Every Day's A School Day Traffic Cops

This programme contains some strong language.

-'13 million motoring offences every year.'

-He's gone through a wall, and it's taken out a power cable.

More than 200,000 crashes and accidents.

The nation's traffic police patrol across 250,000 miles of road.

Tonight:

Whoa!

Yorkshire's traffic police chasing fugitives and runaways.

-Ready?

-Ready.

Guys, this is now a fail to stop.

He did his best, didn't he?

-But his best wasn't good enough.

-Detecting.

Nondescript terraced house, but the inside is a drugs factory.

And putting the brake on Yorkshire's criminals and illegal motorists.

And a new way police are collecting official evidence - on head cams.

Get that camera out of my face now.

Recording the action as the traffic cops see it happen.

From a police officer's point of view, exactly what you

see on the head cam is exactly what we are seeing in real life.

-'Chases caught on camera.'

-Get off!

-'And arrests.'

-Someone's always watching.

It is a game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

Officers from the Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Roads Crime Team

-have stopped a car in a drugs

-hot spot. I'm PC Sanderson.

This is PC Micklethwaite.

Everything you say and do is being video-recorded.

We've been informed there's a vehicle in this area linked to

drug dealing.

Looking into the vehicle, in the centre console,

you could see there was quite a large amount of cash in the vehicle,

which makes you start wondering, why is there this amount of cash?

Lads, just listen in. How much money is there?

Just to let you know, this is a hot spot for drug dealing.

You can see from the head cam footage that the passenger is very,

very nervous. Do you just want to jump out?

Have you got anything in your pockets? Can you stand over here?

The information what we've got is that the lad in the passenger

seat is a known drug user.

Just to be aware,

the passenger is currently on licence for burglary and drugs offences.

If he gets caught with anything,

he is going to be going back to prison, so he hasn't got owt to lose.

It ups the ante. If there are drugs in the vehicle.

He doesn't want to get arrested for it,

because potentially he's going back to prison.

More than a quarter of offenders commit at least two or more crimes

within a year of release from jail.

Once we've got him out of the vehicle,

I've checked the glove box and foot well.

And then I've checked down inside of the seat.

And that's where I've pulled the small package out.

I suspected it to be a class A controlled drug.

Put your hands up, fellow.

You are both under arrest for possession of a class A

-controlled drug.

-Jump out, we will give you a quick search.

At the police station, no further action was taken against the driver.

On the passenger, the cops found eight deals of heroin,

and he was sent to jail for 18 months.

Since the Regional Roads Crime Team was set up in 2008,

drug seizures in Yorkshire and Humberside

have risen by nearly a quarter to more than 16,000 last year.

Normally, the people we target are into drug supply, drug use.

It blights people's lives.

Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. 7:30pm.

PCs Matt Fleming and Wayne Sanderson

are in one of the team's unmarked cars.

A bit of a slow day in Huddersfield, just scouting about, really.

Your average street, town centre, just happened to look right,

to be honest.

It immediately stood out, this BMW.

The in-car computer is linked directly to the police national

database, which holds intelligence on cars and their owners.

COMPUTER: Attention.

See, we've got a marker on it.

There was police information on the vehicle linking it to drugs

and drug supply.

As soon as we got behind the car, a very strong smell of cannabis.

Our senses were starting to get heightened,

trying to see who was in the vehicle.

He's got some power if he goes.

A vehicle like this is one that could cause us some problems

if it did fail to stop, because it's a high-performance vehicle.

Guys, is there anybody in Huddersfield town centre?

A drugs marker, smell of cannabis, likely to fail to stop.

Is there anyone nearby, please?

We do work best as a pack, so we tried to get units towards us,

just in case it did fail to stop.

Just looking to get it stopped as soon as possible.

I had that gut feeling the vehicle was going to go.

-Get ready.

-Ready.

SIREN

He's had plenty of time to know that we were there.

There's a car behind him, blue lights, sirens on.

Guys, this is now a fail to stop.

Surprisingly, he did come to a stop within a fairly short distance.

I positioned the car in front of it to reduce that risk of it

continuing on its way.

Open the door.

-Open the door. Right, turn the engine off.

-You scared me, man.

-Scared you?

When he opened the door, I was quite shocked to see there was

a two-year-old girl sat in the front passenger seat.

You think, you're driving like that,

you have got your two-year-old daughter in the car,

and you're driving like a complete and utter idiot.

I can smell cannabis from the vehicle.

-Is there any drugs on you?

-No.

With a child in the passenger seat, the cops proceed with caution.

Are you known to us at all?

What are you known to us for? All sorts? Recent?

Days, weeks, months, years?

What was the offence?

Drugs? Cannabis?

There is a smell in the car.

If there is a bag or owt like that,

then obviously you should be telling us now.

-It smells of cannabis in the car.

-The man has £325 on him.

We've got him on suspicion of money-laundering,

possession of criminal property.

At the end of the day, it's only £300, but the fact he's got £300

he can't really account for, and also,

the little bit of intelligence we already hold on this particular

person, it is the whole package that led me to make the arrest.

-Do we do it here or take him in?

-They're coming to us.

-We'll take him back.

-Take me back where?

-More than likely the police station.

-What for?

-For a strip search.

I can't strip you here, man.

