Episode 6 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 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 e very local area of the country...

Get him! We've got a runner.

..cracking down on anti-social behaviour...

-Stay here.

-Ow!

-I've had enough.

..busting suspected drug dens...

POLICE SHOUT

There's a very, 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.

In this new series of Neighbourhood Blues,

we're following the men and women from the Humberside Police Force...

-You're under arrest.

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

..as they strive to make our streets a safer place.

Coming up...

The neighbourhood team go through the roof...

Sarge, decent factory set-up, appears very professional.

..a suspect animal is taken off the streets...

DOG BARKS

..and a suspected bike thief takes to his heels.

Oh, come on!

Every day, neighbourhood teams up and down the country get calls

and complaints about people using or dealing drugs.

As it's one of the main causes of crime and nuisance behaviour,

it's one of the public's most pressing concerns.

Cannabis growing at home has become one of the main sources

of drugs found on the streets.

It's a criminal activity the police are determined to try

and put an end to.

They've taken to using their force helicopters to root out

the drug factories.

Their thermal-imaging cameras can detect the heat given off

by the powerful lamps used to help grow the cannabis plants.

Morning, troops.

Sergeant Colin Jarrett is briefing his team, in preparation

for a raid on a suspected cannabis farm that has been found

by one of the neighbourhood team.

We're going to be executing a warrant under the Misuse Of Drugs Act

in relation to Class B drugs, cannabis.

Neighbourhood policing officers,

with their close links with local residents,

find more than their fair share of the farms,

often just by using their noses.

Some PCSOs have attended an address to carry out a vehicle check.

When they've attended at the keeper's address,

they've smelt cannabis, quite a strong smell, as well,

and it's been confirmed, as well,

that there's a heat source from the address.

The heat source was confirmed by a flyover by the police helicopter.

We take responsibility for arranging the warrant in the first place,

because usually the warrants...

The drugs in the addresses have an effect on the community.

A lot of our information comes from members of the community or other sources of intelligence, as well.

We manage it, because it makes the community happy if we get a result.

OSS come in, effect the warrant for us and we deal with the aftermath -

the prisoners and update the community with the results we've got.

The OSS officers are specially-trained support officers

who get called in when doors need to be broken down.

There's a couple of different tactics we can use.

We can obviously go in and we can force entry to the address.

With it being cannabis, it's less likely that people are going

to be able to get rid of the evidence within a short time span

and then we'll go in, if we've got a warrant.

Or the other one is, if we've got limited information,

we'll go and knock on the door

and try and get the occupants to allow us to go in

and search voluntarily, which is a lot less intrusive, really.

It's 9.00am and the team have arrived at the address,

hoping to catch the occupants at home.

The OSS officers have brought an assortment of tools

to get into the house.

They include what they call the Big Red Key.

KNOCKING ON DOOR

It's the police. Do you want to come and open the door?

Police officers, do you want to come and open the door?

We have a warrant to search these premises.

If you don't open the door, we'll force entry.

Yeah, it's had a good enough knock.

Oh, hang on, hang on, he's coming down.

Someone is in. The key might not be needed.

Do you want to come down now?

Now, then, straight away. Otherwise, the door's going on.

Now, then.

Police officers, mate, we've got a warrant to search the premises

under the Misuse Of Drugs Act.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Just take a seat, we'll get something sorted in a second.

Just stay here, Mr BLEEP.

-Have you got any drugs in the premises?

-Yeah, I'm growing some.

You're growing some. Whereabouts?

HE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY In a false roof.

It looks like the intelligence was right.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

The male's been detained at this time, so he's been secured.

We're just doing a quick check downstairs, make sure there's

no-one else downstairs that's likely to try and leave the premises,

and we're just going to pop upstairs and have a look.

The gentleman's already been spoken to and he's told us

that he's growing some plants upstairs,

so we'll just go upstairs and just see what they have.

I dare say, they'll be cannabis from the smell

that's coming from the house.

With the pungent smell of cannabis wafting in the air,

Colin is heralding the raid a success already.

But just how big is the operation up in the loft?

