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Good morning! We live and ready for your calls. We are with the police, | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
asking for your help to hands down criminals near you. Today, a shop | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
assistant held at knife-point. One little slip and that would have been | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
eight! And how police caught a paedophile preying on children at a | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
top London tourists board. You are watching Crimewatch | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Roadshow. -- tourist spot. Hello and welcome to Crimewatch | :00:33. | :00:54. | |
Roadshow. All this month we are live my, travelling the length of the UK | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
asking for your help to catch criminals that are making people's | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
lives a misery. Coming up on today's show: The devious | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
distraction burglar who brought an elderly homeowner to her knees. He | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
could have beaten me up, I wouldn't have been here today, who knows? And | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
mown down seconds from home, can you help us find the motorist who drove | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
off after hitting this little girl? I don't go out on my own in case | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
another car hits me. And I will be getting the lowdown on counterfeit | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
goods like this. Stay with us to find out what to look out for. Today | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
we are still in sunny south Wales, the team has moved on, and Thursday | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
brings us to Bridgend. You know what it takes to be a | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
police officer, Rav, it is one of the most physical professions, so I | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
am finding out how fit and strong you have got to be. I hope she has | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
had a good breakfast! Police want to find and armed robber who threatened | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
two shop assistants in the Welsh valleys. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
He could have killed me, one little slip and that would have been it. | :02:17. | :02:29. | |
With trophies, gold and glassware, this jewel of's has been part of the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Clydach community for decades. Sarah had worked there for three years. I | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
loved it, regular customers would come in, you'd always have something | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
to talk about, you would have people who had been coming to the shop for | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
25 years. One afternoon in July last year, while the UK was in the grip | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
of a heatwave, a man entered clearly overdressed for the weather. I was | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
sitting on the desk where you can see the door, so when he came in, I | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
had that feeling something wasn't right, because he went straight over | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
to the trophy action, and people don't do that, they always come to | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
the counter. Hearses missions were right. Within seconds of coming in, | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
the man had made his way behind the cash desk. -- her suspicions. I | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
looked down, and I realised he had the night. My initial thought was, I | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
could die. And that is when he started shouting, the money, the | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
safe, just screaming at us to get the money. The armed man ordered her | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
into the back office where the younger cousin was working. He shut | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
the door. The cousins were trapped with their attacker. He told me to | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
sit down, and he ordered Danielle to go and get the money. I thought, my | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
only option is TPIM calm, keep talking to him, let him know we are | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
going to give him once. -- to keep him calm. The robber demanded the | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
women put the contents of their safe into his bag. It was hard for me | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
because he had a knife, but I knew if I stood up, the whole situation | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
could change dramatically and go terribly wrong. He got away with | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
about ?300, jumping back over-the-counter. He tried to make | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
sure he hadn't left any fingerprints on the door. | :04:28. | :04:48. | |
That is when it hit me, what had happened. At that point, I started | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
shaking. Me and Danielle actually hugged, just shaking, just so | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
terrified. It is unbelievable how it actually feels when someone is | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
standing there, threatening you with a knife. It is a huge concern that a | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
man is on the streets with a knife, and as you can see from the CCTV, | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
he's not afraid to use it. Police are hoping the man's choice of | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
clothing would have set him apart on a searing hot July day. The man was | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
dressed in a great goodie, tracksuit bottoms. Anybody else on that day | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
would have been wearing clothing which was suitable for the weather. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
I think, if people had seen him, they would remember him because of | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
the way he was dressed. The owner retired and closed the shop for good | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
