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I can safely predict that they're going to have a riot.

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Intriguing, over to you! Thanks, guys, here is a quick look at what

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else we have on the programme this morning.

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The latest developments in the Melanie Hall murder investigation.

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Her parents tell us why they are still hoping for justice. There are

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people out there know what happened and have not come forward. We would

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ask they have the moral fibre to find it in them to come forward to

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help. And find out what dangers lurk along

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these quiet streets. You're watching Crimewatch Road

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show. Hello and welcome to Crimewatch road

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show. We're live every weekday morning looking to solve crimes that

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can affect us all. Also up: He has fought cancer but Dylon can't

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recover from having his beloved birds stolen twice in three months.

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One time was enough but second time, that's just pushing the boundaries!

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Of course, Michelle is out on the road and today, she and the team

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have made it to Kent, where they're trying to deal with a spot of

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trouble. I'm in Gravesend, where officers from the Met are being

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taught the hard way about dealing with trouble and lots of violence on

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the streets. If I manage to get away from this gang of troublemakers, I'm

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hoping to learn some of those survival skills myself. Thanks,

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Michelle. Tomorrow will mark 20 years to the day since Melanie Hall

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disappeared after leaving my club in Bath. The 25-year-old --

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25-year-old's remains were found by workmen in 2005. In a moment, I will

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speak to the lead detective in the case, who has some new information

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for us, and we will hear from Melanie's family but first, let her

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mind you of the investigation so far. -- let's remind you.

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Millennial has not been since his leaving my club in Bath. Her parents

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and detectives working on the case believe she was murdered. -- Melanie

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Hall. It was the case that caught the attention of a nation, young

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psychology graduate who disappeared without a trace after enjoying a

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night out with friends at a nightclub in Bath. Melanie's friends

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and family launched a campaign to find the missing 25-year-old. They

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made an appeal for the public's help on Crimewatch. Melanie Hall went

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missing back in June from the centre of Bath, near her home in Wiltshire,

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and no one is seen since the. She had every thing to look forward to.

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She was young, attractive, had so much to look forward to in her life,

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and I'm sure she wouldn't have done this of her own free will. If she is

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still alive, I would like to just know where she is, so that we can

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just put our minds at rest. 13 long years past and her family never gave

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up hope that she would be found to. Until on the 5th of October 2009,

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workmen clearing undergrowth next to the M5 in South Gloucestershire made

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a discovery. Melanie's family's worst fears were confirmed. The

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remains were that of the missing 25-year-old. We had a young, vibrant

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daughter, happy, with the future in front of her. Today we have a bag of

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bones discarded on the side of the motorway. It has taken 13 years for

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us to actually find her and now we're relying very much on everybody

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to come up with some information to answer our other two questions - who

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and why? Once again, Crimewatch featured an appeal for information

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and I went down to the scene to get the latest from detectives on the

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case. I can show you exactly where the remains were. A postmortem

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revealed she died from severe head injuries. Despite her ring being

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found, her clothing was never discovered. A set of Ford car keys

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were also found just metres away from her remains and, in 2013, there

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was another Crimewatch appeal, this time of information about a VW Golf

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which police believe was significant at the time. It has been 20 long

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years for Melanie's family and despite several significant leads

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and nine arrests, her killer has never been caught.

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We're joined by Detective Superintendent Andy Bevan. Welcome

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to the programme. It is 20 years now since Melanie disappeared. Her

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killer has not been caught as yet but today you can reveal a

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significant breakthrough. What is it? That's right. We have DNA

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evidence on an item that was found at the scene where Melanie's remains

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were found akin to thousand and nine and we're working closely with

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forensics scientists to develop that DNA profile. But I believe that will

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bring us a step closer to finding who was responsible for Melanie's

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murder, which is what we all want, for Melanie's family, who have had

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to enjoy 20 years of painting top You've also got some footage you

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have released for the first time of one of the key locations. Talkers

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through what we're seeing. This is original CSI footage of the old

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Cadillac's nightclub in 1996, which will act as a reminder for people

