Episode 6 Neighbourhood Blues

Neighbourhood policing has come a long way since the days

-of Dixon Of Dock Green.

-Good evening, all.

From inner-city estates to suburbia,

this new generation of community police officers

are on the front line.

Their aim is to develop a stronger bond with the community,

crack down on the crimes taking place on your doorstep

and formulate fast action plans to take down the criminals.

-I said no!

-I said yes.

In this new series of Neighbourhood Blues,

we go to the Humberside Police region

and get exclusive access to 12 teams of neighbourhood police officers

as they tackle the problems blighting local people...

-I don't care.

-Hey, hey, hey.

..and rise to the challenge of making the streets a safer place.

Coming up - volatile and violent,

some people just don't want to come quietly...

You're under arrest on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.

..the criminal who's volunteered to wear a 24-hour surveillance tag

to try and turn his life around...

You know, you weren't born bad.

..and suspect thieves discover you can run, but you can't hide.

Which bit of "you're a prisoner and I'm in control" don't you understand?

The fight against crime in towns and villages across the country

has been waged by neighbourhood police teams

working with local people to cut crime

wherever it might strike.

It's a great idea on paper, but the big question is,

does it really work? Stay watching. We're about to find out.

Shoplifting is a blight to businesses across the country,

but in Humberside, they're not going to let sticky-fingered thieves get the better of them.

Today, Humberside Police are unrolling Operation Sodium,

an anti-shoplift scheme designed to tackle

the problem of shoplifting head-on.

Sergeant Joanne Harvey details

the ambitions of the crackdown.

Operation Sodium not only deals with tackling the issues of retail crime,

but also by making staff feel safe

and customers feel safe by addressing antisocial behaviour.

We aim to achieve that by working with our partners

in the retail sector and make the community feel safe.

We expect stores to adopt a really responsible attitude towards

trying to prevent retail crime happening in the first place,

rather than simply pursuing a policy of detection after the fact.

High visibility policing makes thieves think twice,

but it's intelligence sharing that can really stop shoplifters in their tracks.

The first thing is they'll come in and see if we're OK,

see if we've got any problems, in not just shop theft -

antisocial behaviour, anything like that, and we can identify

that straightaway if there's been something come up.

They help us out a lot in terms of popping in the store,

seeing what's going on, passing information on,

using our radio link so we've got things passed between each other

so we know where shop thefts occur, who's about,

if there's a particular individual that's targeting certain products.

Without them, it'd make life much more difficult,

and it's basically just talking to us.

That passing on of information just makes it crucial in what

we can do in terms of protecting ourselves and making it work for us.

With bobbies in the aisles and in the precincts, there are plenty

of eyes peeled for anyone who tries to get away without paying.

And it's not long before the police get tasked to a job.

PCSO John Hamilton's received a tipoff

about strange goings-on near the shopping centre flowerbeds.

A member of the public's reported a lady's been coming and going

to the bushes throughout the day acting suspiciously.

The women appears to be taking items from a nearby shop

and hiding them in the bushes in the car park, then going back for more.

She's already got two bin bags' worth of stolen goods,

and there's a strong possibility she's not finished for the day.

What she hasn't realised, though, is that John has recognised

her description and the police have got their hands on her haul.

Here we are.

As you can see, there's brand-new bags in this bag,

all with price stickers still intact.

It looks like it's all from one shop, from New Look.

I suspect now she's gone back to commit more offences,

get some more goods, and she will be back later on to collect these items.

Almost immediately, John spots the suspect.

There's a female I've just seen who fits the description.

The thief might be a female.

There's a female walking up Freetown Way towards the bathroom place

with a large bag. Can you just get CCTV to pick her up?

I think this possibly might be the same female from earlier on.

With no time to lose, the chase is on.

She's crossing over towards Charles Street.

-I can confirm this is the same female. I believe it's

-BLEEP.

Hitching a lift with a passing operational support unit,

John catches up with the woman.

-Straight in front of us.

-Oh, yeah.

She's already in police hands.

John shares details of the bin bag booty with the plain-clothes officer.

Probably, you've got about 200 quid.

-All right.

-I don't think so.

Oh, my God.

-I haven't even done nowt, though.

-Hey?

-No.

-Right.

You've been identified as being involved in some shop thefts.

Yeah, but I haven't...done anything.

