Grunner The Lock Up

This programme contains strong language

-This man is showing all the signs of a serious drugs overdose.

-Scott, are you on methadone, love?

I'm just checking, Scott, that you haven't taken it all today,

cos you seem a little bit under the influence.

Scott Walker is a custody regular.

He's been a heroin addict half is life.

You've got the pen the wrong way round for a start.

Here, put it that way round.

He's just taken something. He's off his face. It's not an unusual way for Scott to come in.

He's so out of it, he's handed himself in

for a burglary he didn't even commit.

They've already nicked someone else for it.

You're nodding off, Scott, like somebody who's going over.

Can you open your eyes for me really, really wide?

Yeah, your pupils are quite small, Scott.

Stay with us.

'We don't know what he's taken.

'I'm fairly sure it's heroin, knowing his history.'

-Come down this way for us, buddy.

-You all right walking, yeah?

Because it could be an overdose, he's being put on 15-minute checks.

This is your favourite camera cell.

Scott, wake up for us, will you? Open your eyes.

As soon as he lies down, he loses consciousness.

He looks worse than I've ever seen him look before.

Scott, wake up, mate.

Open your eyes for us. Scott.

Ambulance, please.

Welcome to The Lock Up.

This is Hull, gateway to the North Sea.

A £1.5 billion transfusion has changed the face of the city

since many of the docks and shipbuilders closed down.

But as employment declined, addictions went up.

Now, about one in 20 people in Hull

are hooked on either booze or Class A drugs.

And many of them end up here, at Humberside Police Headquarters...

Argh!

..where over a third of its guests are drunk or drugged up.

Get your hands off me!

We've been filming here for six months.

The man in charge is Sergeant Rob Grunner.

It's quite entertaining when the door opens to see what's coming through next.

They're fucking killing me.

You've got to be alert and switched on and ready to deal with whatever it is that's coming.

It's only a couple of years since Rob earned his stripes

and in custody, you have to learn fast.

Scott, can you open your eyes for me? Scott, can you feel that?

Scott Walker's now barely breathing.

I just about twisted his ear off there

and no register of pain, nothing, not even a wince.

He's only taking six breaths a minute,

less than half the normal rate.

He's overdosed on something, we don't know what he's taken.

He's unable to tell us what he's taken, so we haven't got a clue.

Luckily the nurse is here,

so we can get him instant medical attention.

They now think it's heroin, and it's shutting down his system.

It's very serious. His body is slowing down to a stop.

It's a depressant, it will depress his respiratory system.

He is breathing, but it's very slow and shallow.

If untreated, that process can continue to get worse and worse

and slow down to a complete stop and then they've ran out of breaths -

that's a heroin overdose.

I've started intramuscular Narcan,

which doesn't work as quick as it does on Pulp Fiction.

Narcan blocks heroin getting to where breathing is controlled,

so should allow Scott's body to kick in again.

Can you hear me?

Nurse Adele can do no more. Scott could still die.

He needs to be monitored in hospital.

Scott? Hello, Scott.

Hello, can you open your eyes?

I'm from the ambulance service.

I'm Lisa. Can you tell me your name?

You're going to hospital now.

We have had overdoses before

and it's a case of doing the absolute best you can,

getting an ambulance on 999

and hoping that they get here as soon as possible.

You're going to get some fresh air now, Scott.

It's not very often I have someone that poorly in.

I'll be all right after a sweet cup of tea.

I have, I've got a proper shake on!

It's not funny is it, really? But this is the job we do.

Sergeant Grunner leads a team of detention officers

whose job it is to look after everyone who's in the lock up.

But today, he's a man - or woman - down.

All right, then, thanks.

Unfortunately, Sarah's overslept this morning.

We were all very worried about her, but she's OK.

So we don't have to go round and bang the door in

and go and search for her.

She's always here on time,

so that's why it was more worrying, that "where is she?"

I was going to say we've all done it, but I've never done it. Never.

Full team or not, crime waits for no man.

21-year-old Ryan Chadburn's had a bust up with his girlfriend

and then with the police.

Criminal damage has been IDed by partner,

causing damage within her flat.

