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Today it on Crimewatch Roadshow: The crook who went on a thieving

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spree but forgot all about the Hello and welcome to Crimewatch

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Roadshow. We are live and on air every week day for the next three

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weeks. Police asking for your help to catch criminals committing

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crimes which blight lives up and down the country. On the programme

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today, police want to find the thieves who smashed their way into

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Whitchurch to steal their precious antique silver. -- into a church.

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We are out on patrol with the traffic cops, clamping down on

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drink-driving on the roads of Sussex.

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Do you know this brazen thief? He spent hours choosing his mood at a

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charity warehouse in Rye. The Roadshow team is travelling the

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country investigating crimes happening where you are. Today is

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the last day in Sussex and you are by the seaside today, Dave. Is the

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sun shining? The sun is already cracking the flags here in Brighton

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and it has only gone 9:15am! By lunchtime, the beach will be full

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of people. We are going to look at what the police are doing to cut

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crime on the seafront and BBC South East's Colin Campbell has more.

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We'll be seeing what the police are doing to tackle bicycle Thieves. We

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will be finding a what they use this for later in the programme.

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But first, to the historic town of Rye, which is home to a charity

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that helps teenagers struggling in school. Those teenagers have been

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left devastated by not one but two burglaries. The entertainment

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workshops in Rye are working hard to give kids who do not do well in

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school a second chance. People give their time and money for freezer

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young teenagers can get their lives back on track. The charity was set

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up primarily to help young people to actually proceed into the

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entertainment business. If the truth is, I never really got on

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with school. Never really got on with it. Always in trouble. Coming

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here, they give you time and tell you that you are good at things.

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They give you chances to try things. But all that work took a knock in

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November when thieves broke into the charity and made off with

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�18,000 worth of equipment. The insurance company paid out but the

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premium was raised, and then it was not just about the money. On those

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computers and PCs and cameras, there was an awful lot of these

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young people's work. It was horrid. They were distraught because their

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work had gone missing. Despite the setback, they all worked together

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to get the charity back on its feet, and just a month later, days before

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Christmas, they celebrated with an end-of-term party. We had a great

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time. We had video-games, food, soft drinks. And everybody had a

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jovial mood. We were getting a huge community spirit back again.

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students and staff headed home at around 6pm. Shaun stayed behind to

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make sure everything was locked. The last thing he wanted was

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another burglary. When everything was locked up I calorie assume we

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were being closely watched by the person -- I can only assume that we

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were being watched by the person from the adjacent industrial estate.

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But Christmas was definitely not come in early for this charity.

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Just weeks after the first burglary it was about to be hit again. This

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man, picked up by CCTV, is no Father Christmas. He is working out

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how to break in. He spends quite a lot of time outside and he can be

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seen lifting a pothole and smashing the security light, and it takes in

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a couple of hours to break into the building. He has gone through a

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window, which caused considerable damage as he entered the property.

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With the light smashed comedy with and a burglar would be in a hurry

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to get the job done, but not this cool customer. He forces his way in

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through the barred window but as soon as he enters, he is in for a

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nasty surprise. Then he gets camera-shy. You can see he looks

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straight at the CCTV camera pointing in the direction of his

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entry. He goes up to try to disable it but then you go to clear view of

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his face, so he knows somebody must know him. He eventually decides it

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is time for action but he is in no Russia. Here he is, systematically

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stealing expensive computers and cameras. This is equipment it has

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taken the charity months of fund- raising to buy. He was outside for

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that an hour trying to get in but he was in no hurried inside.

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season of goodwill is now well and truly ruined for the charity. This

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thief has stolen Christmas. Fat that is as bare-faced as you

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will get and we will have more on that brazen thief later on. If you

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already recognise him, we need to hear from you.

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Now time to hear from -- see some dodgy deeds caught on camera.

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April Fools' Day, but what is about happen is no joke. It is a service

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station in Rossendale, Lancashire, and these men are asked to change

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�160 worth of notes into coins. Whilst the assistant crouches down

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to sort it out, a man leans over the counter and grabs a cashbox. At

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�200 has just been emptied from the till in to it. If tell us who they

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are so they do not get away with falling any body else.

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This train is travelling between Putney and Mortlake in May last

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year. After two men get on the -- two women get on, this man stands

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behind them. As the train approaches the station, he makes a

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grab for one of the women before he leaves the train. He should not be

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allowed to get away with this. Tell us who he is.

