0:00:02 > 0:00:04Tango nine-one, he's hit two vehicles.
0:00:04 > 0:00:08- Being a motorway cop is all about timing.- He's lost it.
0:00:08 > 0:00:12But getting where they're needed isn't always easy.
0:00:12 > 0:00:16Could be over 30 minutes since the accident were reported to us.
0:00:16 > 0:00:18There's no emergency services there yet.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23Sometimes they're left picking up the pieces.
0:00:23 > 0:00:28I was just driving along as normal and all of a sudden, bang!
0:00:28 > 0:00:31We don't even know where he's come from.
0:00:31 > 0:00:37- Other times, they strike it lucky. - You came past a bit quick. We wanted to make sure everything were OK.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Is there owt else in the house?
0:00:39 > 0:00:44- All this cos you pulled up at the side of the road.- It's your bad day, mate. It's unlucky.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48- It's all about being in the right place.- Turn it off or I'll ram you!
0:00:49 > 0:00:55- Just when they're needed most. - What would have happened if we hadn't stopped?- Tried to chop me up.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59- You think they would've chopped you up?- Yeah, I know they would've done.
0:00:59 > 0:01:04If the luck's on your side and you put yourself in the right place at the right time
0:01:04 > 0:01:08and you catch them, it just pays off. It is all worth it.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36It's 10.15 on a busy Friday night
0:01:36 > 0:01:37in Leeds city centre.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42A call for help is coming through on the police radio.
0:01:51 > 0:01:57Motorway cops Matt Hemingway and Aidy Brown are heading into the city when they get the message.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06Officers pursuing a stolen Skoda are requesting urgent help
0:02:06 > 0:02:10from cops trained in tactical pursuit and containment.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Tango nine-one, would you show us on this TPAC job, please?
0:02:13 > 0:02:17Luckily, that's just what Matt and Aidy specialise in.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20- Come left.- And now they're just seconds away from the pursuit.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22We're right behind it now.
0:02:22 > 0:02:28As luck would have it, we weren't too far away. We want to get there and do what we're trained to do.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42The driver has already tried to take out one police car.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45'People will stop at nothing sometimes to get away.'
0:02:45 > 0:02:49They may be desperate criminals behind the wheel of this stolen car.
0:02:49 > 0:02:55Still on the ring road on to York Road, just passing the speed camera to the near side.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58The stolen car is heading towards the busy city centre.
0:02:58 > 0:03:05- If it gets there, a chase through the streets will become far more dangerous.- Get out the way then!
0:03:05 > 0:03:07- The cops already have a plan. - There's one.
0:03:09 > 0:03:14Our intentions there are to get two or three traffic cars involved
0:03:14 > 0:03:18and cause the car to stop or force it to stop.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20He's going off.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23We're behind you, Kev.
0:03:23 > 0:03:29'I get really angry towards the drivers, especially on a dangerous pursuit.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32'It's part of my job. I have to try and catch you.'
0:03:32 > 0:03:36And the way you're driving is putting me in danger.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41As more units link up to join the chase...
0:03:42 > 0:03:47..Matt and Aidy find themselves right behind the stolen red Skoda.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51In the final stages of a TPAC, things happen in a split second.
0:03:51 > 0:03:56- Another police car races in front. - 'Three-two, Astra, move over.'
0:03:56 > 0:03:59And between them, they try to box in the stolen car.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02But the driver escapes and keeps going.
0:04:02 > 0:04:07Tango nine-one, there's contact with police vehicles. He's hit two vehicles.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15- Stand by.- He's lost it.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Go, go, go! SIRENS WAIL
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Get on the floor! Now!
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Idiot!
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Stay down!
0:04:30 > 0:04:34'The whole idea is to profit on the shock
0:04:34 > 0:04:38'that's been caused by the collision that's ended it, really.'
0:04:38 > 0:04:42I'm in shock, he's in shock. I need to react quicker than he is,
0:04:42 > 0:04:46firstly to stop him driving away and secondly, to stop him running away.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Other one. Let go!
0:04:50 > 0:04:55It was only once we had 'em both cuffed up and we're taking 'em back to the car
0:04:55 > 0:04:59that you take a step back and think, "Hang on a minute."
0:04:59 > 0:05:05You expect to be looking at a grown man, what you'd call your typical criminal,
0:05:05 > 0:05:11but it's just a couple of fresh-faced kids who look like rabbits caught in the headlights.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16While the cops get to grips with the kids in the car...
0:05:17 > 0:05:22..60 miles away, another police unit are at work in another city.
0:05:22 > 0:05:26Hull is one of the most deprived areas in the country.
0:05:26 > 0:05:32Every city has its own character, really. It has its own kind of trend in criminality.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Hull, particularly, is all...
0:05:34 > 0:05:37a lot of intravenous drug use,
0:05:37 > 0:05:40heroin, etcetera, a lot more cannabis coming up.
0:05:40 > 0:05:45Tonight, PCs Mick Roffe and Rob Jones are in the west of the city.
0:05:45 > 0:05:50They belong to a specialist cross-border unit, policing Yorkshire and the Humber.
0:05:50 > 0:05:55We're called the Regional Road Crime Team which was set up a few years ago
0:05:55 > 0:06:00with a view to tackling more serious criminals or the higher level of criminality.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03I can't imagine a better job than doing what I do right now.
0:06:03 > 0:06:08I'm given the tools, the authority and the training to do it.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10So...game on.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15A passing car gets their attention.
0:06:15 > 0:06:20He comes up quite quickly behind us and I thought...
0:06:20 > 0:06:25"We'll just have a quick look." We weren't particularly busy. "Why not?"
0:06:26 > 0:06:30Back office, three-six. A vehicle check, please, on Arthur Street.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34'Give the details.'
0:06:35 > 0:06:39Thank you. November Alpha, five, three, Bravo Papa Oscar.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41A Focus.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Hey, buddy. Get back in your car. You're all right.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56- Have you got your driving licence? - Not on me, no.
0:06:56 > 0:07:01- What have you stopped here for? Visiting friends or something? - No, I live there.- OK.
0:07:01 > 0:07:07'He gave quite short answers when I was speaking to him. He wasn't very happy about us being there.'
0:07:07 > 0:07:13He was generally quite nervous. "Twitchy" is the best word to describe him.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17He's got previous, Rob, for burglary, assault, drugs.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21- Craig, is there owt in t'car there shouldn't be?- No.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25Right. I've been told that you've some previous involvement in drugs.
0:07:25 > 0:07:31- Yeah, years ago. - How many years is "years"? - About 12 years ago. 2001.- OK.
0:07:31 > 0:07:36I suspected there was something more to it. It was a question of working out what that was.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39Put your interior light on, please, pal.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42- Sorry?- Put your interior light on. Cheers, pal.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47Because of how he was behaving, I wanted to dig a bit deeper.
