Episode 14 Crimewatch Roadshow

and we need you to help them crackdown on crime. An act of

unspeakable cruelty towards a much-loved family pet. It was

distressed, thrashing and trying to remove the bag from its head. And

who is taking drugs in the pub? This dog can dpiend out. -- find out.

They can smell us and tell wrus to look. You're watching Crimewatch

Roadshow. Welcome to Crimewatch Roadshow.

We're live riv morning travelling the UK. Today, the parents of April

Jones back a new initiative to help find missing children. If it saves

one child and the stress we have gone through, it will be worth it.

Behind closed doors - could there be a cannabis factory in your street?

Every plant is worth ?400. Today, Sian is with Cleveland Police at

their tactical training centre in Stockton-on-Tees. Today I'm going to

be finding out about how police learn about firearms and how they

scale tall buildings like this. It is all exciting stuff. Every year

police officers spend thousands of hours at this training centre. I'm

going to follow a few of them as they're put through their paces.

Now, to have a family pet go missing or stolen is difficult to deal with.

But to know somebody has deliberately hurt them is more

heart-breaking. Piper is a two-year-old Russian bluchlt she is

the pet of this household. -- Russian blue. She is definitely a

big part of the family. She gets on with my daughter like best friends.

Piper is quite a character and even insists on being fed five times a

day. She loves to sleep, loves to eat and loves sunbathing and

bringing mice home. But many March, Piper disappeared. Stephanie

searched the house. I started to panic. I didn't know what to do. And

I just knew from then that basically she had gone missing. Desperate to

find Piper the family scoured the whole neighbourhood. They called the

local animal shelters and the RSPCA. Every day I was out for two weeks

straight just going for walks, looking for her. Seeing if she got

trapped anywhere and everything and there was no luck. No one had seen

her. No one had heard from her. It was out of the blue and out of

character. But no one had seen Piper. The family missed her

terribly. And she really loved her and asked all the time for three

weeks, she just kept asking for her all the time. It broke my heart. But

on 24th April, customers using the bottle bank at ASDA several miles

away heard a noise from inside the container. I went to investigate and

when I got there I expected that the cat maybe had fallen into the bottle

bank being curious. I got there and found that this cat had been put in

with a carrier bag over its head. It was distressed, thrashing and trying

to remove the carrier bag from its head. Diane summoned help and the

local council sent somebody to open the container. When that happened,

the bottles came out of the bottle bank and that scared the cat and I

went to the back corner. When I talking, the cat heard me talking

and got up and came towards me. When Piper was rested -- rescued the

extent of the cruelty became apparent. The cat a bag tie around

its neck. The two front paws were tied together with elastic bands and

they were cutting into the paws. And the hind legs were tied together

with string. Absolute disgust. I was so shocked and upset to see this

cat. Nothing could have prepared me for the sight of the bag around its

head. It is unbelievable that the cat survived. I don't think, there

is no doubt that the person who put this cat in the bottle bank had the

intention of having the cat killed. The cat dieing in that bottle bank.

Why else would you do what you have done to it? It is unbelievable that

somebody could do this. The local paper reported the rescue. And the

family spotted the story online. I kind of didn't want it to be her,

because of the horrible things that happened. I didn't want it to be

her. I just thought, oh, no, but no, it was her. I'm over the moon.

