Episode 2 Fugitives

-EXPLOSION

-Come on!

-On the run...

-Get back here!

-..and over here.

Hands out now. Hands out!

When foreign criminals flee their home countries, many hide out in the UK.

-Give me your hands.

-But if they think they're safe, they're wrong.

They know they're wanted.

A lot of these people are waiting for that knock on the door.

But the traffic in fugitives isn't all one way.

Across Europe, there are hundreds of British criminals

also trying to escape justice.

From the sun-drenched costas, where the villains seek a life of luxury...

..to the busy streets of the Dutch capital

where many continue their life of crime,

we join the crack teams hunting them down.

When you take the risk to come to Amsterdam as a criminal

there's a high chance that we get you.

When it comes to justice, borders are no barrier.

You're under arrest under the Extradition Act 2003.

This is how the police take down the fugitives...

Police officer!

..both at home and abroad.

If you're thinking of running, don't.

We will find you.

We will bring you back.

On today's programme...

..Dutch police hunt British criminals

who think they've got away with it.

The message is don't come over here

because you're not safe here as well.

In Leeds, there's no place to hide for a large-scale drug dealer

who should be in a Polish prison.

She brought that about, not West Yorkshire Police.

She brought that about.

Hi, it's police. Could you let us in?

And in Hereford,

a major operation to find the men and women living life on the run.

We're going to take them away from their family,

we're going to send them back to a place where they've left

that they don't want to be.

Across Europe, fugitives are on the run.

For many Brits the destination is Amsterdam.

The city's easy to access and English is widely spoken.

For Dutch police, the manhunt never stops.

In February 2011, a Dutch SWAT team were preparing to raid a house

in the village of Kortenhoef, just outside the capital,

where a British fugitive was hiding out.

We got the information that he was here in the neighbourhood,

that he was very violent, and maybe armed.

EXPLOSION, GLASS SHATTERS

The wanted man was Sean Devalda.

Detective Chief Inspector Aaron Duggan from Greater Manchester Police

had been hunting for him since 2007.

Back then the detectives were tracking a gang of armed robbers

from Salford, planning to hijack a cash delivery van.

They would steal motor vehicles from people's houses during burglaries.

The cars are then put on false plates and are used

in the commission of armed robberies.

We were behind this team and we were aware of what they were up to.

Sean Devalda formed part of this armed robbery team

with three others.

In early 2007, surveillance officers were watching as members of the gang

driving cars they'd stolen met up in a lay-by.

What we observed during the course of the investigation was the stolen

vehicles being parked up here on false plates

doing dry runs down into Salford

where the cash depot is and what we actually observed

was one of the stolen vehicles from here actually drive,

peel off behind a cash-in-transit vehicle,

enter the M60 here at junction 19.

The surveillance helped officers

work out where and when the thieves would strike.

It also led them to one of the gang's main players.

Sean Devalda came into the investigation late in the day.

We only identified who he was reasonably late on.

But we were satisfied that he was part of the team that were looking at committing commercial robberies.

Within weeks the gang swung into action.

But the police too were ready and waiting to catch them in the act.

Sean Devalda, on the day in question, was in a stolen vehicle,

a stolen car that was on false plates,

and we were surveilling that vehicle.

So, we were aware of who was in the vehicle.

We had measures in place, should they commit a crime,

that we could intervene, or prevent it from happening in the first place.

As detectives tailed Devalda and his three accomplices,

they seemed to panic.

They abandoned their mission,

speeding off into the back streets of Salford.

For whatever reason they decided to abort on the day in question

and two items were discarded from the vehicle.

In their panic the men made a crucial mistake.

A mask and a gun were hurled from the car.

There just happened to be a nine millimetre weapon that was loaded

with seven live bullets and a balaclava.

And obviously evidence was present on the items that linked Sean Devalda to that vehicle.

His DNA was in it, basically.

So we were able to put him to that item.

Three of the gang were arrested but Devalda was more elusive.

Detectives turned to the public for help.

MUSIC: Crimewatch Theme Tune

Take a good look at this lot.

First up is Sean Devalda, who's 21,

goes by the nickname Tusk and has strong links to Salford,

Prestwich and parts of Bolton.

But he's very dangerous,

so if you see him don't approach him, just dial 999.

