Episode 1 Street Patrol UK

Our lives are blighted by anti-social behaviour,

whether it's nuisance neighbours...

Will you let us in, please?

..graffiti on the streets

or too much booze.

You need to make your way away from here now.

This is the story of the police officers...

It's the police. Are you in here?

You've been drinking a bit today, haven't you?

..council wardens...

This is anti-social behaviour, because it affects everybody.

..and local volunteers whose job it is to keep it off our streets.

Let's go do some good.

Welcome to Street Patrol UK.

Today, the bouncers of Northampton who use body cameras

to record extraordinary incidents of anti-social behaviour...

SHOUTING

You were asked three times to leave, and you refused to leave.

If we get any trouble tonight, most of it will be on the door.

We do have quite a strict door policy here. We do refuse a lot of people.

..we dive into the depths of the Solent

to discover how inventive thieves have been stripping metal

from a historic submarine wreck...

Some sort of crowbarring to get it off

and then the use of a lifting bag, so an air bag,

using buoyancy to get that heavy weight to the surface.

..and Patricia the eco warrior,

who's saving our planet - and Enfield - from fly-tipping.

I don't mind going through the bags. Don't have a problem with it at all.

If you're about to head out to a busy pub or a club,

you'll know how much they depend on the services of a doorman,

what we used to call in my day a bouncer.

Isn't that right, Dimitri?

-Yes, Dom.

-Their job is to keep an eye out for trouble,

to make sure that we all have a good time.

But sometimes, the job of a bouncer,

oops, sorry, doorman...

can be a precarious job in itself.

Northampton on a Saturday night is full to the brim -

people out for a good time, drinking and dancing.

And the town's party venues, like the Boston Clipper,

often have more people looking to get through the doors

than they can cope with comfortably or safely.

So policing the crowds looking to gain entry can be a tough job.

It takes a special kind of person to deal with all the aggro...

Hiya.

..like Katie Perry, door supervisor supreme.

I'll just pop that by your foot. Thank you.

I've worked on the doors for about three years now,

this being my third year.

I think I'll probably be doing it for a few more as well.

I do quite enjoy it.

-Hiya.

-How are you?

-Not bad. You?

'I think my dad's quite proud of me doing it, actually.'

I've seen him out quite a few times,

and he likes to tell all his friends about it,

which I do find a bit strange,

but there's not a lot of female door supervisors in town,

so it's quite an unusual thing to come across.

Just wait there for me, please. Cheers.

The Boston Clipper has capacity for nearly 300 people,

but on a Friday and Saturday night

they often have well over that number trying to get in.

Cheers. Have a good night.

Katie and the other door staff have to turn people away,

which can turn ugly.

If we get any trouble tonight, most of it will be on the door.

We do have quite a strict door policy here. We do refuse a lot of people

on the basis of their behaviour or being over-intoxicated.

-It's a definite no, I'm afraid.

-No?

-No.

Ensuring the safety of the customers and the staff

are Katie's main priorities.

Can I see some IDs, please?

But reducing overcrowding

and conducting searches on the door for drugs and weapons

are also part of their duties.

OK, can you put your arms out, please? Thank you very much.

We do a lot of bag searches as well, drug searches on the door.

That's great. Cheers, mate. Thank you very much for your co-operation.

-Cheers, guys.

-That's lovely. Thank you very much. Have a good night.

But not everybody is going to be as good-natured as this guy.

Don't put your hand up at me. Don't put your hand up at me.

-Calm yourself down.

-Don't

-BLEEP

-touch me.

-You are not allowed to touch me!

-Don't put your hand up at me.

-Get off me!

-Move away.

To help them deal with anti-social people,

the door staff of the Boston Clipper are now using bodycams,

a system adopted by many pubs and clubs in Northampton

as well as police forces around the country.

Recently, we've started implementing the bodycams.

It's pretty easy to use.

You can literally just swipe it down, as easy as that.

Introduced by an organisation called Pubwatch,

the bodycam helps protect the door staff both by acting as a deterrent

and in gathering evidence if an offence is committed.

They've helped a lot of door staff out with court cases and things,

just to prove our side of events,

just to prove that what we've said is true.

