Episode 9 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...

No, I don't care!

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

Coming up...

Police! Stay where you are!

..the scores are on the door as the neighbourhood police

notch up another victory.

Spit it out!

Spit it out!

A victim of criminal damage raises her fears to the police.

And even though it's a different era, you think people are more

sort of tolerant, a lot of people don't like gay people.

And it's red cards at the ready

when they clamp down on anti-social behaviour in Hull City Centre.

I'm doing you a favour now so shut it and listen.

The fight against crime in towns and villages across the country

is being waged by neighbourhood police teams

working with local people to cut crime wherever it might strike.

During the past year,

the neighbourhood team have been waging a war against drugs.

Whilst they've scored some dramatic results and made headlines,

there's no let up for the police

when it comes to shutting up shop on drug users and abusers.

Over at Clough Road Police Station,

Sergeant Mick Stevenson is briefing his team.

They're about to execute a warrant

against a man suspected of using class A drugs.

Before any drugs warrant is executed,

all intel is gathered in the formulation of police action plans.

With his plan and a warrant in place,

Mick and the team get suited up and head to the destination.

The team are taking no chances on this one,

taking every single tool of the trade with them.

Here you are.

Go, go, go.

Suspected drug users and abusers will do almost anything

to avoid being caught red-handed with drugs

so a surprise rapid entry is crucial.

With one big swing, the door goes in.

Police! Stay where you are!

Sweeping through the house,

Mick finds one of the suspects in the living room.

Spit it out! Spit it out!

Spit it out, now!

He seems to be trying to swallow a suspicious-looking bundle.

-You're not swallowing it.

-I can't breathe.

-Spit it out!

Spit it out, now!

Spit it out.

Turn him over.

All right, you're not swallowing it, spit it out. Spit it out!

Spit it out!

Is that it?

Open your mouth wide.

Just grab these wraps here, AJ.

Another man is also detained, but it's the suspect with

something in his mouth who is still causing problems.

-All right, all right.

-Put your hand behind your back!

Now!

Such is the urge to hide evidence from the police,

some suspects will try to swallow evidence of illegal drugs,

even if it causes them serious harm.

BLEEP.

Some small wraps have spilled out from his mouth

which the police will gather as evidence.

The suspect is cuffed and questioned by Mick.

All right.

-Have you got anything else?

-No.

-In your pockets, on your person?

-No.

You're going to get searched, I'm just asking the question, all right?

Meanwhile, eagle-eyed Mick scans the floor and spots some more

suspicious-looking wraps the man may have spat out.

Back in the living room, following the high octane entry,

the team have had chance to catch their breath

and take stock of the situation.

Yeah, so far we've got...

Seven wraps,

probably £10 deals each.

Brown powder substance, probably heroin.

The preliminary search of the house means Mick is confident

there's enough to charge the suspect who was caught

swallowing the drugs

and has now had a quick costume change from his red football shirt.

As the suspect has been arrested

and is about to be taken to custody,

Mick can describe exactly what happened

when the police leapt upon him.

He was actually, as we went into the living room,

had a white pill bottle in his hand which clearly had all the drugs in it

and he was tipping them down his throat.

We've had that before and it's so problematic,

there's nothing you can do about it.

The only hope you've got is to stop them swallowing it

which, unfortunately, sometimes means

you've just got to block their airway for as long as you need to.

Otherwise, he swallows that

and it bursts in his stomach and he's going to die.

Certainly going to end up in hospital.

As well as we could expect, really.

And we obviously got some drugs back so we'll slow things down now,

do the search and see what the other three have got to say

and what else we'll find in there.

The other man who was in the property is also arrested

but not in relation to any drugs charges.

The police recognise him as being wanted in connection with

a shop theft which they will charge him with back down at the station.

Find out later if the police search of the house turns up a bounty of

stolen goods and what happens when neighbours get caught up in the mix.

Don't snatch out of my hand!

Incidents of bogus callers are on the rise in the UK.