But it was too late to appeal to Crimewatch viewers.

The armed robber had already fled from the UK.

Now he was living the high life in the Spanish sunshine.

He was well supported financially.

He was living in decent accommodation.

He was attending big pool parties

that cost an awful lot of money to get in.

But he was with a number of close friends and associates of his

that were looking after him.

Later, how Devalda's luxury life on the run

would be undone by his own phone calls.

Twice a year, roads police across the UK run a special operation

tracking down foreign criminals using the British road network.

Are you both known to the police at all?

No?

It's run from a hub in Birmingham

linking up with 12 European forces in the never-ending search

for the 18,000 criminals who go on the run in Europe every year.

We deal with a full range of offences from murder, rape,

robbery, all down to lower-level offences.

But these can often be people who are wanted in their own country

but are currently living in the UK.

-We need passports.

-That documentation is crucial for the quick removal of those people.

Passports is the main thing to stop them leaving.

Today in Worcestershire, police constables Karl Lacey and Danny Evans

have a list of people to track down who are wanted abroad.

We are going to go to these addresses today,

locate and arrest on behalf of the Polish and Romanian authorities.

We're just arriving at one of the addresses now in Redditch.

This is a Romanian female that we're looking for here,

wanted on drugs offences.

We're just pulling into the close now.

So we're going to secure the front and back of the house.

Hopefully she'll be there.

The intention is to knock the door,

try and get in the house as quick as we can and detain this female.

This one here. This one here.

Before approaching the door,

the team want to make sure all other potential exits are covered.

Yes, yes. Back secure.

The top window's open and the patio door's open. Received?

To be honest, I don't think she'll be able to get out the back here.

There's a top window open there.

While Karl and Danny watch the back,

officers Matt and Jim knock on the door.

A Romanian man answers.

Who else is in the house?

Uh, two colleagues.

-Two colleagues?

-Yeah, and one family.

OK, are they upstairs?

-Yeah.

-OK.

-Please...

Do you want to just go and have a seat in the kitchen for me?

-Yeah, OK.

-And we'll go and have a little knock-up, all right?

You wait here, all right?

The police have intelligence to suggest the woman has recently lived here.

It's essential they speak to all the occupants to check if anyone matches

the description of the wanted woman.

Hello. Morning.

-Yes, yes, two males.

-Police.

KNOCKING ON DOOR

-Five occupants now.

-Have you got ID?

While they double-check the identities of everybody here,

Danny makes sure there's no place a fugitive could be hiding.

-It's clear.

-The woman isn't here

but police suspect that someone will know where she is.

When did she move out?

-Five months.

-Five months ago?

-Something like that.

-Right, OK.

The lady that we're looking for has moved out about five months ago so

they're just doing some enquiries now with the remaining occupants to see if we can get her phone number.

Or some further address.

It just appeared that she couldn't pay her rent properly

so she'd been kicked out of her house.

But then the tenant who previously denied all knowledge

lets on that he knows where the woman works.

OK, we'll go and have a little look.

Sorry to wake you up. OK?

But thank you for your help. OK?

And we'll try and see if we can speak to her.

-All right? I'll let you get back to bed. OK.

-OK, thank you.

They're all Romanian occupants in the house.

They've been quite engaging with us

so we're going to go to the work premises.

We know she definitely does work there because they work there

and they saw her there a couple of days ago.

It's a short drive to the factory

where the fugitive is apparently working.

But when the team arrive, the woman accused of drug dealing has disappeared.

The premises that we've attended today,

the lady's been fired from.

They haven't got no forwarding address for her at the moment.

The only address that they've got is...

..the one that we've been to.

The lead then went cold on that

because they didn't know where she'd gone

and we had no way of finding out.

Hunting fugitives is a cat and mouse game

where success is never guaranteed.

It can be very frustrating when you don't find people that you

are tasked to find.

If you don't get the result that you're after but you've exhausted every lead,

at least you can be satisfied to know

that you've not left any stone unturned.

We just need to wait for her now to pop her head up,

make some sort of application, do something,

where we can just get a new address for them.

The woman may have avoided capture today

but the police will never give up the chase.

Hi, it's police. Could you let us in?

Later, we'll see how Karl and Danny's determination

finally pays off when they find another target IS at home.

-Vilias?

-Yeah.