Yeah, I think they're a brilliant device to use.

You want to get your finger out of my face?!

Get your finger out of my face.

You are in trouble, mate.

As well as being armed with a bodycam and a two-way radio,

the door staff have recently gained another useful tool.

We've also got a breathalyser,

which we just implemented the last two weeks now, I think.

A lot of people we refuse because they have had too much to drink.

I mean, it's not even one o'clock yet,

but we're having to refuse probably one in every six people maybe

for having too much to drink.

People having a skinful before they arrive,

a practice known as preloading, can cause extra trouble...

What, do you want me to blow in that little tube?

The door staff can set the alcohol limit,

meaning that those who've had too many before pitching up

can be tested and turned away.

Let's see what you've come up with.

-78.

-Yeah! 78!

That's not good.

Ain't it? I ain't driving, though.

It's not about that.

35 is the drink-drive limit. We double that to 70.

If you blow over 70, we don't feel you're in a fit state to come in.

Unfortunately, you've blown over, so you can't come in tonight.

You're joking?

As the breathalyser is so new to clubs,

some of the partygoers are going to take a while to get used to it.

Do you want to keep that as a souvenir?

-That's it.

-So I can't come in?

-Not tonight.

If you go and sober up, have something to eat, maybe a coffee,

and then come back, we'll have a look at you and go from there.

-What?

-But right now, you can't come into the venue.

If you want to go and get some food and come back in half an hour...

Well, he's none too happy,

but already the breathalyser is cutting down

the amount of alcohol-fuelled arguments

that Katie and the door staff have to deal with.

You've gone over it by four.

I will absolutely promise you I will be cool.

We've found it really good,

because it gives us a physical measure of how much they've drunk.

They can read it plain in black and white for themselves.

SHOUTING

The pubs now are closing,

so this is when we normally see an increase in people coming in.

With the pubs' last orders,

there's only one venue that's open till five in the morning...

the Boston Clipper.

And as the numbers go up, so does the chance of trouble.

People become more confident when they've had more to drink.

Some people can be quite placid and very friendly and happy.

Other people can become quite aggressive, though.

Not allowed in. Apparently you've had too much to drink.

-He's had three Desperados, mate. This is a

-BLEEP

-joke.

I don't like your attitude, mate.

I'm going to be attituding. He's had three Desperados.

You've abused my rights.

You normally get a feel whether you're going to need a camera or not.

It's always best to switch it on even if you think nothing'll happen.

It's better to have it than not.

In that situation, I can tell. People don't like being told what to do.

I was going to refuse him entry

and I knew he'd have something to say about it.

The breathalyser and the bodycam are great deterrents,

but there are always some chancers who think they can buck the system.

The door team have just been alerted

to some likely lads who have sneaked in around the back.

-Have you got bands?

-My friend let me...

Yeah. That'll be that way, then, mate.

BLEEPING

And some people just won't take no for an answer.

-You won't be coming in. End of. End of.

-There's no...

-Goodnight.

-There's no reason...

-Goodnight.

-You know?

-Goodnight.

You'll get people that'll just come back through the night hours on end.

You'll have them three, four, five times.

Or they'll just stand there for the whole night

until you've finished your shift, just arguing.

-Goodnight.

-You know?

-Goodnight.

It gets kind of frustrating, banging your head against a brick wall.

You end up repeating yourself.

There's only so many times you can tell someone, isn't there?

'Yeah, you kind of get used to it a little bit.'

But that doesn't mean to say it's not frustrating.

The sun is already creeping into the sky,

but there's no rest yet for the door staff.

It's four o'clock now, so we've shut the front door,

not going to let anyone else in.

Hopefully, we should get everyone else out by about five o'clock.

The sun's coming up, the birds are tweeting. I'm ready to go home.

Drinking-up time has come quicker than one customer would like.

Alcohol has made him abusive.

OK, but I'm waiting for my parents. They're coming in a minute.

'The young lad started talking to me like I was a piece of dirt.'

As I walked off, he started throwing obscenities at me,

calling me names you wouldn't say in front of your mother.

SHOUTING AND BLEEPING

But this lad's mother doesn't seem to mind the language.

-Just go away.

