Episode 4 The Met: Policing London

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Keep your hands on your head! Do not move! London... Get out of the way!

Home to over 8.5 million people. This Taser is capable of delivering

50,000 volts. The task of protecting them. The country's biggest police

force. You're under arrest. Metropolitan Police. Show me your

hands! In a single year they are called to 90,000 robberies and

burglaries. Oh my goodness. 100 murders. You have been identified as

being responsible for murder. And make more than 190,000 arrests. Gun!

You have unlawfully and maliciously caused grievous bodily harm. It is a

force seen by some as the enemy. Black people growing up around here

feel that the police is against them. My driver has had his head

split open and another opposite was stabbed in the back of the head. As

they deal with life... What are you doing when you are 13 using language

like that? Death, crime and its victims. We lock up the bad people

so people like you can sleep safe and sound. 24-hour is. -- 24 hours a

day. Nearly 200,000 people are arrested

in London each year. All spent time in one of the Met's 36 police

custody suites. Where is it, number ten? Hold him there.

You and your foul mouth, you are some expression. That is exactly

what you are. Sober up in the. Been drinking although. His flat map and

he had a disagreement over Brexit. He has punched out some teeth.

Brixton custody in south London is the busiest in the capital. Today

after the inspector Brian Smith could be responsible for up to 40

days unease. Anything I could do to make your state more comfortable? I

will get the blanket, if you need anything, let me know. My job is to

make sure no one comes to any harm and everybody leaves here safe and

well, the staff and the detainees. What a friendly chap. Needy is the

word we use, they can be very needy. Brian and his team process the

detainees as they arise and manage their detention. What is your first

name? Mickey. Your last name? Mouse. We deal with everything from murder,

the most serious crimes right down to the most insignificant. Do you

know what was stay one that track stolen? 41 bars of chocolate. You

abuse your powers! Brixton lies in the heart of London borough with the

highest levels of mental illness in the country. I don't care! I'm going

to kill myself. The man is known to us. He is known

for being violent, he had mental health issues, suicide issues, and

also has a massive bandage on his arm where he has cut himself. And

when he was in prison he tried to hang himself. With his behaviour,

the restraints will reduce any injuries to himself and to my

colleagues. It's not great, don't get me wrong, I don't enjoy doing

that but you have got to do it and manage it as best you can.

SCREAMING. In an urban -- in another cell a suspect has stripped naked

and is refusing to go to court. He has you related. Excellent. What was

his name? Martin. He wants to be known as Lucifer. Lucifer, hello, my

name is Paul. I'm from the TSG, basically we are the riot police. We

got to take to court. I want you to know the levels of course we may use

against you. Honestly we will start off with conversation.

OK. You've got a bad heart? He's been arrested for shoplifting matter

and racially abusing people in the shop.

You just spat at me, please don't spit at me. No worries. When he came

in yesterday he was arguing, kicking and screaming that he had been

unlawfully arrested and this morning he doesn't want to leave. He has

nowhere else to state and he is warm and fed here and looked after.

Honestly tried to engage with them to me as quite aggressive. I will

brief my officers and get them to the top and we will do a self

extraction. Anybody got their Superman Punch on? And did I mention

he has urinated everywhere in the cell so the floor will be slippery

-- Superman pants. This group are often brought in to help with

difficult and violent offenders. They are specialists in riot

control, usually policing public disorders and large scale process.

We can't use CS gas because we would have to evacuate the area, we can't

use bat on strike soap contingency could be Taser. -- can't use

strike. We will open the door and do verbal, he edition and get him to

cooperate and if he does not we will use reasonable force to him from the

cell. I would imagine there is some mental health issues so we make sure

we are aware of that. If I shout get Tim Don we will get him, do the

Taser think if it works. His name is Lucifer. Get back from the door!

This is a Taser, that is 50,000 bolts. Any violent and it may be

used against you. Step back from the door. What.