And then on being arrested,

he's assaulted an officer by pushing him in the chest.

At the end of the day, if you've got eight coppers surrounding you,

piling you, of course you're going to retaliate, aren't you?

-What's that on your knuckles?

-From punching a door.

In custody, have you ever done anything to deliberately harm yourself?

No. Apart from you give me a breakfast pack

and I nearly choked on a sausage.

I can imagine, mate, I can imagine. Probably the baked beans!

Any other issues that's going to affect you whilst you're with us?

Yeah, if I'm in for longer than two or three hours I might be an issue.

-Why?

-Cos I just don't want to fucking be here, mate, to be fair.

Oh, fucking just put me in the cell, please!

This way.

We basically got a call from his girlfriend saying he was smashing up

the flat and that when the police got there he was going to basically

kill us all and do all sorts of horrible things to ourselves.

As we've got there, he left on a bike.

We've gone to get him and then as we've turned up to get him,

he's had a glass in his hand, which he's threatened us with.

At that point, he was arrested.

BANGING ON DOOR

Ryan has been in the lock up only minutes, but he wants out, now.

He's got a good rhythm going there!

And the offices are feeling the rhythm of the night.

-Can you name that tune?

-Bit of Phil Collins?

In The Air Tonight?

DRUM BREAK FROM: "In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins

Thank you.

-Lost it now, ain't he?

-Good evening, Wembley!

But Sergeant Grunner's finally had enough.

Ryan's getting so violent, he could injure himself.

With Scott away, he's moving him to the camera cell to be watched.

Ryan, come on, we're going to move you out of here.

What am I doing in there?

-Just take your shoes off please.

-Take your shoes off.

-No.

Ryan, go on, man.

Come on, Ryan. Come on, Ryan.

Don't throw them.

I don't see what your problem is, lads.

I smashed the fucking table and now you're fucking locking me up for it?

-Just take a seat and calm down.

-You know what I mean?

-Is that his?

Oh, here we go. Oh!

He can bang as much as he wants, really.

The more people bang, we know that they're all right.

It's the quiet ones that we have to obviously be careful of.

He's quite volatile now. He's really wound up.

He just needs to settle down.

We can't deal with him while he's like this,

but he doesn't seem to listen to reason at the moment.

BANGING

It's that samba beat! Shut your eyes, you could be in Brazil.

SAMBA MUSIC

Oh, no, we're back in it.

BANGING CONTINUES

-Really sorry I'm late!

-Afternoon!

Detention officer Sarah has arrived.

Not a good start to the day, is it?

We've had the helicopter up, we've had dogs out,

Wayne was crying, Chris was pacing up and down worried.

-Well, I'm never going to hear the end of this now!

-No!

She may have missed the drama and the music,

but she's just in time for the political satire.

WOMAN LAUGHS DRUNKENLY

WOMAN SLURS

-Have you been in here before?

-No.

Yesterday, 2250.

I've just seen the Labour Party and Labour's working.

-Circumstance?

-Unemployed! Unemployed!

We've attended at her address this evening

and been told by your neighbour that they've seen this female

running through the communal area, smashing on doors with a hammer.

Oh, I don't think so! I don't think so!

I don't think so! I don't think so!

-Do you have any medical conditions?

-I'm not a Marxist or a communist.

-Do you have any medical conditions?

-No, I'm not a Marxist or communist.

-Jeanette, are you a diabetic?

-No, I'm not a Marxist or a communist.

-Nobody's said you are, have they?

-What have you arrested me for then?

This is the second time in 24 hours

Jeanette has been arrested for alcohol fuelled offences.

She's been running around in drink,

waving her hammer about and banging at people's doors with an hammer,

so unfortunately, we've had to bring her in for affray.

THEY ALL TALK AT ONCE

-Go on.

-Go for it.

No, put it in your mouth first, though. Go on.

-You know what you should be doing!

-Go on.

-Come on.

Not a Marxist, not a communist!

Forget it.

We've tried to put Jeanette in. She's obviously well too in drink

The best thing to do is pop her into a cell and let her get some sleep

and we'll process her in the morning

-when she's sobered up.