Well, at the moment, you're going

to be arrested on suspicion of theft, all right? Get in our van.

We'll go over some details with you.

-Lot of stuff there, isn't there?

-There is a lot of stuff.

-It's all new stuff.

-She's been doing it all day.

It's now time for a closer look at what's been lifted.

We need to book all this property

individually into our property system.

It's now evidence in the case, obviously,

against the female who's been arrested now.

24.99, 19.99, 19.99, all brand new with labels on.

She's been doing it all day, back and forth.

The woman was released whilst the police

continue their investigations into the crime,

but before she could be charged, John caught her shoplifting again.

Appearing in court,

she was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison for both offences.

Gold offenders are criminals who repeatedly carry out

the same type of crime with such alarming frequency

that the police are on the hunt for them whenever a crime of the nature

they're associated with takes place,

because they are the most likely culprit.

Many of these types of offenders are tagged

when they are let out of jail to keep an eye on their movements.

It's the role of the neighbourhood police officers to pay

regular visits to these so-called gold offenders to make sure

they are staying on the straight and narrow, and making full use

of the support services available to keep them out of trouble.

Graham White was one of Bridlington's most infamous burglars.

He caused a sensation last year when the neighbourhood team

caught him as he fled the scene of a burglary on a local kiosk.

What made the crime particular shocking was that he had

a 12-year-old accomplice with him.

Worse still, there was a second child in his getaway vehicle,

which ended up in a head-on smash.

Just don't nod your head. Keep nice and still.

-Where do you hurt?

-My nose.

-Your nose.

-Anywhere else?

-No.

Time behind bars has given Graham a wake-up call.

Now out of jail, he's taken the drastic step of volunteering

to have a 24-hour surveillance tag fitted.

He hopes it will prevent him slipping back in his old ways.

But with the recent spate of burglaries in the area,

Mark Skelton and Nikki Cammis are en route

to check out he's not the guilty party this time.

Visiting in plain clothes, they quickly confirm that

Graham's movements are accounted for and he remains determined to change,

having lost his children as a result of his criminal activities.

End of the day, I did what I did, and I wish I took it back.

I never expected that to happen, and I could turn around and say,

do you know what, it's his fault, but it wasn't.

If I hadn't have took the kids, I hadn't done what I've done,

then it wouldn't have happened.

I've lost seeing my kids for one mistake.

-So what are you doing to change your life now?

-What am I doing?

I'm getting help.

I go to probation and I get them to help me,

I've got a psychiatrist, doctor, I've got everybody.

Do you feel like there's plenty of help out there?

I think there's loads of help, yeah. They're doing excellent for me.

I wear a tracking device, 24 hours a day,

and it gives me a kick up the bum

to make sure I don't go and do anything.

-You're monitored, aren't you?

-I'm monitored 24 hours a day.

I see the police about three times a week and they help me out.

Around 50% of burglaries are caused by people looking to

fund their drug habits, as was the case with Graham.

I can sort my life out. I'm 39 years old, and I've wasted my life.

I have wasted it, mainly through taking drugs.

16 years of drug use, trying to fight it and get off it,

and I'm at the last little bit.

I've just got to get over that bit and then I can get on with my life.

Why did you start using drugs in the first place?

When I was younger, it was my girlfriend what was selling drugs.

All my friends were selling drugs.

They was on it, and I ended up taking the stuff.

Obviously, I regret it, because once you get on it,

you don't think that it's going to get a grip of you,

it's going to ruin your life.

I've spent most of my life in prison because of drugs. It devastates me.

As neighbourhood police officers,

Graham's story is all too familiar to Nikki and Mark,

but at least here, there does seem to be a hope of rehabilitation.

Obviously, you didn't get a chance to put your story across last time,

which is why it's important for people to understand, you know,

you weren't born bad.

Events happened in your life, unfortunately, that turned you

to drugs and especially heroin to block out bad times in your life,

and everyone has different ways of dealing with things, don't they?

I can totally empathise that you've had some bad events

that's happened in your life that's turned you to drugs.

Unfortunately, a consequence of you having bad times in your life,

you've then affected the community around you, not only your own family

but the community, because you have committed burglaries,

you have committed shop thefts,

which ultimately impact on the community.

The crime that Graham hit the headlines for

was the burglary of a kiosk, with a child accomplice in tow.

He walked across with the lad, they give that door a good kicking,

as you can see.