Spin amounts. You can lift your arms now. Walk forwards. Listen to my

voice. Listen to my voice and you will be

OK. Walk slowly. Keep walking. Watch the poll. Mental health is becoming

more common in custody in my experience. Step up there. We have

reduced services within the NHS, we become a stopgap. And we perhaps get

people coming into custody when they should not be. We have a duty of

care to make sure they are safe. BLEEP. Everyone else OK. We deal

with people who are violent by their nature or by what they happen and

the job can be challenging. I was off for six weeks last year with a

broken arm after somebody went berserk. I had a broken back in 2000

after another went crazy. I have had my fair share of assaults. Why do

you still do it? I love it, it's good fun!

Next week are taking you to the Tower of London -- to South London

for an upsetting story, a serial animal killer is operating there. A

large number of mutilated cats bound in Croydon has stoked rumours that

the killer might be on the loose. My cats don't go out, I wouldn't allow

them out at all. If the chopping them up? The whole Chinese kebabs

meat thing or what? Who's to say they couldn't stab a human being or

whatever. He must be captured ASAP. Four animals have been reported that

having suffered what investigators described as a trademark

mutilations. The killer has been described as the Croydon cat ripper

so keep your cat indoors. The Met have responded to public concern by

handing the case to Detective Andy: who is more used to investigating

gangs and organised crime. Without doubt the strangest case I have

dealt with. Why would you do that? Many of the bodies had been found in

the street and gardens surrounding a part in Addis come. It used to be a

railway track that has been grassed over and it is used by a lot of cats

especially overnight because it borders the houses will stop we

think the cats had been taken from inside this part possibly. Where

these dots are art where the bodies have been found and it all centres

around this part. You have reports of 20 odd caps that are missing or

have been found mutilated. Heads or tails removed. Fox would it away if

they are not eating it. We have had cats left in a front garden, on a

piece of grass like this where somebody will see it, and they are

laid out. The problem is that whoever is doing this is good in

seemingly come at what they do and for this but never to feature on

CCTV is quite impressive and they are under the radar. There is

planning and thought involved. The suspect could face charges of

criminal damage and animal cruelty. It is a serious offence and

affecting the confidence of people around here. Everybody knows about

it, there is pressure to get this done as soon as we can.

That was probably a few months before his sad demise. He had been

cut from throat to stomach and I believe his intestines were removed.

Andy believes that this cat was the killer's first victim. We were so

lucky we did not find him on our doorstep because that image would

always be in our heads and every time you go out the front door you

might think, oh my God, what is there. Hearing about the brutality

of it has just upset us and we are still not over it now. He was part

of our family and we miss him terribly. Penny's son Richard might

be one of the only people who is caught a glimpse of the killer. I

was walking through the passageway, where I believe they took the cat

from gun at two in the morning. I think he might have had about stick

going through the fence. He was there and he kind of stopped and he

was looking like this across the land not wanting to see me. I have

walked through to the end of the alleyway. When I came back at the

other end, they were literally around this -- like this around the

wall. If somebody is doing that at two in the morning, they are up to

no good. It was only the next morning when I said I'd thought I

saw this mouse toy that mum found one on Amazon and the YouTube video

and the sound was the same as what I heard off this toy. It goes to show,

he can use them as a lure, the cat doesn't care about anything else

apart from that and if you can get it hooked then you have time to grab

hold of it. I have approached three of four manufacturers in the UK and

they have supplied me with details of people who are put them in this

area. But you can go into pretty much any toy shop and buy them you

will never get the full list of who has got what. But let's see. Andy

has brought in a specialist in animal forensic pathology to carry

out postmortems on 19 of the cats. Just a cursory glance at this scam,

you can see the head is missing and the tail as well. I have seen

decapitations before, I have seen tail amputations before and limb

applications but this number of animals, I have never seen anything

as bizarre as this. He needs to determine if all the cats have died

in the same way and whether it is the work of a single person. It is

overlapping the wound. This is the left medial thigh. All

these injuries so far are consistent with a blunt force injuries to the

animal. The animal is open along its entirety revealing the organs, or

what's left of them. It is strange. What we've got here is a clump of

hair, and you can see it's been cut across, so this is indicative of a

blade being used at some point during the handling of this animal.

