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This time on Police 24/7...

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Crime Scene Investigator Joey is looking for clues.

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I don't see how you can examine a crime scene

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if you are not getting into that mindset of that criminal.

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It's a proud day for the Chief Constable.

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APPLAUSE

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And new recruit Stacey gets a grilling

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on her first day in uniform.

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I hope she's got a boyfriend cos she'll make a lovely little wife,

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-I'm sure.

-I might find my Prince Charming.

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This is a week in the life of the largest police force in Wales.

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Seven days of action with the cops on the street

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and the criminals that they try to beat.

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This is Police 24/7.

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The Gurnos Estate in Merthyr Tydfil.

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On our right there is the Gurnos Social Club.

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And neighbourhood police officer Steve Pace

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is off to check on a car that's been bothering some local residents.

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CHILDREN CHATTER

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KNOCKING ON WINDOW

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-Hello?

-All right, bud? How are you?

-All right.

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-Is this your car, is it?

-Yes.

-It is?

-Yes.

-You've got...

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-Who's is that in the back?

-That's my bed.

-Is it?

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What's your full name, then? INAUDIBLE.

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-Where are you living to at the moment?

-In here.

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-Is it?

-Yeah.

-So NFA at the moment?

-NFA, in the car.

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David is currently camping out in his car.

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It's parked on the public highway,

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so PC Pace needs to carry out some vehicle checks.

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Yeah, that's received. Is that all? Over.

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Well, you can't leave it on a public place with no MOT.

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-CHILDREN SHOUT And with no insurance.

-Don't need it.

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HE SPEAKS QUICKLY, VOICE MUFFLED

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That's his home.

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It's not up to me. It reflects the law.

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He's got no insurance and no MOT.

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'So I'm going to get it recovered.'

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It looks like David's going to lose his temporary home.

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Well, people have been telling me it's been there days.

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It's only been there this morning!

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That's my car. It's the only thing I've got!

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I bought that genuine and it was in that drive there

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and I've put it over there.

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The car will be impounded at a local garage.

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And David's not happy.

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Take it.

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-Take it.

-All right, Dai.

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Never mind, "All right, Dai"! I'm going to take that for an MOT.

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You're making me...

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I'm not making you do anything!

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Yeah, you being funny. You took my keys and said you'd give them back.

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I did give you your house keys and whatever else was back on there.

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-No, my car keys back!

-All right. All right, David.

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I've been tidy.

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'The gentleman has got a dislike for me now,

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'so I'll stand back while my colleagues talk to him.'

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Unfortunately, I don't have a solution to him having no home.

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'Just a bit sad, really.

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'But you've got to treat everybody the same.'

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Steve Pace joined South Wales Police after 24 years in the RAF.

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He's now starting to feel quite at home on the Gurnos Estate.

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It reminds me of where I grew up.

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I come from a town in Harlow...

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..um, in Essex.

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So I think I can kind of relate to a lot of the people I deal with here,

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because I had a similar upbringing, um,

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funded by the state, on benefits, living in social housing.

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South Wales Police protects over one million people.

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And its HQ is in Bridgend.

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Reporting for duty this morning is the man at the top,

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Chief Constable Peter Vaughan.

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-Good morning. How are you?

-Good, thanks. You OK?

-Yeah, not bad.

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-Good.

-You don't mind the cameras?

-No, I was born to be on camera, sir.

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-Aw, I always knew it.

-Yeah!

-THEY LAUGH

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The chief started out with the force 30 years ago.

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I'm really proud of that. I'm one of the few people in the country

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that's done every rank within South Wales Police.

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445, my original number, when I got posted to the Rhondda,

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um, Sergeant, Inspector,

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Chief Inspector, and underneath it is where I worked

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and it's all across the force area.

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This morning, Mr Vaughan is getting ready for a very important ceremony.

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My wife thought it was a fantastic idea to, er, to get a cat,

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which turned into two cats, um,

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which was, again, another fantastic idea

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until she decided she wanted white cats.

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So, um...

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I end up with a bit of Oscar and Bella on me wherever I go now.

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Today, 70 Police Community Support Officers, PCSOs,

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are taking part in their passing out ceremony

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to mark the end of their training.

