Episode 5 Robbed, Raided, Reunited


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Teams of police are fighting a rise in burglaries across the UK...

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He left his phone.

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My Timberlands have gone. Oh, for God's sake.

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The people that do this are professionals. This is what they do for a living.

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..specialist units working with the latest technology and the community-minded among us...

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Just wondered if you were around, if you heard anything?

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..to track down the thieves...

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Hold it right there! Stop!

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..and make sure they are held to account.

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It's not just our expensive gadgets that are being taken from us.

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They just went in, took what they could and went.

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-It's our cherished heirlooms, too.

-The thing that upset me most was the loss of my mother's engagement ring.

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It's going to take a while to just get used to what's happened and get over it.

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Items that mean the world to us.

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Very upset over it, really.

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But police officers love nothing more than to recover these prized possessions...

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I can confirm it is their sat-nav, so result.

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..and return them to us.

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I didn't expect to see it again.

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To get those items back to people is really fantastic.

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I think the owners might be crying in happy tears.

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The police are amazing. I am forever indebted to them.

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This is Robbed Raided Reunited.

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Thanks very much.

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I never thought I'd see this again.

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I thank them from the bottom of my heart.

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Coming up, police investigate a Christmas burglary at a family home.

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-They've had loads of stuff.

-Oh, for God's sake.

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It's like they've come in and just shopped for their family. All different things have gone.

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Officers in Aberdeen raid a flat on the trail of stolen property.

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-Police!

-These are the guys I wouldn't expect to see cycling about for fitness.

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And I wouldn't expect to see a £1,000 bike in their flat.

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A dramatic discovery by police brings a special delivery for one happy homeowner.

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-Hopefully we've got something for you. It's like Christmas come early.

-I didn't expect to see it again.

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And a famous footballer is reunited with a precious, long-lost gift.

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These items have come from a number of burglaries

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with a number of victims across a very large geographical area.

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Christmas. The season for goodwill, good food and family.

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There's another, far less pleasant Christmas tradition.

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For a few individuals, it's about taking rather than giving.

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It's 5pm in Southend, Essex.

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Police burglary investigator Mark Sawyer is en route

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to a family whose home has been robbed four days before Christmas.

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Received a call from a gentleman who's returned home to discover his rear door has been forced open.

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Horrible time of year for it to happen.

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Ten minutes after the family called 999,

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a police forensic team arrived to examine the house.

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Now, half an hour later, Officer Sawyer takes charge.

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I'm going to be the officer investigating this burglary.

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I think, I'm not sure because I haven't checked everywhere, I think my iPod has gone.

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They've had a go at our Christmas presents here.

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Obviously left that because I presume it's too big. If they're on foot, I don't know, I presume so.

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But there's nothing else that we can see. We've not checked particularly.

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My wife hasn't been in that long so we've not checked everywhere.

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They've had a go at the presents.

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Paul and Sue Hooper returned home from work to find their Christmas presents ransacked.

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And it isn't the first time this has happened.

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-We were burgled 11 years ago, two days before Christmas 11 years ago.

-Really?

-We were wrecked.

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Burglaries tends to rise over Christmas as thieves look to take advantage

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of the dark nights and houses full of expensive presents.

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I just feel shocked again, really. It's not very nice, is it? Especially this time of year.

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Each burglar specialises in how they get in,

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whether that's through the front door, a side window or the rear door.

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So they're looking for a particular type. They're not actually looking at the house as what the contents are,

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but it's how they're going to get in.

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It could be that your house is the first one they've seen

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where it's that particular style of door where they specialise in getting in.

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So it's purely an opportunist.

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-So when was the last time the last person left the house this morning?

-Me.

-It was yourself, yeah?

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-Is that ten past nine?

-About that, yeah.

-Right.

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Until their daughter Charlotte returns to check her bedroom and presents under the tree,

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the full cost of the break-in remains unknown.

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Be quite nice if they give us ten minutes with the burglar once they've been caught.

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Well, there is something that's called restorative justice.

