of putting all of your friends and family through that. It
:37:46. > :37:49.is unnecessary. Back at the roadside check, police have
:37:49. > :37:55.discovered drugs and it is no surprise to the officers, as this
:37:55. > :38:01.is becoming all the more prevalent. What is in your bag? A little bit
:38:01. > :38:11.of cannabis. Where is it? Basically, we have a strong smell of cannabis
:38:11. > :38:13.
:38:13. > :38:18.in the vehicle. It is now easier to get hold of drugs now. People are
:38:18. > :38:23.driving under the influence. It is very difficult. Police have putted
:38:23. > :38:33.This car over because there was the smell of cannabis when they put
:38:33. > :38:35.
:38:35. > :38:38.their heads through the window. -- the police have pulled. Drug-
:38:38. > :38:46.driving as a poster drink-driving is a fairly common and important
:38:46. > :38:51.factor. -- as opposed to. We deal with with cannabis warnings and we
:38:51. > :38:55.have actually given 20 or so a breath test, so we see a lot of
:38:55. > :38:59.people drinking alcohol out there, and these people need to be aware
:38:59. > :39:06.that if they have a bit too much, at some point they will be over the
:39:06. > :39:11.limit and losing their licences. We have had 20 tonight. Tonight has
:39:11. > :39:15.been very successful. We had tourists. Although they were not on
:39:15. > :39:18.our particular operation, they were in Sussex. We have also raised the
:39:18. > :39:23.awareness of those who were not only stopped but with their
:39:23. > :39:28.families. As they are driving past the roadside checks, they are
:39:28. > :39:34.thinking, where is the next one? Will I be caught?
:39:35. > :39:43.I am now joined by Kevin Clinton, who is head off road safety for
:39:43. > :39:48.ROSPA. That is the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
:39:48. > :39:54.Around 400 people are killed every year from drink-driving, so that is
:39:54. > :39:59.about five every week. Five lives to money being lost. If and
:39:59. > :40:02.Scotland are currently looking at changing the laws. Scotland now has
:40:02. > :40:11.the power to set its own drink- drive limit and they are proposing
:40:11. > :40:16.to know it. It will go down from 80 to 50 milligrammes in 100
:40:16. > :40:21.millilitres of blood. We have one of the highest drink-drive limits
:40:21. > :40:25.in Europe. Almost all of Europe has a limit of 50, which is where
:40:25. > :40:34.Scotland is proposing to go. would it be possible to have Sera?
:40:34. > :40:41.Literally it would not have -- not be possible to have zero because
:40:41. > :40:45.your blood it naturally has a bit of alcohol in it. After those road
:40:45. > :40:53.checks, people are still drinking and driving. Are you ever going to
:40:53. > :41:01.get the message across? Well, if the message is getting through.
:41:01. > :41:06.Many years ago, it was over 1,500 being killed each year. Now it is
:41:06. > :41:11.down to under 400. If you find drivers of all ages doing it. The
:41:11. > :41:15.highest risk is younger drivers because the alcohol affect them
:41:15. > :41:19.much more and they are experienced. Younger drivers have grown up
:41:19. > :41:22.always knowing that you should not drink and drive and may be older
:41:22. > :41:28.drivers back in the days said, you can have a few pints and it does
:41:28. > :41:31.not matter? Yes. But we have had the drink-drive campaign for 40
:41:31. > :41:37.years, so people driving before those campaigns started will be
:41:37. > :41:43.quite old. So it is simple that we need to continue the campaign. You
:41:43. > :41:48.can never stop. Absolutely. Thank you very much. Back to you, Rav.
:41:48. > :41:54.Thank you. Just time to give you a quick update. A possible name has
:41:54. > :41:59.come in for that theft from the charity in Rye. Police are looking
:41:59. > :42:04.into that as we speak. And some good information coming end on a
:42:04. > :42:09.face from yesterday. There he is. Sentenced to two years for robbery
:42:09. > :42:15.but did not turn up. Thank you to everybody who has got in touch.
:42:15. > :42:22.That is all we have time for. Dave, you are moving on tomorrow? Yes. We
:42:22. > :42:29.are saying goodbye to Sussex, Brighton and Surrey. I have had a
:42:29. > :42:33.very enjoyable time. I think the best day was throwing those weapons
:42:33. > :42:37.into the water and waiting for the police to find them. We have
:42:37. > :42:41.another day of water tomorrow with the Metropolitan Police out on the
:42:41. > :42:44.River Thames, seeing what they do. We will also be looking at how
:42:44. > :42:49.destruction burglars are targeting vulnerable and elderly people in
:42:49. > :42:54.the capital. That is tomorrow. sounds great! Thank you for your
:42:54. > :43:01.help in Sussex. That is it for today. Fall of the details about