0:07:50 > 0:07:56Craig, I'll have a quick look in the car and make sure there's nothing there shouldn't be or on you.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00You and the vehicle will be searched under the Misuse of Drugs Act.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02- Nothing sharp on you, is there?- No.
0:08:02 > 0:08:07I'm not saying you're injecting owt, but you might be a carpenter or summat.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11- Are you working at the minute? - No, I'm unemployed.
0:08:11 > 0:08:16- I've just been to the cash machine to get my giro out.- Just keep your hands out your pockets.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21That's just an empty bag.
0:08:23 > 0:08:24No.
0:08:25 > 0:08:31I've searched him and we've found... admittedly, a tiny amount of cannabis in his pockets.
0:08:31 > 0:08:37- Because of that bag, I'm going to make sure there's nothing on you there shouldn't be.- OK.
0:08:37 > 0:08:42'As soon as we found that small amount of cannabis, that was our cue, that was our "in".'
0:08:42 > 0:08:48Almost like the lights had turned on. "Great, now we've got some drugs, we can get into this guy."
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Yes, mate, come and assist if you don't mind.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Rob calls for back-up while Mick continues to search the car.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00There's a lot of sweet wrappers.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05No.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Even though they find nothing else,
0:09:08 > 0:09:14the man's nervous behaviour has left the cops believing there may be more to all this.
0:09:14 > 0:09:20- There's absolute zero in it. It's just an empty bag.- It's just them tiny bits that we need to sort out.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22I appreciate it's tiny bits.
0:09:22 > 0:09:28The little bit of cannabis we found and the fact we were so close to his home address made me think,
0:09:28 > 0:09:33"This lad's nervous because there's something in his house he doesn't want us to find."
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Is it all right if we come and sit in yours while we do t'paperwork?
0:09:43 > 0:09:47That excuse was just rubbish and designed to keep us out of his house
0:09:47 > 0:09:50which makes me want to go in his house all the more.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52- Is there summat in t'house?- No.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56You're not growing cannabis plants in there or owt daft like that, no?
0:09:56 > 0:10:00- We need some ID as well. - I've just given you my bank card.
0:10:00 > 0:10:05- I know, but some photo ID if it's in the house.- OK.- Let's go and have a look in the house.
0:10:05 > 0:10:10Mick and Rob already have enough evidence to caution him for possession
0:10:10 > 0:10:13and if they can persuade him to let them into his house,
0:10:13 > 0:10:16they believe they may find something more.
0:10:19 > 0:10:24Back in Leeds, PCs Matt Hemingway and Aidy Brown are still dealing
0:10:24 > 0:10:28with the two lads stopped in a stolen car just outside the city centre.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Yeah, we got involved in this...
0:10:30 > 0:10:34We are damaged - front, side and rear.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36We've got two 112s.
0:10:38 > 0:10:43The 80-mile-an-hour chase has left the stolen car and three police cars
0:10:43 > 0:10:48with thousands of pounds' worth of damage, but at least the teenage lads seem OK.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52- You're all right? You're not injured?- Just a bit shaken up.
0:10:52 > 0:10:58- Scary business, innit?- I don't even know why...- BLEEP- It soon unfolds without you knowing about it.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00He's just driving the way he's seen
0:11:00 > 0:11:03on TV or films or computer games or whatever.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07But when it's real life, there are consequences
0:11:07 > 0:11:11and I think the whole incident shocked him.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14He must have been scared out of his wits.
0:11:14 > 0:11:20The teenager is just 16 - too young to drive and too young to drink,
0:11:20 > 0:11:23but he still needs to be breathalysed.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25That'll do. Thank you.
0:11:26 > 0:11:30He blows zero, but it's not the end of his problems.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34I'll swap his cuffs over. Go on then, mate. Just hop out.
0:11:34 > 0:11:39It's a 61-plate Skoda. It's somebody's pride and joy that's been stolen.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43He's taken that decision to drive off and cause havoc and mayhem,
0:11:43 > 0:11:46so he's going to have a night in t'poky for his troubles
0:11:46 > 0:11:49and reflect on what's happened.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53Both the teenage boys will be taken in for questioning.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55- Yeah, you're all right there, aren't you?- Yeah.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01It's not just the teenagers who are in trouble.
0:12:02 > 0:12:06Matt and Aidy will have to justify the damage to their car.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09You had a right good go at 'em.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12Yeah, I know. I tried to stop 'em at t'barriers.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15But then obviously, you came along.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17The sergeant's not going to be happy.
0:12:17 > 0:12:23'The damage to police cars alone, there was a bill for over £20,000.'
0:12:23 > 0:12:28That's not to mention the car is stolen from somebody, that is written off. It's a big incident.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32When the cops are involved in a collision,
0:12:32 > 0:12:36it's not just the arrested who face some difficult questions.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38- Were you driving, Aidy?- Yeah.
0:12:38 > 0:12:43- Are you injured?- No. - Have you been breath-tested?- No.
0:12:44 > 0:12:50All the police drivers involved in the pursuit have to provide a breath test.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Thank you.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55I don't think I could've done anything different.
0:12:55 > 0:12:59If I'd stayed away and not wanted him to make contact with me,
0:12:59 > 0:13:03he'd have got away and the pursuit would've gone on and on and on.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07The stolen Skoda is taken away,
0:13:07 > 0:13:12but Matt and Aidy have the challenge of getting their own car back to base.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Yeah, I'm going to try and limp it back.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17All in a day's work.
0:13:25 > 0:13:31Back in Hull, PCs Rob Jones and Mick Roffe have persuaded the man found with a small amount of cannabis
0:13:31 > 0:13:33to take them to his house.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37And they're hoping to find out why he was reluctant to let them in.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41As soon as we walked through the front door, as I looked to the left,
0:13:41 > 0:13:45there's a large amount of cannabis on the table.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Have you given us the right address...
0:13:55 > 0:14:00When you arrest him and you say, "We're going to look around the rest of the house now,"
0:14:00 > 0:14:04and he says, "I'd prefer you didn't," you know something else is in it.
0:14:04 > 0:14:10Now the man has been arrested, Mick and Rob have the power to search his house,
0:14:10 > 0:14:12but before they do, they want some answers.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Sit down. Don't get yourself upset.
0:14:19 > 0:14:23I'm walking up the stairs and already you're thinking inside,
0:14:23 > 0:14:27"What am I going to get up here? He's made an admission.
0:14:27 > 0:14:32"This is why I come to work. This is why I'm here to tackle these kind of people."
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Here we go.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38You're excited. Is it behind this door? Is it behind this door?
0:14:42 > 0:14:45- LAUGHTER - Happy days!
0:14:45 > 0:14:50As you unzip it, the smell hits you, the light from the lamps hits you, the heat hits you
0:14:50 > 0:14:54and you think, "Great result. Absolutely great result!"