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who may have been there. What was significant about the night Melanie

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was out, it was the opening game of the euro 96 football championships,

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hosted in England, and England drew 1-1 with Switzerland. Many people

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will remember what they were doing an updated top as we heard,

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Melanie's clothing was never found but you do have an idea of watching

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was wearing when she disappeared and we can see examples of that. Melanie

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was wearing a light blue silk dress and eight cream waste length single

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breasted jacket and a handbag containing a cheque-book and bank

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cards. Those items are never been found. Where are they? We need the

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public 's help with that. Melanie's family have spoken to us about what

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happened to their daughter 20 years ago. An incident like this is life

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changing and you are never the same afterwards. She had so many more

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things to do in life and she has been denied them, which is such a

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shame. She was very happy and still living here and she'd bring her

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friends home here, so we were still involved with her life, and she's

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left a very big gap. We are still appealing for members of the public

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to come forward with information. There are two things that are going

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to solve this case, maybe singly or maybe in combination. One is the

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continuous development of forensic science, as we've seen in the

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Melanie Road case, but also, people out there know what happened and

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might come forward. -- won't come forward. That may be through loyalty

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or fear. More than one person may know what happened but we would just

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ask that they have the moral fibre to find it in them to come forward

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and help us. You can see there, her family clearly haven't given up hope

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that her killer would be caught and as we saw a few weeks ago with the

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conviction of Christopher Hampton for Melanie Road's murder, which

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dates back to 1984, DNA evidence can help with these historical cases.

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That is the hope that we have with this investigation, that the DNA

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will bring us a step closer. But what was significant about the

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Christopher Hampton case is that he lead a normal life within the

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community, respected by people. That could be the same with the person or

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persons responsible for Melanie Hall's murder. So I would urge

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anyone with any information, any suspicions or who actually know who

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is responsible, now was a time to call us. Please come forward.

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Someone out there may have information and if they needed any

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more incentive to come forward and give that to the police, there is a

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reward. That's right. Crimestoppers have reinstated a ?10,000 reward for

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information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or

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persons responsible for Melanie's murder. So far, the people of Bath

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and the wider community have been absolutely fantastic with the

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information that they've been providing to us over the 20 years.

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We need more information. Please come forward. Thank you. If you have

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any information, as you've heard, please come across and give that to

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us now. The number is on screen or if you prefer, you can call

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Crimestoppers anonymously. Michelle...

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It's all quiet here now but at this specialist training centre, you

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never know what lies around the corner and for the officers that

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train here, that's exactly the point.

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No, this is not a post-apocalyptic film set and it's certainly not your

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average high-street. 30 miles from central London, this is the Met's

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specialist training centre in Gravesend.

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This is one of the best facilities in Europe, if not around the world.

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It has been open now for about 13 years so we are well used to the

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site. You are going to see a variety of officers from different stages of

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their career and you're going to see them learning the basics of public

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order training and then consolidating their two dess'

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training into an incident at the end where, hopefully, it will all come

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together and it will all work, but we shall wait and see. Police

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constables to commanders from across the force come here to learn how to

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deal with public disorder. From crowd control to peaceful protest,

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to a full on riot, here they tackle it all, but not all officers make

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the grade, especially when they face-to-face with these feisty

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rioters, who are played training officers. Providing back-up and

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proving once again that they really are a man's best friend is the dog

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support unit. They work in a group of six dogs and a sergeant

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controlling and they will always have the support of others. We would

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leave the dogs at the front. If we take up ground, it is like a

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leapfrogging process. The dogs are brilliant at public order, very

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dynamic, very visually impacted and on that basis, they tend to be able

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to do the work of a couple of units. Will move back because, obviously,

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you can't talk to the dog and if you do, the dog don't listen. -- people

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will move back. Officers have to think on their feet. Every scenario

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that can be practised is done here to give them the best chance of

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successfully dealing with any disorder in reality. In this case,

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keeping people from breaking through a barricade. But those shields over

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the barricades, facing forwards. Facing forwards aggressively,

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shouting out the warnings. You might use barriers to guide people down a

