Episode 4 Neighbourhood Blues

Policing in the 21st century has come full circle.

Good evening, all.

The old, romantic notion of the bobby on the beat,

like Sergeant George Dixon 50 years ago, is very much back in favour.

It's here.

A new, caring force has been created, that works in collaboration

with the community it serves, called the Neighbourhood Policing Team.

You're under arrest, OK? For assault.

Now, the teams are in every local area of the country...

Get him!

We've got a runner.

..cracking down on antisocial behaviour...

-Stay here!

-Ow!

I've had enough.

..busting suspected drug dens...

He's back there, I can see him!

There's a very large grow in this room.

Jackpot.

..and laying down the law to crooks and criminals.

-Do as you're told.

-I weren't even

-BLEEP

-driving it.

In this new series of Neighbourhood Blues,

we are following the men and women from the Humberside Police Force.

You're under arrest.

I'm arresting you for possession of a controlled substance.

As they strive to make our streets a safer place.

Coming up...

The Neighbourhood Team gets called in

as horses take over the streets of Hull.

Excuse me, would you mind moving out the road, so I can go, please?

A pair of warring neighbours' relationship reaches rock bottom.

There's just a big hole in the window.

And an abusive drunk gives officers a rough ride.

Get off me, now.

Travelling communities are often unfairly accused

of causing trouble and crime in the areas they live in.

The Neighbourhood Police in Hull generally have a good

relationship with the travellers who come on their patch,

except for one day a year,

when they take their horses out on to the streets of the city.

It's bank holiday Sunday in Hull.

But very few members of the Neighbourhood Team

are enjoying a day off.

Today they've heard that members of the travelling

community are planning a horse drive,

where they ride their horses and carts around the roads in Hull.

An injunction has been taken out to stop the event from happening,

and police are there to enforce it.

For those that don't know, and I'm sure most of you will,

last year a horse drive took place on North Hull.

It involved around 90 horses and carriages, and up to 300 persons.

The previous year's event descended into chaos,

with people dangerously racing their horse-drawn carriages

on public roads, putting motorists and pedestrians at risk.

The problem the police have today is,

because it's an unofficial event,

they don't know for sure exactly where it will take place

or how many people or horses will turn up.

The intelligence is that something's going to happen today.

Unfortunately, we don't know what.

We know a number of pubs within the North Hull area have been approached

and asked to host this event.

All have turned them down so far, and don't want anything to do with it.

Despite the injunction,

the police are expecting something to happen somewhere

and want to make sure things don't get out of hand.

The key word is obstruction, and again, if we get ones or twos,

people turning on horse and carts, we don't have to worry about them.

One of the things is,

we can't stop people lawfully using the highway.

That's one of the key points the council wanted to make.

If we do have to make an arrest,

or you do feel it necessary to deal with somebody for an offence,

and we need to seize that horse and carriage,

which is the first thing that's going to cause issues for you,

we've got mounted officers with an empty horse box

who will come and collect the horse.

We've got the capacity to deal with these incidents.

But it's just to reassure you that we've got those capabilities

available to us.

OK, thank you, everybody.

Good luck today.

PCSO Dawn Brown is patrolling her usual beat,

when she spots a vehicle which looks like it might be involved

with the day's events.

-Hiya!

-Hiya!

-You all right?

-Yeah.

Is this for the horse fair?

-Is what?

-Is this for the horse fair?

Horse fair?

It's an opportunity for Dawn to find out what might be going on today.

Are we expecting a lot for the fair in Hull, then?

Are we expecting a lot of horses?

Last year there was over 100, wasn't there?

You know, it's been going on for years,

and, like, a lot of people don't want to see it dying out, obviously.

So, I think it's coming back in a bit now.

One of the good things about being a PCSO is that you're on the street

and you can talk to people, you engage with them.

He was very friendly, very warm towards us, as we were with them.

And it just needs that to happen more and more.

I think with the horse fair, there's a problem there,

is that it's potentially dangerous.

One of the big things, you need to take out insurance on these things,

and they're not doing that, they're not taking out insurance.

If something happens that could be potentially very dangerous,

we're not covered for that.

And they're going across main roads, across big junctions,

and thinking that that's acceptable to do, when it's not, really.

To stop the event from taking place, police

and the local council have taken out an injunction.

PC Andy Derbyshire is in charge of posting injunction notices in a

number of pubs in North Hull, where travellers might decide to gather.