0:15:01 > 0:15:07It's a massive haul. I don't think you'd get many more than 70, 80 plants in a small terraced house,
0:15:07 > 0:15:11so he's actually done quite well to squeeze as many in as he has.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15- I'd call that a result, pal, wouldn't you?- I would.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18If the moment's right and the luck's on your side
0:15:18 > 0:15:23and you put yourself in the right place at the right time, it pays off. It is all worth it.
0:15:23 > 0:15:29More cops are brought in to search the house and as they discover more cannabis plants,
0:15:29 > 0:15:34they suspect they may have stumbled on to something bigger than they first thought.
0:15:42 > 0:15:4848 miles away on the A1 north of Pontefract, PC Debbie Collinson is working alone.
0:15:48 > 0:15:52When you're single-crewed, you've got to think for yourself.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56You're operating your radio, you're driving, there's lots going on.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59You have to be on the ball and be thinking a bit more.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03We've had a report come in of an RTC on the A1 southbound.
0:16:03 > 0:16:08There's reports of some injuries. How serious they are, at this moment in time, I don't know.
0:16:09 > 0:16:14The accident is at the start of the unlit motorway section of the A1.
0:16:14 > 0:16:20There's a danger that if any cars are blocking the lanes, they'll cause further accidents.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26It might be that we have to put a lane one closure on.
0:16:27 > 0:16:32When you get to an incident, you've got a little check list in your head
0:16:32 > 0:16:36and you're ticking the boxes as you're going along.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41- Are you all right?- Yeah, fine. I've just spoken with the drivers.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44- There's an elderly gent. He's in a bit of shock.- Right.
0:16:44 > 0:16:49- The female passenger from one vehicle has had a bit of whiplash.- Right.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51The paramedics are checking her over.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55One car appears to have rammed the back of the other.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59Fortunately, they're both safely off the carriageway.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02- Are you a driver?- No. - A passenger?- A passenger.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04A passenger in which vehicle?
0:17:04 > 0:17:07- In the Renault?- Yeah. - Right, no worries.
0:17:07 > 0:17:12- Are you a driver of...? - There were four people in that car. I was driving this car.- Right.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14What's happened? Did you...?
0:17:14 > 0:17:18I don't know. All of a sudden, the car was in front of me.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22- Right.- He came straight up the back of us, spun us round...
0:17:23 > 0:17:28- And... We don't even know where he's come from.- Right.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31You know roughly what's happened, but you sometimes don't know why
0:17:31 > 0:17:35and you'll never know why because one driver will give one account
0:17:35 > 0:17:39and the other driver will give you a completely different story.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43Everyone has a different version of events,
0:17:43 > 0:17:46so it's up to Debbie to piece together the evidence.
0:17:46 > 0:17:53Whatever's happened, it appears that the front of the BMW has collided with the rear of the Scenic.
0:17:53 > 0:17:59There is a little bit of luck on the side that they have ended up off the carriageway.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01They all have been very, very lucky.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04If I were them, I'd put some Lottery numbers on.
0:18:04 > 0:18:09At that location where it's pitch-black, if those vehicles had been in a live lane,
0:18:09 > 0:18:14I've got no doubt that there would have been another collision of some more vehicles
0:18:14 > 0:18:18and we could have been dealing with fatalities.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21We were just driving along as normal.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24And all of a sudden, bang!
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Bang! And then he just spun our...
0:18:28 > 0:18:32The car behind, he's just come from nowhere.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36And we were in the slow lane. I just couldn't believe what he'd done.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41It's becoming clear no-one is to blame.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45But what is certain is that they all had a narrow escape.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49My brother-in-law stopped it from going up the embankment somehow.
0:18:49 > 0:18:54If we had, I was frightened in case we turned over and that would've been a lot worse.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58We're lucky there.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Very lucky.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Absolutely horrible.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11While her colleague gets the BMW driver's side of the story,
0:19:11 > 0:19:16Debbie wants to talk to the family who were travelling in the car that was hit.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19Only me! Are you all right? Can I come in?
0:19:19 > 0:19:22- Come in.- By all means.- Hello.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Right, who was the driver?
0:19:24 > 0:19:27They're still getting to grips with what's going on,
0:19:27 > 0:19:31so when I started chatting to them and we had a little bit of banter...
0:19:31 > 0:19:34- Do you want us to take him away? - LAUGHTER
0:19:35 > 0:19:37I think it sometimes helps people
0:19:37 > 0:19:41because it distracts them from what's happened.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45Albert, the driver of the Renault, is uninjured, but badly shaken.
0:19:47 > 0:19:53Just out of the blue. I wasn't expecting it. No screech of brakes, nothing. Just a big bang.
0:19:53 > 0:19:58'Bless him, he were in such shock. He'd just been tootling along on the motorway.'
0:19:58 > 0:20:02The next thing you know, bang, and he ends up off the carriageway.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08I've just seen the headlights. They're coming the wrong way.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11And I thought, "We've had it," you know?
0:20:11 > 0:20:15Luckily, there's somebody up there looking after us.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Albert's passed a breath test,
0:20:17 > 0:20:22but Debbie checks with her colleague to see if the BMW driver may have been drinking.
0:20:28 > 0:20:35You don't know if the Renault driver has braked suddenly and the other car's gone into the back of him
0:20:35 > 0:20:39or the BMW driver's not been concentrating or he's fallen asleep.
0:20:39 > 0:20:44Without independent witnesses or CCTV, it is very difficult to know what's happened.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48Everyone is free to leave. Albert and Shirley ride in the ambulance
0:20:48 > 0:20:53while Debbie takes the rest of the family to meet them at a nearby service station.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55I want a cup of tea.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59I just want to relax.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06You got to ride in the police car. Albert will be jealous.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Oh, Albert will. Oh, aye, he'll be going mad now.
0:21:11 > 0:21:15'It's all about their welfare and their safety.
0:21:15 > 0:21:20'We've got a duty of care to all these people. They've been involved in an accident.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24'We can't just leave them at the side of the motorway.'
0:21:24 > 0:21:28- Thank you very much for your help. That was smashing.- You take care.
0:21:28 > 0:21:34Whilst they're at the side of the motorway and everything's whizzing past 'em, it's got bad memories.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37As soon as you take 'em away and bring 'em here,
0:21:37 > 0:21:39it's much better for them.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43Obviously, Shirley wanted to get a cup of tea. But who can blame her?
0:21:43 > 0:21:48A cup of tea can be a great healer with things like this, so, yeah...
0:21:52 > 0:21:56In Hull, Mick and Rob are still searching the house of the man
0:21:56 > 0:22:00who used one of his bedrooms as a cannabis farm.
0:22:01 > 0:22:07While his house is being turned upside down, he has decided to come clean about his drug habit.
0:22:07 > 0:22:12I started it when I was 15. By the time I was 17, I was smoking it all day, every day.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16Without it, I couldn't function or speak to people.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19You're smoking loads, not really feeling the effects of it.
0:22:19 > 0:22:24So I started growing it. I can't afford to buy it at the price it is these days.
