Episode 8 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 15 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 are under arrest 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!

Busting suspected drug dens.

SHOUTING

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 wasn'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 are under arrest for being in possession of a controlled substance.

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

Goodbye!

Coming up, the neighbourhood team locks horns with a man

who doesn't believe in talking things over...

-Come here.

-No, I'm not obliged to talk...

You are, because you need to take this ticket.

..bust a cannabis farmer about to reap the rewards of a bumper crop...

They look like quite controlled plants, they are very healthy plants,

so I would say these are probably ready to harvest.

..and hunt down illegal off-road bike riders.

-Coppers,

-BLEEP.

-Have that on your

-BLEEP

-tape!

Booze-fuelled disturbances caused by late-night revellers

are threatening to make town centres and high streets

no-go zones for law-abiding citizens.

It's a problem the Neighbourhood Policing Teams

are working hard to eradicate.

It's a pleasant Sunday night in Bridlington.

Revellers are enjoying the many delights of the town's nightlife.

Unfortunately, for Special Constables Mike Tinsley

and Doug Whitfield, not everyone is behaving themselves.

They've been called to a nightclub

where a man has been having a row with the door staff.

If you came upstairs and got me...

His girlfriend is trying to keep the peace.

SHOUTING

The clubber's a little worse for wear

and according to the bouncer, he's been behaving aggressively

and been asked to leave.

The best option now is to give him a dispersal order,

banning him from the immediate area.

It's a way of preventing trouble escalating,

especially in situations like this.

Mate, come here a second. Mate, come here.

Right, you are going to get a notice, dispersal from the town centre now.

-What for?

-Just the way you are behaving.

-Why am I getting a notice?

Because the way you are behaving now in the town centre...

-No, they've made me like that. Can we walk up there now?

-No.

-Why?

-Are you going home?

-Yes, I'm going home.

-I'm going to give you a ticket.

Give me a ticket, I'm not bothered. I've had plenty of 'em.

It's not a fine, don't worry about that, it's a dispersal notice.

-It is a fine, mate.

-It's not a fine.

-Well, what happens to them bouncers?

-What happens to them bouncers, mate?

-Look at the way you are behaving now.

I'm judging this decision based purely on how you're acting with me.

What do you expect, mate? You don't walk up there...

At this moment in time, he's not going to get arrested.

-All right...

-Darren, stop it, stop it now!

I'm sorry, I will not swear.

-Well, I've ask you now and I'm warning you. Calm down.

-Yes, I will.

I'm going to give you a dispersal notice. Go home, that's fine.

I'm now going to give you a ticket to say you need to leave the town centre.

Because we believe that if you stay here, this situation will escalate.

It will not because I spoke to two bouncers that aren't from that pub.

-But you aren't going anywhere.

-Yes, I'll go home.

So let me give you a ticket.

-You go home and that's the end of the matter.

-Fair enough.

Although he said he is leaving,

the man seems keen to stick around and argue his case.

-I am not getting aggressive.

-You are.

If I was aggressive, you'd know about it, mate.

To stop anything further happening, we're going to give you a ticket.

I'm going home anyway, mate. I'll go home.

He's had a disagreement with door staff,

he's being ejected from one of the bars/nightclubs.

On being asked to leave, he's been quite confrontational with the staff.

Speaking with us, he's been a bit irate.

He's obviously well in drink, so we'll get a section 27, disperse him,

on the basis that if he remains in the town centre, it could escalate

and it could turn into a drunk and disorderly behaviour

that he could potentially be locked up for later on.

Mike and Doug still need to get the man's details for the ticket.

But he doesn't seem too keen to give it to them.

-No, I weren't arguing with you.

-BLEEP!

We need him for the rest of his details. Darren, Darren!

-BLEEP!

-Can you get him to come back here, please?

-I'm going home.

-Darren?

-Darren?

-BLEEP.

Come and sign this ticket.

Here, am I obliged to talk to you? No, I'm not.