-You're Vilias, yeah?

-Yeah.

-OK, we've got him, Sarge.

In February 2007, armed robber Sean Devalda went on the run.

He'd been part of a gang who tried and failed

to rob a cash van in Salford.

Police suspected he'd fled to Spain.

The National Crime Agency, who track down British criminals who flee abroad,

began to search for him.

We tried to build up a picture to see who he would be communicating with,

or he would be frequently visiting, who would be coming visiting him...

Trying to get a good clear understanding of where Sean was

and how best we could capture him.

They discovered that Devalda wasn't alone in Spain.

It seemed being a fugitive was a family trait.

He was in Spain with his brother who was also wanted by Lancashire Police

for a similar offence.

We wanted them locked up, cos even though they were out of the country,

they still presented a risk.

Whilst the Devalda brothers were sunning themselves in Spain,

the other men who'd planned to rob the cash delivery van weren't so lucky.

The trial went ahead despite Devalda being on the run at the time and his

co-conspirators were found guilty in early 2008.

Devalda was convicted in his absence.

Police across Europe were asked to join in the manhunt.

It took three years before detectives in Manchester heard that Devalda had been spotted.

But by then he'd left Spain for Amsterdam, using false documents to conceal his identity.

Whilst on the run, Devalda was able to obtain a number of false

identities that allowed him basically to travel from Spain to Amsterdam

without being apprehended by the authorities.

But Devalda didn't stay long in the city.

His phone records soon revealed his country hideout.

They knew that he was in a rural part of the Netherlands

surrounded by water, little inlets, fenced-off community,

so it was quite clear that they'd got a good lock on him.

Now it was down to the Dutch police.

We have methods to get somebody by surprise.

Was the fugitive's run of good luck about to come to an end?

EXPLOSION

In the last ten years, around 2,000 British fugitives have fled from the UK.

Many head for Amsterdam's crowded streets and Spain's busy beaches.

But what makes a desperate man go on the run?

A moment of panic or a premeditated plan?

Andrew Moran staged one of the most dramatic escapes from justice

ever seen in Britain.

On the last day of his trial for armed robbery, he leapt the dock.

It was a move he'd spent weeks planning,

even down to the trainers he was wearing that day.

To succeed in making such a dramatic escape,

former undercover cop Peter Bleksley believes that a criminal needs to be

good at planning ahead.

The small-time villain who sees an open window and clambers into

somebody's house, almost on the spur of the moment,

stuffs his pockets full of jewellery and cash and then runs away,

doesn't really plan much beyond that.

People involved in very serious crime tend to spend a large amount

of their time plotting and planning those crimes.

Consequently, they think about what they'll do if they get identified.

These people invariably have criminal networks

that cross borders and these networks are able to support them,

keep them hidden and away from the law.

Fugitives rely on these networks.

In Moran's case, associates provided him with a luxury hideout and

transport around Spain's Costa Blanca.

But friends and family can inadvertently lead detectives

to the man they're trying to track down.

As former police Inspector Brendan O'Brien explains.

We would focus on their parents, their girlfriends,

their cousins, their friends.

We would visit them at all sorts of extraordinary times of

the day. Any legal and ethical way of finding them, we would utilise.

And every time we went into an address we'd be looking for little clues as

to whether they'd been there or not.

I've not come across anyone who's been wanted

who's completely broken all ties with their friends and family.

Ultimately, it was Moran's girlfriend who led police to his hideaway.

But whilst some fugitives like Moran manage to stay hidden for years,

others, including Glen Madden,

find being away from family and friends just too difficult.

The drug dealer fled from Liverpool to Amsterdam in February 2015.

Just four months later, he was spotted walking around the city in broad daylight.

When officers arrested him, they were surprised by his response.

When he was arrested the suspect said, "I'm relieved...

"I'm glad that you've got me,"

because he had a lot of pressure.

To be on the run...

..takes a lot of energy.

It's not a comfortable way of living.

Peter Bleksley knows to his cost

what it's like to live a life in hiding.

He was once placed in witness protection for his own safety.

I was in fear of the footsteps behind me.

I was in fear of every passing car.

Because my thoughts were, "Is this the person that's come to kill me?"

When a fugitive feels, "Is this the person that's come to catch me?"

the pressure is constant.

