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Tonight, the traffic cops are chasing auto-burglars, | 0:00:02 | 0:00:05 | |
who'll stop for nothing. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:06 | |
-What's your name, mate? -James. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:10 | |
Dealing with breakdowns... | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
HE SOBS OK, I will phone an interpreter. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
..and break-ups. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
The worst first date I have ever had in my life! | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
Running after people who've been drinking... | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
Let's go! | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
..or using knives. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:25 | |
That's a big knife. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
And hunting for a killer on the loose. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:29 | |
The puzzle deepens. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
We didn't know whether we were investigating what could possibly have been a murder. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:35 | |
Just north of London, in Hertfordshire, | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
reports are coming in that an expensive Mini Cooper | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
has just been stolen. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:06 | |
Luckily, traffic cops Chris Payne and Nathan Cattley are not far away. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:11 | |
Oh! That's where we are. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:20 | |
It's becoming increasingly rare to have your car stolen, | 0:01:20 | 0:01:24 | |
thanks to recent technological advances | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
that have made it virtually impossible for criminals | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
to get into them and start them. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
Instead, they need to steal the keys first. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
3 Whisky 7. We're en route on the 602. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
What's it that makes them think it's stolen? | 0:01:39 | 0:01:43 | |
Oh, it's their own? | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
The people who reported the Mini being stolen are doing their best to get it back. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:51 | |
A stolen vehicle was being followed | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
by two friends of the person who had had the vehicle stolen. | 0:01:56 | 0:02:01 | |
Whenever there's a pursuit over the radio, everyone wants to get in on the act. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:08 | |
Ross Clark is no exception. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
The road that it was being pursued along, | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
sort of comes out no more than a quarter of a mile from the motorway junction. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:20 | |
And as we were coming off, I was thinking to myself, | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
we're either going to get on the back of this pursuit | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
or we're going to be able to get there, | 0:02:26 | 0:02:27 | |
get a stinger out and sting it. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
Patrolling in his unmarked police car, | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
Jim Norton was able to get behind the Mini | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
by pure chance. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:35 | |
As I came up to the Datchworth turn-off, the B197 at Woolmer Green, | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
a Mini pops out the junction, across my path. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
I'll never forget it. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
Brake discs were glowing red, orange-hot. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
I thought it had one of these snazzy set of wheels that glow in the dark, | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
but it was because the brake discs were literally burning so hot, they were glowing. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:54 | |
For some reason, the driver's got his foot on the brake | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
while he's driving along. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
I'm thinking...stolen Mini. This has got to be one of our auto-burglaries | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
that we suffer. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:06 | |
So, this is going to be some real professional criminals out there, | 0:03:06 | 0:03:11 | |
stealing cars overnight from addresses by means of burglary. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
The way the car's being driven, the chances of an accident are great. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
Especially now as he's suddenly discovered how to drive | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
without his foot on the brake. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
Your heart jumps up into your mouth. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
You think, "It's really the wrong time to accelerate." | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 | |
You can see what'll happen. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
He hit a tree, and into a bus shelter. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
You're thinking, "This person's going to be probably really badly hurt." | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
But somehow, he isn't. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
You could tell he's under the influence of something, whether drink or drugs. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:50 | |
The car thief doesn't have any obvious injuries at all. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
Criminals have this irritating ability of escaping | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
any harm for what they do. I quite often liken them | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
to cockroaches. They can get blown up or go through car crashes, | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
yet they're just indestructible. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
They'll be back next week stealing cars and taking drugs. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
Does it hurt anywhere in particular? Are you bleeding at all anywhere? | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
I don't really know, mate. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
First thing I knew, I hit that thing... | 0:04:16 | 0:04:18 | |
then all of a sudden, you were... | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
-That's all I... -You understand you're under arrest? | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
-I know, I'm... -You understand, for theft of a motor vehicle? | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -OK, fella. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:28 | |
And he's then come clean. He says, "I've consumed 20 cans of Foster's," I think it was, | 0:04:28 | 0:04:35 | |
"and taken some spliffs - cannabis - | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
"and I'm on this anti-depressive medication as well." | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
The Mini's absolutely wrecked as well. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
I'm thinking, "This thing looks like it's going to catch fire." | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
It's gone into the side of a bus stop. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
Hello, guys. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
It's proper smoking. I won't be surprised if that goes up in a moment. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
I take it you've called Trumpton for this? It is smoking quite heavily. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:02 | |
RADIO: 'I'll give them a call.' | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
Thank you. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:07 | |
If that had been sort of... | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
three o'clock in the afternoon, | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
he's done 50mph into a bus stop. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
That would have just been horrendous. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:16 | |
Sierra 6 have arrived. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
Not overly concerned at the level of injuries at this point. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
Obviously, I'll wait for an update. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
He was complaining of pains to his neck and back, | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
due to the impact of the collision. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
So we immobilised him, | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
basically by taking control of his head, | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
C-spine immobilisation. So if there was any cervical or spine injuries, they were basically protected. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:40 | |
Which leg am I touching? | 0:05:40 | 0:05:41 | |
Eh? | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
Which leg am I touching? | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
Even though he's committed these offences, our first role is to provide first aid and trauma care. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:51 | |
-We'll leave you to it. -Cheers, thanks a lot. Take care. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
It looked like his brakes were actually locked on, or jammed on. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
A lot of the time as he was coming along the road, | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
you could see a lot of smoke coming from the wheels themselves. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
So when it had turned right, you could see the brake discs were glowing red-hot. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:06 | |
He's accelerated as he's come down over the hill, | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
and it's basically gone out of control, clipped the kerb down here, | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
bounced, and smashed into the bus stop there. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
He's come round too fast, and you can see the skid marks where the back end's slid across the road, | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
and he's hit the kerb. And that's bounced him up the kerb, into the bus shelter. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
The smashed Mini belongs to a girlfriend of the lads who were following it, | 0:06:23 | 0:06:27 | |
who'd had her car keys stolen. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