0:22:24 > 0:22:29But the cost of running a cannabis grow like this doesn't come cheap.
0:22:31 > 0:22:38They sometimes bypass around the meter with wiring, so it doesn't read a large amount of electricity.
0:22:38 > 0:22:44- I'm not being disrespectful, mate, but do you pay for the electric for the plants?- Yeah.- Right.
0:22:44 > 0:22:49- What's the 'leccy bill like, mate? - Expensive.- I bet it is!
0:22:49 > 0:22:56The man's claim to grow his own cannabis to save money doesn't seem to add up.
0:22:56 > 0:23:03The recession's hit the country as a whole and people are turning to other ways of extra income.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07Some people are doing other things, second jobs, that kind of thing.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10This guy's second job is cannabis.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13- You reckon there's 50 upstairs? - Em...
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Yeah.
0:23:18 > 0:23:24But the man claims he doesn't sell it. He smokes everything he produces himself.
0:23:24 > 0:23:31That's like an ounce of cannabis every two days. If I don't get it, I go mad on the cigs.
0:23:31 > 0:23:36I smoke loads of cigs to keep me steady. Just to keep feeling normal.
0:23:36 > 0:23:42'Those plants will make thousands and thousands and thousands of spliffs.'
0:23:42 > 0:23:49It would take him years, no matter how hard he tries, to smoke the amount of cannabis they'd produce.
0:23:49 > 0:23:54There is no way on God's green Earth that he is simply growing cannabis for himself.
0:23:54 > 0:23:59The man's cannabis farm will be shut down and all the plants removed and destroyed.
0:23:59 > 0:24:04He now faces serious drugs charges back at the station,
0:24:04 > 0:24:09but before being taken into custody, he has one last request.
0:24:09 > 0:24:14Can you switch the plug off as you leave to save the 'leccy? The bill's through the roof.
0:24:21 > 0:24:27It's 5am, at the end of a long nightshift for motorway cops Andy Bell and Pete Schofield.
0:24:27 > 0:24:33They're heading back to base in Wakefield when a final call comes in.
0:24:33 > 0:24:39We've got a report of an ongoing burglary on the Lupset Estate in Wakefield, just round the corner.
0:24:40 > 0:24:47We have a report of youths going up and down the driveway, emptying the garage.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Is this it? Number five?
0:24:50 > 0:24:56'If we can catch them in the act, then it's fantastic. We've got them there and then'
0:24:56 > 0:24:59and they've not got much excuse.
0:24:59 > 0:25:04It's only been a few minutes since the burglary was reported.
0:25:04 > 0:25:09We've got a confirmed break here. The side door. Stand by.
0:25:09 > 0:25:15- Have you seen them leg it? - Yes, one over the back fence and one's gone down the road.
0:25:15 > 0:25:19Two young men have been seen leaving the garden.
0:25:19 > 0:25:24One blue hoodie towards Townley Road and one over the rear fence.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Out of sight. Over.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31Luckily, both Andy and Pete know this area well.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Sorry.
0:25:37 > 0:25:43Without a bit of local knowledge, you're on a hiding to nothing on an estate like Lupset.
0:25:43 > 0:25:48The kids who live there know it like the back of their hand.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51He's going to come over the backs.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54He is. He's going to come out here somewhere.
0:25:54 > 0:25:59'They all know the rat runs, the back alleys.'
0:25:59 > 0:26:05They'll know gardens they can go over that get them out in certain areas where they can hide or get away.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09- I'd head straight down and onto the playing field.- To the playing field.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12Then Andy spots someone.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15- Who's that? Who's that?- There.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21He's dropped it. Go!
0:26:22 > 0:26:26As Andy chases the man up the alley, Pete moves to head him off.
0:26:26 > 0:26:299-0, can I come in?
0:26:29 > 0:26:33We've got runners. They've dropped a lot of gear.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Pete, he's gone out the rear.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40Round to your right it'll be. 'You come up against kids'
0:26:40 > 0:26:44who are like Billy Whizz. They're off. You see them one minute
0:26:44 > 0:26:49and by the time you've gone round the corner, they've disappeared.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52He's garden hopping in here.
0:26:52 > 0:26:57But despite the age difference, Andy still fancies his chances.
0:26:57 > 0:27:03When you see someone running, you give yourself a fairly good chance of catching them if you keep fit.
0:27:08 > 0:27:13As Pete tries to keep up, he spots a second suspected burglar...
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Round here, this one.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19..who is stopped and searched.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21Am I on? Yeah, man, I'm on TV!
0:27:21 > 0:27:29Now with one man still on the run and Andy hot on his tail, Pete directs his colleagues to help.
0:27:29 > 0:27:34I put my mate out. He's gone behind number two. They've dropped gear.
0:27:34 > 0:27:40One came across here, but they were coming from a different direction from where the house were.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42'The confusing bit was'
0:27:42 > 0:27:46it was as if he'd burgled the garage and was running back with the stuff.
0:27:46 > 0:27:52They've come from this direction carrying this old TV and a load of booze.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54It's probably come from that garage.
0:27:54 > 0:27:59But they've come round there and come on here.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03Suddenly Pete gets a message on his earpiece.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18It's about the man Andy's been chasing.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23They've got him. I think he's on here.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Yeah, they've got him.
0:28:34 > 0:28:40I won't say I've heard every excuse or every reason for people being out at the dead of night
0:28:40 > 0:28:44carrying stuff that quite clearly has been nicked,
0:28:44 > 0:28:49but you get quite a good idea. The public would think, "Hang on..."
0:28:50 > 0:28:52Ha ha ha.
0:28:52 > 0:28:59He's the one that were running that's ditched all the gear. He ran straight across in front of us.
0:28:59 > 0:29:03- Where's your other shoe gone? - I don't know. Gone walkies.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06I ain't done nowt wrong.
0:29:10 > 0:29:14But the cops are convinced they've got their man.
0:29:14 > 0:29:20I've been a victim of a couple of burglaries. It's not nice, not nice at all.
0:29:20 > 0:29:25And...you want these kids catching and you want them dealing with.
0:29:25 > 0:29:29The man is full of excuses, even when it comes to his balaclava.
0:29:29 > 0:29:33That's not very good, is it? You've got it on back to front.
0:29:33 > 0:29:38- It's my neckwarmer.- Is it? - Does it go over your face as well?
0:29:38 > 0:29:44- No, it's for round my neck.- Sit down. - Did you see it over my face? No. It was round my neck.
0:29:44 > 0:29:48There is an element of luck to it, but if you look in the right places
0:29:48 > 0:29:56sometimes, at least a few times, you pop up in the right place at the right time. And that's good.
0:29:56 > 0:30:01With two suspected burglars under arrest, it's been a good night for Pete and Andy.
0:30:01 > 0:30:07My knees are knocking now! I can't believe I was asleep five minutes ago!
