Riots Caught on Camera Crimewatch

Tonight, a special edition of Crimewatch where we ask you to name

the rioters and looters who caused havoc across England. This is your

chance to help ensure justice is Hello and welcome to Crimewatch. We

have lots of important CCTV footage to show you tonight in the hope you

will be able to name as many of the suspected rioters as possible. We

begin in Tottenham where the trouble started 12 days ago. The

clean-up and re-building is in full swing as is the police

investigation into who is responsible for the violence. I

will be giving out the incident room numbers throughout the

programme. First, a quick reminder of why the police so urgently need

your help. Last week, parts of England experienced some of the

worst scenes of public disorder in living memory. We witnessed on live

television shops being trashed, people's homes being burnt to the

ground and their livelihoods destroyed. Because of the riots, we

have lost everything in our home. It all started on Saturday 6th

August. Protesters who had gathered after the police shooting of

Tottenham man Mark Duggan soon found themselves joined by rioters

hell-bent on trouble. And then the looting began. Let's get some

watches, man. Over three days, a wave of copycat criminality spread

across London. And once peaceful streets started to resemble war

zones. And by Tuesday, the looting and violence had spread across

England. I have this very clear message to those people who are

responsible for this wrongdoing and criminality. You will feel the full

force of the law. With 16,000 officers on the beat, all police

leave cancelled and the introduction of special armoured

vehicles, the fightback had begun. But then tragedy struck in

Birmingham. The Prime Minister has joined police and community leaders

in Birmingham to call for calm there after the deaths of three men

who were run over and killed during last night's violence. Haroon Jahan

and brothers Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir were run over while trying

to protect local businesses. are we doing this? I lost my son.

Step forward if you want to lose your sons. Otherwise calm down and

go home. The human cost has continued to rise. 26-year-old

father of four Trevor Ellis was shot dead in Croydon at the

beginning of last week. Three days later, Richard Mannington Bowes

died from injuries he sustained during the riots in Ealing, West

London. Back where it all started in Tottenham, people whose homes

were destroyed by fire are only just starting to come to terms with

the devastation caused. I have nothing left, actually. We have

only the keys. That doesn't open any door any more. When I come back

to see this, all my stuff, all our memories, everything is gone. It is

ashes now. You feel so, so upset. We will be giving out information

on Victim Support later in the programme. There have already been

over 2,500 arrests and courts have been working around-the-clock. Yet,

despite all the progress over the last week or so, the task of

bringing all those responsible to You have seen again the shocking

events of last week. Now it is time to help by naming those suspected

of being involved. First, let's look at some of the CCTV from

London. 12.30am on Sunday 7th August, a Quicksilver Games Arcade

on High Road Wood Green. They head to the rear of the arcade where

they rifle through staff handbags and the back offices. Two people

have already been arrested but police want information on their

mates. 00.38, a group of troublemakers

gather around a police van parked on the junction of Lansdowne Road

and Tottenham High Road. After trying to tip it over, they take

another approach - deciding to set it alight, using some flammable

liquid and they won't stop until the van is destroyed. Dragging a

wheelie bin under the van and setting light to it, they don't

give a second thought to the risks. They are endangering their own

lives and those of others as the van explodes in a fireball. There

is still time to take a souvenir photo. What they don't know is the

police have got them on camera, too. Now, can you put a name to any of

these faces? Wandsworth in London was hit hard by rioters on August

8th and police are keen to track down these four. If you recognise

any, take a note of each picture's unique reference number. In the

early hours of Sunday 7th August, a cyclist on High Road Wood Green in

Haringey is robbed of his bike, taking advantage of the police's

stretched resources. He tries to resist but is pushed to the ground

and they make off with his bike. Do you know who they are? Were you the

cyclist? Get in touch. A few minutes later, this hooded

individual has taken an interest in a car parked on the same road in

Haringey. He's got what looks like a petrol bomb. He and his

associates seem to add fuel to the fire and build a makeshift

roadblock. Within half an hour, the car is well alight. The police are

keen to track down the suspected arsonist and his accomplices. Do

you know who they are? While emergency services tackle blazes

across the city, this firebug is doing his best to add to the mayhem.