in February, but for Sarah the memories of that day are still very | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
much in the present. He's changed my life. He's made me a completely | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
different person, and why should he get away with it? He could have | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
killed me. One little slip and that would have been it for me. DC Simon | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
Davies has been investigating, this man was brandishing a knife, it must | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
have been a terrifying ordeal. That is right, as you can see from the | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
reconstruction, the man has gone in there, and both Sarah and Danielle | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
have conducted themselves immensely well and are very stressful | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
conditions, and I would like to commend them on the way in which | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
they conducted themselves. The man was brandishing a knife in the back | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
room, and it must have been horrific. Absolutely. It happened in | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
July, it was very hot, and he wasn't stressed for the weather. It was a | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
particularly hot day, and the man was wearing clothing which you would | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
not necessarily wear on a day like that. He was wearing a thick great | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
hoodie-type garment with large buttons on the neckline. He was | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
wearing a red football top underneath the hoodie. He was also | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
wearing dark-coloured tracksuit bottoms with stripes on either side, | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
white trainers, sunglasses, and he was carrying this black editors | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
rucksack. As you can see, it's quite clearly shows the Adidas motif. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Thank you very much for that. And you think he was local. Back to you, | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Rav. We start the wanted faces today with | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
Dorrel Philip Miller, today is a 63rd birthday. He has pleaded guilty | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
to possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply but failed to | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
return to Bolton Crown Court for sentencing. He has been on the run | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
since March 2003, and officers believe he may have led to Ireland. | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
Police believe he may now have grey hair, as this photo was taken 12 | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
years ago. Let's see if we can spoil his birthday celebrations. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
36-year-old David Middleton is wanted for questioning by Met Police | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
in connection with an attack in which a man's year was badly bitten. | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
He has connections to the Barnet and Finchley areas of north London and | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
has four dots tattooed on the knuckles of his left hand. Police | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
say he is known to be violent and should not be approached. Third, | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
Christopher Edward, although he also uses the surnames Edwards and | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Foster. The 37-year-old was jailed for 30 months for drug supply | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
offences and released early on licence in June 2012, but he has | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
failed to stick to the conditions of his release and is now wanted back | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
in prison. He has a scar on the left side of the space and links to the | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Lambert and Peckham areas of London, and Hockley in Birmingham. Last up | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
today on the end, Glenn -- Glen Mulkay, who is wanted in connection | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
with an attack on a 19-year-old man. He has an East Anglian accent and | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
Gothic style tattooed on his back and right leg. He has links to the | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
North Weald and hollow areas of Essex, and also to London. If you | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
recognise any of these faces, pick up the phone, call us. Calls are | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
free from most landlines, some network operators will charge. Texts | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
are charged at your standard message rate. Now, back to Sian. | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
Of course, police officers have to be ready for anything, whether it is | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
forcing their way into buildings or catching criminals, so that involves | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
a lot of training in places like these. Yesterday I spent some time | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
carrying out what is known as the bleep test. It is the fitness test | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
that many of the officers have to do, all of them, in fact, at the | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
beginning of basic training. It was a bit of a slow burn, shall we say, | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
but it was good to dust off the trainers and get back into the | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
jogging suit! Reg Martin can tell us about it, it is a very specific test | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
that they are doing now. That is right, it is a 15 metres run, that | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
they will do inside the gym. The turning is important, because it is | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
agility, you always chasing after people around gardens and cars. It | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
gets quick as you go along, so you can judge your aerobic fitness from | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
