Risky Business Traffic Cops

In recent years in Hull, crime has been falling at a record rate.

don't hear it with your eyes, do you? Thanks, in part, to a crack

crime squad that's slamming the brakes on car thieves. Get out!

Turn it off! And reigning in dangerous drug dealers. This is

quite a big haul of ecstasy tablets will stop It's a risky business.

think he's deliberately tried to knock us over. But the traffic cops

are determined to get through to youngsters. Why don't you play

football? Before the wheels fall off. Inevitably, some people will

just want to fight with you Apart from the iconic Humber Bridge,

Kingston Upon Hull's prominent landmark is its sea port. It's one

of Britain's busiest. It handles freight to and from the continent

and more than a million passengers pass through it a year. The docks

are on the east side of Hull. An area that's like home to traffic

cop PC Claire Large. Having worked in Hull for the last six years and

been predominantly on the eastern side of the city, I still linger

around the east side of the city because I know it better, and you

get to know where the hot spots are, where you're most likely to find

people committing offences. This afternoon, eastern promise is not

going unfulfilled. A red transit flatbed passed us as we were sat at

traffic lights. The driver looked too young for the vehicle he was

sitting in. We decided to find out what Licensee had for it. As we

went around, to go after him, he turned off the road we were on,

down a dead-end street. Having worked in the area long enough, we

know it leads on to a travellers' site. And that might be bad news

for the cops. We would have a third of to have stopped it before it

reached the travel site, mainly because what usually happens once

the police car is seen within the site, everybody likes to come out

and have a look. You certainly know that you're going to be confronted.

Nine times out of 10. Not only by the person you're dealing with, but,

potentially, dozens more. So far so good. The young van driver has come

quietly and has even admitted he shouldn't be driving. I am

He offered information to was there was no insurance on the van, he

didn't have a licence to drive it. He knew he was going to be

prosecuted for it. It was like he'd been through it all before, dare I

say. Have you got the keys? Curiously, despite just parking up,

the keys have gone astray. about small kid over there to get

the keys. Which one? The little Can you go and get the keys to the

ban for me? Because the driver's not insured, the police are going

to have the vehicle seized. Whose van is it? My dad. Where is your

dad? He doesn't know you have got it? All right? Does your dad had

insurance on it? Yes. The vehicle came back saying it had recently

been bought and they haven't fulfilled the logbook, yet. Or it

is in trade at some point. His dad doesn't know he has got it. Do you

want me to get the keys for you? that point, I let my colleague no

that he had said his Dad didn't know he had the vehicle. That means,

he can also be charged with TWOC. Taking the vehicle without the

owner's consent. What have you got him for? I'm his mam. Basically,

he's driving a vehicle with no insurance. We are trying to

establish whose vehicle it is. dad is on his way back now.

owns the vehicle? His dad. mother has dobbed him right in it.

Right, I'm locking you up for theft. It's my lorry. You're getting

arrested now for theft! You are getting be arrested for theft! Is

it my lorry? Tell them it's mine! Just tell them it's my lorry!

Thanks a lot, Sharon. Thanks a lot. It is his lorry. He's taking

lessons. Things started to get heated and I called on the radio.

It's always nice to have two or three people standing by, just in

Get off him! Get off him! Can we I was scared. We were two officers

on a site that I had been on previously and I know people are

not a skid to get involved or assault police officers. -- not

skid to get involved. They were intent on getting us and getting

him a free. -- scared. Six years in the 4th, and that the first time I

used my back on. -- in the force. I realise we don't either have a good

kicking, and they were intent on hitting us. Or they were going to

get him a free. Get off him! rid of that camera. Tipping off her

colleagues has paid off for PC Large. Just 30 seconds after

pressing the panic button on her radio, help's arrived. Fortunately,

as they pulled down the street, When an assistant call goes out,

everybody drops everything and goes. It's the one time everybody does

that. PC Caroll has bitten off more than he can chew. I think it is my

tooth. He was a strong kid. He I never saw how he managed to head

but her mother. He had blood on the side of his mouth. That's when I

found out he was losing his teeth. I have got a loose tooth. I leave

you alone for two minutes, don't I? It can be daunting going on to a

travellers' site. It is a daunting place. We are not animals, you know.