He doesn't want to go back to the police station for strip search,

and again, he's pleading with us,

he'll say, I'll strip off at the side of the road. We can't do that.

We can't allow people to get undressed at the side of the road.

Back-up has arrived to look after the suspect's child.

You got your little one here, so we are going to make sure

she's safe and well. She's going to stay in the car with an officer.

An officer will drive this. We'll all go down to the police station.

We'll search you and we'll go from there.

She's not got a child seat in this car, which is obviously an offence.

We've not got child seats in our car,

so we will have to deal with it the easiest way we can.

The car's not been searched at all yet.

He was placed in handcuffs

and taken in for the search at the police station.

Hello. Daddy's in the other car behind us.

Unfortunately, she will have to come with us as well.

We can't let anybody know that he has been stopped

and is going to be searched.

If we contact somebody and say, can you come

and pick his daughter up, they could get rid of property.

Such as drugs, cash or mobile phones.

While his child is looked after by other officers,

Matt and Wayne want to search the man.

We are always hoping to find something,

because if we do, that gives us the next step to actually go on

and do house searches and get into these people's properties

and get into their lifestyle and see how they live.

He will remain in custody while the cops continue their investigation.

15 miles north in Bradford, 9:30pm.

PCs Paul Feather and Lee Welbourne from the

West Yorkshire Police Road Crime Team are patrolling a crime hot spot.

We are down Harrogate Road in Bradford.

You get a lot of stolen vehicles coming through this area,

so it is a good place to have a hunt about.

Outside London, Yorkshire has one of the highest rates of car

crime in the UK.

In 2012, there were more than 4,000 cars reported

stolen in the West Yorkshire area.

Ford Focus entered the roundabout a little bit quickly.

I looked across, the driver didn't really want to pay much

attention to us, because we were in the marked police vehicle.

I always find that a little bit suspicious

when people don't look at you.

Not hanging about, is he?

He's going.

Initially, there was no reason to suspect it wouldn't pull over,

and we went for a routine stop.

But it's continued, and then started to accelerate away.

It all started from there.

We've got a silver Focus possibly making off

on Moorside Road.

He's already sort of driving dangerously, and it's only been

running a matter of seconds, so it is quite clear he wants to get away.

Silver focus, Foxtrot Hotel five six

November Echo Juliet.

It's done a right, right, right.

He's thrown some drugs out.

Yes, now Pollard Lane. It's just discarded some packages in the road.

Pollard Lane.

He's a desperate man to get away from the police for whatever

reason, and the reason, we believed, is that he'd thrown out some drugs.

Speed six zero miles an hour, traffic still light.

The risks of chasing offenders are high.

An average of five accidents a day occur during police pursuits.

It is a constant assessment made by me as the driver

and also my colleague who's giving the commentary.

So if it gets to a point where we think it is dangerous,

we abort the pursuit, because it's not worth

putting ourselves, the suspects or anybody else at risk.

Approaching junction, stand by.

Through red lights. Stand by.

They're not bothered, are they?

They want to get away from us.

Travelling at 60mph on busy roads,

-the cops have to be alert to sudden dangers.

-Whoa!

That car driver's pulled out, unaware of what's happening.

I think Paul's done well to avoid a collision.

Approaching a junction. Stand by.

It's gone straight across, straight across.

Norman Avenue.

Speed six zero miles per hour.

Even though we are not directly behind him, still his intention

is getting away, and that's where they make their mistakes.

He's crashed!

Vehicle's crashed. Vehicle's crashed.

Your first thoughts are that somebody's seriously hurt,

maybe even worse.

The driver is trapped inside his car.

SIREN BLARES

Switch those off.

To watch it flip up in the air and then over on its roof is quite...

It's not the nicest thing to see.

Suspect vehicle has crashed.

It's on its roof. Can we have fire service and ambulance, please?

-Norman Avenue.

-Keep your legs still.

Although he's turned his car upside down, the driver isn't badly hurt.

His seat belt has saved him from more serious injuries.

Hang on. You're all right. You're all right, aren't you?

He's trapped in his seat belt, and obviously we want to get him

out of the vehicle. The reason being, some cars do set on fire.

It only takes a minute to safely get him out of the car.

We've got a walking wounded male driver who's failed to stop.

It will need supervision just to attend the scene.

Lift your head up.

Sit down.

Let me have a look at your nose.

He's hit his face, more than likely when the airbags deployed.

Obviously, he's given it a good old crack.

Just lift it back a bit.

Yeah, you've got a bit of a bust nose, haven't you?

Luckily, this time, there are no life-threatening injuries.

So Paul begins to question him.

Is it your car?

Your wife's car.

He did his best, didn't he?

But his best wasn't good enough.

That's the difference between us and them.

We are a bit more safer and obviously we're trained to a level

where we should be able to drive, fingers crossed.

This is one of life's valuable lessons you've just learnt.

The car isn't stolen,

so for Paul and Lee the question is why he was so desperate to get away?

In Huddersfield, the search of the man arrested with his child

has revealed no drugs on him or in the car.

I honestly thought we'd go into that cell and something would drop

to the floor, and we'd have our arrest, straight and simple.

I was faced with a bit of a judgment call, really.

Do I potentially go a little bit further?

You've been arrested so we can speak to you.

His arrest means the cops can keep him detained

and search any properties linked to him.