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They have the opportunity to put the victim and the burglar in the same room.

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-On their own?

-Unfortunately not, no.

-I wouldn't think so.

-Not unsupervised, no.

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The next step for Officer Sawyer is to find how the burglars got in.

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-Is that locked, is that closed?

-No, they've undone the bolt there.

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-Definitely bolted. It flaps in the wind otherwise.

-Gained entry through the side gate.

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Once in the rear garden, they've probably got some time then to do whatever they need to do

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to gain entry. On this occasion they've smashed the rear glass.

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They've probably used a small tool that would cut seat belts and smash glass in an emergency.

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It's like a steel hammer, it's very small, that would puncture the glass.

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With forensic tests already complete, the next stage is to make the property secure.

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Burglars, too, are interested in their own security.

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They don't want to be seen. They don't want to be heard. And they don't want to be hurt, either.

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So that's the three sort of things that they like not to happen.

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At last, Paul and Sue's daughter Charlotte returns home.

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Now the family will find out how bad this burglary really is.

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Shall we go and have a look and see? Come upstairs and see.

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Yeah, the drawers in my room. My two watches have gone, both of them.

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My two Tiffany bracelets have gone. My Links bracelet's gone. Cameras have gone.

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-I think my Mulberry bag's gone.

-Your what?

-Mulberry.

-Mulberry bag?

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What about our Uggs? Did you check for our Uggs?

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-They've had my Uggs.

-Grey?

-Yeah.

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A number of Charlotte's most valuable items have been stolen,

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from expensive jewellery to her designer sheepskin boots.

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Charlotte knows exactly what presents were under the tree.

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It's time to find out how ruthless the burglars have been.

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This is my Christmas list of everything that I've bought and wrapped that was under the tree.

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Quite a lot of it I can see that's gone.

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I think there's quite a few presents missing. They've had loads of stuff.

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I imagine they've obviously ripped it, seen what it is and put it in the bag.

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-I noticed under there the big red box.

-Oh, that was yours!

-I can't see anything else.

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Paul's main present to his wife has been stolen and his own Christmas surprise is ruined.

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They've obviously seen your present, Dad!

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-Don't tell me.

-For Paul, there's nothing to laugh about.

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Happy Christmas! You've got one present here.

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The true scale of this break-in is becoming clear.

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I assumed that they'd come in here and just nicked...

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Because it looks like all small stuff. But now that.

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-They'll sell them.

-I've got Timberlands there now.

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I can't believe it. I never even looked.

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-My Timberlands have gone!

-Oh...

-Oh, for God's sake.

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-There, look.

-Timberlands, yeah.

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And this, there's just nothing on it.

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Looks like 10 or 12 shirts gone, I'd say. Oh, I don't know.

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These criminals have treated the family's home like a department store.

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It's like they've come in and just shopped for their family, isn't it? All different things have gone.

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PC Sawyer has a full list of stolen items,

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a crucial step if he's ever to be able to reunite the family with their possessions.

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The rear door has been patched up and the broken glass swept away.

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-Well, I'll let you carry on with your evening.

-Thank you.

-You take care.

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PC Sawyer begins to broaden the investigation,

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starting with speaking to the neighbours.

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-Unfortunately your neighbour during today has been burgled.

-Really?

-Yeah, yeah.

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I was just wondering if someone may have seen or heard anything.

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The smallest detail could crack this case. He tells the neighbours to call him immediately

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if they remember seeing anything significant.

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Thank you very much. Thank you for your time.

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There's a variety of things taken, from clothing, Christmas presents,

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so my personal opinion would be that a number of people involved

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and literally each person would have their own sort of preference as to what they wanted to take.

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Obviously somebody up to no good in the area. So for your own...

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I can see you're part of the neighbourhood watch.

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-We've also got an alarm.

-Oh, you've got an alarm? Oh, right. Excellent.

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-Just make sure you have that on at the right times.

-Yeah, will do.

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No family should have to go through what the Hoopers are experiencing.

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For PC Sawyer, this investigation is just beginning.

