Episode 7 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.

KNOCKS ON DOOR

Now, the teams are in every 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!

-Ahh!

..busting suspected drug dens...

Get down and stay down!

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

-driving it!

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 knocking on doors

looking for a drug dealer...

Police! Stay where you are!

..give chase to a suspected knifeman in people's back yards...

-Next door?

-The one next door, yeah.

'..and face up to an irate dog-owner.'

I don't know!

THEY ALL SPEAK TOGETHER

Having drug dealers as neighbours isn't nice for anyone.

Humberside Police's Neighbourhood Teams are trying to encourage people

who suspect dealing in their street to come forward

so they can take positive action.

It's 9am, and in Hull,

members of the Northern Neighbourhood Police Team

are preparing to raid a house where they suspect

a drug dealer has taken up residence. Leading the team today

is PC Dave Mackinder.

There's intelligence, um,

that drugs are being dealt from the address and, more specifically,

that an out-of-town dealer has muscled his way into the address

and is dealing from there.

Most of our team know the address cos we've been there before

and it does attract the local drinkers and drug-takers

and it's often quite a houseful when you go there,

but with the recent intel suggesting that drugs

are being dealt from there...

We've got intelligence suggesting that

there's an out-of-town male who's moved into the address

and is quite busy dealing heroin from the address,

so, we've got a warrant, we'll, uh...

go and see what we can find.

Dave and the team are kitted up

and ready to take out the drug den's front door.

We're going to use the Ram-It...

..which is basically a large steel...

um, battering ram. Uh...

We're going to hit the door with that and potentially

brace it with a Go Bar as well, a kind of a crowbar,

just to try and, uh...

help with the impact of the Ram-It.

The door's uPVC and they're notorious

for absorbing the impact of, uh...

of the tools that we use, so by bracing it, hopefully

we can take away some of that impact and make the entry a bit easier.

Carrying out a raid can be hot work, though.

On a day like today, cooped up in a van,

I'm sweating before we've even done anything, really.

I've got my normal uniform on then some pads, some Kevlar, um,

sleeves, and this overall on top, so, yeah, it's quite warm.

Dealers regularly try to get rid of drugs

when they realise the police are coming, so a swift entry is crucial.

Police! Stay where you are!

WOMAN GASPS

Stay there. Who else is in the house?

The suspected drug dealer they're looking for isn't in the house.

There's only a terrified woman.

OK, all right. Calm yourself down, no harm's going to come to you.

-There's no-one else here?

-No.

-Have a seat.

We'll explain what's happening.

-Are you aware of any drugs in the address?

-Yes, there is.

-There is.

-Whereabouts are they?

-In the kitchen.

-Where specifically?

-On the kitchen top.

-Just on the top?

It looks to me like it's amphetamine to me, just looking by the sort of

texture of it, the sort of paste-like texture of it.

It's like it's amphetamine getting ready to be cooked up in situ.

Uh, so it looks like we've got here at a decent time, really.

Five minutes and that might be in somebody's vein or something.

To be fair, she was quite frightened - as I think I would be

if people burst through my door like this.

She's been no trouble at all,

what's happening has been explained to her, and, uh...

We're currently searching the address.

We've found a quantity of what she has told us is amphetamine.

As well as what they believe is amphetamine,

the kitchen is littered with other drug stuff.

Users will generally, um...

..prepare it, so to change it from a paste into kind of a liquid

that can be injected, and that's usually done by heating it up.

It's in a kind of a paste form as it is at the moment, um,

and users will generally cook it, they'll subject it to heat.

So, you can see here, the bottom of this can is blackened where it's

been subjected to heat from a lighter or another kind of a heat source.

That will then cause the paste to turn into a liquid type substance.

There's another...uncapped needle again there,

which I presume has been used.

PC Trevor Needham has found some other drugs.

Just having a quick initial search so the, uh...

Just having a look in the cupboards,

see if there's anything obvious in relation to what we're looking for.

A few prescription drugs in here, Matty.

These are obviously prescription drugs, but without the...

being prescribed.

We have got drugs offences at the address.

We're just searching now to determine what else we find.

Some more suspicious stuff's been found.

-Where was that?

-It was just on the side here, yeah,

just between these two tubs.

