White Lines Motorway Cops

..and it's a stop, stop, stop!

In Yorkshire, the motorway cops are going after a big deal...

No talking!

..taking out major-league criminals...

but some decide to run.

INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO

SUSPECT SHOUTS

While others want to fight it out.

I'M IN YOUR CAR!

I'm in your BLEEP car now, aren't I?!

In the Midlands, despite a handful of documents,

identity becomes the big issue.

Who is that? You?

Do you tell lies?

And in Yorkshire, they face a similar problem.

You're a lickle liar. I bought that last night. Did you?

And the cops strike back at the multi-million pound business

of moving illegal drugs around the country.

Is there an answer to the question, mate?

Is there anything on you or in the vehicle that shouldn't be here?

Drugs are like a cancer on society.

It's everywhere now,

certainly, the areas I work.

In the north of England,

the Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Roads Crime Team

is on the front line in stopping dealers

who transport drugs across the region.

In Bradford, West Yorkshire, the team are on stand-by.

There's some intelligence that a big deal's just gone down.

We got wind of a vehicle

and had to hotfoot it to their location and put the stop in.

Yes, yes, can you confirm location at the moment?

With the drug runners approaching the motorway,

the cops have got them right where they want them.

It's a damn sight easier

to pursue them on a motorway than it is around a council estate.

For one, if we don't know the area,

they'll take a couple of lefts, a right, and they're history.

Whereas, at least on a motorway you've got two or three miles between junctions.

Stand-by for an open mic.

We've got brake lights, lane two speed 6-0, 6-0,

into lane one,

two occupants,

and it's a stop, stop, stop!

Hands where I can see them!

We believe that there's a commodity of drugs on board this vehicle.

Do you understand me?

Ah-ah! No talking.

The men in the Polo are from the south of England

and part of an organised criminal gang -

just the people the unit has been set up to deal with.

We target organised crime, that's the reason we are here.

Your average bobby on the street spends most of the time

dealing with domestics, shoplifters -

priority things to them - but we're look at the slightly bigger picture

targeting more serious crime.

Obviously, the drugs' supply, the trafficking.

So we're looking at the bigger picture.

At Trafalgar House Police Station in Bradford,

the cops are searching the car for drugs.

Since the unit was set up in 2008, drug seizures in Yorkshire

and Humberside have risen by over 30%, to more than 15,000 last year.

Yeah, we've got a confirmed package in the boot.

The commodity on board is 10kg of heroin, worth up to £200,000.

But although it's a big haul,

the cops know there's always more to come.

You take out a multi-kilo amount of drugs,

you take out a large amount of cash,

into the hundreds of thousands -

in real terms, it's a very small percentage of what's going on.

Every year, more than 50 tonnes of heroin and cocaine

are sold in Britain,

and an investigation into who the suspects are working for gets under way.

When the team aren't tracking drug-runners on the motorway,

they patrol the city streets.

PCs Jim Duffy and Paul Smith are in Leeds.

Talk to me checkers. Vehicle, please.

During the day our work is predominantly to do with drugs -

where people are out there dealing,

and people are buying drugs,

so predominantly we get a lot of work through that.

But today they've been alerted to something other than their usual suspects.

POLICE RADIO:

Green Corolla's going to come down here, isn't it?

A green Toyota Corolla reported stolen the night before

has been spotted by colleagues just around the corner.

Yeah, just going past.

Colleagues are now behind the Toyota getting ready to stop it.

Jim and Paul are determined to get there to help out.

But first, they've got to battle through the midday traffic.

We'll try and cut through and cut them off.

It can be difficult to catch up with cars.

Circumstances like that... We've got to balance it between being safe

and getting to the car, getting through traffic.

We're just on Ashley Road coming up to t'lights.

Should be able to drop in front from there.

It is frustrating.

And it can be something so simple as a junction

where somebody doesn't stop quick enough, so you can't get out.

And it just gives them that split-second.

Here. Yeah.

But not this time.

Jim and Paul are right on cue

to help enact an old-fashioned pincer movement.

SIREN BLARES

The driver doesn't want to hang around for a chat.

And he's off and running.

They can be very quick.

Because they've often got a lot to lose.

And their only concern is getting away.

Stop there! Stop now!

The passenger's going nowhere fast,

but he doesn't look concerned,

which makes Jim wonder why they tried to make off.

They could be boy racers,

but it's more likely that they have got something to hide.

My initial thought is, have we got a stolen vehicle here?

Why are you knocking me over?

You are under arrest on suspicion of driving a stolen motor vehicle.

How is it stolen? We don't know. It's what we need to find out, pal.

Must've run for some reason.

The chances of finding somebody stealing a car is quite slim.

So when you do get that break,

when you catch them the feeling is fantastic.

Because...it's difficult to get them.

A van has arrived to take the driver and passenger to the police station.

You're joking!

You'll go back on the floor, fella. Stop messing about.

With the men now under arrest, Paul can catch his breath.

I'm not built for running, to be honest.

At the police station, the passengers revealed where they got the car from -

it's his father's.

We're just doing enquiries with the owner of the vehicle.

It transpires he's actually a family relation to the passenger

who was in the vehicle that we arrested.

So there's obviously something wrong - either with the vehicle

or what the complainant's told the police.

They're off to see dad for a chat about crime and punishment.

Something Jim was taught from childhood.

I came from a police family, so I've always been surrounded by

family and friends who are all police.

I think, growing up, I've always been around right and wrong

in regards to my family.

I've always been aware of the sort of things that my family deal with.

I've always sort of...despised criminals.

The cops in the Central Motorway Police Group

control more than 600 miles of roads.

It's the hub of Britain's motorway network.

Every day more than 200,000 cars pass through here.

The best way to keep tabs on the cars and drivers

is a system called ANPR.

Automatic Number Plate Recognition

is a tool in your tool box

that you can use to give you some guidance

as to which vehicles to look at.