-So you knew it had been pinched out of her handbag, and you set off in your motor? -Yeah. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:34 | |
She had her handbag stolen, | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
and they've assumed her car keys are in that handbag, | 0:06:36 | 0:06:41 | |
and they've put two and two together | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
and thought whoever's stolen her handbag is probably going to come and look for her car. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
And when they're on their way back to where she'd had her car parked, | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
they saw it coming out. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
So we chased him, and... | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
we're on the phone to the police at the same time, giving them directions, | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
and then this is what happened. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:00 | |
Luckily, one of them's a racing driver as well! So he's managed to keep up with it quite well. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:04 | |
They've given a really good commentary over the phone to the control room, | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
so they've managed to catch up with the vehicle. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
Apparently, it had no lights on at one point. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
Certainly, without their assistance, we'd never probably have found that vehicle that night. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:16 | |
We've found a few things in the jacket pocket of the driver. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:21 | |
We've found a couple of mobile phones, one of which is a BlackBerry, | 0:07:21 | 0:07:25 | |
which we believe to have belonged to the owner of the Mini. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
The cops need to find out exactly who the auto-burglar is. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
Obviously, we can't do mobile ID, cos he's being treated. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
So we've basically used his PDA here | 0:07:35 | 0:07:39 | |
to assist us in confirming his identity. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:44 | |
So I'm looking at the... | 0:07:46 | 0:07:47 | |
picture there. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
The man is James Bevan, | 0:07:49 | 0:07:50 | |
and he's failed the roadside breathalyser. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:53 | |
He blew well over, | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
and then, obviously to get an evidential sample from him, | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
we can't take him back to the police station, | 0:07:58 | 0:08:00 | |
stand him up next to the Intoximeter to get an evidential sample from him, | 0:08:00 | 0:08:04 | |
because he's injured and he needs medical treatment. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
So the next step is to get a doctor out | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
and request a sample of blood for analysis. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
Yeah, you can see it from here. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:15 | |
Yeah, the tip of... | 0:08:15 | 0:08:16 | |
Yeah, keep that shining on it. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
The traffic cops just need one or two measurements for their report, | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
and then the road can be reopened. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
He's completely smashed. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:25 | |
He says he's had 20 cans of Foster's, | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
he's had cannabis about four hours ago, | 0:08:27 | 0:08:29 | |
-he's had all these other... -Heroin as well. -He says he's had heroin now? -Yeah. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:33 | |
He says he's had Valium and everything else. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:36 | |
They offered him gas and air. It wasn't strong enough. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
-Not going to hit the spot! -No. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
I doubt it, with all he's had. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:43 | |
He's been charged with eight offences, which are | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
aggravated vehicle taking, | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
failing to stop for police, dangerous driving, | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
using a vehicle with no insurance, | 0:08:52 | 0:08:53 | |
driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence... | 0:08:53 | 0:08:56 | |
I think there's even some malicious telecommunication offences, | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
cos there's been a couple of fake 999 calls from a drunk man in Hertford town centre, | 0:08:59 | 0:09:04 | |
which was him also. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
Yeah, bit of a silly boy, really. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
In the 1990s, car crime amounted to more than 20% of all crime. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:14 | |
Nowadays, that figure has dropped to less than 10%. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
Even so, stolen cars are still high on tonight's priority list for Ross. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:25 | |
Night shifts is the time of the auto-burglar. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
He's on the lookout for them with Mike McCoy. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:32 | |
So we're driving round the ring road at Watford, | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
and I see this really nice Porsche Cayenne. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
And I'm thinking... | 0:09:38 | 0:09:40 | |
"Yeah... | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
"That kind of fits the bill of the kind of car that's going to get stolen at this time of night." | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
Whisky 3, can I have a vehicle check, please, quickly? | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
Then suddenly it starts being driven like an absolute loon - | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
really erratically and at loads of speed. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
And I'm like, "Right! We're on here. This is definitely stolen. | 0:09:57 | 0:10:01 | |
"This is definitely going to be an auto-burglar. We'll have a pursuit here." | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
So I get all excited, and Mike gets a bit excited, | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
and I start calling it in. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:09 | |
OK, we're just following this vehicle at speed. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
We're... | 0:10:12 | 0:10:13 | |
At Wiggenhall Road, down towards the dump. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
We're going for a stop shortly. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:18 | |
They go like stink, those Cayennes, don't they? | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
It's not only auto-burglars that set the alarm bells ringing. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
In Watford and round our area, | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
we have a lot of drug dealers. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
Those guys often hire a really nice car - | 0:10:33 | 0:10:36 | |
it'll be like a Range Rover Vogue, or a Porsche Cayenne, | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
or an Audi Q8 or something like that. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
And they'll hire it on a short-term lease, and they'll go and do all their drug-dealing and so on. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:48 | |
Perhaps it's some kind of status symbol with them. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:51 | |
And that was the other thing that was running through my mind. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
Sadly for Ross, it's not the case this time. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
OK, just pop yourself out the car for me a second. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
A very well-dressed Asian lady and her elderly mother sitting next to her and a load of kids in the back. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:07 | |
It was just like... | 0:11:07 | 0:11:09 | |
I was not expecting that at all. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
But she may not be driving legally. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
She says she's got a provisional driving licence. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:18 | |
Provisional?! | 0:11:18 | 0:11:19 | |
Just step over here so you're not in the... | 0:11:22 | 0:11:24 | |
I can't... I can't quite put... | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
the car, the way you were driving, | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
and the occupants of the car | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
being children and yourself and that. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
-What kind of driving licence do you have? -An international one at the moment. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
-It's in the process of getting changed. -OK. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
-And a provisional UK licence? -Yes. -What country are you from? | 0:11:43 | 0:11:46 | |
-Kenya. -You're from Kenya. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:48 | |
-And how long have you been in England? -Um, well I've just come back on Wednesday. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:52 | |
OK. How long have you been living in England? | 0:11:52 | 0:11:54 | |
Um, about four months or so. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
Right. | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
So how come you've got a UK provisional licence? When did you apply for that? | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
Because I wanted to change it. I've been in and out of the country for a long time. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:07 | |
And so I have applied for it, but I just haven't been here long enough to have sat the test. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:12 | |
Right. What's your immigration status? | 0:12:12 | 0:12:14 | |
-You're a British citizen? -Yes. I was born here. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
So if you were born here, why have you got an international licence? | 0:12:18 | 0:12:23 | |
Because I never lived here. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
Right. Do you have any ID at all on you? | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
I have a bank card, if that's enough. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:31 | |
A credit card and debit card. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:33 | |