Although she is now much more nervous, Piper is settling back in

with the family. The kids were over the moon to have her back. He is

only eight months and she was like what is this again. Kendal, my

two-year-old, she wanted to give hear kiss and cuddle. I can't

believe somebody could be that evil to do that to a cat that is so

gentle and loving. Joining me is Trevor Walker from the RSPCA. There

was a happy ending, but what do you think happened? It could be a number

of reasons. Cats are stolen and kept in other people's houses. We have

had situations where cats have been put into pits with dogs and

obviously a fight has ensued. Piper's paws were tied up weren't

they? The front legs were tied together with elastic bands and the

back leg with string. I do think it was the intention was to cause the

maximum amount of harm. Do you have any leads. We have one report of a

white male struggling with something in a bag around the area. They did

jump into a car and drive off. If anyone saw this vehicle exiting the

ASDA car park at great speed we would be interested to know more. Is

it an isolated incident? Cats being put into a bottle bank is. But cats

go missing all the time. Sometimes through their own will and sometimes

they're stolen. What would your advice be? To microchip their

animals and report any suspicious behaviour. Thank you. Piper a

much-loved peppest pet and happy to be home now. Rav. And the wanted

faces. Ross Nathan and David Atkins. He was convicted of possessing Class

A drugs and money laundering, but didn't turn up for his trial. He has

links to Hull and Surrey and has a scar on his forehead and one on his

cheek. And this man calls himself Francesco Murano, but police believe

this is a false identity. He was wanted for an assault. He has links

to south-east London. Next up today here is Robert Cazan. The

18-year-old was arrested and charged with burglary and failed to turn up

in court. He is Romanian with a tattoo on his left arm saying

Leonard. And this man, Saulus Ratautas. He wanted in connection

with stolen cheques. He has links to London and Dagenham

We are inside the tactical training centre now. This range is one of

biggest in the UK and some of technology here makes it unique in

Europe. I'm joined by sergeant Peter Duncan, the lead firearms officer,

this is a training exercise that we are going to see today. Yes. With

blanks. Yes training and blank ammunition and so in terms safety,

no issues. For people at home it will look dramatic. Yes, as reap as

we can make it. -- real as we can make it. The scenario is you have

two armed response vehicles responding to an incident where a

casualty has been identified further down the range. There is also a

threat opt range. So the police officers are covering and moving

forward down range away from us. They're going to reach the casualty

and hopefully recover the casualty to a place where they can deal with

the casualty in safety. That is a particular type of movement that

they would use. Yes, that is operationally reflective, as real as

we can make it. They would seek out cover to use while extracting the

casualty, which is what they're doing. They're moving the casualty

behind the barricade and two police officers with the casualty will

start some medicine. So the firing has stopped and it is safe to go and

see what is happening and move into the indoor range and get a close up

look now at what is happening with that casualty. What the police

officers have to do in terms of being trained. We have seen them

with firearms and now they have turned into medics. Yes the officer,

60% of armed portfolio, they're trained to a high level of medicine.

They do a two-week course in medicine and they're carrying out a

systematic approach in dealing with this casualty. They will first

identify catastrophic bleeds and major sources of blood loss and once

they have stopped that, they will move on to a systematic approach in

stabilising the casualty before we move them. Now we can look at what

is going on. Because this casualty would have been injured in the

scenario by the offender and the situation is being made safe. Yes,

they have identified a bleed on the left leg. They have removed the

clothing and applied a capped torn Quaye. Once they have done that they

will carry out a basic survey of the person. You can hear them trying to

communicate with the casualty. That dummy they're working on is about

?4,500 worth of kit. It breathes and can actually speak as well. You can

see the officer, one is establishing an airway and checking for the

breathing and establishing airways from the throat and nose. The other

officers is taking pulse and breathing rate. But it is designed

to put that person in a safe position before we move them.

Because of the threat we are still in range, the police officers are

still covering where that threat was or maybe. Thank you. Later we will

be working our way through the kit that can help save the police

officers' lives. Thank you. Still to come: This girl thought her

neighbourhood was safe. Until a stranger attacked her. I think that

is one of the worst things you could do to a girl, because it affects

them forever. Paul and Coral Jones are backing a

campaign to help people when their children are abducted.

It was a great response, humbling to see. We appreciate everything that

has happened. And if this should happen to anybody else, we wish that

kind of response for them as well. We had people from everywhere coming

out to help us. You have your community coming out in force and

helping you to look for your daughter. It meant a lot to us. This

new child alert means that you could be the one who sees that child being

abducted and reported, and saves that child's life. Backing this

child alert is the right thing to do, and I would like every body to

sign up today, please, because it could be your child. It could be,

and it is a nightmare. We can see that it clearly means so much to

Paul and coral. This is based on another being used elsewhere? It was

started in America, called Amber alert, and has been used there.