Right opposite the Carpet Right building which was destroyed during

the riots, he brazenly tries to set light to the blinds through a

smashed window in this council building. The police are very keen

to talk to him. Can you help track him down? More faces now. This time

from Peckham which was the scene of much disorder on August 7th. These

people are wanted in connection with the rioting there. Again, make

sure you note the reference numbers. Police were called to stop looters

stealing from the Aristocrat Menswear shop on the corner of

Chingford Mount Road just after 1.00am on Monday 8th. Suspects run

out of the shop and into Royston Avenue. The police are in pursuit

but are hit by a green Citroen driving in the opposite direction,

flooring two officers. One is left lying in the road, another

collapses behind a pillar. Both were treated in hospital for their

injuries. Police have arrested two men on suspicion of attempted

murder. Do you know anyone who was involved? Have you seen the Citroen,

registration Y132 GHJ? Do you know who was in it at the time? 6.40pm,

Clarence Road, Hackney. A line of police are battling to bring order

to the streets. Several rioters throw missiles at the police,

including this charming young lady. One group decides to break into a

taxi. Before pushing it across the road. Then a crowd heads over to

Western Union to run amok there. Have a good look at the crowd. See

10.20pm on Monday 8th and Clapham Junction's Carphone Warehouse is in

the looters' sights. A member of the public tries to dissuade anyone

from entering the building. They aren't put off, attacking him with

a fire extinguisher. They destroy the window with him out of the way

and get through the metal shutter flooding in to collect their loot.

No arrests have been made yet. But can you put a name to the faces?

Links to all those images are on our website - bbc.co.uk/crimewatch.

Contact details for all the forces featured are available by calling

us on 08000 468 999. The Met's Major Investigation Team are on

0208 345 4142. Or you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800

555 111. Or text Crimewatch directly on 63399. Type "CRIME"

space and your message. Now, to find out more, I spoke to the Met's

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Kavanagh. How significant were

these disturbances? They were like something we have never seen on

mainland UK before. The speed and the ferociousness of that violence

shocked hardened officers. On the Sunday night, we mobilised based on

disorder in one borough 3,000 officers. By the Monday, within 48

hours, 6,000 officers, the whole of West Yorkshire Police, but we do

know those officers were stretched in a way London has never seen

before. I would like to say morale is fantastic at the moment. They

are sleeping on floors, in offices, in gyms. They are at the end of

their tether for the hours they have been asked to do to keep

London safe. I'm not hearing a moan. What is the next part of the police

operation? We need to build on that sense of community that we have

across the UK. There will be images coming out of different forces,

coming out of London. Keep going back to our Flikr site. Give us a

call. They need to let us know. It is with their support we will make

a real difference and continue to fill the courts with the people who

shattered our communities on those nights. At this Command Centre, the

hunt to identify rioters is on. 125 dedicated officers are scouring

through more than 20,000 hours of footage, picking out images of

people they hope you will be able to name. We work on a four eyes

principle - each piece of footage has to be seen by two detectives.

They will grab images, the best still images they can, but we will

trawl through imagery that is before the event and after the

event at places like transport hubs and places like that where the

criminals won't expect us to be looking. Then those are the still

images that we will pump out to the press and ask the public to help us

identify those individuals. Where it is crucial from our point of

view, the public need to look at the images and they need to ring us

up and say anonymously if they have to, "I know that individual, he

lives next door." We will deal with it. We will put that person before

the court. These images are available on the Metropolitan

Police website for anyone to look at? Absolutely. We are uploading

that website every day. Lots of arrests have been made. You are not

stopping, you want to go after these people? Absolutely. My team

work 24 hours a day on 12-hour shifts. We are getting through this

material and more and more is coming in. We will hunt down every

one of these people. Of course, the huge task of sifting through all

that CCTV is not just happening in London. It is going on right now in

incident rooms across England. I'm in Wolverhampton where nine days

ago violence and vandalism erupted causing widespread damage to shops

in the area. I'm joined by two local businessmen who were affected

by what happened. We have Jason Ody who runs this clothes shop. What

happened? It was 5.30pm Tuesday afternoon, the shop got attacked.

The staff were in the store. They had to run out of the back of the

store. Your shop was full of clothes, quite high-value clothes.

It's empty now? Yeah. There were just scraps left. It was

devastating. They were like locusts. John, you own a jewellers up the

road. It's been around quite some time? 163 years, so six generations.

They didn't manage to get into your store because of the security

measures that were in place. They did cause a lot of damage? We have

11.5ml glass which will take a 20- minute assault before you penetrate

it. They must have been at it for a good 20 minutes. Someone who saw

first-hand what happened is PC Graham Lees. You were on duty the

day this happened. Tell us your side? We showed an initial presence

and before long, a firework came over the crowd. That exploded. One

of my colleagues went down. Fortunately, he is OK. That was it.