Forever living your life looking over your shoulder is a very,

very wearing, demoralising, unpleasant experience.

When that hand finally lands on their shoulder,

their wrists go into the handcuffs,

it can sometimes be a relief because all that time, all that pressure,

all those stresses and strains of being a fugitive suddenly disappear.

West Yorkshire, with its population of over two million people,

has one of the busiest extradition units in the UK.

Other than the Metropolitan Police with quite a sizeable team,

we in West Yorkshire have executed more European Arrest Warrants

than any other force in the country.

That's done on purpose to protect our communities.

On the front line, it's PC Dave Lockwood and his partner PC Tom Allen's job

to hunt down foreign nationals wanted for committing crimes back in their native countries.

Tonight they have two urgent cases.

The first is a violent man who's been on the run for three years.

He is now thought to be hiding out in one of the UK's biggest cities.

We are going to Leeds and we are looking for a Polish male,

Przemyslaw Milewski, and he's wanted for a robbery.

Reading through it, the robbery, he's kicked him all over the body,

used force, and hit him in order to get his mobile phone.

He's used threats to kill the victim and then he's actually kidnapped the

victim and thrown him in the boot of a Skoda Octavia and taken him to an

unknown location and terrorised him further.

He's then stolen his identity card,

committed a fraud by, I think, obtaining money.

In short, he's exactly the sort of criminal West Yorkshire Police

want off their streets.

People who try to evade justice in Europe by hiding in the

communities of West Yorkshire

are a risk to the people in West Yorkshire.

Those offenders do not come to West Yorkshire

to resettle and rehabilitate.

They come, firstly, to escape justice in the country where

they're wanted, then they come to West Yorkshire as an unknown commodity

but proficient in committing crime.

This house is the last known address for the man they're after.

KNOCKING ON DOOR

Contact.

-Female's coming down.

-Cool.

But the woman who answers the door claims not to know him.

We're here because we're looking for a gentleman who we believed was

resident at one of these two flats.

Do you know anybody by the name of...

..Przemyslaw Milewski?

-No.

-Are we OK just to come up and have a look?

Is that OK?

We need to speak to this gentleman, that's all, so...

Rather than taking her at her word, the officers go inside

to search the premises.

She's never heard of this gentleman, she's lived here for three years.

Looks honest, looks like she's telling the truth

but the connection is that she's Polish.

Obviously the male we want is Polish.

People do sometimes...

..lie and not tell us the truth.

So rather than just talking on the doorstep, since we're here,

with her permission, we're just going to have a look and make sure there's no belongings for a male.

The trail that led them to this address seems to have gone cold.

I think for now we're pretty much stuck on this one, aren't we?

We've got intelligence linking him here one month ago.

We know for a fact he definitely lived here in 2011.

But there's intelligence showing him as being here a month ago.

-Move on to the next one?

-Yeah.

Thank you very much. I see your keys here.

Are you coming down to let us out?

Thank you very much, love.

Wanted people are never helpful.

They will hide or they will fight and stay on the move.

It's frustrating, but eventually we catch up with them because they fall

asleep, they stay in places for a little longer and we catch them.

The officers will never give up.

Once there's new intelligence, the search for the man linked to this

address a month ago will start again.

And with around 1,500 European criminals fleeing to the UK each year,

there are plenty more to go after.

The officers' next warrant is for a serious drug dealer from Poland.

She's been part of an organised crime group producing and trafficking

amphet and cannabis throughout Poland.

The sort of numbers we're talking about here is 6,000g of pure amphet.

So, a good level.

Later, intelligence suggests

this may be the Leeds home of the Polish drug dealer

wanted for selling amphetamines with a street value

of tens of thousands of pounds.

It's the police. Can you open the door, please?

There's a little girl. She's about three.

But could this woman really be the ruthless drug dealer Dave and Tom are looking for?

In Herefordshire, traffic cops Karl Lacey and Danny Evans

are taking part in a national operation tackling foreign offenders.

They have a list of fugitives wanted abroad they need to track down.

We're going back across Hereford again now and we're in possession of a European Arrest Warrant for a male

who is wanted for burglary in Lithuania.

It's our intention to go to the address and make some enquiries.

Hopefully if he's there we can arrest him.

On arrival, the team of officers fan out to surround the property.