We can make an arrest on suspicion of money-laundering,

on suspicion of drug dealing.

Did some research and found several addresses

that this guy was linked to.

Whilst we were in the holding area,

colleagues are making enquiries in relation to connected addresses.

Two miles away, a search team arrive at a house linked to him.

An address where he's registered on the electoral roll.

The team is wearing head cams.

Behind the door, they make a remarkable discovery.

The head cams are useful -

what's potentially hard to say in words

is easily put across in a very short amount of time in video.

There are up to 70 cannabis plants.

Police estimate a farm on this scale can generate an annual turnover

of up to £100,000.

It's a sophisticated set up,

using some high-powered lighting and air conditioning.

There was definitely a smile, hearing on the earpiece

that a cannabis factory had been found.

Downstairs, the cops have detained a man living at the address.

Everything that you say and do is being recorded.

I've got a power under section 18 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act

to search your premises...

for a gentleman that's been locked up, so...

..he's on the electoral roll as being registered at this address.

It gives us the power to obviously search this premises.

I'm going to arrest you on suspicion of production of cannabis, all right?

You don't have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you don't mention

when questioned something which you'll later rely on in court.

-Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

-Yeah.

Do you understand everything that I've said to you there?

-Yeah.

-Marvellous.

It becomes clear that the man they have at the police station

no longer lives there,

and has nothing to do with the cannabis farm.

So many people are going to get hurt through something

that's never harmed anyone.

Kids, adults, children alike,

police wasting money on shit that really doesn't matter.

When there's paedophiles and murderers and rapists out there,

and you come and arrest the flower-growing hippy.

'Ultimately, you know, what can he say?'

It's in his house, it's in his bedroom.

You know, it's in his downstairs hallway, under his stairs,

so there's not a lot he can say, really, is there?

Other than, "Yeah, it's mine."

Home-grown cannabis production has more than doubled

in the last five years.

In 2012, nearly 8,000 cannabis farms were found by police.

It's more organised than it was before,

by either using intimidation tactics

or by paying people to make use of space in terraced houses.

It's going to make it difficult for us to find.

Cannabis cultivation on this scale can carry a prison sentence

of up to seven years.

Back at the police station, because there is no evidence against him,

the man arrested earlier with his child is free to go.

And they've arranged for his daughter to be dropped home.

At the end of the day, we've got a duty of care to her,

but we've also got a duty to detect and investigate crime,

so it's balancing that.

You OK?

'But again, bearing in mind it is a two-year-old kid,'

and we need to do something with her and keep her safe as a priority.

It's PC Fleming from West Yorkshire Police,

nothing to worry about at all.

So we've made several calls to try and get the two-year-old back to her mum.

Is that your mummy?

But when we did manage to track the mum down,

it was quite an emotional reunion, really.

Oh, there we go, big girl.

-She's fine.

-She's had a McDonald's and she's safe and well.

You know you've got a job to do at the end of the day

and, unfortunately, there's a child involved in this instance.

Nothing's happened to her this evening, she's not been involved in any way.

'She was never put in any danger or exposed to anything'

what she shouldn't have been exposed to.

With the child reunited with her mother,

and her father released without charge...

..Matt and Wayne can begin to help with a new investigation,

the search of the cannabis farm.

You got any gloves?

In fact, I've got some.

Could have been any house, anywhere.

Certainly no smell of cannabis...as you walked through that front door.

I almost thought we'd got the wrong house.

Can't get down.

Nice one.

This was utter elation, to be honest.

We've got at least 50-70 plants in the late stages of growth

sat in a bedroom in the average house.

It's bunting on the fencing outside.

It's a nondescript terraced house

and inside is a drugs factory.

It's a cracking result

and hopefully has a significant impact on that area.

In another room there's evidence that he could be selling it.

Some more cannabis.

Obviously there's the grow upstairs but this looks like what

he's harvested and it's all individually bagged up, ready to go.

Evidence of his scales to weigh it out and more clear plastic bags...

..to put it in.

I think when I first joined, you expect to fix

the world in a day, if I'm honest.

You think you go out there and everything can be sorted

and you can go home happy.

In reality, it doesn't work like that.

It's almost keeping a lid on what's out there

which is what I'm here to do.

A closer inspection of some of the bags at the police station

reveals further proof the suspect is dealing drugs in the area.

Obviously, when we've done the house search

what we've got is

a black carrier bag from the kitchen.

And in that it's got a large bag

containing cannabis buds.

There's quite a lot in there.

We've got a set of scales.

We've got some dealer bags.

We've also got some...

..resin, as you can see.

It's not very often you get hold of the resin, these days.

We've also got these.

They're basically the ends of rubber gloves.

They cut the fingers off and they've sealed them up in there,

so they can either swallow them or put them

in other orifices of the body.

A fantastic job really, to be fair.

In Bradford, the driver who failed to stop

and then crashed his wife's car...

He's crashed, he's crashed.

GROANING

..is going to hospital as a precaution.

People get thrown from vehicles and that occurs

when people don't wear the seat belts.

Whether you can say to his credit he had his seat belt on

and that's probably what saved him having more serious injuries

that he could've sustained, if not been killed.

That's the line of trajectory.

He's come straight over here,

nosedived in and flicked onto the roof.

A lucky, lucky man.