-Not a Marxist...

I reckon we'd at least halve the number of people we get in here.

-Come on, then.

-Am I arrested cos I'm a Marxist or a communist?

We laugh and joke along with it,

but I think if you do look behind it, it's quite a serious thing.

I do feel a bit sorry for her. She's obviously got some issues

and I think she needs help, possibly elsewhere,

but we've got people to look after

and we have to deal with things as we see them

and our only choice at that time is to bring her here.

Are you sure you don't want your jeans?

-No, I'm not a Marxist or a communist.

-All right, then.

-Goodnight.

-Goodnight.

I'm going to sit down, put me head in me hands and cry.

Two hours later, Scott returns from hospital.

Because of a heroin overdose, he'd lost consciousness for half an hour.

The drugs nurse Adele gave him saved his life.

How are you feeling now, Scott?

Better? A bit better?

Bit groggy, but better, yeah.

I'm glad he's alive, more than anything.

He's clearly been pulled back from the brink, which is good.

I just hope he realises how close he came,

the fact we just saved his life.

I'm glad that you came back from hospital

looking 100% better than when you left, anyway.

-Thank you, thank you.

-You're welcome.

-I'd like to shake your hand and thank you.

-You're welcome.

Hey, don't get that very often. How nice was that?

See you later, Scott.

-Bye.

-Bye.

Scott's been a heroin addict since he was 15. He's now 34.

He's been arrested over 50 times,

mainly for possessing Class A drugs and theft to fund his habit.

Last time we saw him in The Lock Up,

-he was denying stealing for his fix...

-Disgusting, that.

I ain't even done nowt wrong.

..but was fully aware of the vicious circle he was in.

When you're on drugs, when you've got bad drug problems,

trying to get money from here, there and everywhere,

that's all your life revolves around, getting drugs.

I mean, you lose respect off your friends and your family,

you don't realise who you're upsetting.

You've got no routine, you lose self-respect.

Waste of life, you know, you're just existing.

Two years on, the drugs have clearly taken their toll.

Could you just look there for a few seconds? Fantastic.

Even though Scott's just OD'd,

he still has to do the mandatory drugs test

for possible thieves and drug addicts.

Scott, just put that in your mouth. This is purely for the drug test.

It's sad because he's a nice lad to deal with

but he's getting worse, he's coming in in more of a state.

Out on the street, if he's in a state like that,

you just think about how vulnerable they are.

It's worrying that that could happen at any time with him

and you wonder for the future,

that potentially it could be life-threatening

and he'll be on his own.

I have to get away from all this shit and...

..start a new life, get a nice lass.

I don't know which way to turn, you know what I mean?

It's...

Scott, your drugs test result is... you're positive for opiates. OK?

And the cocaine is negative. Do you accept that result?

-Yes, do you? Do you want a copy of this at all?

-Yeah.

I don't remember nothing at all, it was just pitch black.

I woke up and I thought, "What am I doing here?"

And the staff's told me that I've been unconscious half an hour.

Scary.

Do you know how close you came?

What, to death?

No.

-You can go back to your cell.

-I don't give a fuck, lad. Fuck off.

I ain't done fuck all wrong.

Ryan's just been interviewed by detectives and he's still not happy.

Very irate.

He did eventually calm down, but he's just not having any of it.

What's the deal, man? Stop waving your arms. Come on.

Let the fucking go of me now!

We're holding you, fella.

-Let go of me, and I'll walk.

-Walk.

-Let go of me and I'll walk.

-Ryan, just walk.

Fuck off!

Get in your cell, then. In your cell!

Where are you going?

-Hey!

-Just leave me alone!

-Just leave me alone.

-Get into your cell. Stop making fits.

DOOR BANGS

Stop tensing up.

Police are allowed to restrain

to stop prisoners hurting themselves or officers.

Control of his head is key,

so he does as he's told and to protect everyone.

RYAN YELLS

HE LAUGHS LOUDLY

You try that again, we're on the walk again, you hear me?

What's the matter with you, lads? Fucking hell.