that. I got to level six on that one, but many of the officers, they | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
have to be on level ten if they are doing very at advanced work. They do | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
have to think very quickly when they are on the move, police officers, | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
and Nick Davies can tell us more about that, some of the decisions | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
they have to take can involve the electronic stun gun, and this is a | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
demonstration you have got going on now. Yes, officers are under | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
pressure and to make fast decisions with regards to use of force and | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
justifying their actions in a heated environment. Talk us through what is | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
happening, shall we get them to do the demonstration? Someone with a | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
baseball bat causes problems, phone calls, officers have to respond to | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
the thread. OK, folks! Put the bat down now! Put the bat down. This is | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
a taser, 50,000 volts coming your way. But the bat down now! Put it on | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
the floor! Do it now! Actually, there she has been | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
tasered. You know what it feels like, don't you? For five seconds it | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
is totally excruciating, and in a high percentage of cases we have | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
seen people totally compliant after that. The effects where off quickly. | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
Thank you very much for that. Back to you, Rav. | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
We all love a bargain, especially when it comes to, but there is a big | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
difference between getting a good deal and buying illegal fakes. | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Graham Mogg from the anti-counterfeiting group joins me | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
now. You work alongside big companies, so it is important to | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
you, counterfeit goods, some people might just think it is a bit of a | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
bargain. You are hurting a lot of people. The retail sector is | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
struggling with counterfeiting. But it can cause harm, organised crime | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
is involved in counterfeiting, and activity that they can engage with | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
is funded from the sale of counterfeit goods. You have brought | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
in a number, the usual things, clothing, but some that people do | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
not necessarily think about, the safety element, and electrical | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
goods, things like this car wheel, very dangerous to consider. Yes, a | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
whole range of counterfeit goods available now, the electrical goods, | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
automotive parts, throughout a genuine product it is tried and | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
tested for the UK market, but counterfeiters don't worry about | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
that. The potential safety issue from buying these things online is | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
on the increase. Any electrical goods could catch fire if they are | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
trying to use it. But the thought of using a counterfeit wheel on a car, | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
you have a crash, hit the curb, it would crack on the motorway, | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
anything, it should not be entertained. Well, it shouldn't, you | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
should always buy products from a legitimate retailer, and you can | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
identify online through the trading standards Institute and a website | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
that allows you to identify the counterfeit from the genuine. The | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
image of the counterfeit seller has changed, it used to be a Del Boy | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
image, the market trader, back of the lorry sort of thing. But now it | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
is much more hi-tech. Yes, organised crime groups have infiltrated a lot | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
of the counterfeiting activity, and the online trade allows them to make | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
a lot of money from that activity. Very difficult for a consumer to | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
identify a legitimate website from a counterfeit website, so for the | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
criminals involved, they are able to sell products at a far higher price | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
which impacts greatly on the consumer. What can we do to make | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
sure we don't buy the wrong things? It is very difficult. There are | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
websites that you can visit, reporting to the brands themselves, | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
and that is the key to identify the product. If the price is cheap, it | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
is likely to be wrong. Again, that is the best way. If it seems too | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
good to be true, it probably is. You are taking serious action, in the | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
last week, you have shut down a number of websites. That is right, | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
we tackled some social media websites this week and took down | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
just over 2000 individual listings of counterfeit products that were | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
available. Working with the police and trading standards on a daily | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
