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Neighbourhood policing has come a long way | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
-since the days of Dixon of Dock Green. -Good evening, all. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
From inner-city estates to suburbia, this new generation | 0:00:07 | 0:00:10 | |
of community police officers are on the front line. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:15 | |
Their aim is to develop a stronger bond with the community, | 0:00:15 | 0:00:19 | |
crack down on the crimes taking place on your doorstep | 0:00:19 | 0:00:23 | |
-and formulate fast action plans to take down the criminals. -I said no! | 0:00:23 | 0:00:27 | |
I said yes. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:29 | |
In this new series of Neighbourhood Blues, | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
we go to the Humberside Police region | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
and get exclusive access to 12 teams of Neighbourhood Police Officers, | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
as they tackle the problems blighting local people... | 0:00:37 | 0:00:42 | |
-No! I don't care! -Hey, hey! | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
..and rise to the challenge of making the streets a safer place. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
-Coming up... -Police! | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
..the Neighbourhood Team crack down on the crack houses... | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
-I'll say what I want, when I -BLEEP -want! | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
..the spectre of teenage drinking rears its ugly head... | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
Do you know where you are? | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
-No. -Pardon? | 0:01:28 | 0:01:29 | |
..and the motorcycle menace who decides to cut and run. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:33 | |
See you later. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
Neighbourhood policing is all about taking residents' concerns | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
about crime where they live to heart. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
Any complaint is listened to carefully and the police are | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
prepared to respond with a strong show of force when it's needed. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
Nowhere does this hit home harder than | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
when they go after people who are turning a residential area | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
into a magnet for others looking to hang out and take drugs. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
Of all the complaints the Neighbourhood Police Team take, | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
there's one that they know brings a neighbourhood down harder | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
and faster than anything else, and that's drug dealing | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
that takes place out of homes on housing estates and streets. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
It's a practice that the Neighbourhood Police Team | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
are determined to stamp out. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
If you need drugs, it's just, like, you go round the corner and you've got them. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
It's, like, bad round here. Everything. And drug users. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
You find them a lot all round the parks and stuff | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
when you're trying to have a good time out in town, but you can't | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
because you've got, like, drunks and smackheads just loitering the place. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:37 | |
I think it's everyone's responsibility to stand up | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
and say if you see something, say something. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:44 | |
If you actively choose, as an individual, | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
to engage in drug dealing within the communities of Hull | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
then you can expect to have your door go in, you can | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
expect to be arrested and placed before the courts, | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
cos we will not tolerate it, we'll not tolerate the drug dealing, | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
we'll not tolerate the antisocial behaviour that comes with it | 0:02:59 | 0:03:03 | |
and the criminality it brings. It's a blight on our communities. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
It's been said that an Englishman's home is his castle, | 0:03:06 | 0:03:10 | |
but for the residents of one block of flats, | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
their castle has been turned into a magnet for drug dealers and users. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
All manner of undesirable people have been seen by tenants | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
going in and out of certain flats in the block. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
In addition to this, | 0:03:24 | 0:03:25 | |
the whole building has begun to descend into total squalor. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
These tenant photographs record the urine, | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
blood and faeces that have covered the communal areas. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
It makes getting through your front door a gut-wrenching experience | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
and is a heartbreaking example of how drug abuse can destroy lives. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
These photographs have been a trigger for the Neighbourhood Team | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
to take action. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:48 | |
They've gathered information on two properties in the block | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
that are suspected drug dens and a major raid awaits. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
We're going to do a drugs warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
in relation to recent intel, relating to class A drugs and cannabis. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
There are numerous visitors that may or may not be present | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
when we get there. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
We've got 15 or so names, to be quite honest. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
The Neighbourhood Team prepare to execute a warrant that will | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
hopefully go right to the heart of the problem. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
Drug users, all sorts of people, are frequenting flats within this | 0:04:16 | 0:04:21 | |
block of flats, leaving faeces, needles, spoons, drug paraphernalia. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:27 | |
The big red key makes swift work of the locked door. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:32 | |
-Police! -Police! Stay where you are! | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
But is anyone at home? | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
-Clear! -Police! | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
Two people are immediately arrested, | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
but one swiftly takes umbrage at the unexpected police presence. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
-My -BLEEP -flat! Get out! | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
My flat! Get out! | 0:04:55 | 0:04:57 | |
-We're not swearing at you, are we? -You keep a civil tongue with us, OK? | 0:04:57 | 0:05:01 | |
Listen to your friend. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:05 | |
They're officers. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
Trying to calm his friend down, | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