Last year around three million people were targeted.

In Humberside, the police are always on the lookout for swindlers,

fraudsters and con men

targeting the most vulnerable members of the community.

Inspector Steve Lamb explains more.

Certainly in my area, several reports of what we call bogus callers,

so people purporting to represent the gas board

or the electricity agency or the water companies

will gain access to properties,

distract the elderly occupants

while an accomplice will probably go and have a search around

and steal whatever property that they can do.

My grandmother was robbed in her own home in South East London and she...

..she needed protecting and it's very, very difficult

because they trust everybody,

cos in her generation you did trust everybody

and you left your door open, but you can't do that now.

Over in Drypool, reports have come into the neighbourhood office

of a cowboy builder driving around and targeting old-age pensioners

with a scam to repair paving, guttering and windows.

PCSO Neil Brewer is on his way to pay a visit to a man who believes

he may have been targeted by the scamster.

'Gent from this address has called us in a bit of a panic yesterday.

'He's had some people calling at his address.

'They've been upstairs, all over really,

'and he's just concerned that they're coming back.'

-Did you do all these?

-Yeah.

They are fantastic. The banana one, the monkey one, that's great.

The man himself is a keen artist

but it's his story about the con artist who paid him a visit

that has the police's attention.

The man goes on to describe the bizarre actions

of the cowboy builder who went around the house

pointing a phoney electronic device which he said could detect

if the seals of a window were damaged and needed repair.

So he went "Beep-beep, beep-beep. Yeah, that's all right."

And then he walked over there and he went,

"Beep-beep, yeah, they're OK." And he goes into the...

the back room and he goes in there and he goes, "Beep-beep.

"No, that's no good." And then he said,

"I can get that done for you for so many hundred pounds."

It'll be a scam, that, cos you don't judge if a window needs

replacing or not with something that you, a hand-held device, do you?

So that initially leads me to believe they'll be rogue traders.

Once they're in your house, they could be looking around going...

-It could happen, couldn't it?

-"We can come back for something."

I don't have anything that's worth nicking, really.

Maybe that's fortunate for you, you know?

Maybe they weren't art fans.

What are you going to do if they come back?

-Ask them in for a cup of tea.

-THEY LAUGH

Humour aside, Neil asks the man if he managed to take a phone number

-or jot down the numberplate of the scamster.

-Oh, here we are.

And the team are in luck

as he did manage to record a vehicle registration.

It's funny he didn't leave a telephone number.

Neil will investigate the van and the owner's details

back at the station, but before he leaves

he has some advice and support on dealing with bogus callers.

-I'm going to pop back tomorrow.

-Yeah?

Yeah, with a sheet of paper, some tips on there,

some hints on there for what you should be doing next time

someone like that knocks at your door cos if they've conned you once,

they'll come and con you again. All right, take care.

Nice to speak to you.

And the good news is there's been no more monkey business in the area

as an increased police presence and leaflet drop

raised public awareness and has driven the con men away.

Sergeant Mick Stevenson and his community reassurance team

have been stepping up their actions in the war against

Hull's drug users and abusers.

Over in Marfleet, one home has been raided

and the suspect found trying to swallow

what looks like wraps of heroin.

Another man is also arrested at the property

in connection with a shop-lifting charge.

We've clearly got one guy in custody for possession with intent to supply

and this guy's in custody for shop theft.

They're not linked in relation to what we're actually dealing with here

so there's no issue.

We're going to take both of them into the custody suite and get rid.

Just means we aren't tying officers up all the time

looking after prisoners at the scene.

As the suspects are taken back to the police station,

the activity draws unwanted attention from a curious biker

and Mick finds himself on the receiving end of some backchat.

Pull your motorbike out of the way onto the grass.

-Get that camera out my

-BLEEP

-face now.

-And don't start swearing...

And it's not long before a woman joins in.

You're going to get locked up, all right?

If you hadn't have stopped, it wouldn't have happened.

-He was meeting me.