-No. Don't even hit me. I don't need permission.

-Just go away, then.

-BLEEP

-you. Don't need permission.

-BLEEPING

-So we sort of had to escort him out.

He resisted and then it escalated into the situation

of the whole family deciding to get involved.

SHOUTING AND BLEEPING

Why weren't he shown an amber, then? Why weren't he shown an amber?

Please keep away from the door.

BLEEPING

-Go over there. For

-BLEEP

-sake!

-SHOUTING

-Go over there.

-Find out his number.

-I'm going to

-BLEEP

-lamp him in his face.

-Go over there.

-I swear to God.

Thanks, goodnight...

As this situation seems to be dying down,

just over the road things are escalating between some lads.

And Katie's not afraid to break it up.

Oi! Lads!

You all right? Are you all right?

Stay there.

You all right there, yeah?

Why does there need to be violence in Northampton at all?

There's no need to be violent in Northampton at all.

I dunno, they had a bit of an argument,

there were comments exchanged,

and then I saw one of them just hit the other one.

I don't really know the full story,

but we've gone over there to make sure everyone's OK.

One of them did have a few good hits to the head,

so we had to make sure he was OK.

Morning, guys!

Let's go home! Whoo-hoo!

We see it throughout the night. It's not just a morning thing.

We've seen so many incidents happen

that you're never really surprised any more.

Only another 12 hours to go

before Katie and the team are back once more, minding the doors

and keeping the peace on the streets and dance floors of Northampton.

Later, we follow the team searching an underground car park

for evidence of anti-social and criminal behaviour.

Local residents have been stating that people in balaclavas

have actually been gaining access into the underground car park,

setting fires, which has been causing a few problems.

We are a nation of animal lovers,

and there are nine million dogs in the UK to prove that.

But when owners don't look after their dogs,

that's when the wardens step in,

and in our next story, we meet a man who's dedicated

to making good owners of us all.

Chester, you've got really sharp teeth! Chew your bone, not my shirt.

Allen East used to be a traffic warden,

but after retiring six years ago,

he replaced parking with pooches as a dog warden.

No, you can't get out! You stay in. Good boy. Hello.

'I'm one of them people who can't just sit around and do nothing.'

I looked around after about a week or two of retirement

and decided that I needed to do some work, and I do enjoy doing the job.

Good afternoon, dog wardens. Allen speaking.

He keeps an eye on dogs all over Tendring, in north-east Essex.

-Morning.

-Morning!

-Lovely morning. Bit breezy, innit?

His vast patch covers 60 kilometres of coastline

and several popular seaside resorts,

a picturesque area he'd like to keep that way.

The beaches themselves are lovely beaches.

They just need a little bit of...

a little bit more consideration from dog owners

that are letting their dogs defecate and not cleaning up after them.

Despite 1,000 dog waste bins in the area,

there are still owners who don't pick up after their pooches,

and that's when Allen puts his ticketing skills to good use.

If I was to find people like that, they would be fined for it.

They deserve to be fined, because it's so unnecessary.

It's just absolutely terrible.

Allen's prepared to turn detective

in a bid to catch the fouling culprits.

And he's got one in his sights.

The chap that's walking down the road with his dog,

and, obviously, although he's got the dog on the lead,

the dog's walking in and out of people's gardens,

and I'm just observing to see...

where he's going and what he's actually doing.

If he catches the owner red-handed, he'll get a £50 fine on the spot.

Just sometimes you get that feeling.

The old boy went into this house, so it may have been nothing.

But at least I keep an eye open,

and I know if I get another report from there...

It's the only way we're going to actually do something about it.

But Allen doesn't just deal with fouling.

Each year, more than 100,000 dogs go astray,

at a cost of £57 million to the taxpayer and welfare charities.

And each month Allen takes in a few of Tendring's lost dogs.

So he's keen to make sure that dogs are microchipped,

a simple but effective method of identifying lost dogs

and reuniting them with their owners.

-Got your dog chipped?

-No. We're going to get him chipped.

Right. If I give you a card, all right...?

If you give me a shout, I'll get your dog done for you, all right?

It won't cost anything.

Microchipping will be compulsory for all dogs by April 2016,

but Allen is already ahead of the game.