The victim was a well-known figure.

The crime sent a shock wave through the community and saw

Graham gain notoriety as one of the region's most wanted thieves.

But the Graham the team meet today genuinely seems to be filled with

regret and recognises the impact burglary can have on its victims.

I do hate the fact, burgling someone's house, I know it's disgusting.

They come home and lose sentimental stuff,

they're losing whatever just so I can...

I'm only saying that cos I've been to the victims of burglaries.

And I can understand. And I've been a victim. My mum's been a victim.

-Right.

-Obviously, I know it's horrendous.

I think that puts it across really well.

-OK.

-See you later, Graham.

These kinds of visits are valuable to the neighbourhood police

because they can help gauge the behaviour of past offenders

and help ensure they don't break the law again.

I think he summed it up pretty well, to be fair.

He's been in and out of police custody for years on end, really.

He's not under any orders from the court

currently that will make him be on tag or on doorstep curfew

or anything like that, so he wears that tag of his own volition,

obviously trying to prove himself that he's not committing offences

and doesn't want to be implicated in crimes

and doesn't want to be in trouble.

Clamping down on criminals in the community is the driving force

of neighbourhood policing, and for the teams,

it all starts with making the streets feel a safer place.

Being ready for anything or anyone

to kick off is in an experienced copper's DNA.

The neighbourhood team can respond to

any kind of crisis in a matter of moments,

and are experts in defusing any situation fast.

During the course of their duties, the police are constantly

at risk from dangerous and threatening behaviour.

Get it away from me.

It's all about reducing crime.

-I said no!

-I said yes.

I guess we do that by tackling the people

that are causing us the most harm.

Which bit of "you're a prisoner and I'm in control" don't you understand?

-You're pulling my arm.

-I am not pulling your arm. I'm in control here. Do you understand?

They've got a difficult job to do.

I appreciate what they do do.

Have you found my phone? Can I have my iPhone? I need my phone!

Shut up a minute!

We've had some good results because we've had some good arrests,

and again, intelligence very important.

It's important to know who's out there.

Today, Dave Mackinder is going to need to pull on every ounce of his extensive training.

A search for a wanted man is about to take a very surprising turn

for Dave, but the person who comes to the door is not

whose name is on the arrest warrant.

-No, I'm

-BLEEP.

-Are you?

-Yeah.

-Have you got some ID on you?

-No.

-What's your surname?

-BLEEP.

This young man's behaviour immediately raises suspicions.

Dave's concerned he may have stumbled on a burglary in progress.

-Whose house is it?

-BLEEP.

-Right.

-Get off my arm.

-Hang on a minute.

-Calm down. Calm down. I need to speak to you.

-I ain't seen him, bro.

-So how come you've got his keys, then?

-Um...cos they're my mate's.

-He's my mate, innit?

-Right. Let's just go back inside a sec.

-I can't if you haven't got a warrant.

-I don't need a warrant.

-You do.

-I don't.

-You do.

-BLEEP.

I don't. No, listen. Listen... Stop pushing me around.

-Stop pushing me around!

-You need a warrant.

No, I don't. Stop talking and I will explain.

-Hey, listen, bro, your breath smells like

-BLEEP,

-yeah, and I don't

believe you're a police officer.

Do you not? Pop these on, then. HANDCUFFS CLICK

Something's not right here, is it? It's not your house.

-Stand outside them, please.

-Stop pushing me around.

-Where's your warrant?

-I'll explain if you'll stop talking.

-Where is

-your warrant?

-If you'll stop talking...

-Where is your warrant?

-Come on, let's go to the van.

-What?

-Cos this isn't right, is it?

Alarm bells raised, Dave arrests the man on suspicion of burglary.

-I've gone to that house to speak to

-BLEEP.

-You're coming...

-I'll tell you,

-BLEEP

-not there.

-BLEEP

-not there.

I've only got your word for that, haven't I?

You're being particularly obstructive towards me.

-Why am I being obstructive?

-I don't know why you're being obstructive.

-Where is your warrant?

-I don't need a warrant.

-Of course you do.

-I don't.

-You need a warrant.

-No, I don't.

-What?

You shouldn't have tried to walk in the house, should you,

-without a warrant?

-I didn't try walking in the house...

-I'm not stupid, mate.

-BLEEP.

-You need a warrant.