-I'm not allowed to stop at the side of the road?

I said to you, "Move on." Didn't I? And you said, "No."

No, you were just being nosey and I didn't want you here. Simple as.

Well, if you don't like it, mate, don't stop and be nosey.

As the man continues to give the police aggro,

Mick requests a background check on him and his moped.

He'll need to go back to work.

Proving that the police always need to be prepared for the unexpected,

this happens.

-Oi!

-You're not taking them.

The woman snatches the moped keys and legs it.

You're obstructing the police.

No!

The police race after her

and attempt to wrestle the keys out of her hands.

Don't snatch it out of my hand!

Well, just...

-No! Get off me!

-Let go of the keys.

-Let go of the dog.

Let go of the keys now.

-It's legal, that bike.

-Well, if it is legal, you can have it back.

Leave go.

-Who do you think you

-BLEEP

-are?

Don't start.

The keys stay with us.

Once we establish if it is, then they can have them back.

But she obviously wasn't prepared to be reasonable about it.

She can't take them, can she?

She's obstructing us in our enquiries.

-What? Taking my keys out of my bike?

-Yeah.

-Go away.

Let's go have a look at the bike.

Mick chooses to ignore the woman's aggravating behaviour

and the bolshie biker, returning to the job in hand.

Back inside the house,

the team have knuckled down to scouring the entire property.

When you're dealing with drugs, as you can see,

they're very, very small and they could be put anywhere, really.

So it's just a question of being slow and meticulous.

In this room, there's probably several hundred video cassettes,

some DVDs, a lot of them just laid on the bed

so what we're going to do is clear the bed, search the bed

and once that's clear, we'll start going through each box individually.

There are no hidden video nasties here concealing any drugs

but in an another room

suspicions are aroused by what may be stolen goods.

First up is a laptop.

It's got A-S-A.

-That'll be somebody's Christian name, won't it?

-Yeah.

There we go, that's what they're charging it with.

That box is brand spanking new, innit?

And there's a small matter of a security stamped bike

not registered to this property.

You get hundreds stolen every year, thousands stolen every year,

and they just seem to disappear off the face of the Earth.

So at least we have got a fighting chance with this one.

Oh, and what about the mower with a bucket full of grass in it?

It's full of fresh grass cuttings,

that ain't come from here cos they haven't been cutting the lawn

so, again, you know, we need to make some enquiries into that.

But the initial ones don't tell us it's stolen

but we suspect it will be eventually.

It's turning out to be quite a haul for the team

and there's more evidence of criminal activity

in the form of an electricity meter being bypassed.

Looks like they've actually attempted to bypass the electricity.

There's obviously wires cutting across there

so we've just rang the MeterPlus company

and they'll send an engineer down just to double check

and then obviously the council will take it from there

for abstracting electricity.

Bags of possible drugs-related evidence have been collected

and a number of suspected stolen items removed.

But it's just another day's work for the team

and the standard reward for their labour

is waiting for them at the end of the day.

Back to the station, yeah. Something to eat and a cup of coffee I think.

The drugs swallower was charged with

possessing a controlled class A drug,

two counts of handling stolen goods and abstracting electricity.

He was given a 12 month community order of 80 hours of unpaid work

and had to pay costs and a victim surcharge.

The other man pleaded guilty to theft

and had to pay compensation for what he'd stolen.

Find out later how Mick and the team get on

when they take on their second raid of the day.

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.

The neighbourhood team are there to serve and protect

all members of the community.

Hate-related crimes have fallen steadily in the past few years,

in part due to the increased public awareness

and a more proactive policing stance against them.

If any suspected hate crime does get reported,

the police are always fast to investigate.

Today, over in Bridlington,

Liam Whittington is on his way to visit a woman who believes

she may have been a victim of one such crime.

We're just going up to attend an address in the village of Bempton

which is just outside Bridlington,

and unfortunately this lady that we're going to see

has been a victim of crime and it is her second crime report

that she's had within a space of a couple of weeks.