They kicked my daughter. Members of his family continued to throw abuse.

It's a hierarchical situation. They want to show they are not afraid of

us. And they will have their say, come what may. It's time for the

young man to go west. The quickest solution for us was to get that

vehicle off site and for us to leave them to it.

Hull's maritime links make it an ideal gateway for shipping cars in

and out of the country. Legal and illegal ones. PC Andy Stainton is

part of a crack team, the road crime squad, that's helped reduce

vehicle crime by 20%. They are constantly on the look out for

organised criminals stealing high value cars to export abroad. Can I

have a moving vehicle check, please? That means checking up on

any exotic cars they might come across. It is a very nice motor. A

Lamborghini. A lot of high powered vehicles get stolen to order and

end up in shipping containers to other destinations in the world.

PNC facility, so we'll give it a pull. With no computer to check on

the Lamborghini's details, it will have to be stopped instead. If he

decides to go for the open road. He We followed him for three-quarters

of a mile through the city streets and he failed to stop for as which

makes us wary of what he has got to hide. With a top speed of over 200

miles per hour, the Lamborghini Murcielago's built for speed.

Luckily, the driver's not letting it off its leash. But then he's not

He's not going to stop for us, is It was a giant dead end surrounded

by 30 ft brick walls. Why didn't he stop? Has he got weapons in here,

other people who will come out and jump on us? You are lucky I did not

stick this inside the car. Give me your keys. Get out. We have been

trying to stop you since English did. Get out, please. Get out. Is

there no interior mirror? You don't here with your eyes, don't you?

Our blue lights are very, very visible and you can hear the siren

even above the roar of the engine. You can see the blue lights. You

should have stopped. Listen to me... Do you understand that? We make the

rules on the road. Not you. Do you understand that? Yes, I do. He was

shouted at and I told him what I wanted from him in no uncertain

terms. The car isn't stolen but it has got an illegal number plate.

The absence of a manufacturer's mark gives it away. For whatever

reason, he's got the wrong number plate on it. So it's a little bit

strange at the minute. But it's a nice car. We don't see many of

these around. There's something very funny about the number plate.

It says it's not a Lamborghini Murcielago at all. It's a Peugeot

406. It has got the Lamborghini bodyshell on Nov. -- now. He says

he is just driven it back from the show. He said whoever was at the

show, put the number plates on. No, no, he's had it a while.

Stainton believes the car hasn't been stolen to order but he's less

than convinced about the owner's reason for using false plates. And

has got his own theory about them. I think he's done it to evade speed

cameras probably. But I'll have a chat with him. He seems to have

calmed down. Most of the time it's done to evade prosecution, I have

no doubt. He is trying to avoid prosecution. However, every dog has

its day. We will stop those vehicles and we will find out the

truth. And then, whatever prosecution comes their way, comes

their way. What's coming the Murcielago owner's way is a ticket.

For his incorrect plate. established the identity of the car.

He invited me in and we had a cup of tea. It worked out well in the

end. Sadly, the man's hospitality doesn't include a spin in his nice

motor. I would like to have a go in his vehicle but looking at the size

of me, I probably wouldn't have With no sign of hospitality at the

travellers' site, the tricky task of extricating the uninsured van is

being hampered. It belongs to my dad. I am pregnant. Without the

keys, the cops are going to have to wait for a tow truck. Regardless of

what was happening, we were taking that vehicle. Throughout the whole

time we were there, it remained quite volatile. Shouting, swearing,

spitting, throwing eggs. Caroll's teeth are still on edge.

He lost three teeth in all. Up to 15 police officers were on the site.

We are not there for other calls. If we can get out of that situation

as quickly as possible, the majority of those officers are

released to go to the general members of public who are crying

out for our help. After midnight, there's a different sort of

pressure for the cops. It's a time when crime increases as

opportunists take advantage of the dark, quiet streets. Fortunately,

for PCs Dave Stevenson and Alex Weekes, the night's been

uncharacteristically quiet, so far. Getting into the wee small hours.