We're taking it across Europe to try to get the best benefit from this

modern scheme. So how does it work? We get people to sign up so that we

can send them text messages. They can sign up on the website. This is

the website here. It is very simple. We want people to go to the website

to register. It is just a mobile telephone number, your home postcode

and your work postcode so that we can target towards the area of

people who are most likely to have seen something. And it is not just

on there. There is also an app that is available. We have created an app

which is free to download, and it is another way to receive notifications

about an alert. There is a whole range of different media outletss,

and we are still developing those ideas. This is what the app would

look like on this tablet I have here. There are no alerts, but you

have mocked one up for us. This is typical of what you would see. The

photograph, some information about what the person looks like and what

we are asking for, and the number to ring. Thank you very much for

joining us. Please do take a look at the website, because the more people

who sign up, the more effective the system will be.

Very important advice there, Rav. Drugs farm is not what you would

expect to find on a quiet residential street, but as police

here in Cleveland no, it is more common than you would expect. We are

going to do a cannabis farm warrant. Cleveland's community drug

enforcement scheme have received a tip-off. Someone has called in

saying there is a very pungent smell coming from their neighbour's house.

It was all the usual signs, blinds closed all day everyday, no windows

open,. Thermal images of the property leave the office is in no

doubt that something out of the ordinary is going on. The search

team is tactically trained to enter buildings like this one safely and

efficiently. There is no telling what they might find inside.

Police! Once they are through the door, it

is obvious this is a cannabis farm. You can get anything from a couple

of plants to a room that is being fully devoted to it, and as you can

see from upstairs, two bedrooms have been totally utilises growing areas,

and they have utilised the loft, so they will get as many plant into a

premises as possible. The more plants they have, though more money

they can make. A Vietnamese man is living in the

property, and it appears that his job is to care for the plant will

stop we are from the police. Do you understand English? They are in the

country generally illegally, and they will have to work in a cannabis

farm to pay off the cost of them being imported into the country.

They work two or three cannabis farms, and when they have paid off

the cost of their journey and importation, they will normally be

allowed to go. And then obviously they will disappear into the country

somewhere and pick up their own life. Becomes apparent that the farm

has been up and running for quite some time, as the team find the

remains of a previous crop. It takes three or four months for a crop to

grow, so given the stage of the plants upstairs, which are about

three months old, this farm has been here at least seven months. In that

time, the plants need constant light and heat, which isn't cheap, so the

brains of the operation have tampered with the electors of the

supply. They have fitted these great tales in whether Orange piece of

plastic is, survey have spliced into the main supply, bypassing the meter

and the main fuse box. Thereby causing a potential fire hazard,

because they are overloading the system with all the lights that they

have upstairs, and what they will do is they will put in power

distribution boards upstairs, with all the sockets on. But without

that, they can't get the power that they need. And more importantly,

they don't want to pay for it. Forensic officer arrives to gather

evidence is Nigel works through the rest of the paraphernalia. They have

organic iguana juice, plant food. Good old Miracle Grow. Organic

iguana juice? I have never heard of that before. This farm has all the

signs of a well-organised operation. The heating, ventilation and feed

all help make sure there is a bumper crop. We submit sample plants to the

laboratory, and they will gauge what potential yield that plant would

have offered. Generally speaking, they will average 45 grams of

cannabis per plant. That is a conservative figure that they have

put on it. That will be for commercial sale, it would be for

personal use. Cannabis in this area is valued at ?10 per gram, so every

plant is worth ?400. We have 196 semiarid plants, 129 seedlings and

40 root balls. So, 325 live plants. Good ones are Cleveland Police, bad

one for the criminals. Good work, fellas! Now, we have four

men we would like you to identify from CCTV footage.