basis, we are taking down websites that sell counterfeit goods. Thank | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
you very much for joining us. Now, the search for a conman who | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
hoodwinked a 88-year-old grandmother. I think she felt a bit | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
of a fool, humiliated, that she had not seen it coming, but I would not | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
have seen it coming. Doris has lived alone in her Cardiff home since her | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
husband passed away. It is a place she has always felt safe. I was born | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
in this house 89 years I have never lived anywhere else, and I am not | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
likely to, either. Over the decades, generations of her family have | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
called this home. I felt very safe here, and I lived here until I got | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
married at 25. But that sense of security was shattered on a Doris | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
had just been given a lift home from church. She had barely taken her | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
coat off when the door bell rang. I went to the door and this gentleman | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
said, your next door neighbour has got a flood in his kitchen. And he | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
said, it is so bad, I have got to check neighbours' pipes. Doris let | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
him in, showing him the stopcock in the hall. But he said he needed to | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
see under the sink in the kitchen. He said, could you take it all out | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
for me? I have got to go to the tank. I thought to myself, you are | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
no gentleman! Doris struggled to empty the cupboard as the man | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
watched over her. To test for a blockage, he began hitting the | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
pipework under the sink with a spatula before asking Doris to take | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
over. I have had a knee replacement, but I did it. When I said, this is | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
hard work for me, he said, bear with me, he said, it is only for ten | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
minutes. The man turned on the tap and got Doris to continue knocking. | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
He said he had to inspect the pipework elsewhere in the house. In | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
fact, he was while Doris was distracted tapping the pipe, and | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
with the running tap to hide his footsteps, the thief made his way | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
upstairs to her bedroom. I am knocking now and my knee is hurting, | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
and the phone rang. Doris left the kitchen, unaware that upstairs, the | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
fake engineer had already found her most vicious possessions. It was | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
only when she came off the phone at Doris realised the man was nowhere | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
to be seen. I walked into the bedroom. There was a case that I | :17:45. | :17:53. | |
keep things in, money and that. It was all oh, I said, my God, I have | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
been robbed! I always call my husband's name. ?1000 in cash was | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
taken, along with documents and jewellery. The impact it has had on | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
Doris is terrible. She is a very lovely lady, and somebody coming | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
into the privacy of her own home, taking advantage of her trusting | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
nature, it is so sad. One item, her father's gold watch chain, has | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
particular sentimental value. My father wore it everyday. I was it | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
was over 100 years old. I can see him now taking it out and putting it | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
back in his waistcoat pocket. We do think this individual has done it | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
before, we think this individual went out for the purpose of trying | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
to find somebody that they could conduct this kind of distraction | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
burglary against. Since the theft, Doris's daughter says she has seen a | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
marked difference in her mum. Confidence. For instance, when she | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
came in from church after the incident, she did not want to come | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
in on her own. She felt a bit humiliated, that she did not see it | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
coming - but I would not have seen it coming. Imagine if I had gone | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
upstairs and caught him coming he could have beaten me up. I might not | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
have been here today, who knows? And you do really feel for Doris. | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
DCI Tony Brown is investigating this. It was a devious trick on | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
Doris, a lovely lady, you called her, and she had been living in that | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
house for nearly 90 years. As you said, it was a devious trick, he has | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
tricked his way into the house. Who is the man you are looking for? He | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
is described as white, 35-40 years of age, medium build, with short, | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
dark hair. He got away with ?1000 in cash, and also jewellery. One of | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
those items was sentimental value? Yes, it was her late father's watch | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
chain. Massive sentimental value to Doris. And he took them in this very | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