We're just going to one of the local pubs, called the Spotted Dog.

So, we're just asking the landlords, the landladies,

just to put the copies of the injunction in a prominent place.

Just to make sure that anybody that does turn up who's

planning on going to this event can see it and read it,

and obviously be aware of what's going on.

-Hello!

-Good afternoon.

-Is the boss in?

-Yes.

Right, can I have a quick word?

-Andy Derbyshire, I work for the neighbourhood team.

-Great.

Um, just to speak to you about this horse fair

that's supposed to be happening over the weekend.

-I'd like to know about this.

-We've managed to get an injunction

-with regards to having the event stopped.

-Right.

I won't say I expect any trouble but you're always on the lookout for it.

In large amounts, I would never serve them.

Small amounts, yes, which we have had a few times.

They haven't caused no hassle.

-Right, thank you very much.

-No problem.

Hopefully there'll be no problems, but if there is, just give us

-a bell straight away.

-That's guaranteed.

-No worries.

-Lovely.

-Thanks for that.

-Cheers.

-See you soon.

-Thank you very much.

-Ta-ra, now.

So, he's been given a mobile number to contact

if he has any issues with any travellers just turning up,

if he wants them removing from the area or something like that,

or if he refuses to serve them and they refuse to go,

then obviously we're on hand just to give them a bit of a hand with that.

Which I think he's going to appreciate.

If it was done properly, if it was stewarded properly,

if it was run properly, then perhaps we wouldn't have an issue with it,

we'd just police it as normal, let it run its course.

And that's it, everybody goes away.

Unfortunately, there are some of them who just go mad on the horses

or on the horse and carts,

and they're the few that just cause problems for the majority.

With little information about where the event is taking place,

community officers are keeping their eyes out for any equine action.

PC Nick Deacon has run into some on the outskirts of Hull.

I would guess - we're going slowly,

-I would guess there's a horse and cart at the front of this.

-Yeah.

Maybe news of the injunction hasn't reached everybody yet -

or they're choosing to ignore it.

I've just seen two horse and carts going to the right.

Yeah, there's a few gathering here.

November Romeo four two two,

we have five horse and carts at the Fair Maid.

It does look like they're parking up for the day as well,

so I'll go in and have words with the landlord.

It looks like the travellers have found a way round the injunction,

which only excludes them from Hull.

This pub is just outside the city limits,

in the East Riding district.

-Morning!

-Morning, all. You all right?

-Yes, are you?

-Yes.

Guess what?

It looks like you're going to have the travellers.

On the horse and carts, if five have turned up this morning,

and there are a few more heading up this way from Priory Road.

-Are they?

-The problems they found last time

was that they were a little bit on the rowdy side,

and put other families off.

Um, and all the glasses disappeared.

Cos they go out with them and they don't come back again.

If you don't want to let them in, that's your choice.

Um, but it is specifically your choice,

we can't influence that in any way, shape or form.

-I'll give my boss a ring.

-Yeah.

-And see what he thinks.

I'm not very concerned,

they've always been really good with us in the past.

And it is a big family gathering, and we're a family pub.

So, I'm not very concerned - but anything can happen.

Despite being banned from Hull,

it looks like the horse drive is going ahead anyway.

There's little Nick can do now

apart from offer some words of advice to some of the participants.

-How are you doing?

-All right.

-Your horses all right today, then?

-Yeah.

Are you looking forward to it?

-Yep.

-Yep.

You sure? You don't sound very convinced about it.

Well, be better if your lads weren't here, wouldn't it?

Well, no, cos then I make sure you behave yourself

-instead of misbehaving.

-Well, we always behave.

Get away wi' you!

We do.

-Get away wi' you!

-We do.

-If we let it go, it'd be absolute flipping chaos!

-No.

Well, not a problem, we're just here to make sure you behave yourself.

They don't like our police presence,

they think we're here to stop what they're doing.

We're not here to stop what they're doing, we're here to facilitate

what they're doing in a lawful and legal and appropriate manner.

Wahey!

Wahey! Oh.

As lunchtime approaches,

the pub and car park begin to fill up with people and horses.

-ALL:

-Wey!

So, we're still at the Fair Maid.

We've got about 19 horses now, with the carriages.

And probably about the same in vehicles.

Just waiting to see if there's any more people that turn up.

Apparently we've got about four or five

more horse and carts due to turn up.