The lunchtime rush is in full swing at this high-street bank in Bromley

in London. A man in a baseball cap enters the branch. He heads towards

the counter where he writes a note sit in an envelope. Then he waits

his turn in the queue and approaches a cashier. He hands her the note,

which the police say reads: I have a gun. Empty the till before I start

shooting people. But she is a cool customer. Watch as she calmly

returns the note and sensing on his way. That wasn't the result he was

expecting. Can you name him? Call us if you can.

A mobile phone shop in Burnley, Lancashire. This pair of shoplifters

has taken data roaming too literally. In seconds, they grabbed

three display handsets worth ?1300, rip them free of their security

chords and run out of the store. These guys obviously don't

understand what pay-as-you-go means. Do you know the?

Huddersfield in January this year, and this bright spark manages to get

inside a fuel merchant's after hours. He searches an industrial

unit by torchlight and takes two bags of kindling. He loads the bags

into the back of a range Rover drives off. But he must still be

feeling the chill, because he's back in under two hours. Inside, he

steals firelighters, Offiah companion set, sawdust and kindling

bucket, together worth about ?100. Again, he loads up his car and heads

off. I reckon it is time we smoked this crook out. Any of those faces

familiar to you? If so, give us a call. You can call or text, typing

CW and leaving a space before your message. That space is important.

Now, can you help identify the man who assaulted a woman in

Middlesbrough as she was walking home alone? We have changed her name

and use the voice of an actor to protect identity.

When it first happened, I didn't really want to leave my house. If I

need something from the shop, I'll get someone to go for me. When I do

go somewhere, if everyone acts different towards me, than I do

start to panic. In April this year, Ella was

visiting a friend. She kept phoning me insane, do you want to come

round? Come round. It was about 1130, and I said, OK, I'll come

round, because I hadn't seen her that much. At 2:30am, she left the

house near the centre of Middlesbrough, planning to pick up

and take away and walk home. I don't feel like where I live is

dangerous, and because the shop is only local to my house, it was no

different to any other night to me. She collected her food and headed

down Woodlands Road. You come straight down the road, and

there is a brick wall at the end of someone's house. If it's dark, you

can't see what's behind it until you come in line with it.

There was someone behind the brick wall, and someone said to me, is

there a chemist near here? I said, there is one behind you, but it's

closed. Because I'm on the phone to my friend, I didn't think why he was

asking me this at that time in the morning. The man began to follow

Ella down the street. I turned round to look back at him, and he was

right behind my shoulder. I said, what are you doing? And I said to my

friend, phone the police, someone is following me. He pulled the front of

my top down first. That was the first thing. I was moving back and

he kept on coming towards me again. I felt that if I was somewhere more

enclosed, I wouldn't have been able to move back from him, and him come

forward and have that catching up with each other type of game in the

street. After he attacked me, he decided to run off. And then I

realised my top was down, my skirt wasn't level, my bag was on the

floor. The attack around the way down Victoria Road. Moments later, a

taxi appeared, and the driver offered to help the woman. He said

to me, did that guy try to do something to you? I said, yes, I

don't know what to do now. He said, you need to phone the police, and I

will drive about to see if I can see anything. CCTV shows the attack in

full. The Mail approached from behind and proceeded to sexually

assault the victim. It left her upset. The man left on foot and ran

away at Tory road and left the scene. Ella can only recall glimpses

of what he looked and sounded like. I only got to see him for a second.

He had short bristly hair. He kept his head tilted away from me, didn't

want to look at me. When he spoke, he wasn't drunk, he didn't have a

Lisp or anything wrong with his voice, it was just like he had

difficulty to get a word out. With these type of offences, it is a

continued pattern. If they are not caught, they will continue. They

could progress in their offending, which is why it is so important to

catch this person. I think that is the one of the worst things you

could ever do to a girl, because then it just affects them for ever.