The alarm bell rings to say that that car there

is worth stopping because X, Y and Z.

Whether it be a disqualified driver,

whether it be carrying drugs,

whether it be stolen number plates,

whatever it happens to be.

It's like shooting fish in a barrel basically.

PCs Angus Nairn and Harvey Prescott

are on the M5 responding to an ANPR alert about a car

which they think is being used by an illegal immigrant.

Black Volkswagen Golf Lima Sierra 56 Zulu Papa Zulu.

So we're going to see if it comes past us

and then stop the vehicle and check out who the occupants are,

and whether they're entitled to be in the country.

Yes. Aye, that'll do us. That'll be the one.

Echo Alpha Oscar Tango 1-3.

The Golf is committed southbound, we're playing catch up.

Received, over.

Nationwide ANPR cameras read up to 15 million numberplates every day.

But the system has its limitations.

Although ANPR can identify the car,

it can't tell the cops if the driver is the man they're after.

Hi, gentlemen. Do you have the documentation for the car on you?

Just come and have a seat in the car and I'll explain why you've been stopped.

Bring your documents with you - driver's licence, insurance...

Thank you.

Have you got a driver's licence?

The driver does have some ID -

a bank card and a fixed penalty notice for using his phone,

which should help the cops verify his details.

If you have a wee seat in there.

How are you? Are you OK?

Yeah, all right.

This is you here? Yeah. That's my address.

The man hasn't got any photo ID

to prove he's the man referred to on the documents.

What's your first name?

HE SAYS HIS NAME Oh, right.

Where are you travelling to?

Erm, er... Bristol.

Bristol.

What is the purpose of your trip? Why are you going to Bristol?

Bristol lives my friend.

OK. Yeah. You are just going to visit your friend?

Visit. Yeah. Visit your friend.

He came across with his fixed penalty tickets, letters from solicitors...

He's got loads of stuff, and you think...

I don't really doubt him.

Because he's genuinely given us all the stuff over.

But you still want to go that extra wee bit

just to make sure you've covered all the points.

Thank you, can you find out if any of the tasking team are at headquarters

or if there's somebody out and about

near junction six with a Lantern device, please. Over.

The Lantern device is basically a small fingerprint machine.

A portable fingerprint device.

And it's one of the best tools we have.

And as soon as somebody puts their finger on it

it will send that fingerprint straight to our fingerprint bureau.

That's a receive. Thank you.

Substantive.

Three points, for that offence.

So he has got them? Mm-hm.

With the points on his licence checking out on the police national computer,

it seems the man they're after is another person who drives the Golf.

But, even so, Angus wants to run him through the Lantern

just to make sure.

I think he is a genuine individual.

I don't suspect he's going to come back as an illegal immigrant

or an over-stayer.

Unless he's a really good liar.

So it'll be two minutes and then we'll let him go.

150 miles away in West Yorkshire,

PCs Gary Panther and Jim Duffy are touring the backstreets of Halifax.

At the junction ahead,

they've spotted two young lads in a black SEAT Leon.

When we saw that one, the two lads in it did look young.

'Obviously, quite a nice vehicle

'Have they stole it and are now going to use it to commit crime?

In a split second, that's what goes through your head when it goes past.

You've got to make a decision whether you're to look at it or not.

A pedestrian crossing the road is a chance to get

alongside for a quick word.

But the men don't want to stop for a chat with the cops.

OVER RADIO: Left, left, left.

Chasing cars into the backstreets is always risky.

TYRES SCREECH

'We've just got to gauge how dangerous it is

'and what sort of risks he's taking.'

Is he going to be putting innocent members of the public at risk

as a result of his driving,

or are we going to be putting members of the public at risk by continuing

to pursue him and forcing him to do something that he doesn't want to do?

A check on the plates reveals that the SEAT is a hire car,

which raises their suspicions that this is not a simple fail to stop.

It's a game to us as much as it is to them. Um...

The criminals don't want us to catch them,

and we want to catch them, so it's the old cops and robbers game.

SIRENS WAIL

TYRES SCREECH

Moving up to...

RADIO CHATTER

TYRES SCREECH

Our lane runs parallel with their lane. Yeah, it does,

but you can't trust...

Left, left, left...

Even with a second car behind Gary, the hot-hatch's manoeuvrability

is proving more than a match for the cops.

You get SEAT Leons, um...

'VW Golfs and Audi A3s. I don't know why, they just love them.'

But in and around the estates, I suppose they're quite quick, and if

we're behind them in a larger car, it might be difficult for us to keep up.

With the driver unable to outrun the cops, he's giving up,

but his passenger has other ideas, leaving the driver to take the rap.

You're under arrest on suspicion of possession of... Understand?

Has somebody been back to where that's been thrown out?

Yeah, Gaz has gone and Alex has gone.

The cops believe something was ditched during the chase

and Gary's gone to find it.

While the search for the driver's mate

and the discarded package continues...

..back in the Midlands,

just off Junction 6 of the M5 near Worcester,

Angus and Harvey are still trying to find out

if the Afghani man is permitted to be in the country.

A colleague with a Lantern device has arrived to check

he is who he claims to be.

That's it. Just hold it there.

That's it. Thank you.

It seems all in order, but...

The driver's fingerprints will be matched against a

national database of eight million prints.

If he's on it, then they'll find out his true identity.

And there's a match.

Now, what we've got...

'Um, the Lantern device that Paul has used,'

it's come back with a different name and details on it.

Oh, yeah? Hmm!

Who is that? You?

Who is that? Ahmad Zi Jalat Khan.

Yeah? Yeah. Is that you?

Yeah.

So, who's this then?

You tell lies?

Why have you given false details?

Someone else's name?

I'm coming now with...this is my friend's car.

It's your friend's car.

You know, fair do's to the lad.