And there's muscle crushing against the exposed bone, suggestive of the

blade and possibly a hinged instrument, such as secateurs or

garden shears. Important that there is no blood within the fur all

around the wound. There would be blood staining if this had happened

in life. Of the cases we've seen, the winds have all followed this

pattern, so I would be fairly confident in saying it is the same

person performing these mutilations across these animals. To think that

this is done by a human hand does make it quite concerning. London,

the seat of the UK Government, plays host to over 250 large-scale protest

events every year. Many of us around the table will have been part of the

great May Days, the June 18s, the various protests. We are always

balancing the issue of the right to freedom of speech, the freedom of

assembly, against our core duties and responsibilities to prevent

crime, keep the peace, public safety, to keep people safe and

catch baddies. A public order team are preparing for the annual

anti-capitalist Million Mask March. It is probably the single biggest

protest event in terms of challenge that the Metropolitan Police faces

in its fluid nature, its potential for serious disorder, high profile

in terms of an Anand -- and international arena, because this is

a worldwide event. At the last demonstration, there were angry

clashes between protesters and police. Chaos spreads to the west

end, causing damage to businesses and resulting in 50 arrests on the

night. One of the issues from last year, a vehicle got trashed. Nobody

would let me know whose car it was, but it did get trashed, and that

became the focal point. By the time the Daily Mirror got it and had cut

and pasted so many different victors, it looked like a battle

zone London. On a number of occasions last time, we created a

crowd. We put a chord in, because we didn't know what else to do. That is

the way we have historically trained. As soon as you put a cordon

on, by definition you have a crowd. This year, commanders want a more

proactive approach to reduce confrontation with protesters. Four

weeks before the event, they are developing new crowd control tactics

at a replica town built in a secret location. There we have it. That was

very quick, quite slick. The arrest team came from the narrow alleyway

to the left, went to the crowd, went in and extracted a target. This time

we need to intervene, interact safely. Supermarket sweep. So grab

and drop, effectively. The supermarket sweep is a reactionary

tactic used to quickly remove the apparent ringleader from the crowd,

in this case, the man in the striped shirt, before the situation

escalates. Large crowds are expected at the

Million Mask March, and it may be challenging to successfully extract

troublemakers. We would need to know before we go in where our exit is as

well, and what the options are. You work your way through a crowd... To

have the best chance of success, police will use a tactic known as a

bubble, where a large group of officers encircle a suspect to

isolate and remove them from the situation. My fear is that we do end

up with large property damage and members of the public and police

officers injured. That wouldn't be acceptable. I was the person

responsible for this event in 2014. It certainly kept me awake then, and

I would anticipate a couple of sleepless nights on the run-up to

the event this year. I dependent on alcohol, drugs,

solvents or anything else? Cannabis? Have you had any alcohol or drugs in

the last 24 hours? No. It is the day shift in Brixton custody. I will put

you through. A man has handed himself in after being reported for

breaching his protection order in relation to a child sex offence.

This man was convicted at Woolwich Crown Court for a sex offence that

has placed him on the sex offenders register. He's not allowed to meet

any child in a private Place who is under 16 without written consent of

that trial's parent or guardian. John visited a school to read his

self published book to a class of four-year-olds, but failed to tell

the school about his previous convictions. Is there anyone who was

dependent on you who could be affected by you being here? My

mother. She had a fall at 7:30am this morning. I need to make contact

with her at some stage. Hello, sir. I will try your mum now. Thank you.

Hello. I need to fill you in as to what has happened.

Two years ago, John was convicted of two counts of sexual assault against

a nine-year-old boy, and was sentenced to 16 months in prison. He

also pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images of children. I made

a massive mistake in committing my offence, and it was a sexual assault

on a pupil. I placed my hand on the outside of a child's trousers. And

that's why I was convicted. I think I've given myself a harder time

about it than anybody else could possibly, and I've grown beyond

that, but as you can see, I'm not being allowed to escape it, to prove

to anybody that I'm not that person any more. I had a blip, for

goodness' sake. I taught for 18 years, and didn't set a foot wrong.