brief case, which actually belonged to her late husband? Yes, indeed. It | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
contained a number of items and documents. This was discarded at the | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
back of the leisure centre the following day by a -- added was | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
found by a passer-by at seven o'clock in the morning the following | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
day. We would appeal to anybody who saw somebody throwing this briefcase | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
away to come forward. Briefly, of course, she was tricked - what could | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
she have done differently? We asked people to make sure that they asked | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
people knocking on the door for their identification. Genuine | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
callers do not mind being left outside while you verify who they | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
are. That is great advice, thank you very much. Now time to take a look | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
at today's CCTV round-up - will you recognise anyone? January 2014. Keep | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
your eye on the two young men walking into this mobile phone shop | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
in Wandsworth, London. They are looking for the latest handset, | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
though paying for it is not their style. They spot a ?450 phone | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
belonging to a staff member which has been left charging at the back | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
of the shop. They swipe it, but the assistant twigs something is up and | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
confronts them. They do not like being rumbled, and as they leave, | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
another assistant tries to stop them. Police say the robber in the | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
blue jacket shows them a knife he is carrying. The assistant immediately | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
backs off and the two men walked out. We cannot let them get away | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
with it. You know what to do. Now, they say that crime sucks. In this | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
case, it could not be more true. A man walks into a Lancashire | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
supermarket in January this year. Look carefully as he takes a ?200 | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
vacuum cleaner from the shelf, but instead of paying for it, he walks | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
straight past the checkout and out of the door. Let's take this | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
shoplifter to the cleaners. The burglars in our next crime have | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
a half baked idea to raid this shop in York city centre. They wait | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
outside the bakery until the coast is clear before kicking the door | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
open and searching the place for dough. They give the till the once | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
over, but it is the shop safe they are really after. One of them thinks | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
he knows where it is. Together, they heave it across the bakery, leaving | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
a trail on the floor. Having dragged it to the door, they take a breather | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
outside. One keeps watch while the other gets a trolley they have | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
nicked from a nearby pub. Now, that is using your loaf! They wheel it, | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
and the ?1000 it contains, right out of the shop. You know these two? You | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
know what to do. If you recognise anyone there, get in touch. We are | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
standing by, ready for your calls. Still to come on task I will be | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
getting the low town on how police went through 20 hours of CCTV | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
footage to catch a paedophile. Plus, the schoolgirl mown down by a car on | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
a busy crossing, but do you know who was behind the wheel? Before, I was | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
fine, I was not that scared. Now, after, I am quite scared and shaky. | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
Today, we are finding out just how physical being in the police can be. | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
Let's speak once again to PC Nick Davies. Sometimes you have to get | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
into scenes of crime in that way? Absolutely, sometimes we need a | :24:25. | :24:33. | |
forced entry. What kit do you use? There is a whole raft of equipment, | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
from hydraulic equipment to equipment which we used to cut | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
chains. This is the Enforcer, which has a bit of weight on it! | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
Absolutely, it is pretty heavy! And some of these? This is essentially a | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
fire brigade's rescue tool, which we can use to open fire exits doors and | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
to smash windows. This is one for forcing doors open. And these are | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
some bars for opening windows. It is all about us deciding on a correct | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
method of approach, planning and executing. Everybody who uses this | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
equipment has to be specially trained? Yes. They apply for | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
courses, they have a couple of days training, depending on the nature of | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
the equipment, and then they are operationally prepared. Well, we saw | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
how you could get in through a door just there. For the next | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
demonstration, we have got to put some safety equipment on. Obviously, | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