It has been quite a strange night. Not a lot has been happening. We

are at a low ebb. Then a call came in. The caller has been burgled,

and not only have his car keys been stolen, but he's been relieved of

his car as well. The vehicle had been stolen as part of what we call

a hanoi burglary. It is a two in one burglary where someone goes

into the house and takes the car keys and start the car. It's been

taken from very nearby, by someone the owner knows. We were looking

for a blue Peugeot which had been taken by a kid. He was

predominantly known for working in and around the east of the city.

Can you see if there are any dog handlers available? Because of the

nature of the job be put in some requests for pursuit management

authority to see if there were a dog handlers in the air and sea

about the helicopter should we get At the moment on the South Bank.

have somebody ring in almost instantly after the offence has

happened, you know you have to beat on a winner. What is that? And the

cops have suddenly got that winning feeling. We are there. We are on

the front foot. He is not expecting us to be coming down the road

towards him like we were. He has failed to stop. 352. We have got to

DIS camp. Alex jumped out of the car. We were not aware of another

person until a second person got out of the passenger side. You feel

like it is almost slow-motion. You know what is coming. I thought the

driver was going to get himself run over because he left himself

rolling. The passenger has not quickly gone out of the cart and

gone, he delays a couple of seconds. The car rolls further before it

comes to a stop. I am in a position to stop it, get out and go after

him. The driver hurdles a 4.5 foot fence. He is a way, like a whippet

down the drain bank. I have a foot chase was somebody who is hurdling

fences. I hobble over the fence and go after him. He darts to the

right.. But there's only the drain to the right, and it's the size of

a small river. And he's jumped right into it. I lost the passenger

because I stopped to see what was going on. He cannot get out.

kid tried to turn and run back in the opposite direction. He went

straight into the water. Stay with him. I am talking to the Mail. We

are returning to our vehicle to get a lifeline. He cannot get up. The

banks are too high. I tried to get a sighting of him. Are you all

right? Keep talking to me. He goes completely silent. Left, directly

down in front of you. I will talk to him. The male in the water is

Myself and Mark Green, we pulled I will update them that we got him

out. The lad's been rescued from drowning in the drain but what he

was doing in there in the first place is a complete mystery. He's

denying he had anything to do with the stolen Peugeot. It was quite

funny. You have seen him run from the car, go into the water, the

ticket out of the water and he is still saying it is not him. With

the driver safely detained, the crew of the police helicopter

overhead are setting about finding his passenger. We have a mail

coming out of the avenue. Things played into our hands. There were

no buildings in the way. We had a clear shot of where he came out.

Most car thieves know they can't outrun the eye in the sky,

certainly not on foot, but this one's giving it a try anyway.

he heard the engines, that is when he tried to hide from us. The

camera locked on to him. He is in a bush. With thermal imaging you

could see he was hiding in the bushes. There was a taster officer

as well. He ran past the top of the avenue. Because we had offloaded

the drive up into the van, we were in a position to conveying the

passenger. -- driver. There's less risk being a passenger in a stolen

car. They will usually get off more lightly than a driver. They are

still a catch well worth suffering a bit of nettle rash for, though.

Both my legs were stinging. The bottom part of my forearm were

covered in an red rash for the next 24 hours. We heard about those

nettle stings for the rest of the night. I have heard about them

since that time! Unlike his pal, the passenger's singing. This young

lad just wanted to talk. He kept saying things like, I was in bed. I

did not know it was stolen. I was sleeping. Primate said he had the

car for 300 quid. -- my mate. someone had said that to me, I

would have slammed the door in his face. He failed to stop after

running from the vehicle. driver was someone who had just

been released from prison. In his mind he has come out. He has

nothing to lose. He does not have a licence or a job. These young lads

will continue to come until they grow up or do something so serious

they injure somebody else or kill somebody and end up getting sent to

The biggest risk for car thieves is being spotted by the cops, so, to

deflect attention away from themselves, they will often put

false plates on and try and look like a normal driver in a normal

vehicle. But it doesn't always work. Papa 479. Young lad in it. Two

females. And we just didn't like the look of it. Picking out the

suspicious looking from the normal is second nature to PC Stainton.