Every year, the NHS spends £3 million treating injuries

caused by dog bites.

It's thought that dogs are responsible for more

than 200,000 attacks annually in the UK,

including some that are fatal.

Dogs should be the responsibility of the owner,

they should be kept under control

and, in public places, possibly on leashes.

If the dogs are likely to be aggressive,

then they should probably have a halti or muzzle on them.

As a dog owner myself, I take responsibility for them.

Sgt Dave Jenkins is Humberside Police's Dog Legislation Officer.

He's preparing to seize a dog today that was seen on CCTV,

with its owner, behaving aggressively outside

a nightclub in Bridlington, north of Hull.

Under the Dangerous Dogs Act,

the police can seize any dog that is deemed to be dangerously

out of control, as well as certain types which are illegal to own.

The CCTV clearly just shows the gentleman walking his dog

up the esplanade and then, as he, sort of, basically confronts

the door staff at the nightclub.

The dog's clearly straining on its lead

and, at one point, actually escapes from his control

and goes straight at the door staff.

Dave has seized many dangerous dogs before

and knows a safety-first approach is vital.

A 50,000 volt Taser stun gun is his ultimate defence.

I carry a Taser, anyway, as a matter of control.

It's usually a precaution, and really as a last resort

maybe if it does attack us.

But he does have some more traditional tricks up his sleeve.

The best option is quite often, even an aggressive dog,

you say, "Come on, we're off for a walk,"

then it suddenly changes the attitude.

Plan B is a pocketful of doggie treats.

Plan C is...

Well, we'll worry about Plan C, if we need it.

Dave's not going in alone.

He's got some support officers armed with some more stunning weapons.

There's a dog shield, in all its glory.

It's obviously a good bit of protection to get in the way

as the dogs come towards you. Then when we spark it up...

ELECTRICITY BUZZES

It's similar to a Taser.

Apparently, the dogs don't like the sound of it

or the taste that comes into the air with it.

So that's what scares them away from it.

Just in case of dog bites, if the dog was to say sidestep

the shield... Some dogs, I know police dogs,

they have something like 90lbs of pressure per square inch,

I believe, on a bite.

So, the pads mitigate injuries to my limbs,

so that's what they're there for.

The dog they're planning to seize is believed to be of a pit bull terrier

type which is illegal in the UK.

With so much crossbreeding, positive identification isn't easy.

It'll be down to Dave to determine

if the characteristics substantially match those of the illegal type.

The jaws, strong muscles around the jaws, the powerful legs,

the length of the neck. You know, the whole purpose of a pit bull...

It's been developed and bred over the years, hundreds of years,

to be the ultimate fighting dog, dog-fighting dog.

A lot of people out there have, you know,

possibly got a pit-type dog, without even realising what they've got.

As they arrive at the dog owner's house,

there's one last chance for Dave and his team to check their armour.

Hoping all this equipment won't be necessary, but obviously

it's a precaution for the type of dog that we're dealing with.

It's already shown aggression, so it's not worth taking any risks.

-Hello?

-Hi, Dennis?

-Who is it?

-It's police.

-What's up?

-Hiya.

The occupant is in, so is his dog.

Come here. Come here!

Thankfully, he's shutting it in his bathroom.

What's up?

It's about the dog. You know the dog incident that we're sorting out.

I'm the force Dog Legislation Officer and I've got basically concerns

and issues that your dog is possibly a pit bull.

-All right, yeah.

-All right?

Because of that, I'm going to have to take the dog for examination.

-What's it called?

-Tank.

-Tank. And is he...

-It's a she.

-She.

She called Tank?

Predictably, the dog is built like a small tank.

TANK BARKS

Oi, Tank.

It's time for the owner to say his goodbyes.

TANK BARKS

TANK BARKS

Luckily, there was no need for the Taser,

but Dave's still pretty sure Tank is an illegal dog.

First impression...

TANK BARKS

..is she is by description what he said, she's a, what did he call it?

A Staffie, Mastiff, Bull cross.

There's a right mish-mash of dogs in there.

Obviously, a lot of that will meet a lot of the criteria for a pit bull.

But we'll have to see.