Brutality or what?

Their exit from the cell is a co-ordinated manoeuvre.

All right.

Watch your fingers.

< Bunch of pansies!

He's quite a well-built lad. He immediately tensed up.

The fists were clenched

and that's the sort of things we're looking for straightaway,

the danger signs that he's going to attack and assault one of us,

and while the textbooks say you do it in a certain way,

ultimately, it just becomes a bit of a scrum.

Some good arm locks there, though, eh?

-Thought one of us was going to get punched.

-Yeah.

Nobody's injured or anything?

-No.

-I got a scrape, a bruise maybe, but...

I've got a mark on my shirt.

I'll be off sick for a week for that.

Anything to get out of custody!

Jeanette has slept off her radical rantings.

Morning. Hiya.

Now she's concerned about a crime of fashion.

You taking your blanket with you?

-Look...

-Oh, you've got...

-I've got a miniskirt!

Made out of police blue, it's a police blue colour.

They'll be the latest rage.

They will. Once I get this on the telly, everybody'll want one.

-All right.

-OK.

-It's just around here. I'll show you which room it is.

She's finally sober enough to be booked in.

Was you a bit worse for wear when you came in this morning?

-I was a bit drunk, yeah.

-How much alcohol did you have?

I don't know. I bought four Polish beers.

-Did you drink them all?

-I don't know.

I don't remember anything. I was drinking it so fast.

I just got out of t'cells, then I went back in,

I got drunk and end up back in.

Jeanette's drinking has landed her in custody

twice in the last 24 hours.

Just have to let you know, Jeanette,

that your fingerprints are on computer file.

-The police might use them to identify you.

-I had them done yesterday.

-You had your prints done?

-Yeah.

-Was you in yesterday?

I've been in two days running.

Right. I have to do them each time, unfortunately.

You're not having much luck lately, then?

I'll be missing you if I'm not in tonight.

I know! What are you going to do?

We don't know what's happened in peoples lives

that have led to them coming through that door

and when they do come through the door,

if they're in drink or drugs, they can be so violent

and spitting and swearing and carrying on.

And yet when they sober up,

they're the most pleasant, lovely people you could meet

and it's almost a pleasure

to be able to sit and speak to them and learn a bit about them.

'We've all got a story

'but all people see is the day you were drunk, ain't it?

'And that's the person you are.

'I've done lots of things.'

I've been a teacher, I've worked in educational welfare,

I've trained to be a social worker.

I've got two degrees.

As a single parent, I brought a child up on my own.

Everything got a little bit too stressful for me.

There was lots of changes in education, paying a mortgage,

and I just started to drink,

slowly started to drink too much.

It takes away all social conditioning,

all the veneer of civilisation

and you just gradually become more and more like a wild person,

a wild animal, really.

I'm beyond worrying, I really am.

I've reached the point where I'm just beyond it.

Jeanette's fate now lies with Rob Grunner.

The sergeant must balance her legal rights

with the protection of the public.

I have to make a decision on whether to release her on bail or not.

It's a bit of a difficult one. She was only released on bail yesterday,

so she's now, in effect, committing offences on bail.

She's obviously got a problem with drink,

so I've got a mind to release her on bail

with conditions not to consume any alcohol,

but I don't know whether I would trust her to do that

and if not, I would have to remand her in custody,

to go to court on Monday morning,

which when you see how she's presenting today,

seems really harsh.

Next in is what's known in the trade as a drugs packer.

There was a warrant out for Mark Mattock's arrest

for possession of heroin.

This is... This is Mark.

Can we take his cuffs off? He's been good as gold. No problem.

-It's the packer, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-The cuffs will have to stay on.

-All right.

-He has to remain cuffed in front.

We have to assume he's still got things secreted.

He's known for keeping a stash up his bottom,

away from the long arm of the law.

How are you feeling now?

Shit.

The cuffs stay on, so he can't swallow any drugs

if - or when - they make an appearance.

Do you know what the crack is?

Crack! You see what I did there?

-Has he swallowed it?

-He's plugged packages. We recovered eight.

