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Thieves will steal our cars, | 0:00:02 | 0:00:03 | |
our valuables, | 0:00:03 | 0:00:04 | |
just about anything they can get their hands on. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:08 | |
To cut down on crime and antisocial behaviour, | 0:00:08 | 0:00:10 | |
the police and other agencies are using new tactics and technology | 0:00:10 | 0:00:15 | |
so the bad guys get caught in the act. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
CCTV is gold dust. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
Great evidence for the police. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
You've got to have them stopped. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:23 | |
Local councils, shops and businesses are laying some traps of their own. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:27 | |
The eureka moment when you get that evidence. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:29 | |
And the general public too | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
can help unsuspecting crooks get their comeuppance. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
People won't stand by. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
I couldn't sit back and do nothing. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
Yes! We've got her! | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
So, anyone who is up to no good had better think twice. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:43 | |
They might just get caught red-handed. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
Today, the curious case of the burglar on a bike. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:54 | |
Minutes after committing his crimes, he simply vanishes like a ghost. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:58 | |
He was disappearing very quickly, almost as if into thin air. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
Now you see him, now you don't, | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
but how did this escape artist keep slipping through the net? | 0:01:04 | 0:01:08 | |
Also today, putting a spoke in the wheel of bike crime. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:12 | |
Police devise a hi-tech trap to track down the thieves, | 0:01:12 | 0:01:16 | |
and it seems to work. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
One man takes the bait within just half-an-hour. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
We're all thinking, "That's fantastic! How quickly is that?" | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
The adrenaline starts running. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
You think, "Right, we need to get there." | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
And not just smash and grab, but crash and grab. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:32 | |
Two reckless ram-raiders | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
go on a destructive after-hours shopping spree, | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
but they find themselves in a tight corner. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
Tadworth, Surrey. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:48 | |
A motorcyclist pulls up outside a house as if he owns the place, | 0:01:48 | 0:01:53 | |
but he doesn't live here and he doesn't have a key. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
He intends to simply smash his way in. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
He's a prolific burglar who has escaped from prison | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
and is on the run. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
But he is like the Invisible Man. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
It was a puzzling and frustrating picture. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
He breaks into people's homes and steals valuable jewellery. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
I lost my grandmother's jewellery. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
It's like losing part of your own history. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:19 | |
The hunt is on for this slippery customer, | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
who appears to disappear straight after committing a crime. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
Surrey is one of the most affluent areas in the UK, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
so it's attractive to burglars. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
DI Richard Haycock has been policing the area for nearly 20 years. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:42 | |
We deal with a range of crimes | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
and a significant portion of those crimes are burglaries to houses. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
Because the travel routes are so easy - the roads, the rail - | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
it's easy to come into Surrey, commit crime | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
and then get out very quickly. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
And, recently, it became clear to the police | 0:02:55 | 0:02:58 | |
they had a new, unwelcome visitor to their patch. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:02 | |
We started to get reports of burglaries to houses | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
and what we noticed was a very similar method | 0:03:05 | 0:03:09 | |
of committing these burglaries. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
And it's not long before Richard gets to see some CCTV evidence | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
of exactly how this criminal operates. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
It's a Friday lunchtime in July. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
A man on a motorcycle pulls up at a house in Tadworth. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:27 | |
He parks the bike and rings the doorbell | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 | |
to see if anyone is at home. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
No-one answers. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
Believing the house is empty, | 0:03:35 | 0:03:36 | |
he walks down the side looking for a way in. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
Then, back to the front door, he tries to kick it open. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
But it doesn't budge, so he grabs a rock. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
He throws it at the window, but it doesn't break. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
Now he seems to lose interest | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
and starts to wheel his bike back to the road. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
But the homeowner is at home after all | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
and, after being woken by the noise, shouts at the man, | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
but this doesn't seem to bother the burglar, who just rides away. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