He ALMOST pulled the wool over

our eyes and he almost got away

with it, and you've got to sort of,

I suppose, feel sorry for him, the fact that he's tried his hardest,

and he almost, he was literally seconds from us just saying,

"Crack on, have a good day."

Now they have the man's real identity,

Angus is checking his immigration status with the Border Agency.

RADIO: So, that's interesting.

I've got him removed.

Oh, well. He's not removed that far. He's still here.

Have you been removed from the UK? Have you been sent back?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and then you're back again?

RADIO: Uh, he's come up again, that's why.

He tried to get in again.

When did you come back?

Eh, in 2009.

2009.

At this moment, he's arrestable as such, and if you decide

to arrest him, take him to the police station.

If you could give us a shout which station you take him to.

It'll be Worcester custody.

And he'll be there in less than 15 minutes.

Kevin, thanks for your help, you've been a star. Thanks very much.

Speak to you shortly. Take care. Bye, now. Bye.

RADIO CUTS OFF

We get a lot of people who are overstayers, basically.

They've come into the country illegally,

they've applied for asylum, they've been refused for whatever reason,

and they got told, "You've got to leave."

I've never known one yet who just says,

"OK, thanks very much." Jumps back on the ferry and heads back over.

It never happens, so, you know, once they're refused asylum,

they should be locked up and sent back, but they don't.

The way the system works just now, you know, they just disappear.

I'm going back to Afghanistan. Well, you've been sent there once already

and you've come all the way back to here.

I'm coming back here, yes... Well, you're not supposed to.

You were sent out the first time

because you weren't allowed to stay here.

Not my first time, this is my third time.

Third time! One time I'm coming to France...

HE LAUGHS

Either you just, you think, "Why are we bothering sending them out,

"if they can get back so easily?" And if they get back so easily,

what are Immigration doing to get rid of them?

Because they're obviously not doing it the right way.

It's literally just throwing them out the gate

and it's as quick as they can climb back over the fence.

You don't learn a lesson, do you?

I don't know in my city in...

you know, Afghanistan...

the problems in Afghanistan, you know?

Every time we speak to people and say why have you come to Great Britain?

You know, what was wrong with France, what was wrong with Germany,

what was wrong with Spain? The sun shines in Spain.

But they get told, "Get to Great Britain.

"You will get looked after in Great Britain."

They try.

Sometimes they get away with it, sometimes they don't.

In the last two years,

nearly 80,000 illegal immigrants have been deported from the UK and,

for the Afghani man, it's third time unlucky.

He's going to be handed over to the Border Agency and, once again,

put on a flight back to Afghanistan.

In Halifax, the cops' search for the passenger who

fled from the SEAT Leon has proved fruitless.

Although there's no sign of any drugs in the car,

they have found the object thrown from it.

We've got someone who's just radioed up.

Gary, one of our officers, is saying that

we've found - it's a Kinder Egg containing some class A drugs

that they've discarded from the vehicle so,

a good job, all in all.

Yeah, they've discarded a, erm, what's the

inside shell of a Kinder Egg,

um, where the little toy comes in. It's often used to store drugs.

It can be put into places that you normally wouldn't put them. Erm...

So, they've obviously discarded that.

When I've gone and picked it up there's a quantity of

class A drugs inside - what we suspect to be class A drugs.

There's a number of individual wrapped...

As well as a drugs charge,

the driver is also facing several motoring offences.

The gentleman indicates to me that it's a hired vehicle

and he doesn't think he has permission to drive it,

so he's been arrested on suspicion of possession of controlled drugs

with intent to supply others,

failing to stop the vehicle for a police vehicle,

taking a vehicle without the owner's consent and dangerous driving.

You've got some marks at the side of your head and on your chin.

Have you been having fun and games? Have you got any injuries there?

He's been pulled out the vehicle.

Inadvertently, that might be from coming out,

but they've not been intentional and the gentleman knows that.

We are really getting under the skin of people who are dealing drugs,

of people that are involved in level two offences

which are impacting on the community.

That's what we're doing the majority of the time.

Although the selling of drugs is a common way for criminals

to derive their income, it's not the only way.

Some will do just about anything to make a few quid.

35 miles away in Doncaster, CCTV operators have spotted some

locals pedalling a stolen bicycle.

X-ray, Tango, one, eight, we're half a mile away. Over.

We've been listening to the local radio channel

and it's come in that, I think CCTV have picked up the fact

that a high-value bike had been taken into one of the pawnbrokers in town.

It didn't look quite right, a group of young lads with it.

PCs Matt Fleming and Andy Tucker are

just around the corner from the suspects.

One, eight, given that, we'll go straight to location.

Just around the corner.

The pawn shop has refused to exchange cash for the stolen bike

and one of the men is beginning to kick off.

MUTED ARGUMENTS

The group are known offenders responsible for

a high percentage of crime in Doncaster.

It's just this shop here.

'The priority was the lad pushing the bike.'

At that moment in time, he's our suspect for theft of a pedal cycle.

The bicycle was stolen from its owner the day before,

and is worth £500.

Is it your bike, pal?

No, pal. Right. So, at the minute...

you're detained for purpose of a search, pal.

I'm just going to put some handcuffs on, pal.

But he's not coming quietly.

I swear to God, mate! Aah!

It's not even my bike, I'm only BLEEP pushing it down the street!

Right, listen to me. What's your first name?

Listen, pal, if you let go of my arm, I'm going to be sound as

BLEEP, but if you carry on being a prick, I'm going to be a knob, mate.

Let go of me, I want to be sound. Hey, go away.

I'm taking his collar, pal. Go away.

I'm taking his collar number, mate. Take his collar number.

BLEEP, just P and C me! Do your thing, mate, cos I'm trying

to be calm, but you're winding me up, mate.

I'm not winding you up, pal.

Calm it down, Jason, while we get sorted, pal.

I've asked you whose the bike is. Who does the bike belong to?