0:30:11 > 0:30:15As the new day dawns across the county,
0:30:15 > 0:30:19thousands of commuters take to the roads.
0:30:19 > 0:30:25In the next 24 hours, more than 60,000 vehicles will travel on the A1 between Doncaster and Pontefract.
0:30:25 > 0:30:29The A1, we talk about it as a motorway,
0:30:29 > 0:30:37but it's a long, long stretch of dual carriageway and one of the main arterial routes from north to south.
0:30:37 > 0:30:40An awful lot of people use it daily.
0:30:40 > 0:30:46PCs Debbie Collinson and Matt Hemingway leave their Wakefield base to start their 10-hour day shift.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48I like to drive!
0:30:48 > 0:30:51If I had a choice, I'd be driving.
0:30:51 > 0:30:55I didn't join Traffic to be a passenger in a car.
0:30:56 > 0:31:02This morning they're answering a call to an accident ten miles south of Pontefract.
0:31:02 > 0:31:06Eight o'clock, Monday morning. It's a busy time of day.
0:31:06 > 0:31:12If there are any blocks in the carriageway, it could cause quite a few problems for people.
0:31:12 > 0:31:17The rush hour traffic could also cause problems for the cops.
0:31:17 > 0:31:21Every second that we're taking to get there, more cars build up.
0:31:21 > 0:31:28If it takes us so long to get there, there can be massive tailbacks even before we arrive at the scene.
0:31:28 > 0:31:34Even with blues and twos, they struggle to be noticed by other drivers.
0:31:34 > 0:31:38It's a problem you get responding to a job on motorways.
0:31:38 > 0:31:41People are not always looking behind.
0:31:41 > 0:31:45I've seen it now, I think. 'You're behind somebody'
0:31:45 > 0:31:52with your blue lights and sirens, flashing like a Christmas tree, and people aren't moving out your way.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55Use your mirrors!
0:31:58 > 0:32:03'Just a further update from Highways. Not sure if it's south or west Yorkshire.'
0:32:03 > 0:32:08- The accident is on the opposite carriageway.- See here? Look.
0:32:08 > 0:32:12And it's already causing huge delays.
0:32:12 > 0:32:19We've just passed it now. It looks like both carriageways are blocked. There's quite a tailback.
0:32:19 > 0:32:25- 'Is there an ambulance on the scene?'- We couldn't see it.- There's an ambulance responder following us.
0:32:25 > 0:32:30Problem we've got now is we have to come back through all that traffic.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32This could be fun(!)
0:32:32 > 0:32:37It's just two lanes, is this part of the A1.
0:32:37 > 0:32:40And the hard shoulder is intermittent.
0:32:44 > 0:32:46I think the middle.
0:32:46 > 0:32:50It's just better in the middle. You've got a bit more to play with.
0:32:50 > 0:32:57With no hard shoulder and traffic at a standstill, it's now down to Debbie and Matt to force a route
0:32:57 > 0:33:00for all the emergency vehicles.
0:33:00 > 0:33:04It's like the parting of the Red Sea.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07But the clock is ticking.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09HORN BLARES
0:33:11 > 0:33:18It could be over 30 minutes now since the accident were reported to us and there's no emergency services there.
0:33:18 > 0:33:21No, I can see carnage.
0:33:22 > 0:33:25Summat's smashed up there.
0:33:25 > 0:33:29Finally, Matt and Debbie push their way through.
0:33:29 > 0:33:33'There were cars everywhere with bumps and scrapes,
0:33:33 > 0:33:38'wheels missing. That's the first thing you notice as you roll up.'
0:33:38 > 0:33:41"Wow. What's happened here?"
0:33:41 > 0:33:46'Ey up! Are you all right? Is everybody OK?
0:33:46 > 0:33:49What have we got, lads? Where are you from?
0:33:49 > 0:33:53The white one? Everyone OK? Anybody injured?
0:33:53 > 0:33:56No one's been hurt, but one driver's in shock
0:33:56 > 0:34:02- and three vans and a car have been involved in the accident. - 'Everybody was all right,
0:34:02 > 0:34:08'so we could move on from that, but there's a different pressure - it's a busy motorway.'
0:34:08 > 0:34:13We're thinking, "We need to get this open as soon as possible."
0:34:13 > 0:34:17With the A1 blocked and traffic rapidly building up behind them,
0:34:17 > 0:34:21Matt and Debbie have to figure out how to clear the road fast.
0:34:22 > 0:34:2730 miles north-west, just off the M62, lies Bradford.
0:34:28 > 0:34:33Like all big cities, it has its share of problems.
0:34:33 > 0:34:36There's drugs, prostitution
0:34:36 > 0:34:38and there's violence, like any city.
0:34:40 > 0:34:46In the west of the city, officers Andy Barron and Lindsey Pickles are responding to a report
0:34:46 > 0:34:51of a group of men seen fighting with baseball bats on a suburban street.
0:34:59 > 0:35:03I got the inclination he was trying to tell us something with a flash.
0:35:03 > 0:35:09I started really looking at everybody in the area, all the people, what were they doing.
0:35:13 > 0:35:19There's no sign of a fight, but a witness points to a silver Audi about to take off.
0:35:19 > 0:35:23- This car now.- Lindsey, get back in the car. It's this one coming out.
0:35:23 > 0:35:27This one here. Go, go! They're going to go back off.
0:35:27 > 0:35:32- The Audi is accelerating away behind them.- They're making off.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38RADIO: '5-0. Vehicle's making off.'
0:35:41 > 0:35:44There's an old lady.
0:35:44 > 0:35:50- We're coming to it.- Luckily, another motorway cop, Martin Willis, is on patrol in the area
0:35:50 > 0:35:53and joins the chase.
0:35:53 > 0:35:56'The car's making off from us and we're turning round.'
0:35:56 > 0:36:02He hears the description of the car and sees it coming towards him. He got directly behind it.
0:36:02 > 0:36:09Lindsey loses the Audi, but then spots Martin's unmarked car as it turns into a housing estate.
0:36:09 > 0:36:14Tango...five, we're behind you. We'll take commentary.
0:36:15 > 0:36:17Where's it gone?
0:36:17 > 0:36:22As they turn into a cul-de-sac, the Audi is cornered.
0:36:24 > 0:36:28- 'Vehicle stopped.' - Turn it off or we'll ram you!
0:36:28 > 0:36:32- Turn it off! - 'The vehicle had come to a stop.'
0:36:32 > 0:36:36We didn't have any anticipation of the gravity of it.
0:36:37 > 0:36:43- Hiya. - We're on Middlebrook Drive. Middlebrook Close.
0:36:43 > 0:36:49- I'm going to cuff you while we search you.- No problem.- If there's no problem, we'll take them off.
0:36:49 > 0:36:54- You've nicked what tools?- Come and have a seat in the back of our car.
0:36:54 > 0:36:59- Look what's in it! - 'We'd no idea why it had made off.'