we will be staying back, because this next one could be pretty | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
dangerous... Yes, on occasion, we may be having a look around the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
premises, and it might be easier for us to go through the window. We | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
might go through patio windows, and this is a demonstration of that. OK, | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
guys, stand-by. Advanced to your final assault positions... Stand-by, | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
stand-by, stand-by. Strike, strike, strike. Police! Police! So, that is | :26:19. | :26:32. | |
exactly how it is done. All of that flying glass can be dangerous? | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
Absolutely, it is a big health and safety issue, we need to be switched | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
on. We need to effect a positive, professional entry. Thank you very | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
much for that. Come back later, we are going to see a riot! | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
Now, can you help police find a driver who knocked the schoolgirl | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
down just yards from her front door? | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
To see that somebody could do that to a child and just go off... Now, I | :27:04. | :27:15. | |
am quite scared and shaky. It is a journey ten-year-old Summer has made | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
many times from her home to the local shops, are you all her parents | :27:19. | :27:28. | |
considered safe. -- a route her parents considered safe. Early | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
evening on the 6th of May. Summer was on her way back from a shopping | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
trip. But as she made her way home, a dark grey Audi A3 was also heading | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
for the roundabout on the main road. As Summer arrived at the junction, | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
so did the car. She stepped out into the road and was hit. This CCTV | :27:52. | :28:01. | |
captures the moment the grey Audi A3 sent her flying into the air. Summer | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
was able to get up and run across the road. A neighbour rushed to her | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
raid. He helped me to the house, and then I rang the door bell. Mummy and | :28:16. | :28:23. | |
daddy came. She was in tears, and shaking. She just didn't... She was | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
in shock, mainly. She could not remember what was going on. My heart | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
dropped, it did. My heart dropped, and it felt absolutely horrible. | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
Summer suffered cuts and bruises from the collision. At first, the | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
grey Audi A3 's top, but then suddenly drove off. The man | :28:49. | :28:58. | |
disappeared, not even stopping to see what he had done. It does not | :28:59. | :29:08. | |
seem the natural thing to do. You stop and make sure they are OK. | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
Failure to stop at a road traffic collision is a serious matter. It is | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
a requirement of The Road Traffic Act legislation that somebody does | :29:20. | :29:27. | |
stop. South Wales Police have released this CCTV of the car | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
driving away from the scene. It is a gunmetal grey Audi 83. I would | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
appeal to anybody that is able to identify the vehicle, I would even | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
appeal to the driver themselves to come forward and speak to us. That | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
would be an action which would give this family closure. I do not like | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
going out on my own in case another car hits me. She was this bright, | :29:52. | :30:00. | |
bubbly, confident little girl, and now, anywhere near a road, that is | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
it, she is a different child. Before, I was fine, I was not that | :30:06. | :30:12. | |
scared. Now, after, I am quite scared and shaky. I want her to be | :30:13. | :30:23. | |
the old Summer that we know, who was playing about with everybody and | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
getting under our feet. She needs to move forward. Until this man is | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
caught, she and the family, obviously, very shaken by what | :30:36. | :30:41. | |
happened to Summer. Investigating is Inspector Huw Griffiths. The family | :30:42. | :30:44. | |
really want to see an end to this, don't they? Yes, the community | :30:45. | :30:54. | |
require a successful outcome to this. Pretty grainy footage of the | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
moment the car hit Summer, but then some clearer shots. Tell us about | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
the new information you are bad. We are convinced this vehicle is an | :31:06. | :31:13. | |
Audi A3 fitted with a factory sat nav system. It is on an arterial | :31:14. | :31:20. | |
road when it collided with Summer, then it went up Dyfed Road, and it | :31:21. | :31:24. | |
will acquire is local knowledge to go up there. That would provide | :31:25. | :31:30. | |
access to the lower need valleys, local knowledge required to go up | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
that area. So you think the driver might be local, but only a very | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
brief description. Yes, a male, white with stubble. That is it? That | :31:41. | :31:48. | |
is it. If you did see this great Audi, police really need to hear | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
from you as quickly as possible. Here on Crimewatch Roadshow, we are | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
used to seeing crooks caught on camera, but have you thought about | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
what happens when you have a picture of a suspect. One man who knows is | :32:00. | :32:06. | |
DCI Mick Neville from the forensics image team at the Metropolitan | :32:07. | :32:12. | |
Police. What your team does is look through CCTV and piece together a | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
timeline. Yes, an incident happens, like that tragic accident, and | :32:18. | :32:23. | |