It's always difficult when you're dealing with such remote locations

because, from an evidence point of view, it's such a quiet location,

there's generally not many members of the public about

that could potentially be used as witnesses to an incident.

The woman has had her car tyres slashed on two occasions

and is keen to let Liam know all the details.

Cos sometimes they said that people put their hands before they...

That's right.

But that's what made me think that maybe it was someone that seemed

to know what they were doing because the car's not exactly,

it gets dirty around the rim and I looked all the way round

and it was the same as last time, I couldn't see anything on it and...

As a gay woman,

she is concerned that her sexuality may have made her a target

for the attacks.

-..cos of the fact that a lot of people don't like gay people.

-Right.

And even though it's obviously like a different era,

you think people are more sort of tolerant.

It's not too like that in smaller villages

so sometimes you can get a bit of maybe banter from the children,

well, I say children, teenagers, or you can get sort of...

I've had people when I've been walking back shouting

various sort of usual words that you call people that are gay, really.

I think that's important that I make sure that

I let the investigating officer dealing with that know

that there's issues going on cos obviously I think it's connected.

Yeah, it does make you worry a bit more.

As well as gathering information that can help with an investigation,

a key part of Liam's job is to offer reassurance to victims of crime

and to suggest ways to tackle problems in the future.

Really look into CCTV.

Yeah, I will definitely look at that more seriously now.

Yeah, cos it will give you peace of mind

and, as I say, it can protect your property

and hopefully deter any further problems and any further incidents.

And in the meantime, any further problems,

any suspicious persons knocking around that you think,

"I'm not happy with what they're doing,"

just report it, log it into us.

Have you got any questions you'd like to ask?

Anything you're a bit unsure of?

No, I think that's pretty much covered it, yeah.

-No, it has made me feel better.

-Good.

The visit will prove to have been a success.

Following the attacks, police patrols in the area were stepped up

and the woman has not suffered any further incident since.

-All right.

-Thanks a lot, cheers.

-Thank you very much.

-Thank you.

-Take care.

-See you.

The pursuit of the body beautiful has driven thousands of people

in the UK to use muscle building steroids every year.

Whilst fitness enthusiasts have warned of the many dangers,

the black market in these illegal pharmaceuticals is thriving,

worth millions of pounds each year.

With a search warrant for illegal substances to execute,

Sergeant Mick Stevenson fills in his team.

Right, guys, this morning's job then.

The target has been on the police's radar for some time.

We'll give him chance to come and open the door.

If he's going to mess around with us then the door will go in

and with that in mind, I'll just ask Andy and Dave

if you'll kit up just in case we need to do the door.

But, as I say, there's no rush and once we arrive

we'll assess which one we think is going to be easiest

if we have to do a door, back or front.

Just keep your eye open for cash and they want electronic devices

including laptops, PCs and obviously mobile phones,

they all want seizing.

It's not going to be easily disposable.

Today's warrant covers the suspect's house

and a premises possibly associated with him,

as there's reason to believe both places may be home

to possible illegal substances.

I'm going to send four staff but with two vans.

We don't know whether he's going to be home, at work or in-between.

Despatching police to each location,

Mick leads the team going directly to the man's house.

Normally, police waste no time breaking down a locked door

as it's essential to avoid any evidence being destroyed

before the police can seize it.

But, with the kinds of drugs suspected here,

that's not a worry Mick has.

He knocks, hoping a less damaging entry can be made.

An upstairs curtain twitch confirms someone's home.

Looks like the big red key might not be needed after all.

Thank you.

-You just stay down here, yeah?

-Yep.

Just explain to you that we've executed a warrant

-under the misuse of drugs act.

-BLEEP.

-OK?

What I'll ask you to do is just stay down here in this room

until we've concluded the search or until we're at the point

where we might be taking further action, that remains to be seen.

As the search gets underway,

Mick asks for the keys to the other premises.

Hopefully they'll be no need to break the other door either.

