Episode 14 Street Patrol UK

Our lives are blighted by antisocial behaviour,

whether it's nuisance neighbours...

Will you let us in, please?

..graffiti on the streets, or too much booze.

-England!

-You need to make your way away from here right now.

This is the story of the police officers...

This is the police, are you in here?

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

..council wardens...

This is antisocial behaviour because it effects 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.

THEY CHANT

Today, a big night for English football and

police have to deal with violence on the streets of Preston.

-You've been identified as being the offender.

-OK, I'm sorry.

The museum exhibits that have become the latest

target for organised thieves.

Criminals will go where the money is, so whether it's drugs,

money laundering, guns...

And a London council's crackdown on illegal shisha pipe smoking.

Ah, it drives me mad...so that's three shisha pipes.

Big sporting events can bring the country together, as we all back our

favourite teams and players through the ups and downs of competition.

But they can also be triggers for antisocial behaviour.

And the cops know that football matches, especially where

fans are fuelled by booze, can increase violence

and aggravation in our city centres.

PC Dan White and his team are heading

onto the streets of Preston on a big night for English football.

It's the World Cup and England's crucial match against Uruguay.

They need a good result to have a chance of getting

through to the next round.

The police are expecting plenty of supporters to be out

drinking in the bars and pubs, which could lead to antisocial behaviour.

I got a van full of colleagues, so any disorder that comes in, or

anything linked to the football, we are going to be tasked to attend it.

Dan knows that if things don't go well there might be trouble.

If it's a good result you get more happy drunks.

If it's a poor result that tends to lead to more disorder.

Feelings get out of hand and people start fighting with one another.

It seems that football can bring out the worst in people.

Sometimes you get people who would never normally be

involved in antisocial behaviour, because it's a football match,

because it's a high-profile game and it's the World Cup,

arguing with other people, fighting with other people,

and you get some regular people doing very silly things.

With a potentially challenging night ahead, Dan and the team will be

relying on the CCTV operators who are watching the city streets.

We've got the CCTV in the city centre, it's absolutely brilliant.

They'll direct us into something going on we need to be aware of.

As the game gets underway, the team checks in with local door staff.

Been fairly good-natured so far, no issues?

It's a really nice crowd.

How many punters you got in this evening?

100.

100? Any issues?

Absolutely nothing.

So far, it's very quiet so far, don't like to use the Q word,

but everyone seems to be well-natured at the moment.

The door men are keeping them posted on how things are shaping up.

The door staff have told us

that Uruguay have scored, making it 1-0. As long as England can do

something in the second half, that might keep things quiet later on.

Fingers crossed England will get back into it and maybe win.

Fortunately, England pull one back.

THEY CHANT

But the joy is short-lived,

and by the end of the match it's 2-1 to Uruguay.

Not good news for the fans or the police.

Are we on TV, or what?

Final whistle's gone, everybody's coming out now,

and people seem to be quite upset, understandably.

Let's hope it stays quite calm.

THEY SING

England!

It is not long before things start to get ugly.

BLEEP!

-Come on, bro.

-He's been warned once, mate.

You need to learn your lesson, don't you?

My colleague warned you before about your behaviour.

What I suggest you do is make your way away from here right now. Do you understand me?

-Yeah, yeah, I understand you.

-OK?

With disappointed fans out on the streets, tensions are rising.

Antisocial behaviour in city centres, in pubs

and clubs like that, it does affect everybody.

If it is going to kick off, it will probably be a small

group of people who instigate it.

As the summer night closes in, simmering

anger about England's defeat finally boils over.

A CCTV operator spots some violence on the streets

and radios in to the team.

We will have a quick look now and see what we can see.

A fight has broken out.

Officers set off on foot in pursuit of a suspect.

GIRL SCREAMS

PC Dan White follows.

They've run through somewhere. Where, I don't know.

A man has been apprehended.

Hands behind your back.

Obviously, my colleagues have pursued on foot.

CCTV have been monitoring all the time.

Stand still.

He hit me up there.

-You have been identified as being the offender, OK?

-OK, I'm sorry.

You're still under caution so you don't have to say anything.

The fight involved two women, and while his colleagues process

the arrests, Dan's concern turns to them.