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Next, a bike shop in Croydon. July last year. A customer is showing a

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lot of interest in a bygone display. He then moves away to have a look

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through the catalogue. -- interest in a bike on display. He comes back

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and fiddles with the bike. He gets it loose and we'll sit pass the

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shop assistants and through the door. They gave chase but because

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he is on two wheels, he gets away. If you recognise him, give us a

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call. Those of a kind of everyday crimes

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being committed up and down the country. If you recognised anything

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in those clips, you know what you need to do. This is our number. You

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can send us a text as well. Leave a space between the number and the

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message. If you don't, the message will not get through.

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Dave? Thank you. When it is bathed in sunshine on a day like this, the

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front pit in Brighton looks marvellous. But even here there is

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crime. Dave is a police and Community Support Officer. What

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sort of problems to face? Unfortunately, the biggest issues

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are in relation to theft. A large percentage takes place in the

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night-time economy - the pubs and clubs. People are intoxicated and

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leaving their things around. People are not taking the security

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seriously. Biking is very popular. Bike theft is also a big issue for

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you. You have a secret weapon. What is this? This is the Sussex Police

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bait bike. It has got a tracking device hidden somewhere on it. We

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lock it up as we would a normal bike and lead it and wait for the

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alarm. You wait for somebody to try and steal it? And when they do,

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Lizzie steps in. If this is a digital tracking receive. It uses

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state-of-the-art GPS technology. It tracks the spike anywhere across

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the world to within one centimetre. Anywhere across the world? Yes.

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we could be in Lewes, Llandudno, anywhere! Has it worked? Have you

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been able to catch people in the act? We have had lots of really

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good results in Brighton. One in particular was last summer, web of

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the bike was stolen on the other side of the city and within half an

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hour, we managed to track it back. The man was taken into custody.

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must have been quite shocked? His face was quite shocked.

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you're looking for somebody to steal the spite? Yes, but we have

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got it locked up quite securely using a decent lock, and there we

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leave it alone. We don't monitor it. We just wait for the alarm to go

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off. Even when you lock your back- up, there are still those

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determined thieves who will get it? -- clock your bike up? Yes. We

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encourage people to double lock and to use a Darlton have to lock and

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another lot on the front. And you have to do all Buchan to protect

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your property? -- all you can. Thank you very much indeed. In this

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lovely weather it might be tending to hop into way car and drive out

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to a country pub, which is why police forces are using this time

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of year to run anti- drink-drive campaigns. I have been out with

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offices in Sussex. It is a warm summer evening and

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many are enjoying a drink after work. But for these two officers,

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the shift will be spent looking out for drink-drivers. In a hot weather,

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people have finished work and it is a social thing to do after work,

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have a drink, and that leads to another and another. People want to

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go somewhere warm, sit outside, maybe a country pub. In order to

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get there, you have to drive, and in the spirit of having a good time

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they might have one too many and then drive home. We deal with road

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death and one of the contributing factors is some sort of impairment

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in a person's system. And a lot of the time, with the impairment is

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the alcohol which is more common. He is Sussex last year, almost one

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in five fatal collisions was ajar, or-related. -- in Sussex. -- was

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alcohol-related. We have seen somebody drinking from a bottle of

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beer as he is driving along. He has passed over this road so we are

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going to see if we can catch up with him and do a breath test on

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the driver. We have in 10 minutes, the car is in sight. This is a car

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straight ahead of us. We're just going to wait for an appropriate

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place and then we will be pulling it over and speaking to the driver.

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This is the first motorist to be Paul Dover this evening. Police get

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their intelligence from a number of sources. -- to be pulled over.

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have seen you drinking beer in the front seat of a car. I am going to

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need a specimen of breath for analysis. Even if he had not been

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over the limit, the driver would have been distracted by drinking at

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the wheel. The officers suspect he has been drinking recently. He has

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to wait and a police car for 20 minutes so any alcohol he has had

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can into his system. Then it is time for him to blow into the

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breathalyser. If the result is positive, he could face a ban for a

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year. I am going to hold on to this, so deep breaths, and when you are

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ready, blowhard. Stop. Thank you. Take the tube off the end there...

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You have passed. Be very careful and do not drink any more on your

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journey. OK. Why is it a risky thing to do? He had three friends

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in the car and he was disregarding their safety and drinking whilst

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driving. The certainly will not be the team's last encounter with

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alcohol tonight. -- this certainly. They join the team in Brighton for

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roadside checks. We are doing a big cheque in Preston part in Brighton.