At this moment in time, you are receiving a section 27 notice.

I'm not obliged to talk to you. I'm not obliged to talk to you.

-Cos I'm not obliged to talk to you, that's why.

-Come here.

-No.

-I'm not obliged to talk...

-You are, because you need to take this ticket.

-Your alternative is to get arrested.

-For drunk and disorderly.

For being obliged to talk to you?

Right, two options. One, you speak to us...

I'm not obliged to talk to you, mate.

I'm not obliged to talk to these officers, mate.

Obliged to talk or not, the man finally gives his details

and as the officers seem unable to shut him up,

his girlfriend has a try.

-Calm down, we'll lock you up for drunk and disorderly now.

-Give up, now.

-Give up now.

-BLEEP!

-I'm not obliged to talk to them.

-You can get banged up.

I'm not obliged to talk to them.

-Do you want a copy of your search record now?

-Have you got a...?

Put it in her purse.

-Can you get my solicitor's number on that phone, please?

-Darren.

Why not? I want my solicitor.

He finally seems to have got the message

and starts making his way out of town.

He now has ten minutes to leave the area

or he'll be spending the night in the cells.

If you swear again, you get locked up.

INDISTINCT SHOUT

Hopefully, his girlfriend will be a positive influence.

She's done the right thing, she's tried to get him to shut up

and accept that he has to get the notice off the officers

and in the end, she's realised that she's not getting anywhere

and she's walked off. Thankfully, he's followed.

Unfortunately for Mike and Doug,

their dealings with Darren haven't finished for the night.

Is he heading in a different direction from where he's supposed to be?

Yes, we're turning round now. The war memorial, yes.

CCTV picked him up as doubling back on himself,

and possibly heading back into the town centre.

By the time we turned round, he seems to have disappeared.

As you can see there, everyone who gets a 27 is given a map,

and the red area indicates the area they are restricted from.

And on the back of that, it also tells them

the conditions of the section 27.

They mustn't return to the specified area within a set period of time.

You'll be told by the officer, usually a 48-hour period.

If they don't comply with this direction,

they may be arrested for the offence.

Darren is still in the red area of the map,

well past his 10-minute limit,

when another patrol picks him up.

Mike's patience is being tested.

-Did you ask Deaton?

-Darren, you need to be going home.

-Thank you. Exactly. Did he ask Deaton?

-Listen, just listen.

-I'm listening.

But it's a better use of police's resources

if he leaves rather than taking up a cell.

-Good night, Darren.

-See what I mean, nothing happens.

See what I mean, mate? He knows I've done nothing wrong.

He knows I've done nothing wrong.

To be fair, he is making his way. He's doing it incredibly slowly,

he's borderline being in breach of his section 27.

We've made a bit of an allowance that he's drunk,

so he's obviously walking quite slowly.

We've confirmed that he is making his way, we're satisfied he's going home.

So we'll just remain vigilant and make sure he gets home

and that will be an end to the matter.

Yes, you know it, mate, that's why you're filming it, pal.

That's why you're filming it.

Unlike response officers who answer 999 calls,

the Neighbourhood Police rely far more on the relationships

they forge with members of the local community to tackle crime.

It's all about listening to their concerns and complaints,

then doing something about them.

It's mid-afternoon

and PC Sandra Brack is briefing her Neighbourhood Police colleagues

about a drugs raid they are about to carry out

in Immingham, near Grimsby in north-east Lincolnshire.

The information came in at the beginning of the week

from a member of the public who's having to pass there

and can smell quite strong smells of cannabis from the garage.

The information came through believing that there is

quite a large grow in there, possibly 30 plants.

I'm hoping I can just knock on the door and someone will be in.

It's Friday afternoon late on,

so with a bit of luck, someone will be there.

So if we can have a couple of PCSOs,

to stand at the end of St Helens Road here, sort of thing.

Just to monitor what's coming in and out.