Well, it looks like a pink one. Not sure if it's...

a pink rock, pink crystallised substance.

Possibly a drug.

It's a good place to hide stuff inside here, for...

Obviously it will conceal it and all you've got to do really is just...

siphon it through your fingers and you can get it out again.

There's nothing in the tubs.

This bag's been found in a cupboard under the stairs here

by one of my colleagues.

We don't know exactly what it is,

but it's probably likely that it's bicarbonate of soda

or something similar which is used as a cutting agent

to make drugs go further, really, to dilute them down.

When you look inside the bag, there's a lot of pure kind of white powder.

Um, the only way to know for certain what that is

would be to, uh, to test it.

The woman who was alone in the house

is being taken to the police station to be interviewed.

She's been arrested on suspicion of possession of controlled drugs.

The amphetamine that she tells us that it is

and some controlled prescription drugs as well.

We've also found a small wrap with some crystal type substance in it.

We're not quite sure what that is, but possibly, uh,

it could be crack cocaine or possibly M-Cat.

We'll have to get that tested. So we've got three or four

different types of drugs at the moment that we need to ask her about.

As well as finding drugs,

Dave is pleased with the impact that the high-profile raid has had.

And I'm aware that neighbours have been out in the street

and seen the work we've done, so, from their point of view,

the fact that we've been seen to take action against a house

that is known to us for drugs and anti-social behaviour

and other types of offences, that's a good result for the local community.

The house's small back yard shows the extent of how the property's

-been used as a drugs den.

-They used to have a dog and that used to live

in there and, obviously, you can see there's needles in there as well

so, obviously, there's been some drug use in there as well.

Eh, it's not very nice in there, is it?

It must be horrible for people who live next door

or who actually look after the properties, to live next door

to people like this and, you know, it can't be nice.

Although they didn't get the man they were looking for,

overall, it's still been a good day's work for the team.

They've sent out a strong message that they won't tolerate

dealers setting up in the neighbourhood.

What members of the public could do, if they're aware of a problem...

is tell us about it. If we don't know about it...

..we're not going to take action.

If we do know about it, as we've shown today, we'll take

positive action and hopefully get a better result from it.

The drugs were later tested,

and found to be amphetamine, as suspected.

Rather than be charged,

the woman agreed to be put on a drug rehabilitation programme.

In Britain, we're proud that our police force isn't routinely armed.

Nevertheless, Neighbourhood Officers are never far from danger

when patrolling the streets.

TASER BUZZES

Now, to meet a rising threat from knife crime,

some of the Neighbourhood Team have been assigned

electronic stun guns called Tasers.

PC Nikki Cammiss is one of those who have been trained to use

-the less lethal weapon.

-What I'm doing here,

I'm just checking that the plastic isn't broken, that it's all intact...

to ensure that it works correctly, should I need to use it.

The Tasers are not personally issued and have to be

checked out of secured storage and tested before each shift.

I just went through a five-second cycle. You'll see that I tilted the

Taser to make sure that both barbs are connecting whilst it's running.

The Taser fires two darts and, connected by a thin wire,

zaps the target with 50,000 volts -

enough to ensure temporary incapacitation.

I believe Tasers reassure communities.

It's certainly a presence when I'm out and about,

but it helps with it being bright yellow. When people see the Taser,

that's usually enough. If I have to draw my Taser

and you see the red dot, then, again,

generally most people will arms up, back off straightaway.

It's those people that don't are the concern.

SIRENS WAIL

It's Tuesday afternoon, and Nikki is in Bridlington

racing to assist her colleagues

who are trying to corner a man suspected of a knife attack.

We've got a male who I knew had a knife on him yesterday

who's assaulted another male and he went to ground

and now we've got to try and find him.

He went onto a street called North Street.

So we'll make our way into the area and try and locate him.

SIRENS WAIL

The man has a history of violence,

so the police aren't taking any chances.

Nikki is armed with her Taser stun gun.

Do you want me to go to Wellington?

-Yeah.

-You can cover that side.

Officers from the Incident Response Team are also here.

Together, they're going to flood the area and close in on the suspect.

We're going to go into the adjacent street

cos he'll likely use that address to go straight through

and probably hop over the garden walls

and may come out onto the other side.

So, if we get all ends covered...

hopefully, we'll contain him.