Two females who have been in the takeaway. They're wearing England shirts,

they have been approached by the offender who has started

having a go at them about the football.

The boyfriend of one of the girls has intervened.

When the friend intervened, a fight broke out and it resulted

in two women needing to go to hospital after being hit.

It doesn't really get much lower than that.

I'm over here...hey.

So he has been arrested for two assaults.

Because of the nature of the victim's injuries, the offender

is looking at a serious charge.

He's going to be arrested for a Section 47 assault,

which is actual bodily harm.

Young fella, have a seat.

-There you are, mate.

-Thank you, lads.

Yeah, it's turned out to be a good job, that. CCTV at its finest.

The CCTV will probably be imperative to this case because

if the chap who has been arrested is to not admit any involvement,

then the CCTV is going to be vital evidence to prove the case.

He has not long come out of jail.

He said that to me himself, as well,

so it doesn't look like he has learnt his lesson.

Dan's shift is almost over. Sadly, it hasn't been an entirely

peaceful night for the football fans or the police.

That's us done now, we've got prisoners to deal with.

It baffles me sometimes why people choose to behave like that.

I don't understand it and I never will.

The offender recently pleaded guilty to assault and is awaiting sentence.

Later, the antisocial thieves target lead roofs in Derbyshire's

places of worship.

It's a church for goodness' sake, you know, you don't expect it.

Many of you will be familiar with poachers in Africa killing

rhinos for their horns,

which some people believe have medicinal or aphrodisiac uses.

But now it seems the criminals are not just targeting

the African wilderness for the rhino horns but places closer to home.

Tring, Hertfordshire.

And the natural history museum here has a long-established

collection of stuffed mammals, fish and birds.

Including leopards, the extinct dodo and the endangered rhino.

All free to the public.

But when unwelcome visitors came by out-of-hours, it wasn't to

enjoy the collection.

Manager Paul Kitching traces their steps.

This is where our break-in occurred initially.

They tried to get into the museum, and we have a secondary door in place here.

The heavy door prevented the assailants gaining entry.

Alerted by Paul, the police arrived, and searched the museum.

But no-one could be found, so they secured the building and left.

But the thieves returned and broke in through a window.

Maybe they weren't banking on the CCTV.

We can see on the CCTV that he looks round,

he shouts back to his colleague who is waiting downstairs.

He has a hooded top on so we can't see his face very well

and he is wearing a thick pair of gloves.

The thief got to within a few feet of the stuffed white rhino.

He puts a foot up onto the rail and then he's ripped away this rhino

horn from the specimen that's on open display and then the man

moves through into our next gallery just along this way.

So our thief has made it into this gallery now.

He uses his hammer to smash this very large sheet of glass,

pulls the glass away and it comes away in one piece like a

shattered windscreen. He's then able to pull this rhino horn down

and it hits the floor, he knocks the horn off the mounted head,

takes the horn and he makes his way back out through the galleries.

It was just after 3am.

The thieves put the two horns into black plastic bags and drove off.

They made off in a small black vehicle after exiting

the museum grounds and that was that.

The police were called and that investigation started.

At first, it looked like the robbers had got away with their rare booty.

But what they hadn't banked on was the museum being one step

ahead of them.

Colleagues from a museum in Portugal got in touch

and said they had had a rhino horn stolen from their

display collections.

And at that point that made us think that we might be targeted.

We kept a very close eye on the news from then onwards

and we could see that a number of other thefts were occurring

so we decided to take the decision to remove the real horns

and to replace them with very accurate resin casts.

Their clever forward thinking foiled the burglars,

who'd gone to all that effort for nothing.

But the theft still stunned the residents of the market town of Tring.

Well, it's tragic, really, isn't it?

It's really sad.

I think it's crazy in this day

and age that people believe in the medicinal profit

of a rhino horn to be cheeky enough to steal one from the museum.

I've seen rhinos on safaris and to think people would kill

an animal for that in the first place is unbelievable,

but then to extend that to take it from a museum,

from a natural history museum, is incredulous, really.

But it's brilliant that it was fake. That's a nice little twist.

Whether they had real rhino horn or not, the thieves had

committed a serious crime and police were closing in on them.

We recovered various exhibits, as we would term them.

A club hammer which we believe was used to smash the display cabinets

and also to smash off the rhino horns from their heads.