0:36:59 > 0:37:04We knew there were multiple people inside it. Didn't know the threat.
0:37:04 > 0:37:08Just have a seat in there. Have a seat.
0:37:08 > 0:37:13The priority is to be very assertive and get control very, very quickly.
0:37:14 > 0:37:185-1, have you got a divisional unit to join us?
0:37:18 > 0:37:22- Have you got anything on you?- No.
0:37:22 > 0:37:26Four men are in the car, one is covered in blood.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29- Right, OK. - 'Romeo Tango...'
0:37:29 > 0:37:31Males with baseball bats, fighting.
0:37:31 > 0:37:39The cops don't yet know what's been going on, but the driver is left alone in Lindsey's car.
0:37:39 > 0:37:41Hello?
0:37:41 > 0:37:45And while their backs are turned, he answers a call.
0:37:52 > 0:37:53BLEEP, man.
0:37:57 > 0:38:03Outside, Andy's talking to the man covered in blood, trying to find out what's happened.
0:38:03 > 0:38:07- You have a seat back in, please. - No, I'll sit on the grass or summat.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10- I'll sit here.- Fine.
0:38:10 > 0:38:16- What's your name, fella?- 'I had the perception they'd had an argument and they've taken'
0:38:16 > 0:38:23a quick chase to try to avoid us. You keep an open mind. It's dangerous to become complacent.
0:38:23 > 0:38:27Anything can happen and quite often does.
0:38:27 > 0:38:30Right, tell me what's gone on.
0:38:30 > 0:38:36I seen the car before they seen me. I put my tool bag in someone's garden and I actually rang the police.
0:38:36 > 0:38:41Then, literally two minutes ago, well, five, they started beating me up.
0:38:41 > 0:38:45One of them took the spanner thing out of my toolbox,
0:38:45 > 0:38:51my... I can't think, man. ..my basin spanner, started whacking me with it.
0:38:51 > 0:38:55One of them started biting me, one started pulling my balls.
0:38:56 > 0:39:02When he was whacking me with that basin spanner, he was saying, "Get in the car."
0:39:02 > 0:39:09- When you say someone was whacking you, who?- The driver were punching me in the face.- This driver?
0:39:14 > 0:39:20The report of men fighting in a street is turning out to be just half the story.
0:39:20 > 0:39:26Until the cops find out what's happened, they rely on witness accounts to build a picture.
0:39:26 > 0:39:30RADIO: 'In all the confusion and all the things going in the log,
0:39:30 > 0:39:36'we had a further call from somebody stating males getting bundled into a silver Audi.'
0:39:36 > 0:39:42- How did you end up in this car? - Three of them threw me in the car. This one on that side,
0:39:42 > 0:39:48- he'd had my basin spanner, saying, "If you move, I'll hit you with it." - So they abducted you?- Yeah.- Right.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50He went very quickly
0:39:50 > 0:39:56from being a suspect in a vehicle making off to the victim of a serious crime.
0:39:56 > 0:39:58Thank you.
0:39:58 > 0:40:05Yeah, they're saying that... By the sound of it this lad's been bundled into the car.
0:40:05 > 0:40:10It looks like the cops arrived just at the right moment.
0:40:10 > 0:40:17In seven years I've been an officer, I've never come across that gravity of kidnapping or any kidnapping.
0:40:17 > 0:40:22'I really am glad we were there at the time. If we took a wrong turn,'
0:40:22 > 0:40:27we wouldn't have been behind the vehicle and they'd have done what they intended.
0:40:27 > 0:40:32While the cops continue to unravel exactly what's happened in Bradford,
0:40:32 > 0:40:36back on the A1, south of Pontefract,
0:40:36 > 0:40:42PCs Debbie Collinson and Matt Hemingway race to clear the car and three vans off the dual carriageway.
0:40:42 > 0:40:46More than 6,000 vehicles use this stretch of road every hour
0:40:46 > 0:40:52and the blockage is threatening to cause gridlock as far as Doncaster, eight miles away.
0:40:52 > 0:40:57That road is blocked and people come off at the previous junction
0:40:57 > 0:41:03and try to find alternative routes around the accident, which causes traffic chaos off the network.
0:41:03 > 0:41:08Every minute the road remains shut, up to 30 vehicles join the jam,
0:41:08 > 0:41:12adding two miles to the growing tailback every 15 minutes.
0:41:12 > 0:41:16You're all right, mate. Don't worry about the wing mirror.
0:41:16 > 0:41:18'People late for work,'
0:41:18 > 0:41:24late for appointments, job interviews and people missing trains, planes,
0:41:24 > 0:41:28all this happens just from a couple of cars bumping into each other.
0:41:30 > 0:41:36Even clearing one lane would make a massive difference, but that's easier said than done.
0:41:36 > 0:41:40We might be able to shove it. Give it a try shoving it first.
0:41:40 > 0:41:46We're trying to get the vehicles out the way to get at least one carriageway opened up.
0:41:46 > 0:41:51Can we spin it over and get it off separate from this?
0:41:51 > 0:41:53ENGINE SPLUTTERS
0:41:59 > 0:42:06They're running out of time and plunder the damaged vehicles for equipment to remove them.
0:42:06 > 0:42:12- Is anybody the driver of this? Do you know where your towing eye is? - Sorry?- Towing eye.
0:42:12 > 0:42:14Er, no.
0:42:19 > 0:42:24Have you found it, Aidy? You've not found it there?
0:42:24 > 0:42:29We're just trying to find the hooking point. This chap whose van it is,
0:42:29 > 0:42:33the towing eye is in the back. Can't get the back doors open.
0:42:33 > 0:42:40So we're just trying to secure it as best we can from the underneath of the car
0:42:40 > 0:42:44and then we'll be able to pull it out the way and then move the other two.
0:42:46 > 0:42:47OK.
0:42:56 > 0:43:02As soon as you establish nobody's injured, it's getting everything cleared as quick as you can.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05That's why everybody mucks in.
0:43:05 > 0:43:11We managed to do that fairly quickly considering there were five vehicles all sandwiched together
0:43:11 > 0:43:17and just opened one carriageway up, so we can try to clear this tailback now
0:43:17 > 0:43:21and get people onwards on their journeys.
0:43:21 > 0:43:26It's been almost 40 minutes since this accident blocked the A1.
0:43:28 > 0:43:30This lane is open!
0:43:31 > 0:43:35No one's to blame, but it's caused huge disruption.
0:43:35 > 0:43:42As soon as the cars in front of you start moving, it's such a relief, having been there myself.
0:43:42 > 0:43:48You don't know what's happening, nothing's going anywhere. We try to move things very quickly.
0:43:48 > 0:43:51Come on, we're waiting for you to go!
0:43:51 > 0:43:54All right, chill out!
0:43:54 > 0:43:58With the A1 open again, Matt and Debbie can finally relax.