They have said that they're going on a drive,

but we don't know where they're going to as yet,

so we're just basically gathering some more intel.

HORSE WHINNIES

Where are you going now, then?

We're all going to where the drive is.

-You're going to nowhere, are you?

-Yes.

-Yeah.

They've all come here for a drink,

they're all enjoying a peaceful, quiet time.

There's a few families here, they're not causing us any problems

at this time, and they're allowed to go about their free business

without any real issues.

So, let's just hope it stays as well-humoured

and they behave themselves when they go on their drive.

At the moment, they're not telling us

where they're going on their drive, other than nowhere.

We have looked it up on the map, um...

We can't seem to find nowhere anywhere on the map near here.

So, it's still a bit of a mystery.

But, with the numbers of people and horses growing,

it looks like the horse drive itself isn't far off happening.

We're all going to abide by the road laws,

and we're going to enjoy ourselves.

Is that everybody right? We're going to enjoy ourselves today.

-ALL: Yeah!

-Thank you very much.

Later, we'll see what happens when the horses,

carts and passengers finally hit the road.

Not getting on with your neighbours can be a massive problem.

A recent survey found that it's a major reason for moving house.

Working in the heart of communities,

Neighbourhood Teams often find themselves involved in disputes

between residents, which sometimes get out of hand.

PCs Nadine Wilson and Carl Palmer have just begun their shift

and have had a call about an incident on an estate in North Hull.

So, we've had a report from a member of the public

that some damage has happened in that house.

So, we're just going to see what's happening.

And see if we can catch the offender.

The incident has only just happened,

so they're hoping whoever's done it won't be too far away.

But first they're calling at the house, which has been attacked.

Hi, afternoon.

What's happened, then?

The living room window has had something thrown through it.

Do you know what she's thrown through the window?

-Yeah, it's there, look.

-Is it?

A big brick.

Blimey... All right, OK.

A woman was seen throwing the rock through the window.

So, do you know what it's about, then?

Well, they're all about a bracelet and a ring that's gone missing.

I've got nothing to do with it, I've told him this already.

-So do you know who they are?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

It looks like a dispute between neighbours has got out of hand.

The alleged window-breaker

apparently thinks that her former friend

has stolen jewellery from her, and the attack is in retaliation.

So, has anybody actually seen this woman do it?

Yeah.

-And you're the only person who's...?

-My sister upstairs as well.

-Right, so this has been going on for a week, then?

-Yeah.

Has she been to-ing and fro-ing for a week...?

Yeah, and I've had enough of it, now.

It's been day after day, now.

Last night I nearly fainted on my stairs,

cos of all the stress I've had, and I just can't cope no more.

Did you ever... You should've rung us,

-didn't you think to ring the police?

-I just can't...

-Has she been...?

I'm on the edge of breaking down, and I don't want her here at all.

But if she's been round threatening stuff,

-didn't you think to give us a call?

-I was going to the other night.

But they took me to my son's.

Yeah, I told her to stay at my brother's,

cos I didn't want her here at all.

I'm too protective of her.

We'll have to see if we can get this boarded up.

I'm more than happy to go round now and get her in for it,

that's not an issue.

Having been given the name and address of the woman

who allegedly smashed the window,

Nadine and Carl decide to pay her a visit.

Is it Deborah or is it Debbie?

She doesn't want our camera in the house,

but admits to having thrown the piece of concrete

through the window.

Although she's not being arrested right now.

Because of the way she cooperated with us,

that we've asked her to come to a police station voluntarily.

And we're going to give her a voluntary interview

where she can say what she has to say on a tape,

and then we will take it from there,

we will find out what's going to happen to her after that.

We'll see in a moment what happens

when the rock-throwing neighbour is questioned at the police station.

With the price of metals like copper and lead on the rise,

scrap metal theft has become increasingly commonplace.

Particularly among petty criminals looking to make few quid quickly.

Metal theft isn't a victimless crime.

It often massively affects and inconveniences the public.

Well, I know that scrap metal theft is going on,

and people are stealing metals from the tube and places like that.

I'm a commuter,

and I know that my trains get stopped by people stealing

copper and all different things like that from the train track,

so it is a massively negative thing, and again,

crime is crime at the end of the day.

Nick Deacon has left the pub where the travellers have gathered

to have a look around the neighbouring streets.

It's a walk in the park in comparison,

it's so quiet in comparison with last year's.