Windows started going in. Large scale disorder. We were soon in our

public order kit running up-and- down the street with shields.

you got kitted up, that was not the end of it? We were bottled, we had

bricks thrown at us. I copped half a brick on the inside of my arm

causing some bruising. It could have been worse. Have you seen

anything like this before? really. I have dealt with football

disorder in the past. This was another level. Thank you.

Thankfully, West Midlands Police have a huge array of CCTV. It is

your chance to help by naming them. Police in Birmingham are very keen

to speak to anyone who was in the city centre during the troubles

there. From 6.30pm on Monday 8th, crowds gathered in shopping areas

around the city. Some were determined to cause mayhem and get

hold of anything they could carry. The Bullring was a particular

target during much of the Birmingham rioting on August 8th.

These faces were captured on camera after they entered the shopping

centre illegally. Now it is time for them to be shopped. Make a note

of each picture's unique reference number and get in touch. By the

early hours of the 9th August, the trouble had reached Bristol. Just

after 2.20am a group of a dozen people, one on a bike, gather at

Cabot Circus shopping centre. They have come from Bond Street and St

Mathias Park to the south-east of the centre and congregated at

Hollister Street. They have got their eyes on the Thomas Sabo

jewellery store on Brigstowe Street. The police have caught up with

three members of the group so we have obscured their identities but

can you help bring the rest of them to justice? A male armed with a

hammer has come prepared. As he rushes to the store, the group

follow suit. The window is smashed and they grab what they can. The

shop sells sterling silver jewellery and specialises in charms.

Do you know anyone who is wearing or offering to sell this stuff?

Police in Bristol are also trying to track down these people after

disorder broke out on Monday 8th August in the city centre. See any

familiar faces? If so, call tonight quoting the unique reference. The

same night there was trouble in the St Pauls area of Bristol, outside

the Inkerman Pub. Several people gathered intent on causing trouble.

Spot the male in the light coloured cap, a light coloured zip-up jacket

with writing on the front, light blue jeans and white trainers? He

covers his face with a black scarf and pushes a trailer into the

police line. How about this one? Wearing a light zip-up jacket and

dark trousers, he stands out from the crowd. He is keen to get the

attention of the police line, throwing missiles at them. Avon &

Somerset Constabulary would like to talk to him. Do you know who he is?

Here is another to look out for, the man with the red bandana pulled

up over his face and wearing a black and red cap. He's got black

material around his wrists and he is quick to join in throwing

missiles at the police. If you recognise anyone from the Bristol

disturbances, call Avon & Somerset Constabulary on 0845 456 7000. Back

in Birmingham city centre on 8th August, in Temple Row and Upper

Bull Street property was destroyed and stock was stolen as the

criminals made their way from business to business. They moved on

through High Street and around the Mailbox targeting high-end designer

shops. The Amani shop is raided causing huge amounts of damage as

thousands of pounds worth of goods are stolen. Have you been offered

some cheap designer clothing recently? Or do you know anyone who

went on this looting spree? West Midlands Police would love to hear

from you. The trouble in Birmingham went on late into the night and as

well as potential looters, police say vital witnesses could have been

caught on camera. So if you see someone you know or if you

recognise yourself, you may be able to provide crucial evidence. Please,

do the right thing and get in touch tonight.

Links to all those images are on bbc.co.uk/crimewatch. Contact

details for all the forces featured are also available by calling us on

08000 468 999. The West Midlands Police incident room is on 0345 113

5000 or you can text Crimewatch on 63399, type "CRIME" and space. In

the Bullring, the rioters struck ten days ago. It seems this place

is back to normal. What is unusual is this large van behind me with

its massive screen on top, displaying images. To tell us more

is Detective Chief Inspector Steve Reed from West Midlands Police.

Good afternoon. Tell me more about this big van that we can see?

digital image van enables us to get photographs of suspects into the

public domain as quickly as we can. Busy areas like here have been used

to get these images so members of the public can call us with the

identification of suspects. You are using it in the busiest areas

possible where the most sets of eyes will hopefully recognise these

people? Absolutely. We have had a tremendous response from the

community, including Birmingham City and West Bromwich football

clubs. Have you used this tactic before? No, this is the first time

we have used it as a direct investigation tool. You want to get

that message out? Absolutely. They can view the images through West

Midlands Police website. Brilliant. Thank you for joining us. Good luck.

