:01:10. > :01:15.made sure there are crimes were caught on camera. Today our roadshow
:01:15. > :01:23.team have travelled east and have arrived in Kent. Sian, where are
:01:23. > :01:28.you? We are in Chatham with Kent police's Marine unit. They have got
:01:28. > :01:32.hundreds of miles of coastline to police and some of the busiest
:01:32. > :01:36.waterways in the UK. We will find out how they do it.
:01:36. > :01:46.But first, a jewellery thief and an 85-year-old woman who was in the
:01:46. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:53.wrong place at the wrong time. Sevenoaks, July last year. An
:01:53. > :01:59.85-year-old Marjorie Andrews was on her way into town to go to the bank.
:01:59. > :02:06.Marjorie is a widow and likes to be independent. Mum was ever so fit,
:02:07. > :02:10.independent, a lot of walking. Never went to the doctor's. She was always
:02:10. > :02:15.a healthy person. She is a familiar face in Sevenoaks. She spent her
:02:15. > :02:20.working life at the jeweller's on the high street. Frances Jones is
:02:20. > :02:24.part of the fabric of the town, and Marjorie worked there from 1943
:02:24. > :02:31.until her retirement just four years ago. She always had an interest in
:02:31. > :02:35.jewellery and silverware. She got to know a lot of the customers
:02:35. > :02:40.personally because she worked there for such a long time. But there was
:02:40. > :02:46.a thief in Sevenoaks that morning, and he also had a great interest in
:02:46. > :02:55.jewellery. He crossed the high street and went to look through the
:02:55. > :03:00.window of Marjorie's old shop. CCTV shows him going in. He told the
:03:00. > :03:07.jeweller that he was looking for an engagement ring. He said he had seen
:03:07. > :03:12.two he liked in the window. They were worth around �8,000 each.
:03:12. > :03:16.has come back outside the shop and pointed out the rings to the owner,
:03:16. > :03:18.who has taken the rings inside and put them on the cabinet, where they
:03:18. > :03:24.have had a discussion about insurance and how much the rings
:03:24. > :03:31.would cost to insure. He has had a good look at these rings for up to a
:03:31. > :03:38.minute. Suddenly, the man grabbed one of the rings and scarpered out
:03:38. > :03:42.of the shop. Witnesses say he moved extremely fast. He ran across the
:03:42. > :03:52.busy road and down the side street where Marjorie was walking, and she
:03:52. > :03:53.
:03:53. > :03:58.was in the way. He shoved her out of the way, and she fell to the ground.
:03:58. > :04:01.Mum's recollection is that he came running towards her with his arm out
:04:02. > :04:10.to barge her out of the way. Why he couldn't have run around her, I have
:04:10. > :04:13.no idea. It seems a barbaric thing to do to someone in their mid-80s.
:04:13. > :04:20.At first, Marjorie thought she had just fallen awkwardly, but soon she
:04:20. > :04:25.was in agony. Her left hip was fractured. We were shocked, because
:04:25. > :04:31.I had a phone call to come to Sevenoaks quickly and see mum.
:04:31. > :04:36.has gone from a simple theft to an assault on an elderly lady who could
:04:36. > :04:42.not defend herself. Marjorie was rushed to hospital, where she had an
:04:42. > :04:49.emergency operation. I saw my mum go from a fit and healthy person to
:04:49. > :04:54.somebody who could not walk. It has been a long recovery for Marjorie.
:04:54. > :05:01.It was months before she was back on her feet. It has been a huge blow to
:05:01. > :05:05.her confidence. She has become insecure. She does not like to go to
:05:05. > :05:11.the heart of Sevenoaks on her own any more in case something happens.
:05:11. > :05:19.It is not how she was. The least believe the man who knocked Marjorie
:05:19. > :05:22.over is local. He walked into the town and knew the route well. He
:05:22. > :05:28.took the same route when he left the scene, so we believe he lives
:05:28. > :05:37.locally. We would love to see him caught. It had a big impact on our
:05:37. > :05:40.family. They have no respect for anybody, and the thought of them
:05:40. > :05:49.doing it again and putting another family through the same situation is
:05:49. > :05:53.unacceptable. He needs to be caught. This is an awful case. I am
:05:54. > :05:58.joined by Detective Constable Claire Beckett, who we saw in that report.
:05:59. > :06:08.You have a good description because of that CCTV? Yes, we believe the
:06:09. > :06:19.