By now we were having problems.

But his horse-scouting is put on hold

when he gats a call to assist two PCSOs who are chasing

a suspected scrap metal thief, who's threatened them with a syringe.

-RADIO:

-..one with a garden.

Not too sure which number it is, it's probably about halfway down.

I'll update you if there's anything further.

They've now stopped the man

in a garden which backs onto a large park,

but beyond that, Nick isn't entirely sure where he's heading.

Our PCSOs have somebody detained for something.

He's in a garden somewhere.

The PCSOs have chased

and caught a man who was seen carrying some scrap metal.

He's apparently threatened them, as well.

-We'll have these on for our safety, to start with.

-OK.

-I'm going to talk to these officers.

-All right.

-Find out what you've done.

-I just want to have that roll.

-Pull yourself up.

-Can I have that roll, please?

No, you're not having a fag, no.

You're not having a cigarette.

The suspect is well known to Nick and his colleagues.

What have you been doing, John? Tatting again?

-Yeah, tatting, and I panicked, that's all.

-All right, then.

He's confessed to tatting,

slang for taking items out of skips and scrapyards.

He doesn't have any scrap metal on him, though.

He threw it away during the chase.

Where've you been nicking the metal from?

No, I took it out a skip, and I asked for it.

I just panicked, that's all.

We'll need a double-crewed officer if we're to deal with this gentleman.

-Going to stand you up.

-All right.

-All right?

On your knees... All right, and push that way.

That's it.

-RADIO:

-Romeo two two, that's received, that's been run on 502.

There is several units responding.

I just panicked and run, that's all.

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

if you don't mention something you later rely on.

In order to charge the man with theft,

Nick will need to find the metal and prove that the man's stolen it.

But the suspect is claiming he was given permission to take it.

-Uh-huh.

-It's not metal theft at all, cos I had asked for it.

They said take what I wanted.

Despite his protestations of innocence,

the man is being arrested.

Nick isn't convinced, but will check out the situation.

I will go past that way, just so we can have words with the skip owner.

If that skip owner says you're all OK, you walk.

If the skip owner say, "Whoo, you're a very naughty boy,"

you don't walk.

As they take the suspect to the police car,

the officers are keeping an eye out

for any metal that might have been discarded.

He's probably run and ditched something on the way.

Nick's right.

Something has been ditched.

But it's drugs, not scrap metal.

Yeah, it is amphetamine. He says he hasn't had any.

-It'll be really cloudy.

-Yeah.

John?

You've been seen ditching this, I've just been told.

I haven't ditched anything.

What's in the syringes, so we know for our health and safety?

It's not mine.

I don't know, it's not mine.

Right, well, you're also under arrest

for suspicion of being in possession of a controlled substance.

As well as your theft of the metal.

Nick is going back to the station

to get the suspected amphetamine tested.

So PCs Shaun Davey and Nigel Morgan

are given the job of taking the suspect to the area

where he claims to have found the skip containing the metal.

This gentleman's saying that he got his scrap

metal from a skip around the corner.

Just going to do that enquiry before taking him into custody.

Can't remember if it's left or right up here.

But I know it's just up here.

-You see where that car is, don't you?

-Yeah.

Walk down there, right.

There's a bit open at the gate and loads of rubbish at the back.

And that's where people have been dumping stuff.

And that's where I got it from.

Down there, look.

Nigel has been trained in tracking down people,

so you'd think he'd be able to spot something

as big and immovable as a skip.

But he comes up empty.

No. No, he said it was straight out a skip.

Well, there's no skip there, is there?

-It's just a load of rubbish.

-Yeah.

It's copper, and it's metal, innit? It's not rubbish.

-Yeah, I know, but that's where it was.

-Right, OK.

And there was a guy walking by, just there, I said,

-"Does that belong to anybody?" He said, "No,

-BLEEP

-help yourself."

With no skip, let alone someone allowing people

to take things out of it, the man's story doesn't check out.

So, he's off to the cells to be booked in,

and to be searched to see if he has more drugs.

These officers are going to take you somewhere private,

and they're going to do a strip search on you.

Take your shoes off, and we'll do socks and shoes next.

The man was later convicted of possessing a class B drug

and using threatening behaviour,

and was sentenced to six months in prison.

No charges were brought regarding the scrap metal.

The Neighbourhood Team in Hull are investigating an attack on a house

in the north of the city.