0:43:58 > 0:44:04Can you imagine seeing that when you're screeching down the motorway?!
0:44:04 > 0:44:09"Prepare to meet your god"?! A big pile-up. "Prepare to meet your god"!
0:44:18 > 0:44:23Just off the M606, in a quiet residential street in Bradford,
0:44:23 > 0:44:27Lindsey and Andy are questioning the driver and passengers of an Audi.
0:44:27 > 0:44:33We've got three occupants of this vehicle under arrest on suspicion of abduction.
0:44:33 > 0:44:37There's also a gentleman alleging that they bundled him in
0:44:37 > 0:44:41and he is injured. We've got an ambulance en route.
0:44:41 > 0:44:44In the back of Lindsey's patrol car,
0:44:44 > 0:44:49the driver of the Audi is getting increasingly agitated.
0:44:50 > 0:44:52BLEEP
0:44:53 > 0:44:58When you say you know him or know of him, is there more history behind this?
0:44:58 > 0:45:04- Or were they just attacking you for your toolbox?- No. My mate robbed them the other week.
0:45:04 > 0:45:08- Right. That's what it's all about. - He thinks it's me.- I'm with you.
0:45:08 > 0:45:14As two of the men are taken into custody, the Audi driver gets back on the phone.
0:45:25 > 0:45:29- But this time Lindsey's noticed he's up to something.- Hiya.
0:45:29 > 0:45:34- Am I getting arrested or summat? - Just give us your phone, fella. - My phone?- Yeah.
0:45:39 > 0:45:44- Got anything you shouldn't have?- No. - Stand and turn and face the car.
0:45:44 > 0:45:48As he's searched, he's still got plenty to say to his victim.
0:45:48 > 0:45:50Muppet!
0:45:50 > 0:45:54You got a problem? Look here. Faggot.
0:45:55 > 0:46:01Shut up. You're not impressing anybody, are you? Just making yourself look a clown.
0:46:02 > 0:46:04Faggot!
0:46:04 > 0:46:08'What do you think would have happened if we hadn't stopped here?'
0:46:08 > 0:46:13By the look of that crackhead, he'd have tried to chop me up.
0:46:13 > 0:46:17- You think they'd have chopped you up?- I know they would have done.
0:46:17 > 0:46:21They were going to kill him by whatever means and dispose of him.
0:46:21 > 0:46:24That's his perception of it.
0:46:28 > 0:46:34- Play the hard man all you want, but you don't worry us. - I'm not being the hard man.
0:46:34 > 0:46:39My mate's robbed him, apparently, for a bag of weed or summat.
0:46:40 > 0:46:46You know what pride's like. When somebody's ruined your pride, you've got to build it up.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58'The guy bundled into the car feared for his life.'
0:46:58 > 0:47:01Absolutely feared for his life.
0:47:01 > 0:47:05And the driver and the other two had absolutely no concerns
0:47:05 > 0:47:07as to what they'd done at all.
0:47:07 > 0:47:14- He's certainly hit him with his tools or weapons. We think its tools.- My blue basin wrench.
0:47:14 > 0:47:20- And where's that at the moment? Was it in the back of the car with you? - I don't know.
0:47:20 > 0:47:24- - A what? - A basin wrench.- A wrench.
0:47:24 > 0:47:26Like what you use to tighten taps.
0:47:26 > 0:47:33The cops have the victim's account of what happened, but they need to find hard evidence to build a case.
0:47:33 > 0:47:39Once we've got everybody where they need to be, we'll go back to that garden and do a search.
0:47:39 > 0:47:42- It's there.- Have we got it? Right.
0:47:42 > 0:47:47- I'll leave it in situ. - We'll get it photographed by SOCO.
0:47:47 > 0:47:51I'll leave it there. It needs a good search does this car.
0:47:51 > 0:47:54'Everything he tells me'
0:47:54 > 0:47:58I can't just take as truth. I have to verify, make sure it's credible.
0:47:59 > 0:48:04Just photographing things in the car that show there were a struggle.
0:48:04 > 0:48:10There's footprints where there shouldn't be footprints. Things like this here.
0:48:10 > 0:48:16His fear was he'd get abducted and chopped up. The driver was in possession of a Stanley knife.
0:48:16 > 0:48:18He needs to be spoken to about that.
0:48:18 > 0:48:20'His fears of being cut'
0:48:20 > 0:48:26were quite founded, really, when you see the Stanley knife in the front of the door
0:48:26 > 0:48:31and how agitated the driver was. He was angry.
0:48:31 > 0:48:35I don't think he was just angry with being caught.
0:48:35 > 0:48:40I think he intended to harm the rear seat passenger, definitely.
0:48:40 > 0:48:46Although he's been rescued by the cops, there's still the danger of reprisals,
0:48:46 > 0:48:52but to secure a conviction Andy and Lindsey must persuade him to help the investigation.
0:48:57 > 0:49:01It's 1pm and on the M1 south of Wakefield
0:49:01 > 0:49:07motorway cops Phil Stonebanks and Ray Terry are racing to join colleagues chasing a stolen truck.
0:49:07 > 0:49:1124 hours a day, there's always a vehicle being stolen somewhere.
0:49:11 > 0:49:16There's as much a market for trucks and plant equipment as stolen cars.
0:49:16 > 0:49:207-0, we're just approaching Junction 40.
0:49:20 > 0:49:23About a minute or so behind.
0:49:23 > 0:49:26'Nine times out of ten,'
0:49:26 > 0:49:30stolen vehicles are broadcast and never seen again. They disappear.
0:49:30 > 0:49:34For someone to sight a stolen vehicle is a bit of a rarity.
0:49:34 > 0:49:37'..65 miles an hour.
0:49:37 > 0:49:42'As soon as we've got this other unit we will attempt to stop the vehicle.'
0:49:50 > 0:49:56Our other unit's directly behind him now. They've not tried to stop it. It's travelling at normal speed.
0:49:56 > 0:50:00They're waiting for us before they attempt to stop it.
0:50:00 > 0:50:04We've been asked to wait until the helicopter is overhead as well.
0:50:04 > 0:50:10Phil and Ray are just minutes away when more information comes in from the lead patrol car.
0:50:19 > 0:50:22Check this second one here.
0:50:22 > 0:50:26Yeah, 7-1, that's us. We're just coming up.
0:50:30 > 0:50:34With the target truck in sight, the police are ready to strike,
0:50:34 > 0:50:37but stopping a truck of this size isn't easy.
0:50:37 > 0:50:43A 7.5-tonne tipper truck can do a lot of damage. And if he decides he's not going to stop,
0:50:43 > 0:50:47we're potentially looking at being seriously injured.
0:50:47 > 0:50:51They've called in air support to help.
0:50:51 > 0:50:59It lifted 30 seconds ago so it shouldn't take much longer. Once he's overhead, we'll try it.
0:50:59 > 0:51:05With the helicopter on its way, Phil runs a check on the truck they've just overtaken.