the man seems only to add fuel to the fire. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
-No! I couldn't give a -BLEEP. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:20 | |
-My -BLEEP -house! I'll say what I want, when I -BLEEP -want! | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
-Just calm it down, fella. -Sooner you lot -BLEEP, -the better. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
As the search begins for drugs, | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
evidence of drug taking is immediately apparent. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:33 | |
There's obviously use going on in here, so... | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
The needles would tend to suggest that. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
Dog man's just clearing some of the stuff before he brings his dog in. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
Cos he don't want his dog to get stabbed by a needle. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
One, I do not do needles. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
Two, I've had a friend staying here and he's not here now. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:51 | |
All right. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
The sniffer dog goes to work, | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
immediately alert to the aromas in the room. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:59 | |
An overturned mattress brings to light a number of needles | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
and syringes. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:08 | |
-Got them? -Yeah. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:13 | |
Super. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:15 | |
There's plenty of paraphernalia around. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
There's certainly been some drug use. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
There's loads of interest from him. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:22 | |
But he hasn't nailed anything down, so we'll move on to the next room. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:26 | |
Police can apply to take over a property | 0:06:26 | 0:06:29 | |
and close it down for at least three months if they have | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
reasonable suspicion it's being used as a class A drugs den. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
Crime scene investigators' photographs provide | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
a portrait of drugs-dominated life in the flat... | 0:06:39 | 0:06:43 | |
There's three needles, which were in the cistern. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
When I took it off, they fell into the sink. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
..contributing to the visual evidence that will be put in front | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
of the court. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
In here, there's an uncapped needle. Plastic bags and things, which is | 0:06:56 | 0:07:00 | |
what they use to wrap the drugs in, with the knots. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:04 | |
There's bent spoons, there's casings from needles | 0:07:04 | 0:07:08 | |
and things like that that are just laid about the place. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:11 | |
It shows continuous use of drugs, really, drugs paraphernalia. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
Maybe not so much dealing from the address, | 0:07:14 | 0:07:16 | |
but certainly drug use at the address. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
Medium to long-term now, | 0:07:19 | 0:07:21 | |
we will be looking at liaising with the council, | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
tenancy enforcement on the address, crack house closure, | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
from our point of view, with a view to shutting the address down | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
entirely and stopping the antisocial behaviour problems that go with it. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
Before any class A drugs den can actually be | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
closed by the police, a tenant has the opportunity to | 0:07:35 | 0:07:39 | |
give his side of the story and challenge the seizure of their flat. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:43 | |
But will this man attend his court hearing and fight for his home, | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
or will the closure of this so-called crack house get the go ahead? | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
Job done. Slight damage to the door, but nothing that's unrepairable. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:57 | |
Is the tide about to turn for the residents of this building? | 0:07:57 | 0:08:01 | |
We find out later and follow another raid in a second flat | 0:08:01 | 0:08:05 | |
in the same blighted block. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:07 | |
-Police! -Police! | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
Teenage drinking is a problem in the UK, with almost | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
half of teenagers admitting to have tried alcohol before they are 16. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:22 | |
Things which change people's behaviour, like alcohol, | 0:08:22 | 0:08:26 | |
in extreme, which you see a lot of, with girls | 0:08:26 | 0:08:30 | |
and guys' stag nights and stuff, which you get a lot of here, | 0:08:30 | 0:08:35 | |
is dangerous to the people and dangerous to people around them, | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
I think, you know. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:39 | |
So, anything which changes your behaviour and makes you aggressive | 0:08:39 | 0:08:43 | |
is dangerous and needs relatively more control, I think. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:47 | |
Well, like I say, I think a lot of them | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
tend to get cheap drink before and drink a lot before they come out. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
Then, as the pubs close, nightclubs open, | 0:08:53 | 0:08:56 | |
and then they tend to be in groups, which can be very intimidating. | 0:08:56 | 0:09:01 | |
And the problem, when it comes to girls, | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
is feared to be escalating at an alarming rate, | 0:09:04 | 0:09:07 | |
with teenage girls more likely to get drunk in the UK | 0:09:07 | 0:09:10 | |
than almost anywhere else in the world. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
And it's a problem that can be found to strike at any time of day | 0:09:13 | 0:09:17 | |
or night. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:18 | |
We've had a report from a member of the public that there's | 0:09:18 | 0:09:22 | |
a female laid out unconscious. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:24 | |
PC Nikki Cammiss arrives at the scene, moments behind an ambulance. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:29 | |
-Do you know her? -No. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:31 | |
No grown woman. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
Unfortunately, this is a teenager, apparently out for the count. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:37 | |
Do you know where you are? | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
As the paramedic checks her out, Nikki | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
and her colleague Mark's mission is to get in touch with her family. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
Quick search of Whisky One Five. She's approximately 14 years of age. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
Can you just run her through the system, | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
see if we've got an address for her? | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
But trying to find out where the girl lives proves to be | 0:09:54 | 0:09:56 | |
an unexpected hurdle. | 0:09:56 | 0:09:58 | |
-Where does she live? -I don't know. Somewhere like -BLEEP. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:03 | |
Her mobile phone contents should be able to enlighten everyone. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:07 | |