They know they're trying to catch a serious offender,

Vilius Slyzauskas, who is on the run to escape a six-year jail sentence.

This man was wanted.

He'd been convicted of burglary offences of a six-year imprisonment

and he was currently outstanding and absconded from them.

-Is it a flat number?

-Four.

Uh, flat two.

We've attended the address.

Do the... Do their...

We've tried to put a cordon on the area to prevent him from escaping from the property.

To get past the security door, Danny employs a trick of the trade.

It's a communal flats.

We've pressed the intercom,

I've covered up the camera so he didn't see

who was on the other side of the door and he's just opened the door.

-'Yes?'

-Hi, it's police, could you let us in?

-Hello.

-Hi.

-Hello.

-Hello, how are you?

-All right?

-All right. Are you flat number two, are you, sir?

-Sorry?

-Flat number two?

-Yeah.

-Um...

That's you.

Slyzauskas has been at large for over a year and a half.

Have you got your passport?

-Vilius?

-Yeah.

-You're Vilius, yeah?

-Yeah.

OK, we've got him, Sarge.

There's an element of it's always going to catch up with him at some point

but mid-morning on a rainy day

I don't think he expected the police to be knocking his door and taking him away.

You're under arrest under the Extradition Act 2003.

You do not have to say anything.

Anything that you do say may be given in evidence.

Just pop your arms out like that for me.

I need to get your passport, OK?

-It's in the car.

-OK.

Just wait there. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Why don't take car keys?

-Your car keys are in the flat, yeah?

-Yeah.

-OK, come in there.

Inside is Slyzauskas's shocked childminder and his young daughter.

Hello, madam, are you all right?

Do you speak English OK?

No. No. No English, OK.

Slyzauskas is getting increasingly agitated.

BLEEP.

Have we got his keys?

I just need your passport.

He may have come across a little bit aggressive.

I don't think that was the case.

I just think he was just upset and he realised he'd been caught.

He might have been a bit upset with himself which isn't nice for him to

show that in front of his daughter.

Obviously we're going to take them away from their family.

We're going to send them back to a place where

they've left, that they don't want to be.

So it's understandable in some respects that they're going to get upset about it.

You be happy?

It's my family here.

Yeah.

Right, first of all, calm.

-Yeah, yeah.

-Be calm, OK?

-OK, OK.

-If you're not calm, OK...

Just coming out with one now.

Stand by.

-Just calm yourself down.

-OK, OK.

If you've committed a crime and you've been sentenced or you're due to be in court for that crime,

you've got to take responsibility for it and go.

You understand that it's a European Arrest Warrant from Lithuania, OK?

That's why you've been arrested, OK?

-You understand that.

-OK.

Just need his coat.

The wanted man is taken to Hereford custody suite.

Upon arresting him he was a little bit upset.

Quite agitated, to be fair to him.

Why we wanted to handcuff him quite quickly just to get control of him.

To be fair, he's calmed down now he's got into the custody block.

But we'll see how we get on putting him in.

-FB?

-Fingerprinting, it should say.

-Oh, its FP!

The minute we arrest somebody a clock starts ticking.

It's a police clock, effectively.

We've got a certain amount of time that we can deal with this individual.

And within 24 hours we have to get him to a Magistrates' Court.

On this particular occasion it was Westminster Magistrates' Court.

And rightly so. He needs to be processed quickly.

But similarly we need to abide by the rules we've got,

make sure it's an effective arrest and...

..he doesn't get off with anything. He knows what's going on.

He is going to need an interpreter.

-Yeah.

-But he understands the principle of what's happened.

It's a European Arrest Warrant.

It's ultimately for two counts of theft from dwelling.

Officers in custody suites in the UK have become increasingly used to

dealing with foreign offenders.

Whilst they're treated with courtesy and offered an interpreter,

they're left in no doubt that they're not welcome here.

OK, can you explain to this gentleman that my name is Sergeant O'Reilly?

He's obviously just been booked in by my colleague but I'm going to run

through the rest of the assessment.

The process has to be done properly.

We've done these arrest warrants so frequently now you kind of get a way

of knowing what you need to do and when you need to do it.

Vilius Slyzauskas will soon be taken to London to appear in a Westminster

extradition court.

For Karl and Danny, another European Arrest Warrant has been successfully served.