Dave is taking Tank to a police kennels at a secret location,

where owners can't attempt to steal their dogs back

and where he can examine it more closely.

The importance for me is the dog's welfare,

is to get this whole thing processed.

Either to get the dog back to the owner

or certainly get the dog to court and the court to make a decision.

DOGS BARK

The next step is to let her settle in,

cos obviously she's agitated. The kennels are full of dogs.

Too much... I don't really want to examine her

under these circumstances.

So, we'll probably let her settle in for a couple of days

and then we'll come back to the kennels

and do a thorough examination.

Dave's examination later uncovers something else -

evidence that Tank might have been used for fighting other dogs.

Back in Cleethorpes, the Neighbourhood Policing Team

and operational support officers have raided a house

suspected of being used to grow cannabis plants on a large scale.

They're on the scent of something in the loft.

There's some ventilation tubing that's up there for extraction,

there's also some cabinets that have been made up out of the black material.

I can't see what's in there cos the back of the cabinet is actually facing towards me.

As you can see from the size of the hole,

it's not an easy and safe place for us to get into,

so we're just going to get some more ladders.

That's going to make it a little bit easier for us

to get in and out of the attic.

We're going to have to go up there and obviously

photograph what we've got...

..and remove all of it.

Dave, there's a decent factory set-up up here.

Someone has been busy.

They've built a lab to be able to grow the cannabis

with artificial light -

what the police helicopter's thermal imaging camera picked up.

Yeah, it's well set up in here.

You've got the water, you've got ventilation, you've got lighting.

Obviously, he's cultivating a fair few plants.

There's about 20 in there.

And then there's another room here which seems to be a...room for...

..drying the cannabis out.

Oh, so he's cut it. It's quite unusual, that.

There's a fan here, keep the right temperature.

That's harvested, that's ready to chop up and use,

sell and distribute.

I'll just update the sarge.

Sarge? A decent factory set-up up here. There's about 20 plants.

Early growth. Probably about four to six centimetres.

But it's a good set-up, very professional.

There's another room, like a drying room, where he's got some that he's harvested.

He's cut it off and it's all hung up drying out, ready to distribute, I would guess.

It's more than enough evidence to arrest their suspect.

From what's been found in the address, you're going to be under arrest.

The time now is 9:35.

I'm arresting you on suspicion of possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply.

You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention something

you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given as evidence. Do you understand?

So, as the officers have come in, they've had a look around.

And they've popped open the lid and you'll tell as soon as you...

You can see the remnants there of a previous grow.

But the smell hits you as soon as you lift that lid off.

Really strong smell, so that's possibly skunk, that.

There's obviously saves and money laying around. There's some scales...

..in there, with bags, as well, which are possibly dealing bags,

so that's the reason why he's been arrested on suspicion

of possession with intent to supply.

It's certainly a good set-up.

Some people will have 20 plants and claim that it's for personal use,

but 20 plants is a lot of plants to have for personal use.

You know, one or two for personal use is, sort of, to be expected.

Going into the 20s, 30s, 40s,

then, you know, you've got to justify what it is

and they've got to be able to, sort of, tell us what they're doing with that, how much they're smoking.

The upsurge in cannabis-growing is attributed to the recent

credit crunch and the lure of easy money.

It's estimated that just 30 or 40 plants could be worth

as much as £5,000 each time they flower, every eight weeks.

I think, cos of the size of the hole we've got to move everything from

and the volume of it, we're just going to have to dismantle it piece by piece,

which is a bit time-consuming but we'll get it done eventually.

The council's going to come and collect all of this.

They won't be collecting the cannabis plants, though.

Anything evidential, we seize and take back to the police station.

Everything else is disposed of, through a Community Pride Team assisting us.

They're here now. All the cannabis is retained by us, even the offcuts,

just so we can keep control of anything that we believe to be a controlled substance.

The man is facing charges of producing and supplying cannabis.

Still to come,

the neighbourhood team are giving a suspected bike thief

a run for his money.

We've got a runner! Cleethorpes towards Rampton.

Sighting of him going over back fences.