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PCSOs, they haven't been with us that long. 2002.

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Um, and almost straightaway, they got universal acceptance

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and people within each of the communities have grown to love them.

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They're now an essential part

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of the way that we police our neighbourhoods.

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Congratulations, llongyfarchiadau,

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and the best of luck for the next phase of your careers.

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Thank you very much indeed.

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First up is Stacey Bolton.

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She'll be posted to the same area

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where the chief constable himself started out.

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Well done.

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-Congratulations.

-Thank you.

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-Are they sending you to Maerdy?

-Yeah.

-Good.

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-I've had all the practice in Ton Pentre.

-Yeah, yeah.

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Well, I did that. I started in Ton Pentre

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-and then went to Ferndale and Maerdy to work.

-Ah!

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-So it's, um...

-Following in your footsteps.

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There we are. There's a chance. THEY LAUGH

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The lovely thing about the police service is,

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if you've got the skills and ability, you'll get on.

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Yeah, we could have met the next chief constable...

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Not the next chief constable of South Wales Police,

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but in a few years' time.

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South Wales Police, what's your emergency?

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This is the emergency line. You've rung 999. Can I help you?

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The Public Service Centre at Bridgend HQ

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takes nearly 2,000 calls for help each day.

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Right, who's got a knife?

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Who is armed with a knife, please?

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350 staff work here 24/7.

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Did you say they've smeared excrement on the car?

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'You get some strange calls.'

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You get some serious calls

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and you get some light-hearted calls as well, you know.

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Do you actually know if the cow is, er, still alive or if it's dead?

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Just to make you aware, units are diverted in relation to this.

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The task incident...

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Nicole Johns has spent the past 17 years working as a call operator.

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November Lima 3-0. 3-0, over.

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Today, she's assisting a response team in Merthyr,

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where there's been a burglary and the suspects are on the run.

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WL to all units, observation's requested for an orange Focus.

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It's just left Robertstown heading towards Swansea Road in Merthyr.

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Allegation is stolen items in the vehicle.

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Any unit can respond? Over.

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November Lima 1-0, WL.

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Sergeant Tim Morgan and PC Kelly Pugh

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are now on the hunt for the wanted car.

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1-0, what's the last position, please, it was sighted?

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It's just been sighted A465 eastbound towards the roundabout.

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Believed to have stolen goods in the vehicle. Over.

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Yeah, Roger, we're coming up the A470 northbound,

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so we'll make it a search

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when we turn right onto the Heads of Valleys now.

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November Tango 4-6, are you able to try and catch it up?

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Don't engage in a pursuit of it.

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Just round the corner.

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With the assistance of another unit, the vehicle has been tracked down.

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Get one in the, um... Get one in the van.

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Come with me.

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The men are suspected of the theft of two laptop computers.

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For information, this male has previously

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tried to bite an officer upon arrest.

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Yes, yes, we're all in order.

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Three males just being searched now. Stand by. Over.

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Sergeant Morgan's priority now is to find the stolen laptops.

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But Nicole's job is done.

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It was good, because we didn't have a lot to go on,

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just an orange Focus and a partial registration,

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so it was a bit of a needle in a haystack, really,

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but we had a lot of officers coming from different locations,

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a traffic unit and also a lot of neighbourhood units

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that knew the male responsible, so they knew where he might be going,

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so they went in from each angle and they did find him.

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The hunt for the laptops continues.

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It's the first day in her new role for rookie PCSO Stacey Bolton.

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-Based in the Rhondda...

-HORN TOOTS

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Morning!

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..her mentor for the next eight weeks is PCSO Lee Clark.

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So this is Maerdy, Stace. Have you, er, been here before at all?

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-I came up here briefly this morning, when I got lost on my way in.

-Oh!

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-And I had to turn round and come back.

-How far did you go?

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I got to just about the corner and I had to turn round.

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It's the best place to work.

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The people here are fantastic, in fairness, they really are.

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Stacey's new job is

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all about engaging with the community on the front line.

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What better way than meeting with the local women at Maerdy Fat Club?

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-So this is Stacey.

-Hello!

-WOMEN: Hello.

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Stacey's up here now with me for eight weeks, um, tutoring with me.