Let's hope some of those people get caught. Thank you. In Manchester

and Salford, the violence seemed to overwhelm police on Tuesday of last

week. Running battles were fought in several areas, with rioters

attacking shops, police officers and setting light to vehicles. This

is Manchester police's training centre where officers learn how to

control riot situations and someone who was there at the time on the

frontline is Sergeant Simpson. Hi. You were there at the time. How

does a training environment compare to the real thing that you saw last

Tuesday? The training that we do here, we try to make it as

realistic as we can. The numbers we faced in Salford and the missiles

that were used against the officers were massive. Tell us about the

incident where you were called to protect firefighters that were

called to put out a blaze? The Fire Service, they were trying to put

out a fire at Lidl. As we turned into the street, the amount of

missiles that were being thrown was unbelievable. That attack at Lidl

was by far worse than anything I have ever been deployed to. They

wanted to hurt us. I felt someone was going to get killed. Thank you

for joining us. We saw earlier how detectives have been using CCTV to

identify suspected offenders. As a result, dozens of raids have been

carried out in several English cities including here in Manchester.

Earlier this week, I spent a morning with one of the Met's

arrest teams in London. They were on their sixth day in a row of

early morning raids, following up on crucial intelligence they had

received about suspected looters. Welcome to the sixth day of

warrants being executed on this borough since the outbreak of

violence on Sunday and Monday. What I want you to do this morning is to

bear a couple of things in mind. The first thing is that we will

remorselessly follow every piece of information and intelligence that

we develop. Many of you would have been out on Friday, Saturday,

Sunday, Monday night. Many of you would have seen that level of

disorder. Many of you would have faced it. Most importantly, you

would have seen the fear on the faces of the public who were coming

up against this. I want you to bear in mind the fear that was caused by

those people when you go through these doors this morning. Police!

It is the early hours of the morning, we are in Westminster and

the police are about to round up some suspected looters. They have

arrested two suspects in the flat where they have found over �30,000

worth of suspected stolen merchandise. And even a London hire

bike. And it has only just gone 8.00am. As you can see, as a direct

result of information to the police, officers are making arrests just

like this. A warrant has been executed in one of the flats behind

me. Was it a success? We have recovered stolen property. We have

made two arrests. Not just the person out looting, there were

other members that had been receiving stolen goods and they are

in my cells. This snot the end of it for you? This is the beginning.

I want everyone to know, if you have got stolen property in your

flats and houses, if you were committing crime the other night,

the Metropolitan Police will be knocking on your door very soon. We

are going to pursue all of those that were committing crime and

follow up every bit of information that is given to us by the public.

We have moved to Manchester city centre where many shops were

attacked and looted. Ian Kinsella is owner of Bang & Olufsen and you

were cleared out? It was a total disaster. The mob, or the riot

crowd trashed the shop. What wasn't taken was destroyed. It's been a

complete nightmare. You know the police have made a few arrests and

hopefully more will continue. Absolutely. We have - they took

some fantastic DNA as well as the CCTV. There was blood on some of

the TVs as the looters injured themselves getting into the store.

There will be some arrests. I have no doubt some prison sentences

which is great. Thank you. Now, it is your time to help by having a

look at our last batch of wanted faces and CCTV. Tuesday 9th and the

riots have reached Manchester. A crowd gathers at the Arndale Centre

ready for trouble. They target the Foot Asylum Store and use whatever

they can to smash their way in, even a drain cover. After a couple

of attempts, they are in and they swarm all over the shop taking what

they fancy. Do you know who they are? Could you shop a looter? Over

in Salford, a crowd gathers outside Cash Converter in the shopping city

precinct after 8.00pm on 9th August. They use a bin to hold open the

metal shutter and gain entry where they help themselves. Some make off

with flatscreen TVs, others take game consoles and some musical

instruments. Has anyone offered you one of these? The police are keen

to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time and can provide

Officers in Manchester are also looking for these faces. They were

captured trespassing in the Tesco Express on princess street on

August 9th before 8.00pm. If you recognise them, call the police

recognise them, call the police tonight. Over in Merseyside, these

four are wanted in connection with the disorder in the south of

Liverpool on August 8th and 9th. Know them? Take down their

reference numbers and get in touch. Back in Manchester, on Thomas

Street, the 9th August. A group of mostly young men gathers outside

two jewellers. They work as a team to gain entry to Cathedral

Jewellers and Alfred Mutter Limited. They attempt to conceal their

identities but those clothes are distinctive. They ransack the place

trying to access the glass cabinets looking to steal whatever they can.

They are focused on getting the loot and getting out. Don't let

That is about all we have time for. If you recognise any of the

suspects from this area, please contact Greater Manchester Police

on 0161 856 2031. All the other phone numbers are coming up and you

can find links at bbc.co.uk/crimewatch. If you have