-I don't need a warrant.

The only way you can walk into someone's house, yeah,

is if they're harbouring somebody who is wanted.

That's right and I believe there is a wanted person in that house.

-Whose house? Whose is that house?

-BLEEP.

-So you can't walk in.

-I can.

-BLEEP.

-I'm searching you.

-What am I doing in these handcuffs?

I'm searching you.

Have you got anything on you that you shouldn't have?

The legal debate over, things settle down.

But as Dave's about to realise, this is just the calm before the storm.

-So what am I being locked up for?

-At the moment, on suspicion of burglary.

-What, burgling that house?

-Yeah.

-What, burgling my mate's house?

-Yeah.

HE LAUGHS

-BLEEP. BLEEP.

-HE LAUGHS AGGRESSIVELY

HE GROWLS

BLEEP. BLEEP.

Calm yourself down. Calm yourself down.

Calm yourself down.

Calm yourself down now.

You're under arrest on suspicion of assaulting a police officer, OK?

Even with a second arrest, the man continues struggling.

If you carry on, I will spray you.

-Go on, then.

-Calm yourself down.

-Right, listen, what am I trying to tell you?

-Can yourself down.

-I am not

-BLEEP!

-Sit yourself up.

-BLEEP.

-Listen.

-You're trying to do me for burglary of my mate's house.

I can't talk to you while you're... This has been the whole issue.

How can I talk to you while you're raising your voice to me

-and talking over me?

-I don't

-BLEEP.

-I'm in my mate's house.

Go and ask his sister now. How did I assault you, bro?

Well, it's...

-That's definitely assault, isn't it?

-How did I assault you?

-Just then.

What?

He's not the person we've come here looking for but I just need to

check that everything is all right at this house.

Later, we reveal just how far the man goes in his battle

to avoid coming quietly.

Nothing makes people feel safer than the sight of a bobby on the beat

but the neighbourhood team's foot patrols are often carried out to

keep specific problems in check, no matter how big or small they may be.

Sometimes, getting to a scene is easier said than done.

Racing to a burglary in progress,

Constable Dave Mackinder's got his foot down and his blue light on.

The suspect's description has come over the radio.

-RADIO:

-'White males. The males have biked off towards Pearson Park.'

Can he get there on time?

Oh. THUD!

Not at this rate.

RADIO CHATTER

Pulling out of the garage, a modified hot hatch has

crashed into the side of the police van and come off worst.

Reversing the boy racer-styled car off the street,

the bumper stays behind.

Oh, dear.

RADIO CHATTER

You all right?

You need to look when you come out of a junction,

otherwise that happens.

But the driver immediately acknowledges he's failed to

look both ways when pulling out.

I thought you were waiting for me. I didn't know you were coming.

I wasn't waiting cos I had my sirens and my blue lights on.

I was going to an emergency. Somebody being burgled.

But, anyway, we won't worry about that,

we'll worry that everything is all right here, OK?

No, your car's obviously taken a bit of a bump.

I'm just going to move my vehicle so I'm not blocking the road.

Parking his van, Dave phones in

to ensure another response team follows up on the 999 call.

I'll take some details off you, make sure everything's all right.

My sergeant's going to come down and deal with it.

I can't deal with it myself cos I'm involved in it, you see.

Just like any street collision, it's time to swap details.

Obviously, nobody's injured so we'll let insurance sort it out,

whichever way things go.

The main concern is that nobody's hurt, obviously,

and that everybody's all right.

Did you chaps see what happened?

Yeah, we both saw it.

You just come down and he just pulled straight out.

It was his fault.

There was a car here parking up somewhere here

and he flashed him out but you was just coming.

I mean, we saw you from here. It was his fault.

That's no problem at all.

I just wanted to check that you were...

Were you going to some emergency and all?

The garage's own CCTV has captured the crash

so there's no getting away from the fact of the matter.

A closer look at the damage

and it's clear which vehicle has taken the brunt of the collision.

His car's gone all the way down the side of our van.

It's really just a scrape there. His car's come off worst.

I don't know if there is any real damage to us.

-That's just the shape of it, isn't it?

-Yeah.

So, literally, from there, he's come out

and it's slid all the way down the side of the van.

Thanks for that. I was looking for a brush

but I've not got one in the back of my van.

Did you mend his car before it got broken again?