But give me a ring and I'll come round your house.

-How much does it cost, anyway?

-Nothing. All right?

Thanks very much for your time.

OK, thank you.

One of the important uses of microchipping

is to identify aggressive dogs.

The amount of people that have been attacked by dogs is increasing.

We're getting the Staffie-type dogs, we're getting the pit-type dogs.

Now, if a dog attacks a person, it's a criminal offence

and the police have to be involved with it.

And if the dog's microchipped,

at least we stand a good chance of finding out who owns the dog

and they can be held accountable for that dog's actions.

Today, Allen is on a microchipping mission.

-You all right?

-Yeah.

-Ah, is this the one that's going to be chipped?

-Yeah.

-What I'm going to do is get you to hold him

and then what you do is turn his face towards your shoulder

-so if he bites he bites you and not me!

-Yeah.

ALLEN LAUGHS

That's lovely. Thank you very much.

It happens in seconds. Takes more time to do the paperwork.

-There's a good boy. OK. Ready?

-Go.

-There's a good boy, Come on.

-Good boy.

What are you doing, eh?

Just a bit of safety, really.

If they do run off...

we can get them back.

What are you doing?

When dogs do get lost,

Allen takes them in and makes every effort to find the owners.

Come on. What are you up to, eh? Where have you been?

But it's a costly business which could be prevented.

The people that own this dog that I'm now going to return,

they think we just pick a dog up, it's put somewhere for a little while

and then they get their dog back.

They don't realise, you know, the amount of things that go on,

like the cleaning of the kennel, like getting it ready.

You know, they don't stop and think about anything like that.

Yeah, I know, I can hear you.

Luckily, Allen's found this dog's owner.

-Hiya, mate.

-All right?

-You lost a little dog?

-Hiya. I'm Allen. Nice to meet you.

-I'm Dan.

Hi. All right, Dan?

-Lovely little dog.

-It is beautiful.

-Who's this?

Got out the caravan and jumped over the fence and escaped.

He does it quite often. He's learning to jump very high now,

and unfortunately, he's jumped too high and run out of the caravan.

But the owner won't get off lightly for losing his dog.

-Obviously, I've got to charge you your money.

-Yeah, course, yeah.

It's £60.

I think he will learn a very good lesson,

to make sure that his dog's got a disc on it

with at least their name and phone number on it,

so if he does get out again

the chances are that he will get it back

and we wouldn't even be involved with it.

'Glad the dog's now back with its owner.

'A happy ending to the story.'

It's thanks to people like Allen that the dogs of Tendring stay safe

and owners learn to take their responsibilities seriously.

Later, we meet council eco-warrior Patricia,

who's on a mission to rid the streets of Enfield

from rubbish and fly-tipping.

This is what I like to see.

Beautiful flowers and the birds twittering.

Clean air, clean footpaths and roads.

'I've been out on a street patrol of my own to find out

'what bothers you about Britain today.'

What do you witness that annoys you about public behaviour?

I don't think there's enough for the teenagers to do in the area,

and they do tend to congregate a lot round where I live.

When you see them congregate, does that worry you?

Yes, it does. Even when you pop to the shops

and there's crowds of them gathering around,

it does make you feel quite intimidated.

What else concerns you a lot?

Definitely employment, I would say, for younger people.

That's a concern of mine.

You think that's an answer to some anti-social behaviour?

I do, definitely.

Is there anything that you see that you'd class as unhealthy or dirty?

Waste disposal. People don't care.

A lot of people, they chuck it out the front door.

It's not nice to walk through nappies and empty, broken bottles and cans,

and I think that's disgraceful.

-Thank you for your time.

-Great to meet you.

-Take care.

Tell me about anything you've witnessed that's anti-social.

-During the day, it's all right.

-Yep.

-But at night...

What? What happens?

Fights, drugs. There's a lot of that going on round here.

-How often?

-Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

-OK, leading up to the weekend.

-Yeah.

-And how does that make you feel?

It does make you feel as if you're not safe to walk the streets.

What else have you witnessed?

There is a bus stop and there was loads...

I'm going, now, six o'clock in the morning.

All these drunks just slobbered all over the floor, drinking.