We're not here to make any mistakes, you know?

We've got a duty to the people that this guy's burgled to make sure that

he's brought to justice.

Back in 2011,

police in Amsterdam were on the hunt for a dangerous fugitive.

Armed robber Sean Devalda had gone on the run four years earlier

after a robbery on a cash transit van was foiled by police in Salford.

Jeroen Poelert and his crack team of detectives were determined that this

fugitive would be tracked down.

We got the information that he was here in the neighbourhood,

he should be. That he was very violent and maybe armed.

So that...

That worries us.

So we put extra effort on this case and we start an

investigation, so a whole team is focusing to get the person.

Inspector Remco van Huys was in charge of the hunt.

He discovered Devalda was using a mobile phone in a rural area 20 miles from Amsterdam.

We were able to trace down in this area,

this is Kortenhoef in Holland,

it's not a very busy area so we had a bit of a problem...

..to locate him.

But we knew that his telephone was somewhere around here.

To find somebody...

..when you look back it's always easy

but when you begin, you have nothing.

You have only a name and the information from abroad.

Yes, we think he is in your neighbourhood.

And you just start.

It's like a big puzzle and you only need one piece

and then you make it bigger.

And in this case we used his telephone.

But whilst they knew that Devalda was in the area,

Remco and his team were struggling to pinpoint his exact location.

The phone taps gave us the information that he was going to flee to Spain,

to Tenerife,

at the beginning of February so we had to move rather quickly.

It was time to switch tactics.

Using old-fashioned surveillance, the undercover cops

had to spot the fugitive in person.

We saw him coming out of one of the houses and then it was for us the

point, OK, now we are 100% sure that he's in the house.

So we tried to, we start our preparations to arrest him.

But in the four years since Devalda had fled,

his appearance had changed drastically.

We asked our British colleagues to come over

because we knew that he had false passports,

so we also wanted someone who could identify him.

To help Dutch police make sure they had the right man,

the National Crime Agency dispatched Graham Roberts to the scene.

They asked whether I could go over to the Netherlands

to give a briefing to the Dutch national police,

to give them an understanding of who Sean was and to explain to them

how much of a high-profile individual he was.

The Dutch police's elite SWAT team

were called in and readied themselves to strike.

We were so close, we could smell him.

We thought that we'd...

..be able to move in on him.

Could the dangerous fugitive's years on the run finally be over?

In Leeds, officers Dave Lockwood and Tom Allen from West Yorkshire Police

regularly search out foreign criminals wanted by police in their native country.

Tonight they're looking for a member of a serious organised crime gang

involved in the manufacture and distribution of illegal drugs.

The criminal they're after was convicted in Poland

and still has seven months of her prison sentence left to serve.

The sort of numbers we're talking about here is 6,000g of pure amphet.

So, a good level.

The offences date back to 2000, 1st of January 2000,

and go right through to...

..March 2007.

Poland wants to put this fugitive back behind bars.

West Yorkshire's police investigation has led them to this house

where they've found a Polish grandmother who speaks no English.

We're looking for Sylwia Sokolowska.

Is that yourself?

No? What's your name?

-ID card?

-Er...

Or passport?

SHE SPEAKS POLISH

Yeah, do you want to ring somebody,

a son or daughter that speaks English?

If not we can get Language Line.

The woman has called her daughter to translate.

What's your mum called, please?

Sylwia...

And what's her surname? Sokolowska.

Right, can I ask whereabouts do you live?

Are you local?

The woman's denied her name but Tom's speaking to the daughter

who has confirmed it is the wanted person.

I don't think it's malicious from her mother.

I think it's just poor English.

The woman's name is confirmed as Sylwia Analia Sokolowska.

She IS the one they're looking for.

Would that be OK, if you could?

Just stay on the line. What I'm going to do,

I'm going to pass you back to your mum.

If you can just...

If you just explain to her for now

that there is a warrant that's been issued in Poland for her arrest,

she doesn't need to worry,

and we'll explain in more details when the family member turns up and can translate for us. All right?

Tell her not to panic or get upset.

I don't like it when there's little kids in t'house.

You know, a three, four-year-old and we're going to be taking her grandma away.

Another family member who lives close by has come to translate.

If you can just tell her,

I have given her the documents which explains it.