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We've been very successful over the last few weeks in terms of catching people.

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In the next 20 minutes, half an hour, an hour, somebody could be stopped carrying the items.

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The night is young and anything can happen.

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Catching burglars red-handed isn't the only way police recover your valued items.

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Across the UK, they're also cracking down on the trade in stolen goods.

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Aberdeen, a city of historic streets and cultural landmarks,

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also has one of the highest rates of burglary in Scotland.

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Police!

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Drugs are the root cause of most burglaries in Aberdeen.

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Many drug dealers will accept stolen goods as payment.

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These dealers can also be armed and dangerous.

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You wouldn't want that pointed at you, would you?

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In response, Grampian Police launch regular operations to fight back and catch those responsible.

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Sergeant Dave Ferguson and his team at Grampian CID are preparing

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to raid a flat for stolen goods linked to the sale of drugs.

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Intelligence has been received over the past month that they have been dealing heroin from that address.

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It's on the north side of the city. We'll go along in convoy, make sure every room is covered

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as we're going into the house. Everybody handcuffed, taken in.

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Officer safety, we're wearing body armour. Be aware, we do know the threat,

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we're going into this place and we're searching, watching out for any needles.

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We're all kitting up with body armour now because we don't know

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the threat we're going to encounter going into the flat.

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When we do go there, we will force the door

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and get what we call a rapid entry into the premises and get the persons secure.

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The team mount up and head for a suburb,

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aware of the fact stolen goods are often moved on quickly.

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Certainly one of the guys that's in the flat

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or we expect to be in the flat, he's a known resitter,

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so he accepts stolen property for the drugs he's been selling.

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We'd kind of like to think, you know, we might find some laptop computers in here and high-value property.

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Dave and his officers wait nearby for an advance party to gain

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access to the ground floor of a block of flats.

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We don't want to be all standing out the front of the building,

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he looks out the window, sees us and throws his drugs away or disposes of them.

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Access to the ground floor now secured, they move in,

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braced for what could be a serious physical confrontation.

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Unexpectedly, one of the suspects turns out to be in the lobby, where he is quickly detained.

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He volunteers the keys to the flat, allowing the team to get in without smashing the door in.

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But the police can't be certain the flat is empty.

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Police!

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With no-one else at home, the two men are brought up for questioning.

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Just got a few quick questions. Right, before I do a caution, you're not obliged to say anything.

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Anything you do say may be noted down and may be used in evidence.

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First question being, do you understand the caution?

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Are there any controlled drugs in this flat?

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Are there any large amounts of cash in this flat?

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The search reveals a variety of drug-dealing equipment.

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There's scales, numerous mobile phone SIM cards, which we would expect in a dealer's flat.

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There's the knives for cutting up what we'd call the gear.

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Everything's there but there's certainly a small amount of herbal cannabis

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that's been found at the moment.

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As predicted, there are also a number of possible stolen items,

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including an expensive mountain bike.

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The Gary Fisher pushbike is probably valued at about £1,000.

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Now, these are the guys that I wouldn't expect to see cycling about for fitness

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and I wouldn't expect to see a £1,000 bike in their flat.

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Other items believed to be stolen include two cameras and an iPod.

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The two men are taken in for questioning on suspicion of handling stolen goods

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and possession of drugs.

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The confiscated items go back to the station

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to be checked against a database of stolen property.

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Officer Emily Hesp has to find out whether seized items are stolen or not.

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Just having a check for the make and model, and any serial numbers so I can check it on the system,

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see if it comes back as stolen property.

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Every bike has a unique serial number marked on it,

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as do electrical items like the seized cameras.

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Any time we take any property we believe to be stolen,

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we check it against our crime file system

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to see if it relates to anything that has been stolen, and if it has,

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we would then contact the original owner and get them to identify the property.

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The more details you can give when reporting stolen property,

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the greater the chances you'll get it back.

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If not a serial number, then a detailed description

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will give officers like PC Hesp something to work on.

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On this occasion I can't find anything matching the description of the bike downstairs.