Nikki isn't sure exactly where the suspected knifeman is,

but soon gets a possible tip from a friendly builder.

Next door?

Thank you very much.

SOUNDS OF CHILDREN PLAYING

But there's still no sign of him.

DOGS BARK

A few moments later, though, Nikki gets some good news.

They've got him.

CCTV has come to the police's aid.

Cameras have picked up the suspect and he's ducking into an alleyway.

And, seconds afterwards, guided by the CCTV controllers,

the Neighbourhood Team follow him.

And they have caught their man.

It's all about containment. If we know he's in an area,

as long as we've got all our...as best we can, get all areas covered.

I know that he's come out, so that's good.

Yesterday, there was an incident where somebody was assaulted

down near the bus station.

There was mention that the offender had a knife on him

and the victim had quite a substantial wound,

but he didn't want to make a complaint, and that happened.

However, the concern is we know this guy's been

out on the streets with a knife or certainly

have a strong enough suspicion to think that,

so a description of him was passed out,

so our local CCTV cameras have picked him up today in the town

and as soon as they've seen him, they've shouted that over our radio.

And, because of the incident yesterday, um...

everybody went out looking for him.

At the station, the suspect is being booked in.

PC Julie Edeson was the officer who found and arrested him.

We've had a few incidents over the last few weeks, where he's been

named in situations especially where there's been

violence offered or threats of violence

'and also, in possession of a knife. We've conducted the search.

'He's disappeared down an alleyway.'

We've heard some shouting from a garden,

which I thought was just neighbours talking

and then I'd gone to the alleyway where we actually found his bike

and seen the male running down the path towards me.

Because we do believe that he is in possession of a knife,

and, um, I don't carry Tasers,

so I've raised my baton, extended it,

and held it in the air as, you know, we're told to do

and shouted at the male a number of times to stay where he is,

get down on the floor, and then, hopefully,

my colleagues can hear me shouting.

They've made their way and they've got a Taser

and they've managed to put the cuffs on.

So, it's been a really good result all round and, you know,

fortunately there wasn't a knife on this occasion,

but we don't take chances.

How tall are you?

The man's claims of innocence are in vain.

A male has been arrested for affray and assault.

So, what'll happen now is we'll interview him here

for the offences he's committed here in Humberside.

He'll be dealt with for those. The IRT team will now package that up.

Um, and they'll hand that over to CID, who will take over

the investigation and see it through now to the end.

The man later pleaded guilty to the charge of affray

and is currently being held on remand while awaiting sentencing.

The Neighbourhood Teams in Hull get dozens of calls

every week from fearful residents about the menace

posed by youths in hoodies hanging around on street corners.

Their fears are shared by many people up and down the country.

You have to be careful cos there's a lot of youths, who all gang up

and sort of push past you, you're being careful all the time. It's...

-Yeah.

-..difficult now as we're getting older.

If the parents don't know where their kids are

and what they're doing, they should do, cos I knew where my...

I've got three children and I knew basically where they were,

what they were doing, who they were with.

It's 9pm, and PC Carl Palmer

and PCSO Dawn Brown are on their way to a popular local takeaway.

They're not going there for a bite to eat.

They've got a gang of youths to deal with.

A call has come in from a customer complaining that

there's an intimidating group loitering outside the premises.

It's the same story, I think, across the rest of the country.

These kids are bored, they've got nothing to do,

they want to hang out together,

so they naturally flock to a place like McDonalds.

Um, on the face of it, they don't seem to do much, but, unfortunately,

to other members of the public they can be quite intimidating.

We need to do something about that cos we have to protect

and reassure other members of the public.

The management aren't happy either.

The youths' presence is scaring business away,

as PC Nadine Wilson tries to explain to them.

-We can't keep coming back here.

-Yeah, I know that.

Whatever you may think of this gentleman,

he's trying to run a restaurant.

If little Granny Miggins comes in McDonalds

and you're all here having a laugh, it's intimidating.

The youngsters don't really appreciate

the effect their presence in a large group has on others,

particularly the elderly, but since there has been a complaint,

Carl is going to take a hard line and break up the congregation.

No lights on your bike?

Can't ride it.

Being in a group seems to have given one of the lads

a little extra courage.