-What's that? The internal door?

-Yeah.

Steroids and other hormone-based substances are immediately found

at the man's home.

What we've got there is five of the...

I think they're 5ml ampoules of testosterone, which is a steroid.

And then there's the box containing...

..tablets which are also some form of steroid or supplement.

Although it's not illegal to be in possession of steroids,

it's a criminal offence to possess or import with intent to supply

these kinds of class C drugs.

Doing so can lead to a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

Unprescribed supplies of the anti-anxiety medication diazepam

are found, together with steroids.

These so-called tranqs or downers

provide enough evidence for the police to arrest the man.

Listen to what I say, OK?

You're under arrest on suspicion of possession of a controlled drug

-so you don't have to say anything but it may harm your...

-BLEEP.

..later rely on in court.

Anything you do say may be given in evidence, OK?

With the suspect off to the station to be booked in,

the team can really get to grips with searching the house.

Later, we learn what the other property might be hiding.

Still to come,

some late night revellers get given their marching orders

by the neighbourhood team.

You have to leave the town centre,

the whole of Bridlington immediately otherwise you will be arrested.

And a moped menace tries to give the police the run-around.

When the good weather arrives, the pubs and sun spots become

a magnet for people looking to enjoy a drink in the sunshine.

But there'll always be those looking to have a few too many

at the pub or break the no drinking zone rule in the city centres.

To tackle the problem,

the neighbourhood team can use section 27 banning orders

which bar people from an area for 48 hours

if they're causing anti-social behaviour.

A lot of people get drunk, they can't handle their alcohol

and it only takes one funny look from across the street

and you've got a full fight breaking out.

The police and the people who own the pubs have done a lot of work

in making sure the city's safe for anybody to go out in the evenings.

And today the team are out in force with red cards

in their pockets should any merrymakers step out of line.

The spring sunshine's come out and with the spring sunshine

we've brought along our spring drinkers in the different types.

We've got the pub drinkers who've had a bit too much,

we've got the street drinkers...

It changes what we do on a daily basis.

Sun tends to bring drink, alcohol

and all the related things that come with that.

Reports are coming through of a man who may be on the wrong side

of a few sunshine pints.

We've got a male that I believe they've ejected due to his behaviour

and he's refusing to leave the area.

But, as Paul heads off,

there's a spot of archaeological protection work

that needs doing first.

But I'm going to go be a bit of a killjoy unfortunately.

Guys, I know you're not causing a massive problem

but can I ask you to come this side of the barriers?

Just the bricks there are part of the old city wall

and if they're damaged they basically can't be replaced

and the council obviously have a very valid issue with them being damaged.

Yeah, all of this, no problem.

It's just the old bricks, they're hundreds and hundreds of years old

and we can't replace them, OK?

Cheers, guys.

I think it's parkour, they call it,

which is kind of movement, a quick movement

over objects and things in urban settings.

It's only something I became aware of a few years ago.

They're not out to cause trouble,

they just want to be doing something that they enjoy doing

and if you ask them not to do it in a certain area or something,

they're usually quite amiable about it.

Arriving at the bar, Paul discovers the ruckus

and the dodgy drinker is still going.

Yeah, I believe this male's causing problems at William Wilberforce's

and continuing to do so. Can we have a patrol down here?

-BLEEP.

-Go on, then, off you go.

Off you go.

The man's ejected and, though the doorman's adamant

the customer's no longer welcome,

the message is struggling to get through.

-Come on, pal.

-Off you go.

Come on, they don't want you, let's go over here. Don't take hold of me.

-Yeah, fair enough.

-Let's go over here, then.

-Right, you don't need

-your hand there, do you?

-You let go of me and we'll go over here.

-He's asking you to leave and it finishes there.

-I know my rights.

-Right.

-Why's your hand there?

And I'm saying you don't need to go back in there

-so we're going over there.

-Are you butters or what?

-What?

-Are you butters or what?

-Am I butters? Who?