The clean-up operation gets going, with the mechanics

from the garage lending a hand.

HE SIGHS

As Dave's been in the accident himself,

he's not allowed to fill in any report.

That's down to Sergeant Mick Stevenson.

You realise you're making me do one of these

for the first time in about...

15 years, probably.

-Seriously?

-Yeah.

Back in the van, Mick remembers how to do the paperwork

and checks out the driver's details.

I have not had one, sorry, in two years.

Don't worry. These things happen.

That's why they're called accidents.

Whilst he should have looked, these things happen.

It's just a momentary lapse of concentration, as we put it,

and, bang, they've come together. You know, there's damage.

That'll repair. They'll have to pay for that themselves and...

I won't be looking to prosecute anybody.

-You're lucky you don't have to fill all these forms.

-Thanks a lot.

All right, mate.

When accidents happen,

common sense prevails with the neighbourhood police team.

But these racing colour stripes won't be hitting

the road for a while yet.

Yeah, back for something to eat now.

A cup of tea to calm the nerves.

With shoplifting costing retailers over £500 million a year,

it's not surprising that the number of shops joining

Operation Sodium is growing all the time.

Good descriptions often taken from the CCTV footage provide

police with a powerful weapon in their fight against shoplifters.

He's just selecting the goods at the moment from the top shelf.

This is it, here.

This is where we keep our razor blades, just up there.

In his haste, he knocks a couple of boxes down onto the floor

and that's what alerted one of the members of staff that

something was happening down there.

With detailed information about suspects to hand,

catching criminals red-handed becomes a real possibility.

Stuffing them up his jumper. Nearly knocks this lady over. Yeah.

Though today's culprit may have temporarily slipped the net,

Nikki explains why being part of a wider scheme really can be a case

of forewarned is forearmed and help head off thieves before they strike.

If something happens in town, they either go towards

the West Hull estate Morrisons or tend to come this way.

So at least it gives you the heads-up.

I run two small market stalls in a...indoor market and recently,

it was broken into and one of my stalls

was particularly badly broken into.

My stock was upset and some petty cash was stolen

and, whilst the monetary value wasn't great, I did feel

particularly upset that my personal space had been invaded

and there wasn't any respect for the fact that I work hard and

make my own products and...

I work in a shop and shoplifting is something

I see on a regular occasion.

I'm constantly getting called into the security office to be a witness

of people shoplifting. It's quite disgusting, really,

that people do it.

For them, it's a job. It's not...

They're not going in to get something to eat

because they're hungry or, you know, something like that -

they're going into make money.

Shoplifters often target stores in twos and threes, using

diversionary tactics to distract security staff

and shop assistants. But these techniques are usually

spotted by experienced eyes

and making a clean getaway is by no means straightforward, especially

when the police are in pursuit on the ground and in the air.

Mick Davison's city centre patrol has just been interrupted by

news of a possible pair of thieves on the run with stolen goods.

There's two males wanted for a shop theft on Holderness Road.

That's better.

-RADIO:

-'Received. Any patrol that can assist with two males?'

Yeah.

Two males and a female, two males are wanted for a shop theft

and Oscar 99, the helicopter, has been above them and spotted them.

The female's in possession of the bag that they may have stolen gear in.

Is it them two, down there, the female with a bag and the male there?

Sherburn Street.

The other policeman has got the side street covered.

Sherburn Street. The next one down, is it?

There we are. Got it.

Got it.

Here we go.

Stay there. Stay there.

Stay there.

Stay there. Just come up against here, love, for me. You may have been

involved in a theft and that's why you've been stopped.

What's in your bag, my love?

Just a moment. Right, at this stage you're both under arrest

on suspicion of theft. Do you understand?

-You're pulling on my arm.

-Nobody's pulling on your arms, fella.

Fella, you're under arrest and I'm in control of you,

not the other way around. Do you understand?

And I'm not pulling at your hands. I'm as gentle as a kitten with you.

Now, calm yourself down. There's no need to be clever with me.

No, no, no. Don't grab anything out of his pocket.

-Stop pulling on my

-BLEEP

-arm.

-Fella, fella, which bit of

"you are a prisoner and I'm in control" don't you understand?

-Stop pulling on my arms.

-No, fella, I am not pulling on your arms.

I am in control here, do you understand? I am in control here.

-You're not.

-Get off my hand, now.

-No.