As no-one has actually seen the cannabis farm, Sandra is not sure

what to expect or what sort of reception she and her team will get.

It depends who's at the property.

Hopefully we always try and knock first and ask

if we can come in politely.

And hopefully people will oblige with us.

If there are any violent offers towards us,

we'll hopefully be able to deal with it and sort it out.

Sandra is going for the softly softly approach in the first instance.

-Hello, is this the premises of

-BLEEP?

-Yes.

-OK.

-My name is PC Bracken from Immingham Police Station.

-Hi.

We have a warrant for your address because we believe there is

-a grow of cannabis in your garage at the back of the property.

-Really?

-So do you have the keys to the garage?

-No, I don't.

-My husband keeps them.

-Who's in at the moment?

-Just me and my baby.

Let's come in and have a natter instead of airing your business on the street.

The woman in the house doesn't appear to have any idea

of what's going on in her garage. So Sandra puts her straight.

-We've received information that your husband, is it your husband?

-Yes.

Yes. That he's growing cannabis in his garage outside the back there, OK?

So because of that, we've actually researched this

and it's more than one bit of information that's come in.

We've been to the magistrate's court

and we've got a warrant to search the address.

Fundamentally, we are interested in the garage.

Do you have any keys for the garage?

The woman doesn't know where any keys are,

or why the police are even here.

She appears to have absolutely no idea what's going on

and she's burst into tears, bless her.

The lady appears to have no idea what goes on in the garage.

She doesn't have access to any keys whatsoever.

She believes it's just his work gear.

So she's in there with a very small child

and I've asked a PCSO to go in and sit with her

because she's very distressed, as you can well imagine.

-Is it possible to get in?

-Have you got a key?

-No, we've got no keys.

He takes the key with him, she has no access to it whatsoever.

With no keys and not wanting to make a mess today,

they're going to play a waiting game.

DOG BARKS

His wife just phoned, he's on his way with the keys

so we don't have to cause a damage.

It's not far, only about ten minutes.

We don't want to cause damage if we don't need to.

The man soon arrives home.

-Hello there, is it

-BLEEP?

OK, my name is PC... Do you want to come round first?

Jump over then, fit and healthy.

And he doesn't seem too concerned

about all the police officers at his house.

My name is PC Bracken from Immingham Police Station.

We've got a warrant for searching the property,

-regarding the possibility of a cannabis grow in your garage.

-Fine.

Would you be kind enough to open the garage for us, please?

The man seems rather relaxed for a suspected cannabis farmer.

Will there be anything behind the garage door,

or have the police made a terrible mistake?

It's 11am, and PCs Trevor Needham

and Jamie Campbell are on their way to a supermarket in Hessle

on the outskirts of Hull, where there might be a drink or drugged driver.

Yes, we've been called to Sainsbury's at Hessle.

Security staff have called us

saying there's a vehicle turned up and two males got out of the vehicle,

stumbling around and seem to be under the influence of something.

So we are going to go up there and see what we can find.

But, before arriving at the supermarket, they've spotted

some rather suspicious-looking characters at the side of the road.

As they approach the supermarket,

they find out that the driver has made off on foot.

One of the members of the security staff has been

following the driver, but he seems to have given him the slip.

Then he came this way. The first time I followed him,

he did a massive loop. I went back to the car again.

While Jamie and the security guard were following

the man's tracks, Trevor has taken a shortcut and intercepted him.

INAUDIBLE

He is insisting that he is sober.

-Have you had anything to drink?

-I haven't had anything to drink, no.

-You haven't?

-No.

-But he has got some drug-related things in his pocket.

-Are these yours?

-No, they are my mate's.

-How did you get to Sainsbury's,

-BLEEP?

-How did you get to Sainsbury's?

-I was driving.

You were driving?

This is drug paraphernalia, isn't it? Needles and citric acid.

They're classic signs of heroin usage.

He's told us his friend has dropped it on the floor,

as he's been thrown out of Sainsbury's.