people will have to get CCTV from several different locations, so we | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
can start the incident, show what happens during and afterwards so the | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
court and jury can see exactly what has happened. A lot of this is done | :32:32. | :32:37. | |
by volunteers, isn't it? That is right, after the riots we had people | :32:38. | :32:40. | |
coming forward saying, can we help the police? They used their IT | :32:41. | :32:46. | |
skills, and when they are viewing CCTV, that means officers back on | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
patrol or detectives investigating, so it gives us more time to solve | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
and prevent more crimes. You have got a very strong example of just | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
how effective these volunteers can be. This is a case of a paedophile | :33:00. | :33:06. | |
where a man abducted a young girl in a central London venue, very iconic | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
venue, very busy. It needed lots of work on the CCTV to view lots of | :33:12. | :33:18. | |
cameras. We can see that now. This is an extremely busy venue, there | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
are literally thousands of people milling around, but your staff have | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
managed to pinpoint the person you were looking for and followed him | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
through. How did they do that? It is patience, they have to sit there, | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
find the suspect here, find the victim, follow them through and get | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
this so we know where he came in, who else see has assaulted, the | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
actual offence, so it can be played to the jury. Thanks to your team and | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
their diligent work, you got a strong result. He was sentenced to | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
eight years in prison for the child abduction. He also indecently | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
assaulted other women who we are still looking for. There was also | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
another element of technology that assisted in this trial. Of course, | :34:03. | :34:07. | |
when you have got a busy venue like that, you cannot close it down and | :34:08. | :34:11. | |
take all the jury there, because their job is to make money. By doing | :34:12. | :34:17. | |
this, we can show with 3D technology exactly how the venue was laid out, | :34:18. | :34:20. | |
where the victim and the suspect were, the legal teams can see the | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
angles of the CCTV cameras, so we can show the jury what happened. | :34:26. | :34:29. | |
When this case went to court, the court could see this and familiarise | :34:30. | :34:33. | |
themselves with the area without physically going to London. It | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
worked very well. Eight years, great result, thanks very much for joining | :34:39. | :34:44. | |
us. And now to a valleys town where a | :34:45. | :34:47. | |
community officer has rekindled an old hobby to help fight anti-social | :34:48. | :34:55. | |
behaviour. Tonyrefail was once at the heart of | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
the South Wales mining community. But these days jobs are hard to come | :35:01. | :35:04. | |
by, particularly for those growing up here. From young people, there is | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
an all too familiar complaint that there just isn't anything to do. The | :35:11. | :35:15. | |
combination of bored teenagers hanging around on street corners can | :35:16. | :35:19. | |
often lead to low-level anti-social behaviour. But one man is determined | :35:20. | :35:27. | |
to tackle it. Police community support Alan Blackburn. At the | :35:28. | :35:36. | |
town's amateur boxing club, he is encouraging the younger generation | :35:37. | :35:39. | |
to take their boredom into the ring. You do see anti-social behaviour, | :35:40. | :35:45. | |
give them something to do, a bit of self-respect. You see them hanging | :35:46. | :35:48. | |
about on street corners, getting drunk, taking tablets and drugs and | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
stuff like this. You want to help them if you can. It is worth it. And | :35:55. | :36:00. | |
he speaks with the voice of experience. He credits the sport | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
with keeping him on the straight and narrow in his youth. I started | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
boxing when I was about six, I was an international at every age group. | :36:13. | :36:20. | |
I was the British junior champion. He is a real inspiration to the | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
young people who come here. I have been out and about, involved in | :36:27. | :36:29. | |
certain activities, but I stay away from all that stuff now, I am glad | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
of coming year, it keeps you away from that. -- here. | :36:34. | :36:41. | |
And other of the coaches, Gary Davies, worked as a police officer | :36:42. | :36:47. | |
in the town for three decades. -- another. These as the numbers speak | :36:48. | :36:52. | |
for themselves. The most recent statistics I can recall have shown | :36:53. | :36:56. | |
that calls for anti-social behaviour in the town have decreased on the | :36:57. | :37:01. | |
nights that we are open by about 32%. It is not just about fighting | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
boredom. For some of the young boxers, being involved is also a | :37:08. | :37:15. | |
confidence boost. If somebody Exon me, boxing is the best I have had. | :37:16. | :37:26. | |
-- picks on me. You are never too young to put on the gloves. The most | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
junior members are just five years old. Through the discipline of the | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
boxing club, important life lessons are filtering down to a new | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
generation. Tell me why you like coming. It | :37:43. | :37:49. | |
makes me fit. It has given me lots of confidence. It helps you when you | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
are growing up, and if you get into fights, you can go away from them. A | :37:54. | :38:00. | |
really important lesson, don't get involved in trouble - walk away. | :38:01. | :38:05. | |
And back on the streets of Tonyrefail, you can see the positive | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