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This is the first lovely sunny day we have had in months! So I think

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people will be drinking this afternoon either in their homes or

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in pub gardens. I would like to hope they will not drink-drive but

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we are likely to find somebody. If we will be back with the traffic

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cops later. First, though, it is time for our Wanted Faces. It is

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different today. These are wanted from Northern Ireland. Before we

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get into the detail, Inspector Jon Burrows from the Police Service in

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Northern Ireland is going to tell us a bit more about Operation

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Relentless. Tell us what you are doing? For the operation was

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launched in 2011 and it is designed to attract people down who have not

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appeared in court but for an arrest warrant has been issued. We are

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determined to track them down and bring them to justice. He pioneered

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this and you're very passion about -- a -- you pioneered this and you

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are very passionate about it? are people who are persistent

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offenders across the country. Burglaries, assaulting people very

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by an -- violently in public. We need to make sure we bring these

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people before the court to stop crimes being committed. We are not

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talking about rapists and murderers. You onto the volume crime that

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Young children can't sleep at night. There is a sense of violation. We

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have people being violently assaulted which traumatise his

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people. People with injuries, they are left disfigured and it affects

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the quality of life. We want to reduce crime in Northern Ireland

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and make it a safer place for everybody. 350 arrests already

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pulled up let's make it more. They are actually looking for to wonder

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people so let's see if we can help them with their next four for the

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Brian Maxwell is wanted with a number of offences including two

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accounts of assaulting a police He allegedly bit off part of

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another man's ear for the very unpleasant. He has connections to

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Londonderry and speaks what a Derry accent. Neil O'Brien, burglar,

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theft of a motor vehicle and drink- driving. The police really need

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your help to find him. He has connections with Derry and County

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Donegal. Where is he now? This is Thomas mallet and wanted for 5

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counts of burglary. He also has connections to Derry and speaks

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with a Derry accent and the last one for today, Steven Patrick

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wanted for car crime. He was arrested and charged but failed to

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appear at court and has been on the run. He has a scar on his left

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eyebrow and speaks with a County Tyrone accent. We need to track

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these men down. If you recognise any of those faces get in touch on

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Still to come. The precious silver stolen from a Brighton church. The

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community is devastated and the police want answers. And how well

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our traffic cops get on with a drink-driving crackdown as night

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falls in Brighton? Let's go back to Brighton. When a criminal is sent

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to prison you may think that for the victim that is the last they

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hear of them. But increasingly there are moves to bring the

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victims face to face with the person who committed the crime

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against them. It is called restorative justice. Rachel, tell

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us about your burglary. We had some gold jewellery stolen from my house.

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When the man was caught, he admitted four burglaries and 39

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other offences and you were offered the chance to meet him. Why did you

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say yes? When we spoke to the police and he said he wanted to

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make different choices and stop offending, we thought people

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deserve a second chance and if we can explain the impact of his

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offence on us, it might make a difference. What was the meeting

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like? We met him at the prison, seven of us. And it was very

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emotional. A lot of emotions from both sides and anger but, at the

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end of it, a feeling that people wanted him to make the right

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decisions and get the support he needed. When your house has broken

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into, you must have felt angry but did that changed once you'd spoken

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to him? Yes, he was extremely remorseful. As soon as he was

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arrested he told a breeze where he had taken my jewellery, and the key

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piece which was most sentimental to me was retrieved and I got it back.

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This is a locket which belonged to your grandmother. Great sentimental

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value, and because the co-operate with the breeze, they were able to

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retrieve it. Absolutely. You would recommend other people to do this?

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Yes, for closure and to make a difference. Rachel, thank you very

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much. How often do victims come face-to-face with their offenders?

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In West Sussex we have run of four of these meetings. Three are

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prolific burglars and one is a repeated violent crime offended. --

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offender. We have to make sure it doesn't affect the victim and make

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sure the perpetrator is remorseful. For the victim, it seeks closer.

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Speaking to the offenders, seeing what they look like a rather than

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having that image in your head and then work know what they did with

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the property. What is in it for the offender? It is done after

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sentences. For them, we are trying to rehabilitate them. We can't look

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the same people up each time and we have to give people the opportunity.

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It also looks at reduction in crime. Can they get a lighter sentence?

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it is done after sentencing. Thanks very much. But now it's over to

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Dave. Thanks, St Georges Georgeham Brighton is a hub of the community

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in Kemp Town, so when thieves broke in ironically on St George's Day,

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April 23rd, the congregation was Some years ago, when I was a bit

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younger, we could leave this church open and nobody was looking after

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it, knowing nothing would be stolen but you can't do that anymore.