The house owner calls the police. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
who arrive within minutes and flood the local area hunting for the bike. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
But, mysteriously, neither the man nor his motorbike | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
are anywhere to be seen. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:25 | |
The person responsible was seemingly disappearing very quickly, | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
almost as if into thin air. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:31 | |
It was a puzzling and frustrating picture. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
One of the mysterious burglar's early victims in Tadworth | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
was Angela. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:40 | |
She and her partner have made their home in the village | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
in a house that is Angela's pride and joy. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
At the time, Angela had been looking after her mother-in-law's jewellery. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
My mother-in-law had been ill in hospital for quite some time. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:55 | |
Her hands started swelling up. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:59 | |
We took her jewellery off and she gave it to me and said, | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
"I want you to have this." | 0:05:03 | 0:05:05 | |
I brought it home and put it in a drawer in a kitchen | 0:05:05 | 0:05:09 | |
where we were keeping anything of any importance to her. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
On returning from a hospital visit, | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
Angela is shocked as she walks into her home. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
Just, literally stopped in horror. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:22 | |
Everything had just been thrown all over the place. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
You just freeze and then the fear hits you | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
that whoever has done this could still be in the house. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
But, in fact, the burglar has left and Angela immediately dials 999. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:38 | |
When the police arrive, Angela checks the kitchen drawer. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
Her mother-in-law's rings are gone. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:45 | |
And the thought that she had just given me the rings, | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
it was just horrible. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
Then we walked around the house | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
and saw that the bedrooms had all been turned upside down. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:59 | |
There are other items of jewellery missing | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
which, for Angela, are irreplaceable. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:03 | |
I lost christening bracelets, 21st birthday presents, | 0:06:04 | 0:06:10 | |
my grandmother's jewellery. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
It's like losing part of your own history. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
It was to be especially heartbreaking because, | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
shortly after the burglary, Angela's mother-in-law health deteriorated. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:22 | |
The biggest impact I think on me was losing my mother-in-law's jewellery, | 0:06:22 | 0:06:29 | |
purely because she died so soon afterwards. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
That was the worst part. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:35 | |
Richard is determined to catch this callous crook | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
before he strikes again. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:41 | |
It's one of those crimes that the police take personally. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
They have been into someone's house, they have violated their privacy. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
A heinous crime. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:48 | |
So we are really fired-up around making sure that justice is served. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:52 | |
And he gets an immediate lead. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
The police forensic team find a discarded cigarette end | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
in Andrea's front garden. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
Cigarette butts are great for recovering DNA, | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
so that cigarette butt was taken. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:05 | |
It was submitted for examination | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
and DNA was found from the cigarette butt, | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
which then starts to put our criminal at the crime scene. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
The DNA results unmask the man as Adam Yaroo, | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
a convict on the run who has recently absconded | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
from Sudbury Prison, near Derby. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
What became apparent was the trail of crime. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
From the absconding from prison, we had offences in Derbyshire, | 0:07:26 | 0:07:30 | |
Oxfordshire, Kent, Sussex, | 0:07:30 | 0:07:32 | |
down to really his stamping ground, South London, | 0:07:32 | 0:07:34 | |
and his offending area in Surrey. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
And the burglar's motorcycle is not his only means of transport. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:40 | |
It's part of an elaborate story he uses | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
if he meets a homeowner in the middle of a break-in. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
That story was he had been involved in or was a witness to an accident | 0:07:46 | 0:07:50 | |
that occurred the day before involving a motorbike | 0:07:50 | 0:07:53 | |
and he was looking for witnesses. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
So, they know how he operates and who he is, | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
but Richard and his team now need to find the escaped prisoner. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:01 | |
Now you are on a manhunt and at that point everything gears up. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:05 | |
Richard's team pulls together every piece of information | 0:08:05 | 0:08:09 | |
they can find about their suspect. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
We start to build a profile around that person | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