As the man turns offensive, Paul steps in to head off trouble.

Right, mate, come over here, please.

Thank you very much.

Right, OK, what's your details, mate?

My details are 115.

-A surname and a first name?

-115.

I want a surname and a first name, please.

-You don't need my surname and first name.

-Well, I'm asking you for it.

-You really don't, right?

-So you're refusing details?

You're having a laugh cos I study law so we'll see in a minute.

Right, because of your behaviour, I'm requesting your details.

I believe you're acting in an anti-social manner,

-I'm requesting your details.

-BLEEP.

Right, watch your language, please.

-All right, come and speak to me.

-Why are you touching me?

-Why are you touching me?

-Come and speak to me over here.

On more time and you'll go with him, all right?

I'm doing you a favour now, so shut it and listen.

Rather than arrest the man, police issue him with a section 27,

banning him from the area for the next 48 hours.

As you can see, he wasn't being very cooperative.

Rather than locking somebody up for being drunk and disorderly

or another offence, they can get them out of the area

because they've got too much drink in them, hopefully they'll

calm down and the whole situation is kind of cooled off.

With alcohol affecting people in different ways,

you never know what or who you might have on your hands

when the serious drinking gets under way.

Paul shares a joke with these happy drinkers

but he's got bad news for a young man

who's enjoying a tin in the street.

Can I have your alcohol, please?

No, mate, you can't drink in the city centre anywhere.

If I sup it all before a minute, can I do that?

You can but I'll give you a £60 ticket for the pleasure.

What for?

For drinking in an undesignated area when you've been told not to.

-Let me sup half of it and I'll bin it then.

-No.

-OK? The whole city centre, no drinking.

-BLEEP.

OK, if you've got any more,

keep it in your bags or you'll get it all taken off you.

We're trying to stop disorder before it starts

and if we've got people drinking on the streets

it not only shows a negative image of the city centre,

it can breed anti-social behaviour later on in the day

and it only means that officers later on in the evening

are going to have to deal with it when I've gone off duty.

Executing a double search warrant,

police have found a collection of controlled drugs...

Thank you.

..including diazepam and testosterone.

It's time for the house search to get serious...

..and a second team to visit another premises.

Amongst the legit body building substances,

energy bars and protein powder shakes,

the Neighbourhood Team immediately uncover items

that definitely don't belong.

Vials.

Testosterone.

But not all the items found can be identified.

That's going to need expert investigation.

There's no labels on the bottle

so it will have to be sent off for testing.

There's 15 of those.

Back at the house the search has uncovered

a huge variety of controlled substances,

and the living room carpet looks more like a chemist counter

than a private home.

Recent legislation means it's no longer legal to buy these

steroids online and so obtaining such drugs means physically

bringing them in from other countries

where they can still be bought over the counter.

But importing them into the country to sell on remains illegal.

BLEEP.

-BLEEP. BLEEP.

-Yeah.

-It looks like there they've got a year visa.

Within the kitchen there were a couple of carrier bags that

when we walked in and looked around without doing any searching,

I looked across and just thought,

"There's a couple of bags full of food."

And actually what we had in there were many different

types of steroids and tablets and powders.

It looked as though they'd been put into bags ready for delivery,

cos there's all different types in each individual bag.

Meticulously collating all the various substances

turns the kitchen table into a DIY pharmacy.

And bagging up the evidence requires all hands on deck.

As long as body builders

and gym enthusiasts are prepared to break the law

in pursuit of their dream physique,

supplies of testosterone and other steroids will have a market.

With no corner left unexplored, large quantities of cash

and receipts are discovered.

Payment receipts.

Where it looks like cash amounts have been paid

into certain bank accounts.

The vast quantities of evidence are now all bagged and marked.

Their contents will be tested to prove that they are steroids.

This is a major haul for the team

and the high visibility nature of these kinds of raids

sends a reassuring message to the public that the police

are working around the clock to make communities a better place.