That was recovered in a street very close to the museum.

Following on from that,

an eagle-eyed member of staff recovered a pair of gloves.

She had watched the CCTV, knew that the guy who'd done

the burglary, who was actually physically inside the museum,

as opposed to the ones outside, was wearing very unusual gloves.

It was August, it was hot and he was wearing black ski-type gloves.

As a consequence of that, she had found them

on her way into work, she cycles into work, she noticed them

on a signpost in the street and picked them up and gave them to us.

Police managed to trace the DNA found inside the glove,

and forensic tests also revealed glass

specimens in the glove from both the museum window and the glass cabinet.

That led to the identification of the man responsible for this burglary.

Had the thieves managed to steal the real rhino horns,

they could have fetched nearly a £250,000.

Chief Constable Andy Bliss is the national policing lead for Heritage

and Cultural Property Crime, an initiative shared with the National

Crime Agency, English Heritage and the country's museums to deal with

criminality which targets the nation's historical

and cultural assets.

He believes that organised crime is behind these thefts.

Criminals will go where the money is,

whether its drugs, money laundering, guns,

they've seen an opportunity here,

they've seen that very small items can be worth a very large amount of money.

They are very readily transported internationally,

they're often readily turned into cash internationally,

so they're an attractive commodity for criminals to target.

Our job is to counter that threat.

But, while police were not able to identify the big business

masterminds behind the crime,

one man was sentenced to ten months in prison.

The museum has had a lucky escape

and let's hope that the conviction will deter future thieves.

I think museums are perhaps seen as an easier target by criminals

and so I think we have seen this series of similar thefts

increasing, and it is so important for museums to

protect their collections now and for future generations.

Later...the Croydon Christians who offer counsel

and comfort to intoxicated partygoers.

I think you have had a bit too much to drink.

Show me a picture of your friend, we can find her,

bring her down for you.

Back in 2007, a ban was introduced to stop smoking in enclosed spaces

and since then bars,

clubs and pubs have been obliged to enforce a strict no-smoking policy.

But some premises are allegedly flouting the ban with

a kind of smoking known as shisha,

where you smoke a flavoured tobacco through a water pipe.

But now police and councils are on their trail.

Newham, in East London, is a thriving multicultural area and one

of many places where smoking shisha has become popular in recent years.

But while smoking shisha is not illegal, Newham Council is

concerned that some shisha bars are operating outside the law.

People who start shisha businesses, in our experience,

do so in the full knowledge that they aren't able to smoke indoors,

and yet they start up and continue to run their businesses,

even when they know they're not allowed to.

It's a problem, we have complaints from local residents in terms

of noise, antisocial behaviour, and we respond to it.

Tonight council officers Mathew Collins from Food Safety

and Christine Lyons from Planning are joining forces with

the police to run checks on shisha bars in the area.

We are visiting two premises that are known to us

already as shisha businesses in East Ham.

Their concern is that users may be flouting the smoking

ban by smoking shisha inside, or if the bar has an external smoking

shelter, that the shelter itself may contravene planning regulations.

We look at the whole activity, so Mathew will look at smoking

legislation, and what I'm interested in

is whether they've put any structures up and also the use of the building

would require planning permission, so we look at it from two angles.

Because they don't sell alcohol, shisha cafes can stay open

all hours, and Christine is aware that this can attract

antisocial behaviour and disturb local residents.

These canopies, these structures, they've put up, could be used all day,

all night, so you get increased activity,

lots of noise, lots of disturbance and shouting, and then it isn't very nice, really.

Their first stop is to check up on a place which has already been

warned about building a smoking structure at the rear

of the building without permission.

Let's go in.

Hello there, I have come here because this premises in the

past has been used as an illegal shisha smoking den, as it is now.

It's not legal to smoke in here and it hasn't been since it was

constructed so I have come here to carry out an inspection.

Can I just contact the owner?

Yeah, absolutely, no problem at all.

Mathew immediately spots evidence that someone has been smoking inside.

Oh, it drives me mad, so it's three lit shisha pipes.

And the area that has been constructed for smoking is

also breaking the law, because to smoke in any public premises with

a roof, at least half the wall space must be open.

Thanks, that's great.