A dispute between neighbours ended up with a rock being thrown

through this woman's living room window.

The woman she accused of doing it admitted her guilt,

and is coming to the police station to give a statement.

She just said that she was really upset,

cos her daughter had contacted her this morning about the jewellery

that had gone missing, cos it had quite a lot of sentimental value

to her daughter and the family.

And in her own words, she saw red,

and she's gone round to confront Julie, and Julie's denied it,

and she's left the address

and without any real reason or explanation, even to herself,

she's found a stone and gone back and thrown it at the window.

So, she's attended here now, so those facts are recorded.

It's a bit of a strange one, really,

cos the complainant's upset that her window's gone in, and the suspect,

in all fairness, is pretty upset that she's done it, really.

So everyone's a bit sad about this one.

They'll have to present all the facts to her,

we have Evidence Review Officers who will look at the situation

and take into other considerations,

and hopefully she should get a caution for this.

Once the paperwork has been completed,

Nadine and Carl return to the victim's house,

where the broken window has already been fixed.

Hi, you all right? We're coming in.

We've spoken to Debbie. Obviously she's admitted what she's done.

She was saying that she was upset with regards to...

I think it sounds like, obviously, her daughter's been upset,

she's come round.

Obviously she's not saying that makes it OK or anything.

-So, what'll happen now is, we'll get a few lines from yourself...

-Yeah.

..as regards to the damage.

And then a decision will be made as what's going to happen to Debbie.

In terms of your concerns about things whirling on with the families,

draw a line under it, now.

Whatever's gone on, you don't have anything to do with each other.

I mean, how do you feel about the whole incident now, then?

I'm upset about it, but...

Oh, I just don't understand it. It's all just so stupid.

It really is.

If you could sign above there,

that's just saying that it's the truth as you know it.

Underneath there.

-All right, take care.

-Bye-bye.

-See you.

-Bye.

-Bye.

Got the statement, now, from the complainant as to the damage.

We'll get in contact with the victim again,

at the end of the investigation.

The suspect and her family were giving us assurances

that this is the end of it as far as they're concerned.

The woman who admitted throwing the brick through the window

was later cautioned for criminal damage.

No further action was taken on the alleged stolen jewellery,

and both parties seem to have observed Nadine's advice.

Police in Hull are spending a sunny bank holiday Sunday

at a horse drive.

-We're going to enjoy ourselves today.

-ALL: Yeah!

The event, which is unofficial and unlicensed,

sees members of the travelling community ride their horses

and drive their carts through the streets of Hull.

There's an injunction in place to stop the drive,

but they've got round that by moving just north of the city limits.

It's mid afternoon, and the event is in full swing.

But the rogue riders, many of them fuelled by alcohol,

are beginning to cause problems.

About 15 carts in total.

From our point of view it's trying to control them

and when they get beer into their systems,

they come out and don't look at the other road users

and they expect other road users

to give way and to let them have the free ride.

Which is all right if you see them

but if some people don't see them it could cause mayhem and danger.

The travellers have now moved to a different pub

and are apparently causing trouble and the police have been called.

We're going down to the Barrowman pub.

I don't know exactly what's going on there but it's related to the

travellers' horse drive but they asked us down there urgently so...

For the majority of the day they've all been compliant

but now they've had a few more beers in them, the weather's good.

There's no need for them to rush home.

The landlady or licensee from the Barrowman asked that we remove people.

They don't want them there any more.

They're causing a bit of a ill feeling towards the community now,

the locals. So we're going to ask them to move on.

We got told by our boss we weren't allowed to serve.

We've got no choice but to send them away and it's unfair.

Nothing we can do, really. It's a shame.

Being asked to leave the pub hasn't gone down well with the travellers.

The horse was here before them cars, wasn't he?

-It's mainly the fact of the non-travellers...

-Out of the way!

-..that causes

bad publicity.

Because they go about thinking they can handle horses

left, right and centre.

It just causes us so much... And then we get the blame for it.

Take me hat off to the police.

They've been fine as far as I've seen.

We haven't wanted to do anything but have a gathering as we always do.

A few of us out enjoying ourselves.

Rich West has found the landlady who'd asked the travellers to leave.

One of them said shut the pub down and get everybody out then.

We can't throw our regulars out for them.

There was an old lady, she's in her eighties. She was terrified.

But a lot of them are really, really nice people.

-You're right.

-So, we're not being discriminating.

-No, no.