Although he's off to hospital, it will be under police supervision.

Can I just tell him before you do your stuff?

You're going to be under arrest.

One for failing to stop for the police and dangerous driving.

You're under caution. You don't have to say anything, but it may harm the defence...

I think he did learn a valuable lesson from that.

I'm sure when he went out in the vehicle

he wasn't expecting to be involved in that sort of incident

and end up in hospital and then in the cells.

Before he goes, the cops want to run one last check.

Before you disappear, is he fit to do a breathalyser?

Yes, course.

If you get it, he's all right to do it. He can, yeah.

If we don't do this sort of thing at the roadside,

then we have to go through a different procedure at the hospital

where we have to take blood,

so it's always handy if we can get permission.

Take a deep breath and blow down that tube until I tell you to stop.

Harder. Keep going, keep going, that'll do.

Zero.

He managed to pass that with flying colours.

Cheers, mate, thanks.

Any sort of incident involving a pursuit where

there's a collision and somebody's injured, it's classed as

a police-injury collision,

therefore usually a supervisor will attend the scene.

-How old are you?

-44.

HE COUGHS 21.

HE LAUGHS

Everybody gets breathalysed,

me included.

-Pass.

-Zero.

It's standard procedure just to say I've been breathalysed

and there's no issues.

Chasing criminals in cars is often risky.

25 deaths occurred during police pursuits in 2012.

I'd say that's a total write-off by the look of that.

I think Lee's run it through

and it's coming back no insurance on it as well, so...

It doesn't help these people here who've had their wall damaged

and the car damaged as a result of his driving,

plus the council for the lamp post.

He's going to be getting a big bill, isn't he?

The driver will be prosecuted for dangerous driving

and no insurance, but Paul and Lee also want to find the bags

they think he threw from the car.

Looking at the video it were right in the mouth at the junction.

You can see it fly out.

And I think whether...

Either somebody will have picked it up or

cars driving all over it will have destroyed it,

but we're making our way in that direction, so we'll have a look as well.

We've driven back to the location where we saw the drugs get thrown out of the car.

We did ask another unit to check straightaway

but they couldn't find them.

But because we knew exactly where the packages were thrown out, we've driven back to have a look.

He did admit ejecting the drugs out of the window.

He claimed it were class B drugs, ie cannabis.

Can't find that, so...

we'll just go with what we've got.

If somebody had seen those items in the road,

they've either driven over them and it's disappeared,

or they picked them up never to be seen again.

With no sign of the packages,

Paul and Lee reflect on the night's high-speed pursuit.

You don't come to work to see people get injured or hurt.

We're not robots, are we? We're human beings and we've feelings and so on.

You know, I'd be sort of devastated that as a result of whatever

somebody had been killed.

Do you feel responsible? I don't know if I'd feel responsible

because we haven't made him do that, haven't we?

No, I'd be angry that that had happened,

but, you know, I'm not in charge of his destiny.

I'm in charge of mine

and everybody else's in this car.

If he wants to drive like a maniac,

then it's my decision

whether I continue that pursuit.

90 miles east of Bradford

Matt and Wayne are on the north-east Lincolnshire coast in Grimsby.

We cover a massive area across the Yorkshire-Humber region.

On an increasing number of occasions now we're extending beyond those boundaries.

We're not restricted by lines on a map.

There's a report of an armed burglary.

With a forced entry into the property, once inside

he'd taken a number of knives including a large meat cleaver.

There were then threats to the victim

in relation to calling

the police or contacting us.

After making threats to her he'd left the property, made off on foot.

We were told he had knives still on his person.

RADIO: 743, any sightings?

Being passed at 22:43.

Last approximately five minutes.

Last seen heading towards Winchester Avenue.

Matt worked this area in his first two years of service

and knows the suspect.

It's certainly someone I'd come across many times,

one of the priority offenders in the area

responsible for burglaries

and serious crime, so it's certainly a name I was familiar with.

That might be him.

That might be him, mate.

With the head cam running

Matt gives chase.

X-ray Tango 18, we've got the suspect running in Chelmsford Avenue.

Guys, we've got a runner in Chelmsford Avenue.

As soon as we go into the garden, it's pitch black, we've completely lost him.

18, total loss in gardens,

Chelmsford Avenue.

Bearing in mind that this guy's got meat cleavers,

he's got knives on his person,

the last thing I want to do is encounter him with just a can of CS.

The best thing I knew to do was just step back and watch.

'He wasn't going away from me. All he could do was come towards.'

Can I just get a containment on where we are?

6-7ft fencing. I'm pretty sure he'll be in the gardens.

Directed officers to the containment

and got that complete block of houses surrounded.

Right, he's been on the other side and run through the gardens.

You've no idea what's going through this guy's head.

Especially with a serious offence of armed burglary,

he's potentially looking at a prison sentence.

Other side!

The cops believe the suspect is still in the area and armed.

I was just confident at that point he was still somewhere in those gardens.

2am.

And 80 miles west of Grimsby, in Leeds,

PCs Richard Whiteley and Les Green are on night patrol.

We often get paired up on nights together. We are in

a little area just outside Leeds, called Yeadon.

Any car that we see

moving at that time of night is certainly worth a check to make sure

they're not drunk, it's not stolen,

they're not active burglars out and about

looking, er, for houses to turn over.