So, basically, the fact that you can cover

the side of the structure with a tarpaulin, under

the legislation, makes it enclosed so it's not legal to smoke in here.

So the people here are committing an offence

and the person in charge is committing an offence as well.

Christine is concerned that previous warnings to take down this

structure have not been acted upon.

From a planning point of view, I'm not really bothered whether

it's open or closed.

The structure itself, all this needs to come down.

He did take it down but he has put it back up again which is

silly really, not ideal.

You can see from here the number of people that can be in here.

When it's active, it can be very active.

You can probably have 40 people in here and the noise disturbance from that.

I mean, as you came down the street you could smell the shisha smell.

From my point of view we don't really want that so we'll take the most serious

action we can take to get rid of this and that will be to demolish

this and get all this cleared out from the property itself as well.

The owner will receive notice to demolish the structure

and could face a fine for allowing smoking indoors.

I'm going to leave that letter

and I would ask whoever's in charge to get in contact with me.

-OK, mate.

-Thank you.

Don't touch me! I am telling you right now.

-Do not

-BLEEP

-touch me, bro!

The presence of the enforcement team at the cafe gets an aggressive

response from a local. The police step in to move him on.

That again just shows you what the police do. They step in.

That's what they do. They step in correctly.

They defuse the situation for us and we can get on with our job.

-All right? Shall we go?

-Yeah, let's head off.

The enforcement team's next visit is to check up on another

premises that has had previous warnings.

But when they arrive, the entrance seems to be closed

and the owner is outside.

-Ah! Mr Patel.

-Hello.

-Hello, there.

We're not here because we think you're running a shisha...

We're just here to have a look.

OK? All right, thank you.

The owner seems to be walking in the opposite

direction of the door to the cafe.

Look. There's lights on inside there. You can see.

This is where we're going.

-Yeah, and I tell you what...

-It's wafting down, the shisha.

I can smell the sweet smell of shisha.

The owner isn't paying much attention to their request to be let in.

He has let us in, in the past

but he's probably...playing some merry dance, isn't he?

He's gone, I think he's gone somewhere, to find his brother.

-You can hear banging about inside, can't you?

-Yeah.

And when we came here I saw people running across the car park, so...

HE HUMS

-There he is. Mr Patel!

-Mr Patel, come on!

They are in there anyway so it's not as if they're not smoking.

-There is no smoking.

-You can smell it. You can smell it.

After walking his dog, the owner still appears to be in no rush.

Can he waste much more time?

Just let us in. Put the phone down and let us in. Come on.

-You haven't got a key?

-I left it upstairs.

Hello.

-So what's that in your hand, there?

-My car keys and my house keys.

Hello?

Yeah, open the door. I left my keys upstairs.

Once the door is opened the team head straight upstairs to

make a search of the property.

It's a very strong smell of shisha in here, Mr Patel.

But in spite of the strong smell of shisha,

there's no sign of any smokers now.

You wouldn't mind playing back the CCTV to show

what's been going on in here 15 minutes ago.

-It's not being recorded at the moment.

-Ah. Ah. OK.

-There's nothing to see. There's just a bit of charcoal in the sink?

-Right.

You know, but that's what would have happened to the shisha briquettes.

Next time we come back,

because you delayed my entry this time,

I will come back armed with a warrant.

Now I don't want to force entry because, you know,

we don't need to do that but

next time we come back here we won't be waiting outside for 15 or 20

minutes, we'll be just coming straight in, OK?

Whether there has been smoking here or not, it turns out that the

owner doesn't have planning permission to run a cafe here

and he's not at all happy about it.

The shisha lounge was on the roof, we've taken that apart

-but we're still being harassed.

-But you shouldn't be here.

I get it, it comes down to you don't want it to happen.

There you go that's me have to cancel staff and everything.

What can we do?

Christine and her colleagues don't want to close people's

businesses down but they do need to operate within the law.

There's nothing we can say to him that will make him feel any better.

In the end these arguments have been played out over months if not years.

It used to be a wood yard.

It's a site that has an old... existing planning for a wood yard.

The aim would be to get this site cleared and get flats

and future housing on it.

Free parking. Best drinks, best mocktails.

Best place to be.

Thank you, Mr Patel.

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

bothers you about Britain today.