:06:19. > :06:22.male is aged between 20 and 25, about six foot tall and rugged
:06:22. > :06:25.looking and athletic, because of the speed he ran out of the shop when he
:06:25. > :06:28.left. He was very fast on his feet. And such a coincidence that he ran
:06:28. > :06:31.into Marjorie, who had worked in the shop that was robbed for so many
:06:31. > :06:33.years. Yes, Marjorie was employed by the shop for 25 years and she
:06:33. > :06:36.retired a few years ago. We believe he deliberately ran at her and
:06:36. > :06:39.pushed her to the floor in an attempt to escape. What happened to
:06:39. > :06:42.the ring, do you think? That is what we want to find out. Has he
:06:42. > :06:49.approached you to sell this ring? Do you work in a pawn shop and
:06:49. > :06:53.recognise this man? How is Marjorie now? It is a year on, and she is
:06:53. > :06:59.recovering slowly. But this is why it is important to find out who this
:06:59. > :07:02.man is. It has really knocked her confidence. This was a lady who was
:07:02. > :07:06.active all her life and very much a member of the community. She has
:07:06. > :07:13.never been in hospital in her life, and now that has changed, so we have
:07:13. > :07:20.to find out who the man is. Now, they have been framed by CCTV
:07:21. > :07:26.cameras. Anyone familiar here? Sutton Coldfield, in the West
:07:26. > :07:30.Midlands. This white van has pulled up at the back of a pub, but these
:07:30. > :07:35.guys are not here for a swift half. One of them climbs over the fence
:07:35. > :07:42.and looks for a way to open the door for his mate. There must be a bar
:07:42. > :07:47.around here somewhere. Aha, there is. It's a crowbar, and he uses it
:07:47. > :07:51.to force the door open. His mate gets out of the van and joins him in
:07:51. > :07:56.the yard. They set about stealing eight barrels of beer. Careful,
:07:56. > :08:00.guys, you don't want to put your back out carrying them like that.
:08:00. > :08:05.Police say they have done this three times at the same pub, stealing 17
:08:05. > :08:13.barrels worth �1500. Once they have cleared the yard and loaded the van,
:08:13. > :08:17.they just drive off. Do you know this year burglars? -- this beer
:08:17. > :08:21.burglars? We are in Richmond in Surrey. This
:08:21. > :08:25.bar is closed, but one man is having a good look around with an empty
:08:25. > :08:30.shopping bag. Wonder what that is for. He strolls behind the bar,
:08:30. > :08:35.which gives us a clue. Soon he leaves, and yes, a bag is full. No
:08:35. > :08:43.cheap plonk that this thief. Police say he stole six bottles of
:08:43. > :08:50.champagne worth �315. Call us if you know this Champagne Charlie.
:08:50. > :08:54.It is the early hours. One night in October last year, this guy puts his
:08:54. > :08:59.phone in his right-hand pocket and he prepares to get off the bus. But
:08:59. > :09:02.as he gets up to go, he does not notice that the phone has fallen
:09:02. > :09:08.onto the seat next to him. Once he has gone, the passenger opposite
:09:08. > :09:15.with the white trainers uses his foot to help himself. Let's watch
:09:15. > :09:21.that again. Nifty footwork. The thief pockets it. And here he is,
:09:21. > :09:31.walking off the bus. Do you know him? If us a call.
:09:31. > :09:33.
:09:33. > :09:43.If your phone has not been nicked, give us a call. Or you can text us
:09:43. > :09:44.
:09:44. > :09:49.or e-mail us. Sian. Now, we think of them as safe places
:09:49. > :09:54.to walk or exercise, but here in Kent, police are looking for a man
:09:54. > :10:00.who attacked two women in local parks. The first was a 17-year-old
:10:00. > :10:06.girl last June. She was walking in Ashford through Millennium Woods
:10:06. > :10:09.when she was attacked. The second one is a 47-year-old who was
:10:09. > :10:19.attacked in nearby Knights Park in September. She has been speaking to
:10:19. > :10:27.
:10:27. > :10:31.us about the impact it has had on her. It has affected me hugely,
:10:31. > :10:38.because I can't walk my dog on my own. So I have to arrange for people
:10:38. > :10:47.to walk with me. I would not walk anywhere from the house. I only go
:10:47. > :10:57.in the car. And I don't ride my bike on my own either. So yes, it has
:10:57. > :10:59.