Go and grab those bits for us. That'd be cool. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:36 | |
-I'm not believing this for a minute. Are you? -It's a bit weird. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:44 | |
An international licence is only valid for a year after first entering the UK. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
And, if on a provisional, the woman needs L-plates. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:52 | |
You obviously have got a foreign licence. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
Because at some point in time, you've acquired points in the UK, | 0:12:54 | 0:12:59 | |
probably driving on that licence. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:01 | |
Does that sound about true? | 0:13:01 | 0:13:03 | |
Cos what we do is we create a record for you to put points on it, | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
and then you can accumulate them that way. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
They did say to me that when I change it, they will roll over. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:12 | |
Right. Well, what they've actually done is that you've got two records in England. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:16 | |
The first one being you're a non-licence holder, | 0:13:16 | 0:13:20 | |
which is the one where you applied points on your foreign licence, | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
and then, obviously, you've got a provisional licence, | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
-which you got on the 1st of November 2008, which is... -8? | 0:13:26 | 0:13:30 | |
Yeah. 2008. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:32 | |
And now she's going to get some more points. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
But the points on her provisional licence | 0:13:37 | 0:13:39 | |
and a £60 fine are the least of her problems. | 0:13:39 | 0:13:41 | |
She's also having her prized Porsche seized. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
We're not going to allow you to drive any further. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
-OK. -Because you're not allowed, basically. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
You've only got a provisional licence in the UK. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
The only time you can drive is with L-plates | 0:13:52 | 0:13:54 | |
-and someone... -Who's got a driving licence. -Well, yeah, | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
a UK driver's licence for more than three years and is over the age of 21. | 0:13:57 | 0:14:02 | |
-OK. -Yeah? | 0:14:02 | 0:14:03 | |
Um... | 0:14:03 | 0:14:04 | |
I'll be honest with you. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:05 | |
If we had been checking your speed on Beechen Grove | 0:14:05 | 0:14:10 | |
and we could get an accurate reading on that, | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
then you would also get a speeding fine as well. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
When I walked round to the front of that car and saw you in there, | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
rather than, like, four gangsters or whatever, | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
the way you were driving in that kind of car, | 0:14:22 | 0:14:24 | |
I was just like, "What's going on?" Children in the back. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:28 | |
-It was a bit of a shock. -We'd just done a big Tesco shop. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
Right. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:32 | |
-So how do I get my car back home? -Shopping?! -Yeah, because we're on holiday. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:37 | |
Anyway, do I get my husband to come pick up the car, or do I...? | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
No. Unfortunately, the situation is | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
the vehicle gets recovered to one of our compounds... | 0:14:44 | 0:14:47 | |
She called up a taxi and we waited with her. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:51 | |
It was quite late at night, with kids, and so on, | 0:14:51 | 0:14:53 | |
so we would have waited with her until the taxi turned up. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
That's quite good, innit? | 0:15:03 | 0:15:04 | |
A little less right foot, eh? | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
OK. Thank you very much. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:11 | |
-Bye-bye. -Take care. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:12 | |
Bye. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:13 | |
The lap of luxury inside. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:14 | |
-Can't even afford to tax it. -How much is the tax? | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
455 sheets! | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
455 quid to tax it?! | 0:15:20 | 0:15:22 | |
Mate, that's like... That's my spending money for the month. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:27 | |
Busy night, eh? | 0:15:27 | 0:15:28 | |
Yeah, there's bits and bobs going on, definitely. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:32 | |
It's turning out to be a busy night for suspected vehicle crime. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
A roadside number-plate-reading camera near Stevenage | 0:15:36 | 0:15:40 | |
has picked out another stolen car. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
There was an ANPR hit on the vehicle. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
Straight away flagged up as being a stolen vehicle. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
So we've all gone to where the vehicle has hit the camera | 0:15:47 | 0:15:53 | |
and started to search for it. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:54 | |
Jim's been joined in the hunt by his colleagues Nathan and Chris. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:58 | |
I'm just trying to get through to someone to find out if we've got any more details, | 0:15:58 | 0:16:03 | |
cos it's an overdue hire one. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
Stealing cars after hiring them is certainly one way | 0:16:05 | 0:16:08 | |
to avoid the difficulty of getting hold of the keys. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
Jim has found the car - | 0:16:15 | 0:16:17 | |
a Renault Clio - in an Asda car park. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:19 | |
Luckily, he was in an unmarked car, | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
so he was able to sit up at a point | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
fairly in the shadows | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
and wait, hopefully for people to return to the car. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:37 | |
We've come in the delivery entrance way... | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
..off of London Road. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:43 | |
Just trying to see... I think we can get through | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
to the front. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
So we're out of view. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
A plan had been put together that the vehicle would be recovered. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:55 | |
But in the meantime, we would sit there, continue to observe the vehicle, | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
and hopefully the offenders might return to it before we recovered the vehicle. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:03 | |
It could be a long wait. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
We're all at various points round the entrance to Asda. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:13 | |
At times like this, you find out who your friends are. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:17 | |
You learn a lot about people in that time. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:21 | |
A bit of mickey-taking's quite normal. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
And it sometimes involves Nathan and his resemblance to a certain well-known footballer. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:29 | |
He's got a picture of Frank Lampard on his locker. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
He loves the fact he's compared to someone so high-profile. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:38 | |
There's worse people to look like, I suppose! | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
While the Asda stakeout continues, | 0:17:42 | 0:17:44 | |
in Bedford, Tanveer Hussain and Chris Norton | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
are lingering at another car park | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
for a man they suspect is a drunk driver. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
It was an anonymous tip-off that a person... | 0:17:53 | 0:17:56 | |
regularly drinks at the Half Moon pub, | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
and he drives this van, and this is the registration. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:02 | |
Tan has no qualms about going after people who have been snitched on. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
If you choose to go to a pub in your car and drink, | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
expect to have a police officer waiting round the corner when you leave. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
Simple as that. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:14 | |
We had some intelligence previously, | 0:18:14 | 0:18:16 | |
suggesting he was also drinking at the Duke public house, | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
which was just up the street. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:22 | |
Chris and Tan are going on a pub crawl. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:24 | |
As we drove into the pub, | 0:18:26 | 0:18:28 | |
Chris noticed a male walking across the road. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:32 | |
Painter's trousers. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:34 | |
Decorator's van - it's got to be our man. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:36 | |
I don't think he clocked us. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:39 | |
-Did he clock us? -No. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
The way he was walking across, | 0:18:41 | 0:18:43 | |
you could tell he was drunk straight away. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:46 | |
Tan, you won't be able to see the car park if we park here. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
I know he's got to come right... | 0:18:50 | 0:18:52 | |
Once again, the cops want to catch their prey in the act. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:56 | |
This lay-by here. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:57 | |
Now, for some unknown reason, and he's never done it before, | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
he got out the car and says, "I'm going to have a look." | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