I'm just pushing it down the street.

At the moment then, you're under arrest on suspicion of theft

of this cycle. You do not have to say anything, but it may harm

your defence if you do not mention...

Hey, John. OK? Go and ring my mum, tell her I've been locked up, lads.

Jason, do you understand? Handling stolen goods.

Listen, you don't have to manhandle me. I'm going to walk to the car.

I'm not manhandling you, pal. You are manhandling me. I swear to God!

Get off! You want it? I swear to God, do you want it? I swear to God!

You think yous are bad! You're proper bad boys, aren't you?!

Get in the car, Jason. You think you're BLEEP bad boys, don't you?

Don't you think you're bad boys? Don't you all?!

No, I'm not getting my foot in, mate!

That particular area, it's a less affluent area,

it's another area where we get quite high calls to service,

so I'm obviously mindful of who's about,

not only the group we're trying to detain

what potentially could happen in relation to larger disorder.

John! John! Just tell Danny to take the BLEEP for his bike, man!

Jason, if you carry on the language,

you'll be locked up for Section Five.

I'm getting locked up already, aren't I?

Yeah, well, everything's in order.

We just need a van to get this pedal cycle away from the scene.

One's in custody, so could we have another unit just to come

and collect the bike, please.

I am not putting my BLEEP leg in the car until you see him there.

At this moment in time, you are now under Section Five

of Public Order offences, still under caution.

I swear to God! You're the BLEEP hard man, aren't you?

You're proper bad man! I'm in your car, man! I'm in your car!

I'm in your BLEEP car now, aren't I?!

Shall we get this one out the area?

Oi, Danny, just tell him it's your BLEEP bike, man!

I told him I paid for it this morning. See! Gaped!

Listen, pal, can you talk to me now, mate.

He's got to be involved. He was pushing the bike

into Cash Converters, so whichever way you look at it,

he has some involvement.

If the bike has been stolen, he has hands on a stolen bike.

Do you understand? No, mate, cos I've just told yous.

I've been wanting to tell yous. All right. BLEEP!

You want to be a bad man, let's be a bad man! I swear to God! Jason...

Get to the cop shop!

BLEEP! I swear, these coppers!

While he swears his innocence to the Almighty,

the cops wait for some transportation for the stolen bike.

35 miles away, Gary and Mick are on the outskirts of Leeds.

Their ANPR system has alerted them

to an Audi A4 passing in the opposite direction.

That's just coming out behind us. Yeah, behind us. Let's go.

The marker on the Audi says the car has links to drugs.

Back office, do us a check, please.

Sierra, six, nine, six, November, Foxtrot, Victor.

This Audi up in front, we've just gone past it

and it's got a drugs marker on it, so we've just turned.

We're just going to try and speak to him

and just do some checks prior to a stop,

and see who they are and what they've possibly been up to.

The marker is only a small amount of intelligence.

We immediately check all our systems,

which starts to give us the results of

it's this particular person,

he's been seen here at this time,

date and location.

Hiya, pal. All right? Your motor?

Yes.

You been in any bother before?

You got documents and stuff on you?

Have you got insurance today? Yep. Are you sure?

Just come out of the bank the other day. Did it?

I'd rather always go in at a nice low level, you know,

"How you doing, pal? How's things today?"

You seem nervous. What's up with you?

I just can't understand why I'm always getting pulled in this car.

It just happens all the time, to be honest.

Oh, does it? It's probably blacked out windows, mate.

They can't see whether you're wearing your seat belt or not.

You've got a licence?

You what, sorry, pal?

14 points!

What did you do wrong to get points?

No insurance?

Oh, right.

What's the other points for, then?

Cos you only get six for no insurance.

A few times?

'All the time I'm thinking...my ultimate outcome'

from this stop is that you will be handcuffed

and you will be searched under the Misuse of Drugs Act, but I'm quite

happy to keep him comfortable and he's quite happy sat talking to me.

There's no reason for me to change that.

He's got previous arrest for Class A.

How many points?

He'd been recently found...I think, some drugs had been found in his

house recently, so there was a good chance that he maybe had

'something on him, so we started to step it up then. Gaz joined me.'

Put that on there, mate.

What happened with your lock up for Class A?

'I was resting on the door and I could see a bag of white powder'

just within the door pocket.

Just stick your hands out and let my mate put some handcuffs on you.

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

It's making funny noises, that phone of yours, isn't it?

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

This is just while you're being detained for purposes

of a search, mate, all right?

You're under arrest on suspicion of possession of Class A drugs.

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

you don't mention something which you'll later rely on in court.

Anything you do say may be given in evidence. Understand?

Yeah, I understand. All right.

Just grab hold of them, Mick, for two minutes.

# Dee-dee-dee, dee-dee... #

You're a lickle liar, aren't you? To be honest with you...

You're a lickle liar! I bought that last night. Did you?

I'm not listening.

The deal is £60 worth of cocaine.

No, no, it's Class A.

Only a small amount, but we'll get to the bottom of it.

Straightaway you think, "Where's the rest of the drugs?

"Where's the money that you've got from selling the drugs

and where's the rest of the drugs you're going to sell?"

There was a fair wedge there, weren't there?

I thought you were skint, you?

How much is in there?

How much was in there?

Where from?

Your mate, Craig?

You're looking nervous again now I'm asking you about money.

That worries me a bit.

Drugs and bundles of cash could mean he's more than just

a recreational user.

In his wallet and in several pockets that he's got,

he's got quite a large quantity of cash. Erm...

More than the average person tends to carry around on an evening,

so he's also going to be arrested under the Proceeds of Crime Act

and we'll take it from there.

We'll probably conduct some house searches and see

if he is living beyond his means,

look at the property in his house and see if we can find any other

cash or any other drugs within his house, so we'll take it from there.

With the suspicion the man's dealing cocaine, he'll be kept incommunicado

in the cells while the rest of the team search his house for drugs.