:10:59. > :11:04.affected my life massively. A traumatic case. I am joined now by
:11:04. > :11:07.Detective Inspector Matt Banks. Luckily, you have good descriptions
:11:07. > :11:15.from both women, despite the ordeal they have been through. Take us
:11:15. > :11:20.through those descriptions. 47-year-old described a male between
:11:20. > :11:24.25 and 35, wearing a beige baseball cap. The 70-year-old victim
:11:24. > :11:28.describes a male slightly older, in his 40s, but again wearing a
:11:29. > :11:34.baseball cap, which may be read. There are similarities between these
:11:34. > :11:39.attacks, aren't that? Yes. There are similarities in the way the offence
:11:39. > :11:42.has been committed. The offender approached from behind, put a hand
:11:43. > :11:48.over each victim's face, dragged them to the floor and then committed
:11:48. > :11:54.the offences. You are convinced that this is the same man responsible for
:11:54. > :12:03.both crimes? Yes, we have been able to link them forensically by way of
:12:03. > :12:07.DNA profiling. We are confident that we will identify this person
:12:07. > :12:12.eventually. But there is no DNA match on the database at the
:12:12. > :12:17.moment? Their recent, unfortunately, but we do have a full profile, which
:12:17. > :12:23.means we can easily eliminate anybody we believe to be a suspect.
:12:23. > :12:30.I would appeal to the public. I believe this man to be local. There
:12:30. > :12:36.are people in the community who know his identity. I would urge them to
:12:36. > :12:42.come forward. Those e-fits are on our website. Take a look.
:12:42. > :12:46.Now, time to look at today's wanted faces. 21-year-old Fabio Robinson is
:12:46. > :12:50.up first. He went on the run in February while standing trial for
:12:50. > :12:54.dealing class A drugs. He was found guilty in his absence and sentenced
:12:54. > :12:58.to four years in jail. He is six foot tall, overweight and has a
:12:58. > :13:03.London accent. Next, 32-year-old Loyota Campbell.
:13:03. > :13:08.She has been wanted for questioning since August 2012 in connection with
:13:08. > :13:11.an attack in which a woman was stabbed in the neck. She is five
:13:11. > :13:16.foot two inches talk speaks with a London accent and has a scar from a
:13:16. > :13:22.gunshot wound on her left wrist. The today is this man, 52-year-old
:13:22. > :13:25.Abass Ali Moslamani. He was due to appear before Harrow Crown Court in
:13:25. > :13:30.July 2010, charged with grievous bodily harm after a glass was
:13:30. > :13:34.smashed over a man's head. He is Palestinian, with links to London
:13:34. > :13:39.and Oxford and is five foot nine tour, with brown eyes.
:13:39. > :13:42.Finally, look at this woman. Police in Northern Ireland need your help
:13:42. > :13:49.to find Julia Celia Holmes. But she goes by other names, including
:13:49. > :13:54.Doctor Jules Watson, Julia McCaw, Celia McGoogan or just Celia
:13:54. > :13:58.Holmes. The 61-year-old has been missing since 2010, when she was
:13:58. > :14:02.charged with deforming a man out of �18,000 by pending to be an American
:14:02. > :14:07.millionairess. She was released on bail but failed to appear in court.
:14:07. > :14:17.She is known to have connections across Ireland, but also to Bedford.
:14:17. > :14:31.
:14:31. > :14:38.Still to come on today's programme: The criminals who stole dozens of
:14:38. > :14:41.high-end cars, then filmed themselves celebrating.
:14:41. > :14:51.And the thoughtless thieves who ripped a pair of 500-year-old brass
:14:51. > :14:56.
:14:56. > :15:02.plaques from this medieval church. Welcome aboard the princess
:15:02. > :15:12.Alexandra, owned by Kent Police. This is Andy had failed. Great to
:15:12. > :15:12.
:15:12. > :15:20.be a bore. Tell me a bit about the boat.
:15:20. > :15:26.She is a former lifeboat prototype. She was the refitted to make it
:15:26. > :15:34.suitable for police purposes. dying to have a look, can you give
:15:34. > :15:39.me the Grand Tour. I should be OK, I have my sea legs aren't. This is
:15:39. > :15:44.the upper steering position. This is were the driving is carried out.
:15:45. > :15:52.We get a good view from up there and there is navigational equipment
:15:52. > :16:00.as well. Then we come down into the wheelhouse. This is the working
:16:00. > :16:05.area of the boat. Looking on the dashboard, this is work most of the
:16:05. > :16:10.navigational equipment, engine monitoring and communication
:16:10. > :16:17.equipment is housed. We have one of the charts which shows us a map of
:16:17. > :16:24.the area we are in at the moment. This can be changed to show a radar
:16:24. > :16:28.picture. That could show was other vessels in the area. It could be
:16:28. > :16:34.important if we are on a boardings operation and we are looking at
:16:34. > :16:40.targets to board. What do you use this boat for? What operations have
:16:40. > :16:45.you been on? One of the operations we have been involved in was the
:16:45. > :16:51.Olympic Games operations. All our assets, vessels and people were
:16:51. > :16:56.involved. This was used as a floating control, command platform.