Just past the junction and seen this vehicle

that's taken a long time to pull out after we've driven past.

It is a high-crime area and we're wondering, at this moment,

why the vehicle took so long to pull out.

-Took a long time coming out.

-Mmm.

And we're just following it now, looking for a suitable place

to stop it, to see if the vehicle will stop

and see why the driver took so long coming out of the junction.

VOICES ON POLICE RADIO, OFFICERS CHAT SOFTLY

I'll go and have a word.

-Hiya, mate.

-My house!

-Sorry?

-Sorry, I'm at home. Sorry about that.

-You home?

-Yes.

Right, no worries.

-Just want to come and have a seat at the back of ours?

-Yes.

-Two minutes.

-Where have you just come from?

-Um, I've just got my friend home.

As soon as he got out the car, I could smell that he'd had a drink.

All right. You had a drink at all?

Um... Just one.

-Have you had a drink tonight?

-Yeah, I just asked. He's had one.

Um, "just the one" is often a stock response.

'As soon as he got into the vehicle, you could smell it.'

-OK, how long ago was your last drink?

-Um... An hour and a half?

-OK.

What we'll do is just do a quick breath test on you

while my colleague's doing a check on you.

-Have you ever done a breath test before?

-Never. Sorry about this.

OK, lean forward. I'll keep hold of the machine.

You put your lips on it and blow.

BEEPING Keep go... No, blow.

BEEPING Keep going, keep going. No, no.

Right, get off. Stop, stop, stop.

It says "blow failing", cos you're not blowing hard enough.

We see all sorts, um, we, er,

we see people filling their mouth full of air, as if they are trying to

kid the machine, not putting enough pressure into it to get it going.

It's not hard to do. It's about the pressure of a balloon.

-Before you do it, take a deep breath...

-Right.

..put your lips on the tube and blow nice and steadily until I say stop.

-Right.

-Last chance or you're locked up for refusal.

-Go.

BEEPING Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.

Keep going, keep going, stop.

-It's over. I can tell you now.

-Yeah.

OK. Christophe, you are over.

You've failed the roadside breath test.

OK, so, at the minute, and I'm going to caution you,

you do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence

if you do not mention something you later rely on in court.

Anything you say may be given in evidence.

You're under arrest on suspicion of driving a motor vehicle on a road

whilst over the prescribed limit, OK?

'He's, er, a little bit over the legal limit.'

It being 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath.

The, er, the young chap's blown 55, so he's been arrested by myself

and we will take him to Pudsey Police Station

to do the formal evidential procedure.

Recent figures show that drivers aged between 20 and 24

failed more breath tests than any other group.

Drink-driving - it kills people.

The worst job that we have to do, as traffic officers,

to knock on someone's door and give them the news, er,

at three or four o'clock in the morning that colleagues

are dealing with a fatal accident. It's just not worth it.

I think he's realised how silly he's been.

'He said he'd come from Horsforth, um, which, from there to Horsforth,

'is about 3 miles. It's about £5 in a taxi.'

Hi, Dad.

Um, I'm in the back of a police car.

Can you switch your mobile phone off?

-I just parked outside...

-Switch your mobile phone off.

-At the time...

-Switch your mobile phone off!

-OK...

-Now!

'It's not an abuse of power, or anything like that.'

-Give the phone!

-It's all right, it's gone!

-Give the phone! Now!

-OK, OK!

We've no idea who he is. We don't know what he does.

We don't know who he's ringing or who he could be texting.

'So we want the mobile phone off him.' Thank you.

There's the case. Please put it in the case.

I was letting my dad know...

You don't have to let your dad know. You're in custody.

-We'll let your dad know.

-OK.

Well, I think his world's fallen apart, hasn't it?

He's obviously concerned what his dad's thinking.

Why he isn't home, perhaps? And, er...

He's just wishing that perhaps he should have got a taxi.

In Grimsby, the young man

who threatened a woman with a knife is still on the run.

X-ray Tango one eight, we've got... Running!

Certainly, the...the upper tiers of the crimes we've come across.

It's a serious crime, having your home broken into

and then having that confrontation

with whoever is going to be an ordeal for anybody.

The evidence-catching head cam

showed just what the cops themselves are seeing.

You what? Sorry, mate?

Do you know which one, mate? It might be what we're looking for.

Someone's approached me,

um, just pointed out a bit of suspicious activity.

He suspected something had been thrown into the gardens.

VOICES ON POLICE RADIO

Matt makes a discovery.

The weapons are an important find,

but there's still no sign of the suspect.

First sighting of me, he's obviously ditched his knives and that here.

Last sighting was at the back of that one on the corner.

-Hopping.

-Which side?

-Across the road, mate, back of there.

Just trying to get as many officers as possible into the right places.

Er, just back of this one, mate. It was generally that way.

But all these fences, quite high fences.

-He's going to have gone to behind.

-Potentially so, yeah.

There was a perfect wall around him. He'd ran into a dead-end, in effect.

Probably about the back of there, mate. About ten gone in.

'We've asked for Taser-trained officers to attend.'

And whilst they're travelling,

this guy has come out of hiding...

We've got him detained.

..into the path of officers waiting.

-MAN:

-It was like he was telling me to stop, he was telling me to stop.