The success of community policing relies heavily

on local neighbourhood officers getting to know the people who live

and work on their beat.

They can be a set of eyes and ears on the ground

and a crucial source of information to help stamp out crime.

After a wave of burglaries in Cleethorpes,

it's been reported by a member of the public

that a neighbour may have some stolen property at his house.

Just going to give you a quick briefing in relation

to a warrant that's been obtained from the Intelligence branch.

Colin Jarrett and his neighbourhood team are preparing to pay the man a surprise visit,

in the hope of recovering the stolen goods.

But it's often the case that the most unexpected things can turn up.

We can and do have the power to use force to gain entry, if needs be,

but we'll hopefully be able to get in there

through knocking on the door and getting them to answer.

Chris McVeigh has got more information about the tip-off.

These are stolen go-karts and a stolen

pedal cycle, quite a high-valued one, I believe,

at an address of a male who's known to us.

So we've obtained a warrant this morning and we're going

to go down there and, hopefully, gain entry and carry out...

Serve the warrant and carry out a search for those stolen items.

A warrant is the authorisation signed by a magistrate

the police need to be able to search inside somebody's house.

Josh is coming to the door.

-The dog...

-Now, then, Josh. How are you doing?

-We've got a warrant to come in and search the premises, mate.

-Warrant for what?

-Under the Theft Act.

-Theft?

-Yeah.

-Put your hands behind your back, OK.

Josh and his girlfriend are not too pleased to see the police...

I'll explain everything.

..but someone in the house is.

Once he's said his hellos to pooch,

Colin can look outside for any stolen property.

There's no sign of the go-kart,

but there is a quad bike that Colin is suspicious of.

There's obviously this quad bike out in the backyard, so we'll do some enquiries

in relation to that and do some checks on the bike

and the little motorbike that's inside the house,

and see if any of those come back as being stolen.

I ain't got no go-kart, nothing. I've got the keys to my shed there,

-you can check everything, mate.

-OK.

-Check everything.

-All right. Just stay cool, then, buddy.

Josh doesn't know anything about the stolen go-kart.

And everything else, he maintains, is legit.

So, what I'm looking at there is for the VIN of the vehicle, but,

as you'll see from here, it's quite worn and quite difficult to read.

It looks like it's had some spray over it over a period of time, too.

PNC are coming back saying they can't find anything on that number.

There are more bikes in the shed, but there's no indication

that any of them are stolen.

Upstairs, though, one of the team HAS made an incriminating discovery.

-Some cannabis plants.

-Discovered in the...

upstairs room - looks like it's where the little boy sleeps, as well.

That's just the beginnings of a very, very small...

..cannabis set-up.

You see a lot of things as a community police officer,

but the location of this cannabis farm, in a child's bedroom,

has still come as a shock.

It's only five plants, but not the ideal place for anyone to be...

growing cannabis plants, in the child's bedroom.

And there's remnants of cannabis.

And there's more weed and drug stuff in the kitchen.

Bags and things consistent with, maybe, other drug use

but there aren't any other actual drugs in that drawer.

It's time to confront Josh.

You know what's coming, don't you?

We've discovered a small grow upstairs, haven't we?

I put them in there when I seen you coming.

All right, OK. So, as a result of that, OK,

you're currently under arrest for cultivation of cannabis.

-She don't know nowt about that.

-OK.

-That's me. That's me, that.

I'll just caution you. You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you don't

mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court.

Anything you do so may be given in evidence. Do you understand that?

I've moved that, literally. I seen you coming and I moved that.

So, she don't know nothing about that.

I moved it thinking you wouldn't go in that room, but...

you obviously did, so, fair play.

They've collared their suspect,

but his dog is proving to be a harder catch.

But with a little bit of help from the neighbours,

John manages to get him home

just in time to wave bye-bye to the cannabis plants.

They are being taken to the station, as evidence, before being destroyed.

We weren't looking for these...

but, you know, it's...

It is a bonus, really,

because that's someone we have had on our radar for a while.

Right, we're going to take him in, then, Joe.

I'm just on a warrant at the minute, Nicola.