effects first-hand. You can see the difference in the way they respect | :38:12. | :38:15. | |
and talk to you, and that is not just the children, the people, the | :38:16. | :38:21. | |
local residents, people I have known all my life, really. So it has | :38:22. | :38:25. | |
brought the community together, the boxing club? Without a doubt, | :38:26. | :38:31. | |
without a doubt. Now, police officers have to be | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
ready for absolutely everything, as you can see, including when things | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
turn nasty, and Reg Martin is back with me now to talk about this. What | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
is this training? Basically, we have got urban disorder, we have got | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
shields and protective equipment to try to disperse this crowd and take | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
them away from the area. Again, specialist officers, specialist | :38:57. | :38:59. | |
training, but they come from all parts of the force, don't they? They | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
can have any number of backgrounds, CID, neighbourhood policing, and | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
they will be drawn into three days a year training with a variety of | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
tactics to bring them to a common minimum standard. So they volunteer | :39:14. | :39:19. | |
for this? Yes, they volunteer. Obviously, a very important part of | :39:20. | :39:26. | |
this for forces across the country, but they work together when they | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
need to get officers from different parts of the country. Yes, we call | :39:31. | :39:34. | |
it mutual aid assistance, and if they force has an event that is of | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
such a capacity that they need more officers, we will have mutual aid, | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
so the officers have travelled to London, as well as Northern Ireland | :39:44. | :39:50. | |
to do mutual aid assistance. Talk us through some of the training. They | :39:51. | :39:55. | |
are doing shields tactics, withdrawal, dispersal. They are | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
drawing back now, but they might be sucking them in to push them | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
forward. It is good to keep a crowd on their toes, because they cannot | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
throw blocks as much when they are moving. This is a particular tactic, | :40:07. | :40:12. | |
they are drawing forward now. Let's speak to one of the officers who has | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
been taking part in here, because Sharon is one of the few women | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
officers in the South Wales force who has trained for public order. | :40:22. | :40:25. | |
Sharon, tell us more about what you have done and where you have been | :40:26. | :40:33. | |
with this. Dai -- I have had numerous experiences, working with | :40:34. | :40:37. | |
the PSNI in Northern Ireland, I worked in the top right in the | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
premiership teams now, policing the football week in, week out. I have | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
had lots of opportunities. Why are there so few women doing it? | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
Numerous reasons. This is not compulsory, so it is done in your | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
own time, so people with young families, they value their rest | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
days. The standard of fitness is a bit higher than what you do normally | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
for regular policing, and that can be a bit daunting for some people. | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
But they all go through the same training, would you recommend that | :41:10. | :41:13. | |
women did more of this? Ethnically. I am absolutely in awe of you, a | :41:14. | :41:19. | |
scorching hot day, you are wearing all this kit, plus the shield. It is | :41:20. | :41:25. | |
pretty heavy, we have got some of the kits that we can talk through | :41:26. | :41:27. | |
with you, Sharon, fascinating to know what you have got as part of | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
that. What are these? Basically, that is a thigh guard, you wear | :41:33. | :41:39. | |
those on the top of your legs. There is the undergarment, then the lower | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
leg guards that we wear on the lower half to protect us from missiles | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
that are thrown. And the best as well, all really heavy, the body | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
armour. Thanks for taking us through that. Fascinating insight. Thank you | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
very much. What can I say? It has been an amazing demonstration, Rav, | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
back to you. We have had some good information on | :42:03. | :42:05. | |
the armed robbery we showed you at the jeweller's in south Wales, | :42:06. | :42:08. | |
police are chasing some strongly as we speak. Also, a potential lead on | :42:09. | :42:20. | |
the CCTV of a robbery at a phone shop in ones within London. And | :42:21. | :42:38. | |
police say they are following up new leads after we showed you yesterday | :42:39. | :42:45. | |
how an 81-year-old lady was robbed in her own home by men posing as | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
police officers. Keep your information coming in, it does make | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
a difference. Where will you be tomorrow? | :42:54. | :42:56. | |
Tomorrow at his planes, trains and automobiles, helicopters, boats and | :42:57. | :43:00. | |
mobile police stations. -- it is. We are heading to the beautiful Gower | :43:01. | :43:04. | |
peninsula to follow South Wales police as they help holiday-makers, | :43:05. | :43:06. | |
and we will be following an operation trying to catch the rogue | :43:07. | :43:08. | |
traders, and in that we really saw that the officers got a lot more | :43:09. | :43:11. | |
than they bargained for. There will be more fraudsters caught | :43:12. | :43:18. | |
any act on BBC One in an hour, stay tuned for Claimed And Shamed. For | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
more details on today's programme, go to the website. Finally, a last | :43:24. | :43:25. | |
look at the wanted faces, call us if you know where they are. Thank you | :43:26. | :43:27. | |
for watching, we'll see you, bye-bye! | :43:28. | :43:32. |