The Polish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the offence of

supplying controlled drugs.

OK? What Poland are telling us is that they want Sylwia to go back to

serve the rest of her sentence now.

She's going to be under arrest...

..for the offence.

As she begins to understand that justice has finally caught up with her,

the convicted drug dealer starts to get upset.

There is a human consequence and I feel for the family who lost

Grandmother. But she brought that about, not West Yorkshire Police,

SHE brought that about.

As she is arrested and taken from the house,

her family is also devastated.

Everyone's crying. The lady we've arrested's crying, daughter's crying,

the little girl's crying.

They're thinking this is the last time they're going to see her now

because we're going to take her, she's going to go to police station,

she's going to go to court, because they can't pay the bail she's going to go to prison.

So, they're really worried that she's going to, from there, go to Poland.

So unless they can get to London to see her at court or in prison,

they're really worried that obviously we're taking Grandma away.

She is wanted for some serious offences so there's nothing else

we're going to do bar arrest her and take her in.

This example with Sylwia demonstrates how police officers who are rightly

executing that warrant to extradite Sylwia so she could face justice

carried out that, but did it in such a way that was sympathetic to the

family and delicate, particularly where the granddaughter was concerned.

All right?

If you were to see her out in the street or see her in the supermarket,

you wouldn't think the offences that's been put with her, or...

..what we've been told she's done.

No, you certainly wouldn't. I certainly wouldn't.

Just up to where Dave is, please.

At the police station, the drug dealing grandmother's fingerprints are taken and sent

to Poland to confirm her identity.

For now she'll be locked in a cell and held in custody until she can be

brought before a judge and her case decided.

Though it's come as a shock to the woman and her family,

the police make no apologies for this arrest.

Drug dealers perpetuate misery

and the crime that funds that drug addiction.

So all drug dealers present as a single offender but I argue

that behind every drug dealer is a massive wave of criminality and misery

brought about by their greed and drug-trafficking.

It's the early hours of the morning

in a small village on the outskirts of Amsterdam.

A Dutch SWAT team is preparing to seize armed robber Sean Devalda.

He's a violent criminal who's been on the run for four years.

This is a dangerous operation.

Because of the difficulty to walk to the house and because we know it was

a very large criminal, we thought maybe there were weapons involved,

we didn't do the arrest ourselves but we asked our special raid team.

Graham Roberts from the National Crime Agency

was standing by to identify the wanted man.

It was around 4am or 5am.

The SWAT team had got in place.

My colleague and I were sat in a vehicle quite close by

and listening to a Dutch commentary and not understanding a word,

and just hoping for the positive words that he'd been arrested.

EXPLOSION, GLASS SHATTERS

But even after the arrest was made,

the Dutch team weren't sure who they'd captured.

We didn't recognise him from the picture

when he was arrested by the raid team.

But our British colleague was there.

At first Graham found it difficult to confirm the arrested man was indeed Devalda.

I remember walking through the door,

lots of police officers around,

and there was an individual there who looked nothing like the photo,

the mugshot, that I'd seen of Sean Devalda.

And then I was passed an Irish passport.

It was only then when I had a look at the Irish passport

and some of the documents, that I took over, I then started to see a striking resemblance.

And when I asked the officers, could I have a good look in Devalda's eyes?

It was then that I realised that that was him.

Detective Chief Inspector Aaron Duggan from Greater Manchester Police

had been hunting Devalda for four years.

He flew to Holland to bring the fugitive home to justice.

When I told him he was under arrest I could see a marked change in his

body language. He looked at the floor

and that's when I knew that it had dawned on him

that he was going to prison.

For the Dutch police, the operation to track down one of Europe's most

wanted was a great success.

It was very satisfying.

We were quite happy with the results.

The message is, don't come over here because you're not safe here as well.

EXPLOSION, GLASS SHATTERS

After four years on the run,

Sean Devalda was sentenced to six years in prison.

He was released in 2014 but is now back inside for drugs offences.

In June 2016, burglar Vilius Slyzauskas was sent back to Lithuania after losing his

appeal against extradition.

Drug dealing grandmother Sylwia Sokolowska should have been extradited

back to Poland in November 2016.

But she went on the run before she could be put on a military flight

back to a Polish prison.

There's now another warrant out for her arrest in the UK.