We've done various checks. It has come back as a vehicle which did

not corroborate with the vehicle we were following so that suggested it

may be false plates. There are three occupants. We are monitoring

his progress along the A 18. There is a lay-by just up here. As it has

turned right into a country road, we beckoned for it to stop. It's

moved to the centre of the road. The driver's had enough of being

It reversed some 25 metres, 30 metres. Simon is in reverse,

reversing away from it. It is like Keystone cops. The BMW has remained

where it is. He has engaged first The A18 runs right past

Humberside's international airport, which, as it just so happens, is

The chopper coppers will be above We are positioning the aircraft to

the front of the vehicle. The speed is now 70. Seeing the helicopter

overhead has only made the driver Oscar 99, the vehicle's gone off

The vehicle as low down. We suspect it may have damaged itself on the

kerb. We are struggling with communication her. The car thief's

having a crack at driving continental style. He's coming into

Brigg town centre on the wrong side of the road. On the roundabout.

precariously, taking the roundabout the wrong way as well. Taking the

ring road. Plans for stinger, replies. The driver's got it all

wrong. He's heading straight for the police station. And the cops

are waiting for him. We popped all the tyres. Even with burst tyres,

this driver still has no intention of pulling over. We're still

failing to stop but we do have marked cars around it. And he

thinks he's found an escape route round the back of an antiques

dealers. Stop, stop, stop. Minor I think the driver deliberately

went to knock the dog over. He clearly hit the Dog and pushed it

towards the wall of the antique dealer. You can see his claws on

the bonnet and he pushes it and its skids across the floor next to the

wall. We are trying to get the driver at this point. As he does

that, he squashes the officer between the parked vehicle and

another vehicle. You can see him at rolling along the vehicle.

squashed officer is the dog handler and he's had a narrower escape than

his dog. Had it not been for the black vehicle being hit and moved,

he would certainly have been crushed between the two cars.

was determined to get away and was going to do anything. He reverses,

collides with another vehicle and eventually, then, we managed to

stop the vehicle, subdue the drive and get him out. The two girls in

the back of the vehicle, teenagers, both terrified. Afterwards, they

had been screaming at him the, it became apparent, for him to stop.

The dog got hold of the driver and I know he got a bite to the leg.

Justice, some might say. As luck would have it, the better research

and comes across and says, I want to have a good your dog, please.

Bring him in. No charge, nothing at all. He saw what happened. The dog

had a 10 minute check-up with the bat as well. -- vet.

Apart from the best police cars in the business, like their

turbocharged Mitsubishi Evolution Xs, the Humberside Road Crime Squad

always have dogs travelling around with them, in a BMW as well. PC Daz

Martin is one of the force's dog men who take it in turns to be on

the team. It's how the shift patterns work, on a five week rota.

They tell me I will go with the road crime section for five weeks.

And then I come off and one of my Good boy, good boy.

I find it very worthwhile and it makes a change to be dealing with

the more serious end of criminality. Other than chasing car thieves,

that normally means the team targets drug dealers and today is

no exception. Every time we are deployed to the street, we are

surprised -- supplied with an intelligent pack of local people to

This gentleman was on our daily briefing pack. He was a

disqualified driver and he was linked to possible drug dealing in

his local street. The street is in Grimsby and the distinctive-looking

man being sought has already been spotted, driving illegally.

wears quite thick glasses. I think they were damaged, as well, a bit

like Jack Duckworth's glasses. We decided to spin on the vehicle to

catch him driving disqualified but unfortunately, we didn't get around

in time it would be tight street we were in, and he managed to evade

initially being stopped, so we decided to go to his home address

and as we drove down the street, he was on foot. It's probably too late

to find any drugs on the suspect and proving he was actually driving

may not be that easy either. He's not going to have anything on him

now, is he? You don't understand, I've just walked from my house to

the shops. He's not a happy chap. He makes his feelings very plain to

us. This is surging you for controlled substances. Sir Jimmy?