The suspect is currently awaiting trial

for their part in the incident.

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.

For some football supporters, watching your team can involve

getting on the wrong side of a few too many pints,

win, lose or draw.

But, for one group of away supporters,

the fun has left them high and dry in Bridlington

as they've ended up missing their coach home.

Constable Nikki Cammis has already met them once this evening

and has had a few words, but they're going nowhere fast

and when she spots them a second time

it's time to make things crystal clear.

Right, your girlfriend isn't picking you up.

She made that clear to me, first of all.

I've had reports of you throwing glass bottles on the seafront.

-What's that about?

-That's bollocks.

There's CCTV. Let me talk. There is CCTV all over this town.

You're going to be issued with a Section 27 Dispersal Notice.

Which is going to tell you to leave the town centre.

And if you fail to do that you'll be under arrest. OK?

You have to leave the town centre. The whole of Bridlington immediately.

-OK.

-Otherwise you will be arrested.

-Can she come and get me?

That's going to take her an hour.

-So where are you going to go for an hour?

-I'll wait for her.

-Where?

I'll just walk out of the centre now.

With your mates? Without throwing bottles at people?

-Why can't you just get a taxi?

-Because the taxi won't take us.

-I will get you a taxi.

-If you get a taxi I'll pay for it. All right.

Nikki turns into a transport captain to help the lads avoid

breaching their Section 27 Dispersal Orders.

Some of the local pubs have shouted on the radio that they're being

a bit of a pest and a bit of a problem.

Want them out of the area as quick as possible.

I rang a local taxi firm and they're going to come and collect them.

and take them back to Pocklington ASAP.

That way we don't have to arrest them,

they don't get into trouble and everyone's happy.

Hiya, it's the police calling. Do you know how long it will be?

Is there any chance you can have it any earlier?

So quarter to one outside the Harbour Lights?

That's brilliant. I appreciate that.

Don't get me wrong, I need them out of the way.

And she's not the only woman who will be having words

with this young man tonight.

He has to face his girlfriend who I have already spoken

to on the telephone who is not happy with him.

I'm sure she will give him a harder time than I ever would.

Right, get in the taxi. Have you got some money to pay him?

They have got money to pay you. They're fine.

They're not causing any problems. They missed their football bus.

Come on, lads. Not you in the front. You, the sensible one, in the front.

-BLEEP.

-Get in.

Bye!

Be good.

Morning, noon or night, neighbourhood police teams

have plenty of ways to nip alcohol-fuelled

antisocial behaviour in the bud.

Mopeds are a nippy way to get about town for most people who own them.

But for others they're a noisy toy that gets ridden

with no heed for the rules of the road or care for pedestrians.

Today, over in Southcoates patrolling the streets,

PCSO Martin Wood is on the lookout for a vehicle

taking illegal off-road shortcuts.

A scooter driver has been spotted riding where he shouldn't

and Martin has got an idea where he might be now.

This track runs the whole length of Heddon Road.

So there's several exits which you can come out of. This is one of them.

HORN HONKS

Glimpsing the culprit on a prohibited pathway,

Martin shifts gear...

..aiming to head the driver off at the next exit.

But he arrives moments too late and the scooter's gone.

Turning the next corner, the vehicle comes back into view

and the chase is on again.

When the driver stops to let off his pillion passenger,

Martin has the perfect opportunity to nab him.

Now then, you all right?

-I'm all right.

-How you doing?

You've just come down the cycle track on your motorbike, haven't you?

-Down drain bit?

-Yeah. You can't ride your bike down there.

Got your licence on you and stuff?

I take it everything's going to be above board?

-Oh, no, no.

-Lovely jubbly.

-No, it's taxed and MOT'd anyway.

-Fantastic.

There's my licence anyway.

Check it out.

I'll give you your ID back there. And your V5 slip.

Hello, PNC. It's 7841. I'm on Belmont Street in Hull.

Can you do me a personal vehicle check, please?