Give us a shout if anything else happens.

As well as keeping the public safe,

police are also keeping an eye on the horses taking part.

Officers working alongside the RSPCA have stopped

a horse which they think is being overworked.

We followed the horse a short distance from Cottingham to here.

Pulling a very heavy trailer with probably six to eight

people on the back of it. We were concerned for the horse's welfare.

It's obviously struggling to pull that

amount of weight at the speed they wanted the horse to move at.

We also witnessed the horse being whipped quite hard as well.

And there's a welfare issue regarding the animal.

So we pulled the vehicle over.

Spoken to the owner of the horse

and spoken to the person driving the trailer, as well.

They saying me horse is knackered.

And I was going to this pub here. That's the last pub.

Then I was going to unyoke it, wash it out,

take it in the horse box back home but no, these officers pulled us in.

A red mark has been sprayed on the horse by an RSPCA officer to

show that it must not be used again today or it will be seized.

It's not a popular decision with one man in particular.

He's kicked off and is being arrested.

Calm yourself down. Calm yourself down.

Calm yourself down.

Calm down.

Release your grip.

-How you like people...?

-Release your grip.

-Did I do wrong?

Tell me what I did wrong?

The owner of the allegedly overworked horse has decided

to follow the RSPCA's advice

though it hasn't gone down well with some of his friends.

-Be a man and walk up the road.

-BLEEP!

Don't swear, walk up the road and be a man for once. Just walk away.

Started off reasonably well, reasonably friendly this morning.

We had quite a bit of interaction with various people that were

meeting up in smaller groups

and throughout the day they got into bigger groups.

They've gone to public houses and obviously started drinking

and as the day has gone on the drink is beginning to take effect.

See these. All these, one, two, three. Four of them over there.

He's done nowt. Not a thing wrong. The only thing he's done is come to a horse drive.

Horse drive didn't even take place.

He comes back around here and this lot twisted him up for nowt.

That's why travellers have got a problem against these lads.

That's who it is.

The travellers ain't got nowt against the community.

They've got them against each one of these.

The ones with all the numbers and all that. These lads..

-BBC, there you are.

-As I said.

An unhappy individual, but there you go.

I don't think he would have been so vocal at eight, nine,

ten this morning but drink maybe is helping him along the way a bit.

What a waste of taxpayers' money, what a waste, man.

Taxpayers' money, what a waste.

Answer me one question,

you would not be stood there if it weren't for horses.

That's who pulled the cannons in the first world war.

-You'd be German if it wasn't for horses.

-Yeah, but...

We're getting a bit off the subject, aren't we?

Excuse me, would you mind moving out of the road so I can go, please?

The horse drive now appears to be coming to an end,

with most of the participants settling in one pub.

But with news of the arrest getting around,

it's vital that the police maintain order.

Go that way, put it in there, but get it off the footpath, please.

-It's on an exit, mate, so I don't want to...

-It's obstruction.

Things seem to have calmed down, but the police are still on their guard.

So after one male was arrested earlier,

some of the group have now become anti-police.

The only problems we've got is the more alcohol they take on board,

the more problems they're likely to cause for us.

It's a slight concern.

We've still got control of the situation at the moment.

As long as they're here, we know where they are,

and they're contained at the moment.

It's when they start disappearing off here there and everywhere

that we can't keep a track of where they are.

As long as they're together, we do know where the group are.

Two of the earlier protagonists are being spoken to.

What's certain now is that we're starting to get the minor

public order offences - the swearing in the public place,

the hand gestures and whatever else.

All I'm saying to your man here is we're going to start

-taking action with that here now.

-I don't blame you.

If you look, there's Mr and Mrs Smith there,

with their little 'un, who've come out for their dinner.

There's a load of people in the car park effing and jeffing

and shouting and swearing.

...under Section Five of the Public Order Act.

Thankfully though, beyond a few raised voices,

the rest of the evening passes smoothly, with the strong

police presence preventing things from getting too out of hand.

I have to say that we're not very popular.

They regard us as interfering with their right to have a horse drive.

But generally speaking, most police officers are able to communicate

with members of the public, even in difficult circumstances like this.

So to some extent, they realise we're doing our job.

Despite being unable to prevent the drive going ahead,

the neighbourhood teams have managed to keep things under control and

keep the local community safe and secure,

though there are some things even they can't do anything about.