It was a minute of madness in my life, and I've thrown away a

teaching career as a result of it, and I've suffered enough. You came

to the school. You were there to talk about a book. That's correct.

The book is called Sammy the Homeless Bear. Sammy, the hero of

the story, gets lost. He's adopted by a homeless man, and eventually,

the homeless man goes to crisis at Christmas and says, we are going to

find you a real home, Sammy, and puts him in the charity shop. A

sharp story with a happy ending. The visit that has caused a technical

breach of my SOPO came because I had no idea that a classroom in the

company of two teachers and a classroom assistant actually

qualified as a private Place, which I would like to be able to say was

an innocent mistake. Did you not think it was risky? Of course it

occurred to me that it might not be very... Sensible in terms of safety.

That's not to say that I had any notion that I was going to breach my

SOPO by visiting the school at all. You've admitted that is an error on

your part? Yes. OK. I propose to discontinue the interview. The time

is 1621 PM. Whether John is given bail or remanded in prison is in the

hands of custody Sergeant Simon Reason. The officers told me he

breached his conditions by going to a school and reading stories to

young children, so having contact with young children without the

written consent of their parents. His order prevents him from doing

that. He's gone there and had contact with a vulnerable young

people who had no say or power over whether they had contact with him or

not. John, has my colleague told you what happened? That I am due to

appear in court tomorrow. The Crown Prosecution Service have made a

decision to charge you. It's my decision to give you bail or not. I

am going to refuse you bail. You have a previous conviction for

breaching such an order, so I'm concerned that you may commit

further offences by breaching the order. Said to keep me in custody

after... Yes, you remain in prison on remand. Thanks, John. Worryingly

in control. Not fazed by it at all. He's not stupid. He knows exactly

what he was doing, and he has a desire to be near young children.

He's putting himself purposely in that environment. He knows that he

has children very close to him. What ever he wants to do, grooming or

whatever, or just being close to them. He was probably leading up to

offending again. I can't see any other reason why you would do it.

You know all the restrictions placed against you. Your order tells you

not to be with kids. There's no excuse.

I'm ringing in relation to your cat. Sorry to hear about what happened

last week. Not the nicest thing to find on your lawn in the morning.

All leave in the search for the Croydon cat killer are going

nowhere. The body count is rising by the week. Evidence suggests the

culprit is widening his net. He is known as the Croydon cat killer,

which is catchy, but it's not. He's pushing the boundary of the M25.

It's hard for me as a DS in Croydon to be dealing with offences locally,

let alone places outside the area. Was there much in the way of blood

where the cat was found? It is also harder, when we don't know who it

is, we are looking at a place where nine or 10 million people live and

work. Andy is travelling 11 miles away from Croydon to visit the owner

of Merlin, the latest cat to be found dead. We've had him for six or

seven years. Had him since he was a kitten. Was Merlin all Black? Yes,

with three little white hairs on his chest. We normally keep our cats in

at night. But that night he ran out. It's not unusual for him to go out

during the night if he manages to sneak out, so I didn't really think

anything of it, until the next day he didn't come back for breakfast.

Some binmen had been asking if anyone was missing a black cat. They

said, don't go and look. There wasn't much of him. He had been

decapitated. His limb was gone, and he had been essentially gutted. So,

obviously, for everyone, it's been not very nice. It's an all too

familiar story, I'm afraid. Taking the heads off has been quite

commonplace. What we are finding is that the cats are taken local to

home and they are displayed local to home. If you had found him outside

your front door, you would have found him outside your front door.

-- if he had found him. It's quite likely. A lot of people I deal with

in the police world, you've got the cat job, hah, hah. People don't

realise the effect these sorts of things have on people. When you are

dealing with people's feelings, it does ensure that you want to stop

it, and you really do need to. I've got to bring a tent somehow.