There's people waiting to catch a bus

and they've got their little children with them,

and they've got to walk out into the road to go round.

But on Sunday, the council came down and removed the bus stop.

They've moved a bus stop

because drunk people were sleeping in it and hanging around in it?

-Yep.

-Marylyn, thank you ever so much for your time.

-You've got a lovely smile.

-Oh, thank you!

Millions of people live on estates all over the country,

and most of the time they're good places to live.

But sometimes, a small element

of anti-social or even criminal behaviour

can drag an estate down

and threaten the place for all the other residents.

And when that happens,

it's time for the police, the council or the housing association

to get involved.

The Samuda housing estate in east London

spreads over 11 acres of land.

With more than 500 homes,

there are around 1,500 people living there.

The majority of those people are law-abiding citizens,

but the activities of a small number of yobs

can make things unpleasant for others.

For local cop Matthew Purcell,

the layout of this estate can make it easier

for people who are up to no good.

The Samuda estate is very much like a maze.

You go in one door thinking you're in one block,

you literally go up a flight of stairs, across a landing

and you're in a completely different section of the estate,

and that's what's causing us a few problems.

And there's one key hot spot that's bothering the residents.

There's an underground car park. It's currently a disused car park.

People can come in and potentially use drugs,

potentially have weapons there.

Graham Littlewood and Kiera Curran

are part of the anti-social behaviour team at One Housing,

which runs the Samuda estate.

They're joining forces with the police on an operation

to search the disused car park

and find out exactly what's been going on there.

The local residents have been stating that

people in balaclavas have actually been gaining access

into the underground car park, setting fires,

which has been causing a few problems.

They're also saying they've been doing drugs.

What we're going to go and do is a weapons sweep.

We've got a sniffer dog team coming,

and they're going to sweep the area for drugs

and help us look to see what's down there

and see what we can take away from there.

The visible presence of police and housing officers on the estate today

will signal to residents that their concerns are being listened to.

We have a duty of care towards our residents

to ensure that we keep the areas and estates they live in clean and safe,

and due to the fact that there's drugs and knives involved

and it involves quite a lot of criminal behaviour,

we work in partnership with the local police.

And there's one vital member of the team on hand today -

four-year-old English springer spaniel sniffer dog Trevor.

With his attuned sense of smell,

Trevor can detect cash, firearms and drugs,

and it doesn't take him long to get a result.

The dogs are worth their weight in gold.

They are the most efficient way of searching these underground areas,

especially in the dark.

You can see from the sheer scale of this.

We have offshoots to the side,

little anterooms, stairwells and lift shafts.

This place is absolutely huge.

There's no way we'd be able to search this efficiently and effectively

without the use of our dogs. Fantastic resource.

And it doesn't take long for Trevor to find signs of drug use.

What's he looking at?

Oh, yeah, spliff. Good boy.

We're finding the remnants of cannabis cigarettes all down here.

The dog is indicating quite positively to some of these here.

-And here is a smoking den.

-Oh, we have a smoking den!

The dog is indicating all over the place.

Good boy!

And we're finding lots and lots of drug paraphernalia.

This area is being used for quite a fair bit more than we anticipated.

Trevor quickly sniffs out other scary-looking items

that strongly suggest criminal activity.

Yeah, knives again.

It's a toy gun, but they can be used as imitation,

a quick hands-up to people who don't know what they are,

so we'll take it away and have it destroyed.

It is actually imperative that we do these sweeps

with the dogs and our other resources.

The element of criminality in these areas, unless we check them,

is going to get out of control.

As soon as Trevor's done his work, Graham's keen to start the clean-up.

Once the police have finished searching here,

we'll get our estate services team to clear all this out.

We wanted firstly to get the police in here

so they could find any evidence,

so that that may help them catch

anyone who's coming round here and doing it.

Once that's done, the One Housing team

is hoping that the car park can be sealed,

locking out the drug dealers and their pals for ever.

The solution here is basically the only way

that we can ultimately prevent anyone from accessing these areas.

We would have to look to brick every single access point up.

But for now, Kiera's pleased with the results of the sweep.

It sends out a clear message, I think, to our residents

that they can visibly see the police,

they can see ourselves

actively taking a role in ensuring their safety.