Like now, I've got a panic alarm, so I generally do have that on me ready

to use it. Even if they are the most normal person you have ever met in

your life, and they have been lovely, I still look at them and

have that thing like, yes, but you could also do this. Really is a

terrible incident, and D I mark a low joins me now. There is new

footage, what does that show? There is high footage showing the mail

running away immediately after the offence. It shows him leaving the

scene, moving through the Woodlands Road area. So it is a clear image.

Can you give us a description? He is white, about five foot six, chubby.

He seems to have mousey brown hair and a bald patch. The victim has

described him as having some kind of difficulty talking.

I understand you have tracked down the taxi driver as well. Yes, we

have spoken to him and got some good information that we are following.

So how can the public help? By studying the footage, thinking where

they were the time is trying to identify the offender. What would

your advice be to women walking home by themselves after a night out?

Thankfully this kind of attack is very rare, but always be vigilant

and aware of your surroundings, and consider carrying a personal attack

alarm. There are numerous different types you can get, but it makes a

loud noise that makes people aware that you are in some kind of

difficulty, and possibly scares off any offenders. Good advice. Thank

you, Mark. You might think choosing public transport would be safe. But

west Midlands police are highlighting the risks for those

travelling on buses and trains. Emma hole den joins me, tell me about

Project Empower. It is a west Midlands initiative to see public

protection officers working with British Transport Police to tackle

unwanted sexual behaviour on the public transport network. Now you're

going to tell me this is so massively underreported. Why is

that? Research has shown there are a number of reasons. One is people

don't think the incidents are serious enough to investigate. One

of the messages we need to put across, if it doesn't feel right it

probably isn't right and whether it is an offence or not it should be

reported. One of the beauties of your unit is you will centralise a

lot of areas? Yes, we are based in the centre of Birmingham and cover

the whole area and link with British Transport Police and the transport

service providers. That approach enables us to share information and

gain bigger intelligence pictures. Then you can build up patterns? Yes

and target specific offences. You have a specific offence you want to

talk about. A person that you're keen to identify. What has happened?

This male is responsible for four offences across the bus and rail

network. Sexual and voyeurism offences. This is on a bus from

Birmingham to Dudley and he assaulted a young female before

taking photographs of her. This another incident, you believe it is

the same person. What is happening here? This was from May this year.

More recent incident. He has followed a female on to the bus and

followed her upstairs, where there are plenty of empty seats, sat next

to her and sexual Iy assaulted her. -- sexually assaulted her. The bus

is empty, but he has gone for the one seat next to the girl and she

would be pinned next to the window. It must have been scary? Yes, public

transport is safe, but there are individuals who commit offences on

the network and we need people to report us to. You do have some

clues. And here is the description. A distinctive jacket. Yes it is

described as a large poppy design. But he is said to have a tattoo on

his knuckles, dots on one hand and letters on another. But the jacket

is distinctive and somebody will recognise that. Thank you. Well

let's get this guy nicked. If you suffer a similar offence, please do

report it. Now, here at Cleveland they rely on dogs in their fight

against crime. And sergeant Shelli Gordon is from the dog unit and you

have brought Binki. She is excited. Yes, yes an 11 month old Dutch

herder. She is one of our recruits. It is all a bit strange for her

doing TV. But she is going to do a training exercise for us. Yes, she

is going to go into a building to search. If there is suspects on a

premises we would deploy the dog to search. Hopefully Binki will go in.

I'm not the offender! Let's take her in the building. Off she goes. We

have kept her too long. Are you in the building? Come out or I will

send in the dog. There she goes. She has found him. Already. She is fast.

Binki, good girl. She has got her ball. That is the reward. We use

positive reinforcement for the dogs and make sure they're happy and know

they have done a good job. Graham, what did she do. She came in and

barked. That is what she is trained to do. We use the ball as a reward.