There was an Edgware cat some distance from us which was prior to

the 8th of March. Andy has called in profiling expert from the National

Crime Agency to shed light on the identity of the killer. Even when

they are trying to be random, and they think they will fall the

police, they will be linked to where they had been travelling. The fact

that they stopped there, you can't overlook there, you can't look

anywhere else. It is all going up in this one area. But if the hotspot.

That is where they are likely to have a connection and an anchor

point. Pippa Gregory is a specialist in criminal behaviour and has helped

to catch serial killers and rapists. It is not your average animal

abuser. You get plenty of those, stabbing cat, stuck with a neighbour

but it is the postmortem mutilation and the need to deposit which is

interesting. We don't know many of these individuals but those that we

do know about have been found to have really quite dark and deviant

sexual fantasies. That is not to say they are doing this to make up for

that, but there seems to be that they are getting gratification from

the fences and the mutilation of the cats but they also have within them

fantasies about mutilating or offending or killing or raping

humans. Your offender is getting gratification from this and it is a

question of how long it lasts. That is where the danger comes but it

doesn't help you find him. The criminal side, the psychology around

that was very interesting. The pushing towards sexual violent

fantasies around that, the assumption that it is compulsive

baby and when that gratification stops people look for something

else. It is the first time -- the compulsive behaviour. It is the

first time that you wake up and think, this is what will happen if

we don't solve it. It will happen unless we solve it. It has come as a

bit of a kick today. In a few hours' time, thousands of

anti-capitalist demonstrators will descend on central London for the

annual Million Mask March. This might be a long night and it is

going to be cold. Go out and be prepared. There are flares and

fireworks coming to this event, lots of them. It is the real test for us

to deal with nights like this. We're not going to let London be smashed

up. We have the palaces, the Houses of Parliament, government, any of

that gets damaged and it is international news. And with what is

a busy capital city on Saturday night, all of those other policing

issues to deal with as well. The police presence has been

dramatically increased this year with 3000 officers costing in excess

of ?1 million. The last thing we ever want at a public order event is

mass arrests but if that is what it takes this year to protect central

London, that is what we will do and we are geared up for it.

It is 6pm and protesters are bidding to assemble in Trafalgar Square. The

Met's other tactic is to position liaison officers like Keith in the

heart of the protest to try to establish rapport between the police

and the protesters. When people arrived we the first they meet,

hopefully people will recognise us as being a friendly face policing,

not that there are unfriendly faces. Some of the messages going out on

social media have been disturbing. You look like nice people. This

group hate us, absolutely hate us. They don't feel as if there should

be policed in the crowd at all. We are always conscious that there are

people here that may want to harm us and we are constantly carrying out a

dynamic risk assessments to make sure things are safe. We are

supposed to be in a democracy where everyone has the right to have an

opinion. If you look at it, we are under dictatorship from the rich

because the government do what favours the rich and not the common

man. Violence needs to kick off so they can understand it is the

majority speaking. You are enjoying yourself. Marched out of parliament,

have some fun, no trouble. -- down to Parliament. The only reason these

conditions have been put on is because of violence and disorder in

the past. It is the most exhausting role in

public order policing I have ever done, it is really difficult. The

conditions are on events so we can make informed decisions. Trying to

establish a rapport with people who have no wish to have a report with

police. You're asking me a question. That's why I'm here, to make sure

people like you can have your say, that's why we are here.

Our streets our streets! Have a good night, lads.

All policing is being directed from the special operations room by

police superintendent Jim Reid also known as silver command. Any urgent

issues to Dick -- to discuss. Commander B J Harrington is known in

command of the whole operation known as Gold command. We're working

through the plan, a lot of engagement and differentiation.

Event being committed. That is explosive start there. -- explosive

stuff. My tolerance towards fireworks being fired like that is

getting very thin. Can we focus our intervention on those please?

If they are clearly not complying with the section 12 conditions are

expected to start making arrests. Graduating response, opportunity to

comply. The police use their supermarket sweep manoeuvre to

arrest protest is throwing fireworks. You can see officers

looking like they are making an intervention.