As the male crossed the road, he went out of view, | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
so I just wanted to be sure that he went into the pub car park and not walked further up the road, | 0:19:14 | 0:19:18 | |
or we'd be sitting there for half an hour and nothing would happen. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
As I got closer, I just heard the sound of an engine. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
Let's go, let's go! | 0:19:27 | 0:19:29 | |
'I immediately realised it was him.' | 0:19:29 | 0:19:31 | |
And the next thing I hear is the slap of feet | 0:19:31 | 0:19:34 | |
and the huffing...the panting of breath. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
And Tan runs back - "It's him, it's him!" | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
You're a naughty boy! | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
Pick up the van. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:44 | |
I found Mr Drunk, walking back towards the pub. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:50 | |
And I just got in his way. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
SIREN BLARES | 0:19:53 | 0:19:54 | |
The white van man's in no hurry to pull over. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:58 | |
That is funny! | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
The police computer says the man's name is Wayne - | 0:20:03 | 0:20:06 | |
Wayne Hughes. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
He took his time. I got out. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:11 | |
And, as normal, just nice and polite, "Thank you for stopping." | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
Wayne, though, is far from happy. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:19 | |
-BLEEP -knobs! | 0:20:19 | 0:20:21 | |
He was actively resistant towards us. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
All right, don't be cross. Don't be cross. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:27 | |
What's your name? | 0:20:28 | 0:20:30 | |
-Bert. -Bert? | 0:20:30 | 0:20:31 | |
Right. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
If you're going to go down that route, Bert, you're under arrest. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
He was just being... | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
obstreperous towards us, and I just thought, | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
I'm not going to play your game. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
If you're going to lie to me or treat me like a fool, | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
my patience wears very thin very quickly. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
-Sorry? -You say it's my driving? | 0:20:49 | 0:20:51 | |
I can tell by the smell of the alcohol on your breath... | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
-But that's not why you pulled me over... -BLEEP. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
OK. lovely. | 0:20:57 | 0:20:58 | |
We saw you walking around, then you went to the pub and then jumped in your car. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:03 | |
You were very unsteady on your feet. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:05 | |
If the police have enough suspicion somebody has been drinking and driving, | 0:21:05 | 0:21:09 | |
they don't have to use a breathalyser. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
We can just arrest them, Section 4. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
That's what Chris did. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
It's late-night shopping back at Asda. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:20 | |
But at last, something's happening. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:22 | |
Jim's spotted two people coming towards the stolen hire car. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:26 | |
Nathan and Chris need to move fast, | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
so there's no chance of the car or the occupants getting away. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
It's very important, from an evidential point of view, | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
to get them in that vehicle. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:45 | |
The problem we then have is that we don't want that to then turn into a pursuit. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:50 | |
Contrary to popular belief, | 0:21:50 | 0:21:51 | |
we don't want pursuits. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
Whisky 7, are we going in? | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
Yeah, we're in there now. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:06 | |
OK, yeah. Got it. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:09 | |
We came in, all lights blazing. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
Cut the vehicle off | 0:22:16 | 0:22:17 | |
so that he couldn't go forwards or backwards. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
You're under arrest on suspicion of the theft of a motor vehicle. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
-You don't have to say anything... -What?! | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
You don't have to say anything, but it may harm your defence | 0:22:26 | 0:22:29 | |
-if you fail to mention when questioned anything you later rely on in court. Understand? -For what? | 0:22:29 | 0:22:33 | |
This vehicle is showing as being outstanding stolen from Avis rental cars. OK? | 0:22:33 | 0:22:37 | |
Oh, my days! | 0:22:37 | 0:22:39 | |
What's your name, fella? | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
Courtney... Oh, my days! Officer, listen to me. Let me explain something... | 0:22:41 | 0:22:46 | |
The male driver is very, very heavily built, | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
so my concern was to gain control of him straight away. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:52 | |
On my mother's life, you're arresting me for no reason. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:55 | |
The car's showing as outstanding stolen. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
He made mention there had been problems with payment, | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
but really didn't give a great account as to why. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
-You understand? -Now you want to put me in a cell for hours... | 0:23:03 | 0:23:07 | |
We're going to speak to you, make some enquiries about it, but at the moment, | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
because you were in that vehicle and you've driven off, it's reported stolen and you've been arrested. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:15 | |
Nathan had gone to the passenger side and was dealing with the female passenger, | 0:23:16 | 0:23:21 | |
which allowed me to conduct a search of the vehicle. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:23 | |
You need to understand that whoever owns this car, which isn't him, | 0:23:27 | 0:23:31 | |
has reported it stolen. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:32 | |
WOMAN: How do you know it's not his? | 0:23:32 | 0:23:34 | |
Well, I know it isn't his car, | 0:23:34 | 0:23:36 | |
because I know who the registered owner of it is. And it's not him. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:40 | |
-Have you got any identification on you? -No, sorry. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
The man's into sport... | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
or serious self-defence. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:47 | |
Couple of baseball bats. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:49 | |
He plays baseball, does he? | 0:23:49 | 0:23:51 | |
He does sports with kids. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
No, seriously, he plays with kids and stuff like that. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:58 | |
All sports-related. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:00 | |
As there's a baseball in here as well, I'm guessing you play baseball? | 0:24:00 | 0:24:04 | |
-INDISTINCT RESPONSE -Well, that's it, then, isn't it? I didn't say anything to you. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:09 | |
He had a perfectly legal reason to have those. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:15 | |
But you have to remain calm and establish the facts before... | 0:24:15 | 0:24:20 | |
you react. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
Some paperwork in the boot might show | 0:24:22 | 0:24:24 | |
if he's got a perfectly legal reason for having the car as well. | 0:24:24 | 0:24:29 | |
What's he said about why he's got the vehicle? | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
-He said there were payment issues. -Pardon? -He promises it's all to do with the payment. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:37 | |
So whatever that is. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:39 | |
'We often get hire vehicles that we stop. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:45 | |
'And...in those vehicles... | 0:24:45 | 0:24:47 | |
'You'll find a number of pieces of documentation' | 0:24:47 | 0:24:52 | |
relating to the hire of several vehicles | 0:24:52 | 0:24:55 | |
over a very short period of time. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
Rental cars, rental cars, rental cars. | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
'So you have to ask questions | 0:25:04 | 0:25:06 | |
'as to why a person is hiring several different vehicles | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
'over a short amount of time. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
'What is their reasons for doing that?' | 0:25:12 | 0:25:14 | |
You can draw your own conclusions from it. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
But you've got to | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
remain impartial to a certain extent, | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
and you need to look at the evidence you have in front of you. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:26 | |
The reason you're in this situation is because you're in a vehicle that's been reported stolen. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:30 | |
It's because you saw two black people and you felt the need to pull them over. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
-Well, if you think that, I'm sorry you think that. -It's racism to the highest degree. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:38 | |
-That's what it is. -OK. -Always is with police officers. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:41 | |
They just see black people and think they're doing wrong. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
Guess what? He works with kids. Guess what? I work. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:47 | |
We pay our taxes. It doesn't mean we're criminals just because we're black. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:51 | |
Jesus! | 0:25:51 | 0:25:53 | |
But you're in a stolen vehicle. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:54 | |
-In a stolen vehicle?! -The fact remains. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