Back in Doncaster, transport for the stolen bike has arrived,

but the wait hasn't done anything to calm the suspect's temper.

I'm not going to be a dickhead, just get me to the BLEEP cop shop,

instead of me just sitting here, making me look

like a dickhead in front of everyone! You know what I mean?

John. John... Even his brother's telling him to cool it.

I am chilled out, I just want to get to the cop shop,

so I don't look a fool in front of everyone, you know what I mean?

Just drive! Drive!

Drive then, mate! Stop saying calm the BLEEP down. Just drive, pal.

BROTHER TAPS ON WINDOW

JASON BANGS HEAD ON GLASS

With all that had gone off,

when he started banging his head on the windscreen,

I had to stop him from doing that,

because at the end of the day I have a duty of care to him as well.

Let go of me. We're going now.

I'm protecting you from banging your head.

Let go of me and I'll be calm, pal. You drive and I'll be calm.

Calm down, then. You drive and I'll be calm.

It's been a long time since I've come across an individual like that.

It's been a long time.

JASON BANGS HEAD ON GLASS

I hope your BLEEP wife's getting shagged right now

while you're at work,

daughters are getting BLEEP raped,

and your sons are getting BLEEP stabbed up.

'And after a while you just get used to it'

and you just try to be as professional as you possibly can.

'If you let it linger, then you're not concentrating

'and you're not focused fully on the job in hand.'

In here and out of there. Just carry on, mate.

Stand at the desk, please. Don't communicate with him.

Can you take the cuffs off, please? Do you understand why you're here?

I'm authorised to detain you whether you do or you don't.

If you take the cuffs off, pal, I'll be all right with you.

There's a process that we have to do.

It don't work like that, mate.

You are in our custody and you will be told what's going to happen,

and it will be down to the Custody Sergeant to decide what will happen,

so you can rant and you can rave and you can do whatever, you know?

It's "you will do as you are told, not as you like."

Danny! Jason...

Stay here. Don't wrangle me about.

Just stand here and listen to the Custody Sergeant.

Listen, you're walking around everywhere.

You want to take these off and I'll be all right. Listen...

No, you BLEEP listen, mate! You take these off and I'll be all right.

D7. D7.

As he's unwilling to comply with the booking in process,

he's being taken to a cell to chill out.

He's no stranger to being locked up, the young man has had

a troubled adolescence and began offending at 14.

At 22 years old, he's already served one three-year prison sentence

for burglary and thefts, including push-bikes in the past.

There's a lot of people out there,

they've had particularly hard upbringings.

Um, me personally, I can't see that as an excuse

to commit crime. Em...

There's plenty of support out there,

albeit it's not always accessible straightaway.

I think, to say, "I'm committing crime as a result of my upbringing

"or my circumstances,"

doesn't really cut it with me, unfortunately.

130 miles south,

on the M42 just outside Birmingham,

PCs John Martin and Jim Alcock from the Central Motorway Police Group,

have an ANPR alert on a Gold Proton reported to have been involved

in petrol theft.

We reckon that it's going to come past us and, obviously, if it does,

we'll stop it, we'll see who's on board and ask them

the question as to why he didn't pay for his fuel.

Yeah, people, with the rising cost of fuel

and, obviously...

people being out of work and things like that, then...

people are taking the chance at the moment and they're taking fuel

and not paying for it.

It's a nationwide problem, I think everyone would agree.

We'll be expecting it through within the next... Three minutes.

Is that it? That's it.

Same three, as well... Well spotted.

'We actually checked to see who is the insured...

'Who it comes back to, so that we know that when we are greeted by

'the driver who says, "I'm such a..."

'It's gives us a good indication of...'

"Right, you're the person that's meant to be in that car."

The person on the insurance policy is a male living 80 miles away

in Weston-super-Mare, but there's a woman at the wheel of the Proton.

'It was actually a female, we had found out,

'who had gone into the garage, filled up with the fuel'

and just left the forecourt without paying.

Right, we've stopped you

because there's an information report on your vehicle.

Right.

On Friday, did you forget to pay for some petrol?

No, I didn't have the car, Friday.

You didn't have the car, Friday? No.

Right.

Who's car is it? It's, uh, my boyfriend's friend's.

Right.

OK, where are you off to, now?

OK.

What's all the toiletries and stuff in the back?

Oh, they're my friends. We got them for her from the Pound Shop.

Everything's £1 in there. Right, have you got a receipt for it all?

OK.

There's an awful lot of toiletries in there,

which potentially things like shoplifters use.

They say they've got them from the Pound Shop,

which...it's not in a Pound Shop bag, it's in an ASDA bag,

so I think we're going to be making some inquiries.

You say those, uh...

those pur...what are they called?

Those toiletries and stuff in the back,

where have they come from again? Poundstretcher's. Where?

In Weston-super-Mare, everything in there's £1. Right.

Do they not have their own bags?

No, we had them in the bag, we took them home,

cos we've had them at home a couple of days... Yeah.

And the bag split so I just put them in the ASDA carrier bag.

Are you known for any shoplifting?

Yeah, I am, I've just got out of prison for it.

Right. What do you think I'm thinking now?

Well, I think you're thinking the worst like what everyone does,

which is wrong really, ain't it? Cos I've learnt my lesson.

I've asked you all them questions before I've known who you are.

Yeah?

Yeah, but yet again...

The traits that are in your vehicle say shoplifter to me.

Right, there's about 16 things there, they're £1 each.

£16 it come to, that's it.

You look at the type of products that people shoplift.

They're usually things that you can get rid of quite quickly -

shower gels, meats, erm, coffees - expensive stuff,

but people use them on a day-to-day basis.

The cops' suspicion surrounding the petrol theft

and the toiletries aren't their only concerns.

The woman isn't on the insurance database.

According to police records, Michelle, there's only a

BLEEP BLEEP and his mate on there.