He went to hospital. They said they'd do an internal

but he said, "I'm not having you put your fingers up my backside."

So for tonight, it's all stalled.

The question is, is there a package number nine?

Hiya.

For my information, what were in packages that you have produced?

-Heroin.

-Heroin.

-A little bit of personal, is all.

OK. We'll be checking on you quite regularly, Mark.

If you need to go to the toilet, you'll have to use our commode.

So Mark has his own ensuite.

A comfy bed on one side, and a luxury commode on the other.

You've got to physically watch him.

If the guy does want to have a poo, basically,

then he'll have to sit on a commode

and then once he's done the business, one of us will have to search the poo

to see whether there's these packages within the poo.

We'll have to leave the door open for the night.

No. We've got to watch, unfortunately.

'It's an easy job until you have to break out the sieves and the buckets

'and sift through it to see if there's anything in it.

You come in, do your job

and hope they don't do a poo in your eight hours.

Its police policy to have two officers on constant watch.

If any more drugs do emerge, Mark faces seven years in prison.

Jeanette has now been in custody for over 12 hours,

and is starting to show all the signs of a withdrawing alcoholic -

another addiction problem for nurse Adele.

Could you pop your hand there? Sit back in your chair.

No, look, I'm OK.

-I know you're OK, but I need you to do it.

-Don't wind me up.

-I don't want to do it.

-I want you to hold this for me.

-No.

-Come on, Jeanette.

-I know, but I'm sick of it.

I know what my blood pressure is.

Very early symptoms of alcohol withdrawal are

maybe a mild tremor, sweats, anxiety,

which affects people's behaviour, they can come across as quite rude.

-Do you want help for your alcohol withdrawals?

-Yeah.

Do you want some medication

to treat alcohol withdrawals, to help you feel better?

-What, diazepam?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, go on, then.

-Right, sit back in your chair, relax.

Jeanette's in the early stage of alcohol withdrawal state,

and anxious, as you saw,

and a little bit agitated.

If somebody's alcohol-dependent and then suddenly stops drinking,

it can cause seizures and then ultimately death.

Jeanette's cold turkey makes it even harder

for Sgt Grunner to decide her fate.

I see you've got a bit of a tremor, so you can't be making that up.

It will affect my bail decision

because the bail condition I was considering applying

was not to consume alcohol, not to purchase alcohol etc.

If she's an alcoholic, I'm sentencing her to be very poorly

or kill her, potentially, if she can't drink,

so yeah, if she's charged, she'd have to stay now,

without a shadow of a doubt.

And she is being charged - with affray

for banging on her neighbours' doors with a hammer.

I'm not going to be bailing you this time.

I think you got bailed from Queens Gardens the other day...

-Hmm.

-And you went out within hours, causing more problems.

I've got a duty to protect members of the public

that are victims in this case and I genuinely believe

that if I release you now, you'll end up drinking again so,

to prevent you offending on bail, I'll keep you in custody

to go before the next court.

So, you'll stay here, we'll look after you here.

I don't believe it. I haven't done anything.

I'll tell you what I did, shall I? I'll tell you what I really did.

Listen to me. Also, I am aware of your alcohol withdrawal issues.

I'm now suicidal.

So you'd better get me on suicide watch in the hospital.

-OK, just have a seat down there.

-My death is your responsibility.

Just have a seat down there for me now. Well, you're right.

I'd like that recorded, please.

When I die, he is responsible for my death.

I want him to go to court.

-You're going to a camera cell.

-OK.

All right...

Janette's suicide threats can't be ignored.

Another detainee for the camera cell.

I want a doctor, please.

I don't want to stay here, I've been frightened of you all.

I'm disturbed.

I feel like I'm in some sort of

crazy, mad place where they're just trying to do awful things to me.

Right, let me speak to the nurse.

I feel mentally and physically very ill, now. I do.

The withdrawal symptoms are getting worse.

But, within ten minutes,

Jeanette is fast asleep and stays that way for the next 12 hours.

There are over a million alcoholics in the UK.

Oh, does that make you fucking big, does it?

Booze features in half of all crime.

It has just got this gent into trouble.