That I knew nothing about! | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
'The reason they were stopped had nothing to do with their backgrounds.' | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
Had it been a...middle-class white person in that car, | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
it would have still got stopped. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:08 | |
To make matters worse for them, the pair are going to be searched and taken to the nick. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:13 | |
-INDISTINCT COMMENT -Yes. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:17 | |
You need to be spoken to by the officers who are going to be investigating this offence. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:22 | |
The girl's name is Scarlett, and, unfortunately for her, | 0:26:22 | 0:26:26 | |
she's out with a man on a first date | 0:26:26 | 0:26:28 | |
that's not turning out so well. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:30 | |
You don't understand. You wasn't even here. Don't come here and start hearing half the story... | 0:26:30 | 0:26:34 | |
I'm doing my job. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
I'm searching you before you go in the car. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:39 | |
-Doing your job?! -I'm searching you before you go in the car. That's why I'm here. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
This is just absolutely ridiculous. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
'I think she got a bit more than she bargained for.' | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
Are you happy that I've got nothing on me? | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
Happy? | 0:26:51 | 0:26:52 | |
It's not for me to be happy, it's for this officer to be happy. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:55 | |
You know what, I've got things to do, and I don't have time to be talking to you. | 0:26:55 | 0:26:59 | |
Can you just hurry up, get this over and done with so you can let me go? | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
-Would you like this? -Yes, please. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:04 | |
This is literally an £800 bag. Can you make sure nothing happens to it? | 0:27:04 | 0:27:08 | |
When we get to the police station, it'll be put in a locker and nobody else will touch it. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:13 | |
-Not on the floor! -Can you put your sunglasses in? -Those are £250 glasses. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
Throw them, then. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:18 | |
I really don't appreciate that sarcasm. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
'The decision's been made by our Oscar 1,' | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
the inspector, and he said, "We'll get the vehicle recovered. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:27 | |
"There's always forensic opportunities in the vehicle that we can use." | 0:27:27 | 0:27:30 | |
Come on, you as a woman should know I'm not going to run off in four-inch heels! | 0:27:30 | 0:27:35 | |
I can't say I've ever seen you in four-inch heels. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:37 | |
'Obviously, being stopped by the police when you're on your first date - not ideal, I suppose!' | 0:27:41 | 0:27:45 | |
She was planning on a candlelit dinner somewhere. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:48 | |
Not... | 0:27:49 | 0:27:50 | |
..custard doughnuts as Asda! | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
While the couple get transported to the police station | 0:27:55 | 0:27:58 | |
and their car gets taken away from Asda, | 0:27:58 | 0:28:00 | |
the white van man caught drinking and driving in Bedford | 0:28:00 | 0:28:03 | |
is already being booked in for a night in the cells. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:07 | |
Listen, like I said in the car, let's talk this out. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:10 | |
You're here for a reason. You've got yourself in this mess. The custody sergeant will deal with you. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:15 | |
-We're going to get you out as soon as possible. -OK. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:17 | |
Wayne is still fuming that he didn't get the chance to blow into the roadside breathalyser. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:22 | |
Why didn't you ask for a breath test? | 0:28:22 | 0:28:23 | |
Because he's explaining to you about your demeanour. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:27 | |
He's not explaining. You are. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:28 | |
-You keep talking over me. -Well, I'm sorry, I don't mean to. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:32 | |
If your attitude... | 0:28:32 | 0:28:34 | |
I don't want to... | 0:28:34 | 0:28:35 | |
'He thought we were picking on him, when we weren't. We were just doing our job.' | 0:28:35 | 0:28:40 | |
I can understand why the traffic officer has decided... | 0:28:40 | 0:28:44 | |
How can you tell that from me walking across the street? | 0:28:44 | 0:28:47 | |
-Sir, I've tried my best... -How can he tell by me walking across the road? | 0:28:47 | 0:28:52 | |
He's pulled me over, opened my van door, pulled me out and arrested me. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:56 | |
He's not asked for a breath test. | 0:28:56 | 0:28:58 | |
-Your first words out of your mouth, which I remember, were -"BLEEP -sake!" | 0:28:58 | 0:29:03 | |
-Then you've got out of your car and I've invited you into the back of my car. -Yeah. | 0:29:03 | 0:29:06 | |
-I got into the front while you sat in the back... -I agree. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:09 | |
I moved my chair forward to give you legroom. | 0:29:09 | 0:29:11 | |
And you were already in a bit of a huff. | 0:29:11 | 0:29:14 | |
And I said to you, "What's your name?" | 0:29:14 | 0:29:16 | |
And you went, "Bert." | 0:29:16 | 0:29:17 | |
And you did it in such a way | 0:29:17 | 0:29:20 | |
that I believed you were going to be obstructive to me. | 0:29:20 | 0:29:22 | |
If I was your size, | 0:29:22 | 0:29:24 | |
would you have, um... | 0:29:24 | 0:29:26 | |
would you have dealt with me differently? | 0:29:26 | 0:29:28 | |
-It's got nothing to do with your size. -OK, then. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:31 | |
That's good to know. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:32 | |
Chris didn't really get off to a good start with him. | 0:29:32 | 0:29:35 | |
And by looking at his demeanour and the way he was, I decided to stay quiet. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:39 | |
It wasn't until we got to custody | 0:29:39 | 0:29:41 | |
that I got a bit involved, because I knew I would be putting him on the Intoxilyser machine. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:45 | |
Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, | 0:29:45 | 0:29:50 | |
keep going, keep going, keep going. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:51 | |
-When you hear the beep... Keep going... -BEEP | 0:29:51 | 0:29:54 | |
The man's blown hot and cold all night. | 0:29:54 | 0:29:56 | |
Now, he's blown over. | 0:29:56 | 0:29:58 | |
77 and 76. | 0:29:58 | 0:30:00 | |
So that's over 50. We'll take the lower out of the two, which is 76. | 0:30:00 | 0:30:03 | |
It's going to be a straightforward charge. | 0:30:03 | 0:30:06 | |
Wayne's more than double the legal drink drive limit. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:09 | |
He's facing a lengthy ban, and will need to watch his back in the future. | 0:30:09 | 0:30:12 | |
'If somebody gets disqualified as a result of drink driving, | 0:30:12 | 0:30:16 | |
'then we're going to try and get him disqualified again for driving whilst disqualified.' | 0:30:16 | 0:30:20 | |
I think it's only fair that we use the intelligence system | 0:30:22 | 0:30:26 | |
the best way we can. | 0:30:26 | 0:30:28 | |
And if intelligence suggests somebody is driving whilst disqualified, | 0:30:28 | 0:30:32 | |
then we're going to be around the corner. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:34 | |
Back in Stevenage, the two occupants of the hired Clio | 0:30:35 | 0:30:39 | |
out on a first date at Asda | 0:30:39 | 0:30:40 | |
have arrived at the police station. | 0:30:40 | 0:30:43 | |
Due to the vehicle being reported as stolen, | 0:30:43 | 0:30:45 | |
he was charged with taking a vehicle without consent | 0:30:45 | 0:30:48 | |
and using a vehicle with no insurance. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:50 | |
Scarlett's facing a very minor charge. | 0:30:50 | 0:30:53 | |
-Being carried in a stolen motor vehicle. -Being carried in a stolen motor vehicle?! | 0:30:53 | 0:30:57 | |
That I didn't know was stolen! | 0:30:57 | 0:30:58 | |
If you'd been carried in a stolen motor vehicle that you didn't know was stolen, | 0:30:58 | 0:31:02 | |
then maybe you'd have that too... | 0:31:02 | 0:31:04 | |
Having never been in that situation... | 0:31:04 | 0:31:06 | |
Oh, well, not all of us are goody two-shoes like you. | 0:31:06 | 0:31:09 | |
Not all of us have the privileged white way of life. | 0:31:09 | 0:31:14 | |
He just said they'd... | 0:31:14 | 0:31:16 | |
just met... | 0:31:16 | 0:31:17 | |
on a date, had gone to Asda to get some food, | 0:31:17 | 0:31:20 | |
and then this all happens. | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
He didn't think it was a great experience, | 0:31:23 | 0:31:25 | |
and I don't think he thought that his relationship with her would probably go much further. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:30 | |
Right, so... | 0:31:32 | 0:31:34 | |
Do you want me to take off my bra and panties too, or is that too much? | 0:31:34 | 0:31:37 | |
The bra...it's up to the custody sergeant. | 0:31:37 | 0:31:40 | |
Next time any guy asks me out, | 0:31:42 | 0:31:44 | |
I'm going to ask for their licence, their registration, their insurance...everything. | 0:31:44 | 0:31:49 | |
Ask for proof that they own the car. | 0:31:49 | 0:31:51 | |
-But how would you know? -You want to see the V5. -What's the V5? | 0:31:52 | 0:31:56 | |
The registration document that proves you own the car. | 0:31:56 | 0:31:59 | |
You're such a romantic, Nathan. | 0:31:59 | 0:32:01 | |
She was allowed to speak to her mum and tell her what was going on. | 0:32:01 | 0:32:06 | |
Mummy, I've been arrested. | 0:32:06 | 0:32:08 | |
Please just come and get me when I'm done! | 0:32:08 | 0:32:11 | |
It's in Hertfordshire. | 0:32:12 | 0:32:14 | |
She was taking it in a lot better humour than I would have been | 0:32:14 | 0:32:17 | |
if I'd been arrested for being in a stolen vehicle. | 0:32:17 | 0:32:19 | |
Love you. Bye. | 0:32:19 | 0:32:21 | |
-She said she's going back. -That's a good idea. | 0:32:21 | 0:32:25 | |
I think we ended up having a laugh and a joke about the whole situation. | 0:32:25 | 0:32:28 | |
Definitely the worst first date I have ever had in my life! | 0:32:28 | 0:32:32 | |
And he won't be getting a ring back. | 0:32:32 | 0:32:34 | |
Definitely not! | 0:32:34 | 0:32:36 | |
As far as dates goes, I wouldn't... | 0:32:36 | 0:32:39 | |
I could not believe how bad it's gone! | 0:32:39 | 0:32:43 | |