All that's needed is her password. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:09 | |
What's the password for your phone? | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
But the teenager seems way too far gone to assist the police. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:15 | |
It's better out than in. Although the password remains elusive. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:22 | |
It's important that a family member be found, otherwise the | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
hospital won't be able to release her when she's ready to leave. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:29 | |
One of her friends has a bit more light to shed on the situation. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
-So where does her mum live? -Her mum is in Leeds. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
And she now lives with her sister in Wansford. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
-Am I allowed to go with her? -Sorry, it's not my decision. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
It's up to them. Can you please try your phone again, please? | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
Yeah, I will. Course I will. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:44 | |
The trouble is, the battery's now gone down on her phone. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
I've left her for, like, half an hour, an hour... | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
How can she be your best friend and you don't even know where she lives? | 0:10:49 | 0:10:53 | |
No, right, we go to school together and that. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
She said that she were coming through on the train. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
So, that's what we've done, and then all of a sudden, | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
she's turned out like this. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:02 | |
I'm a police officer. I need to try and help you. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:09 | |
I need you to tell me your pass number of your phone, | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
so I can contact family. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
Is the girl capable of helping the police yet? | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
What's your password for your phone? What's your password for you'd phone? | 0:11:16 | 0:11:23 | |
MUMBLES Pardon? | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
MUMBLES INCOHERENTLY | 0:11:25 | 0:11:27 | |
How do you spell that? | 0:11:27 | 0:11:29 | |
She was completely comatosed. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
She'd wet herself, she was that intoxicated, | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
and just being constantly sick. She can't communicate with us at all. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:42 | |
And at the minute, | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
we're really struggling to find any family for her. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:48 | |
Her friends, her so-called friends, don't seem to know a lot about her. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:52 | |
They go out drinking bottles and litres of cider, | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
not realising the sort of effect it's going to have on them, | 0:11:55 | 0:11:59 | |
thinking that they'll be OK, and it's the same for me, | 0:11:59 | 0:12:03 | |
one minute, you feel fine, and the next minute, you're drunk. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:08 | |
Back at the station, the girl's friends have vanished | 0:12:08 | 0:12:12 | |
and it's left to Nikki to track down the teenager's home. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:15 | |
Hiya, it's Nikki Cammiss, police officer. Hiya. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:18 | |
I'm wanting to trace... | 0:12:18 | 0:12:20 | |
We've had a log this evening with a young 14-year-old | 0:12:20 | 0:12:22 | |
heavily intoxicated, that she's had to go to hospital. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:26 | |
That'll be brilliant. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:27 | |
Thanks a lot. Bye. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
We ring the emergency duty team and it goes through to a call taker, | 0:12:29 | 0:12:33 | |
she'll take the details and somebody will ring me back. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
See what they can find on their systems. Fingers crossed. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
The police track down the man who supplied the alcohol | 0:12:39 | 0:12:43 | |
and he was fined £90 and given a penalty notice for disorder. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:46 | |
There are over 3,500 tethered horses and ponies in the country | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
and although many of them are well cared for, | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
the RSPCA receive over 25,000 calls a year from members of the public | 0:12:58 | 0:13:02 | |
concerned about the wellbeing of these creatures. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:06 | |
They should be there on site to ensure that the RSPCA | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
can get through to the animals. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:11 | |
When escaped horses need corralling, PCSOs Gerald Quinn | 0:13:11 | 0:13:16 | |
and Andrea Humphrey have to put the neigh into neighbourhood policing. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:20 | |
With a school nearby, nobody wants a stampede, however modest. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:24 | |
You can hear at the moment how wet and damp the soil is. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:30 | |
You can hear it. And how easy that is to come out. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:35 | |
With the high winds we've had over the last few days, | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
if the horses get spooked then they'll pull at the pegs | 0:13:38 | 0:13:43 | |
and eventually it comes loose and then that's when they get loose | 0:13:43 | 0:13:47 | |
and they can stray out onto the estate. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:51 | |
Tethering the horses is a walk in the park, compared to the challenge | 0:13:51 | 0:13:54 | |
of figuring out just who owns these animals. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:58 | |
When you get a call and you come, | 0:13:58 | 0:13:59 | |
a lot of the time, we can just usher them back into a field | 0:13:59 | 0:14:02 | |
and if we can find the peg, we can tether them down again. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:07 | |
But actually trying to identify who owns the horse is the hardest part. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
Sometimes you find people feeding them and you say, | 0:14:10 | 0:14:13 | |
"Is this your horse?" And it's all like, "No, no. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:17 | |
"We just come up and feed them," | 0:14:17 | 0:14:19 | |
and you struggle to get to the bottom of whose horse is whose. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:24 | |
The Neighbourhood Beat Officer will have to delve deeper | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
back at the station. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
You're starving, aren't you? Hey? | 0:14:30 | 0:14:33 | |
The man who alerted the police has a little more light | 0:14:33 | 0:14:36 | |
-to shed on the matter. -I don't mind seeing them out there. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:39 | |
But you rang with the concern for the safety of both horses | 0:14:39 | 0:14:42 | |
and getting out on the roads. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
-Yeah, only because one was loose, like. -Yeah. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:48 | |
The horses may be back in their field, | 0:14:48 | 0:14:50 | |
but they've left a few reminders of last night's visit behind. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:54 | |
We've got a problem now with horse waste, fouling the area as well, | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
which obviously isn't going to go down well with the residents either. | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
We are going to look at possibly sorting out with the council | 0:15:01 | 0:15:07 | |