The man is getting a full body search.

-As well as a golf ball...

-Play golf?

-Yeah!

..Jamie's found some prescription drugs hidden in a sweet packet.

-What are all these tablets, mate?

-Er...

-BLEEP

At this moment in time I'm arresting you for being in possession

of a controlled substance.

The man is going to be taken to the police station.

Because of the tablets that were found and his behaviour,

Jamie strongly believes that the man is under the influence of drugs

and that he had been driving like that.

He's going to be given a special test called

a field impairment test to help determine

if he was driving illegally.

Sandra Brack and her neighbourhood policing team are serving

a drugs warrant after a tipoff that a man was growing cannabis

in his garage.

The man's wife claimed to know nothing about it.

And the man himself seems very calm,

despite all the police officers on his drive.

But once inside the garage...

..officers find a forest of cannabis plants. It's a spectacular find.

We've got 29 or 30 very mature cannabis plants

that are ready for cultivation.

The garage owner is still not that bothered, despite facing

a prison sentence, potentially of up to a maximum of 14 years.

You're under arrest for the cultivation of cannabis.

You don't have to say...

Once the man is on his way to Immingham Police Station,

the neighbourhood team have time for a proper look round the garage.

PC Simon Duffield has seen a fair few cannabis farms in his career

but even he is shocked by this one.

We've got a fairly significant cannabis grow.

They're quite mature plants. It looks like they're ready to crop.

I would say there's about 28 to 30 plants.

As you can see, it's quite a sophisticated setup.

They've gone to great lengths to partition off the garage

and there's a lot of work gone into it.

They've got quite a sophisticated lighting, hydroponic system

and air-filter system.

They've gone to great lengths to create this area

to grow the cannabis.

There's quite a lot of money's worth there.

It would be difficult to say at this time how much but it is

quite a sophisticated cannabis grow.

The place has been busted in the nick of time.

They look like mature plants. They're very healthy plants.

I would say these are probably ready to harvest in maybe

the next couple of weeks.

But this is the first one that I've seen in a garage that has been

converted of this kind.

Certainly in an area like this, this is quite a significant find.

As well as growing drugs,

it seems like the man has been lying to his wife.

From the reaction we got from her, she had no keys to the garage either.

We did look round the property for some keys.

I don't believe she had anything to do with it.

You can see by this. It's sectioned off and the lady in the house

thought it was just building materials for his job.

Now comes the task of bagging up the plants

and all the equipment that has been used to grow them.

Simon is still amazed at the scale of the discovery.

It's a real nice area of town, this.

It's very rare that we find this in this area of town.

The man was later bailed while tests on the plants are carried out.

Back at the station, Sandra can reflect on a job well done.

It was information that just came in on a routine log that

I took it off the computer system, researched it and the next thing

we knew, we're getting a warrant sworn out and going to the address.

It was a huge success to take out that number of mature plants

at that stage, quite literally just before they were

ready for harvesting and they would be going out to the general public.

It prevented a very large crop of cannabis getting out into

the public domain.

It wouldn't have happened without a tipoff from a member of the public.

We rely on members of the public just to ring in when they see things.

It just goes to show the importance of it.

Back in Hull, Jamie and Trevor

have arrested a man suspected of possessing illegal drugs...

..and driving whilst under the influence of drugs.

-Have you been in custody before?

-I haven't.

-Never ever in your whole life?

-No.

-Well...

The man has got some rather revealing marks on his arm

but still maintains he's not on any drugs.

-Have you had any alcohol or drugs in the last 24 hours?

-No.

You're a bit slurry for somebody who's had nothing.

-Are you sure you've had nothing?

-I've just been at work so...

A traffic cop has arrived to test

whether he's telling the truth or not.

The traffic sergeant is a specialist in driving offences.

-Do you understand?

-Yes.

First, the man is put on a machine called an intoximeter...

Take a really good deep breath

and then blow out evenly like you're blowing up a balloon.