After his terrifying Mini adventure | 0:32:43 | 0:32:46 | |
and a few hours in the hospital, | 0:32:46 | 0:32:47 | |
a taxi has arrived to take James Bevan home from the nick. | 0:32:47 | 0:32:51 | |
He's ready. | 0:32:51 | 0:32:53 | |
INDISTINCT COMMENT | 0:32:56 | 0:32:57 | |
Is he at the front desk? | 0:33:01 | 0:33:02 | |
Yeah, he's wearing his green suit, cos we cut all his clothes off him. | 0:33:02 | 0:33:06 | |
We were asked to take him home, | 0:33:06 | 0:33:08 | |
and, reluctantly, I did. | 0:33:08 | 0:33:11 | |
I'm all...bruised. Bit bruised | 0:33:11 | 0:33:13 | |
and battered sort of thing, where I shook about. | 0:33:13 | 0:33:16 | |
He showed a little remorse. Not much. | 0:33:16 | 0:33:20 | |
I don't think there was much mentioned about the poor owner of this car. | 0:33:20 | 0:33:26 | |
I'm alive. Didn't kill no-one, so... | 0:33:26 | 0:33:29 | |
I suppose... | 0:33:31 | 0:33:32 | |
'I find it very difficult sometimes to sit there and listen | 0:33:32 | 0:33:36 | |
'to someone go on and on and on' | 0:33:36 | 0:33:39 | |
when I've seen the damage and the hurt that they've caused. | 0:33:39 | 0:33:43 | |
Oh, I've got, um... | 0:33:43 | 0:33:46 | |
bail till the 7th of September. | 0:33:46 | 0:33:49 | |
So...my birthday's on the 5th, so... | 0:33:49 | 0:33:53 | |
I can... | 0:33:54 | 0:33:55 | |
celebrate that knowing that I'll be all right. | 0:33:55 | 0:33:58 | |
I don't want to go to prison. | 0:33:58 | 0:34:01 | |
But if I go to prison, I go to prison. | 0:34:03 | 0:34:06 | |
I done the crime, so do the time. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
'I have very little time for people like that.' | 0:34:12 | 0:34:16 | |
The only remorse they have is the fact they got caught, I find. | 0:34:17 | 0:34:21 | |
Catching car thieves and picking up the pieces is only part of the job. | 0:34:23 | 0:34:27 | |
Beds and Herts traffic cops must go beyond that. | 0:34:27 | 0:34:30 | |
Come on, Mr Poland. Out the way. | 0:34:30 | 0:34:32 | |
Thank you. | 0:34:32 | 0:34:33 | |
People with knives are now an everyday occurrence for them. | 0:34:35 | 0:34:38 | |
Officers from the Highways Agency have put in an emergency call | 0:34:41 | 0:34:44 | |
about a man waving one around on the side of the busy M25. | 0:34:44 | 0:34:48 | |
Highways officers, HATOs, | 0:34:48 | 0:34:50 | |
had asked a foreign heavy goods vehicle driver | 0:34:50 | 0:34:53 | |
to leave the hard shoulder, because he was parked on there, | 0:34:53 | 0:34:56 | |
and they described him as becoming very irate | 0:34:56 | 0:34:59 | |
and threatening them with a knife. | 0:34:59 | 0:35:01 | |
Traffic on the four lanes has backed up after an earlier accident, | 0:35:02 | 0:35:06 | |
and is probably why the driver decided | 0:35:06 | 0:35:09 | |
to stop illegally on the hard shoulder. | 0:35:09 | 0:35:11 | |
'His driver's hours were running out. | 0:35:13 | 0:35:16 | |
'Every heavy goods vehicle driver can only drive | 0:35:16 | 0:35:19 | |
'for a certain number of hours with a tachograph,' | 0:35:19 | 0:35:22 | |
before he must stop driving, | 0:35:22 | 0:35:24 | |
because he'll be over his hours and committing an offence, | 0:35:24 | 0:35:26 | |
to stop them falling asleep at the wheel. | 0:35:26 | 0:35:28 | |
He said, "No, no, I no move," blah, blah, | 0:35:28 | 0:35:31 | |
so I told him about the EU bit, | 0:35:31 | 0:35:32 | |
saying write on the back of your tacho, find a safe place... | 0:35:32 | 0:35:34 | |
Yeah, yeah. | 0:35:34 | 0:35:36 | |
He's got a little peeling knife. He's like this with it. Oh! | 0:35:36 | 0:35:39 | |
The lorry driver's only been using the knife | 0:35:39 | 0:35:42 | |
to peel potatoes for his supper. | 0:35:42 | 0:35:44 | |
He's just got excited and just been waving it around. | 0:35:44 | 0:35:47 | |
It's not like he's threatened them with it or anything like that. | 0:35:47 | 0:35:50 | |
He's from Poland, the kingdom of the potato, | 0:35:50 | 0:35:53 | |
and not the only lorry driver on the hard shoulder. | 0:35:53 | 0:35:56 | |
So he's there making himself some dinner, | 0:35:56 | 0:35:58 | |
and he is rudely interrupted by the Highways officers saying, | 0:35:58 | 0:36:01 | |
"You can't park here. You need to go," | 0:36:01 | 0:36:03 | |
so he's become very irate and ranted at them in Polish | 0:36:03 | 0:36:06 | |
whilst waving his knife around | 0:36:06 | 0:36:08 | |
that he was peeling his potatoes with. | 0:36:08 | 0:36:10 | |
-Polish? -Yeah. -Polish. | 0:36:10 | 0:36:12 | |
-Tell him your Polish. -What's that? | 0:36:12 | 0:36:14 | |
You know two words, don't you? | 0:36:14 | 0:36:16 | |
I do know two words in Polish. | 0:36:16 | 0:36:18 | |
None of them are going to help us in this situation, unfortunately. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:21 | |
Did you wave that... | 0:36:21 | 0:36:23 | |
Yes. | 0:36:23 | 0:36:24 | |
..at them? | 0:36:24 | 0:36:25 | |
You sitting in here... | 0:36:27 | 0:36:29 | |
They told you to move. Yes? | 0:36:30 | 0:36:33 | |
-I no understand. -Come with me. | 0:36:34 | 0:36:38 | |
The job is a hot potato. | 0:36:38 | 0:36:40 | |
He needs to be given a ticket for parking on the hard shoulder, | 0:36:40 | 0:36:43 | |
and then he needs to be told to go away and find somewhere else to park. | 0:36:43 | 0:36:47 | |
Where is your insurance? | 0:36:47 | 0:36:49 | |
-Why, why, why?! -Because you stopped here! | 0:36:49 | 0:36:51 | |
Stop crying at me. | 0:36:51 | 0:36:53 | |
HE WAILS | 0:36:53 | 0:36:54 | |
-Out! -I don't understand English rules! -Follow me. | 0:36:54 | 0:36:58 | |
I am not a problem! | 0:36:58 | 0:37:01 | |
Here is one, two, three, no problem! | 0:37:01 | 0:37:04 | |
I am problem? | 0:37:04 | 0:37:05 | |
Where I am problem? | 0:37:05 | 0:37:07 | |
The driver's convinced he's being picked on. | 0:37:07 | 0:37:10 | |
And it was a complete nightmare. He just didn't want to know. | 0:37:10 | 0:37:13 | |
He felt he was really hard done by, I think. | 0:37:13 | 0:37:16 | |
Why, where is problem? | 0:37:16 | 0:37:17 | |
Come with me. I will phone an interpreter. | 0:37:17 | 0:37:20 | |
Where is problem? Please! Look! | 0:37:20 | 0:37:22 | |
One, two... look! | 0:37:22 | 0:37:24 | |
The man's got evidence - | 0:37:26 | 0:37:27 | |
pictures of other lorries that were parked up too. | 0:37:27 | 0:37:30 | |
Where is problem?! | 0:37:30 | 0:37:32 | |
Calm down! | 0:37:32 | 0:37:33 | |
Where is problem? | 0:37:33 | 0:37:36 | |
40 minutes, what's the problem? | 0:37:36 | 0:37:39 | |
Come with me. | 0:37:39 | 0:37:41 | |
HE WAILS | 0:37:41 | 0:37:43 | |
No! I problem! 40 minutes! | 0:37:43 | 0:37:47 | |
Fella! Fella! Calm down. | 0:37:47 | 0:37:49 | |
Please! Please, no! | 0:37:49 | 0:37:51 | |
Just walk. | 0:37:51 | 0:37:53 | |
Just walk! Oi! | 0:37:53 | 0:37:55 | |
HE WAILS | 0:37:55 | 0:37:57 | |
What seemed a simple job is going horribly wrong. | 0:37:57 | 0:38:00 | |
Oi! | 0:38:01 | 0:38:02 | |
HE WAILS | 0:38:02 | 0:38:05 | |
-Fella! -I can just arrest him. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:07 | |
The HATOs have just made him cry. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:10 | |
Come on! Come on! | 0:38:10 | 0:38:13 | |
Horrible HATOs made you cry. | 0:38:15 | 0:38:17 | |
He's all right. He's just... | 0:38:17 | 0:38:19 | |
-He's just very upset. -'We couldn't get through to him,' | 0:38:19 | 0:38:21 | |
so we thought we'd take him to the car, | 0:38:21 | 0:38:23 | |
get a Polish interpreter and tell him what was going to happen. | 0:38:23 | 0:38:27 | |
He is starting to cry and have a temper tantrum, | 0:38:27 | 0:38:29 | |
like a kid, basically. | 0:38:29 | 0:38:31 | |
He's really got his knickers in a twist. | 0:38:31 | 0:38:34 | |
'They were just some really baggy sort of trousers.' | 0:38:34 | 0:38:38 | |
Yeah, they just fell down, which was... | 0:38:38 | 0:38:41 | |
..a bit weird. | 0:38:41 | 0:38:43 | |
The traffic cops are quite used to breakdowns, but not this kind. | 0:38:43 | 0:38:47 | |
Calm down! | 0:38:47 | 0:38:48 | |
HE SOBS | 0:38:48 | 0:38:50 | |
Calm down, all right? | 0:38:50 | 0:38:52 | |
I no problem! | 0:38:52 | 0:38:54 | |
OK. Chill out! | 0:38:54 | 0:38:56 | |
He was quite a good actor, or he was very, very upset. | 0:38:56 | 0:38:59 | |
He's mad, quite frankly. | 0:38:59 | 0:39:01 | |
He's with the police, and we need to sort out why he's stopped | 0:39:02 | 0:39:06 | |
on the hard shoulder of the motorway. | 0:39:06 | 0:39:07 | |
Can you just tell him that? He's not going to get hurt. | 0:39:07 | 0:39:11 | |
If he listens to us, he'll be fine. | 0:39:11 | 0:39:14 | |
INTERPRETER SPEAKS POLISH ON RADIO | 0:39:15 | 0:39:19 | |
He was one of three lorries. | 0:39:19 | 0:39:21 | |
There was a lorry in front of him that had stopped | 0:39:21 | 0:39:23 | |
but had since gone when the HATOs told him to move on, | 0:39:23 | 0:39:26 | |
and there was a Turkish chap behind him. | 0:39:26 | 0:39:30 | |
We were going to give the Turk a graduated fixed penalty | 0:39:30 | 0:39:33 | |
-for stopping on the hard shoulder. -OK, so that's that one. | 0:39:33 | 0:39:35 | |
-So he's the blue one, yeah? -Yeah, yeah. | 0:39:35 | 0:39:38 | |
-Does he speak English? -No. | 0:39:38 | 0:39:40 | |
'Woodsy gave the Turkish chap a £30 fine and told him to leave.' | 0:39:41 | 0:39:45 | |
We can take money off people at the roadside, so... | 0:39:45 | 0:39:49 | |
Thank you. | 0:39:49 | 0:39:51 | |
OK. All right. Drive carefully. | 0:39:51 | 0:39:53 | |
-OK. -Bye bye. -Bye bye. | 0:39:53 | 0:39:55 | |
'Once I spoke to him with the interpreter, | 0:39:55 | 0:39:57 | |
'he tried to say that he had a problem with his tacho.' | 0:39:57 | 0:40:00 | |
The reason why they're dealing with him in this way is | 0:40:00 | 0:40:04 | |
because all the other ones left when they were told to, | 0:40:04 | 0:40:06 | |
and he stayed at the side of the motorway. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:08 | |
That's why we've been called, and he was peeling potatoes | 0:40:08 | 0:40:12 | |
and eating his dinner, not fiddling with his tachograph. | 0:40:12 | 0:40:17 | |
His problem is, he doesn't really understand what's going on. | 0:40:17 | 0:40:19 | |
He's going to be charged £30, basically, for stopping | 0:40:19 | 0:40:22 | |
on the hard shoulder of the motorway, | 0:40:22 | 0:40:23 | |
which he's obviously not allowed to do. His company have said | 0:40:23 | 0:40:26 | |
that if he hasn't got the £30, they will pay that money for him. | 0:40:26 | 0:40:29 | |
I think once that had dawned on him | 0:40:29 | 0:40:31 | |
that it's not as serious as potentially being locked up | 0:40:31 | 0:40:34 | |
and taken away for the night, he calmed right down. | 0:40:34 | 0:40:37 | |
There are no more tears, | 0:40:38 | 0:40:39 | |
but the potato peeler has still got a chip on his shoulder. | 0:40:39 | 0:40:43 | |
20 years driver. 20 years. | 0:40:43 | 0:40:46 | |
No problem. Russia. Turtsia. | 0:40:46 | 0:40:50 | |
Complete Europe, and no problem. | 0:40:50 | 0:40:53 | |
-England, problem. -OK. | 0:40:53 | 0:40:54 | |
No problem complete Europe. | 0:40:54 | 0:40:56 | |
You know what they do, don't you? | 0:40:56 | 0:40:58 | |
I... no problem. 40 minute, go. | 0:40:58 | 0:41:01 | |
Go on, that way. | 0:41:01 | 0:41:03 | |
Luckily, the traffic cops have now got an easy way | 0:41:03 | 0:41:05 | |
to deal with foreign drivers. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:07 | |
The graduated fixed penalty ticket's something that is quite new. | 0:41:07 | 0:41:10 | |
It's something that I think the French police | 0:41:10 | 0:41:13 | |