:16:56. > :17:00.We used that to effectively close the Thames down and ensure all
:17:00. > :17:05.vessels that came in and out we checked by either ourselves or
:17:05. > :17:11.another boat. That is one of the significant operations we were
:17:11. > :17:17.involved in on this. You have a huge stretch of coastline you do
:17:17. > :17:22.police on a daily basis? It goes from the Queen Elizabeth Bridge on
:17:22. > :17:30.the River Thames, all the way around to right, the River Medway,
:17:30. > :17:35.and any piece of water in Kent. It is a very interesting coastline.
:17:35. > :17:41.The very accessible. It is the second largest coastline policing
:17:41. > :17:48.area in the country behind Devon and Cornwall. A big challenge.
:17:48. > :17:51.Later we will be going out on one of the other boats.
:17:51. > :17:55.Now, officers from Cheshire Police need you help to identify a gang
:17:55. > :17:58.who robbed a bank back in June last year. DC Gareth Yates, who has been
:17:58. > :18:00.investigating the case is here to tell us more. Gareth, welcome. So
:18:00. > :18:05.just what happened? The on the 1st June last year, a
:18:05. > :18:11.robbery took place in Stockton Heath. That is a small village on
:18:11. > :18:18.the outskirts of Warrington's. At around 5pm, the doors were closed
:18:18. > :18:24.and staff were filling up the cash machines for the weekend. The two
:18:24. > :18:29.offenders smashed away inside the bank. 5pm, broad daylight. We have
:18:29. > :18:36.a sledgehammer, it is not the actual one. But also that they use
:18:36. > :18:42.these pink tights, which is bizarre. But there is a CCTV clip as it is
:18:42. > :18:47.happening. And a man in the yellow jacket? He is lucky inside the bank.
:18:48. > :18:54.He has seen the female staff members putting their cash into the
:18:54. > :18:59.machines. New see a black vehicle, a Volvo reversing to the bank. The
:18:59. > :19:04.man in the high-visibility jacket get out again, has a second look,
:19:04. > :19:08.before he is joined by a second man with the sledgehammer. We can
:19:08. > :19:14.perceive them, they are smashing the door with the hammer. They have
:19:14. > :19:19.reached inside and grabbed a thousands of pounds before making
:19:19. > :19:24.their getaway in the black car. Brutal attack. Lots of people, a
:19:24. > :19:32.busy shopping day, people will have seen what happened. They did leave
:19:32. > :19:39.some clues behind. This was the car, this was stolen, this black Volvo?
:19:39. > :19:46.It is the actual vehicle. It was stolen from the Merseyside area and
:19:46. > :19:51.abandons a short distance from the bank. And also these items, a high-
:19:51. > :19:56.visibility jacket, a sledgehammer and the bizarre pink tights they
:19:56. > :20:01.had over their heads. It was broad daylight, people would have seen
:20:01. > :20:08.this. You are urging those people to come forward or anybody bragging
:20:08. > :20:12.about this in a pub, perhaps? was very audacious. Many people in
:20:12. > :20:18.the area at the time. Potentially it they may have taken video
:20:18. > :20:22.footage on their phones. It would be vital clues. Not only was it
:20:22. > :20:28.scary for the staff, a reward has been put up, �15,000 for
:20:28. > :20:37.information leading to arrests and convictions. Now let's go back to
:20:37. > :20:41.Sian in Kent. Predicting crime before it happens
:20:41. > :20:46.is something you would expect to see in a Hollywood movies. But
:20:46. > :20:49.police in Kent are using an American computer programs sending
:20:49. > :20:53.officers off to the scene of a potential crime before it has even
:20:53. > :21:00.been committed. Ma gate, it is a traditional
:21:00. > :21:04.seaside town and they have their fair share of crime. Police are
:21:05. > :21:10.taking radical steps to tackle them. Predicting where crime will happen
:21:10. > :21:15.next. It is essentially about trying to understand those high
:21:15. > :21:22.risk areas. Locate a high risk areas where crime is likely to
:21:22. > :21:26.happen today. Predictive policing is an American idea which was
:21:26. > :21:32.pioneered in California, where they claim they have succeeded in
:21:32. > :21:36.reducing some crime by a quarter of. The top brass in Ken's a light of
:21:37. > :21:43.the look of the results they were getting and decided to give it a go
:21:43. > :21:49.themselves. California have been using predictive policing for two
:21:49. > :21:54.two years. The reductions they achieved in terms of property crime
:21:54. > :22:00.was 26%. We do have a different landscape over here, but it was
:22:00. > :22:06.important we had a further look at this and gave it a go. Fighting
:22:06. > :22:10.crime the Californian way requires data, and lots of it. We had taken
:22:10. > :22:13.five years of data and fed it through the system, so it
:22:13. > :22:19.understands the behaviour of the criminals in Kent. It is based on
:22:19. > :22:23.around 30 years of research. We feed the system every day with
:22:23. > :22:29.crime in data and we produce daily boxes indicating those high risk
:22:29. > :22:34.areas where crime is likely to happen today. These small squares
:22:34. > :22:38.each represents an area covering 500 square feet, the size of two
:22:38. > :22:42.Olympic-sized swimming pools. According to the data, these are
:22:42. > :22:46.the zones of Margate were Crown -- crime is likely to be happening
:22:46. > :22:52.today. And this is where good old- fashioned policing comes in, as
:22:52. > :22:58.officers are dispatched to patrol those areas. This morning we have
:22:58. > :23:04.eight predictive policing boxes, can you had defaults to those
:23:04. > :23:08.predicted a policing boxes? Kent is the first force in the UK to trial
:23:08. > :23:14.this system. The these officers it is business as usual as they patrol
:23:15. > :23:21.on foot. The new system means they can be more focused. But they are
:23:21. > :23:27.only a small boxes. The ideas they are intensely supervised. You have
:23:27. > :23:34.a good chance of catching something. Those boxes are very realistic.