PC Nicola Cammiss and PCSO Becky Brown

are out on patrol in Bridlington

when they're forced to stop by more animals in the road.

Mr and Mrs Duck going for a walk.

DUCK QUACKS

-Having a little date, look.

-Yeah.

Soon, though, they're off to a local coach park

where a suspected thief has been apprehended.

Attending.

So what's happening now is we've just had a high priority

come in to the IRT Unit that somebody's been caught

breaking into a vehicle down on the coach park.

Somebody's caught them and locked them into the back of the lorry.

The coach park...

Sometimes truck drivers will park in there for the evening,

and they've caught them trying to break and entry,

so they've locked them into the back of the wagon.

That's what's come over the radio.

We'll see how true that is when we arrive.

Under common law, I suppose you could call it a citizen's arrest.

Other officers are already at the scene

and they have released the suspect from the back of the lorry.

Is that your card as well?

He's claiming he's not a thief,

just someone looking for a place to roll a cigarette.

I've had about a litre of white cider.

I was sat in this cab because it was open, and it's out of the wind.

Cos it's been quite windy recently.

Does it belong to you?

-No, it doesn't.

-No.

That door and that door was both locked, so it was more

the fact that I had to shout hello so someone would know I was there.

Otherwise it would have drove off.

The man was locked in the back of the lorry by another driver,

who'd seen him acting suspiciously.

He walked across the car park.

I think he'd been drinking for some time this afternoon.

He come over, tried all the lorry doors. The driver wasn't in.

Come round the back of the trailer, climbed into the back of

the trailer, started rifling through all the boxes

and the cargo the driver's got.

So obviously I phoned the haulage company

and they've asked me to phone the police.

I asked him if he wanted me to lock him

into the back of the trailer, so he said yes.

So I decided to lock him in the back of the trailer till

he started screaming for help, "Let me out."

I feel somewhat ridiculed and somewhat absolutely...

..really silly on the pure fact, had I not been sat in there

and having a cig, then...

..I wouldn't have been caught in the back of that wagon.

So...

I would have been fine.

I know we're laughing about it,

but there's not many members of the public that would be willing

to take matters into their own hands and do that, is there?

No, there's not.

But circumstances like this when you've got the chance to do that,

you know, to try and catch someone, you've got to take it

-if you're capable of doing so.

-Well done you.

-Thank you.

I think, from what I can understand, I think he's just drunk.

And I think he's just wanting to get his head down somewhere.

I'm not saying that's right.

He shouldn't be doing that in your lorry, by no means.

I think you did absolutely right by ringing 999.

If the driver's got a delivery tomorrow in Cornwall...

And he's taken him with him in the back of the van!

If he wakes up two miles from Newquay in Cornwall,

then he's had a good night's sleep!

Although nothing untoward has happened,

lorry drivers are often in danger sleeping in car parks like this one.

When you sleep over from day-to-day, night-to-night, in a lorry,

you've got to be aware

and be quite cautious of things that are going on around you,

like, you know, burglaries...

Sometimes you suffer anxiety and stuff like that

and sleepless nights wondering and worrying.

The drunken man is being taken home to sleep off the cider.

It's not such a serious offence

that we must have him in and must be interviewed now,

so it's going to be in slow time, is the investigation.

My colleague's going to be taking a statement from the driver

and we'll get in contact with the company to see

what their views on it are as well.

Thankfully, nothing's been taken and no-one's been harmed.

After further investigation, the man was released without charge.

Sometimes the lorries leave their back doors open

to prove to people there's nothing in here to break into,

but then the consequence of that is that, just like tonight,

I think his intention probably was to sleep in the back of there.

Humberside Police's patch covers a large area of coastline

and several resorts popular with holiday-makers.

But, as well as attracting tourists,

seaside towns are magnets for vulnerable people and the poor,

as former hotels and guesthouses are turned into cheap social housing.

Nicola and Becky have only just finished dealing with the man

found in the back of the lorry, when a call comes in

about a different drunk causing trouble on Bridlington's seafront.

Yeah, call's just come in to say

that there's a gentleman on the esplanade,

he's got a bottle in his hand,

who appears to be having a bit of an argument or something

with possibly a council worker.

One of the on-foot PCSOs is on his way down there now.

-RADIO:

-On the corner of Regent Terrace, esplanade.

Police to CCTV, where's this male now, please?

CCTV, he's at the end of the esplanade,

near two PCSOs.