My previous experience of him was anti-social crime,

causing a nuisance to people on the street.

That's a far cry from burglary.

The fact he's potentially threatened somebody with a knife,

left on foot with knives in his possession,

it seemed to have escalated somewhat from what I know of him.

Clearly, something's gone wrong with him.

The teenaged suspect has convictions for more than 50 offences.

TEENAGER PROTESTS, SPEECH INAUDIBLE

We have initially sighted him in the gardens of, um,

where I've first seen him before. We've turned round

this carrier bag containing a meat cleaver and two kitchen knives.

What's been described. So they've been seized.

For me, any offence where you are entering into somebody's home,

especially more so where you're using weapons

to make threats, it's a serious offence, it's going to cause

serious repercussions for all those involved.

Back in Leeds, the young man who blew over the drink-drive limit

just outside his house has arrived at the police station

to undertake an evidential breath test.

He is now realising just what it's like to be under arrest.

He's had his liberty taken away, his mobile phone taken away,

he's now feeling quite helpless

and doesn't really know what to do with himself.

Any property, can you just

empty it out of your pockets and put it on here?

Any money? Change? Jewellery? Watches? Belts? That sort of stuff.

Because he's blown over, we now bring him, put him on a much

bigger machine that is a little bit more accurate than the hand-held one

and that will give us the evidential breath

that we will either release or charge him with.

A learning curve for him

and it's going to be a sharp one, cos, if he's still over,

he's going to lose his driving licence for a minimum of 12 months.

MACHINE WHINES Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.

Keep going, stop. MACHINE BEEPS

OK.

MACHINE WHINES Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Keep going, keep going. Good.

OK, sit down.

We're in the hands of the gods once he's blown into the machine and, er,

you know, one microgram over is over.

34, 36.

That's come down a lot.

-You are one lucky young man.

-One lucky young man.

-You're under the legal drink-drive limit.

-The limit's 35.

You've blown 34 or 36.

We go on the lower limit, which is 34.

In my 11 years, I've not seen anybody break down in tears

from it, but obviously, it means a lot to him.

And he's been a lucky lad.

-I think he's a happy chap.

-I think that says it all.

OK, Christophe, there's three printouts here.

One that you can keep, you can frame,

because tonight was your lucky night.

The second one is mine and the third one is the Sergeant's, OK?

I just need three signatures. They're all identical.

He'll hopefully take home his printout and frame it

and look at it every time he goes out and think,

"Is it worth it for a £5 taxi fare?" Hopefully, it's a lesson learned.

Come on.

As he's blown under the limit, no action will be taken against him.

I made a bad judgment of error in getting in my car again, um...

But at the same time, by the time you get outside of your house,

you're more angry at the fact that you just...

just missed the chance of getting home free.

-NERVOUS LAUGHTER

-Um...yeah.

Nothing can describe that very last metre in your car

and then getting pulled over.

It's 6am.

The start of the morning commute in Leeds for thousands of motorists.

PCs Craig Warner and Dan Kellett

respond to a report of another potential drink-driver.

We'd come on

and got a call regarding a man. He'd parked up outside a local hotel,

gone into the hotel to try and get a drink, wasn't served, so went out

and slept in his car.

He's in the back, isn't he? KNOCKING ON WINDOW

Is it your side? His head's at your side.

All doors are locked.

The chap is sat in the back of the car with a duvet over him.

-Has he frozen to death?

-KNOCKING CONTINUES

He was definitely hard and fast asleep.

I was starting to worry the window would go through in his car.

HARD KNOCKING

Oh, here we go!

Morning.

I don't think, at that point,

he's fully aware of who it is that's talking to him.

-Is it your motor?

-Well, yeah, it's in my dad's name, but, yeah, it's mine.

All right, jump in the back.

-Come on, this side.

-Onto this side.

Checks that we've carried out have shown that

the car is registered to an address that's not too far away from there,

so both Dan and I are a little confused

as to why he's stopped where he's stopped.

So why have you ended up here?

Right.

All right, how have you got here?

-So you've been out in Wetherby, out on a night out...

-Mmm.

..drove back here...

fallen asleep in your car and that's it?

-Haven't had anything to drink since you've parked?

-No.

-As soon as I've come in, nothing at all.

-Right.

He's told us by his own admission

he's drank with friends, driven from a nearby town and stopped,

so, you know, we have a power to give a breath test.

Right, just lean forwards, a good deep breath,

just blow into the tube for me. Keep blowing till I tell you to stop.

-BEEPING

-Keep blowing, keep blowing.

Stop! Brilliant, there we go.

It's a common misconception, people go out,

have a load to drink, go home, go to bed,

six, seven hours' sleep, wake up, and they think they're sober -

"cos I've had a night's sleep, I'm fine."

-Right, you see the red light's come on, Dan?

-Yeah, I know.

-Mate, I could have told you...

-Yeah.

-..hours ago.

-That means you provided a positive sample breath.

-Yeah, I know.

So, at this minute in time, you're under arrest

-on suspicion of drink-driving, all right?

-Yeah.

He's blown twice the limit

and it's at least five or six hours since he's driven.

So the worrying thing is exactly how far over the limit he was

when he actually did drive and park up.

-You can't, cos you're under arrest now.

-I've already...

I've already given you a breath...