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Lee, what's the priorities in Maerdy?

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We've got speeding, or speed reduction, in Maerdy,

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cos we've done quite a few operations

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on the main road with the speed camera.

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We've also got off-road vehicles so we'll be up there patrolling.

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Each month, Lee holds his police meeting

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and also demonstrates how to cook a healthy meal.

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I heard we were doing some cooking. I didn't think it'd be quite so...

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-hands-on!

-SHE LAUGHS

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It might seem unusual, but projects like this

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are seen as an important part of community policing.

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It's bringing back the village bobby, basically.

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And that's great, you know, when you see a presence in the village.

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It's lovely! Nice and healthy and lovely.

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And we've got a big piece too. THEY LAUGH

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Now the healthy burgers have been cooked,

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it's Stacey's turn for a grilling.

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Well, I hope she's got a boyfriend,

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cos she'd make a lovely little wife, I'm sure.

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I haven't, actually, I live on my own.

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-ALL: Aw!

-It's quite sad.

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I might find my Prince Charming.

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I'll have to keep kissing a few frogs, I think.

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-Where are you from, then, Stace?

-Um, I live in South Wales,

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but I'm originally from Canterbury in Kent,

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so the bottom end of England.

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-Do you think they're friendly in the valleys?

-They're much friendlier.

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I've made Wales my adopted home,

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so, as long as everyone will keep having me,

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I can't imagine I'll ever move back.

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-I'm sure everybody will like you as well in Maerdy.

-Aw, thank you.

-Yeah!

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SHE LAUGHS

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Right, can we have a round of applause for Lee and Stacey, please?

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CHEERING

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Come every week now, Stace! STACEY GIGGLES

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Stacey and Lee are working closely with their communities...

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-I'll come every week if you want.

-Oh, there we are!

-Yeah.

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..something Chief Constable Peter Vaughan strongly believes in.

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Growing up in Aberfan,

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he was influenced by an iconic image of the mining disaster,

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where policing touched people's lives.

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That says, to me, a lot about policing, you know.

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We're not just crime-fighters,

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we're there for a whole host of other reasons

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and, er, I suppose that captures, um...

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a heck a lot of the history of South Wales Police, actually, with...

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with the way that we like to be part of the communities,

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helping to keep them safe, helping to protect them,

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and sort of trying to bind them together as well,

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so, yeah, a hugely significant picture.

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A huge part of my personal history

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and anyone that was ever brought up in that community.

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At Merthyr Tydfil station,

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Sergeant Tim Morgan has had a result with the earlier computer theft.

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So these are the, er, two laptops.

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These will be taken now and bagged up as exhibits.

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We'll be retaining them for fingerprints

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and then, they'll be kept for interview.

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Jonathan Hitchings will now be booked into custody

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for questioning about the crime.

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Go on, tell me how you got it, then.

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Laptop, big laptop, little laptop.

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Wallet, opened up, took the money out, wallet back, back out.

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It's like I'm going stupid, man!

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What I've done, I feel sorry, I wish I hadn't...done it.

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-But it's too late now.

-Hm.

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If we hadn't retrieved them, they probably would've been gone

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and a lot of the people involved in this kind of offence,

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well, they spend that money on drugs

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and they will then be in a position where

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they're back to square one, almost, and they have to go out

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and commit another burglary in order to feed that drug habit.

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Jonathan pleaded guilty to the crime.

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He is currently serving a two-year prison sentence.

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Tackling burglary crime is a high priority for South Wales Police.

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And helping to catch the culprits

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is Crime Scene Investigator Joey Giddings.

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I tend to apply polish every other day

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and then the intervening days, I just give them a quick buff.

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Cos we work for the public service, public image is very important

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and I think that should extend to boots as well.

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There we are. Nice, shiny boots. I'm happy with those.

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CSI Giddings is on his way to his next case,

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and when it comes to finding his way around,

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he prefers more traditional methods.

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I don't do sat-navs. I'm, er, old-school. Map book all the way.

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You can't go wrong with an A-Z,

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especially if you're a scout and you know how to navigate.

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That's what gets me around the city.

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So, people of Cardiff, that's what gets me to where you live.

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Joey's been tasked to find clues at this dwelling burglary.