-Stop pulling on my

-BLEEP

-hand.

I'm not pulling on your hand and stop being aggressive with me.

2-3, go ahead.

This one's going to bang me out once he gets the chance

-so just be aware.

-OK. Do you want his cuffs on the back?

-No, he's all right at the moment. He's...

-What's your name, young man?

-Come with me.

-He's had a pat down.

-Has he?

We've got a female in our car

and a male in the van as well who was being a little bit aggressive with

me but they've both been arrested on suspicion of theft at this stage.

Arresting people on the streets gets shoplifting

suspects into custody quickly.

But anyone who thinks they've got away with it can think again.

Steve Calvert's on his way to the home of a repeat offender who

is about to discover he's not getting away scot-free.

He's a thief, full stop.

What I call a recidivist who is committing crime all over.

Shop theft, burglaries, anything he can get his hands on, really.

-So we're sorted?

-Yeah, yeah.

-Right, guys, see you all later.

This particular man is very much on the neighbourhood team's radar,

so the warrant for his arrest comes as no surprise.

He walks up and down here. The offence location, we're

just passing on the left-hand side - the chemist, there.

The thief's MO is now well known to the shops he targets,

as Steve learns.

He comes in real sneaky but we know how he works now.

He comes in the door like this, gets a product but knocks everything

off the shelf and, as he's doing that, he's picking it up

and going... Just goes like that and they're up his sleeve.

Fagin character, isn't he?

See you later.

He'll have known that he's done the offence. He's not daft.

And he'll know that they've got CCTV in there.

They always know that they've got it hanging over them.

They hope that they'll get away with it but, no, not this one.

Good morning. I'm after Chris.

-Hi, Chris.

-Hello.

-What?

-You know what.

-What?

-You're wanted.

-What for?

-Shop theft.

-Where from?

-I'll tell you when I'm done. I'm going to caution

you. You do not have to say anything that may harm your defence.

What shop theft? Tell me. I ain't even done anything.

Will you tell me what's what, please?

Chris, like he said, mate, it'll get explained to you in interview.

It's a previously reported shop theft.

The man might not have been caught red-handed

but, as he's about to learn,

there's no escaping the long arm of the law for proven shoplifters.

-No need to get arsey.

-Just don't grab hold of me.

Over in the city centre,

this young woman's been spotted by a plain-clothes officer,

helping herself to new clothes and slipping out without paying.

Just wait, please.

SHE WAILS

She might be upset now but this young woman's been

spotted by a plain-clothes officer turning shopping into shoplifting.

SHE WAILS

Just let this lady search you, my love, please.

This lady has been involved in a theft.

There was a male and a female involved in the theft

but the female is equally responsible as the male.

She has actually selected items which have been stolen.

So, although the male has made off,

we have a good idea who that male is.

But this female's going to be arrested anyway.

We're just waiting for a response patrol

to come and arrest her and take her in.

-It was a jacket?

-Jeans.

-James, was it? A pair of jeans, yeah.

OK. You're under arrest for attempted theft.

Although her accomplice managed to escape into the crowds,

he was later arrested.

When they came to court, the woman was found guilty of this

and three other counts of shop theft.

She was given a 16-month suspended sentence

and had to pay £100 back to the shop.

Her associate was also found guilty of multiple charges of

shop theft and was sentenced to two years in prison.

This woman was unconditionally released but the other person

was charged with theft of baby milk

and sentenced to one month in prison.

And finally, this man was found guilty...

..put under curfew for six weeks and tagged electronically.

He also had to repay the shop, pay a victim surcharge and court costs.

Shoplifting certainly doesn't come cheap.

Obviously, he had taken these chances so there's no other course for it.

It may seem hard and callous but that's reality.

My view is if you can't do the time, don't commit the crime.

-Can I come in and talk to for a minute?

-Yeah, please, if you would.

All right.

Visiting a house to arrest a wanted man, Dave Mackinder found himself

having to grapple with another man whose identity is unclear...

and whose temper is extremely volatile.

All I wanted to do was come back here and check that everything was

all right and there hasn't been a burglary,

nobody's been hurt inside, nothing's been broken or stolen

-or damaged or anything like that.

-No.

-That's all right. OK. Thank you.

With confirmation that there hasn't been a burglary at the address,

there's a welcome opportunity to take the heat out of the situation.