:23:34. > :23:38.can spend 15 minutes in a box, and it will give you a two-hour window
:23:38. > :23:43.of preventative crime. Proactive policing it is about getting out
:23:43. > :23:50.into the neighbourhoods. This gives us a tool to be in the right places
:23:50. > :23:53.at the right time. We are in Cliftonville, a busy area. One of
:23:53. > :23:58.the locals is a man known to them, he has been in trouble with the
:23:58. > :24:03.police in the past, so they check his current status. He is one of my
:24:03. > :24:08.locals, just having a chat to him about what he is doing, where he is
:24:08. > :24:13.living at the moment. A nice man to talk to, but just doing a check to
:24:13. > :24:18.see if he is wanted. They move across to the next box and check
:24:18. > :24:25.out a local trouble-spot. There is an abandoned bungalow being used
:24:25. > :24:32.regularly by a local youth. It has been a hope that antisocial
:24:32. > :24:38.behaviour around stop -- hob. This is at the centre of one of our
:24:38. > :24:42.boxes today. No trouble here today, but predicted policing is about
:24:42. > :24:47.anticipating what could happen. When we entered a house the other
:24:47. > :24:52.day, we spoke to the occupants and found some class A drugs. All
:24:52. > :24:56.persons inside were arrested. When we searched subsequently, we found
:24:56. > :25:04.more class A drugs. It is a good example of predictive policing
:25:04. > :25:09.working. There seems to be a lot of support from locals. But anything
:25:09. > :25:14.technology can do to help the police is going to be a good thing.
:25:14. > :25:21.If that can target resources, it has got to be good. The fact it is
:25:21. > :25:27.working and proving successful is evidence it locally. The old
:25:27. > :25:33.fashioned way is bobbies on the streets. He is early days but a
:25:33. > :25:38.week are cautiously optimistic. We have seen a reduction of street
:25:38. > :25:41.violence. We are seeing a reduction of other property crime. But it is
:25:42. > :25:47.early days and we will have to try and isolate what predicted policing
:25:47. > :25:57.has given us. It might be working for Margate, but this data
:25:57. > :25:58.
:25:58. > :26:02.crunching approach to crime fighting is still in its infancy.
:26:02. > :26:08.If you leave your car keys on the hall table when you go to bed, this
:26:08. > :26:11.might make you think again. Here is how Kent Police caught two prolific
:26:11. > :26:16.burglars who broke into homes across the south-east of England
:26:16. > :26:19.with one aim - to get their hands on cars parked outside.
:26:19. > :26:24.On a night-time drive, but the car did not belong to them and the
:26:24. > :26:28.owner did not see. All over the country there has been an increase
:26:28. > :26:36.in so called creeper burglaries, thieves breaking into your home,
:26:36. > :26:42.normally while you are asleep, often just to steal your car keys.
:26:42. > :26:49.This is Dave Leadbeater. And this is Sam homes, both are disqualified
:26:49. > :26:53.drivers. During a two-month crime spree, they stole a total of 35
:26:53. > :26:57.high end cars, worth around half a million pounds. They are both
:26:57. > :27:04.behind bars now, but their victims have been left seriously out of
:27:04. > :27:09.pocket. Victims are like this man and his wife. They were burgled
:27:09. > :27:16.after a night out at the theatre. He we got back about 11pm that
:27:16. > :27:26.evening. We went indoors. We put the lights out, locked up and went
:27:26. > :27:29.