who owns the land to get the fence sorted | 0:15:07 | 0:15:12 | |
to try and reduce later issues of the horses coming loose. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:17 | |
The horse was taken into the care of the RSPCA | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
and has found a new home at a local horse sanctuary. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:26 | |
Find out later how the team get called to rescue another | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
tethered horse that is showing signs of serious neglect. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:36 | |
Police have raided a suspected crack house den | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
and applied to the court to take possession of the flat. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:47 | |
-Police! -Police! -I'll say what I want, when I -BLEEP -want! | 0:15:48 | 0:15:53 | |
Has the tenant persuaded the judge that the seizure isn't justified, | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
or will the police be able to close it down and put a stop | 0:15:56 | 0:16:00 | |
to the antisocial behaviour that's ruining the lives of neighbours? | 0:16:00 | 0:16:04 | |
Heading off to meet the tenants, | 0:16:04 | 0:16:05 | |
the Neighbourhood Team are hoping to kill two birds with one stone and | 0:16:05 | 0:16:09 | |
execute a second search warrant for another flat in the same building. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:13 | |
The resident's determination to fight back has caught | 0:16:15 | 0:16:19 | |
the imagination of both the local newspaper and the general press. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
A photographer from the local paper catches the action on today's | 0:16:23 | 0:16:27 | |
new raid. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:29 | |
-Police! -Police! Stay where you are! | 0:16:29 | 0:16:33 | |
Clear. Clear. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
Clear. Clear. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:37 | |
Clear. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:43 | |
It's not in there. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
This time, nobody's at home, but with the telly on, | 0:16:54 | 0:16:57 | |
it looks like somebody might just have made a quick getaway. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:01 | |
-The bedroom... What else you got? -Bathroom. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
There's a kitchen off there. And that's your lot. | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
Just a bedroom that's a bit of a state. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
Back at the first flat, it turns out that the tenant did not | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
appear in court to fight the seizure of his property. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:15 | |
With the matter uncontested, the police can evict the man | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
and take control of the property, | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
bringing the curtains down on its unsavoury life as a crack house. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:24 | |
KNOCKS ON DOOR | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
As ever, though, nothing's quite as simple as it might be. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
You can't find the key? | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
Don't worry, let me assist you, then. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
Do you want to move away from the door? | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
Are you stood well away from it? | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
-Hello, Mr -BLEEP. -Hello. -I spoke to you last night. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:54 | |
-How are you? All right? -Yeah, not bad. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
I advised you to come to court this morning at ten o'clock. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
You didn't turn up. So the courts have heard it in your absence | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
and we're now taking your flat into possession, all right? | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
-Now it becomes the possession of Humberside Police. -Right. OK. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
-Do you understand that? -Yeah, right. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:09 | |
Now you're being served with a notice | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
and we'll escort you from the premises and we'll steel it back up. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:14 | |
-Do you understand that? -Yeah. -OK. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:16 | |
This flat has been used mainly as a place to go and shoot up the drugs. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:21 | |
They'll go to the flats higher up the building, get the drugs, | 0:18:21 | 0:18:25 | |
knock on this gent's door, he's quite welcoming, he lets them in, | 0:18:25 | 0:18:29 | |
they go and inject and they go on their merry way again. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:33 | |
Maybe do a bit of shoplifting to fund the next hit. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
Quite a lot of the street drinkers used to come here, | 0:18:36 | 0:18:40 | |
sell their stolen goods. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
Quite a den of iniquity, really, or it was. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:46 | |
-Are you done with this now? -Yeah. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:47 | |
Would you like to follow us this way and we'll... | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
The police will now try to assist the man in seeking the support | 0:18:50 | 0:18:54 | |
of drug services with a view to him being helped and rehoused. | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
One crack house down, one to go. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
There's not actually drugs there, | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
it's just how sensitive their noses are, picking things up. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
The second flat is littered with yet more drug taking paraphernalia. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
Basically they use liquid in there... They have... | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
They put something on the top, cos there's something missing from that. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
And then they tug on that. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
It changes substance in the water, I suppose, and they smoke it. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:26 | |
No added sugar, that's the healthy option! | 0:19:26 | 0:19:29 | |
Successfully closing one crack house | 0:19:29 | 0:19:31 | |
and raiding another sends a strong message that this | 0:19:31 | 0:19:34 | |
kind of antisocial behaviour will no longer be tolerated. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:38 | |
But the real proof in the pudding for the Neighbourhood Police Teams | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
is the reaction of the residents who got them involved | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
in the first place. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:46 | |
It's their homes that were being blighted by the drug taking | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
and they who will ultimately deliver the verdict as to whether or not | 0:19:49 | 0:19:52 | |
the police have responded to their concerns adequately. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
99% law-abiding citizens. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:59 | |
Like we said at the last meeting, let's draw a line under that | 0:19:59 | 0:20:01 | |
and let's move forward as to how we're going to do it. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
-You've acknowledged there's been a lot of progress in the last few weeks. -Absolutely. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:08 | |
So, let's keep on that same vein and focus on going forward, | 0:20:08 | 0:20:11 | |
rather than actually dwelling too much on what's happened before. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:15 | |