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think it's really sad that the Church's Trust has been betrayed.

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St Georges Church in Brighton has been a haven of peace for nearly

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200 years. It's a really special place. Over a week, we had

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something like 2000 people passing through the building. We have the

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church and congregation. Dog- walking ribs, support groups for

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people in recovery from alcoholism and drug abuse. -- walking groups.

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But the piece of the church was brutally shattered one night in

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April this year. We believed to people broke into the church. They

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used crowbars to gain entry through one of the main front doors causing

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quite a lot of damage to that door. They then use the crowbars on an

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internal door. When they came into this area of the church, they used

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a crowbar to smash the Cabinet behind me which contained a large

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quantity of silverware which had been with the Church for several

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hundred years. Much of it was bequeathed to the church by Queen

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Adelaide, the wife of William the 4th. She was crowned Queen in 1831

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and used to worship there. Adelaide silver was part of the

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history of this place, very much a visible sign of what used to be

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happening and something people could come into and show their

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friends and show that they are part of a living, continuing history.

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These days, churches hide their treasures away but so endured as

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did not want to do that. We decided a long time ago that that was not a

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good idea. We wanted to use these pieces in the liturgy but also to

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have them visible so people could come and see them. The silver was

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valued in 1970 as being worth around �13,000. It is likely to

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have more than doubled by now. But, for the church, it's worth far more

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than that. The real loss is not anything to do with money at all.

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It really is to do with the fact that people use them in their lives

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and its special in that way. They were locked in a special display

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case made it unbreakable glass. But that did not stop the thieves. They

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did manage to get the silver but it would not have been easy. There's a

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large amount of damage to the Cabinet which must have taken some

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time and would have made a lot of noise so somebody must have had

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something. In the morning, the parishioners could not believe what

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had happened. I was horrified. I was in the supermarket and somebody

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told me and they came running along here to find out what had happened.

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The community was blocked because it was so sad to see it happening

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like that. It seems to me that these days a lot of people don't

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respect the Church or any other important place. What would-be

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thieves have done with this valuable historic silver? I spoke

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to people in antiques, who believe that those items are actually quite

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popular at the moment so they may have been stolen with a view to

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selling them as they are, as opposed to melting them down.

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People ask me about what I've been about the people who did this. They

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seem to think they are above community and that is really quite

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dreadful. I wouldn't want to live like that. Now that theft has

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obviously had a big impact on that community. DC Gemma Holley is

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running this investigation. Those thieves would have made quite a

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noise getting in to that case, wouldn't they? Absolutely. It was

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museum quality standard. They would have spent a long time hitting it

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and made a large amount of noise. You want someone to come forward.

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Yes, we appeal to anyone who has information and if they saw

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anything to come forward. There was building work going on at the time

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and they may have associated it with that when in fact it was a

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burglary. Remind us about the stuff that was stolen. There is items of

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silverware. All of a religious nature. Anything else which could

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trigger people's memories? It was on St George's Day is the people

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may have been going to and from celebrations. Hopefully that will

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remind them of the day it happened. They used a crowbar and they would

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have made quite a racket. Thank you ever so much for joining us. If you

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had any information get in touch with us. The number is on screen

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now. Thanks, Colin. They did not get away with all the silver

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because we have some of it here. Let's talk to Alice from the Art

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loss Register. Explain to us what it is. We maintain the world's

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largest database of lost, stolen and missing at the facts of art and

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things like this. The art market can check with us before they buy

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or sell items to make sure they're not stolen. Really, they should not

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be an excuse for somebody doing it by accident. Let's look at these

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two pieces. These were left behind by the robbers thankfully. They are

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now securely locked away and have been allowed out for today. What

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would you be looking for on a piece like this? There are hallmarks to

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look out for and the unique design on both of these. The pieces are

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also church silverware. If you're offered them, you should ask

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questions, shouldn't you? Absolutely. It's not often churches

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give up something is valuable as this. Is it the fact going to be

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that they have got to face up to this will be having been melted

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down? Not necessarily. The value of medleys increasing but these pieces

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have additional value because of historical significance. People

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could take them for valuation. They could be consigned for a specialist

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or silver dealer. You told me that one piece turned up six years after

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it disappeared? Yes, we have identified piece is working with

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the police were to have stolen six years before. In 2000 made, we

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discovered an item stolen in 1961 for the -- 2008. If people are

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offered this, what they do? Contact the church, the appropriate police

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force, or bass, use our website to check. And we will work to return

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to the rightful owner. The message is, by the -- buyer beware. If you

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have any information, contact crime stoppers anonymously. Or you can

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contact us direct on this number. 08000 468999. Or text us on 63399.