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Doesn't mean to say that it's not stolen. There's just no record of it on the system.

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Bike theft is serious business, often with links to organised criminal gangs.

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But police investigative teams are working round the clock

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to catch the thieves and recover as many stolen bikes as they can.

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In one such operation, police raided a series of lock-ups,

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including a garage in a quiet suburb of Hertfordshire.

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Inside, they found thousands of pounds' worth of stolen bikes.

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The investigation is being led by Detective Sergeant Bull.

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There's a couple of images that we have here of our main subject being arrested from his home address.

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We arrested 13 people. We charged seven of those people.

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In terms of convictions, these guys have now pleaded guilty.

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This morning, DS Bull and DC Miller are hoping to reunite another owner with their stolen bike.

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This one was advertised on eBay and sold to an innocent purchaser for £820.

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The bike matches the description of one stolen in a burglary four and a half months earlier.

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The officers must confirm it's going back to its rightful owner.

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His home was broken into and the three bikes were stolen.

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This is the last one we need to take back to him.

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Avid cyclist Steve Cowell built his bike from scratch using top-of-the-range parts.

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This was a bike you couldn't buy in the shops.

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Yeah, completely different bike. Loved it. Just a shame to lose it, really.

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When Steve's home was burgled, the only things that were taken were the family's three expensive bikes.

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If it was that calculated and they knew what they were going for, how did they know what we'd got?

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Had they been following my daughter, maybe, when she was doing her paper round to see where she lived

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and realised she'd got a half-reasonable bike?

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Had they seen us come back at the end of a ride on a weekend when we'd been out?

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It's quite unnerving, really, but at the same time you try to do your best to not unsettle the kids

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as well because they probably feel it more than we do in that respect. So, yeah, it's quite difficult.

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Steve had only had his bike on the road for three months before it was stolen.

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This would've been the only photo I had of me on the bike

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because the bike only came on the road, really,

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when I'd finished it end of April, beginning of May.

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The first proper ride that I had to do where we've got any photos was on the London to Brighton

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this year with some friends of mine. So it's the only photo I've got of this bike before it was stolen.

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Two of Steve's bikes were found and returned to him after the Hertfordshire garage raid.

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But police couldn't find any trace of his special self-built bike.

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A few weeks later, the team intercepted this bike after it was sold on the internet.

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DS Bull and DC Miller need Steve to prove it belongs to him.

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-Hi.

-Hi.

-DS Bull, Herts Police.

-Steve Cowell.

-How you doing? You all right?

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Hopefully we've got something for you.

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-It's like Christmas come early, isn't it?

-I didn't expect to see it again.

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OK. Obviously you've had the two bikes back already. So hopefully this is number three.

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As you know, it was sold on to an innocent purchaser in Derby.

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We'll take it out of the box and you can show me exactly why it's identifiable to you.

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Steve hasn't seen his prized bike for four and a half months.

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What was the initial purchase price of this one?

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-Well, I bought it as a frame and built it up in bits.

-Oh, OK.

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So obviously it's difficult to say, but frame retails for about 2,000.

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So obviously the component parts you've added on yourself. Can you tell me which ones they are?

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Pretty much everything. Brakes, Ultegra SL brakes, Ultegra 6700 gear set.

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-The Kinetic One wheels.

-And the tape that's on the rear forks?

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That was on the frame already. That's part of the frame.

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If you've got the documentation so I can just verify the serial numbers.

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It's straightforward for Steve to show the bike is his. He's got the frame's serial number.

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Oh, fantastic.

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-The bike with the wheels, the gear sets, everything.

-Brilliant. Superb.

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-So this is definitely your baby, then?

-Yes.

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Do you plan to keep this one?

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I'm not sure, to be honest. I have replaced it.

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There is a sentimental value to it. Again, because of some of the people I ride with,

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I've got a couple of friends that potentially might be interested in upgrading.

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Then I'll pass the funds back to the insurance company.

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Excellent. Well, we're more than happy. Thanks ever so much for seeing us today.