Just pop your watch off.

The cufflinks and the bowtie will have to come off as well.

Stuart Taylor has had a delightful evening at a charity dinner

but a mix-up with the taxis home may have cost him dear.

It was a Valentine's dinner on behalf of the Yorkshire Scan Appeal

of which my partner Patricia is one of the girls that collect money.

I have got £105 in cash, wallet and various cards,

cufflinks, a watch, bowtie and seven bank cards.

Apparently, someone reported me for drink-driving.

To be fair, I did book a cab, but everybody in the cab,

there weren't enough room cos two other people jumped in

so I took a chance.

I drove. But someone had reported me.

The police were on my back straight away.

He blew under the legal limit at the roadside

but the copper's believe he'd not long

finished a drink so his alcohol level could still be rising.

OK, Stuart, I require you to provide two specimens of breath

for analysis by means of an approved device.

The specimen with the lower proportion of alcohol in your breath

may be used as evidence and the other will be disregarded.

Do you agree to provide two specimens of breath for analysis?

Certainly.

-Thank you. If you just want to come this way, Stuart.

-Certainly.

Anyone that comes into custody for drink driving

will be put on the breath test machine.

It doesn't matter what sex they are, how old they are,

what social standing they're from.

If we think they have been driving a motor vehicle on the road whilst in drink,

they will be put on the machine.

Nice deep breath and just blow and I'll keep encouraging you.

Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going,

keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going,

finished. There you go.

-Thank you.

-You can relax now. Just wait for the results.

We're looking for anything below 40.

Anything below 40 is no further action. The legal limit is 35, OK?

If it's between 40 and 50, we have the option of replacing

the breath sample with either blood or urine, OK?

And anything over 50 is a straight charge.

Drunk drivers cause 8,000 road accidents a year.

Over 2,000 people are killed or seriously injured.

You're below the legal limit so it'll be no further action. We'll give you a lift home.

-All right, thanks very much.

-No problem.

It's below the legal limit. Says, "We'll take you home."

-Just.

-Just.

< You must have a good metabolism, that's all I can say.

-OK, Stuart, let's get you home, all right.

-OK, thank you.

So, Stuart is on the move.

And, so too, is the drugs packer.

Mark Mattocks is finally on the commode, but he's in slow motion.

..isn't it, at the end of the day?

For tonight, we are stuck.

We just watch him and monitor him and make sure he is OK.

He may well be completely clear but, then again, he might not be.

There is a specialised kit that we have to view whatever he produces.

There is protective equipment in there.

Gloves, suits, masks, everything like that.

Ultimately, we have to look and see what he has produced,

one of the parts of the job that neither one of us particularly enjoys.

Everyone will be relieved, particularly Mark.

-I just want to get it over with.

-Fair play, fair play.

I can't hear you with this door closed, by the way,

if it makes it any easier.

Mark's straining to co-operate. It's going to be a long job.

The beat goes on. Ryan's been banging on for hours.

But the party's over.

He's going to be charged.

But he's so volatile, the coppers will have to charge him through the hatch.

Ryan, come to the hatch, please.

-What?

-Come here, you're going to be charged.

The CPS have made a decision that you're to be charged.

So what does this mean?

Listen, on 8th May 2012, without lawful excuse,

you damaged a television to the value of an unknown amount.

Also on 8th May 2012,

assaulted PC 2168 Dodgson.

How the fuck did I assault him, you bunch of dickheads?

..Police Act 1996.

-Am I staying in here?

-You are.

-For how long?

You'll be in court in the morning.

You made your comments and they've been noted. That is the decision.

You fucking wankers!

-That's the reason you're staying for court tomorrow.

-Why?

Because you're too aggressive.

I don't think it's safe for you to be released.

You're far too violent, we're not letting you out tonight.

How have I been violent?

You've been going absolutely mad in this cell,

kicking the living daylights out of the door.

When you came out of the cell earlier on,

it took five officers to put you back in.

We're not having that again.

Get me five officers in here and I'll smash the lot of your heads in, you fucking idiots!

Yeah, good lad.

It's morning at Priory Road and breakfast is served.