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certain route, you might use barriers to protect off a street or

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to protect the building. It might be that there is sensitive stuff behind

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it or it might be to keep opposing groups apart so there isn't any

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further violence. Remember, it is not our job to have a battle with

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the crowds. It is to hold an area. Thousands of officers from all areas

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of the Met come here to train every year, making sure they're ready for

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anything, including offering front-line medical assistance. It's

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really important because whether the officers get injured or members of

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the public, for us, when we're there, the public expect us to be

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able to deal with and treat but the primary responsible as divorce to

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the ambulance service and the hospitals but we will fill that gap

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until we can get them to their attention. What we're going to do

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now is practised tactics with the mounted branch, so these are done in

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two phases, passive and active. The first one is passive, where the

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horses will come up and show themselves to the crowd and the

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police unit is in front, the police unit will split and the waters

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rushed forward and take up some ground and then the police unit will

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come back and take up the ground. -- the horses rushed forward. This

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training is really useful because means we get to work with units that

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we don't normally get to work with, horses, also to different units. It

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provides an interesting way to look at public order. Managing the

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hostile crowd is one of the biggest challenges facing the police and for

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the last exercise of the day, all units come together in the most

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realistic scenario yet. They use all they've learned as all hell breaks

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loose. The task force organise themselves to cover and hold their

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ground as the rioters attack from every angle. When needed, the dog

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support unit is called in to push the rioters back and re-gain ground.

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And the horses, who aren't so passive this time, charge up the

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crowd, forcing them to separate and dispersed. -- charge at the crowd.

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It was a very tough day. Worked with horses, with the dog unit, being

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petrol bombs, so I've been through quite a lot today. It takes it out

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of you. You don't realise what muscle groups you are using as you

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are working throughout the dated top hard work but it is definitely worth

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it. -- throughout the day. As you saw there, the officers here are

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fully prepared to deal with all sorts of disorder but even though

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they do their utmost to control the disorder, they still need your help

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in identifying the people involved. Joining me now is DS Neil Gunn from

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the Metropolitan Police and he needs your help identifying people

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involved in some violence at a football match. Welcome. Talk me

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through what happened. This is a game of football that took place

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about a week and a half ago at Wembley between Barnsley and

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Millwall. Barnsley 131-macro and a section of the crowd in the stadium

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ended up fighting with each other. We can see some CCTV footage. What

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are we watching? What starts as physical confrontation and taunting

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between Franz escalates into violence, including punches being

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thrown. Incidence of spitting between fans. Sadly, the seats being

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ripped up and used as missiles. The security team are right in the thick

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of it, was anybody heard? Thankfully not, the security teams did an

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incredible job, given what they were confronted with. It could have been

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a lot worse. It was in the high as part of the stadium. It is a small

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minority of people? There were about 50,000 people who attended this game

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and this is a few dozen people in an isolated part of the stadium who

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just ruin the reputation of the clubs but everybody. I would like to

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say we are working closely with Millwall, Barnsley, the foot ball

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league and the Football Association to identify these people, get them

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arrested and keep them away from grounds. It isn't the sort of

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environment we want our kids to go to. We don't see these incidents in

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English football any more, but once or twice is too many.

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And here are some of those faces again?

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If you were at wembley that day and recognise any of these

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people then get in touch via the numbers on screen,

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all the images of the people police are looking to

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identify will be available on the met website shortly.

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The broken hearted schoolboy who had his bird collection

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It is really sad having to come back in here, I really loved them.

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And can you name the thug who carried out a terrifying

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I had a lot of freedom, I would go anywhere, at any time, but now I am

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more cautious and I have had my freedom taken away from me.