-Here, pal...

-What about reflectors?

I'm not your pal!

-Here, mate.

-I'm not your pal and I'm not your mate.

KIDS LAUGH

-What's your name?

-Mine? Bob.

You want to be clever?

You want to be clever, let's have your name.

-Whoa! Brand-new today, let's go,

-BLEEP!

-Don't...!

-Name.

-Private property.

Go away, please.

-Go away.

-Say please.

-Go away.

I don't have to say please.

KIDS LAUGH

-What's your name?

-BLEEP!

Language! That's your first warning.

The second one, you're going to get a public order ticket.

-KIDS LAUGH

-How much are them?

-£80. Do you fancy one?

-Yeah!

KIDS SNIGGER

-Bob.

-I dare you to swear again!

-BLEEP!

-KIDS LAUGH

Carl has had enough of the lad's backchat.

-All right, we'll do this in my car.

-Oh, why in your car?

-Off your bike.

You might think it's clever to act up in front of your mates. It's not.

'The lad is only 15.'

He's too young to be given a ticket, so Carl will have to invite him

to the nick for an interview instead, along with his mum.

When the crowd gets bigger and people become intimidated

and it prevents more customers from coming in,

so then the crowd has to be dispersed

and, unfortunately, sometimes, like the guy in the car,

he's not happy about the situation, he starts to show off

in front of his friends and there's a lot going on.

Everybody's looking at him, it's all very funny,

but it ends up being a public order offence

when he's shouting very loudly for other members of the public

to hear that could be offended by it.

Showing that the police will come down hard on the youngsters

if they overstep the mark has the desired effect on the rest of them.

They've decided it's time to go home.

Good teamwork, as we've just seen,

is vital for successful policing,

but at times when Neighbourhood Officers are out on the beat

and faced with heated members of the public,

it's tact and good communication skills that are often

the most important things to restore the peace.

PC Lorraine Somerfield and PCSO Ruth Leak are on the lookout

for a man walking a Staffordshire bull terrier.

Two women have just told them that

they think he's been abusing his dog on the street.

We'll get some details from him and have a chat with him.

Can we have a chat with you?

I don't like dealing with dogs.

It's all right, calm down.

-Tell them to shut their gobs, cos

-BLEEP!

-All right, all right.

Cos me dog was in the road and I picked him up, is that all right?

-All right, just...

-What's gone on?

-Go and see them!

-I'm going to go and see. What's gone on?

-Nothing's gone on!

-Just calm down. Calm down.

-You going to arrest me for something?

-No, I just want to have a chat with you.

-There's nothing wrong with me!

-Right.

-I have taken me dog out and they're starting!

-Right.

-Why are they starting?

-I don't know!

-Stop...

Sorry, I can't help it, but they're winding me up.

-Ignore them.

-I can't! They're shouting their heads off now!

Yeah, I'm going to go and deal with them.

Why are they starting with you?

Me dog was in the road, I told her to get out, right there

-and that's it.

-Right, OK.

-What's it to do with them?

-I don't know, but do you want to stop shouting?

-Sorry, I can't help it.

-That's it.

-Right, let me just...

-I've told you now. Right?

-Let me take some details from you.

-What for?

Just so I can say that I've spoken to you.

-I ain't done nothing!

-Let me just have a chat with you.

I ain't done nothing!

Why don't you just wind your neck in and speak to me?

I'm taking me dog out. I ain't done nothing.

Right, OK, I'll find out where you live

and I'll come and speak to you at home then.

With the man not proving very helpful, Lorraine turns her

attention to the two women who saw the alleged animal abuse -

and doesn't get off to a very good start.

-Shut it!

-Animal cruelty!

-Do us a... Look, do us a favour.

-Listen to what I'm saying.

-Can you turn that camera off first?

Look, just listen to what I'm saying to you. What's your name?

SHE MUMBLES

-It's what?

-Mickey

-BLEEP

-Mouse!

-Well, you don't look like Mickey Mouse.

-Well, I am.

-Right.

All right then, Mickey. This is how we will deal with it.

I can't take his dog off him. What I can do...

-Well,

-BLEEP

-lock him up.

-Listen. What I can do

is get in contact with my friend who works in the RSPCA

-and...

-What are they going to do?