With two flats busted, there's hope yet for a return to home sweet home. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:20 | |
So, is there anything else that anybody's got for us | 0:20:20 | 0:20:23 | |
before we clear off? APPLAUSE | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
-Thank you. -Thank you. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:27 | |
Neither male was arrested, as no drugs were found on the premises. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:38 | |
Despite no drugs being found, drugs paraphernalia, dealing bags | 0:20:38 | 0:20:42 | |
and scales were found throughout the flat, which gave the police | 0:20:42 | 0:20:47 | |
power to close it down as a crack house and the tenants were evicted. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:51 | |
Antisocial behaviour caused by teenagers used to account for | 0:20:56 | 0:21:01 | |
almost a third of complaints received on Humberside, | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
but hard work and tough action has seen this figure drop dramatically, | 0:21:04 | 0:21:07 | |
but there will always be a handful of youths | 0:21:07 | 0:21:10 | |
looking to break the law and sometimes run from it. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:14 | |
Off-road motorbikes raced around wastelands | 0:21:16 | 0:21:19 | |
and backstreets are a noisy and dangerous nuisance. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:23 | |
The team have taken several calls from neighbours who have | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
reported seeing a teenager | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
tearing around the streets on a scrambler, not wearing a helmet. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:32 | |
Sam Chandler and Jackie Creasy are on their way to investigate. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:37 | |
There's a possible stolen motorbike just on Chomley Street, | 0:21:37 | 0:21:41 | |
Bachelor Street area, which is the area we're just coming into. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:45 | |
Apparently there's a male on the bike, not wearing a helmet, | 0:21:45 | 0:21:49 | |
so we're just going to see whether we can find it | 0:21:49 | 0:21:52 | |
and maybe identify who the person is on the bike. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:55 | |
Yeah, we can hear the bike now. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
The sound of the bike engine can be heard in the distance | 0:21:57 | 0:22:01 | |
and Sam and Jackie pick up the pace and head in its direction. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:04 | |
-They spot the bike and the lad and call him over. -Stop where you are. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:09 | |
Stop where you are! Stop where you are. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
Right, just come over here, please. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:20 | |
With the boy dismounted, Sam sets about getting his details. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:24 | |
He doesn't seem to be worried that he's in hot water with the police, | 0:22:24 | 0:22:28 | |
only what's going to happen to the bike. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:31 | |
Don't know yet. Got to do some checks on you. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
For a start, you've got no helmet on. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
-Sam breaks him the bad news. -Looks like it's going to be seized. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:41 | |
Papa Victor Three Three Two XH. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
The call is put in for a van to be brought to the scene | 0:22:45 | 0:22:49 | |
so the bike can be impounded, but there's another problem. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:52 | |
None of the details the boy is giving the police are marrying up. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:57 | |
A small group of boys has gathered to watch | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
what could be about to turn into an arrest. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:03 | |
Their presence provides the distraction the lad thinks he needs | 0:23:03 | 0:23:07 | |
and he legs it from the police. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
Sam and Jackie give chase, but the light-footed lad is gone for dust. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
And they get more bad news over the radio. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
One of the onlookers has decided to take the seized motorcycle | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
for themselves. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:24 | |
Scouring the streets, they ask passer-bys | 0:23:24 | 0:23:27 | |
if they've seen the young fugitive. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
-Up there. -A kid in a blue top? -But there's a small piece of good news. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:34 | |
The bike has been picked up by another police officer | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
on patrol, along with the man who took it. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:41 | |
He was just here with the bike when I got here, but... | 0:23:41 | 0:23:46 | |
Can't see. Yeah, think so. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
Now Sam has had time to catch her breath, | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
she reflects on just what happened. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:54 | |
This is the guy that took the bike, yeah. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:56 | |
This isn't the runner, the one that was on the bike originally | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
made off down Queensgate Street. I've got all of his details. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
Whilst I was waiting for a patrol, he decided to do a runner | 0:24:02 | 0:24:06 | |
and this guy that was stood talking to us, | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
he was with somebody else, and together, | 0:24:09 | 0:24:12 | |
they obviously took the bike and went off in the opposite direction. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:15 | |
Have you done a check on the bike yet? | 0:24:15 | 0:24:17 | |
Not on the bike, I've got no VRM, or anything. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:19 | |
I've done a check on the person with the bike. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:22 | |
He's got no licence, no driving insurance, he had no helmet on. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:26 | |
So I've got all his details. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:28 | |
The man in the car has plenty to say, | 0:24:28 | 0:24:30 | |
but none of it is much use to the police investigation. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:34 | |
-Just keep your hands still. -Hey! I know who it was, but I'm no grass! | 0:24:34 | 0:24:39 | |
I ain't no grass. Aren't going to grass them up, am I? | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
He was in one of them back gardens when we both ran. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:47 | |
-I just ran, cos I thought, -BLEEP... | 0:24:47 | 0:24:48 | |
As more officers arrive on the scene, Sam provides them | 0:24:48 | 0:24:52 | |
with all the information she's gathered on the lad who ran away, | 0:24:52 | 0:24:54 | |
so that they can go to his home and arrest him. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
Obviously, this one has been detained, | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
and he was the one that took the bike, apparently. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:03 | |
-What an idiot. -It's great, isn't it? | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
And Sam spots the real reason why he had to make his getaway on foot | 0:25:06 | 0:25:10 | |
and not on his wheels. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:12 | |
Luckily, or unluckily for the offender, the seat fell off. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:16 | |
Normally, it's quite hard to stop somebody on a motorbike. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:20 | |
They just make off when they see us. But, in this case, | 0:25:20 | 0:25:22 | |
I don't think he had much choice, really. He couldn't have got | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