Here we go.

Come on then, follow this young lady here.

Jeanette has made it through the nightmares and mood-swings of detox.

How are you feeling this morning?

-Did you manage to get much sleep last night?

-I think I slept OK, yes.

You look quite well this morning.

Nurse Jackie is giving her a morning after the night before check-up.

Temperature's fine as well.

I won't give you anything just now because you're doing fine

and all your obs are fine.

I'll let you go and have your breakfast

-and that cup of tea you've been after.

-OK.

I've had about 15 milligrams of diazepam

and now she says I don't need any.

I didn't have any last night. They've got me back off the drink as well.

If I could have got a brandy, I would have got one.

But I can't because I'm locked here, so in a way,

it's not very pleasant but they've done me a favour in a way.

It's a revolution for Jeanette

but she's still not sure whether it was inspired by Marxism or communism.

I've been watching the election results, the French elections.

I'm not suggesting that I'm rational when I'm drunk, I'm not.

< It's a really weird thing to say.

Well, I'm nuts!

Finally, after a long day's wait, Mark has done a number two.

But did it contain a number nine?

This gentleman has just been to the toilet.

-Steve, do you want to do this?

-No.

-Oh dear.

We're just checking to see if there's any drugs,

which I'm quite happy that there isn't.

There's nothing in his stool, and it is very smelly.

That wasn't very pleasant.

Not the nicest thing you've had to do this year, is it?

It's not something we do on a regular basis,

in fact, in 12 years of policing, it's the first time I've had to do it

and hopefully I won't have to do it again.

Mark's off the hook, of the toilet and out the door.

And, with their trophy spatula,

nobody is moving faster than the officers.

Right, put them in there.

Jeanette, the former schoolteacher,

was eventually found guilty of affray.

She was given a 12 month supervision order

and told to undergo treatment for alcohol dependency.

Rhythmic Ryan Chadburn was found guilty.

He was given a 12 month conditional discharge for criminal damage

and assaulting a police officer.

Drugs packer Mark Mattocks wasn't prosecuted for possession this time,

because he was already starting nine months in prison

for having a stun gun and a load of cannabis.

In drug-crazed confusion,

Scott had turned himself in for a burglary he hadn't committed.

Now he's being released without charge, but with his life.

Scott is obviously very grateful at the moment, in the moment.

He realises he's been pulled back from the brink.

But I suggest that a day or two passes, he's back outside again

and it will be a distant memory.

He won't be thinking about that

when he's filling himself full of drugs the next time.

Next time, he might not be so lucky.

But it's not over yet.

I need it. If I don't, I'll have to spend that.

I don't want to have to spend that.

That's the only way I am going to survive the day.

The only way I can survive is by buying heroin

and I don't want to buy heroin.

Methadone is used to wean addicts off heroin.

In custody, it can be prescribed, but when people are leaving,

the police won't return personal supplies

if they don't know they're clean.

I don't want bail or anything, can you keep me in?

You're not getting bail, you're getting released.

He is so desperate, he is begging to stay in custody.

If they kept me in, they'd give me methadone, wouldn't they?

There's no reason to keep you in.

Yeah but there could be, couldn't there?

I could give them one

and then I'd get my methadone at least.

And he's got no cigarettes either. More desperate measures.

There's got to be a cig somewhere.

It would be nice to think it but actually put him off

taking this muck that puts him like he is,

but it won't and he'll be back.

No doubt we'll have to save him again at some point.

And he was back.

Arrested no fewer than seven times in the following three weeks.

-Next time in The Lock Up...

-All coppers are bastards.

This man has a close brush with the custody suite counter.

Take him straight to his cell.

Another is questioning police tactics.

What type of police dirt is this? Are we in Colombia?

-Why is that

-BLEEP

-man still stood there with a fucking Taser?

And after three attacks on his business, this man's had enough.

Someone was breaking in the van.

He swung round with this bar.

He hit me on the hand but I took it off him and brayed him with it.

But now he's on the wrong side of the law.

GBH with intent, it's one down from murder really.

The only element missing is that he didn't kill somebody.

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