..which accurately measures the amount of alcohol in his breath.

Keep going, keep going, keep going. Keep going. Keep going, keep going.

INTOXIMETER BUZZES

-It says there is none.

-That's come back as zero.

But that doesn't mean he's off the hook.

He's going to be tested for drug use.

New drug testing machines are currently being trialled but

until they are approved, the police have to rely on

a field impairment test, similar to the old American sobriety test.

It's a series of assessments of a person's ability to perform

physical tasks, such as walking in a straight line.

Standing on one leg and counting at the same time.

1,001, 1,002, 1,003,

1,006...

..1,007.

And tilting your head back

and touching your nose with your eyes closed.

-Yes?

-Yeah.

-OK?

OK?

Right.

The man's failed to perform the tasks adequately...

-We don't do pillows!

-Oh!

..which means he should not have been driving.

DOOR SHUTS

The two traffic officers have done the impairment test and deemed him

impaired, basically. We are going to get a medical officer to come down.

We request he do his analysis.

To confirm he has drugs in his system,

he'll now have a sample of his blood analysed.

-Do you want a drink?

-Yeah, a cup of tea.

DOOR SHUTS

He is waiting to hear if the police are going to charge him

with driving whilst unfit through drink or drugs.

INDISTINCT

Last year in England and Wales,

crime fell to its lowest level for 30 years.

The only category in the police figures to see an increase

was theft from person,

owing to the rising number of thefts of mobile phones

and other personal devices, often committed by youths on bikes.

In North Hull, PC Nick Deacon

and Sergeant Caroline Andrews are about to head out

to search for a man on a bicycle suspected of stealing an iPad.

-RADIO:

-'Looking for a male on a bike in a light royal blue baseball cap.

'Beverley Road, Etherington Road area.

'Do you have any cameras up there?'

RADIO: 'It's now Endike.'

-Endike? That's up there, isn't it?

-Over here?

He was recently seen at the exact place where they are now

but seems to have vanished into thin air.

We were at the junction with Endike.

There's nobody matching that description.

Are we sure on the location?

The suspect, on a bike and wearing a blue baseball hat,

has now been spotted a few streets away.

Driving at some speed, isn't it?

They head to the area

and have quickly come across someone fitting the description.

They decide the best way to catch the suspected bicycling thief

is to split up.

Right, stop!

But once again, the man has vanished.

Caroline can't see him anywhere. Nick has had no more luck either.

He just missed him.

He didn't even look back. I didn't even get a look at his face.

I don't know whether the CCTV caught him.

With the troops on the ground unable to catch the suspect,

the police helicopter has been called upon

to use its eye in the sky to find and track him.

HELICOPTER WHIRS

He's down there, isn't he? But they're saying for us to hang back.

Nick and Caroline are told to sit tight and wait for now.

The plan now is to sit here and have a cup of tea

whilst we wait for the other patrols to tell us what to do.

The other patrols include a pair of plainclothes officers

from the Proactive Team.

They reckon the thief has gone to ground in one of the nearby

houses and will call in their colleagues if he pops up again,

something he might do if or when he thinks the coast is clear.

INDISTINCT RADIO

INDISTINCT RADIO

Caroline and Nick soon get the call they are waiting for.

The man has resurfaced.

RADIO: 'Delta, India, one-one. Delta, India, one-one.'

Plainclothes officers have arrested the man

and found his bike but there's no sign of the stolen iPad.

Thankfully, though, it has a tracking device on it that has been

activated and is signalling that it's close by.

Nick has the unenviable task of trying to find it.

Delightful job, looking for some lost property, stolen property.

Quicker than any sniffer dog, the experienced

neighbourhood officer tracks down the missing tablet.

It's here. It's a leather pouch.

The iPad is in a red case,

and has been tossed into a back garden but they can't get into it.

-The fence is causing problems.

-Let's just go down the side there.

They can't go over it.

-It's literally just the other side of the fence.