in terms of family, associates, locations they are likely to be in, | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
so you really try and get inside the mind of the criminal | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
and try and think, "If I was them, where would I be?" | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
And then, the burglar appeared at another address in Surrey. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
Here we see him arrive at this premises. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
You can see the patterns are played out time and time again. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
With his cover story ready, Yaroo rings the doorbell. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
No-one is home and he commits another burglary. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
The stuff is in the rucksack. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
Away he goes. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:46 | |
And, once again, he seems to simply vanish from the Surrey roads. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:50 | |
Police are frustrated. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
The burglar must have a way of hiding himself and the bike. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:56 | |
It feels like you're in a chess game, | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
but with very high and very real stakes. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
And, at some point, you want to make the checkmate move | 0:09:01 | 0:09:05 | |
that brings the person into custody. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:07 | |
And that's just what Richard does. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:10 | |
They get a breakthrough when they cross-reference information | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
about the burglar's known associates. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
That led us to an address in Clapham, | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
which we put under observations, | 0:09:18 | 0:09:22 | |
which led to the break in the case. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:24 | |
Early one morning, we see this guy come out of the house | 0:09:24 | 0:09:27 | |
and he is arrested. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
And it soon becomes clear just how Yaroo | 0:09:29 | 0:09:31 | |
has managed to disappear into thin air after a crime. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:34 | |
Police believe he has a van. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
He was travelling to the areas he was committing crimes in in the van | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
with the motorcycle in the back. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
He was unloading the motorcycle, doing the burglaries for the day, | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
then quickly putting the bike back in the van and staying in the van. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:49 | |
A load of police activity would go on around him | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
and when it had all died down he would drive away. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
But it's the end of the road for Adam Yaroo. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:57 | |
In court, he pleads guilty to four counts of burglary | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
and two of attempted burglary, | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
with a further 36 offences to be taken into consideration. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:09 | |
He is sentenced to five years behind bars. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:13 | |
When you get that sort of result, | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 | |
the amount of time and effort and sleepless nights | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
and sweat and machinations that you put into it is all worth it. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:26 | |
It was nice to know that justice was done and he was caught. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:30 | |
I think the police have done a fantastic job. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
Angela never got her precious jewellery back, | 0:10:33 | 0:10:36 | |
but she was determined to create some new memories | 0:10:36 | 0:10:39 | |
that could never be stolen. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:41 | |
Not having anything to pass on now to the children and grandchildren | 0:10:41 | 0:10:47 | |
really is a horrible thing, | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
so when we got the jewellery paid for, | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
my whole family went to Sri Lanka on holiday with it. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
So, in a way, they got their inheritance in that way. | 0:10:55 | 0:11:00 | |
Now, people sometimes say they are going to "hit the shops". | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
But not like this! | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
It's nearly 6.30 on a Monday morning | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
when two men in a stolen car | 0:11:18 | 0:11:19 | |
smash through the doors of a shopping centre. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
The driver avoids a children's toy ride, | 0:11:24 | 0:11:26 | |
but then sets off crashing into everything else in sight. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
Now, it may look like he's performing | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
the world's worst three-point turn, | 0:11:32 | 0:11:34 | |
but there's method in this madness. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
He is ramming through the shutters of this jewellery store | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
and, once inside, the pair embark on a smash-and-grab raid. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:44 | |
After a minute's looting, they get back in the car | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
and, with difficulty, drive off back the way they came. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:51 | |
Less than 24 hours later, in another shopping centre and another car, | 0:11:52 | 0:11:57 | |
one of the same men is out with a new partner in crime. | 0:11:57 | 0:12:01 | |
And they are looking to get more goods knocked down off the shelf | 0:12:01 | 0:12:04 | |
in the same destructive way. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
But their greed and reckless demolition catches up with them, | 0:12:06 | 0:12:10 | |
leaving an unexpected item in the bagging area. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:14 | |
Police find DNA at the scene of the raids | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
and charge a 20-year-old and an 18-year-old | 0:12:17 | 0:12:19 | |
with a shopping list of offences. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
So, instead of smashing through security bars, | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