Josh has been arrested but, as a keen gardener,

it was the state of his plants that mattered most to him.

I wasn't doing it in there all the time. I just moved it when these come in.

If I'd chucked them in there without the light on they'd have got stressed and died, so...

A water or anything, mate?

-Yeah, a glass of water, mate. Nice one.

-I'll get you one.

The neighbourhood team didn't find anything at all that was stolen at Josh's,

but it's still been a successful operation.

It was unexpected, you know, the cannabis side of it.

But it does send a message home that, you know,

it won't be accepted on our patch,

so don't grow it at home, guys.

Green-fingered Josh pleaded guilty in court

to cultivating a controlled drug, and was fined a total of £205.

Neighbourhood policing relies heavily on information coming in from the public.

And that means building a relationship with the community

and creating an atmosphere in which people will willingly

co-operate with the police.

Being actively involved in local community projects

is one important way the neighbourhood team is doing this.

Today, PCSOs Lucy Griffin and Lucy Giles

are visiting a community centre in North Hull,

where a free dog-chipping session has been set up.

Soon, all dogs in England, by law, will have to be micro-chipped

to cut the number of strays and make owners more responsible for their animals.

Last year alone, we had 35 dogs in the force area reported missing

to us, as the police,

and it just helps us with dealing with that issue.

He likes his legs stroking, don't you, Bobby?

Injecting the microchip, the size of a grain of rice, is painless.

It seems to scare the owners more than the dogs themselves!

There's a good boy! He's done really well.

I'd have thought he'd have yelped, but he didn't.

There's more to today than just dog-tagging.

It's an opportunity for the neighbourhood team

to meet the people on their beat and find out about their problems.

It's been really good for myself, cos I got the opportunity

to sit and speak to people, cos I was filling out the forms with them.

So you get to have a chat with them and see what their concerns are

and just sort of get to know people out and about in the community.

-Who have we got here?

-Rango.

-Rango?

-R-A-N-G-O.

-Male?

-Male.

-Anything distinguishing. He's got back spots on his legs.

-I suppose the distinguishing feature is that he's going to be big!

-He's massive!

Well, if he was stolen, we'd all be heartbroken.

The kids would be devastated if owt happened to him.

Has he got any distinguishing features, apart from a wrinkly face?

No.

Brilliant, right.

For dog-lover Lucy Griffin, it's a great day at work.

I've got a dog at home. All the dogs here today are adorable.

I'd love to take most of them home with me, but I don't know how my partner would feel about that!

We just, kind of, try to speak to people,

get to know a few people on the area

and speak to the dog owners about being responsible with their dogs.

We've also given out bags to people,

so that they can actually clean up after their dogs.

And just, basically, talking to the local community

and getting to know what their issues are.

Dog welfare is clearly one of their concerns.

According to government figures,

more than 100,000 dogs are lost or abandoned every year.

Today's chipping session should help bring those numbers down.

Cycling is enjoying a huge surge in popularity,

but more bikes on the road means more bikes being stolen.

I locked my bike up in the centre of town

and I, kind of, did leave it there overnight,

which was probably a mistake, but it was a good lock

and wasn't an expensive bike, it was just quite a cute fold-up bike.

And, yeah, it was gone.

In Grimsby in north-east Lincolnshire, reports are

coming in that a pair of suspected bicycle thieves have just struck.

Yeah, received. We're at Albion Street now.

PCs Chris McVeigh and John Doyle are on the lookout for them.

There's a male following two suspects who have just

stolen his bike, apparently. He has been following them.

They don't know he's following them.

And he is now near to the local market, Freeman Street market,

but he's temporarily lost sight of the two suspects,

so we're just going to see if we can find him

and possibly locate them with the bike.

Nearly 2,000 bikes were reported stolen or lost

in Hull alone last year.

It's every day we get bikes stolen.

It never used to be something we'd look at as a priority

but there are now a lot of good, high-quality, expensive bikes

on the market and they seem to be going on a regular basis.

There is obviously an illegal market up there for them.

There's still no sign of the suspects,

but some more information is coming in.

We've had a further sighting of two males

fitting the description from earlier just up onto the main road here.