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Glad it's your cycle and it's a pleasure to return it to you.

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All right, sir, thank you very much for your time. Really appreciate it.

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Police advise to always keep a record of the serial number,

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make and any other marks that can help identify a bike if it's stolen.

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These details can be registered online,

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which helps police return recovered bikes to their rightful owners.

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It's good to get it back. It'll be interesting to see what it's like to ride again,

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given that obviously it's in a pile of pieces at the moment.

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I'm pleased with the work the police have done.

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It's quite clear that when you see the sort of depths they've gone into

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with this operation, it's amazing, the work they've done.

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They've been very helpful, very friendly. They've been good.

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A test run now. Hopefully everything's going to be OK and no further problems.

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See you in a minute.

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The thieves who stole Steve's bike used auction websites to sell on their stolen goods.

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The police also use the internet as a powerful weapon against burglars,

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and as a means to reunite property with its rightful owners.

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In London, the Metropolitan police are currently using websites

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to display a huge haul of seized stolen property.

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DS George led the operation, codenamed Avitus.

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We raided a number of addresses over east London and Essex,

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where we recovered all the property that's here today, nearly 500 items.

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The estimate is that it's somewhere in the region of £500,000.

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Our priority is identifying as much of the property as possible, handing it back to the lawful owners.

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The bulk of the items we're talking about are watches, and they're high-value watches.

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Your Rolexes, your Cartier. This Cartier watch here, it's got a value of about £15,000.

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But as yet we've been unable to trace who it belongs to.

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These aren't opportunist thieves who steal what they can from general members of the public.

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They're highly organised and carefully target the rich and sometimes the famous.

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We believe that the people responsible for these crimes are organised,

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targeting the people, and they know who they're looking at and what they're looking for.

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The haul includes some items the police hope to reunite with a high-profile owner.

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The former Arsenal footballer Lauren was burgled in March 2005

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and several luxury watches were stolen.

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I got back to the house, everything was open. You feel that they stole your privacy because, you know...

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Today, he and his wife have flown from Spain to find out if any of the recovered items are theirs.

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-I think you'd recognise that if that was yours.

-No, it's not.

-Not yours?

-No.

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-Right, OK. And that one.

-Yeah.

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-This is...

-That's the one, yeah?

-This is one of them, yeah. That's mine.

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-That's one of mine.

-All right, brilliant. Thank you very much indeed.

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The police have done a fantastic job. After six years, you never expect anything from the robbers.

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The recovered watch is worth £10,000. For Lauren, it's of great personal value, too.

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This was one of the special ones because my wife bought this for me.

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Not only the value of the watch, it's more the sentimental issues.

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Lauren, his wife and watch can all return to Spain.

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For DS George, it's a pleasing success,

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although the scale of the case means there's still a lot of work to do.

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These items have come from a number of burglaries

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with a number of victims across a very large geographical area.

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We're talking sort of anywhere around the east and south of England,

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where these items have been stolen from.

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Nice if they give us ten minutes with the burglar once they've been caught.

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Sadly, despite the police efforts, the Christmas burglary

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at the home of Paul and Sue Hooper remains unsolved.

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In the Grampian Police raid, one suspect was warned for obstructing a drug search.

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The other man was charged with possession of cannabis.

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The bike seized at their flat was not registered as stolen.

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Steve Cowell decided to sell his recovered bike

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and return the money to his insurance company.

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He has made several security improvements at his home.

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Since the burglary, we've put an alarm on the house.

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We've even gone to the extent, somebody told us the best thing was to use a baby monitor.

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If somebody comes across the fence like they did before,

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we'll hear it hopefully before they get entry to any of the buildings.

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The Hertfordshire Police bike raids led to over £100,000 of stolen property being recovered.

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Six people pleaded guilty to charges relating to handling stolen goods.

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In terms of property recovered, we're talking about 100 grand's worth of kit.

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In terms of crimes detected, that kit comes with 33 individual crimes.

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So you've got 33 individual victims of crime that have got their stuff back and have seen justice done.

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