-They can't go round it.

Go through the fence?

But can they get under it?

After a bit of arm wriggling, Nick retrieves the missing iPad.

-Job done.

-This chap's made away from us.

And what he had with him was a stolen iPad.

What people don't know is that iPads can be tracked

because Apple have a nice little application. It says, "Find my iPad."

There we go.

To be fair, the bike he's got is way too good for him

so we'll take that as well because we suspect that to be stolen.

It's a good job by Proactive. Nice when it all comes together.

Watch your head.

Though Caroline thinks it could all have been wrapped up quicker.

I blame my colleague for bailing me out too far around the corner.

I notice he stayed in the car.

Apparently, he didn't end up running at all!

There's something wrong when the sergeant ends up running!

The man was charged with the theft of the iPad

and stealing the bike he was riding.

He pleaded guilty and was given sentences of three months

and nine months in prison.

Mini Motos and off-road dirt bikes are fast becoming

one of the biggest causes of aggravation to people.

With speeds of up to 60mph,

they are often ridden illegally in public places,

causing a frightful noise and intimidating local residents.

Now Humberside's neighbourhood police are cracking down

on the two-wheeled terrors.

On their way back to their base, the crew of Oscar 99,

the police helicopter, have spotted some youngsters

riding around on motorbikes in a playing field.

It's a public place, it's antisocial and they're breaking the law.

Caroline and Nick have been called in to help deal with them.

Yeah, that's received.

It is going to have to be something we access on foot

and they do tend to scarper prior to then.

We have had a number of problems in the area.

But they know the chances of catching anyone are remote.

They're on motorbikes, we're on foot.

SHE LAUGHS

They can't drive onto the field,

and it's so large it's easy for the bike riders to get away.

The best they can hope for is that their colleagues up above

can get some clear images of the people riding the bikes.

Nick and Caroline soon run into a group of youths.

What's your name, young man?

-And you are, young man?

-What?

"What?" Not what, who are you?

They have a container of petrol and a motorbike helmet,

but there's not a Mini Moto in sight,

so Nick gets in touch with the police helicopter.

If they've got good footage, which I would presume they have,

send it to 696 and we'll have a look at it

and hopefully identify the rest of them.

It is a known group to us.

Just identifying which ones are on the bikes.

One youngster has decided to head off,

and he's taking the potential evidence.

But the rogue Mini Moto riders haven't bargained for the filming

of them being done from above.

-RADIO:

-'We've got some good footage, some good face shots,

'and we'll get a few more while they're stationary.'

I was thinking about calling Sherlock Holmes down

to work out why they had a helmet and petrol,

but I have guessed that they're riding the bikes

and they've all had a go on them.

We don't know where the bike is.. It's the other end of the field

at the moment from us, and if we go to the other end of the field,

it'll be at this end of the field.

It's a pointless exercise and they'd just laugh at our expense.

The group that are here, we know.

We would imagine we know the other half of the group

that's on the bikes at the moment.

What we're going to do is the helicopter

is finishing filming them, we'll look at the footage,

take the information off there,

and we'll pay them a little visit on another day, at our convenience,

when we don't have to run around after them.

Now they've got photographic evidence of who's causing

the problems, the Neighbourhood Team will come down hard on them

and take their bikes away

if any of them are caught riding illegally again.

The Neighbourhood Police respond to all types of crimes and complaints.

One of the more unusual ones they encounter is illegal fishing.

This is where anglers set up in areas where the sport is banned,

often lighting fires and leaving litter,

which is a nuisance to everyone.

It's another beautiful evening in Hull, and PCSO Chris Smith

and PC Paul Jefferson are on their way to the park.

Unfortunately, not for a relaxing stroll,

but to help the park rangers ensure it's empty for the night.

Heading towards 8:30.

This is the time where the park rangers will be struggling to

get any people within the park out,

so we tend to go in and support the park rangers

by...getting them to leave.