Walking away with a bike.

There's one on foot, with a black bag, and there is one on a push bike.

Chris and John know these streets well

and have a good idea where the suspected bike thieves are heading.

So are they going straight on or...?

There, on the right.

Let them cross.

The two men seem to fit the description -

one with a black bag and the other with a bike.

Chris and John needs to employ an element of surprise, approaching

quickly from behind to make sure the suspects can't make a run for it.

Hang on, fellas.

-Stand here a second.

-Let's find out where this bike is from, shall we?

-What? What do you mean?

-Whose bike is that?

-Where have you just been?

-What?

-Where have you just been?

-Where have I just been?

Where did the bike come from?

-BLEEP

-has just lent me the bike to ride down here on it.

Someone's just gave you that bike?

He just lent me it. He just lent me the bike.

He said he'd lend me the bike.

-And who's your mate?

-I don't know his name.

-You don't know his name.

-OK.

-I ain't nicked the bike.

What's his name, who lent us the bike?

You don't even know whose bike it is.

The man's story that he's been lent the bike by someone

he doesn't even know seems odd,

especially as he wasn't even riding it.

But Chris is going to check it out before he arrests him.

That's fair enough.

Oh, come on.

The man's off. A bolt from the blue.

Get him! We've got a runner.

Cleethorpes Road towards Ramsdens.

He runs off into a residential area, linked by a maze of back alleys.

More officers from the neighbourhood team

have arrived to help with the search.

Sighting of him going over back fences.

The runner is nowhere to be seen.

The question is,

if he was so sure he'd been lent the bike, why did he run?

There's been a spate of incidents involving dogs in Lucy Giles's

neighbourhood patrol area recently, which is no surprise as nearly

every other person on her patch seems to own a dog.

This afternoon,

she is about to pay a visit to the victim of a dog attack.

Just going to pop in just to see the victim, initially,

and see what's happened.

The victim, in this case, is a Staffordshire bull terrier,

one that isn't an illegal type, though.

If its injuries are serious,

and the dog that attacked it was dangerously out of control,

Lucy could make a case for it to be seized.

Apparently, his dog's been attacked by another dog down the street.

Just to see what's happened, where it's happened.

-Hello, are you

-BLEEP?

-Yeah.

-All right? What's happened then?

There is a guy that lives up the street

and he's walked his dog down and he's gone to the fence to sniff him

and before he's even had a chance to even have a sniff,

the other dog's gripped his face.

His dog put his head through the fence to grab him.

-So, all your gates were shut? WOMAN:

-Yeah. That's why I went out.

-So yours weren't on the lead, but they were in a secure garden.

-Yeah.

-Has the dog got any injuries?

-Yeah. On his nose, here, look.

-And his mouth.

-On his mouth.

It was all hanging down this morning.

-It's a bit better now, but...

-He had his full jaw in his mouth.

He's been given antibiotics.

I let him back out today

and every time he sneezes there is blood going all over the place.

The way this thing works with the dogs and the legislation

and that, because your dogs are on private land and his dog was

on a lead out on the street, there's no actual clear offence, is there?

Cos if yours were out on the street and his wasn't on a lead

and he attacked him then, yeah, we've got a clear-cut offence there.

But I'm certainly going to speak to my PC

and see what we can do about it.

A bill is currently going through Parliament that will replace

the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act.

It is going to give police greater powers to investigate

attacks on private property.

He looked like he had a slight cut to his face where the other dog

had, sort of, gripped on.

Once they grip on, it takes a lot to pull them apart.

They are fighters, so that's what they'll do.

In the meantime, Lucy will be giving the other owner

some words of advice on keeping his dog out of trouble.

Earlier, Dave Jenkins seized a dog that IS in trouble,

called Tank, which he believed to be of an illegal pit bull terrier type.

Now, he's returned to the kennels to carry out an assessment on it.

Hello. Hello. Remember me?

The dog is a crossbreed,

but if it has enough characteristics relating to a pit bull terrier

or if it's proved it was used for illegal activity,

it could be a death sentence for the dog.