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What I'm doing is applying a magnetic powder,

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with a little magnet in the pen, like this, picks up the powder

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and then we just apply it like this.

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As a CSI, I don't see how you can examine a crime scene

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if you are not getting into that mindset of that criminal.

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So, as a CSI, I'm looking at this thinking,

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"Yeah, they've definitely touched the door handle, but they might

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"have touched one of these parts as they're leaving, subconsciously."

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It's not long before some crucial evidence is found.

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Right away, I've got a fingerprint in this area here.

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I do see fingerprints wherever I go and...

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it gets quite annoying.

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I sometimes think, "Gosh, isn't that a beautiful shoe print?"

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That's my life.

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But I wouldn't change it.

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With the samples gathered,

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it's time to get them processed back at the laboratory.

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LOUD BANG Police! Police! Get down!

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-Here we go.

-Can we check the, er...?

-Jason, is it?

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Check the two sofas. Make sure you've got gloves on.

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In Merthyr Tydfil, PC Pace and Sergeant Daly are on a drugs raid.

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Jason, I'll search you, all right?

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-Have you got anything on you?

-Nothing.

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-No sharps?

-No.

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-No green?

-No.

-No powder?

-No.

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Right, you understand we've got a warrant

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-issued by the courts to search?

-Yes.

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People hide drugs in the strangest of places.

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This endoscope camera assists the team with the search

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into all the nooks and crannies.

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This was obviously a fireplace at one time.

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No, there's nothing obvious this far under the floor.

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Officers have, er, also found what's believed to be cannabis resin.

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Which will be sent for forensics and see where we go from there.

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We found some items which I believe are controlled substances.

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Um, cannabis leaf in the grinder.

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Some I believe to be cannabis resin.

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And questions on the bags with white powder.

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So, the time now I make it 15:39. All right, Jason,

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you're under arrest for possession of a controlled substance.

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All right, Jase.

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At the station, Jason will be taken into custody.

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Take a stand on the yellow square for me, please, Jason.

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My colleague's searching you now for any property you've got on you

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and then, I'm going to carry out the booking in procedure, all right?

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Although he was only found with a small amount of cannabis,

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officer Steve Pace is pleased with the result.

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'It makes people wary.'

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They've always got to think, "When are the police coming for me?"

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If we never did warrants, or didn't act on information,

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it wouldn't send that message out.

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But more than that, it, um, reassures the public

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that we will take action.

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-If you need anything, just press that buzzer.

-Right, cheers.

-Cheers.

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Jason was later cautioned for possession of a Class B substance.

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The face of the force may be changing,

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but for Chief Constable Peter Vaughan,

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policing is still a vocation.

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I didn't join South Wales Police to be the chief constable,

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I joined South Wales Police to be a police officer and I'm...

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I'm a frustrated front-line police officer, I think,

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and I think that drives the family mad.

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As I said, I'm a frustrated cop, so I do like, um...

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putting on my uniform and, um,

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sticking my nose into what's going on and becoming involved,

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and I think the vast majority of us are exactly like that.

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As well as developing new staff,

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the chief is also overseeing some big changes.

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In Merthyr Tydfil,

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a new multi-million pound custody suite is under construction.

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-Ian, how are you?

-Mr Vaughan, how are you?

-Very good.

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-Nice to see you.

-Morning, sir.

-Clare, how are you?

-OK.

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-Can we go?

-Yeah, shall we make our way onto site, sir?

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This new 42-cell unit will eventually hold detainees

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from all over the Rhondda valleys and Merthyr Tydfil.

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-Right, shall we take a look at...

-Yeah.

-..some of the custody cells?

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The accommodation.

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Where would the bed be, then?

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-In this corner.

-Bed here?

-Yeah.

-Toilet over there?

-Yeah.

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-The toilet goes in the corner there.

-Yeah.

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We're going to have a 360-degree view of the cell.

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If we need to speak to the detainee, or they need to speak to us,

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they can press a button straight to the custody...

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-Obviously, they'd be monitored from the custody desk anyway.

-Yeah.

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This building is the last piece of the jigsaw

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in Mr Vaughan's custody reorganisation plan.

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We had seven cell complexes across the whole of the South Wales area.