very far with the seat like that. So, what we're going to do now, | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
we're going to deal with slow time, so, obviously, we know about | 0:25:28 | 0:25:31 | |
the males involved, we've got their details and everything, | 0:25:31 | 0:25:33 | |
we're going to do some further checks, see whether the bike's been stolen or not. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:37 | |
And, at the minute, | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
we're just waiting for recovery of the motorbike, so it'll get taken to | 0:25:39 | 0:25:42 | |
a recovery agent and then we'll get VIB to look at the bike as well. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:46 | |
No charges have been brought against those involved in the incident | 0:25:46 | 0:25:50 | |
but police have stepped up patrols to ensure motorcycle menaces | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
are kept off the roads and the pavements. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:56 | |
Tethered horses are a feature of fields | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
all across the northeast of England. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
Many of them are owned by travellers who feel | 0:26:05 | 0:26:07 | |
they have a right to keep and raise the animals in this tradition. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:10 | |
However, sometimes these horses can escape and wreak havoc, | 0:26:10 | 0:26:14 | |
meaning the police and RSPCA have to be called to the rescue. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:18 | |
On a daily basis, people report horses which they believe | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
to be mistreated, as has happened today. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
The RSPCA has responded to complaints from the public | 0:26:24 | 0:26:28 | |
about a tethered horse that is covered in lacerations. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:31 | |
On investigating the animal's condition, | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
the RSPCA officers have been abused by bystanders | 0:26:34 | 0:26:37 | |
so the police have been called in to protect them and the horse. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:41 | |
I think it's wrapped itself round, got into a bit of a distressed state, | 0:26:41 | 0:26:44 | |
that's the report from the member of the public, anyway. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
Likelihood is the horse belongs to one of the local travellers. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:51 | |
RSPCA have asked if we can go down, just make sure that no travellers | 0:26:53 | 0:26:57 | |
come down, or anyone else, for that matter, | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
and give the RSPCA a bit of grief. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
Neil Brewer and Stuart Tovey are on their way to assist. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:06 | |
The RSPCA don't have legal powers to seize the horse, which is | 0:27:06 | 0:27:10 | |
why the police are also needed. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:11 | |
Fire and Rescue are here. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:13 | |
They've obviously facilitated the safe removal of the horse. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
It's in the back of that wagon, | 0:27:16 | 0:27:17 | |
waiting to be stabled somewhere for further enquiries. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
-I'm assuming it's been stuck at least all night. -Right. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:25 | |
It's got a nasty injury to the back of its head | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
where it was tethered really tightly. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
And it's wound itself round this tree | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
so much that the head collar is just like a saw on the back. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:36 | |
So, yeah, it's all open at the back. That and the feet are very bad. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:41 | |
I think they've tried to hammer the shoes on themselves. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:44 | |
Gareth Walker, the force's resident dangerous dog expert, | 0:27:48 | 0:27:53 | |
is about to turn equine expert | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
by arriving on the scene with the relevant paperwork. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
Best outcome is that PC Walker gets here as soon as possible before... | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
-Yes. -..before the rightful owners come... -You have to stay! | 0:28:02 | 0:28:06 | |
..before the rightful owners come and want a bit of a scrap. | 0:28:06 | 0:28:08 | |
Now that my firemen have gone, you're my new security. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:12 | |
Thanks for that, yeah. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:15 | |
Sarah Kenwood of the RSPCA acknowledges that | 0:28:15 | 0:28:18 | |
most of the travellers make good owners. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:20 | |
Some of them take fantastic care of them, and they're always | 0:28:20 | 0:28:23 | |
tethered correctly, and it's always done properly, and it's fantastic. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:26 | |
-And then you get the rest. -You always get the exception to the rule, | 0:28:26 | 0:28:29 | |
which gives every other horse owner a bad name, doesn't it? | 0:28:29 | 0:28:33 | |
The seriousness of the mare's injuries | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
is about to become apparent. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:39 | |
Certainly a bit of a beast, this one. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:42 | |
All of this is all infected. At the top here, that's all cut open. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:46 | |
-That's quite a nasty one, isn't it? -Yes. -It is very pus-y. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:49 | |
Yeah, and it's like it right the way around, | 0:28:49 | 0:28:51 | |
where the head collar's gone too tight, | 0:28:51 | 0:28:53 | |
and it's just cut it right in. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:56 | |
-So that is about half an inch deep. -That's not happened overnight. | 0:28:56 | 0:28:59 | |
-No... -She'll be in quite some pain. -Yes, but it is quite nasty. | 0:28:59 | 0:29:04 | |
The feet... It's not even been held on with anything. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:07 | |
The minute we get her back to the boarding facility, | 0:29:07 | 0:29:10 | |
they'll come straight off. That'll get treated straightaway. | 0:29:10 | 0:29:12 | |
On Gareth's arrival, he needs to confirm there has been | 0:29:12 | 0:29:16 | |
a breach of the Animal Welfare Act before he can seize the horse. | 0:29:16 | 0:29:20 | |
-It's got an injury to the head. -OK. | 0:29:20 | 0:29:22 | |
Its feet are horrific and, obviously, | 0:29:22 | 0:29:24 | |
it was tied around trees, which is not helpful. | 0:29:24 | 0:29:28 | |
The legislation clearly states it is unlawful to be cruel | 0:29:28 | 0:29:31 | |
to an animal or neglect its welfare. When this does happen, | 0:29:31 | 0:29:35 | |
the Neighbourhood Teams are always there to support the RSPCA | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
and ensure the animals are brought to safekeeping, | 0:29:38 | 0:29:41 | |
and that the owners face the consequences for their mistreatment. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:45 | |
The horse was taken into the care of the RSPCA | 0:29:47 | 0:29:50 | |
and has found a new home at a local horse sanctuary. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
It's every parent's greatest nightmare for a child to go missing, | 0:30:00 | 0:30:03 | |
and the Neighbourhood Team are always quick to respond to | 0:30:03 | 0:30:06 | |
any call from a worried mother about the whereabouts of their child. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:10 | |
More than 100,000 teenagers under 16 run away from home every year. | 0:30:12 | 0:30:17 | |
Many do so after experiencing problems at home or at school. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:22 | |
Whilst most return safely, others take to living on the streets | 0:30:22 | 0:30:26 | |
and are subjected to all the dangers inherent in doing so. | 0:30:26 | 0:30:29 | |