Calm down. -- searching me? Do you understand why a You are being

detained? Why are you hand cupping We will be searching your vehicle,

as well. We had just seen you driving it, you see. There's

nothing on me at all. The man's been arrested for disqualified

driving and is being searched under the Misuse of Drugs Act. I haven't

been driving! Don't swear. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

I've just come out of my mum's house and gone to the shop. Walking

to the shop. You need to calm down. It would have changed my mind, no

matter what he argued about. I was very confident.

Calm down. Oh listen to me. By ranting and raving you're achieving

absolutely nothing. This will be sorted out in the fullness of time,

won't it? There is no point arguing. Sometimes people take us for fools

sometimes. I'd just come from the shop. I don't think so, mate. I

don't think so. Let's not be arguing in the street, shall we

now? Dave hasn't got any drugs on him and he's still adamant he

wasn't even in his car. I just walked from my house to the shop.

No, but you don't understand, right. Yeah, I've just walked from my

house to the shop. Daz is going to check out Dave's story. I was just

curious. If it be in a supermarket, is quite distinctive jab, they

would have remembered him. I spoke to the security guard, described

him, and, not what I can remember, he says. I went to the front of the

queue, spoke to the cashier, asked her the same question. No, not that

I can remember. OK, fine. I think, rightly, I suspected he hadn't been

in to the supermarket. While Dave cools off in the back of the Evo,

the cops are going to see if anyone is in round his house. His mum was

there and she more or less doubled him, really. Once again, mum knows

best. She said, well, yeah, he's doing it all the time. It confirmed

the fact he had been driving. There's another problem, Dave's

escaped! The driver's rear door. Suddenly he was ranting and raving

and charging down the corridor. Get out! Get out! Come out here.

out of my mother's house! You are under arrest and you will do as you

are told. Stand-up. You need to calm down. Get off me! Will you

come down or will I have to get a than down here and put you in the

A short oversight by as was that the child locks were not on and he

went from the passenger side will be placed him, through the vehicle,

and got out the driver's rear door. Dave has only run into a lot more

trouble. Your mum said you came back from work in the car. Your dad

is away at your sisters. Yeah. Shouting and screaming will only

make it worse. I'm annoyed that he went into a mother's house.

only person who kicked off was you. There's no need to go into my

mother's house. We need to Secure the vehicle. My dad has got them.

Why would your father have but keys? It is his car. It is my

father's car. He will tell you that. No, he won't. Dave, or his dad's

car, is going to be seized unless Dad, who is back in another car,

can convince the cops they shouldn't take it. It proves beyond

reasonable doubt his father was not driving the car. He was driving the

car. I know where you're coming from. That is my car. I don't see

why you should take my car. Just because he has been driving it. I'm

not having you take it. It's �150, we are taking it. It is going to be

recovered. I'm a pensioner, mate, I can't afford to. I understand that.

The man's pleading isn't washing with Daz. He doesn't want to see

his son in trouble and is not going to say that he has stolen his car.