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The economy is getting tighter, so we've got to consolidate into four,

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so with Bridgend, Merthyr, Cardiff and Swansea's complete,

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that will be the four cell complexes we've had,

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so, hopefully, the work here is done, as they say, yeah.

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Lovely view of Merthyr.

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-We needn't worry about pictures!

-Not here.

-Look at the scenery.

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-The pictures are in the windows.

-Exactly.

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At Bridgend HQ,

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the scientific investigation unit is a state-of-the-art crime lab.

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Thousands of samples are processed each week

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by a team of specialist technicians.

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CSI Joey has arrived with his precious print from the burglary.

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-Yo, mate, as discussed.

-Oh, thanks very much.

-Cheers. Have fun.

-Cheers.

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It's down to fingerprint expert Alan Morris

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to search his database for a possible match.

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Looking at the mark I've got,

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a potential sequence of three fingers here.

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Two of them look like smudges,

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but you can still tell that they're part of a potential sequence.

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I've told the system it's either the right four,

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cos it falls into that configuration,

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or the left ring, which is a similar configuration.

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Once Alan has determined which fingers are involved,

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he uses a computer programme to analyse the print.

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I'm just marking the characteristics which I can see in the impressions.

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What the computer sees are these characteristics in this arrangement,

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and then it searches them against all the marks

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with these characteristics in these positions.

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The computer itself doesn't see what I see. Just looking at these.

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If the computer throws up some potential matches,

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the final decision can only be made with the human eye.

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Sometimes, you could be looking at a mark, or marks, for hours,

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to be able to just focus on that.

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Not everyone could sit here and look at black-and-white lines all day.

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That's an identification there.

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Results like that make it all worthwhile.

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ALAN LAUGHS

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Teamwork. It is! Teamwork makes the dream work.

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-Joey's happy.

-I'm smiling!

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OTHERS APPLAUD Thank you. Cheers, thank you all.

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You all do wonderful work in here. Don't forget.

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As night falls, the volume of calls in the Public Service Centre rises.

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'They're on the A465, coming from Merthyr to Neath,

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'and it is a dog's been run over. It's in pitch black

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'in the middle of nowhere, it's on its own.

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'It's still alive and I need someone here.'

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Nicole Johns needs to task this emergency

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to the nearest response team.

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I've got a dog seriously injured. That incident - 1051.

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Sergeant Tim Morgan and PC Kelly Pugh are en route.

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SIREN WAILS

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I think the concern at the moment is, obviously,

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the fact that it's still in the carriageway and might be

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causing an obstruction to vehicles coming in the other direction.

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It's immediately obvious that the dog is seriously injured,

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which is why the people who found the animal called 999.

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-What actually happened?

-Car drove down...

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-Yeah?

-..high speed, clipped the dog...

-OK.

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-We were about two or three cars behind.

-OK.

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So you were following behind? You didn't see the vehicle

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-or get a registration or anything like that?

-No.

-No.

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We were behind it so we turned around and came back, that's all.

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Cos we've all got dogs, so you don't want to see that.

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OK, well, thanks for stopping. and thanks very much with your help.

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I appreciate it. Thank you.

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1-5, um, this animal is, um, still alive, obviously seriously injured.

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Have you got the RSPCA or someone we can call out?

0:23:440:23:47

Inspector?

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I've got a seriously injured dog on the A465,

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officers asking for advice on who we can call out?

0:23:520:23:55

WOMAN: Try the RSPCA.

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-Ssh, ssh, ssh. OK, right...

-He's not a light dog, is he?

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The team need to get the dog to a vet, fast.

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And the nearest out-of-hours surgery is over 15 miles away.

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Stand by. We're just carrying the dog into the van now.

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The more you do and the more things you encounter,

0:24:120:24:15

I don't think you get as stressed.

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I mean, you have periods where you're very, very busy,

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and your adrenaline goes, but...

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I don't tend to get very stressed any more.

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I think he's got a lot of internal injuries, so whether he'll make it

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by the time we get to the vet's is very unlikely.

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The only thing we can do now is try to make him

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as comfortable as possible until we get there.

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Ian?

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-That dog was dead on arrival to the vet's.

-OK.

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And they're going to cremate him.