That is what she did. Glad to see you're in one piece. Binki did very

well. Now, we are going to see how some of her fully trained companions

did on an operation to track down drugs in pubs and clubs. In

Cleveland, the force has two new recruits. Roxy and Sam. They're very

special dogs - qualified in one particular way of working. They're

used in pubs, clubs public areas where they will search the, or sniff

the air around people and the dog is trained to indicate the presence of

illegal drugs. Getting the right dog for the right job is important. They

need to be friendly and not be put off by people. But that is a slower

speed. We don't want them as active as the drugs catching exercise. This

exercise simulates a pub environment. The dog moves from

person-to-person to find the person with the drugs. When she recognises

the scent, she will stare at the subject and expect to be rewarpeded

with her favourite toy. Because we have trained the dogs to wait until

the ball is rewarded to her and she looks at the person and freezes.

Tonight the dogs will be visiting a number of pubs in Middlesbrough. The

team has received intelligence about licensed premises where they believe

drugs are being used. We will have people in the pubs having a look

around and they will give a shot and the officers and then the drugs will

be hidden and the dogs can smell us and tell us where we need to look.

Once the dog smells something unusual, it sits and stares. This

indication gives the police the right to search that person. But

sometimes the smell can be a chemical. It is not always an

illegal substance. We have done three pubs and searched probably 14

people. One recovery from the last pub which was some M cat and we will

deal with him. In this pub it would appear the dog has indicated a lot

of people in this pub. At the last pub of the night, it is the officers

who get lucky. We searched three people and there was some cocaine

recovered off two people. Have you got other stuff on you? This pub

that we have got one recovery at least. But the dog is doing well and

indicated on lots of people. We are having a great night. Everybody's

happy, apart from those who have been caught with stuff on them. He

was well behaved and worked well and didn't miss a lot. I can't ask for

more. I'm pleased with the dog tonight and enabled us to go in and

not target the people just having a drink. We are getting the results we

wanted and getting the message out that we won't tolerate drug use.

Earlier we saw the training that these farms officers have --

firearms officers have to go through. And the kit must be tough.

Duncan Charlesworth is back with me. As is Tina Smith, wearing all the

kit! Talk us through what Tina is wearing and why. She is wearing the

standard firearms equipment that all officers would deploy with.

Ballistic helmet. Eye protection. Body armour which offers protection

against some forms of ammunition and knives. This is the sort of plates

that Tina has got on. She is not wearing one of the upgrade plates.

But we can upgrade the capability and put plate front and back.

They're about two and a half kilos each. Moving down the equipment you

have got the Taser that Tina is carrying. That is one of the less

lethal options available and the object on her belt. She has a

primary weapon, the long weapon and also a side arm. She is wearing

fliem proof overalls, gloves and boots. -- flame proof. And you could

carry this, which is very heavy and will almost break your knuckles.

What is it like wearing this kit and you have been an instructor here. It

is heavy, but you get used to it. We train them hard and they use all the

kit. So you do get used to carrying it. What are the oempgss you have

been -- operations you have been out on? On various firearms operations

involving knives, swords, guns and other weapons. The force wants more

women to be in your role. Something you would encourage? Yes we should

encourage any female to come down. For the police officers firearms is

voluntary. Thank you to both and to all of you for allowing us into this

exercise. I think you should have a go. You may remember yesterday we

featured the theft of the Olympic gold medal from Roman Martin. Her

medal and other objects were stolen from a museum. Police say they're

following up good leads on that case as a result of your information. And

some leads on one of the face we showed, Brett Anthony Charlton

wanted in connection with a robbery. Sian, where will you be tomorrow? We

will be in Newcastle upon Tyne where Northumbria police are using

technology to track down people stealing mobile phones. That is

something we haven't seen before. And the weekend is looming and we

will be out with the police as they try too make the streets safe for

people having fun in the pubs and clubs. See you tomorrow. Thank you.

Now if you would like to watch any of the CCTV featured again, just

head to our web-site and here is another look at our wanted faces.

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