What have you witnessed that really annoys you

about antisocial behaviour?

When people, like...really drunk on trains.

-Yeah.

-That's pretty annoying.

Like, they, you know, get in the way of a lot of people's business

and sometimes you kind of feel like they think that whatever

they're up to is more important than what everyone else is doing.

So, really, that's about being drunk in a public place

and about the noise.

Yeah, I mean, both together, sometimes a bad combination.

There's a time and place for everything, isn't there?

-Yeah, that's probably it, yeah, yeah, yeah.

-What else?

Swearing in public, like, quite loudly, you see teenagers

swearing around, like, mums with their kids.

You kind of feel like it's not really the right place for that.

It kind of sets a bad example.

One more.

-OK, people, like, littering and stuff.

-Yeah?

-That's really annoying.

There's bins everywhere here.

-Littering's probably one of my biggest P offs.

-Yeah, it annoys me.

It annoys everybody. Thanks ever so much for your time.

Saima, Etha, lovely to meet you both.

What annoys you about antisocial behaviour?

Erm, the first thing that probably annoys us,

when we're out with our children in public places, we're sitting down

trying to get a bite to eat,

we'll have people around us who are, like, smoking or

not kind of noticing that we've got young children around

and they'll just be not so aware that you've got the kids there.

Yeah.

And take offence to it if you, if you ask them to stop smoking

-because of the children.

-So, smoking in public places?

-Yeah, that really offends us.

-It does me as well. Top of my list.

-What about you, Etha?

-Definitely bad language.

Because we're at the stage now where we're trying to

teach our children all about good manners.

It's quite disheartening because we're really

trying our best to bring our children up in a polite society.

Yeah?

And other people do feel that they need to drag

the tone of society down in general by using, like, filthy language.

Thanks ever so much for that.

Antisocial behaviour, be it intimidation, excessive noise,

fly tipping, graffiti or vandalism.

Just not what you or I should expect to have to put up with.

But there are people all over the UK whose lives are ruined by it.

So, it's just as well there are people we can turn to.

We're on the front line with the highly skilled

-teams of council workers.

-It's my job to get the evidence.

We'll find her and she'll pay.

Police officers.

I saw you urinate on the pavement.

And volunteers who are committed to keeping our streets safe and clean.

And taking on our antisocial 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.

Last year new legislation came into force aimed at thwarting

metal thieves by clamping down on scrap metal dealers.

So you'd hope that thieves might think twice about continuing

to prey on our churches, stealing the lead from their roofs.

But in some areas it seems the message hasn't got through yet.

In the village of Chelmorton, Derbyshire,

the 11th century St John the Baptist Church is famous for having

the highest spire above sea level in the country.

But it wasn't an interest in seeing the view that led thieves to visit

its roof in the middle of the night.

Two men came at about two o'clock in the morning,

took lead off the roof of what we now call the Lady Chapel.

They then drove off but were caught on the road with the lead.

They tried to throw it away but didn't succeed.

What it meant for us was that we then had a hole in the roof

of considerable proportions at two o'clock in the morning

and it was raining.

Next morning, church warden Irene Otty was confronted

by the damage left by the thieves.

When I came in, I looked up and there was holes, you know,

you could see the daylight and that was terrible.

All the altar was wet.

Yeah, it was... It was upsetting, yeah.

But most shocking of all,

this was far from the first attack on the church.

We've had our lead stolen three or four times, you know,

so we've always made sure that it was insured.

Like many churches, St John the Baptist was targeted

for its lead roofs - a crime that is sadly all too common.

It's estimated that metal theft costs the UK economy

a staggering £220 million every year.

And churches have been hit hard.

It's such a huge problem,

the government has introduced new legislation,

and English Heritage working with the police have

been at the forefront of stamping down on this crime.

The Scrap Metal Dealers Act came in last year,

and that is helping to reduce the problem.

We're also seeing the types of crime prevention measures

that we recommend being implemented, and the police

have put a huge amount of resource into tackling the issue.

For English Heritage, losing part of our cultural history is

every bit as worrying as the financial loss.

It's a heritage crime, and you can often damage priceless,

irreplaceable medieval fabric,

historic fabric can be damaged and you can't replace that.

The lead itself can have historic interest.