-Listen!

-And what are they going to do?

-Listen!

-If you listen to me, I'll tell you!

-Shut up!

She will go down and she will conduct some checks.

-Have you got his address?

-Will you listen?

-Listen to what I'm trying to say to you.

-I am listening.

You're not, you're talking over me.

-Are you prepared to give a statement about what you've seen?

-I am, yeah.

Right, let me get some details from you. I will pass both your details...

Come to me house, I'll be there in ten minutes.

I'll pass both your details on, but you can say who you've seen,

-can't you? And say what you've seen.

-Shut up and listen.

-I am

-BLEEP

-listening!

Right, I need to know your proper name now, instead of Mickey Mouse.

SHE LAUGHS

Finally, Lorraine seems to be getting through to the women.

Do you want me to carry your truncheon?

Lovely. She doesn't carry one.

That's all right. Nice arse, love!

I'm doing any checks on either of you.

-All I'm bothered about is sorting out the dog.

-Bye!

Basically, we were flagged down by two very irate females

who've just witnessed a male, em,

allegedly beating a Staffordshire bull terrier in the street.

As you probably saw,

we were trying to speak to the gentleman who was walking the dog.

He wasn't prepared to stop and speak to us, I wasn't prepared to argue

with him in light of the fact that he did have

a Staffordshire bull terrier with him

and he was obviously very angry himself.

I've got the details off the females who've witnessed this.

I will pass this onto a colleague who works in the RSPCA, um,

and see if we can track down who this chap is.

-Go away!

-What's up?

THEY SHOUT

That's not the end of it, though.

Further up the street, the two women are being confronted by two men,

one of whom is the dog owner's stepson.

Now he's threatening me!

Just walk away.

-You what? I'll knock you straight out next time.

-Hey, fellas, come on.

-Don't be making any threats.

-She's running her mouth then.

-You two disappear.

-But when I see you, I'm going to leather you!

-Do us a favour...

-Now he's threatening me

-because of what I told you about that

-BLEEP

-dog!

THEY ALL SHOUT TOGETHER

-Do us a favour... MAN:

-Quit lying!

-Here! She's just said...!

-THEY ALL SHOUT TOGETHER

-He's right!

-WOMAN:

-You wasn't there!

Look, just do us a favour.

Calm yourselves down. Just disappear.

I'm going to talk to these two,

just you two disappear for us.

All right? Just disappear for us. Go on.

With the situation threatening to get out of hand, backup arrives...

Just do us a favour and disappear, will you?

..just as the dog owner reappears.

-Does my dog look battered?

-He's effing and jeffing at us.

His stepson's now come out here

and he's threatening these here, it's quite BLEEP.

-Do us a favour and disappear, stop making...

-He never touched it.

-You're the one...

-I'll see you anyway.

You're the one threatening to assault a woman in the street,

-so just disappear for us, will you?

-She's just been saying that

-he's battering the dog.

-Just disappear.

Will you move them on and all then?

I'm moving them on, just wind your neck in and keep going. Go on.

I'll be quiet, but just look at the dogs like...

-Just keep going, I'm not arguing about the dog.

-Well, they started it.

-Just keep going.

-All right, all right.

Stop threatening to assault women in the street.

I've tried getting details out of him. He's just gobbed off.

He's disappeared to walk his dog.

In the meantime, his stepson and his mate have come out...

started effing and jeffing at the two women, em,

threatening to bang them out and all the rest of it.

Um, but I've got details off them two anyway cos I'm going to

get in contact with the RSPCA about him with his dog.

Thankfully, Lorraine and her colleagues

have prevented a potentially violent incident from kicking off.

We managed to defuse the situation.

Everybody's gone on their way

and we'll continue this hopefully with the RSPCA.

The allegations of animal cruelty were investigated,

but no charges were ever brought.

Later, police are called in as a couple's argument gets out of hand.

Why am I arrested? Just because I slapped my wife? That's all.

A bike is stolen every minute of the day in the UK,

and less than five percent of them are ever returned to their owners.

The Neighbourhood Police's problem isn't so much recovering

stolen bikes, but working out whom they belong to in the first place.

Security-marking bikes with their own unique codes is one way

to significantly increase the chance of owners getting them back

if they are pinched.