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But first, we need you to look closely at today's selection

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It is December 2013 and two crooks get on the number 13 bus. They

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exchange choice words with people at the bus stop, but look at one of

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them is holding... A suspected pipe bomb. They travelled to Donegal

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Square West where they get off the double-decker bus five minutes

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later. Police say they crossed the road, where one of them throws a

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pipe down a side street, next to the branch of a major European bank. But

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it lays unnoticed in Wellington Street for an hour, before the men

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return and they pick it up. They appear to show the objective

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passers-by before he places it against the wall by a skip and walks

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off. Detect it said the copper pipe was found by bank staff the next

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morning and triggered a security operation. It turns out it was a

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hoax, but police are treating this as a serious offence. Do you

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recognise either of them? We need your help. Be a diamond and tell us

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if you know this leaf and his companion. Posing as customers, they

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visit a Guildford store in March last year and ask to see some rings.

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An assistant Les two trays of sparklers on the table, and the

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woman tries them on. While the assistant is distracted, police said

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the man reaches over with his right hand and takes two rings from the

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trade nearest to him. He hides them in his fist until the assistant

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isn't looking, then puts them in his wallet. Eventually, they make their

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excuses and leave with ?11,000 worth of RB dazzlers. The couple both

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spoke with Eastern European accents. Names, please.

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If you recognised anyone, get on the phone now.

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Let's head back to Gravesend in Kent.

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Michelle, looks like it's all kicking off there!

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We've seen how full on the training is here and I'm now going

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The officers here are training to move through dangerous crowds.

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Sgt Adam Nash is the head instructor.

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We move through dense crowds, whether it is to rescue somebody,

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arrest somebody get through dense people from one area to another. In

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this scenario, there is a threat so we are in protective equipment is,

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so it is to protect them from getting pushed about. What kind of

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real-life situations, what kind of scenarios? Major sporting events,

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one of the biggest one is at Notting Hill Carnival, the new Year's Eve

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celebrations in central London. I can see these big handbags just

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behind us, what are they for? To replicate a person. They weigh the

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same as a grown adult. When they are swinging their replicate the moving

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of a crowd. So it is as a realistic situation as we can get it. What

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will happen? You would jump at the front, go with the officers into the

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simulated crowd. There is a subject they will arrest. You will be the

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arresting officer, you will be at the front so I will see you on the

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other side. See you on the other side, Adam. Visor down. Visor down,

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let's go. Forward! How was that? Pretty intense. When

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you are in there, you get the full extent, you need a lot of strength.

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Thanks for giving me an insight. Keep it nice and tight and you

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always get through. Join me later, my training isn't over yet.

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Now it's time for a look at today's Wanted Faces.

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Police forces around the country are asking for your

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Starting with Martin Michael Ward, although you may know him

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He's 38 but also claims to be 34, 36 and 42!

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He's wanted for questioning by detectives in Greater Manchester

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after a pensioner was assaulted in her own home

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Ward has an Irish accent, with links to County Galway,

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He has a tattoo of the name Tash on his neck.

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Detectives from the Met want to speak to him about the kidnap,

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assault and robbery of a man earlier this year.

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Islam is 22 and has a gold upper tooth.

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He has links to Newham in London, Sunderland, Newcastle,

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He was convicted of child sex offences in Romania,

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jailed for three years and placed on the sex offenders' register.

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After coming to the UK, he's failed to let the authorities

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here know where he is living and has therefore broken his conditions.

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He's 61 and with a Romanian accent, and has links

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He also works as a computer programmer or engineer.

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And finally we have 22-year-old Mitchell Slevin.

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Detectives in Lancashire want to question him about an attack

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in which a man had a chemical sprayed in his face.

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Slevin has links to Manchester and Conwy in North Wales,

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Call and text using the numbers on screen if you know

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Now, let's go back to Michelle in Gravesend. It is all well and good

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training the crowd control but what about getting the officers to the

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crowds in the first place. Vehicles play an integral part in their

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training. Good morning. Adam, what is so special about these? They are

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purpose-built for dealing with the big order situations. They can't

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protect it, they have a scream at the front to protect the glass,

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storage for Shields and equipment. Her spec windows at the side. If

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there is any paint thrown on the window screen, it can clean it off

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and moves officers from a to B as quickly as possible. What situations

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do you use this for normally? You will see these on the streets of

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London every day of the week, demonstrations, sporting events.