-HE SLURS:

-Breath sam...breath sample.

Oh, mate, come on!

The unfortunate thing for us is,

if we allow him out of the car to have a cigarette,

um...we've then got to try and control him

and make sure he doesn't run off. He's effectively got

a weapon in his hand, with a burning cigarette.

Can you at least get my cigs out of my car

before you take me away, so I've got some?

We'll pick your cigs up, so at least you got them, but when you get out.

When he gets released from custody,

he's obviously going to want a cigarette then.

But you can't smoke in the custody areas any more.

Oh, yes, there is!

Er, but there's no lighter in there.

Something else, though, that he might want to explain.

Er, just getting his cigarettes and lighter for him, he's got some

small amount of cannabis that's in the middle as well,

so he'll be getting locked up for that

and dealt with for everything all at the same time.

HE LAUGHS

Yeah! Yeah.

Yeah, I don't think he said to Dan at any point,

"Can you get me my lighter? It's next to the cannabis."

HE HUMS TO HIMSELF I've got your phone, your money,

your cigarettes...

My mate's just going to tell you about this.

I've just found that in the centre console,

-so if you want to go 112 with that as well.

-Yeah. Right, obviously,

you're under arrest on suspicion of a controlled drug as well.

It sort of makes you smile a bit, doesn't it?

The cannabis side of it, the drink-driving side doesn't.

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

-Your boss man's ringing you.

-Holy shit! I'm meant to be working!

Do you want to speak to him or shall we just leave it?

RINGING CONTINUES

-Do you want to speak to him after you're done?

-Er, you'd better

speak to him, but don't say I've been nicked for drink-driving!

I believe he works with some quite heavy machinery,

so another part of this is the worrying side

that he was going to go to work. It's not a good mix.

It's my own fault. I've learned from my mistakes.

Don't go out, have a few beers and drive.

There you go, you see?

West Yorkshire is one of the worst areas in the country

for motor insurance offences. In 2012, more than 3,500 motorists

were prosecuted here for driving without cover.

At their base in Manningham,

PCs Simon Ellis and Dick Infield are planning to question

a motorist they believe may be going one step further,

and using a counterfeit insurance policy.

So this is the guy we're going to arrest.

There could always be an occasion where someone's done something

quite innocently and not realised and been duped.

It's like anything else. It's a scam.

Was found to be uninsured.

He's been summoned to attend court, which he has done,

and he's, er, produced a false insurance policy to the court.

Recent figures show there could be as many as 20,000 motorists

driving in the UK uninsured after buying fraudulent or fake cover.

We've written to the insurance company and they've

quite comprehensively told us that the policy doesn't exist.

The question for the cops is did he know it was a false policy?

This is getting to become quite common now, people try

and evade the points and the fines for having no insurance,

but if we don't stamp it out,

then obviously it will be something that spreads quite vehemently around

certainly our area in Bradford, where we have

a high number of people and vehicles that are uninsured.

He may get a shock when we knock at his door.

Across the UK, police seize

more than 2,500 uninsured vehicles a week,

but still, there are 130 deaths

and more than 26,000 injuries caused by uninsured drivers every year.

I think we all have our little forte.

I think mine is probably insurance.

And I stick to what I'm good at, really.

I think it's a bit of a catch-22, really.

The more people that are uninsured, the more other people's premiums

go up, so the more they can't afford insurance

and it's just this vicious circle.

Uninsured drivers add, on average,

an extra £30 to insurance premiums each year.

That's the car.

So, there's the car outside,

which Dick stopped this guy driving in back in August last year,

so, hopefully from that, he might be in.

-Here you are, mate.

-Thank you.

Excuse me, can I have a quick word?

It was brilliant to see him there,

because we didn't think he was going to be in.

And very rarely do we pull up outside someone's house

and they happen to be there.

-Right, you've produced some insurance certificates...

-Yeah.

-..at court, from when I stopped you driving last August.

-Right.

-OK?

Those insurance certificates are fraud.

-They can't be fraud.

-So what I need to do is I need to take you down

to the police station and discuss on interview the validity

-of those insurance certificates.

-Can't you do it here?

OK, I've got to take you down to the police station.

So I'll tell you now you're under arrest on the suspicion

of perverting the course of justice.

-Thank you, like that.

-It's mental, this.

It's a serious offence.

And we need to be able to prove certain factors.

We need to be able to prove that he's attempted to deceive people

by producing it. We need to get an account off him.

-MAN: What is it for? Insurance?

-Yeah.

-Yup!

-'If the man has knowingly produced a false policy,

'he could be facing a prison sentence.'

-Here you are.

-Just jump in.

Some of these that we've dealt with have gone to prison for 4-5 months.

And that's a big difference between getting some points on a licence

or basically having your liberty taken away.

I brought your picture with us, just to make sure it was you

and, thankfully, you kept the same top on for us, look.

MAN LAUGHS That made it a bit easier.

He was quite amenable, he was quite a likeable sort of guy, really.

When was the last time you got arrested?

-The one you've got.

-Was it a warrant or something?

Er...

It was, yeah.

What's happening with that job?

What you got arrested for?

..Yeah.

-That's what the warrant...

-So you got fined having no insurance,

-but you didn't pay the fine, because you said you were insured?

-Yup.

-OK.

Well, how did you get convicted if you were insured?