We are getting hit a little bit with shed and garage burglaries

at the moment, vehicle crime,

and we'll also be doing some cycle coding.

Um, or coding of anything really, bearing in mind that cycles,

fishing gear and things like that are usually the popular stuff

that goes when the sheds and the garages get burgled.

Today, the Neighbourhood Team

are at the Orchard Park Community Centre in North Hull

where they're providing free bicycle security-marking to the public.

So part of the service this morning is to do cycle coding

for the people in the area that'll bring their bikes in.

We'll get them all coded up, send off the forms to Immobilise.com

and, hopefully, deliver a good service

and let people know what we can do for them.

So I'll put this big banner on here,

so they all know we're here.

The coding is done by engraving the frame of the bike.

-Good morning.

-Morning.

-Have you brought your bike in to be cycle-coded?

-Yes.

-Yeah.

OK, all right, if we just take it inside and we'll get one of the lads

-to mark it up for you. All right?

-Thank you.

DRILLING

It is a unique reference number, which is, um...

registered to the address and to the owner of the cycle itself.

Um, it's not just cycles we can do.

We can do anything, really, which you don't mind getting engraved.

So, it can be things like cycles, scooters, um, mobility carriages...

Today's also about meeting local people,

and Dawn Brown is doing her bit for community relations.

Oh, really? Nice.

And he's called Lorenzo.

I just thought, "I like him!"

I wouldn't have any, but I like him.

I say that, I've got two, but I wouldn't have any more,

that's it done.

The event is for all generations.

Peter Cawood nearly had his mobility scooter stolen,

so he's having that marked up.

Do you use this centre quite a lot?

-Uh, yeah, well, I always come to the Thursday market.

-Do you?

Peter used to work at sea.

I was a trawlerman, you know what trawlermen are like!

Yeah! Oh, yeah!

You must have loads of tattoos then, not just these.

Oh, there! SHE LAUGHS

-There, I've got another one there.

-Ah, right!

-Did you do that for a long time?

-Pardon?

Did you do it for a long time?

-What, trawlers? Oh, yes.

-Did you?

Yeah.

-Did you go all over?

-I was away for three weeks, home for two days...

In the unlikely event someone takes Peter's mobility scooter

for a joyride, now he can at least be reassured that,

if it's found, he'll get it back.

I'm just glad that I've came in and had it done,

but I should have had it done long ago.

Andy Derbyshire and PCSO David Nimmo are on their way to visit

a 13-year-old Polish boy near to the community centre.

He had his bike stolen recently,

but has just seen it outside the house of one of his neighbours,

and wants the police to help him get it back.

Kids on this estate love the pushbikes.

Um, it's the only way that the kids get around.

Even so much so that when they get into adulthood,

because they can't afford driving lessons and they can't afford cars

and things like that, all they have are pushbikes.

The bike isn't security-marked and unless the boy can verify

that it's his, police don't have any grounds to retrieve it.

I can't. Without good details of the bike, I can't go and take this bike.

However, the lad says that markings on the bike's saddle

distinguish it as his.

-There's rips on it?

-Yeah.

Despite the lack of proof of ownership,

they are giving the lad the benefit of the doubt.

They have decided to visit the house

where the allegedly stolen bike has been seen

and, sure enough, there's a bike with a saddle

that matches the lad's description parked outside.

It's got that on it. It's got a rip there.

KNOCKING ON DOOR

-WOMAN INSIDE:

-Yes, I hear you.

All right. Cheers.

The woman in the house says it belongs to her son,

who conveniently turns up while Andy and David are inside.

The youth says he got it from a friend,

but, if it's stolen, he's happy for the officers to take it away.

If we just get you to sign the book,

just to say that we're taking the bike away. All right?

So, if you can prove it's yours...

serial numbers, receipts, anything like that, that's fine.

The seat will be.

THEY LAUGH

Right. Cheers, boys.

The bike, with its distinctive saddle, is being seized.

What we've said to him, we've explained the situation

that it's possibly stolen.

He said he's got no idea that it could be stolen,

he just got it given to him by one of his friends.

We said, "Where did he get it from?"

But he said he'd got no idea where they got it from.

Em, we've had to seize the bike as possibly stolen.

Um, the owner at the address has disclaimed all rights to the bike.