they are now likely to be looking through them. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
Coming up, a city office. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
This man looks like an executive arriving for work, | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
but his business is thieving. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:40 | |
Thanks very much. I've got two laptops in my bag. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:44 | |
He is waved through security | 0:12:44 | 0:12:46 | |
and, unbelievably, even helps himself to a coffee | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
before helping himself to more valuables. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
Cycling in Britain is booming | 0:12:55 | 0:12:57 | |
and bikes these days are worth an awful lot more | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
than the rusty old Chopper I used to have. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
But, sadly, that makes them a popular attraction for thieves. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
Derby, in the East Midlands, has had a problem with bike theft. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:17 | |
A lucrative business for crooks stealing bikes | 0:13:18 | 0:13:21 | |
worth from £50 to thousands. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:23 | |
We've had nearly £750,000 worth of bikes stolen in the force last year. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:28 | |
And it's not just the money. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
The thefts are causing disruption | 0:13:30 | 0:13:32 | |
in the lives of several victims every day. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
At the time it was my only mode of transport, | 0:13:35 | 0:13:37 | |
so, when it was gone, | 0:13:37 | 0:13:38 | |
trips to college went from 10 minutes to an hour-and-a-half walk. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
So the police decide to put the brakes on this crime spree | 0:13:41 | 0:13:45 | |
and set up a special sting operation to catch the thieves. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:49 | |
Derby is home to one of the UK's newest velodromes | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
and the city is gaining a growing number of cyclists. | 0:13:57 | 0:14:00 | |
But where there are more bikes... | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
..there are also more bike thieves. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:07 | |
Sergeant Mark Preston heads up a unit in the constabulary | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
tackling bike crime. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
I've been a police officer for 20 years | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
and I've got an interest in bikes and bike theft. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:16 | |
I like cycling myself. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:18 | |
Across the UK, a bike is stolen every 84 seconds. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
In Derbyshire, police have noticed a steep rise in cases | 0:14:21 | 0:14:26 | |
all over the county. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:28 | |
It was becoming three or four cycle thefts in a day. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:30 | |
We have had nearly £750,000 worth of bikes stolen in the force last year. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:35 | |
Thieves steal the bikes to sell them on. It's big business. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:39 | |
Some of the people stealing these bikes | 0:14:39 | 0:14:41 | |
are putting them on online auction sites very quickly. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
You can have something sold within half-an-hour. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:46 | |
People are travelling all over the country to come and buy these bikes. | 0:14:46 | 0:14:49 | |
These thefts can cause real problems for victims | 0:14:49 | 0:14:52 | |
like 17-year-old engineering student Jack, | 0:14:52 | 0:14:55 | |
who relies on his dad's bike to get to and from college. | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
The bike was important to me because, although it was not mine, | 0:14:59 | 0:15:02 | |
it was my father's, it was my only mode of transport. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
Without it, I couldn't really go anywhere. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
But one Friday, Jack falls victim to the bike thieves. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:11 | |
On this morning, he rides to college in Derby city centre | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
where he locks the bike to a stand. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
There were loads of people, | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
so no-one is going to take it with all these people around. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
Believing the bike safe, he heads into his course. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:25 | |
At 3:30 we finished and we came out | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
and I went to where I remembered locking up my bike | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
and it wasn't there. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
I just start panicking. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:34 | |
Jack searches frantically for his dad's bike. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:38 | |
I was a feeling of anger and just frustration. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:40 | |
But it's all to no avail. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:42 | |
Jack and his dad never see the bike again. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
Because of the growing number of victims like Jack, | 0:15:48 | 0:15:50 | |
Mark and his unit at Derbyshire Police plan an organised campaign | 0:15:50 | 0:15:54 | |
aimed at stopping the thieves having an easy ride. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:58 | |
We needed to look at how we can resolve this, | 0:15:58 | 0:16:00 | |
how we can target offenders, | 0:16:00 | 0:16:01 | |
how we can encourage people to think about crime prevention. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:05 | |
First, Mark wants to send out a strong message | 0:16:05 | 0:16:08 | |
to shock the area's bike thieves. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:10 | |
And the best way to start is to catch someone red-handed, | 0:16:10 | 0:16:14 | |
so he plants a special capture bike. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:16 | |
It looked like just a normal bike that's parked in the right location. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:20 | |
But the bike's secretly rigged with surveillance technology. | 0:16:20 | 0:16:23 | |
We put the camera looking at the bike. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:25 | |
Also, there's equipment within the bike | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
that allows us to track the bike and where it goes to. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