So, whose insurance are you driving the car on?

Have you got your own policy on your own car?

No, it's on... My boyfriend's done it on his insurance.

I'm named to drive any other vehicle. No, no, no, no, no.

You'll be a named driver on his policy.

That will not cover you to drive other people's vehicles.

It'll cover you to drive his vehicle, but not other people's.

Is your fella a mate of the owner of the car? Yeah, I think so.

What's the owner of the car? Do you know him or her? No.

You don't know them?

She's phoning her boyfriend to get some answers about the insurance.

I'm with the police.

Because they've stopped the car.

For a bilking on Friday, but they're saying that I'm not insured.

Right, well, tell them that then. Here, explain.

Here he is, speak to him, please.

A bilking is a petrol theft.

Hello.

Who actually owns the car, Mike?

PHONE: I don't...I don't... well...I borrowed it off a friend of mine,

he lives at, you know, the garage.

Well, we own it, I haven't filled in a logbook yet,

cos we haven't got it. We're waiting for it to come through.

(When did he buy it?) When did you buy it then, mate?

A couple of weeks ago.

Three weeks ago.

And what's this fellow's name then?

Um...well, I don't know his surname.

This fellow, then, you don't know his surname, and he's let

you have a car without taking any form of payment from you whatsoever?

Well, who was driving the vehicle on Friday, then?

It must have been Michelle.

So, we spoke to the insurance company direct,

and they gave us the names of two males

that are on the insurance policy,

but this lady wasn't on there.

Come on then, Michelle.

I'm fairly positive in almost 11 years of policing,

I don't think you've got any insurance on that vehicle.

And I'd second that.

While the cops are sure she is an uninsured driver,

there's still some uncertainty over the petrol theft

and the toiletries John found in the car.

In West Yorkshire, at the Bridewell Police Station in Leeds,

the suspect Mick and Gary arrested with the small quantity

of cocaine on him, is beginning to realise the trouble he is in.

We got him to the custody desk.

I explained to the custody sergeant

the circumstances around his arrest and my belief that he had

drugs about his person and would he authorise a strip search.

As soon as I said the words "strip search", the guy started shaking.

We took him down to the cells and as soon as we got to the cells

he just offered up that he had some drugs secreted about his person.

We carried out a strip search

and it dropped out of his underwear.

That looks to be crack cocaine to me.

There's about 30 wraps there and he said himself that there's 20 grams

of crack cocaine there, which is a sizeable amount.

The team went round, searched his house, found some evidence,

some paraphernalia in relation to drug supplies, some bags.

And an imitation firearm by his bedside.

People don't have imitation firearms

because they like the look of them or they like to have 'em the house.

They carry them about their person for a reason.

Back in the Midlands, on the M42, the woman driving the Proton

involved in the petrol theft has still got some questions to answer.

John is on the phone to Avon and Somerset Police,

trying to find out if they know

the identity of the person who drove off without paying for the fuel.

All right, cheers, mate, bye-bye.

Right, Michelle...

What?

Your vehicle has been involved in something else.

They came back and said that the vehicle had been involved

in a suspicious incident, possibly an attempted theft from a store, ASDA.

It was a female. They did actually say of large build.

The bag that these items of toiletries

and suchlike - they're actually in an ASDA bag.

If I have to go through and find out

and get officers to trawl through CCTV, which I will do...

I won't be on their camera. Who will that be, then? I don't know.

I won't be on their camera.

Well, someone is using that car

to go round and do bilkings and steal things.

Who else is using that car in the space of four days?

Again, it was a bit of, "Well, we've nearly got her.

"Is this the woman?" She's now been possibly involved in two

offences, but we can't confirm whether it is her or not.

With no evidence of any wrongdoing, neither the driver nor her

boyfriend are going to be arrested for the petrol theft.

But the cops are taking the car away from her

for driving without insurance.

PHONE RINGS

Hello.

The car's getting seized. There's no insurance on it.

There ain't! He's phoned the Cooperative.

They haven't even got the insurance details of the car!

Nor his details, nor nothing. Nor your details, nuffink.

Well, you need to come and get me from Hopwood Services.

Oh, Mick, shut up, right, and tell me what do.

Just come back to us.

So we're stuck here, then?

Oh, go away.

He's stitched you a good 'un, there, Michelle.

I suggest you give your fella a damn good talking to when you get in.

Make the bugger live on cornflakes for a month and sleep on the sofa.

Cos he's done you like a kipper.

I'd have a guess he's not going to come and pick you up either, is he?

I don't think so. I'd give him his marching orders as well.

Right, last chance, Michelle... I haven't done nuffink!

Oh, no, no, hang on. I'm not asking if you've done anything.

Are them items there...? No!

They are not stolen, they are from Poundstretcher...

And you paid for them? Yes!

You can check with Poundstretchers if you want. Right.

I don't want to speak ill of your fella, Michelle, but...

He's a BLEEP wanker! Well... He's a BLEEP wanker.

Obviously, I can't agree,

but if someone has done a similar thing to me like that, then yes...

That is so BLEEP! I can't believe it.

And he phoned and said, "I'll leave in an hour to pick you up

"once the police have gone." So am I getting arrested?

No, no. I just wanted to know.

Cheers, lads. Thanks. All right, ta-ra now. All the best. Cheers.

Although there is no arrest, the driver is walking away with

a £200 ticket and six points on her licence for no insurance.

And while she waits for her lift home,

the car is going to be impounded.

In Yorkshire, with nearly 50% of the Roads Crime Team's arrests

drug related, they have become a major force in the war on drugs.

Tonight, the team have received some information about

a large amount of drugs and money heading up the motorway.

Matt and Wendy are part of a team of eight waiting for the go-ahead

to stop a car which is on its way towards them in Bradford.

We are on stand-by at this moment in time in case we get an update

on a vehicle that's possibly containing a quantity of drugs.