Though the man's been breaking the highway code,

he's confident his licence and registration are above board.

All your documents check out.

The man acknowledges his antisocial driving

as Martin issues him with a Section 59 warning.

Basically, what I'm going to be dealing with you for

is driving on common land or moorland

which is not part of the road or a footpath, bridleway contrary

to Section 34 of the Road Traffic Act 1988. OK?

It's also covered by driving in a careless or inconsiderate

manner under Section 3 of the Road Traffic act which is

because you're on a place you shouldn't be.

And obviously we get a lot of complaints from residents

which keep coming up and down there. Dog walkers, people on pushbikes

and they don't want a motorbike riding towards them.

OK?

As I say, it's recorded on PNC for a matter of 12 months.

And if you get stopped and checked again it will ping up.

If you or your bike is seen being driven in an antisocial manner,

say on the track again, within that 12 months

and you get stopped your bike can be seized under Section 59, OK?

Very much a yellow card at this stage,

it serves to encourage drivers to think twice before repeat

offending as next time the vehicle can be confiscated and even crushed.

The Section 59 warnings which we use are good for us

to deal with incidents like this because it's great for the community

because we can educate the people which means we're not

penalising them all the time and they know that they've got

that chance to make themselves better

and we're not always the bad guys, basically.

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

shoplifters, no two jobs are the same for the Neighbourhood Teams.

But cracking down on all kinds of crimes

and convicting criminals is the only way the scheme will stay on track,

because local people demand results.

As we've seen in this episode,

the Neighbourhood Team strikes hard and fast.

These raids are often a direct response

to tip-offs from the public.

Over in Beverley, the team are about to visit the house

that's been the scene to some interesting comings and goings

that suggests the occupant has green fingers.

The question is will the police once again hit the jackpot,

or will the householder be coming up smelling of roses?

We're off to a report from a resident there that there may be somebody

growing a little tiny cannabis factory there.

So we're going to just go and have a quick look, give it a knock

and see where we go.

Cannabis farming behind the closed doors of private homes

is taken very seriously,

and the officers waste no time in hitting the road.

Closing in on the target address, they pass a woman carrying potting

trays and garden shelves who seems to be heading in the same direction.

Could she be the suspect farmer?

There's no whiff of cannabis in the air,

but Andy's experienced nose is telling him

to play this one cool until all has been revealed.

-I'm coming to see you.

-Me?

-Andy White, the policeman.

-Keen gardener?

-Yeah.

-What it is, somebody's anonymously rang in.

-Oh! I expected.

You garden looks lovely at the front here.

Do you mind, so we can put it to bed?

-And have a look?

-I mind cameras but not you.

Do you mind me coming in?

-No!

-Lovely. Thank you.

As Andy steps across the threshold,

the team waiting outside hear his reaction and fear the worst.

Oh, hell! You've got lots of plants.

Lots of plants. I couldn't just look in the other rooms while I'm here?

-Help yourself.

-Thank you very much.

Oh, yeah. I see. Lots of plants. Lots of plants.

-And do you sell these?

-I'm going to.

-You're going to.

Very good.

You've got every plant but a cannabis plant.

-I'm so sorry.

-It's no probs.

LAUGHTER

With her vast range of potted plants the woman is more eager

to score highly at college than score drugs.

Sharing gardening gossip, Andy's delighted to discover

there's a legitimate reason to explain the intel.

I had a lemon plant. I used to put it in a conservatory.

I had it for a while and it never looked like that.

-Thanks for being so understanding.

-That's fine.

She was very kind and let us in the house.

There's plants growing in various rooms of all types and sorts.

In fact, the lady expected she'd get a call from the police

because of the lamps in the bedrooms.

We've had a look round the back of the house

and the garden just goes on for ever with plants.

We literally now can report back to the local council

and say there's nothing to worry about, no problems.

And thank you very much.

Dahlias, not drugs. Camellias, not cannabis.

This is one plant nursery neighbourhood police officers

are delighted to welcome.