You get graffiti and footprints and all sorts of things drawn on it

and that's gone forever. So there's a heritage crime here.

I also think that we see it as a wider crime, it's a crime,

it's an attack against the community who love and cherish these buildings.

It's remote, rural communities like those in Derbyshire that face

the greatest threat of lead theft.

And the local police have become accustomed to the thieves' tactics.

Quite often the people that perpetrate this type of offence

will travel considerable distances and target churches because they're

in isolated rural communities,

and because I guess they see it as easy pickings.

But despite new legislation and police efforts,

Derbyshire churches are still being targeted by greedy thieves.

Just five miles away from St John the Baptist Church in Chelmorton

stands the medieval church of St Leonards

in the small Derbyshire village of Monyash.

And it was here that Reverend Richard Benson was recently woken

by thieves in the dead of night.

It was a moonlit night

and they were stripping the lead off the roof here.

It comes off in sheets, ripped off the nails but they were

disturbed, I think, and they dropped one of the parcels of lead.

That made a noise, you can still see the damage on the tarmac over there.

I live in the vicarage next door, that woke me up

and I think what happened then was that they scarpered

and they left parcels of lead on the ground.

The attack was devastating for the church congregation.

A sense of horror went through whole village

because you feel like you've been sort of desecrated somehow,

that someone has tried to steal something from a holy place.

We do leave our church open all day long because we want people

to share in our church and to feel free to come in whenever they want

to, and we will still continue to do that, but it was a blow.

But the thieves didn't get away with much, and faced with a pile of lead

from his own roof, Reverend Benson was forced to make

a radical decision.

It must have taken several burly blokes,

I should think, quite a time to strip it all off,

so I thought there's a chance they might try and come back

for their ill-gotten gains,

so I got permission from the diocese of Derby,

from the insurers, from the police that it was OK to sell the lead.

You have to do all sorts of things as a clergyman.

One of the things you don't expect to have to do

is to sell the lead off your own church roof.

But selling their own lead doesn't save churches like these

from a huge financial hit.

It isn't a victimless crime, and it will cost a lot of money

and a lot of effort from church people and people in the community

to afford the putting of the roof material back.

The coverings we have at the moment are temporary,

they're only meant to last a matter of weeks or couple of months

perhaps at the most, and we need, if we can, to raise money very quickly.

We think the cost might be in the order of £20,000.

That's for the roof of the porch and the main roof the other side.

What makes these crimes all the more infuriating is that the small amount

that any lead might fetch as scrap is insignificant

compared to repeated repair bills for damaged roofs.

But the churches are also coming up with ways of protecting themselves

against future attacks.

At St John the Baptist Church in Chelmorton,

the roof has been replaced with zinc, which is much less likely

to appeal to metal thieves.

And back at St Leonards, Reverend Benson is also hoping that

a zinc roof will repair the damage and keep the thieves at bay.

If we get permission to use a lead substitute

I imagine it will look pretty well from the ground.

But it's very important that the community isn't faced with

the same thing a few years down the line again.

In the meantime,

he's doing his best to put this most un-Christian of crimes behind him.

Although people are annoyed by what had happened, I suppose it is

our business as church people to hope that they may still be caught,

but nevertheless to try and forgive them all the nuisance they've

caused and the time and money that'll have to be spent over this.

It's not just a crime against the present, there's a sense

in which it's a crime against the generations.

It's a church, for goodness' sake, you don't expect it!

On a weekend night up and down the country,

youngsters getting drunk are all too familiar, and sometimes

their overindulgence can be the trigger

for other antisocial behaviour.

So isn't it nice to come across a group of young people

who are doing everything they can to look after their peers

who've had a few drinks, and help them stay out of trouble?

A typical club night in Croydon,

and young revellers are looking forward to a few hours of partying.

But this particular group won't be looking for dance floor action

or drinking shots,

because Club Angels are on a different sort of mission.

So part of the thing that we believe in Club Angels is that we are here

to serve and help, and our motto is chat, help, listen, care.

God, we just offer up tonight to you, we are here to do whatever it is

that you need us to do.

The Angels, aged between 20 and 35,

are young Christians who volunteer at the nightclub once a week.

We are looking to help the staff and help any clubbers in trouble

and be someone to listen if they need to chat for any reason.