0:24:510:24:54

OK.

0:24:540:24:55

..4½ years now.

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Stacey is finishing her first shift as a PCSO.

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-Are you going to play? You are!

-I'll give it a go.

-There we are.

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-Brilliant.

-Football is not my strong point but I'll give it a go.

0:25:090:25:12

Her mentor, Lee, has roped her into the Tylorstown Youth Football Club,

0:25:140:25:18

which he started to keep the kids off the streets.

0:25:180:25:21

-Come on, Stace!

-I'm trying!

0:25:210:25:24

Stacey!

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Don't use me!

0:25:250:25:27

Oh, yes!

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It's been good, yeah, it's been like a baptism of fire, I think.

0:25:290:25:33

Hit the ground running and, er, I look forward to getting on with it.

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Lee's been all right. He's been a good tutor so far, so...

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It can only get better.

0:25:420:25:43

It's been a really good day, you've done really well.

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Um, we'll have, you know, a few more different things now

0:25:450:25:47

over the next eight weeks. We've got a lot

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to, obviously, cover, um, a few more diverse things,

0:25:490:25:52

but you're doing really well and fair play.

0:25:520:25:54

-Did you enjoy your day?

-Yeah, it's been good.

-Yeah? Fantastic.

0:25:540:25:56

-I look forward to tomorrow.

-Good.

0:25:560:25:59

On the Gurnos Estate,

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neighbourhood police officer Steve Pace is on patrol.

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Is everything all right? Just having a look round the Gurnos.

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-Which is a good thing, I think, innit?

-Yeah.

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-It's a nice place to live, innit?

-Not bad.

0:26:180:26:20

You get your rough spots, your good spots, but I mean...

0:26:200:26:24

-We all look out for each other.

-There's a lot of good spots.

0:26:240:26:27

-We're pretty good around here.

-There are a lot of good spots.

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-And...

-It's the same wherever you go.

-Yeah.

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It is. Well, I like working here and, er,

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I feel safe walking round at night, even when they're not here, so...

0:26:350:26:38

-Yeah.

-All right, see you.

-All the best. Bye.

-See you soon. Bye.

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Everybody is really quite friendly you see walk down the streets...

0:26:430:26:46

DOG BARKS People are happy to...

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come and have a chat on the doorstep and, um,

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if you treat them with respect, then they'll do the same.

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A local word would be being "tidy", which means being, er...

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nice and polite to someone, so, if you're tidy with them,

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they'll be tidy with you.

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Around the corner, a Community Support Officer has stopped a man

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who sells strongly of what he suspects is cannabis.

0:27:100:27:14

PC Pace needs to investigate.

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Hi, Jason. All right?

0:27:160:27:17

And it's Jason, who he arrested earlier.

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-I could smell, like, an aroma of cannabis coming from him.

-Is it?

0:27:200:27:25

-Yeah, have you got any on you?

-No. No.

-100%?

-Guaranteed.

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I really hope you haven't, but I've got to check.

0:27:280:27:30

Check me, there's nothing.

0:27:300:27:32

-We're coppers. We don't trust anyone.

-Carry on.

0:27:320:27:34

All right, so I'm just going to check your pockets, all right?

0:27:350:27:38

-The jacket was in the house.

-All right.

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-Jason, thank you.

-No problem.

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-I'm really glad you haven't got anything on you...

-Don't worry.

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-..because I'd be gutted after last week and think...

-The last time.

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You are there now. All right. Look after yourself.

0:27:530:27:57

I'm pleased for him and it would appear

0:27:570:27:59

that maybe he's learned his lesson.

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Not carrying on being in possession of controlled substances,

0:28:020:28:06

at the moment.

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See you, bud.

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Next time on Police 24/7...

0:28:110:28:14

sniffer dog Naughty Norman is on the trail of something illegal.

0:28:140:28:19

There is a definite strong smell of what you call, er, MCAT.

0:28:190:28:24

It's time to reveal all in custody.

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That one is a garter with a pair of knuckle-dusters.

0:28:270:28:30

Bad girl gone good, innit?

0:28:300:28:33

And neighbourhood officer Debbie's shift goes off with a bang.

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FIREWORK BANGS

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It was just a firework going off above the house.

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