On a cold December morning, | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
Mark leaves the capture bike locked up in the city centre | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
at a known hotspot for bike theft. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
He then waits to see what happens. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
If the bike moves, | 0:16:40 | 0:16:41 | |
the hidden equipment will immediately send a message to Mark. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:45 | |
And he doesn't have to wait long. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:47 | |
Less than half an hour later... | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
We had the activation. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:50 | |
We're all thinking, "That is fantastic. How quickly is that?" | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
A man walks past. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
He has a good look at Mark's bike, he walks on. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
But then he comes back for a second look. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:02 | |
He must think, "That looks like a nice set of wheels", | 0:17:02 | 0:17:05 | |
because, a minute later, he is back a third time | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
and heads straight for the bike. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:10 | |
He wrenches the bike free from the lock, jumps on and cycles away. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:15 | |
For once, Mark is pleased that a bike's been stolen. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:20 | |
Proud of ourselves for doing it, but we now need to recover the bike. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
It's the excitement, the adrenaline starts running | 0:17:23 | 0:17:25 | |
and you think, "Right we need to get there." | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
Thanks to the technology hidden in the bike, | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
Mark and his team track it to an address. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
Knocked on the door, the door was answered. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
Completely denied any knowledge of what it was all about | 0:17:34 | 0:17:37 | |
and what we were there for. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:39 | |
As we were searching, the bike was in a cupboard. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
We arrested the offender and it was happy days for us. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
The man is given a Community Order | 0:17:44 | 0:17:46 | |
and Mark hopes that word will spread around to all Derby's bike thieves. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:51 | |
He's got friends that are probably doing the same offences. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:54 | |
He's telling them, "Watch out, watch out, the police are about." | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
And to reinforce the message, Mark advertises the police operation | 0:17:57 | 0:18:01 | |
with a selection of eye-catching, colourful bikes. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
It gets people talking about it, gets it on social media, | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
saying Derbyshire police have capture bikes in operation | 0:18:07 | 0:18:10 | |
and that sort of cascades all the way through. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
In the coming months, the level of bike thefts go down. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
Mark's message appears to be getting through. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
But there is one thief in particular who seems a bit slow on the uptake. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:23 | |
CCTV footage of a bicycle being stolen arrives on Mark's desk | 0:18:23 | 0:18:28 | |
and he spots a familiar face. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:30 | |
It's this same man who stole the capture bike. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:35 | |
We know instantly who that offender is. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:37 | |
There he is down at the lock, fiddling about with it, | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
and he's cut the lock. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:41 | |
Within five seconds he has taken £500 worth of property. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:45 | |
The man is arrested and this time he is going behind bars. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:49 | |
In court, he pleads guilty to 17 various offences, | 0:18:52 | 0:18:56 | |
including bike theft. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:57 | |
He is sentenced to 48 weeks in prison. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
Mark's high-profile bike theft campaign | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
goes on to have a remarkable impact on Derby's crime statistics. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:09 | |
We see a 50% reduction in bike thefts in the city | 0:19:09 | 0:19:12 | |
and also the surrounding areas. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
For me, and for the team that was involved in it, | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
we have achieved something here. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:18 | |
Mark's campaign has been a huge success, | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
but, unfortunately, it can't bring back the bike | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
that had been stolen from engineering student Jack, | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
But Jack mounted a campaign of his own | 0:19:27 | 0:19:29 | |
to find out if anyone had seen who had taken it. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:32 | |
And asking around the nearby shops, he struck lucky. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:36 | |
A customer had filmed it on their phone. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:38 | |
It's a short clip, but it shows three people around Jack's bike | 0:19:38 | 0:19:42 | |
just before it was stolen, snipping the security chain. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:46 | |
It was obvious what the three people were doing. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:48 | |
You could clearly make out the faces, | 0:19:48 | 0:19:50 | |
so I thought if I put it online, hopefully, they would be recognised. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
Jack posts the video on the internet and soon gets replies | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
suggesting the name of one of the thieves. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:59 | |
He passes the information to the police. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:03 | |
When I got the call saying that there had been an arrest | 0:20:03 | 0:20:06 | |
and a prosecution I was quite happy because something had been done. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:10 | |