So we're on stand-by waiting for intelligence update at this time.

Matt's in the hot seat, the ground commander, and it's up to him

to ensure the team are in the right place at the right time.

X-ray Tango received, en route.

An unmarked police car is already behind the suspects

and the team need to catch up before its cover is blown.

But first Wendy needs pointing in the right direction.

Which way?

You're going to have to go left and then cut across.

Unfortunately, my knowledge of Bradford is not too good.

Matthew was obviously a little bit more placed to tell me

where to go, literally.

He gets quite bossy under pressure.

Come on! Down here! Right, right, right!

There's that much pressure in those few seconds sometimes.

If you're ground commander, you're in charge of the team.

It's a massive responsibility to get the team where we need to be

at the right time, doing the right things.

Keep going, keep going! Where? Keep going!

X-ray Tango, that's received. Currently on Mayo Avenue.

With the cops closing in on the target... Kill lights, guys.

..there's no need for blues and twos.

The stealth approach should catch the suspects out of the blue.

That's the one, that's the one.

'It's always better to use a marked car when possible.'

We passed our plain vehicle,

we had the marked car directly behind it.

Just pull behind, mate, just pull behind. No need to pull in front.

Slow it down, slow it down!

'X-ray Tango unit, you've been waved through the convoy.' That's it!

'X-ray Tango unit effectively stopped...'

Evening, mate. You all right?

Just switch your engine off and pass us the keys, pal.

Is it your vehicle, please? No, it's not mine. Not your vehicle.

Have you got any documents for the car, please, sir?

Licence? Stay in the car for us. Have you got any ID on you at all?

Wallet, anything like that, please?

Do you live in Bradford? You don't? OK. So it's not your car.

Who does the car belonged to? NAME IS BLEEPED OUT

OK. I take it he knows you've got the car, does he? OK.

Are you known to police? Have you been arrested before?

Are you known to the police? No. Not at all? Not at all.

Never been arrested in my life. Smashing.

What brings you up to Bradford? Just some friends?

Speaking to the driver, it was obvious something wasn't quite right.

So we had the information that there may be drugs or cash on board.

That's what was in the back of our minds.

At the same time we've also known intelligence to be wrong,

so we can't automatically stop a car and treat them as drug dealers.

Xavier, I need to sort out your insurance issue, but I've also been

told on the radio this vehicle is been involved in the supply of drugs.

For that reason yourself

and your passenger are going to be taken for a search.

You're not under arrest at this time. You are detained for a search.

Is there anything on you or in the vehicle that shouldn't be here, pal?

Xavier? Is there anything on you or in the car that shouldn't be?

Is there an answer to that question, mate?

Is there an answer to the question?

Is there anything on you or in the vehicle that shouldn't be here?

There is? Where is it?

Sorry? Whereabouts?

In the seat?

This gentleman is saying there's something in the car,

so if you just grab hold of him while I have a look.

Have you got anything on you? No. Not at all?

Yeah, I'll keep him here for a sec.

Matt spotted a suspicious package in a carrier bag

behind the driver's seat.

It's not drugs, but it is something just as valuable.

OK, both of you are under arrest on suspicion of money-laundering.

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

fail to mention something you later rely on in court.

Anything you do say may be used in evidence. Do you understand that?

Do you understand, pal?

Martin, two IC for money-laundering at this time.

There's a carrier bag in the back of the vehicle,

large bundles of what appear to be £20 notes.

I'll not disturb the packaging at this time,

but a very large quantity of what appear to be bundles of £20 notes.

Forensics at that point are the key to it,

especially if you get them in an interview saying,

"I've done this for a friend."

If we can find those individuals' fingerprints or

DNA on particular items, this can help the case at court.

130 miles south, in the Midlands, the motorway is unusually quiet

and so the cops on the Central Motorway Police Group

are hunting for trouble elsewhere.

Angus and Harvey are on the outskirts of Birmingham on the

lookout for a drink-driver who made off from officers a short time ago.

The car passing them, a VW Polo, isn't the drink-driver,

but it may be something just as interesting.

Harvey noticed the Polo driving past and just happened to say,

"It doesn't look right."

So we thought, "Yeah, let's go and have a look." Before they pull it

over, Angus is running a check to find out who they're dealing with.

Thank you, we're on Monmouth Road,

looking at Victor Kilo zero seven Hotel Zulu Golf.

Should be a black Polo. Received, over.

Is he going round in circles?

Yeah, if he goes right again, he will have gone around in a circle.

Yeah, received.

We're still currently... on Adams Hill now,

and he seems to be going round in circles.

We're going to go and see if he'll stop.

Yeah, stand by. He's still not stopping.

At this time we have a fail to stop,

fail to stop.

Going to go into Yankee, mate.

This is not a high-speed chase,

but the cops still need authorisation to pursue.

We have a fail to stop, fail to stop, fail to stop.

'You could see his speed.

'He was doing 35-40 in a 30mph limit.'

We suspected he'd be looking for somewhere to decamp,

near some houses, near to some alleyways,

where they can get out on foot.

We are on Adams Hill.

Permission to pursue the vehicle, please.

But this time there is no need for the go-ahead.

Oh, sorry, stung, stung, the vehicle's been stung. Stand by.

Another unit up ahead has punctured the Polo's tyres.

These other two officers round the corner

couldn't have been placed any better.

They just heard my commentary saying the direction of travel,

the road we were on, and they thought,

"They're coming straight down our throat!"

We didn't even realise they were there because they never had a

chance to shout up and say they were there, because it happened so quick.

And it was literally I just clocked the stinger hitting the deck.

We have three detained.

'Many thanks.'

You all right, bud?

Should have stopped.

What's the score, then, mate?

Say again.

Why didn't you stop, then? Don't know.

Panicking, innit? Why didn't you stop? Panicking!

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Whose car is it? Mine.