:27:29. > :27:34.to bed. In the middle of the night, homes and Leadbeater broke into the
:27:34. > :27:41.house. Searching for the car keys, they even turned on the lights to
:27:41. > :27:47.make their job easier. Then they made their escape in Dean's �40,000
:27:47. > :27:52.Audi. When I initially got up, things appeared normal upstairs. I
:27:52. > :27:56.opened the bedroom door. The first thing I do is to come down and feed
:27:56. > :28:01.the cats. We noticed the front door was open and the living room lights
:28:01. > :28:05.at once. She called me from downstairs to tell me I left the
:28:05. > :28:10.lights on and the doors open. I knew I had not. I went downstairs
:28:10. > :28:16.and looked around and thought, something is not right. His car had
:28:16. > :28:21.been stolen. I felt so very violated and even more violated,
:28:21. > :28:26.the more I thought about it. It is the fact someone came to the house
:28:26. > :28:31.when we were upstairs sleeping. are thankful they did not come
:28:31. > :28:38.upstairs and attack us to get to the keys. The night they were
:28:38. > :28:43.burgled, homes and Leadbeater broke into another two houses, stealing a
:28:43. > :28:50.further two cars. Reports of similar burglaries came in across
:28:50. > :28:56.the county. On one other night, six cars are worth a total of �175,000
:28:56. > :29:04.were taken. The Kent and Essex serious crime team got involved.
:29:04. > :29:10.were aware of three per burglaries. Leadbeater was linked to six of
:29:10. > :29:17.these are burglaries. The Serious crime directorate launched
:29:17. > :29:21.Operation khaki to bring them to justice. This businessman also fell
:29:21. > :29:26.prey to the prolific burglars. They broke into his home and stole the
:29:26. > :29:34.keys of his brand-new Range Rover. I was woken in the early hours of
:29:34. > :29:40.the morning, I heard a car engine start. I realised it was my car.
:29:40. > :29:45.This was the first, nice car I had ever had. I had it two weeks before
:29:45. > :29:51.I then saw it driven off the drive by two people and never saw the car
:29:51. > :29:59.again. I was quite careful with the keys, but on this night, I left the
:29:59. > :30:02.keys by the front door and did nothing anything of it. With the
:30:02. > :30:07.knee hearing the doggo and hearing the car leave the driveway, was
:30:07. > :30:14.less than a minute. And they had got away with another car, but the
:30:14. > :30:23.police found them at a caravan park. At the end of June 2012, officers
:30:23. > :30:30.were checking out a tracker on a stolen van. They make their way
:30:30. > :30:35.there, and they did not realise it was linked to the burglaries. Homes
:30:35. > :30:42.and Leadbeater crash to the barriers at the motorway park and
:30:43. > :30:48.headed up the motorway. Once stolen vehicle we recovered, there were 12
:30:48. > :30:53.other keys from the vehicles they had stolen. They were leaving
:30:53. > :30:57.behind mobile phones, cameras on which they had taken photographs of
:30:57. > :31:01.themselves in stolen vehicles and taking photographs of the stolen
:31:01. > :31:06.vehicles with false number plates and videos of themselves driving a
:31:06. > :31:10.stolen vehicles. Police eventually caught up with them and face with
:31:10. > :31:14.the evidence against them, they pleaded guilty to conspiracy to
:31:15. > :31:24.commit burglary and was sentenced to six years at Maidstone Crown
:31:25. > :31:33.
:31:33. > :31:39.remorse for their actions. Modern uPVC doors are very popular
:31:39. > :31:42.Omagh but there were no problem to Holmes and Leadbeater. Many of their
:31:42. > :31:46.victims had these doors. There is nothing wrong with them in
:31:46. > :31:53.themselves, it is how we lock them. That is where the potential problem
:31:53. > :31:57.comes in. Locksmith Graham Twist can tell us all about that. You have
:31:57. > :32:02.brought this lock with you. Tell us how it works. Most of us have one of
:32:02. > :32:08.these. This is an example of what most householders would expect to
:32:08. > :32:15.see on their front door. The actual lock itself consists of a latch, a
:32:15. > :32:21.dead halt and two further bolts, top and bottom. If used correctly, we
:32:21. > :32:24.throw the lock itself by lifting the handle. We turned the key, and it
:32:24. > :32:33.engages all three deadlocks. That maximises the security for that type
:32:33. > :32:39.of lock. You don't normally see this bit of the door, so the one key
:32:39. > :32:44.turns all these deadlocks. So you have two looked in that particular
:32:44. > :32:48.way, although some doors do lock without you looking them all?