Justice had been done. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:11 | |
Police officers like Mark do the best they can | 0:20:16 | 0:20:18 | |
to track down the thieves and return stolen bikes. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
But there are things we can do | 0:20:22 | 0:20:23 | |
to try to stop our bikes being stolen in the first place. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:27 | |
If it's at all possible, | 0:20:27 | 0:20:28 | |
try and leave your bike in somewhere that's covered by CCTV, | 0:20:28 | 0:20:32 | |
or that's perhaps well-lit and a really busy area | 0:20:32 | 0:20:35 | |
that people are constantly passing by. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:37 | |
The best thing you can do is secure it with a lock, | 0:20:37 | 0:20:40 | |
but two locks is always better than one. | 0:20:40 | 0:20:42 | |
Especially when the locks are different | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
because they may have to bring two different types of tools | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
to break the locks. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:48 | |
There are examples where we've found up to 35 bikes | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
and we've struggled to get them back to their owners | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
because there's no unique identification for them. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
Personalise and security mark your bike, | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
so that if it is stolen and the police do recover it | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
we can identify that and get back to you. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
Thieves rarely look like baddies from movies. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
Sometimes they just blend in and look like | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
just another face in the crowd. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
The City of London. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
As an important financial hub, | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
the Square Mile's high-rise office blocks | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
are filled with valuable hi-tech equipment containing sensitive data. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:32 | |
This man is not bothered about data, though. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
He's just after the equipment. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
He sneaks into offices to steal expensive laptops. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:41 | |
He was so brazen and acted with extreme confidence. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:45 | |
He blends into the office buildings, | 0:21:45 | 0:21:47 | |
wearing a suit and looking just like any other worker. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
He takes laptops to sell for cash, | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
but even though he has no interest in what is on them, | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
for the victims, the information that is lost can be crucial. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
If anything happens to any of our data, it affects the whole business. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:03 | |
He strikes time and time again, | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
going in and out of many different buildings. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
Just extremely frustrating. He was being really elusive. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
He needs to be stopped. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
Over 300,000 people commute into the City of London every day. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:22 | |
Raj is one of them. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:25 | |
He works for an IT company. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
It's up to me, as an IT manager, | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
to ensure that all the IT works and ticks as it's supposed to. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
But one Thursday evening, Raj comes across a different kind of gremlin | 0:22:33 | 0:22:38 | |
from the sort he normally comes across in computers. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:41 | |
It is just after 6.00pm. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:43 | |
Raj and a colleague return to their office after a works do | 0:22:43 | 0:22:47 | |
and come face-to-face with a man they haven't met before. | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
Me and my colleague are fairly new to the company | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
and I'm not familiar with every single face. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
So I walked in, said "Hi" to him | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
and he acknowledged that we were here. | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
It did not look suspicious at all. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:02 | |
They assume the man works for the company and leave him to it. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
We come out of the server room and he was gone. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
The next day, Raj is shocked to discover | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
two important laptops are missing and, | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
after a check on the building's CCTV, | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
he realises he had seen the thief. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
I thought, "Oh, my God, he was literally within hand's reach." | 0:23:19 | 0:23:23 | |
I'd just literally walked past him | 0:23:24 | 0:23:26 | |
and did not suspect anything until the following day. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:30 | |
Thankfully, all the data is password-protected and encrypted, | 0:23:30 | 0:23:34 | |
but, even so, losing the laptops is a worry. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:38 | |
If the thief, whoever he sold it to, can unlock it, | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
then it could be a massive impact to the organisation. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
The laptop theft is reported to the City of London Police, | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
where it joins a pile of similar reports | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
on the desk of Detective Sergeant Richard Peacock. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:53 | |
There's as been a spike in this type of crime. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:57 | |
Richard and his team suspect that it is the work of just one thief, | 0:23:57 | 0:24:01 | |
but, so far, he has evaded capture. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
Richard is frustrated when he sees this latest report. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:08 | |
Your heart sinks, really, because now another crime is committed | 0:24:08 | 0:24:11 | |