0:51:05 > 0:51:08'S&M Paving in Rotherham.
0:51:08 > 0:51:12'MOT is current and we have no reports.'
0:51:13 > 0:51:17Yeah, received. There is livery to that effect.
0:51:17 > 0:51:22The other truck checks out, so Phil can focus on the one ahead.
0:51:22 > 0:51:29- Can you tell us where the stolen vehicle was stolen from, please? - 'It was stolen in Mexborough.'
0:51:31 > 0:51:37Everything is now in place and the cops co-ordinate a plan to stop the truck.
0:51:37 > 0:51:43'7-0 to 7-1. We're going to try for a stop here while we've got the opportunity.'
0:51:45 > 0:51:49Yes, yes. You've got a slip road coming in from your left-hand side.
0:51:55 > 0:51:597-1, we've got a nearside indication. The vehicle's stopping.
0:52:03 > 0:52:04Yeah.
0:52:04 > 0:52:07Let's go and have a word.
0:52:24 > 0:52:29Just stick these on for the moment, mate. All right?
0:52:30 > 0:52:34Right, come and have a seat in the car and we'll get it sorted out.
0:52:36 > 0:52:44'Everything went fine. We made no attempt until we had sufficient units. South Yorkshire were aware,
0:52:44 > 0:52:46'so they had units up ahead.'
0:52:46 > 0:52:51We had a vehicle behind us doing a block, helicopter above as well.
0:52:51 > 0:52:56So had it not gone to plan, we had all the bases covered that way.
0:52:56 > 0:53:04As it turns out, when we put the blue lights on, the vehicle pulled over and everyone was compliant about it.
0:53:05 > 0:53:10Are you known to the police? Ever been arrested?
0:53:10 > 0:53:12Right.
0:53:13 > 0:53:19Before taking the prisoners into custody, Phil makes one last call to the control room.
0:53:19 > 0:53:25We'd got one in the back of our car. We did more checks to find out how the vehicle was stolen.
0:53:25 > 0:53:30'The driver of this vehicle states that it was reported stolen in error.
0:53:31 > 0:53:37'One of the people who worked for the company had taken it home.'
0:53:37 > 0:53:43The owner of the vehicle had turned up at work one morning and noticed the vehicle was missing
0:53:43 > 0:53:50and assumed it had been stolen. Obviously, unbeknown to him, one of the employees had taken it home.
0:53:50 > 0:53:57- You get that?- What? - Just passing it out saying it was reported stolen in error.
0:53:57 > 0:54:03'I'm sure there was a huge sense of relief, certainly with the lad in the back of our car.'
0:54:03 > 0:54:08When he realised he wasn't getting arrested, he was a happy bunny.
0:54:08 > 0:54:13- Shall we keep him for good measure? - Take him with you, mate! - Do you want him? Are you sure?
0:54:13 > 0:54:16We had to let him go.
0:54:16 > 0:54:20- Thank you. - Have a good day. Thank you.
0:54:23 > 0:54:29We do get vehicles that are reported stolen and sometimes they don't get cancelled on the computer
0:54:29 > 0:54:32so we do get some false alarms.
0:54:32 > 0:54:36They're quite happy. It's something to tell their mates in the pub.
0:54:41 > 0:54:48Back in west Bradford, a police van arrives to take the Audi driver into custody.
0:54:48 > 0:54:52Despite his situation, he's as cocky as ever.
0:54:52 > 0:54:54Open the door.
0:54:54 > 0:55:00- Can I get a drink, please? I'm really, really thirsty. - We don't have drinks on us here.
0:55:00 > 0:55:04Go buy me some from the shop, then. I'll pay you.
0:55:04 > 0:55:09- Do you want some details? He's 112 at 1605.- What's the offence?
0:55:09 > 0:55:12Abduction.
0:55:13 > 0:55:17- One second.- And possession of an offensive weapon.
0:55:17 > 0:55:23The driver's taken into custody, but not before he's committed yet another offence.
0:55:23 > 0:55:28- And the reason you've spat...? Criminal damage.- I needed a drink.
0:55:28 > 0:55:33- I couldn't swallow. - You're disgusting.- Oh(!)
0:55:33 > 0:55:38'He clearly has no care or consideration for anyone'
0:55:38 > 0:55:42in what he was about to do and that showed in the back of the police car.
0:55:42 > 0:55:45No respect whatsoever. He didn't care at all.
0:55:45 > 0:55:51- You're also under arrest on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon. - An offensive weapon?!- Yeah.
0:55:51 > 0:55:53Eh?
0:55:53 > 0:55:58With the suspects off the scene, Andy can concentrate on winning the trust of the victim.
0:55:58 > 0:56:03- It sounds like you've had a lucky escape.- Yeah, I'm telling you.
0:56:03 > 0:56:05Trouble seems to follow me around.
0:56:05 > 0:56:10'We quite often find victims of violence'
0:56:10 > 0:56:15reluctant to help because they have a mistrust of the police.
0:56:15 > 0:56:17They have some sort of feeling
0:56:17 > 0:56:24that we're not there to help them, that we won't protect them, and if they talk to us, it makes it worse,
0:56:24 > 0:56:27the suspects may come after them again.
0:56:27 > 0:56:32- Can you ring that number and tell my girlfriend I've gone to hospital? - I will.
0:56:32 > 0:56:37The victim's statement is crucial so Andy must make sure he'll help the cops.
0:56:37 > 0:56:42Please promise me that you will not change your mind about co-operating.
0:56:42 > 0:56:48Give us a statement. Any intel you can give us. You can do it anonymously.
0:56:48 > 0:56:55But we need to take people like this out the picture. They're going to kill somebody. It could've been you.
0:56:55 > 0:56:59If you don't co-operate with us, they're walking.
0:56:59 > 0:57:02'It wasn't a random attack'
0:57:02 > 0:57:07for somebody's mobile phone. He was targeted.
0:57:07 > 0:57:13It's just a lot of luck that we happened to be in the right place at the right time
0:57:13 > 0:57:15to put a stop to it.
0:57:18 > 0:57:23The men in the Audi all pleaded guilty.
0:57:23 > 0:57:28The driver was given a 27-month prison sentence for abduction and assault,
0:57:28 > 0:57:34while his two passengers were each sentenced to 16 months in prison for abduction.
0:57:35 > 0:57:42No further action was taken in relation to the crash between the BMW and the Renault.
0:57:43 > 0:57:49The man who turned his house into a cannabis farm pleaded guilty to possession and production of it
0:57:49 > 0:57:54with intent to supply. He was given a two-year suspended sentence.
0:57:56 > 0:57:57Go!
0:57:57 > 0:58:03And the lad caught after a foot chase through a Wakefield housing estate
0:58:03 > 0:58:09pleaded guilty to burglary. He was sentenced to a year's youth detention and training order.
0:58:09 > 0:58:14No action was taken against the second suspected burglar.
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