:32:48. > :32:52.can, yes. A lot of householders coming in the evening, close the
:32:52. > :32:55.door and don't do anything else. Unfortunately, if you don't engage
:32:55. > :33:01.the rest of the mechanism, you are not getting the full benefit of the
:33:01. > :33:05.locking. What advice would you offer to people who don't know a lot about
:33:05. > :33:10.locks? It is a fine balance between safety and security, but I would
:33:10. > :33:15.advocate that you use the full locking mechanism to its full extent
:33:15. > :33:20.to gain full security. And what about changing locks? You can do
:33:21. > :33:30.that. The simplest form is to change the cylinder itself. You can buy
:33:31. > :33:33.
:33:33. > :33:36.those for �20. You guarantee that you get an original set of keys, so
:33:36. > :33:39.you know there are no keys floating around that could belong to somebody
:33:39. > :33:41.else. It is of course awful if you have a break in, so there are some
:33:41. > :33:51.key messages for you there. More CCTV now, starting with some
:33:51. > :33:54.very cheeky thieves. A building site in Lewisham, south
:33:54. > :33:58.London, in November last year, just before 6am. These men are definitely
:33:58. > :34:08.not builders. They are here to help themselves to some valuable
:34:08. > :34:08.
:34:08. > :34:11.construction materials. They choose some metal pipes, cable and cut is
:34:11. > :34:16.worth �15,000. Police believe it was all them loaded into a waiting van.
:34:16. > :34:23.Once they managed to get it through the door, that is. Come on, let's
:34:24. > :34:26.help the police build a case. Names, please.
:34:26. > :34:33.This man enters a Norwich bank in September last year. Not to access
:34:33. > :34:36.his own account, he is after someone else's. The elderly woman in the
:34:37. > :34:45.maroon top is about to become the victim of fraud. What is he lurks
:34:45. > :34:48.near her. He is obviously not queueing to use the machine. He
:34:48. > :34:51.sneaks a look over the woman's shoulder to steal her PIN number. He
:34:51. > :34:56.then distracts her eye waving a piece of paper in front of her.
:34:56. > :35:02.Police believe he told the victim the machine was not working. While
:35:02. > :35:10.she's distracted, he steals her bank card out of the machine. Outrageous.
:35:10. > :35:16.Police say the card was then used the three fraudulent transactions
:35:16. > :35:20.worth a total of �1065. But it does not stop there. He is at it again,
:35:20. > :35:25.this time in a different bank in Norwich. Watch the woman using the
:35:25. > :35:30.cash machine on the far left. He spies on her entering her in, but he
:35:30. > :35:33.is not working alone this time. It is an accomplished, who hovers
:35:34. > :35:41.behind her, then moves in and steals the card distracting her with a of
:35:41. > :35:45.paper. Our first thief then takes the card to another bank and manages
:35:45. > :35:51.to withdraw �500 from the victim's account. Then, as if that was not
:35:51. > :35:58.enough, he heads to a money changing bureau and tries to take a further
:35:58. > :36:04.�1758. But thankfully, by this time the card had been cancelled. Police
:36:04. > :36:10.want this man for eight offences overall. Who is he?
:36:10. > :36:20.Just goes to show how careful you have to be at a cash machine. If you
:36:20. > :36:21.
:36:21. > :36:27.recognise anyone, get in touch. On Crimewatch Roadshow, we often
:36:27. > :36:30.bring you stories about valuable goods stolen so that they can be
:36:30. > :36:33.sold on. But here is a crime where the worth of what is taken lies not
:36:33. > :36:37.in its cash value, but in the history and part of a small
:36:37. > :36:44.community. Surrounded by beautiful
:36:44. > :36:46.countryside, with glorious views over the Medway Valley, Saint
:36:47. > :36:50.Michaels Church sits just outside the village of East Peckham in
:36:50. > :36:56.Kent. It is an historic building, parts of which date back to the 12th
:36:56. > :36:59.century. People no longer come here to worship. The judge closed in the
:36:59. > :37:04.1970s, although it is still open to the public after being preserved as
:37:04. > :37:11.a heritage site. So it came as a shock when earlier this year,
:37:11. > :37:15.thieves took advantage of the church's open-door policy and made
:37:15. > :37:19.off with a pair of 500-year-old brass plaques. These are things of
:37:19. > :37:24.the two plaques which were stolen from this church. They are much
:37:24. > :37:29.valued by the community, because they represent families who were
:37:29. > :37:34.prominent in our history. There is considerable disk dust about their
:37:34. > :37:39.removal -- discussed. At some point after ten in the morning on Saturday
:37:39. > :37:43.the 30th of March, someone came into the church and prized the plaques
:37:43. > :37:48.from the floor, leaving site league black holes where they used to be.