have been doing for a long time. | 0:41:13 | 0:41:14 | |
It basically says if the person doesn't have an address | 0:41:14 | 0:41:17 | |
you can summons them to or they're foreign, | 0:41:17 | 0:41:20 | |
they're not from England, they don't live in England, | 0:41:20 | 0:41:23 | |
they don't have a residence, then you can give them the ticket | 0:41:23 | 0:41:27 | |
and take money from them to pay for the ticket. | 0:41:27 | 0:41:30 | |
Next minute, he was handing me the £30. | 0:41:30 | 0:41:32 | |
That was the end of the matter, really. Then he shook our hands. | 0:41:32 | 0:41:35 | |
-Happy? Big smile. -Right, OK. | 0:41:35 | 0:41:38 | |
-Sorry. -All right. -Sorry. | 0:41:38 | 0:41:39 | |
-OK? -Bye. | 0:41:39 | 0:41:41 | |
He may have been a bit bananas, | 0:41:44 | 0:41:46 | |
but he's not leaving without his potatoes. | 0:41:46 | 0:41:48 | |
Yeah. | 0:41:48 | 0:41:50 | |
'Dave dealt with it very well. | 0:41:52 | 0:41:54 | |
'And you have to. You're a police officer. | 0:41:55 | 0:41:58 | |
'You represent the law and order in England and Wales, | 0:41:58 | 0:42:01 | |
'so you have to deal, no matter how ridiculous someone's being, | 0:42:01 | 0:42:04 | |
'you need to say, you know, be professional with them, | 0:42:04 | 0:42:07 | |
'but really, as a member of the public,' | 0:42:07 | 0:42:09 | |
you just want to say, "Grow up. | 0:42:09 | 0:42:12 | |
"Stop behaving in such a stupid manner and just man up, will you?" | 0:42:12 | 0:42:17 | |
You're getting a £30 fine for stopping a vehicle | 0:42:18 | 0:42:21 | |
on the hard shoulder and peeling potatoes. That's it. | 0:42:21 | 0:42:24 | |
While the Polish knifeman heads off to finally get a bite to eat, | 0:42:30 | 0:42:34 | |
reports are coming in of another sighting of someone with a knife | 0:42:34 | 0:42:37 | |
20 miles north in Bedford. | 0:42:37 | 0:42:39 | |
At least Chris and Tan won't be | 0:42:46 | 0:42:48 | |
tackling this risky job on an empty stomach. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:50 | |
RADIO BEEPS | 0:42:50 | 0:42:52 | |
Yes? Pass details, please? | 0:42:52 | 0:42:53 | |
-RADIO: -'Thank you very much. We just had a call reporting | 0:42:54 | 0:42:57 | |
'that there's two Eastern European males | 0:42:57 | 0:43:00 | |
'camped under the bridge. | 0:43:00 | 0:43:02 | |
'Informant's asked them to move on Sunday and Monday, | 0:43:03 | 0:43:06 | |
'but found them again the next day. | 0:43:06 | 0:43:09 | |
'He is concerned, because he's noticed a machete.' | 0:43:09 | 0:43:12 | |
Nice. | 0:43:14 | 0:43:15 | |
The situation's been logged, apparently. | 0:43:15 | 0:43:17 | |
'They've not caused a problem, but concern due to the machete.' | 0:43:17 | 0:43:20 | |
We've got a problem with knife culture in this country, | 0:43:20 | 0:43:22 | |
and the general public are brilliant. | 0:43:22 | 0:43:25 | |
They report anybody with a knife or an imitation firearm, | 0:43:25 | 0:43:29 | |
or they believe it's a firearm, or a hammer, | 0:43:29 | 0:43:32 | |
or even a screwdriver, | 0:43:32 | 0:43:34 | |
because those items can kill or seriously maim or hurt people, | 0:43:34 | 0:43:38 | |
so they call us quite readily. | 0:43:38 | 0:43:41 | |
Two men are roughing it beneath the bridge over the river. | 0:43:41 | 0:43:45 | |
They've been asked to move on previously, | 0:43:45 | 0:43:47 | |
and they've refused to do so. | 0:43:47 | 0:43:49 | |
We are going to a location with tasers | 0:43:49 | 0:43:52 | |
just to see what's going on, to try and speak to these individuals. | 0:43:52 | 0:43:54 | |
It's not advisable to approach anybody with a knife, | 0:43:54 | 0:43:57 | |
and although taser is a very effective tool against knife crime, | 0:43:57 | 0:44:04 | |
you don't really want to face anybody with a blade. | 0:44:04 | 0:44:07 | |
Chris and Tan are meeting a local beat bobby already in the area. | 0:44:07 | 0:44:11 | |
There they are. | 0:44:11 | 0:44:12 | |
The land all belongs to the local borough council. | 0:44:12 | 0:44:15 | |
You are not allowed to camp or hunt or fish there | 0:44:17 | 0:44:20 | |
without permission, with a licence for fishing. | 0:44:20 | 0:44:23 | |
So it's going to be... it is along here, isn't it? Towpath. | 0:44:23 | 0:44:26 | |
The weir's literally just here. | 0:44:26 | 0:44:27 | |
'The actual informant says there was... | 0:44:27 | 0:44:30 | |
'a sheath near to the machete, | 0:44:30 | 0:44:32 | |
'but it was too small for the machete to get in. | 0:44:32 | 0:44:35 | |
It's just a matter now of finding the men. | 0:44:35 | 0:44:37 | |
'It was very vague. It was one of those, | 0:44:37 | 0:44:40 | |
'"I've seen somebody by the river here-ish." | 0:44:40 | 0:44:43 | |
'I remember hearing the Benny Hill music, | 0:44:43 | 0:44:46 | |
'because we walked up and down' | 0:44:46 | 0:44:47 | |
that embankment or towpath several times, | 0:44:47 | 0:44:50 | |
'just trying to locate these people.' | 0:44:50 | 0:44:52 | |
Tan has finally got scent of them. | 0:44:53 | 0:44:55 | |
Hi, guys. | 0:44:55 | 0:44:56 | |
How are you? You're OK, yeah? | 0:44:57 | 0:44:59 | |
-Do you speak English? -Yeah. -OK. | 0:45:01 | 0:45:04 | |
How many days have you been here? | 0:45:04 | 0:45:06 | |
-Er... five days. -Five days. | 0:45:07 | 0:45:09 | |
The men are homeless and Polish as well. | 0:45:09 | 0:45:11 | |
They were living off the grid. | 0:45:11 | 0:45:14 | |
They didn't seem to have any fixed abode. | 0:45:14 | 0:45:17 | |
Have you been spoken to today by anybody? | 0:45:17 | 0:45:19 | |
Yeah, there's been a guy from the marina about... | 0:45:19 | 0:45:22 | |
-Yeah. -One hour ago. | 0:45:22 | 0:45:23 | |
He just tell us that we... | 0:45:23 | 0:45:25 | |
You have to leave, yeah. | 0:45:25 | 0:45:27 | |
-So I just picked it up. -OK. | 0:45:27 | 0:45:30 | |
The machete is here. | 0:45:30 | 0:45:31 | |
That's a big knife. | 0:45:31 | 0:45:32 | |
Say that once again? | 0:45:34 | 0:45:35 | |
You're not allowed that. | 0:45:35 | 0:45:37 | |
-Is that all you have? Do you have anything else? -No. | 0:45:39 | 0:45:42 | |
-Nothing else? -Maybe a small knife somewhere. | 0:45:43 | 0:45:47 | |
OK, tell me where. Where? | 0:45:47 | 0:45:49 | |
Somewhere in there. On this side. | 0:45:49 | 0:45:52 | |
Can I have a look in your bag? | 0:45:52 | 0:45:53 | |
OK. Just stand there for two minutes, please. | 0:45:53 | 0:45:56 | |
Empty your pockets. | 0:45:57 | 0:45:58 | |
OK. | 0:46:05 | 0:46:07 | |
Have you not got no home? | 0:46:08 | 0:46:10 | |
The men are surviving on fish they catch in the river... | 0:46:10 | 0:46:14 | |
Fish gut... | 0:46:14 | 0:46:15 | |
..as well as some stimulants. | 0:46:15 | 0:46:17 | |
Do you use heroin? | 0:46:17 | 0:46:19 | |
No. Amphetamines. | 0:46:19 | 0:46:21 | |
-No? Sorry? -Amphetamines. | 0:46:21 | 0:46:22 | |
Amphetamines. Do you have any here? | 0:46:22 | 0:46:24 | |
-No. -Are you sure? -Yeah. | 0:46:24 | 0:46:27 | |
-RADIO: -'Lovely. Thanks very much.' | 0:46:28 | 0:46:30 | |
-What name did he give you? Was it Martin? First name. -Yeah. | 0:46:33 | 0:46:37 | |
Another one. | 0:46:37 | 0:46:38 | |
Yeah. Relation to what we found under the circumstances. Seize them. | 0:46:41 | 0:46:44 | |
-Get them booked in. -Yeah. -Advice. | 0:46:44 | 0:46:46 | |
I think that's the most appropriate action, as opposed to... | 0:46:46 | 0:46:48 | |
You do chummy, I'll do this chap. | 0:46:48 | 0:46:50 | |
We're going to take both of those knives | 0:46:50 | 0:46:52 | |
and we're going to book them into Property. OK? | 0:46:52 | 0:46:54 | |
You're very lucky under the circumstances | 0:46:54 | 0:46:56 | |
as to how we found them, we're not arresting you. OK? | 0:46:56 | 0:47:00 | |
-All right. -You can't... | 0:47:00 | 0:47:01 | |
if you're walking the street with those knives, | 0:47:01 | 0:47:03 | |
straight away you'll be arrested, my friend. | 0:47:03 | 0:47:05 | |
-All right. -You can't do it. | 0:47:05 | 0:47:07 | |
-So we're going to book them in, and they'll be disposed of. OK? -OK. | 0:47:07 | 0:47:10 | |
-Do you understand? -Yes. | 0:47:10 | 0:47:12 | |
On the streets, you're not allowed to have a locking blade | 0:47:12 | 0:47:15 | |
or a locked blade, and that's so commonplace for us. | 0:47:15 | 0:47:18 | |
As patrolmen, we come across it daily. | 0:47:18 | 0:47:21 | |
No fish? You've taken them all, that's why! | 0:47:22 | 0:47:25 | |
As citizens of the EU, | 0:47:25 | 0:47:27 | |
there's no question of the men being in the country illegally. | 0:47:27 | 0:47:30 | |
They are just not used to our laws on camping out and machetes, | 0:47:30 | 0:47:33 | |
being POLES apart from theirs. | 0:47:33 | 0:47:36 | |
They were using it for... | 0:47:36 | 0:47:38 | |
To survive. They were camping and they were using it | 0:47:38 | 0:47:41 | |
in the camping environment, | 0:47:41 | 0:47:42 | |
and they were not using them in anger, | 0:47:42 | 0:47:44 | |
so I think the actions that we took were right. | 0:47:44 | 0:47:48 | |
-Let's go. -Sorted. | 0:47:48 | 0:47:50 | |
One hour, chaps. One hour. | 0:47:50 | 0:47:52 | |
Are you OK? Yeah, if you don't mind. | 0:47:52 | 0:47:54 | |
If you take them back to Greyfriars and book them in for disposal, | 0:47:54 | 0:47:57 | |
-that would be brilliant. -Cheers, boys. | 0:47:57 | 0:47:59 | |
Investigating the aftermath of serious accidents | 0:48:00 | 0:48:03 | |
is part and parcel of a traffic cop's job. | 0:48:03 | 0:48:06 | |
They are the experts with all the tools, | 0:48:09 | 0:48:11 | |
but every now and again, | 0:48:11 | 0:48:13 | |
extraordinary incidents happen that completely fox them. | 0:48:13 | 0:48:16 | |
Colin Ainsworth and his colleague Neil Crosier | 0:48:20 | 0:48:23 | |
have been called to one such case. | 0:48:23 | 0:48:25 | |
A man's body has been found | 0:48:31 | 0:48:32 | |
lying beside the road on the outskirts of Hertford. | 0:48:32 | 0:48:35 | |
There wasn't any vehicle, which was quite odd at the time, | 0:48:37 | 0:48:41 | |
because it had come across that it was an RTC. | 0:48:41 | 0:48:44 | |
You know, we're looking at a fatal, and the offending driver's made off. | 0:48:45 | 0:48:49 | |
A passing cyclist discovered the body, | 0:48:49 | 0:48:51 | |
but it's not clear how it got there. | 0:48:51 | 0:48:54 | |
'The gentleman was cycling home... | 0:48:54 | 0:48:56 | |
'..or to work, one or other,' | 0:48:57 | 0:48:59 | |
and had seen a wallet lying at the side of the road, | 0:48:59 | 0:49:02 | |
so found the wallet, picked it up, | 0:49:02 | 0:49:03 | |
and as he picked it up, he saw the foot on the fence | 0:49:03 | 0:49:06 | |
and decided to call the police. | 0:49:06 | 0:49:08 | |
We'll throw some kit out... | 0:49:18 | 0:49:20 | |
RADIO DROWNS OUT SPEECH | 0:49:20 | 0:49:23 | |
As far as I know, there is some vehicle involved | 0:49:23 | 0:49:25 | |
and a deceased male within the vehicle. | 0:49:25 | 0:49:28 | |
We've mentioned the skid marks. | 0:49:28 | 0:49:30 | |
They're just down assessing the scene at the moment, | 0:49:30 | 0:49:32 | |
to see whether it's a road traffic collision. | 0:49:32 | 0:49:37 | |
In which case, then obviously, | 0:49:37 | 0:49:38 | |
we've got the road closed already, which is good. | 0:49:38 | 0:49:41 | |
-There's no car down there. -There's no car? | 0:49:41 | 0:49:44 | |
So just possibly a vehicle involved, we don't know at the moment. | 0:49:44 | 0:49:47 | |
The local inspector is taking charge because at the moment, it's a body. | 0:49:47 | 0:49:51 | |
If he decides that it's likely to be an RTC, then we'll take over, | 0:49:51 | 0:49:54 | |