You got convicted in your absence?

Come on.

Just hold on, mate.

That's a bit aggressive, innit? You doing that for the camera, yeah?

People are creatures of habit. He's turned up wearing the same top

when he was last arrested by the police.

The same car's outside his house,

now with no insurance, and now with no tax on it.

So people don't tend to go far from where they're meant to be.

We're just interviewing him on tape about the offence.

We're giving him his chance to give a reasoned excuse and account,

an explanation for how he's got a forged policy with him.

We are investigating an offence of an attempt

to pervert the course of justice by the production

of a false insurance document at a magistrates court.

Where did you get the documents from?

Have you produced these documents to try and deceive the court?

I wasn't quite expecting

what he told us, or should I say, what he didn't tell us.

This is a fraud offence.

You got caught with driving offences.

I will arrange for both cases to be tied up together.

-Complicated for us, in't it?

-Mm-hm!

HE LAUGHS: Full-time or part-time criminal?

A retired criminal? When did you retire?

-Did you?

-Yeah!

-Is there...?

Is there no vacancies for a criminal at the moment?

Yeah.

He was quite easy-going and I think there were a lot of tongue-in-cheek

things about what he said, and it was nice, it was talking about

being a part-time criminal and retired and things.

I quite enjoy working with him,

because, if everybody was like him, it would make my job a lot easier.

He seemed to take it in good spirit as well.

You're all right, aren't you? Come on, let's go this way.

I'm innocent! They're trying to prove me guilty,

but they've got the wrong end of the stick.

The insurance policy was taken out by a relative.

I was a driver, I didn't pay for it. It was a gift, to be honest.

-We can't, unfortunately.

-We've got paperwork to sort out.

-OK.

Everybody asks us for a lift home and I mean everybody and... I think

we politely told him something like, "We're not a taxi service."

I was tempted to give him a lift, even just for the comedy value,

just for having a chat with him, because I think he liked to talk

and we learn all sorts from people like that.

-You want that.

-Your paperwork.

-Shit! OK...

-See you.

-All right, lads, ta-ra!

-Cheers, thank you.

You can produce that to the court. That's genuine.

-See you later.

-See you later.

-See you.

-Ta-ra now.

The paperwork from the court did get the better of him.

He was fined £165 for no insurance.

But the charges for producing a false insurance policy were dropped,

as the court accepted he had been misled

into thinking the policy was genuine.

In Leeds, the young man caught sleeping in his car

after a night out is about to find out if he's still over the limit.

He's just on the phone to his solicitor at the minute,

getting advice from them.

He'll be placed on the big machine in there.

That Intoxilyzer. That hand-held machine that we use roadside

gives us an indication that he's over the limit, or whatever.

That will give us a specific reading

of what the actual alcohol content of his breath is.

Just in here, fella.

-BEEPING

-Keep blowing, keep blowing,

keep blowing, keep blowing, keep blowing, keep blowing,

keep blowing, keep blowing, stop.

-Brilliant, there we go.

-Right, can you grab a seat?

See, if you blow 40 or above, then you're in the realms of prosecution.

If the reading is over, he faces a minimum 12-month ban.

71 and 69, so you're twice the limit.

Um, he'd been parked up there

for a good few hours and yet he was still blowing double,

so what he would have blown when he parked up there, I don't know.

Latest figures show that 280 deaths

are caused by drink-drivers in a year.

I've dealt with a number of quite bad fatal collisions, where people

have been killed directly as a result of drink-driving.

SOFT CHATTER

It's a big reality check, I think, when that door closes.

The driver's actions are confirmed by CCTV.

For continuity, to show that he has been in the hotel,

er, we've gone back up and we've seen the CCTV that they've got.

-So it's this one.

-So this is here.

-Yeah.

That time of day when a car's pulling in, you'll know what it is.

Yeah, and this is obviously ten minutes later,

he comes in the first time.

-And it's obvious it's him.

-Yeah.

Five minutes after, he comes back again to ask for cigs.

-And goes back to his car and goes to sleep in the back.

-Mmm.

People just don't realise that that bit of metal

that you're driving round, it can be a weapon quite easily.

Just one or two drinks, you don't have to be drunk

to be under the influence of drink.

-Just blow there for me.

-BEEPING

Keep going until I tell you to stop.

Keep going. Stop, thank you.

Yeah, he's been asked to provide another sample of breath

from the hand-held machine. He's blown 33,

which is obviously under the limit of 35, so now, he's eligible

to be released from custody, since we've finished processing with him.

After six hours in custody,

his alcohol level is low enough for him to be released.

Every day's a school day. You learn something, don't you? Every day.

I think, yeah, like you say, he's learned something today.

Hopefully, touch wood, won't do it again.

The drink-driver found asleep in his car was

banned from driving for 17 months and accepted a cannabis caution.

No action was taken against the suspected armed robber,

as the woman he allegedly threatened withdrew her complaint.

The driver who overturned his wife's car after a police pursuit

pleaded guilty to driving dangerously.

He was sentenced to eight months in prison

and banned from driving for two years.

He also admitted he threw cannabis from the car during the chase.

And the suspect caught growing cannabis in Huddersfield

was given a total of two years and seven months imprisonment

for production and supply. No action was taken against the man

who was previously registered at the address.