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Now, let's get back to the theft of 18 grand's worth of state-of-the-

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art equipment from a charity in Rye just before Christmas last year. On

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the Friday before Christmas last year, young people at this workshop

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charity in Rye were getting into the festive spirit. They had a lot

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to celebrate. There charity helps young people who are struggling at

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school and as a great results also they were just getting back on

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track after a burglary the previous month. And the children were

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looking forward to the new year. Since I came here, I have started

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doing GCSEs. I have also joined police cadets and I had been

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promoted twice to second in command. They help you out with a lot of

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But then, on this Silent Night, a burglar breaks into the building by

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forcing the bars on the window. But once inside, he seems surprised to

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be caught on CCTV again. It is the sheer audacity of the man! He seems

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to be doing his Christmas shopping. You can see him browsing the items,

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lifting things up to see what they are made of. But without reindeers

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and a sleigh, how will he carry everything? Problem solved! He then

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collects all of the stuff and put it in the wheelbarrow, which he

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uses to take it out of the building. Here's one Santa Clause who does

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not need any little help us. He is quite happy to help himself. Next

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on his list, some electric guitars. There will be no presents under

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this Christmas tree tonight. All in all, he has got away with �30,000

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worth of stuff. Merry Christmas! You couldn't imagine the effect

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that had on them. On all of us. I just felt physically and utterly

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sick! That somebody has come into this promises again and stolen if

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the equipment, but more importantly, stolen the young people's work, and

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it was sickening. It was not just the theft of the items that upset

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the students. Coursework they had spent months working on also

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disappeared. I have this stop frame animation, 30 pictures per second,

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and I had nearly finished it. It was nearly three minutes and then

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it had all gone. The hard drives were gone, once again. Computers we

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had just got back. Everything. After that, I just felt as though I

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could not carry on. It was too much doing it all over again. But the

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guys here helped us to regain confidence and do it all over again,

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and we have pretty much soldiered on. It is work they designed

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themselves and somebody can come along and steel that and Take That,

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and don't have any regard whatsoever of the time and effort

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those young people have put in. -- and take it. It is absolutely

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disgraceful. It disgusts me. joined now by Sergeant Paul Graham.

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You have got a feel for these guys, haven't you? Go through the list of

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what was missing. In total, six Apple computers, two expensive

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cameras, a number of laptops, three guitars, but, more importantly,

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three hard drives and the work that children have put on there. If were

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there any distinguishing marks on the computers? We have serial

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numbers but otherwise nothing. the total was �30,000? No charity

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can afford to lose that? No. the computers contain bits and

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pieces of the children's work? They were doing their course work

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and the evening before, they had filmed a local show at a local

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school. And photos were still in the cameras that were stolen.

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is the sort of thing they cannot replace and it is beyond value for

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them. Is there a chance they can get any of this back? There is if

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people come forward. If they buy a camera with such a card in it,

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there is a realistic opportunity. However, it is slim at the moment.

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If somebody has bought a camera in good faith and finds one of these

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cards in it, there is no a comeback on them at all? No. We would not be

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looking at them like that. Let's just look at the still of the guy

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go -- guy on the CCTV. He has a very distinguished receding auburn

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hair line. So I think if you know him, you would recognise him from

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that image? Yes. So, you have seen the image and heard the story. If

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you know who he is, you know what to do. The numbers are on the

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screen. Or you can call Crimestoppers.

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Time now for an update on how your phone calls, text! -- texts and

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emails are helping. This is a man who police think is responsible for

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a number of Ford activities. Detectives say that they are

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working on some strongThe inquiry thanks to your calls. Some -- some

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strong, new inquiries. And we featured CCTV footage which

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appeared to show a woman sneaking into the backroom of a shop in

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Leicester, trying to open the safe, but leaving when confronted by the

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shopkeeper. We now have possible names for her after two calls. We

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will keep you updated. Let's get back to that drink-drive

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campaign. As night falls, officers said up a roadblock to conduct

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random breath tests or dash random breath tests.

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-- random breath tests. Can I ask if you have had any

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alcohol? Que je pull up next to my colleague just there? -- could you?

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It is now time to set up a road safety check and the police had

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these sorts of operations will deter people from having a drink

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and getting behind the wheel. breath and stop when I tell you.