He doesn't want to be stung for �150. So, I can understand why he

was angry. But, equally, he shouldn't have allowed his son to

drive his car. But there's softness about Daz. I feel sorry for Dad,

really. Can we cancel recovery or shall we carry on with it? He's on

to his boss to see if the pensioner OK, that sounds good. I'm sure he

will be pleased with that. I shall get on with that, thank you. At the

end of the day, we are a public service and sometimes it does us no

harm to yield, a little bit, sometimes, I think. Apply a bit of

discretion, I think. Rather than having his dad paying 150p. If it

Back in Hull, PC Clare Large is patrolling with PC Nick Beale. He's

seen something out of the corner of his eye - trespassers. They look

pretty young. The building is quite high, at least two stories. They

shouldn't have been there. So we turned around and went in and on

top of one of the factories, we found two or three kids on it to

separate levels, on the top and on a smaller roof about 15 ft in the

air. A couple of their friends have been caught at ground level. Tell

them all to come down. Some of them tried to hide. Is he going to come

down, then? Come here. Don't just wander off. PC Large is determined

to bring the young climbers back down to earth. They just seemed to

take it as a big joke. What are you doing up there, then? What have you

just put down there? How old are Something else is up. Adam, come

down now, please. Yd think it is clever to get up on to a roof? Do I

get an answer from you? You think because you are on somebody's Ruth,

chucking things off, which you can tried to deny, if you start getting

to us at this age, it will continue. Adam is still continuing to defy

the cops. You have five seconds to show yourself and come down. We you

not be taking any exams this year? What will happen is, I will contact

your parents, tell them what you're doing and to you are on a roof

instead of studying for exams which will determine your future. We have

to get a helicopter to make sure he is not on that Ruth. If he is, he

has to come down. We cannot leave him there. We asked the helicopter

to come but unfortunately they were engaged elsewhere. We had to get

the Brigade to come and help us with their long ladders. We should

not drive off thinking we had got everyone off the roof and then two

hours later be called back to somebody being found having fallen

off when you're trying to get down. The firemen have quickly managed to

erect their ladder but, unfortunately, there's a slight

complication. They are not going to climb up it! With neither the power

of arrest nor the training to deal with offenders, they're handing the

job back to the police. I found it bizarre. They are the experts with

ladders and going on routes. -- roofs. It was deep. Fortunately it

was not me that was going up, it was Nick. It was a solid roof.

Nobody was there. I think they went down the other side - down a

drainpipe. I know you are young and you do not know -- you do not know

what you want to do with your life but trust me, this is not what you

want to do. There are plenty of bad people out there for me to catch

during bad stuff. They were just kids that should not be on there.

They needed educating. I think Clare educated them. Go and do

something that normal kids do like play football. Go and do it then!

I do not know whether they learnt their lesson but hopefully they

will think twice before they get onto a roof again. They never think

the worst will happen but unfortunately sometimes it does. We

have a fire service that refused to go up a ladder. We cannot possibly

Catching sight of the unexpected and knowing when something isn't

quite right is what makes a good traffic cop. In east Hull, PCs Dave

Stevenson and Lee Robinson have been stopped in their tracks by

something unusual. There was a wheel, tyre, and a load of debris.

A bit of detective work is required. Lee being Lee, he likes his

technical side of vehicles shall we say. He knows they should have

wheels! That felt warm. Before it goes cold there's a trail to follow.

I noticed some groups in the floor which were obviously from that car.

I cannot see that anyone will have stopped and changed it. There's

every chance the car that's lost the wheel is very nearby. It was

easy really. Then it was a case of wait until we come across something.

And they have. But they've just missed whoever was in it. As the

headlights shine into the distance on to the car, some bodies

disappeared. We have just disturbed four lads. It does have TWOC damage.

TWOC damage to the ignition means it's probably been stolen. No doubt

had we not come round they would have been back out in the car again.

They were long gone. Unfortunately the cops weren't quite quick enough

to catch the thieves when they first saw them. No doubt someone's

been on the lookout. They have had a good head start. Lee had his new

boots on. He had his trainers would wear a specially designed for

running. Her I would like to say that Dave has good eyesight. We

said he had extended souls on them to make him higher. He said they

were trainer boots to make him run faster. He had about 10 yards of

Chase and then gave up. The road was badly damaged from where the

car had driven down it. The tyre was completely gone. The car was

quite badly damaged on the front nearside. There were some tools and

gnats. They had been trying to change the wheel so they could

carry on driving. If we leave it, they will come back for it. People

will take the car and drive out somewhere, dump one, make another

one, drive around, Nick another one, drive around the town, dump it and

then walk the last half a mile home so it is nowhere near their house.

Free transport. A recovery truck has arrived to take away what's

left of the thieves' free transport. And, as luck would have it, the

driver's got a hot tip about where the car may have been stolen from.