And everyone's agreed on who the hero is. Clever Trevor.

Today's been a fantastic success.

Thanks to Trevor. He's the star of the show.

He's been absolutely brilliant.

He's gone through there and he's found important stuff

that we don't want on our estates, that no-one wants,

and our estate is a safer place because of Trevor here.

He's absolutely brilliant. Couldn't have done it without him.

Good work!

Anti-social behaviour is all about a lack of human decency

and disrespecting those people who live around you.

And if your way of life makes other people's a misery,

that's about as anti-social as it gets.

We're on the front line with the highly skilled teams

of council workers, police officers and volunteers

who are committed to keeping our streets safe and clean

and taking on our anti-social battles on a daily basis

to make sure that our lives are not blighted

by other people's bad behaviour.

This is Street Patrol UK.

Is this your first one?

-Yep.

-And how old's Katie?

-Katie's two now.

'I've been out on a street patrol of my own

'to find out what bothers you about Britain today.'

And that box down there,

which obviously had a burger or chicken in it at some point,

-got tangled up in this little trolley.

-Yep.

-Does that annoy you?

Yeah, but to be fair, there's not many bins around here.

But there's a lot of litter.

Tell me what else you see

when you're out there being a proud dad that winds you up.

What does annoy me sometimes is - this is really petty -

on the train, when people have loud music on their mobile phones.

Don't like that at all. I think it's irresponsible, it's selfish.

-It's ignorant.

-Ignorant, yeah. And I do say to people sometimes,

but generally there are people around that will say,

"Come on, mate, let's give it a go."

But I have seen on the train

something like that get extremely nasty.

OK, name some of the things that you've seen happening,

with youngsters or grown-ups,

anything you've seen which has annoyed you.

I've seen kids arguing the toss with their parents...

..and effing and blinding at them,

and it's something I don't believe in.

Have you ever actually said anything to them?

-You can't say anything to them.

-Why not?

Because then the parents turn on you for picking on their kids.

So you can't say owt about it.

What about litter on the streets?

I can see it blowing around now. Does that bother you?

Not really, I think that's...

Littering doesn't bother you?!

-It bothers me.

-You said not really!

But I think in England, we just...

I've been to a few other countries and it's not like that.

I think in England it's just acceptable to be like that,

and I think people just don't respect things, so it's just normal

just to throw it on the floor.

When artefacts from historical monuments mysteriously disappear,

it's usually the work of thieves or vandals.

However you look at it, it's very anti-social.

But what astonishes me is the lengths

and in some cases the depths people are prepared to go to

to nick things from the most inaccessible of places.

For nautical archaeologist Mark Beattie-Edwards,

wrecks at the bottom of the sea are a source of fascination.

Wrecks are little time capsules of an event

that happened at some point in the past.

You get a little microcosm of life landing on the sea bed

at one moment in time.

For the past few years, Mark and his team have been researching

the wreck of a submarine named Holland 5,

which sank off the coast of Hastings in 1912

and lay undiscovered until 1995.

The Holland 5 submarine is in amazing condition on the sea bed.

It sits bolt upright,

so it sits like a submarine should,

with its conning tower upright, its propellers still in place.

It looks like a submarine, and when you visit it as a diver,

it's quite an eerie thing, because it sits there as if it should be moving.

And it's now a haven for marine life.

There are fish and crabs and lobsters all over it.

So it's a really pleasurable experience to visit it.

Built in 1903,

the vessel holds a very important place in naval history.

The Holland 5 submarine is one of the Royal Navy's

first ever purpose-built and commissioned submarines,

and submarine warfare from that point onwards for the Royal Navy

develops as one of our principal mechanisms to defend our coast.

The sub's brand-new technology would change the face of naval warfare.

Because of its great historical worth,

this is a protected site, and only those with a licence can explore it.

It's illegal to tamper with or remove material from that site

unless you're authorised.

Mark's team had spent several years researching and exploring the wreck

when one of them made a shocking discovery.

One of the divers came up.

He said to me that there was a big hole at the front of the submarine

and that the bow cap was missing. Then he showed me his video footage.