Back at the station,

the boy and his next-door neighbour have come to identify the bike.

He'd reported the theft along with that of another bike,

but there's still some confusion.

So was it just your bike that got stolen?

-No, two bikes.

-Two bikes stolen at the same time.

That bike and another big white bike.

He had a white mountain bike that got stolen, and you found that.

-The police recovered that and we went to pick it up.

-Oh, OK, hang on.

-So you had a white bike stolen. Did it have a cycle lock on it?

-Yeah.

All right.

-And it was stolen the same day as that?

-Yeah.

-OK, I've found it.

You put...cos on here you've put red and green, but it's red, isn't it?

-The bike.

-That one?

-Yeah.

-Well, I think it's red and black...

-OK.

But I said green or something.

All right. No problem. I've found it.

There's enough evidence to suggest the bike does belong to the lad,

so he will get it back, though things could have been a lot easier.

If this bike was marked, we'd have none of this issue.

If it was marked and it was on our Immobilise system,

then straightaway,

we can put their bike to that person in a matter of seconds.

Ring them up, "I've got your bike."

Job done, straightaway.

So it doesn't happen again,

Dave marks up the bike before the lad takes it away.

And it's his unique number, so when we come to it,

we can put that number in.

Even if someone takes this sticker off, it's still on there.

Even if they're going to scratch it off, we're going to know it's stolen.

So, if they scratch that off, we'll still take it off them.

So there's a happy bike-rider and a happy police officer.

We made a statement, got the bike back and had it coded.

-Pretty happy, aren't you?

-Yeah.

-The officer was actually...

I'm pleased I got my bike back.

And the officer that helped you, Dave, he was a good one, weren't he?

-Yeah.

-He did a good job.

It's gone great. He's happy.

He's took the bike away now, he's happy with it.

Even though the bike's not particularly in good condition,

um, it's his bike, and it might be his whole world,

he says he goes everywhere on it.

Um, so, it's a good result to give him something back.

It's not just bikes that have a habit of straying.

In Hull, it seems horses do too.

Carl and Dawn are on their way to rescue one that's turned up

in a children's play park, of all places!

We get very, very few complaints about horses in children's parks

and I suspect it's got in there by accident.

I don't think it'll be on purpose.

Sure enough, there's a horse in the kids' park,

and it's not a new children's ride.

Can you do us a favour?

Can you take your kids over that side?

There could be a risk if the horse decided to bolt.

Obviously, there's very small children in the park.

An RSPCA inspector's here to corral the animal.

Well, she's secured the horse. She's, um, got a tether on it now.

Um, she's just checking it to see that it's OK.

There's no indication to whom the horse belongs

and it hasn't been reported missing,

but at least it does appear to be in good health.

So the next thing we'll do is try and get it out the play park.

And, um, get it to safety.

The play park belongs to the Council

and, while it's not that unusual in Hull for horses to be left

on Council land, there's often confusion

about what to do with them.

It's loose in one of your playgrounds. There's kids playing.

So Carl is on the phone to the Council now...

Well, I can tell you it's not a police matter. It's your land,

and there's a horse on it and you've got children playing in this park.

..trying to sort it out.

I don't know what you expect the police to magically do with a horse,

but there's a sign here saying that the Council will come and seize it.

Welfare-wise, there's not really a problem, but, unfortunately,

the Council aren't going to deal with it,

the police don't have the funds to deal with it, you know,

I can't turn this horse back out onto there,

so we're going to end up having to take the horse in.

Um, because obviously we don't know if it's vaccinated,

we don't know if it's had any, like, history of illness, we're going

to have to pay for it to be boarded at the vet's over the weekend,

cos we can't risk putting it into an establishment

where we've already got sick horses.

It's a frustrating situation for everyone.

Even the horse is hacked off.

HORSE NEIGHS

Ayah! It bites!

And it hurts.

A horse transporter has arrived to pick the horse up.

What the RSPCA are going to do is...

..um, under their own cost,

is get the horse recovered, cos there's nothing we can do with it.

We can't leave it roaming the streets.

So, um...

we're going to get the horse seized.

Should the owner turn up and want his horse back, he'll have to

pay the RSPCA's costs of around £200 in order to get it back.

The horse will be fine, I'm quite sure.