-BLEEP

-Have you calmed down a bit?

-I've calmed down but you're trying to say I'm

-BLEEP.

No, no. You've got the wrong end of the stick.

-Listen.

-You're trying to say I was burgling...

-Calm down.

I'm not entering a conversation with you now.

If you'll calm yourself down, I'll go and get your phone.

Do you just want to pop back in and ask for it?

The reason you've been arrested is on suspicion of assaulting me. OK?

I didn't, though.

The problem I had, until you had given me any details and I could

check those details, is I couldn't prove anything any other way.

But the explanation doesn't seem to connect

and the man takes out his frustration on the van.

You'll only succeed in hurting yourself. You won't break that.

I'll move your cuffs to the back if you won't start behaving.

-BLEEP,

-keep yourself calm and we'll get things sorted.

However, being calm is not on tonight's agenda.

The young man appears hellbent on injuring himself.

Whereabouts was it?

Forget that. He's playing silly buggers.

Get out.

-Get out. Get on the floor, now.

-Get off me, man.

I'm not having you harming yourself while you're with us.

You'll get out and you'll get on the floor so we can sort you out.

HE SCREAMS

The tussle continues and, as hysteria seems to set in,

the PAVA spray is now needed.

I don't want to do this but it's to calm you down.

Can I have another patrol to Blake Close, please?

It's just as well more help is on its way as the normally

debilitating PAVA spray doesn't seem to work.

Get off my hand!

There was no way I'm letting your hand to go

while you're flailing your arms and your legs around and kicking me.

-All right? It isn't happening. Calm yourself down.

-Argh! Get off!

You're hurting!

Try and bite me, fella. It isn't going to happen.

With extra police arriving,

they at last manage to get the man's hands cuffed.

They're not coming off.

They're staying on but we're moving them to the back, fella.

With his hands behind his back,

he won't be able to harm himself or others.

Good man.

But it appears the police have a Houdini on their hands.

Thanks for that.

-He's got his hands to the front.

-He's what?

He's got them to the front.

Incredibly, the man has managed to bring his cuffed hands forward.

Yeah.

BANGING

-BLEEP. BLEEP,

-you won't achieve anything except hurting yourself.

BANGING Calm yourself down.

HE GROWLS AND SCREAMS

He's trying to get his cuffs off. Hang on, stop the van.

Leave them on. They're on for a reason.

Come out here and we'll sort them out.

HE SOBS

-Right, stand still,

-BLEEP,

-cos I'm going to put them behind your back.

Get yourself in.

But the young escapologist once again slips his cuffs forward.

Pack it in.

Pack it in.

THUMPING

We're going to the police station to have him booked into custody.

He obviously needs a bit of time to calm down

and come down off the effects of whatever substances he's taken,

which he clearly has, in my mind.

Arriving at the station, the struggle continues.

HE GRUNTS

HE WAILS

Kneel yourself down. My knee's on his hands.

HE WAILS

I'm full of adrenaline and pumping.

It's not nice to have a fight with somebody.

I don't particularly know a lot about this lad.

He is well known to the police but, to me,

personally, I've not had an awful lot of dealings with him.

I'm a little bit sorry for him, really,

the state he's got himself into. He's only fairly young, I would imagine.

He's probably 20 years old, if that.

These are warnings that this young man's got.

These are things he's done when he's been in custody with us recently.

He's already been arrested two or three times this year.

We've got warnings that we weren't aware of that he can

move his handcuffs from his back to his front,

which we obviously found out when dealing with him.

He attempts to spit and bite and tie his T-shirts round his neck,

again, all the things that he's done while he's been with us today.

But it's not over until it's over.

-Keys, quickly!

-Keys, quick!

Serious restraints are now needed to avoid the man attempting

to strangle himself.

It may look heavy-handed but we need that many people to be able to

do it safely so he can't flail his limbs and his head around.

But for as long as he continues to behave as he is doing,

we'll have him on a cell watch. We'll have officers with him

and we'll make sure that he's safely detained.

HE GROWLS

In court, the young man pleaded guilty

to threatening behaviour and was fined.

Whether it's tackling drug dealers or stopping sticky-fingered

shoplifters, no two jobs are the same for the neighbourhood team.

But cracking down on all types of crimes

and convicted criminals is the only way this scheme will

stay on track, because local people demand results.