Gangs of youths often drink in the park after hours,

disturbing local residents and littering -

the sort of anti-social behaviour

that Neighbourhood Teams are keen to clamp down on.

They've soon spotted some potential customers.

Girls! Park is shut!

Out!

Go on, then.

They obviously know they shouldn't be in here,

because they're locked in.

Yeah. They scale those fences sometimes in seconds.

Another problem the park has is illegal fishing.

Daytime fishermen have to put back anything they catch,

but people have been fishing at night and keeping their hauls.

We've had a report that some people are actually poaching

and taking the fish when they catch it, which they shouldn't be doing.

They should be returning it back to the pond.

We're having people sleeping overnight in tents around the pond,

overnight fishing, which again they shouldn't be

because the park closes at night-time

and there's not an exemption for them to stay here.

The Neighbourhood Teams have a good relationship with the park rangers

and one of them has spotted something fishy

going on beside the lake.

They've hid down like they're Desert Rats.

They've moved the tent from there, put it just in the end scrub.

He's seen some fishermen with what looked like a tent in the bushes.

Thanks. Bye!

So they're hiding now, are they?

Paul and Chris are going to see if they can sniff the intruders out.

Can't see the rods, can you?

There's the stuff, but where's the rods?

They've found some hastily abandoned fishing bags.

Paul is calling the park superintendent.

Did you realise there's some fishing gear in your bushes in East Park?

-LAUGHS

-Yeah, no,

somebody's dumped some fishing gear in East Park.

No, no, nobody near it.

No, there's nobody hid in the bushes, I don't think.

He's found a whole load more stuff.

You're joking. How am I going to get this in my car?

There's everything you need for a late-night fishing

and drinking session. But no fisherman in sight.

But Paul has a theory.

What they're doing now is hiding it, going out the park,

-then coming back.

-Later on?

-Yeah. So what we're going to do is...

-There's two bags down there as well.

-Yeah, I'll get those, then.

Paul and Chris have decided to confiscate the gear.

He won't be too pleased

when he finds all his stuff missing, will he?

Now they have the problem of what to do with all the rods,

lines and tackle.

They can't use it for hooking villains,

but the park ranger has spotted a man by the lake.

Go ahead.

Whereabouts?

I'm just going to see if I can find him and have a quick chat with him

about why he's in the park. Here he is now.

-Hello, sir. Is it Mr

-BLEEP?

It's all right, I've got your stuff nice and safe.

-Packed it away for me?

-Haven't packed it away, no.

It's where you hid it.

He appears to be the owner of the angling gear,

and he's not too happy about having his night-time capers scuppered.

-Get off the camera.

-Get it out of my face.

-Nothing to do with you.

-It's in my face!

-You're trespassing!

-I'm not trespassing. I was packing up my

-BLEEP

-fishing gear.

You were trespassing. You were hiding from me.

Prove it that I was hiding from you.

You've been told many times you're trespassing.

-I've been told once tonight.

-Not tonight, other times.

Sorry, can you just go again with that, please?

I ain't going through that gate cos I don't live that way.

I don't care, you're going out that gate, fella.

-I'll go out that gate where I come from.

-You'll go where you're told.

-I can't go that way?

-We've opened that gate, you can go that way.

-Why can't I go that way?

-Because I've asked you to leave by that gate.

If the park was open you'd have been able to, wouldn't you?

But the gates are shut now.

That's the one gate open for you.

-Fair enough, then.

-Fair enough.

Despite his cantankerous attitude, the man is allowed to go on his way.

Paul will report him to Hull City Council, who own the park,

and they will send him a warning letter.

He will be banned from the park if he's caught doing this again.

Paul and Chris are heading off to get something to eat,

although it probably won't be fish and chips.

It's gone 10pm, and there have been more complaints from residents

-on an estate about the menace of Mini Motos.

-You can hear it.

They are not street-legal, and this one has been reported

riding around the roads on the estate.

Someone's just called us.