but until then, it's their job. | 0:49:54 | 0:49:55 | |
Traffic Sergeant Neil Emmerson attends all fatal collisions | 0:49:55 | 0:49:59 | |
in the area, but is hedging his bets on the cause of this one. | 0:49:59 | 0:50:03 | |
We didn't know whether we were investigating | 0:50:04 | 0:50:06 | |
what could possibly be a murder. | 0:50:06 | 0:50:08 | |
I obviously went and liased with the Inspector there, | 0:50:08 | 0:50:12 | |
I deployed my units, and then basically, | 0:50:12 | 0:50:15 | |
we then called out the Major Crimes Task Force officers, | 0:50:15 | 0:50:18 | |
because it is being treated as a crime. | 0:50:18 | 0:50:20 | |
Oddly, the man's wallet and keys were not on his person, | 0:50:20 | 0:50:24 | |
but lying neatly at the side of the road. | 0:50:24 | 0:50:27 | |
A witness saw and found the wallet first, stopped, went to pick it up, | 0:50:27 | 0:50:31 | |
so I think he's had his hands up and lifted it... | 0:50:31 | 0:50:35 | |
Has he got glasses there as well? | 0:50:35 | 0:50:37 | |
There are skidmarks on the road, | 0:50:37 | 0:50:40 | |
but we need to rule out other things, | 0:50:40 | 0:50:43 | |
like deliberate acts. | 0:50:43 | 0:50:44 | |
Hopefully, it is a collision, so then our boys can get involved in it. | 0:50:44 | 0:50:48 | |
The body is one side of the fence, | 0:50:48 | 0:50:53 | |
with its foot sort of caught between two wooden posts. | 0:50:53 | 0:50:55 | |
He's either had an impact which placed him there, | 0:50:55 | 0:51:00 | |
or he's had an impact and been placed there immediately after. | 0:51:00 | 0:51:04 | |
He's not very big at all. You could quite easily just fireman's lift him | 0:51:04 | 0:51:08 | |
and then just throw him over the thing. | 0:51:08 | 0:51:10 | |
Even though he wasn't a big man, | 0:51:10 | 0:51:13 | |
the distance from where he might have been struck on the road | 0:51:13 | 0:51:16 | |
to where he was found is considerable. | 0:51:16 | 0:51:18 | |
My initial thoughts was that | 0:51:20 | 0:51:24 | |
this person had been hit | 0:51:24 | 0:51:26 | |
and then he was deliberately put the other side of that fence. | 0:51:26 | 0:51:30 | |
The SOCOs have videoed it and they are showing the video to MCTF, | 0:51:30 | 0:51:34 | |
so they can try and work out | 0:51:34 | 0:51:35 | |
-what they want done with the scene. -Right, OK. | 0:51:35 | 0:51:39 | |
What is quickly becoming apparent | 0:51:39 | 0:51:41 | |
is that there is very little hard evidence to go on, | 0:51:41 | 0:51:44 | |
either on the ground... | 0:51:44 | 0:51:45 | |
-There's nothing to suggest there's any blood trails going in... -No. | 0:51:45 | 0:51:49 | |
..or on the body. | 0:51:49 | 0:51:50 | |
'I've dealt with plenty of collisions | 0:51:50 | 0:51:54 | |
'and I did A-levels in Physics. | 0:51:54 | 0:51:56 | |
'Although I'm not a collision investigator,' | 0:51:56 | 0:51:58 | |
it gives you an idea of how some of the mechanics of it would work. | 0:51:58 | 0:52:02 | |
The skid marks appear, to me, that they were too wide apart | 0:52:02 | 0:52:06 | |
to be a fairly small vehicle, | 0:52:06 | 0:52:08 | |
and if it is a larger vehicle, | 0:52:08 | 0:52:11 | |
they tend to have a flat front and if people are hit by them, | 0:52:11 | 0:52:14 | |
they tend to go downwards, rather than upwards, | 0:52:14 | 0:52:16 | |
which would suggest he wouldn't get thrown over a fence. | 0:52:16 | 0:52:19 | |
And if it had been a smaller vehicle, whether it be | 0:52:19 | 0:52:22 | |
a Transit van, or something smaller | 0:52:22 | 0:52:24 | |
that would throw the person in the air, | 0:52:24 | 0:52:26 | |
the skid marks on the road would have been narrower. | 0:52:26 | 0:52:29 | |
And so the two didn't add up. | 0:52:29 | 0:52:31 | |
Shall we arrange to get... | 0:52:31 | 0:52:34 | |
The man has been identified from what is in his wallet | 0:52:34 | 0:52:37 | |
as a 66-year-old local man named David Alderson. | 0:52:37 | 0:52:40 | |
He was married with three sons | 0:52:42 | 0:52:44 | |
and he had two daughters by a previous marriage as well. | 0:52:44 | 0:52:47 | |
A police doctor is examining the body. | 0:52:47 | 0:52:50 | |
-Rigor mortis is setting in. -Yeah. | 0:52:50 | 0:52:52 | |
I mean, you're talking about... | 0:52:52 | 0:52:54 | |
He is looking for any clues to how, or when, the man might have died. | 0:52:54 | 0:52:58 | |
What's the time period for that to start setting in? | 0:53:01 | 0:53:03 | |
-After about seven hours. -After about seven hours? | 0:53:03 | 0:53:06 | |
But in order to get him that height, to be hit, | 0:53:06 | 0:53:10 | |
-you must have injuries on the pelvis or chest. -And there's nothing? | 0:53:10 | 0:53:15 | |
-You know? -Yes, yes. -A force to lift him. There's no obvious marks. | 0:53:15 | 0:53:19 | |
All the injuries were superficial, | 0:53:19 | 0:53:22 | |
except for a slight cut on his upper lip, injuries were all superficial. | 0:53:22 | 0:53:28 | |
No obvious injuries or bruising to his trunk, his back, | 0:53:28 | 0:53:33 | |
his pelvis, his legs, | 0:53:33 | 0:53:35 | |
so my immediate thought was that he couldn't have been hit by a car. | 0:53:35 | 0:53:40 | |
All the evidence there is at the scene is being collected. | 0:53:40 | 0:53:44 | |
Whenever two things come into contact, | 0:53:44 | 0:53:46 | |
there is transfer from one to the other. | 0:53:46 | 0:53:48 | |
So any of the items that you have on the outside - | 0:53:48 | 0:53:52 | |
jacket, jumper, trousers, | 0:53:52 | 0:53:55 | |
in this case, gloves, hat, shoes - were seized | 0:53:55 | 0:54:00 | |
as exhibits, bagged up, | 0:54:00 | 0:54:01 | |
so they could be analysed in a laboratory later on. | 0:54:01 | 0:54:04 | |
I think that might be a glove print, or something. | 0:54:04 | 0:54:08 | |
You've got a bit of blood on the inside. | 0:54:08 | 0:54:11 | |
Something that may ultimately be crucial in cracking the case | 0:54:11 | 0:54:14 | |
has been found. | 0:54:14 | 0:54:16 | |
On the glasses here, we've got some traces of blood | 0:54:16 | 0:54:18 | |
on the inside part of the lens, | 0:54:18 | 0:54:19 | |
so what we are trying to establish is, | 0:54:19 | 0:54:22 | |
how did these items get placed, or located, at the side of the road? | 0:54:22 | 0:54:27 | |
Would they have just fallen out of his pocket on impact? | 0:54:27 | 0:54:31 | |
Was it a case that an impact has taken place | 0:54:31 | 0:54:35 | |
and a third party has then pushed the body, or lifted the body and put it | 0:54:35 | 0:54:40 | |
over the side of the fence and placed those items at the side of the road? | 0:54:40 | 0:54:44 | |
It's still too early to say at the current time, but the puzzle deepens. | 0:54:44 | 0:54:49 | |
Either way, somebody somewhere knows the answer to the puzzle. | 0:54:49 | 0:54:54 | |
It makes you wonder about some people in society. | 0:54:54 | 0:54:57 | |
The fact that somebody could leave somebody's father, husband, | 0:54:57 | 0:55:00 | |
somebody who has got a family | 0:55:00 | 0:55:03 | |
and people will want to know what's gone on. | 0:55:03 | 0:55:06 | |
If it wasn't for that cyclist, he could still be there now, | 0:55:06 | 0:55:09 | |
without anyone knowing. | 0:55:09 | 0:55:11 | |
He could have been there for a long time. And so... | 0:55:11 | 0:55:13 | |
it makes you wonder about how people can do that kind of thing. | 0:55:13 | 0:55:16 | |
A post-mortem examination of the body showed that there were | 0:55:18 | 0:55:21 | |
internal injuries, consistent with being struck by a large vehicle. | 0:55:21 | 0:55:25 | |
And at his inquest, the coroner's verdict was that | 0:55:27 | 0:55:29 | |
he did die as a result of a road traffic incident, | 0:55:29 | 0:55:32 | |
but he wasn't able to say whether it was accidental or not. | 0:55:32 | 0:55:35 | |
Today, Family Liaison Officer Clare Sprint | 0:55:38 | 0:55:41 | |
is still unable to bring David's widow, Minnie, | 0:55:41 | 0:55:44 | |
any good news about the case. | 0:55:44 | 0:55:45 | |
After a full investigation, the police are no nearer to solving it. | 0:55:48 | 0:55:52 | |
-Right, how are you and the family? -Er, not too good at the moment. -No? | 0:55:54 | 0:55:59 | |
-No. -OK. -Still trying to come to terms with everything that's happened. | 0:55:59 | 0:56:03 | |
David was a Jehovah's Witness and known locally as the Penny Man. | 0:56:03 | 0:56:08 | |
Dave wouldn't just sit around, he had to be doing something. | 0:56:08 | 0:56:12 | |
He'd go out in all weathers - rain, snow - | 0:56:12 | 0:56:14 | |
just so he could get out and about and look for pennies. | 0:56:14 | 0:56:19 | |
And whatever he picked up, he'd bring home, | 0:56:19 | 0:56:22 | |
put in a jar and he'd save them and give them to his religious group | 0:56:22 | 0:56:26 | |
that he used to be in. | 0:56:26 | 0:56:27 | |
But Minnie is convinced there is more to her husband's death | 0:56:27 | 0:56:31 | |
than meets the eye. | 0:56:31 | 0:56:33 | |
Because he went to the doctor's and he left the doctor's | 0:56:33 | 0:56:36 | |
at about 5:30pm, 5:45pm, he'd have come home, | 0:56:36 | 0:56:38 | |
washed, changed, and gone straight to his meeting, | 0:56:38 | 0:56:41 | |
because he was always first there. And, er... | 0:56:41 | 0:56:43 | |
But then I was told that the meeting was cancelled, | 0:56:43 | 0:56:47 | |
so why he would have been where he was, I haven't got a clue. | 0:56:47 | 0:56:50 | |
A passing motorist did see some people at the scene | 0:56:50 | 0:56:53 | |
who have never come forward. | 0:56:53 | 0:56:56 | |
She saw three smartly-dressed people - a woman and two blokes. | 0:56:56 | 0:57:00 | |
The woman and the bloke were kneeling down near the fence | 0:57:00 | 0:57:04 | |
and this other bloke was in the road, beckoning the traffic round. | 0:57:04 | 0:57:07 | |
She said she didn't want to stop | 0:57:07 | 0:57:09 | |
because she had her children in the car. | 0:57:09 | 0:57:11 | |
Hard to get it into your head, really. | 0:57:12 | 0:57:14 | |
He had a lot of years ahead of him still. | 0:57:17 | 0:57:19 | |
We all reckon he was put there. | 0:57:20 | 0:57:23 | |
Some road accidents are a mystery, | 0:57:27 | 0:57:29 | |
non more so than this one. | 0:57:29 | 0:57:31 | |
Despite all the efforts of the police, | 0:57:31 | 0:57:33 | |
the killer is still on the loose. | 0:57:33 | 0:57:36 | |
A £2,000 reward is being offered by Crimestoppers | 0:57:36 | 0:57:40 | |
for any information that might lead to an arrest. | 0:57:40 | 0:57:43 | |
James Bevan, who stole the girl's Mini, after stealing her handbag | 0:57:43 | 0:57:48 | |
with the keys in it, was given a prison sentence, | 0:57:48 | 0:57:50 | |
but deferred for six months on the condition he doesn't reoffend. | 0:57:50 | 0:57:54 | |
Wayne Hughes, AKA Burt, | 0:57:56 | 0:57:58 | |
pleaded guilty to driving whilst over the limit | 0:57:58 | 0:58:01 | |
and was put on probation for a year | 0:58:01 | 0:58:04 | |
and banned from driving for three years. | 0:58:04 | 0:58:06 | |
The man with the rental car wasn't charged with taking it | 0:58:06 | 0:58:09 | |
without consent, but he was found guilty of driving | 0:58:09 | 0:58:13 | |
without any insurance and was fined £345 | 0:58:13 | 0:58:16 | |
and given six points on his licence. | 0:58:16 | 0:58:18 | |
His unfortunate date Scarlett wasn't charged at all. | 0:58:21 | 0:58:24 | |
And it turned out that the woman who had her Porsche seized | 0:58:26 | 0:58:29 | |
had been driving on a one-year international licence since 2002. | 0:58:29 | 0:58:33 | |
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