Coming here, he's driven past another recovery agent's yard and

noticed that the gates had been smashed and, incriminatingly, some

Hot tips are invaluable to the cops. Back in 2007, they had an anonymous

caller to thank for a major drugs bust. He phoned in with details of

a consignment being brought into Hull on the A63. An unmarked

vehicle saw the subject vehicle. It monitored its progress into the

He called us. We have arrived as a marked team, managed to get behind

the vehicle and stopped it, near to Two men are in the car, one of them,

the passenger, has got something to hide. As I'm looking through, he's

fiddling. Put your hands where I The informant was right on the

money. A huge amount of drugs, far too much to hide. Careful, it is

open. Do you want to wrap it up again? I would say probably about

3000, 5000 Ecstasy tablets. It is illegal to possess them. I am

following the stock check. They will be arrested for the 10th to

supply. With 5000, you are looking at �10,000. There is no way they

can say that his personal use. This stuff kills you. Many parents have

had young ones who have been lost because of this stuff being taken.

It is too dangerous. It is chemically made. You don't know if

one will do damage, two will do damage. People who peddle their

staff deserve to be behind bars. The more we can take off the

streets, the better. The two men are going to be read their rights

at the police station. Meanwhile, for the rest of the team, there are

more inquiries to be done and speed is of the essence. Our main concern

is the address of the driver and the address of the passenger.

in east Hull, the cops are finding out if there was any truth in the

recovery truck driver's story. They are looking for clues at

Willingham's recovery yard. This yard is probably half a mile from

where the car was dumped. There was damage to the back of the Rover.

Possibly it tried to force the gates a bit further. Bits of the

car were still on the floor. yard is going to be re-secured.

Mostly full of scrap, it's the last place the cops would ever have

expected car thieves to strike. unfortunately they win that one.

They will come. They always do. cops may not win them all but

they've won big with the ecstasy dealers, and it could get better.

As the officer says, we're going to go to your house. The driver is a

father to a 15-year-old. His accomplice, Paul Cahalin, lives

with his girlfriend and has been in trouble with the law before.

knew he was perhaps the one we should be more concerned about and

I do not take smack and crack. are not necessarily considered as

being top of the drug dealing trade. They are fairly high up because

they have large amounts of drugs and, to me, it is a business.

Coffee or tea? OK. Thank you, young man. Lovely! Bad news for you. Your

dad is in custody with us at the police station. What for? At this

time I cannot tell you. We are coming in to have a look around the

house. He is a 15-year-old alone in the house. I have the driver

telling me, be careful when you search the house. Do not frighten

him. Hang on a minute, you are his father! We have managed to secured

the young lad, who is 15, with his grand parents. We have disturbed

them. They are not happy with the situation but there it goes. Only a

few cannabis plants were found growing at the driver's house. The

team are hoping for rather better, round his mate Cahalin's house.

section 18 Search is authorised by the duty inspector for the

Divisional -- divisional policing area so we can find evidence

relating to offences that have been committed. With the sniffer dog's

help, the cops have found what they've been looking for. And it is

not only beer in the fridge! found a kilo. Also present were

numerous bulking agents - packs of glucose - which is the cutting edge

and a mix with amphetamine and paste. They do not have jobs. They

centre their activities around making a profit from buying drugs,

mixing them, getting a bigger profit, by more drugs and getting a

bigger profit and moving up that adder in that own business world.

That is drug dealing. -- ladder. rather disturbing tool of the drug

dealing trade has been found as well. It was like something out of

Lord Of The Rings. It was like a baseball bat with a scalpel blade

at the end. It was a weapon and In February 2008, Paul Cahalin was

found guilty of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply and

sentenced to a total of two and a half years in prison. His associate

was found not guilty but received a conditional discharge for

possession of an offensive weapon. In July 2011, Cahalin was jailed

again, this time for 11 years for his part in a plot to import �13

million worth of heroin. Leon Armstrong, the car thief who tried

to swim to freedom in a drain, was found guilty of aggravated vehicle

theft and burglary and was sent to prison for three years and banned

from driving for 18 months. His passenger, who said he had no idea

the car was stolen, was released without charge. The maniac in the

stolen car, who tried to get away by reversing into the cops and

trying to kill one of their dogs, was jailed for 16 months for

dangerous driving, disqualified driving and common assault. The

young lad, who fought tooth and nail to stop his truck being taken

away, was jailed for two months for Section 47 assault on a police

officer. He was also given 12 points on his licence for taking a

vehicle without consent and driving without insurance or a licence. And

Dave, the escapee, who had only been out to the corner-shop, was