There's a Mini Moto riding around at this time of night.

DISTANT ENGINE

You can hear it from here.

Yeah, it's into the Avenue. You can hear it.

Just walk down fifth and walk through.

But on a Friday night, this time, at 10.20?

Very surprising.

We'll go have a look.

Chris is unable to locate the bike,

but helped by CCTV, one of his colleagues now has.

The Mini Moto has stopped outside someone's house.

Rode the vehicle into the house.

Sergeant Andrews is just off at the address at the moment.

Caroline has apprehended the Mini Moto rider,

a 20-year-old, at his house.

Chris and PCSO Lucy Griffin are going to back her up.

Where's the bike? Where's the bike?

It's simple.

Going to get yourself arrested for failing to stop for me.

All right? You cooperate or I lift you

and take you straight to a cell. It's not a problem for me.

I know you didn't stop for me.

So where's your bike?

You've not got insurance for it, yeah?

Shouldn't be on the road, so it's going to be coming with me.

CCTV have seen him ride his bike into the house,

and he is now getting very aggressive

and for the moment is under arrest.

He's got two options. He can either give us the bike or be under arrest.

At the moment he was refusing to give the bike up, so...

at the moment he's under arrest. And it's a bank holiday weekend.

Don't really want to find yourself under arrest on a bank holiday.

BANGING

-Calm yourself down.

-Calm down before we go and look for this bike.

I ain't seen it!

Get off me!

SHOUTING

Behind closed doors, the man has kicked out, literally, at Caroline.

He's now going to the cells to face further charges,

not that he seems too bothered.

-Coppers are

-BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP!

-Cheers, mate.

-I'm going to kick off all night.

We received reports that a Mini Moto was up and down 21st Avenue.

Went down there to find one male rider, no helmet on the bike.

Illuminated my lights, requested him to stop,

obviously the sirens were on as well.

At that point he's made the decision to make off from me

and make no attempt to stop for me at all.

He's then been monitored by CCTV going into an address.

I've gone in to speak to him in relation to the offences

that he's committed, regarding the Mini Moto.

He's not wanted to cooperate whatsoever, so at that point

I've made the decision to lock him up for failing to stop for police.

He's then got a little bit upset with himself, shall we say,

and during one of his escapades he has kicked out at me

and therefore is also in custody for assaulting the police.

BLEEP!

Thank you.

As well as the angry man,

his miniature motorbike is coming into the police station.

-What's this, then?

-The offending vehicle.

-The offending vehicle.

While the custody team deal with the man,

Chris is dealing with the Mini Moto.

Myself and my colleague have retained the Mini Moto

'to the NPT here in North Hull.'

Is that all right? Mine's going to be best.

'And it has just been collected by one of our agents

'to make sure that it's never to be seen again.'

The male is now in custody and we will go and get our paperwork done.

So a good result.

He's been arrested for failing to stop for police,

obviously when I asked him to stop, and also assaulting myself.

It does go to show, certainly colleagues do tend to turn up

if there is any suggestion of any kind of assault or whatever,

they do turn up.

They said initially they thought he was going to try and spit at them,

lots of verbals to them as well.

Now in there he's a completely different guy.

He's absolutely fine with them.

Hasn't really spoken to me, but that's to be expected,

because I'm the one who's taken his liberty.

It's good for the people who have been disturbed of their sleep,

due to the noise of the bike.

While he's up and down like that, he clearly needs some time out

just to contemplate what he's doing.

So certainly from an officer safety point of view

a cell is a good place for him to be now while he just relaxes

and calms down about the situation that he's got himself into.

The man later pleaded guilty to failing to stop

and driving without a driving licence or insurance,

and assaulting a police officer.

He was given a community order, six points on his licence -

when he gets one - and fined £135.

We've seen today that the Neighbourhood Police teams

work hard both day and night, keeping the streets free from crime

in order to make our neighbourhoods better and safer places to live.

Join us again next time.

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