Yeah, I've seen him.

Two community support officers have stopped the man,

but as a PC, Nicola will take charge.

-My name's PC Cammiss and I'm a police officer.

-So what?

-We've had a complaint.

-Yes.

We're quite concerned about your behaviour at the moment.

I can see that you're in drink.

Are you heading home now, Mr Proctor?

-I'm just so

-BLEEP

-about everything.

-Right, you'd have one public order warning already.

-I know.

-I could

-BLEEP.

-Are you threatening violence towards me, Mr Proctor?

-No, no, I'm not...

November Whisky 1-5, can I have another unit, please?

I've had violence threatened towards me.

-You just told me that you can

-BLEEP

-me,

that's exactly what you just said to me.

I don't appreciate being spoken to like that.

I have no intention to fight you.

All I want you to do is to get off the streets.

I do not want you swearing in a public place.

What are you doing in Bridlington?

I'm looking for you.

You and everyone else. What are you really doing in Bridlington?

-No, no...

-I haven't got all evening.

Are you here staying in a bed and breakfast?

-Yes.

-Which bed and breakfast are you staying in?

HE MUTTERS

If you can't give me a straight answer now, you'll give me no choice

but to give you a bed for the evening in our custody suite

until you can speak to me sober.

-I don't know.

-Right, where are you staying?

Me?

Er...

HE SLURS

Pardon?

-Seriously?

-Yeah, seriously.

-Nowhere.

Nowhere.

Basically, he just...

He wouldn't leave her alone, so when I came over,

he started being aggressive towards us

and luckily the council man, James,

he was around, and he got CCTV and police to...

We basically gave him a lot of chance to leave the premises

and he kept leaving his alcohol on the side.

He was basically being very aggressive

-and trying to cause arguments.

-Yeah.

Nicola's not getting anywhere with him.

He's incoherent and very drunk.

There's only one option.

He's going to have to come in. Just come in for drunk and disorderly.

-What have I done?

-Mr Proctor, listen to me.

-At this minute in time...

-What have I done?

-Mr Proctor, listen to me.

-What have I done?

-At this moment in time...

-What have I

-BLEEP

-done?

-Off me, now.

What are you going to do?

You are under arrest for drunk and disorderly.

You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence

if you do not mention when questioned

something which you later rely on in court.

Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

Where are these keys for?

-BLEEP

-your eyes out.

That's not a very nice way to speak to a lady, is it?

You think I'm going to touch you after you've just done this to me?

I hope you're very embarrassed tomorrow

-when you wake up sober.

-Know what?

HE SLURS

-I'm going to

-BLEEP

-you right over.

-OK.

Yeah...

Yeah.

-Yeah, just slam in there.

-20-55, drunk and disorderly.

-20-50

-BLEEP.

-20-50

-BLEEP.

Once the man is locked in the van,

Nicola has a chat with the council worker

who called the police in the first place.

What exactly has he said or done to you?

Well, literally, he come across to us and asked us for a fag,

so I give him a cigarette,

and then I left, cos I thought he'd disappear then.

-Yep.

-And then, literally, he's just totally abusive,

effing and blinding and stuff like that.

-To you?

-To me.

And then he started on these two

and then he wanted to start fighting with us.

Unfortunately, dealing with behaviour like this

is part of police work.

I'm quite used to being sworn at.

How does it make me feel? It goes over my head.

A difficult decision to make in those circumstances,

from my point of view,

as to how we're going to deal with him because...

You know, as much as he's grabbed my arm and made my arm red,

that could be assaulting police.

I don't think that was his intention at that time,

although he did threaten violence to me initially.

Which is why I asked for the patrols to join me.

As much as I've got the PCSOs with me,

I'm aware that they don't carry any utility belt with them

in terms of protective gear.

They don't carry PAVA, they don't carry ASP,

they don't carry anything like that.

No, it can't get personal.

I'd go home in a wreck every day if it got personal.

Back at the station, the man is booked in and put in a cell.

He'll get bedded down now for the evening

and sleep off the alcohol and see what he's like tomorrow.

Hopefully, he's a whole new different person.

The man spent the night in the cells and was released the next morning.

He was later charged with drunk and disorderly behaviour

and convicted at court.

We've seen today that the neighbourhood teams tackle

all sorts of crimes and complaints.

If one thing stands out, though, it's their ability

to communicate effectively with people from all walks of life.

Join us again next time.

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