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Where there is a large body of people going around and we are there

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to make sure it is safe. Let's do the demonstration, you are going to

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show me how it is done. Yes, we will go round the corner now and deal

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with what is in front of us. Taking our position, there is

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obviously disorder going on. Going forwards. They get in position

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to start pushing everybody back. They make the defences. Positioning

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is very important? It is working as a team and as a unit to do things

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dynamically. It is interesting to see how it works in action. Rav, if

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he thought that was impressive, join me later, there is a lot more to

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come. I will look forward to that. Next, can you help Kent Police track

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down the man who attacked a teenage I have lived here since I was born.

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Growing up, not many kids to play with because we are in the middle of

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nowhere. But it was fun, climbing trees and stuff. 18-year-old Millie

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Godfrey is studying animal care and lives with her family in Chartham in

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Kent. Mostly just messing about with my friends. That is all I get up to.

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Whilst living in the countryside has its in means she has to travel

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further afield to see her friends on Thursday the 14th of April, Millie

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had been to college and then headed to see some friends in Canterbury.

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As usual, she got the train back and began her 15 minute walk home just

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before 11 p.m.. Henry Winter took her along the main road. During the

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day, the A28 can be busy, but at night, it can be lonely. It is not

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the nicest of walk when it is dark, there are no lights. That night,

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Millie had more than the dark to be scared of. I had my headphones on

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and I hear anything. I was completely oblivious that someone

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was following me. I got about halfway, where the graveyard is.

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Right before it happened, I knew somebody was behind me. But it was

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too late. A man came up behind her, pushing her to the ground. He then

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viciously attacked her. He punched me in the face, just kept going. He

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dragged her into the cemetery and carried on hitting her. Then he

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strangled me. I thought I was going to die. He wasn't stopping. After

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attacking her, the man got up and calmly walked away. I left my bag

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where it was, left everything and run. Desperate for help, Millie

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headed for the nearest house. I climbed over the fence. Help, please

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let me in. Help! They were shocked as well, because my face was

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obviously pretty bad. The police want to know who left Millie with

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these terrible injuries. It is an unusual assaults, no items were

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taken from Millie. She was taken into a secluded area and was

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violently assaulted. Millie should have been able to walk home safe in

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the village she lives. We don't want this to happen to anybody else. And

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for Millie, the independence she enjoyed has been lost. My sister

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will drive me home now instead of getting the train. I am OK, as long

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as I am with people. When I am alone, I don't like it. Any small

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sign, I think somebody is in the house or somebody is following me. I

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had a lot of freedom, I would go anywhere and any time. Now I am more

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cautious than I was before. It is like my freedom has been taken away

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from me. The experience has had a big impact

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on Millie. I'm joined by DC Shelah Thompson. How is Millie? We saw in

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the film that she suffered quite serious injuries. Millie's injuries

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have healed well but she is still scared to go out on her own and she

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shouldn't be feeling that weighted top Where exactly in Chartham did

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this happen? On the edge of chart is the train station. Millie has got

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off the train and walked towards her home address. She's walked along the

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A28 towards Ashford and as she has reached the cemetery, she has been

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grabbed and pulled into the car park. The person that has grabbed

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her, we believe, has come from the same direction as Millie and then

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has run off back towards the train station. Was there anyone else

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around that evening? We know from Millie there was definitely someone

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else around. Jailed Nolan got off the train at the same time as

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Herbert Millie states he walked off in opposite direction. We believe he

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could have witnessed something and could hold vital information. There

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is CCTV image from the local farm, which is a poor quality, but the

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person was around at the time of the assault and we believe he could have

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witnessed something. Do we have any more details about a suspect?

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Unfortunately, we have very limited details of the suspect themselves.

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Millie was grabbed from behind and all she can tell us if they had a

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dark Deon with the hood up the whole time. Thanks very much. -- a dark

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body on. For many of us, pets can help lift

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our spirits when we are feeling down and that was certainly the case for

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young Dylon who is recovering from cancer. Imagine his devastation when

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the thieves targeted the very thing that helped his recovery.