Man! You fool!

Why didn't you stop, then?

Oh, you idiot.

Right, you're obviously under arrest for failing to stop

and no licence, no insurance.

Can you do a chassis number

if I give you the one that's displayed in the vehicle, please?

Angus has spotted a discrepancy with the vehicle's identity.

The control room's given us the last six of the chassis number,

but it's different from the six that's on this here.

The chassis number on the Polo doesn't correspond with

the car's registration plates, which could mean it's stolen.

Received, thank you.

You are under arrest on suspicion of burglary.

Burglary? The car was stolen from a burglary.

You're still under caution, OK?

It's now confirmed that it's an outstanding stolen from five days ago

on the chassis number we've given them now.

The driver and his friends are being taken to the police station.

Out you come, young man.

As well as asking some questions about the stolen Polo, the cops

will run checks to see if any of them have been in trouble before.

DICTATES TO TYPIST: At subsequent enquiries...revealed...

..that the vehicle was on false plates

and was an outstanding stolen vehicle.

The driver is on the system.

He's on licence for a prior conviction

and he will be recalled to prison.

Normally, a recall to prison means that somebody has been let out

early for good behaviour or whatever.

The court will decide to let them out early.

But they are on licence then,

so that if they misbehave again or get into trouble then

they can be recalled straight back to prison and continue

the sentence that they had been let off, you know, early for.

It's where bad boys belong at the end of the day.

Some people you can have a bit of banter with, a bit of a laugh and

a joke and you do maybe feel a bit sorry for them in some situations.

But the likes of this lad, I don't have any time for.

I couldn't really sit and have a conversation with him

because I look at him as just being the lowest of the low kind of style.

So we've got the stolen car back, disqualified driver.

No other damage to anybody else

and one of the shortest pursuits I think I've had.

Back in Bradford the men under arrest for money-laundering

have arrived at Trafalgar House Police Station,

where they and their car will undergo a drugs search.

The shock of his arrest seems to be taking its toll on one of the men.

HE BREATHES HARD

You OK, fella?

'He's got a lot to lose.

'I'm not aware of who he is, what his previous is,

'whether he's got any previous medical conditions, so it would be

'far too easy to think this is as a result

'of not wanting to go into custody.'

But we can't afford to do that.

We have to treat it as a genuine medical emergency.

Jump out for us, please, then, mate.

You all right, pal?

He's complaining of chest pains, just started, just to let you know.

Have you had these pains before? Yeah. Have you?

'There is something at the back of my mind thinking it's a little bit convenient, bearing in mind'

that colleagues that had transported him in

had mentioned nothing about him

complaining of pains before that time.

I'm having troubles with my heart. Troubles with your heart?

Are you on medication for that as well? Yeah?

I'll hang onto you, mate. Stay seated upright, mate.

You seemed all right in the car,

when I first started speaking to you.

Paramedics have been called to check him over.

He was found with crack cocaine on him.

I don't know whether he's taken any this evening. Stay up, mate!

Has your friend taken anything? Has your friend taken any drugs?

Because he's not very well. Is there a chance he might have?

While the paramedics see to the man's possible heart complaint,

a dog has been called in to search the car.

The dog can smell out cash and firearms, so not only is he

looking for drugs, he's potentially looking for hidden firearms and cash.

There is no more cash, but the dog has found some drugs hidden away,

which could explain the man's panic attack.

Could be cocaine, amphetamines. So we'll seize that as well.

SUSPECT GASPS LOUDLY

Just relax, you're with the ambulance, OK? Just relax.

He maybe thought that by being in hospital we would give up on him.

"Tell you what, you get yourself better, we'll see you

"a week on Friday," for him never to be seen again.

What they don't realise is the minute they leave custody,

the custody clock stops and we just get to deal with them for longer.

Unfortunately, I was one of the officers sent to the hospital

with him while the tests were done. There was nothing wrong with him.

Absolutely nothing wrong with him.

He perked up and down depending on who was looking at him. It was...

It was comical.

It's a massive gamble for them.

Obviously, sometimes they can be paid a nominal fee to transport

a package from A to B.

Sometimes the value of the package can be into

hundreds of thousands of pounds, into millions of pounds.

It's a massive responsibility on them if they lose that package.

And what tends to happen is that whoever has provided that package

will hold them responsible for being stopped by the police.

Since 2008, the Roads Crime Team have made over 1,800 arrests

and seized more than £16 million worth of criminal assets from

drug dealers and organised crime groups.

There is no place in society for them.

What they do has a massive impact on everything.

They bring misery and shame to everybody, really.

The driver who was found with ten kilos of heroin was sent to

prison for six years. His passenger was found not guilty.

The driver caught in his friend's dad's car was

convicted of driving without a licence and insurance.

He received eight points and a £115 fine.

His friend was given a final warning.

The man who refused to come quietly in Doncaster was given

a police caution for handling stolen goods and was recently

released from prison for a series of burglary offences.

The driver of the Seat Leon was given an eight-month

suspended prison sentence for dangerous driving.

The man who ran away was later identified from forensic tests

on a cigarette butt found on the car

and imprisoned for nine months for drug possession.

The drugs inside the Kinder Egg were street deals of heroin

and cocaine worth £145.

The driver of the black Audi A4 arrested by Gary and Nick

was sent down for two-and-a-half years for drug dealing.

The Afghani man arrested for being in the country illegally

for the third time was released from custody and remains in the UK.

After failing to pay her £200 fixed penalty,

the uninsured driver was fined £700 at court in her absence.

But despite the cops thinking she'd been stitched up

by her boyfriend, the couple are still together.

The driver of the VW Polo arrested for burglary was sent back to jail

and further sentenced to six months

and banned from driving for three years.

And the man who had a panic attack

when he was caught with three- quarters of a kilo of cocaine and

£20,000 admitted dealing and, along with his driver, was sent to prison.

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