:37:48. > :37:52.The key-holder noticed they were missing when he went back into the
:37:52. > :37:57.church at one in the afternoon. The police were told, and word spread
:37:57. > :38:02.through the community. The first reaction of the village on getting
:38:02. > :38:08.to know that they had been stolen was sad this, apart from surprise,
:38:08. > :38:17.shock and anger. But those came second to the sadness of knowing
:38:17. > :38:20.they had been taken. They had been in place since the time of Henry
:38:20. > :38:22.VIII macro, and although subject to debate are thought to be images of a
:38:22. > :38:27.local couple, William and Margaret. They are not worth a large amount of
:38:27. > :38:35.money, but the loss of the 16th century treasures is significant.
:38:35. > :38:37.think the people who took them are misguided and selfish. Misguided in
:38:37. > :38:45.that they are not of great financial value, and selfish. They prevented
:38:45. > :38:53.other people the pleasure of seeing them as memorials of people who once
:38:53. > :38:55.mattered in this village. They have been in place for 500 years and have
:38:56. > :39:00.been enjoyed by many people. We are sorry that we are having to
:39:00. > :39:03.advertise their absence, rather than enjoy their presence. Having lain
:39:03. > :39:08.undisturbed for so many centuries, the community of Saint Michael's
:39:08. > :39:13.church just want their plaques returned.
:39:13. > :39:19.If you know anything about that, get in touch. Right now, we are out on
:39:19. > :39:23.the water on Chatham Marina with Kent police. This is Seahorse. PC
:39:23. > :39:29.David Lavender, you can tell me about this piece of kit. It is used
:39:29. > :39:34.for neighbourhood policing? Yes, all sorts of things. Neighbourhood
:39:34. > :39:40.policing and general patrol of our coastal areas. There is a big marine
:39:40. > :39:44.community in this area. What sort of problems do they have? There is a
:39:44. > :39:52.large leisure industry here. We have a lot of yachts and the Marines. The
:39:52. > :40:00.problems we generally have our thefts from boats of kit and
:40:00. > :40:07.equipment. We are gathering speed now. I know this RIP can go fast.
:40:07. > :40:13.You have to use top speed sometimes, don't you? Yes, this boat is a seven
:40:13. > :40:18.and a half metre RIA leave. It can go quite fast. We will not go quite
:40:18. > :40:23.that fast at the moment, so we can hear you tell us more about those
:40:23. > :40:28.operations. I know some of them are adventurous. You are also patrolling
:40:28. > :40:33.this coastline to look at the begin for strip you have here? Yes, Kent
:40:33. > :40:40.has a number of sites of interest from a security point of view that
:40:40. > :40:46.we patrol, both on the Medway and on our coast. What are we doing in this
:40:46. > :40:50.stretch of water? Is this something you would do on a daily basis?
:40:50. > :40:57.patrolling the Medway and other parts of the county. Security issues
:40:57. > :41:01.as well as crime prevention. When we were on the Princess Alexandra III,
:41:01. > :41:09.we heard about the role that played in the security operation at the
:41:09. > :41:15.Olympics. What about the things you have been doing as part of the wider
:41:15. > :41:21.crew? We have had a number of issues. We were involved in the
:41:21. > :41:27.security of the Olympics around the Thames last summer. We are of course
:41:27. > :41:30.close to France, so a number of operations have been down in the
:41:30. > :41:37.channel, where we have combined operations with the coastguard and
:41:37. > :41:43.customs and immigration officers. We have looked at small craft coming
:41:43. > :41:51.across the Channel, bringing both people and drugs. We have a
:41:51. > :41:53.fantastic view behind us. I know you don't normally sit around in boat,
:41:53. > :41:57.because it gets exciting. Thanks very much.
:41:57. > :41:59.We just have time to give you a quick update. We have had what
:42:00. > :42:04.police are calling a useful lead through on the man who stole the
:42:04. > :42:07.ring from the jeweller's in Sevenoaks common knocking over the
:42:07. > :42:13.85-year-old woman, breaking her hip as he fled. That is encouraging.
:42:13. > :42:17.Yesterday, we showed you a wanted face. The man was found guilty and
:42:17. > :42:21.sentenced for fraud case, but did a runner. Police are chasing up strong
:42:21. > :42:28.new information on him as we speak. Let's find out where Sian is
:42:28. > :42:33.tomorrow? We are heading south to the Channel Tunnel, where we will be
:42:33. > :42:39.reporting live from one of the most unusually challenging places for the
:42:39. > :42:48.police in the UK. We will also have advice on how to avoid being scammed
:42:48. > :42:52.by conmen 's. See you then. Remember, our website has all of