and you're wondering how many more there are going to be | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
before we apprehend him. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:15 | |
But several weeks of intense investigation | 0:24:15 | 0:24:18 | |
has revealed some clues. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
This is CCTV footage | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
of the man's first attempted office burglary in the City. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:26 | |
It's March, early evening, and a security camera shows him entering, | 0:24:27 | 0:24:31 | |
looking like a businessman deep in conversation on the phone. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
He thinks that if he shows that he belongs there, | 0:24:35 | 0:24:38 | |
then no-one is going to question him. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
He flashes a pass at security and heads upstairs in a lift. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:45 | |
The CCTV camera shows he spends half-an-hour | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
wandering around the building looking for something to steal, | 0:24:48 | 0:24:51 | |
but this time he leaves empty-handed. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
He walks around the corner to another office block. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:58 | |
The reception cameras there show how, when one of their employees | 0:24:58 | 0:25:02 | |
lets himself out of the locked main door, the thief nips smartly in. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:06 | |
He waited for the door to be opened by that member of staff. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
The thief pretends to be on the phone again | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
and walks through to the office areas. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
When at one point he is challenged by a member of staff, | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
he is ready with an answer. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
She said, "What you doing?", | 0:25:21 | 0:25:23 | |
and he said, "Well, I'm here to do an audit." | 0:25:23 | 0:25:25 | |
He went about his business counting up the work stations | 0:25:25 | 0:25:29 | |
and all the electrical hardware and helped himself to a few. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:31 | |
The light-fingered laptop thief | 0:25:31 | 0:25:33 | |
gets away with four more stolen machines in his backpack, | 0:25:33 | 0:25:37 | |
but the next day when Richard goes in to investigate, he gets a lead. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:41 | |
This time, the thief has made a mistake. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
He may have left behind some DNA evidence. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:47 | |
He was walking around with a clipboard. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
On the clipboard, the witness had told us were some papers, | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
but he stupidly forgot to take those with him. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:56 | |
The paperwork is sent for forensic analysis. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:58 | |
Richard also has the CCTV images. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
We produced a couple of close-up stills from this | 0:26:01 | 0:26:05 | |
and circulated them. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:07 | |
Some officers think they recognise him and put forward a name. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:11 | |
Darren Harriot. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:14 | |
The DNA results back from the lab confirm it is him. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:18 | |
We had a number of addresses for the suspect. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
But all their leads turn out to be dead ends. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
Harriot is in hiding. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:25 | |
They continue their hunt, but the next time they see him | 0:26:25 | 0:26:29 | |
is a few weeks later on CCTV after another crime. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:33 | |
He walks straight past the front desk and waves at the staff. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:37 | |
He was so brazen and acted with extreme confidence. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:41 | |
He even helps himself to a hot drink. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:44 | |
He appears to have obtained a coffee from the premises. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:48 | |
And he waves on his way out too. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:50 | |
Thanks very much, I've got two laptops in my bag. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:54 | |
Over several weeks, Harriot strikes again and again, | 0:26:56 | 0:27:01 | |
managing to evade capture. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:02 | |
It's extremely frustrating that you know who is doing it, | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
but you can't actually get hold of them. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:09 | |
Patrols are increased in the early evening period around offices | 0:27:09 | 0:27:13 | |
and we're doing everything we can with all our contacts | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
to find out where he is. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:17 | |
The team check out every lead they can find, no matter how small. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
We came upon a tiny, tiny snippet of information. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:26 | |
I just wanted to get it bottomed-out straight away. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:29 | |
This small scrap of intelligence points to an address | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
where Harriot could be hiding out. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
I went round to the address. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
Much to my surprise, he opened the door. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
And, finally, after all of their hard work, | 0:27:39 | 0:27:42 | |
police arrest the elusive Darren Harriot. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
His business suit and mobile phone just seized, | 0:27:45 | 0:27:49 | |
Richard compiles all the evidence for the court case. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:53 | |
Harriot is found guilty | 0:27:56 | 0:27:58 | |
and sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison. | 0:27:58 | 0:28:01 | |
I'm really, really pleased that he has finally been put behind bars. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:07 | |
That's it for today. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:12 | |
Join us next time when police and the public | 0:28:12 | 0:28:15 | |
catch more criminals red-handed. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:17 | |
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