He's swimming down the starboard side, so the right-hand side, now,

of the submarine,

and he's come round to the front.

And because he's got some lights on his underwater camera,

you can clearly see illuminated this big hole.

It is where a torpedo would have fired out of,

so it's got to be fairly sizable to get the torpedo out.

Every dive up until this point, the bow cap was completely covering it.

The missing part was a key component of the early submarine.

The part that we're missing, the bow cap, is shown very clearly here

and shows the torpedo tube that would have been behind that.

It shows us the opening mechanism the submariner would have had to turn

in order to manually open the bow cap

so that then the torpedo could have been fired out.

English Heritage is closely involved in monitoring and protecting

marine sites like Holland 5.

Terry Newman knows how difficult a task this is.

The difficulty with these wreck sites

is that generally, they're off the coast and underwater,

and it's the general policing of those sites

that is potentially a problem.

But whoever took the cap must have meant business.

The bow cap was actually attached, physically attached to the submarine,

so that would have required some sort of crowbarring to get it off

and then the use of a lifting bag, so an air bag, using buoyancy

to get that heavy weight to the surface to then recover it to a boat.

Mark is still puzzling over who would want to remove it and why.

In my mind, there are two scenarios of what's happened to the bow cap.

The first scenario is that it's been stolen by an unlicensed diver,

who, first of all, didn't have permission to visit the site

and, secondly, wouldn't have had permission to make a recovery.

Or, the alternative is actually it's a fisherman

who's trawling the sea bed near the area

who has accidently dragged the bow cap off in their nets.

That would also have been an offence.

It is illegal to fish at a protected site.

But whatever happened, local people are saddened by the loss.

I think it's dreadful, really.

If everybody was to go around and help themselves

to all the bits of historical things there are,

there wouldn't be anything for anybody to see.

I think it's very important for us to preserve our cultural heritage

for, you know, future generations.

The bottom of the sea is an unexpected crime scene,

a strange place to discover murky goings-on,

but it's the desecration that most angers the nautical archaeologists

whose work it is to protect and preserve the wrecks.

The worst threat comes from unauthorised and unlawful salvage,

people that have no regard

for the history that these wrecks have to tell

but merely want to make money and exploit them.

The loss of the bow cap of the Holland 5

could be considered as an anti-social crime, to me,

because if it's been taken by a diver, then this is a deliberate act,

deliberately targeting a historic monument.

Anything that contaminates the world we live in

could be regarded as pollution,

and any bit of dumped waste like this

will have an impact on the environment.

So for environmental health officers up and down the country,

rubbish is their business.

But some of them actually like it.

The suburban borough of Enfield in north London

takes environmental health very seriously.

And for council officer Patricia Henry, her daily round

means confronting the stuff that most of us prefer not to deal with.

Waste in the garden. OK...

She investigates complaints about fly-tipping...

I'll just take some pictures.

..rubbish...

This is not acceptable.

..anything that threatens to pollute the environment.

And every day brings new challenges.

Opportunist fly-tippers just drive around

and think, "This looks quiet. There's been some dumping here before.

"Let me just put my flat-pack loader up and tip."

We've just got to clear it.

Making sure that rubbish is properly disposed of

is an important part of the job.

Despite the education that's been given to people on wheelie bins...

..some people just don't get it.

So, black is for your refuse,

blue is for recyclable waste and this is for, like, garden waste,

green cuttings or food waste.

That's not green waste.

This bin will not be collected,

so the missed collection will mean a build-up of these black bags,

making the front garden look untidy, and we need it cleared up.

Hello?

The bin won't be emptied, because the non-green waste

would contaminate other residents' recycling,

meaning it would have to go to landfill.

As well as the cost to the environment,

sending contaminated recycling to landfill costs £72 a tonne,

adding up to £13 million a year to the north London's taxpayers' bill.

They're not opening the door, so I'm leaving them a note to call me.

Just to leave it there and think it's OK... It's not OK.

It's not OK.

She'll be keeping an eye on this house

to make sure the mess gets properly sorted.

For Patricia, protecting the world around us

is something she cares deeply about.

A butterfly. It's all right. Look at this! Isn't that beautiful?

This is what I like to see.

Beautiful flowers and the birds twittering.