Well, she's got quite a few scars, haven't you?

You've got a few scars here.

On your leg here. In fact, they look like they've been stitched.

Tank has been in the wars.

Quite a few marks on your nose and face, haven't you?

The ears are torn.

The dog could have been used in fighting

and maybe we'll look at welfare issues.

I'm now having a look at the teeth, just to check for any

damage to the teeth. As you can see,

she's got a fantastically powerful back end on her.

She has a nice, wide loin there. So there's a couple of characteristics.

Good, strong shoulders. And jaw muscles. The masseter muscles here.

They're what basically pull jaws together,

so they give it that power and strength in the bite.

Good girl. That's it.

What you wouldn't have on a pit bull are these jowls.

Cos potentially, in a dog fight,

another dog is going to be able to get hold of those so,

so, on a pit bull, you find they're not very lippy.

What we call lippy. That's called lippy, which is the mastiff...

There's a bit of mastiff in her.

There's a lot of pit characteristics there.

If you took away the fact that she's a very lippy dog, mastiff-looking

face, she's got quite a few characteristics of a pit-type dog.

I do have strong concerns that she's been used for fighting other dogs.

Whether it has been by this owner or other owners.

David later decided that the dog did have enough characteristics

to be classed as a pit bull.

Its owner was charged with possessing a banned dog

and allowing it to be dangerously out of control in a public place.

He is currently awaiting trial.

Tank is being kept at the kennels until the outcome of the trial

is known, when a decision will be made on what to do with her.

Back in Grimsby, the neighbourhood policing team are still

hunting for the suspected bike thief who did a runner.

Oh, come on.

He's gone to ground in a residential area, but the net is closing in.

He's in this block here.

You do Duke Street.

PCSO Ollie Genery has heard something.

Colleagues have found the man.

This time, they aren't letting him go.

It's his bike.

For John, it was a case of you can run, but you can't hide.

PCSO has collared him, basically. Ground him down.

He had nowhere else to go... whilst an ageing bobby paced himself.

-He was the rabbit, I was the... What's the other one?

-Hare.

-Hare.

That's it. Thank you very much.

That's the key, often,

to have enough people in the area very quickly.

You need to close off space and, obviously, the fewer

there are of you, the bigger the space has to be eventually,

but because we had regular sightings, as well,

we were able to home in on one location.

I think, yeah, everyone likes a good run for the first 100 yards

and then everyone gets a little tired.

But he's not going to be the most athletic of dudes,

so he wasn't too much of a challenge for our elite team.

It's a great result for the elite neighbourhood team.

Jump in. At the moment, you're under arrest on suspicion of theft.

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.

The man, despite bolting from the law, maintains he is innocent.

Sometimes you try to give people the benefit of the doubt, to keep

them calm whilst you try and confirm and check the story or the alibi

they're trying to give you.

At that point, he wasn't under arrest.

He wasn't handcuffed or contained.

He was being compliant and then he's suddenly decided to leg it.

He is now saying he still hadn't stolen the bike -

he's run off because he thinks there is a warrant

out for him for something else, so we need to check on that now.

The man's well known to the police that patrol this beat.

Paul. Wotcher.

BLEEP

More than 100,000 bicycles are reported stolen

every year in the UK.

Of those, only one in 20 is ever reunited with its owner.

In this case, it looks as though the man

ran for nothing as the owner is just happy to have gotten his bike back.

The bike, initially, was reported stolen.

However, the owner of the bike doesn't wish to pursue a complaint.

The chap we found with the bike said that he was loaned it,

so there's conflicting stories there.

I don't think we'll ever get to the bottom of it.

It also turned out that the man

didn't have any outstanding warrants.

He wasn't wanted for anything.

When we think we've got him with a stolen bike and he runs off,

then our suspicious nature tends to suggest that he's guilty,

which is why we chased him.

But it's unfortunate there's no complaint.

Right, let's lead you out, then. Let's get on.

As we've seen today, whether it's shutting down a drugs factory

or just reuniting an owner with a lost bike,

the neighbourhood police teams are dedicated

to making our streets safer.

Join us again next time.

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