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Dylon was just five years old when he was diagnosed with cancer. I

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really can't remember too much, other than her saying, "They've

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found a tumour". I was inconsolable. It still hurts to this day. He did

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ask if he was going to die. We said, "Not if we can help it". During a

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respite holiday with his family, Dylon visited an aviary and that's

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where his love of birds started. The birds gave him comfort. It was his

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pets. He loved them. The family bought a bird for each step of his

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journey to recovery and Dylon formed a real bond with them. Every part of

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the cancer that I had, one would be the operation, I would get a couple

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for them, and every single part would be a bird. First was all the

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yellow ones and a couple of black and grey once. The last one we got

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was a white and red one. What I really like the most is when I come

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up to play football with my brother, they would be chirping and you think

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of it as the crowd going wild. On the 21st of March, the Osborne

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is' garden was broken into. Tragically, all of Dylon's birds

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were stolen. I was really heartbroken, devastated. I was

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allowed to swear and, trust me, I did swear really badly. It was just

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the hardest thing, to watch him lose them. He used to come out and feed

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them, play out here. He would often be at the aviary pretending to

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tweets to them. The birds had been a real comfort to Dylon through his

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illness, so after the theft join replaced them and tried to make the

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garden and aviary as secure as possible. We added an alarm to the

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shed, we added a security light. We thought we'd made the garden secure.

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But those are security measures weren't enough. Just a month later,

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thieves struck again and Dylon's birds were taken for a second time.

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I was like, "Wow, no, we've been burgled again! They've cut our roof

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out of the aviary". They work passing them out into their bird

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carrying box. This time, Dylon found it even harder to deal with the loss

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of his birds. Want I was enough but second time, that's just pushing the

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boundaries! -- one time was enough. Dylon cried three to four hours

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without stopping. They won't sleep in their rooms, they are both in our

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room. It's hard because from my perspective, he's been through

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enough. Whilst they would love to get more birds, Dylon's mum is

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worried about the impact a further theft could have on her son. Dylon

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is desperate to have the Avery repaired and haven't refilled. But I

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don't know if I could put him through it again. I've watched my

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son have a life-threatening condition, come through that,

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they've come back and stolen the birds again. Can I put him through

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it a third time? I don't know. Somebody in Sittingbourne knows

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something. I love them. Just a horrible thing to happen to

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Dylon. These are just two of the birds that were stolen and in total,

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he had 40 birds taken from his aviary. These included canaries and

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zebra finches and it's thought they may have been sold on as pets

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locally, so if you know anything that might help, please get in

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touch. Sadly, but that is more, Man U might think. Take a look at these

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fellas. Their older brother Kevin was stolen earlier this year. Mark

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Birdsall is from the Baytree Owl Centre, where the thieves struck,

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and PC Mark Goulding is an environmental crime specialist from

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South Wales Police. Good morning to you both. You have three babies

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here, baby owls, but you were targeted by thieves yourself where

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their brother was stolen. What happened? We have quite an extensive

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collection of owls at the centre and on the 15th of the breed, we arrived

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at the centre to find one of the aviary doors wide open. -- 15th of

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February. We found the sibling to this, who would have been ten years

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old this year, and he was bred at the centre all those years ago and

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has been a fairly major part of the display team for many years. So it

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has been quite devastating that somebody has broken in and pinched

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the owl. This is the older one. We were training him up to be a major

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part of the flying display team at the centre and unfortunately, we

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haven't had... We've had a lot of people phone up. Everyday people ask

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us about whether we've found him. We have a lot of sightings of people

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finding and seeing birds but unfortunately, we haven't had any

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ultimate findings. These are just about four weeks old but you want to

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stress that they are not just pets, they need specialist care, and you

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are worried about the welfare of the bird. Very much so. We don't have a

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lot of licensing and regulation on keeping birds of prey in captivity

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in this country as it is and some species are more delicate than

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others. Great owls are very cold climate species so they struggle

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even here in the studio. These guys are little bit warm. It is quite

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chilly in here but these guys still get stressed from overheating quite

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quickly so in the wrong hands, there is a good chance that we might not