Today, in Hull city centre, the Neighbourhood Team have taken | 0:30:29 | 0:30:33 | |
a call from a worried mum whose 15-year-old daughter | 0:30:33 | 0:30:37 | |
has failed to return home after leaving the previous night. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:40 | |
The girl has a history of running away | 0:30:40 | 0:30:42 | |
but, this time, Mum is worried that the situation may be more serious. | 0:30:42 | 0:30:46 | |
We was dispatched to an address on Melrose Street just to do | 0:30:46 | 0:30:50 | |
an address check for a missing 15-year-old girl. | 0:30:50 | 0:30:53 | |
Jason has worked this patch of the city since he joined the force | 0:30:53 | 0:30:57 | |
eight years ago, so has developed good links with the community | 0:30:57 | 0:31:00 | |
who he hopes can help him with his search. | 0:31:00 | 0:31:03 | |
I've got good relationships with people that have been there | 0:31:03 | 0:31:06 | |
for a lot of years, and a lot of the new residents as well. | 0:31:06 | 0:31:10 | |
I like to be known. | 0:31:10 | 0:31:12 | |
I go into the local school, I'm known as PC Jason there. | 0:31:12 | 0:31:16 | |
Whenever they see me walking past, when they're in playtime, | 0:31:16 | 0:31:20 | |
they come running to the gate, shouting my name. | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
And a lot of the adults, when they ring up with a problem, | 0:31:23 | 0:31:28 | |
a lot of the time they will quote that they know me | 0:31:28 | 0:31:30 | |
and specifically ask for me to go around and try and help them... | 0:31:30 | 0:31:33 | |
help them deal with their problem. | 0:31:33 | 0:31:35 | |
His contacts in the neighbourhood have told Jason that the girl | 0:31:35 | 0:31:38 | |
is hiding out at a friend's home. | 0:31:38 | 0:31:41 | |
On arriving at the house, Jason doesn't expect his knock at the door | 0:31:41 | 0:31:44 | |
to see the girl come out and greet him like this. | 0:31:44 | 0:31:47 | |
Now, then, coming back? | 0:31:48 | 0:31:51 | |
Despite the girl's protests, | 0:31:52 | 0:31:54 | |
Jason is determined to return the girl to her worried mother. | 0:31:54 | 0:31:57 | |
Let's go jump in the van and we'll take you home. | 0:31:57 | 0:32:00 | |
-I'm not sitting in the back. -I'm going to take you home, | 0:32:00 | 0:32:03 | |
just so she knows that you are safe. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:05 | |
And then can you drop me off? | 0:32:05 | 0:32:07 | |
Well, we're not a taxi, are we, Denon? | 0:32:07 | 0:32:09 | |
-Just one minute. -These are the dog ones, these ones, aren't they? | 0:32:10 | 0:32:14 | |
All right? | 0:32:14 | 0:32:15 | |
We've got Denon on board, but again she's asking not to be returned home. | 0:32:19 | 0:32:26 | |
She's asking if she can be dropped off at St Stephen's | 0:32:26 | 0:32:29 | |
and just let her mum know that she's safe and well. | 0:32:29 | 0:32:32 | |
Whilst the girl may seem totally unfazed by the situation, | 0:32:32 | 0:32:36 | |
as Jason arrives at the family home, | 0:32:36 | 0:32:38 | |
for Mum, it's a totally different story. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:41 | |
-I've got your daughter on board. -Thank you. -It's all right, relax. | 0:32:41 | 0:32:46 | |
-Is she safe? -She's safe. -Nothing's happened to her, has it? | 0:32:46 | 0:32:49 | |
No, she's absolutely fine. She's her normal self. | 0:32:49 | 0:32:53 | |
The girl's mother hasn't slept all night | 0:32:53 | 0:32:55 | |
worrying about the whereabouts of her daughter. | 0:32:55 | 0:32:57 | |
I just can't get a grip of her. | 0:32:57 | 0:32:59 | |
I mean, she's not abused, she's not neglected. | 0:32:59 | 0:33:02 | |
She was saying she wanted to go stay with her uncle or something | 0:33:02 | 0:33:05 | |
-last time I was with her. -She knows she's in trouble. | 0:33:05 | 0:33:08 | |
It's now time for Steve to take the girl in. | 0:33:08 | 0:33:10 | |
Let's go inside. | 0:33:16 | 0:33:17 | |
-Mum, please. -Let's go in and talk to your mum. | 0:33:22 | 0:33:24 | |
The team now decide it's time to give the girl a good talking to, | 0:33:24 | 0:33:28 | |
not only to highlight the stress she's causing her mother, | 0:33:28 | 0:33:31 | |
but also the dangers out there on the streets. | 0:33:31 | 0:33:34 | |
My main concern is that once you're out there, at 15, | 0:33:34 | 0:33:38 | |
you don't realise how dangerous it is. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:39 | |
All sorts of things can happen to you out there, all right? | 0:33:39 | 0:33:42 | |
Not a problem. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:43 | |
On returning to the station, Steve reflects on the problems that | 0:33:45 | 0:33:48 | |
families face when it comes to youngsters running away. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:51 | |
It would appear that... | 0:33:51 | 0:33:53 | |
..Denon's got some friends who are of a similar mind, | 0:33:54 | 0:33:58 | |
and they're basically going to other people's flats and houses, | 0:33:58 | 0:34:02 | |
missing appointments for school, | 0:34:02 | 0:34:04 | |
just generally not adhering to... some sort of regime, shall I say. | 0:34:04 | 0:34:09 | |
And that was basically debrief. | 0:34:11 | 0:34:13 | |
She's deposited safe and well with Mam now. | 0:34:13 | 0:34:15 | |
The Neighbourhood Team will continue to provide the family with support | 0:34:15 | 0:34:18 | |
and be on hand should they experience | 0:34:18 | 0:34:21 | |
any problems in the future. | 0:34:21 | 0:34:23 | |
All in all, quite a good morning. | 0:34:23 | 0:34:25 | |
Whenever teenage lads pass their driving test | 0:34:29 | 0:34:31 | |
and win the right to their first set of car keys, the police can be | 0:34:31 | 0:34:35 | |
sure to always find a few looking to show off to their friends. | 0:34:35 | 0:34:39 | |
Over in Humberside, a clamp-down has seen these hot rodders | 0:34:39 | 0:34:43 | |
all but driven from the roads. | 0:34:43 | 0:34:45 | |
But this doesn't mean that some lads wouldn't go to any lengths to find | 0:34:45 | 0:34:48 | |
a patch of land to show off their driving skills, or lack of them. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:53 | |
Tonight, Richard Bastiman and is making a drive-by | 0:34:53 | 0:34:55 | |
of a well-known spot that boy racers are known to frequent. | 0:34:55 | 0:34:59 | |
When he sees a set of headlights on getting out of his car, | 0:34:59 | 0:35:02 | |
his suspicions are confirmed. | 0:35:02 | 0:35:04 | |
There's a lad in a motor down there, but he's not burning rubber. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:08 | |
He's stuck in the mud. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:09 | |
-Is this the road? -No. | 0:35:09 | 0:35:11 | |
-Whose car is it? -Mine. | 0:35:13 | 0:35:15 | |
-Yours? -Yeah. -Just... Just put it through the system. | 0:35:15 | 0:35:18 | |
The car licence plates are run through the police computer | 0:35:18 | 0:35:21 | |
whilst Richard takes a closer look. But it's slippery going underfoot. | 0:35:21 | 0:35:25 | |
-My God! -Yeah, I wouldn't go down there! | 0:35:25 | 0:35:28 | |
So, have you caused all of this, then? | 0:35:31 | 0:35:33 | |
No, as I say, that was there before. | 0:35:33 | 0:35:35 | |
This isn't the first time a car's fought a losing battle here, | 0:35:36 | 0:35:40 | |
as plenty of other churned up tracks indicate. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:42 | |
I'll be straight with you. The problem you've got is, | 0:35:42 | 0:35:45 | |
and I appreciate your vehicle's stuck, | 0:35:45 | 0:35:48 | |
but, you know, you've been technically causing harassment and | 0:35:48 | 0:35:52 | |
distress with your vehicle by doing whatever you've been doing on here. | 0:35:52 | 0:35:55 | |
-You shouldn't be on here. -Yeah, I know. I mean, now I wish I weren't. | 0:35:55 | 0:35:59 | |
This is a place where people come to walk their dog. | 0:35:59 | 0:36:02 | |
It's not appropriate for doing stuff like this. | 0:36:02 | 0:36:05 | |
What I was doing was, I was doing a bit of light off-roading. | 0:36:05 | 0:36:08 | |
And I came over here, I see this hill, | 0:36:08 | 0:36:11 | |
I tried to get out and it's just a bit too boggy, really. | 0:36:11 | 0:36:15 | |
The car got stuck. We've been here a good hour just trying to get it out. | 0:36:15 | 0:36:20 | |
And you guys came along, thought you could save us and... | 0:36:20 | 0:36:23 | |
Apparently not. | 0:36:24 | 0:36:25 | |
Right, I'm going to need to speak to you in my car. | 0:36:25 | 0:36:29 | |
And any thoughts he had about the police coming to his rescue | 0:36:29 | 0:36:32 | |