It's in quite good condition,

it's just the circumstances that it's been found in in this situation.

Sadly, no-one ever claimed the horse

and it's currently waiting to be found a new owner.

Domestic violence can happen to anybody.

Understandably, the victims are often reluctant to come forward.

When they do, the Neighbourhood Team take the matter very seriously

as the only way to stop the problem is to come down hard

on offenders and let them know that the violence is unacceptable.

PCs Jane Jackson and Paul Jefferson are on their way

to a park in the east of Hull

to help a colleague deal with what appears to be a domestic incident.

We've got a report of a lady who's been assaulted by

who we believe to be her husband.

SIRENS WAIL

PCSO Chris Smith is at the scene.

The alleged assailant has gone,

but there are witnesses who saw what happened.

-He's seen it, he's just coming back.

-He seen it?

Yeah, he said he saw the incident.

-Oh, right, so the gentleman who did it is not here?

-No.

What country are you from?

-Poland.

-Poland? OK.

The woman's face is marked where she was struck,

and she is still clearly shaken.

She doesn't speak much English, but fortunately,

she's with a friend who does.

How'd she get the injury to her face?

-He punched her in the face.

-Was that with the bottle?

-No, no, no.

-No?

-Where's the bottle come from?

Yeah, the bottle fell to the ground. He just threw it down.

-Oh, right, so he just dropped it.

-He didn't hit her with it? OK.

What we've just had is, unfortunately,

this lady's been assaulted by her ex-partner.

Uh, they're from Poland, so the lady speaks very little English.

Luckily, we've got a gentleman here who can interpret for us.

What we'll have to do... Even though they're separated,

they're still living in the same house, so he assaulted her here,

we're going to ask another patroller to go down the house to check

and see if the vehicle's there and he's at the address.

And he'll be looking at being arrested for assault.

But there's no need to check the house, as the woman's husband

has returned to the park.

All right. What I'm going to say to you, then, sir,

you're under arrest for assault. 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. You understand that?

-Yeah.

-OK.

-Are you Polish?

-Yes.

-Right, OK.

Can I speak with my wife?

-Not at the moment, she's not too happy, obviously.

-OK.

-OK.

-Nothing sharp, nothing dangerous.

-No, no, no, no.

-Nothing at all.

He's going to the cells,

but doesn't seem to think he's done anything wrong.

-Why am I arrested? Just because I slapped my wife? That's all?

-Yes.

Yeah, she got somebody else,

so I don't know what you've got to do with it.

-HE BANGS HEAD

-Mind your head.

-Ooh!

They now need to interview the woman, which they do

at her home, along with an interpreter.

Um...

can you tell us what's happened tonight?

SHE SPEAKS POLISH

He had a drink.

Eh, I practically went shopping and I wasn't answering

my mobile phone, my telephone, and he went into some rage.

Um, and he started to look for me around parks and he attacked me.

And I cannot even go to see my female friends

because he is thinking that I go somewhere to betray him.

SHE SPEAKS POLISH

Today, I wanted to add that he was, um...

running about the house and he was scaring me.

It's just a nightmare. He is becoming worse and worse.

And that was today?

THEY SPEAK POLISH

Today, yes.

SHE SPEAKS POLISH

That is why when he was in bed sleeping, um, that is

why I went out with my child because otherwise he wouldn't let me go.

The violence is escalating a lot since...has been escalating

-since January this year.

-OK.

That is why it's good the police took him away,

-because otherwise I would have been afraid to come back home.

-OK.

Can you give me that in a statement, please?

Jane's seen too many cases like this

and it doesn't get any easier for her.

It was obvious that it was an ongoing domestic problem that this lady had.

Um, she'd put up with it really for the past five years,

um, to the point where they have recently, while they're still

living in the same house, were going through a separation.

She spoke last night that she had in the last few weeks

considered divorce to the point where she'd taken some injury photographs

of previous black eyes as evidence that she has been assaulted by him

because she has never reported any previous assaults to us.

The man later admitted striking his wife

and was given a police caution for assault.

Whether it's organising local community meetings

or helping offenders with rehabilitation,

we've seen today that the Neighbourhood Team

demonstrate a depth and array of police work

far beyond just responding to calls for service.

Join us again next time.

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