Clean air, clean footpaths and roads.

It makes me more determined to get it resolved.

I do love what I do, I've got to be honest with you.

I mean, I came into environmental health

because I was passionate about it.

And, yeah, I love it.

..which is just as well,

as the job means dealing with plenty of complaints.

In this case, residents have complained

about the waste caused by mechanical work at a private garage.

-Are you the homeowner, sir?

-I am.

Ah! I'm so glad I've come through this way today.

Patricia Henry, environmental protection and environmental health.

I've had some complaints, a couple of complaints -

car repairs and the waste that's generated

as a result of the works you're doing here,

being dumped in the alleyway.

Residents are adamant that this is going on...

and so here I am!

Do you do any works on vehicles?

I work for a company, but today's my day off.

OK. So on your day off you work on your own vehicles?

Yeah? All right. You've got quite a sophisticated set-up here for...

Because I used to have a garage, so this is all my stuff.

-Are these vehicles your own, or...?

-They are. I am the owner, yes.

If you don't mind me asking, how many vehicles do you own at any one time?

I've got three or four cars.

So if I was to do a DVLA inquiry?

This is, erm, my friend's.

All right, so this is not one of the family. OK. And this one?

-This one is my daughter's friend's.

-OK.

So you ARE working on cars other than your own?

-For a favour.

-OK.

When you're a mechanic, no-one leaves you alone.

"Can you do this? Can you do that?" I'm not running a business here.

OK.

Patricia's satisfied that there are

no signs of waste for her to act on here today.

So, that was good luck, that was a good stop,

because at the end of the day,

if you've got a complaint you need to find the evidence.

But there are more complaints to follow up on at her next stop.

Someone has been repeatedly fly-tipping here for weeks...

Really messy.

..normally, the day after the bin collection.

That must have occurred over Friday,

between Friday evening and the early hours of Saturday.

It was just before nine. They were dumping it then.

-Oh, so you actually saw...

-I didn't see who was doing it,

but they walked down the alley and put the bags round there.

This is disgusting. This is like this nearly every week.

-Right.

-As soon as the council's back's turned

and the dustmen have been, they drop it off again.

Why can't they find who does it?

Patricia's not afraid to risk getting her hands dirty

in a bid to find the culprit.

I don't mind going through the bags. Don't have a problem with it at all.

It's quite exciting, because you think, "Ah! Name and address."

Haven't found that yet.

You've just got to be really diligent, to just go in there,

carefully, of course, in order to get the evidence.

One of the residents here may be the culprit,

or it may be somebody coming through, they know that this is a hot spot.

It's a brazen disregard for others.

They don't care, which is a shame, in any of the fly-tipping.

"Once it's out of the front door, it's not my problem.

"I just need to get rid of it NOW."

I think that's all food waste.

Now it's become putrescent,

so it's all leaking. See all the flies and all the maggots?

So what I'll have to do...

..is get Street Cleansing to do me a collection...

which is so not necessary and it's just extra cost.

It's the sweeping, it's the jet washing.

Once Patricia has searched for evidence,

the street cleaning team needs to take it away.

Oh, my God, maggots.

It's sickening for even the most hardened of cleaners.

Oh, no. Maggots. It's stinking!

That looks nice and clean now.

Nice and clean. We'll see how long it lasts.

Once the rubbish is dealt with,

Patricia can concentrate on the real detective work.

Well, later this afternoon, I will be checking the cameras.

And I am quite excited to find out who's responsible for this.

These cameras have already caught and helped prosecute six people.

Is Patricia about to catch number seven?

I've reviewed the CCTV at this location,

having partially identified

the person on the camera from the footage.

What I'll do is I'll try and locate that person at that location.

And when she finds the fly-tipping fugitive,

there is a good chance they'll be prosecuted,

and she'll re-educate them about the "no fly-tipping" rules.

In the meantime, she's leaving nothing to chance.

I have asked residents,

if there's anything outside the collection times,

to let me know straightaway

so I can then check my camera and then get onto it.

I think, to be honest, the camera's working.

Just remember, all you fly-tippers of Enfield,

the cameras are keeping an eye on you.

Well, that's your lot for today. Thanks for watching.