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see them again -- see him again because he is already dead at the

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assembly has taken him and doesn't know how to look after him. PC Mark

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Golding, how common is this type of crime? The theft of captive birds

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does occur, however what is much more common, unfortunately, is the

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theft of our British wild birds, particularly eggs and their chicks,

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and they are systematically being persecuted through poisoning,

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strapping and shooting. What can the public to do help? There are some

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things we could ask them to do. It is the nesting season right now and

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we would very much like them to be looking out for something unusual,

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perhaps a dead pigeon on the ground, perhaps an oily substance on it,

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something like a pesticide can be used to poison the birds. So I would

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ask them to lookout for that. Suspicious traps. And particularly

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any activity up on a rock face, a nest, perhaps, adults squawking,

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looking distressed, give us a call. You also want to mention that

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although most police forces do have a specialist unit which looks into

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this, any police force would want to hear from people if they have

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concerns. Patiently but. Absolutely not. They shouldn't be put off and

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with regard to the great Grey owl, if anybody has seen an hour like

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that, we would be interested to hear from them. Absolutely. Thank you

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both, and you three, for joining us. Fingers crossed, someone watching

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can return Keven Mealamu is home. Now let's go back to Michelle, who

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is facing the ultimate test. -- return Kevin back to his home.

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I'm feeling quite nervous about this. This is the last part of my

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training. On one side we've got the protesters, on the other side we've

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got all our officers poised and ready to go, both of them looking

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quite intimidating. Adam, please can you talk me through how this is all

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going to work? The officers are going to move down, looking to take

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control of the street and get background, so they are moving in

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shield formation, coming down. OK. I just can't believe what I'm seeing

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here and that I'm going to be involved in this. Does this

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situation happen often? It is a really rare occurrence, which is

:40:52.:40:55.

fortunate, but we've got to train with officers to deal with these

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situations. It is something we have to do to train them but it is very

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rare. The gear is important to keep you safe. How does it keep you safe?

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It's got limb protection so it stops any bruising or blunt injuries. The

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overalls of flame retardant and the helmet protects your head, with the

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visor. I'd better get in there. Thank you very much. Face the front.

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OK. Just wait for it now, Michelle. Foreword! You're good, you're good.

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Keep going. Stay front, Michelle. We're good. You're all right. Sorry.

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Standstill. You're OK, you're good, you're good. Keep breathing. Your

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fine. ,, Michelle. Up you come. Keep breathing. You are fine. Off you go.

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Bags very much, guys. Sorry, I just need to catch my breath. Eye contact

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and believe what I've just... Rav, you know what? I'm sure you're far

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more experienced in these situations than me. This is the first time I've

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done it and I still can't believe I've done it. How did you find it?

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Well, I'll let you into a little secret, Michelle, you are not alone.

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I've done that several times and every time you come out of it

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feeling like you've done 12 rounds with David Haye, so well done. It

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was absolutely brilliant! Banks, rather. I'm going to head

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back and finish off this training. -- thanks, Rav.

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Have a well earned cup of tea! Well done from all of us. I've just got

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time to view a quick update on how your calls are making a difference.

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You may remember yesterday, we showed you the outrageous case of

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Dougie. He was the man who had cerebral palsy and he was robbed in

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a lift of his gold chain and someone stole his food to, in a lift it up

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we had a lot of calls and police say they are following up those leads as

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we speak, including one very strong sounding leads. Keep those calls and

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texts and e-mails coming in. They really do make a difference. Let's

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find out where Michelle is going to be tomorrow and if it is a little

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less dangerous! Tomorrow I'm going to be having to

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Hertfordshire to investigate the growing problem of night hawking.

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You've got these rogue metal detector wrists heading out in the

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middle of the night hunting for artefacts that belong to other

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people. For now, I think I need to get out of this year! I'll see you

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tomorrow. -- gear. For more information on all of our

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crimes, visit our website but 30 is another look at as a's most wanted

:44:09.:44:13.

faces. If you know where they are, give us a call. We will be back

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tomorrow but until then, take care.

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