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That has come up as the road. There is nothing in your system. Keep

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going. It has come up as a pass. You had a drink earlier but it is

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OK. Blowhard until I tell you to stop. An hour into the Czechs, and

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how will the officer steering? -- an hour into checking and how are

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the officers doing? Mostly, people have been OK to drive. For many,

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this might seem extreme, but for those affected by drink-driving,

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these tests are far better than the consequences many have gone through.

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Katie was killed five years ago and she left behind her husband and

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children. She had a five-year-old son. How do you tell a five-year-

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old? You don't get to say goodbye and her body is in such a bad way

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that we could not Egypt -- could even see her afterwards. The whole

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family... Well, yeah, it has affected everybody. Nobody is the

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same any more. On 29th June 2010, Katie was riding on the back of a

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friend's motorbike. The driver had been drinking and taking drugs. On

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the way home, the bike plunged into a traffic island at 100 miles an

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hour. Katie died instantly. Her body went around a lamp-post. If

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people realise the actual consequences of just having one too

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many drinks, on a bike, in a car, if that person realised, took a

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second and thought, get a taxi, walk where you are going to, it is

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for the sake of putting all of your friends and family through that. It

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is unnecessary. Back at the roadside check, police have

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discovered drugs and it is no surprise to the officers, as this

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is becoming all the more prevalent. What is in your bag? A little bit

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of cannabis. Where is it? Basically, we have a strong smell of cannabis

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in the vehicle. It is now easier to get hold of drugs now. People are

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driving under the influence. It is very difficult. Police have putted

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This car over because there was the smell of cannabis when they put

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their heads through the window. -- the police have pulled. Drug-

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driving as a poster drink-driving is a fairly common and important

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factor. -- as opposed to. We deal with with cannabis warnings and we

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have actually given 20 or so a breath test, so we see a lot of

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people drinking alcohol out there, and these people need to be aware

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that if they have a bit too much, at some point they will be over the

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limit and losing their licences. We have had 20 tonight. Tonight has

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been very successful. We had tourists. Although they were not on

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our particular operation, they were in Sussex. We have also raised the

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awareness of those who were not only stopped but with their

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families. As they are driving past the roadside checks, they are

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thinking, where is the next one? Will I be caught?

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I am now joined by Kevin Clinton, who is head off road safety for

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ROSPA. That is the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

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Around 400 people are killed every year from drink-driving, so that is

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about five every week. Five lives to money being lost. If and

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Scotland are currently looking at changing the laws. Scotland now has

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the power to set its own drink- drive limit and they are proposing

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to know it. It will go down from 80 to 50 milligrammes in 100

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millilitres of blood. We have one of the highest drink-drive limits

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in Europe. Almost all of Europe has a limit of 50, which is where

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Scotland is proposing to go. would it be possible to have Sera?

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Literally it would not have -- not be possible to have zero because

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your blood it naturally has a bit of alcohol in it. After those road

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checks, people are still drinking and driving. Are you ever going to

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get the message across? Well, if the message is getting through.

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Many years ago, it was over 1,500 being killed each year. Now it is

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down to under 400. If you find drivers of all ages doing it. The

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highest risk is younger drivers because the alcohol affect them

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much more and they are experienced. Younger drivers have grown up

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always knowing that you should not drink and drive and may be older

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drivers back in the days said, you can have a few pints and it does

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not matter? Yes. But we have had the drink-drive campaign for 40

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years, so people driving before those campaigns started will be

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quite old. So it is simple that we need to continue the campaign. You

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can never stop. Absolutely. Thank you very much. Back to you, Rav.

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Thank you. Just time to give you a quick update. A possible name has

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come in for that theft from the charity in Rye. Police are looking

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into that as we speak. And some good information coming end on a

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face from yesterday. There he is. Sentenced to two years for robbery

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but did not turn up. Thank you to everybody who has got in touch.

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That is all we have time for. Dave, you are moving on tomorrow? Yes. We

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are saying goodbye to Sussex, Brighton and Surrey. I have had a

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very enjoyable time. I think the best day was throwing those weapons

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into the water and waiting for the police to find them. We have

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another day of water tomorrow with the Metropolitan Police out on the

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River Thames, seeing what they do. We will also be looking at how

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destruction burglars are targeting vulnerable and elderly people in

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the capital. That is tomorrow. sounds great! Thank you for your

:42:49.:42:54.

help in Sussex. That is it for today. Fall of the details about

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