Part of the results package the neighbourhood team look

to deliver is getting youngsters on the right side of the law.

Home to Hull's Premier League football club,

the KC Stadium also offers sports

and educational opportunities to Humberside youngsters.

Not all children kind of learn

in the same sort of way.

So it's a different setting.

They can come and they can do English and maths skills

around the stadium in a more functional kind of way.

Today, neighbourhood beat officer Steve Calvert's meeting

local teenagers for a behind-the-scenes

glimpse into the realities of football policing.

And it's just making a fun session but, with a theme -

the basic core of it is literacy and numeracy skills.

-Here come the children.

-Morning.

-You all right?

On the terraces, Steve kicks off with a few facts and figures.

Right, how many police officers to think we'd need for a football match?

-About 200.

-About 200? Yeah, roughly about that, depending.

Who thinks they're quite strong this morning? Who's feeling strong?

This is a riot shield and it weighs 20 pounds.

It's got three handles on it.

Two like that. When we carry it, that's how we carry it.

So you're walking down the street and all of a sudden you meet

a lot of people who want to throw bricks, petrol bombs or whatever.

So you hold the bottom one and the top one

and you hold the shield there. And sometimes you may have to

stand there for 15 minutes, 20 minutes, an hour.

So, who thinks they can hold that for an hour. You volunteered.

LAUGHTER

Come on. So you put your left hand on there and your right hand on...

No, your left hand on that. That's it. Put your arms out straight.

And lift it up. That's it. Do you think you're quite safe behind there?

-Yeah.

-So if somebody was coming up and hitting that,

-you think you'd be OK?

-Yeah.

So you're not going to get frightened, are you?

She's cool, isn't she? There you go.

Can I have a show of hands who wants to throw

some tennis balls at the shield?

THEY LAUGH

Shoulder to shoulder and riot shields at the ready,

the officers are poised for the teenagers to let rip.

Let's put a bit of effort into it now. Really mean it.

LAUGHTER

Inside the holding cells,

the reality of football policing strikes home.

We've got home and away, two cells both the same.

So if we've got City versus Millwall or Leeds or whatever

and we lock five up from City, five up from Millwall.

City ones in here, Millwall ones in there.

We wouldn't put them together, would we?

A bit nicer but still not a nice place to be. All right?

I'll just close the door.

Inside the stadium, the police booking room doubles as a classroom.

Have a go at home, put a lot of effort in

and I'll mark them and have a look.

Have you got any questions that you would like to ask me?

Steve's immediately grilled by the students about his own

experiences on the force.

-22 years.

-Have you enjoyed it?

-I've enjoyed it. Seriously, I'll tell you.

Hand on heart, I've enjoyed every day from the moment

I've started to the day that I'll finish.

Steve busts a myth about police officers with his own confession.

What was your most embarrassing moment?

I'll tell you my most embarrassing moment.

I went to a local school,

come to my fourth year, real good mates with a kid called Les.

-You think I went to school for that fourth year?

-No.

-Do you think I played truant?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

So I left school, no qualifications.

But I always wanted to be a policeman.

I saw a recruitment advertisement one day

and I got an application form, went home,

filled it in, got onto page six or seven, I can't remember.

And it says, "Qualifications."

I went back to the recruitment centre and spoke

to a sergeant and they said, "You need O-level English and maths."

So I was quite upset because I was thinking, "I can't be a policeman.

"I'm 36 and I have to go back to school."

And I walk into Bransholme and there's a lot of kids

like your age or younger than you and there's me

and another lad that decided to do it

and, as we are walking down, this group of kids come by

and I heard one of them say,

"There's them thickos that's having to come back to school."

That was my most embarrassing moment, having to go back to school.

We've all got things we want to do, haven't we?

You're old enough now to think,

"I'm going to have to get my backside in gear and do something."

Thanks for your efforts today. It's been really good.

I've enjoyed it and hopefully I'll see you again.

And don't forget, if ever you see anybody, a police officer, a PCSO,

out on the streets and you need some advice, go up to them.

I love it, yeah. I really do love it.

It's meeting children from all walks of life, all backgrounds.

We get a lot out of the session.

I get an immense pleasure from delivering the session.

And I hope that the children can take something away from the session

and think, "Yeah, I can do this."

See you soon.

Steve's honesty matches his passion and the lesson is clear -

neighbourhood policing is not just for the community,

it's by the community.