ALL: Amen.

With a passion for clubbing themselves, the Angels are popular

with both the dancing crowd and the club management.

Feedback we've had from the staff has been so positive

and they really miss us when we're not here helping.

Tonight it's student night,

and the Angels are equipped for any eventuality.

Buckets for being sick, baby wipes,

tissues for when it does get a little bit messy.

Spare hair bands, I forgot to say, for tying back people's hair

when they get a bit drunk.

Antibacterial hand gel.

And to keep people sweet, they have another trick up their sleeves.

What we do is bake brownies, we give them a little sweet treat,

just wrap them up, slip them in their pocket,

and people like us for that!

We also have Maoams and other sweet things just to pep people up,

especially if they need a bit of sobering up.

The Croydon Angels aren't there to preach,

but rather to act as guardians. Watching over night clubbers,

looking out for the intoxicated and preventing trouble for the club.

The main concern, really, is the club obviously wants to act

responsibly, so they don't really want to turf out drunk young people

onto the streets of south London and leave them

to be picked up by strange guys and so forth.

They don't want them to wake up the next morning in a puddle

of their own vomit or to fall asleep in doorways or anything,

so it's our role, really,

more of a duty of care just to make sure that they get reunited

with their friends, they get into a taxi and they get home safely.

Sometimes it's just a case of offering some cheery encouragement.

# Happy Birthday to you

# Happy Birthday to you

# Happy birthday dear Charlie

# Happy birthday to you! #

Hip-hip! Hooray!

-Aw, am I all red now?

-Yes.

Not too bad.

We hope you've still had a good night. The champagne sounded good.

The champagne was good.

It could be often managers and security staff that are having

to sit with people who are intoxicated, and they've got,

you know, other jobs to do and things, so we can really lighten

their load if we come and sit with them, keep them company,

keep feeding them water and maybe brownies and flapjacks

and other such treats, and just be with them while they sober up

and then are well enough to go home.

This recipe is a bit better, though, because the ones that I did

previously, they were kind of nice but so squishy in the middle.

And they're there to offer support

when it looks like trouble might be brewing.

This reveller is unhappy about agro caused by someone

getting too friendly with his girlfriend.

You don't touch my girlfriend's bottom and walk off.

It's my girl, it's my pride. It's my pride.

And the Angels are keen to promote peace in whatever way they can.

-I've got good runnings with Jesus.

-OK, yeah.

-Jesus forgives all.

-Do you think drinking is a sin?

Yeah, I do, cos it changes your personality.

When it all gets too much for some partygoers,

the Angels can take them to a specially designated area.

-Josh?

-Josh?

-Is your name Josh?

My name's not Josh, no, my name's Mark.

Mark? OK, I am going to go and see my friend...

When there's a genuine concern that someone has had too much

to drink, they will act decisively.

We can't let you go at the moment

because I think you've had a bit too much to drink.

The managers, what they do in Tiger Tiger Croydon is that

they won't chuck anyone out drunk cos they're vulnerable.

They will make sure that they are looked after so that they'll sober

them up, they'll find a friend and get them a taxi home.

Have you got a photo of them on your phone?

Show us on your phone. Where's your phone?

And we could go and find them for you.

Hopefully she's got a Facebook account or some pictures

on her phone of some of her friends and we can

go into the club and try and find out who she's with tonight.

But before they can do that there's a slight problem.

She's got half a bucket of vomit there.

There you go. Go with Candy, Candy will look after you.

Oh, man!

She's just been sick all over my hands.

It's a bit skanky. She's not sure who she's with,

not even sure where she is.

My phone isn't down...

it's dying.

Yep, we're going to go this way.

We're going to go to the back exit.

Cos your mum is picking you up.

GIRL TALKS INCOHERENTLY

-And your mum is picking you up.

-OK.

-Yeah?

It's 2.30am and the Angels' work is done.

Everyone had a good night,

and there seemed to be loads of different exciting stories.

There was just a couple of guys squaring up and kicking off.

As the Angels de-brief before heading home,

they're secure in the knowledge that they have spread a bit of love...

So we should pray for her as well.

..and kept the young partygoers of Croydon safe for another night.

-Thank you. See you in a bit.

-Bye!

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