are dispelled when he's asked to step inside the police car. | 0:36:32 | 0:36:35 | |
The lad could see himself charged with what's known as | 0:36:35 | 0:36:38 | |
antisocial driving behaviour, which could lead to points, or even a ban. | 0:36:38 | 0:36:42 | |
I'm now going to report you for being off-road in a vehicle | 0:36:42 | 0:36:46 | |
and any other offences disclosed, do you understand? | 0:36:46 | 0:36:49 | |
I don't want to be harsh with you, but, you know... It's a bit silly. | 0:36:52 | 0:36:57 | |
A formal warning will be issued tomorrow | 0:36:57 | 0:36:59 | |
when a proper interview can take place. | 0:36:59 | 0:37:01 | |
The challenge now, however, is getting the car back on the road. | 0:37:01 | 0:37:05 | |
The only car that drove past in the hour was a police car. | 0:37:05 | 0:37:07 | |
And to do this, he needs to put in the call to someone | 0:37:07 | 0:37:10 | |
who's none too happy with the news. | 0:37:10 | 0:37:12 | |
Someone arrives on the scene with a 4x4 and a tow rope to haul | 0:37:14 | 0:37:18 | |
the boys' wheels from the mud and onto the road. | 0:37:18 | 0:37:20 | |
ENGINE REVS | 0:37:27 | 0:37:30 | |
The car may be out of the mud but, for the lad, | 0:37:33 | 0:37:36 | |
he's not out of trouble. | 0:37:36 | 0:37:38 | |
When he gets home, he not only has to face the music, | 0:37:38 | 0:37:41 | |
but he also gets another visit from the Neighbourhood Police Team. | 0:37:41 | 0:37:46 | |
Obviously you were off-roading, so that is part of the section 59. | 0:37:46 | 0:37:50 | |
It goes on the system for a year against you and the vehicle. | 0:37:52 | 0:37:57 | |
If you were to drive like that again, | 0:37:58 | 0:38:00 | |
we do have the power to seize your vehicle. | 0:38:00 | 0:38:02 | |
If you sign there, we'll give you a copy of that. | 0:38:04 | 0:38:07 | |
But the police are satisfied that the message has gotten through | 0:38:07 | 0:38:11 | |
to the lad, and he's sure to be more responsible | 0:38:11 | 0:38:14 | |
when he gets behind the wheel of his vehicle next time. | 0:38:14 | 0:38:17 | |
By the look of him, I think he's... | 0:38:17 | 0:38:19 | |
he's had a right good telling off from his mum as well. | 0:38:19 | 0:38:22 | |
So I don't think he'll be doing that again. | 0:38:22 | 0:38:25 | |
Police Community Support Officer 7688 Metheringham. | 0:38:29 | 0:38:32 | |
Richard Metheringham. Also known as Mev. | 0:38:32 | 0:38:34 | |
PCSO Mev joins colleagues Jacky Cressey | 0:38:34 | 0:38:38 | |
and Lindsay Hall-Miell in rehearsals for an up-and-coming | 0:38:38 | 0:38:41 | |
school presentation about policing during World War I. | 0:38:41 | 0:38:44 | |
People did not welcome the new police force, | 0:38:44 | 0:38:46 | |
and gave them names such as Blue Devils and Peel's Bloody Gang. | 0:38:46 | 0:38:51 | |
Armed with a treasure chest of special props, | 0:38:52 | 0:38:55 | |
including an actual murder weapon from 100 years ago, | 0:38:55 | 0:38:59 | |
the PCSOs visit Hull's Boulevard Academy | 0:38:59 | 0:39:02 | |
for a special hands-on class. | 0:39:02 | 0:39:05 | |
Today, we're here at the Boulevard Academy, and we're here to speak | 0:39:07 | 0:39:10 | |
to the children about policing throughout World War I. | 0:39:10 | 0:39:13 | |
The children are actually studying the world war | 0:39:13 | 0:39:17 | |
and we thought it would be nice for us to come in and give a bit of a demonstration, | 0:39:17 | 0:39:20 | |
and talk to them about what the police did during that time. | 0:39:20 | 0:39:23 | |
PCSO Metheringham has very kindly offered to come dressed | 0:39:25 | 0:39:30 | |
in uniform from that era, and demonstrate a lot | 0:39:30 | 0:39:34 | |
of the products to the children, | 0:39:34 | 0:39:36 | |
so that it's not just us talking to them, | 0:39:36 | 0:39:38 | |
it gets the children involved in the presentation as well. | 0:39:38 | 0:39:41 | |
-Good morning, everyone. -CHILDREN: Good morning. | 0:39:41 | 0:39:44 | |
Right, so in 1829, a person called Robert Peel, | 0:39:44 | 0:39:50 | |
he actually set up the London Police Force. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:53 | |
Later on, the Chimney Pot hat was replaced by a helmet. | 0:39:55 | 0:39:58 | |
And the rattle was replaced by a whistle. | 0:40:01 | 0:40:04 | |
HE BLOWS THE WHISTLE | 0:40:07 | 0:40:09 | |
It's time for a Q&A, and there's no shortage of questions | 0:40:09 | 0:40:13 | |
about crimes, past and present, from the young students. | 0:40:13 | 0:40:16 | |
What do you think is the most common crime today? | 0:40:16 | 0:40:19 | |
I know in the World War I days, it was drunken. | 0:40:19 | 0:40:22 | |
I'd probably say drunk and disorderly is still quite big. | 0:40:22 | 0:40:26 | |
It's now time to help history come to life - and death - | 0:40:26 | 0:40:30 | |
with some grisly props. | 0:40:30 | 0:40:32 | |
What do people think that's been used for? | 0:40:32 | 0:40:35 | |
You said murder? Absolutely. | 0:40:35 | 0:40:37 | |
It would have been around 1915 to 1920, somewhere in that era, | 0:40:37 | 0:40:41 | |
and this has actually killed someone. | 0:40:41 | 0:40:44 | |
Obviously, we've done all our forensics since then, | 0:40:44 | 0:40:47 | |
because it's been quite a while. | 0:40:47 | 0:40:48 | |
It's a cutlass. | 0:40:50 | 0:40:51 | |
I would hand it out, but it's very sharp and you may lose fingers. | 0:40:51 | 0:40:55 | |
The class leap on the opportunity to get up close and personal | 0:40:57 | 0:41:00 | |
with a selection of original artefacts and equipment. | 0:41:00 | 0:41:03 | |
Imagine carrying that around with you all the time. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:05 | |
The children, seeing objects like that coming into the school, | 0:41:07 | 0:41:10 | |
things they don't see every day, | 0:41:10 | 0:41:12 | |
you've seen yourself how engaged and infused they were by that, | 0:41:12 | 0:41:15 | |
and still are now, as you can hear, so yeah, it's absolutely fantastic. | 0:41:15 | 0:41:18 | |
Who can resist an actual World War I gas mask, | 0:41:18 | 0:41:22 | |
or an "evening all" moment with an original truncheon? | 0:41:22 | 0:41:26 | |
The children's verdict on the presentation is unanimous. | 0:41:26 | 0:41:30 | |
Two thumbs up. | 0:41:30 | 0:41:32 | |
I think what they told us was great. I learnt a lot from it as well. | 0:41:32 | 0:41:37 | |
WHISTLE BLOWS | 0:41:37 | 0:41:39 | |
The thing I found most interesting was the bit | 0:41:39 | 0:41:42 | |
when they were showing the items off that they had. | 0:41:42 | 0:41:45 | |
Yeah, I find it very interesting | 0:41:48 | 0:41:50 | |
because I want to know what the people before us did | 0:41:50 | 0:41:53 | |
and what we could do... | 0:41:53 | 0:41:54 | |
For example, if there was something bad, | 0:41:54 | 0:41:57 | |
I want to know what we can do to not repeat it. | 0:41:57 | 0:42:00 | |
Instead of them looking at pieces of paper | 0:42:01 | 0:42:03 | |
and getting everything told to them, and not getting a feel for it, | 0:42:03 | 0:42:08 | |
and then the old smells from some of the things we had, | 0:42:08 | 0:42:10 | |
like the gas masks, all the sense, it takes you back to | 0:42:10 | 0:42:14 | |
when they were being used for real. | 0:42:14 | 0:42:15 | |
And this isn't sort of out of the ordinary for us. | 0:42:15 | 0:42:18 | |
We actually do visit the school on quite a regular basis, | 0:42:18 | 0:42:21 | |
so we do get to know the children. | 0:42:21 | 0:42:22 | |
And it's just building up that relationship with the children, | 0:42:22 | 0:42:25 | |
so that they can approach us if there are any problems. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:28 | |
And getting to know them better, | 0:42:28 | 0:42:30 | |
and break down any barriers between the police and schools. | 0:42:30 | 0:42:33 | |
Very different day for me. | 0:42:33 | 0:42:35 | |
I'm quite hands on and action type on the area which I cover. | 0:42:35 | 0:42:38 | |
It's very diverse in everything I do. | 0:42:38 | 0:42:40 | |
But this is really nice, back to basics, community-based, | 0:42:40 | 0:42:44 | |
which is what I signed up for. | 0:42:44 | 0:42:46 | |
You know, getting to know the kids in the local areas. | 0:42:46 | 0:42:48 | |
And they get to know an old-fashioned policeman as well. Which is my style. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:52 | |
And it's now left for our modern-day Dixons of Dock Green | 0:42:52 | 0:42:56 | |
to go back on their own beat. | 0:42:56 | 0:42:58 | |
Mev doesn't want to take that hat off, does he? | 0:42:58 | 0:43:01 | |
Can't help it if I look good. | 0:43:02 | 0:43:03 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:43:03 | 0:43:05 |