But it is proving tricky to remove troublemakers from the crowd.

Bubble! Bubble! That is the tactics we were refreshing them with can

make the arrest, bubble, protect them. With the suspect isolated in

the bubble, protesters surround the police giving them nowhere to go.

Information is they are going to burst through the part imminently,

we need to take the person with the flag to one side and intervene. The

officers are right there and let him walk away again. They will go into

the park and they are just standing and think them go by. As the crowd

become more hostile, police are concerned about the violence

spreading. I want them to engage, differentiate, intervene. Thank you.

It seems to be some information to suggest they are going into the West

End. I don't want this group going into the crowded West End so

absolute cordons please. Nice and tight here. The Met have imposed a

nine pin deadline on the event. They are resorting to cordons to try to

contain the crowd and ending the protest on time is becoming

increasingly unlikely. There is every chance we might make

a lot of people here now. -- Nick a lot of people.

20 minutes later, a local response team stops a man who admits he is

the suspect they are looking for. Obviously you were carrying a knife

and we suspect you might... What, stabbed in the tree? It stabbed in

the tree apparently. What's your name? I'm Craig. If you show us

where it is. I'll just film that. Because you have just told us where

that knife is and that is in the tree, we are arresting you on

suspicion of being in possession of an offensive weapon in a public

place. Thank you. The suspect, Gary, will be taken to

Brixton custody where Brian is running the night shift. Some people

just completely refused to cooperate, to engage and that can

become very trying. Look, man, you ain't no fucking teacher. You ain't

no teacher, don't talk to me like that. You're not a teacher. You're

being arrested for being drunk and disorderly in a public place. You

said I'll point in your fight by fucking will want to. Who wants to

be arrested. The next suspect to be checked in is Gary who was arrested

earlier in possession of a knife. In the last 24 hours, Saint 11 o'clock

last night, have you had an alcohol drink but yes. What have you been

drinking? Stella. How much? The last six hours I suppose 24 cans. 24 cans

in six hours? Are you an alcoholic? I'm getting there. So what's the

postcode of the current home address? No fixed abode. Where did

you spend last night? In Fontwell Park.

. -- we've got a phone charger. His toothbrush and toothpaste.

That's my mum 's ashes. And my mum's hair. Where? In the bottom there

with like a little trinket. Trinket. That's because I love her. You know?

That's... Can you imagine waking up one day

and not having a mum? Hell. You can run homer for someone, and there's

no one there is no more. You can't go home. I had to go to Brockwell

Park. Tree number three, Bush two. Is that a takeaway? Yes, please.

We've done what we've done, and we've got to be grateful what we've

been given. Can you see that nice in there?

Correct, yes. Was that the knife you had with you when you went to Tesco.

Yellow yes. I went, get the money out the till. They ran away and all.

But taking the money from the till was never your intention? Never at

all. The question is, when you went into that shop, what was your

motivation? What did you hope to get out of it? To be here, where I am

sitting now. To be nicked. I wanted to be arrested. Simple as that. I

thought, this will be my way out of life. If you are released from here,

if you are given bail, what would you do? If what? Say you were

charged and then given bail? I would be gutted. You don't have to to let

them go. If you've got good evidence they will commit further offences,

you try to keep them in. Obviously, you don't want to keep people

unnecessarily. We look at everything, way up the evidence, and

try and make the right decision. Gary, I will just be a moment.

Somebody's done a bit of an error on your charges. Can I have a signature

from you, please, to say you were president when you were charged? It

is no admission to the offences themselves. I'm going to refuse you

bail. The reason I'm going to refuse you bail, Gary, is because you are

of no fixed abode, and I'm concerned you will commit further offences on

bail. You have serious offences of committing violence, and I feel you

are at risk of violence to the public where you could cause members

of the public serious harm. Would you like to make any representations

to me of why you feel you should get bail? No. Whilst you are here, we

will look after you and give you access to medical attention, food

and ring. We can give you a shower, but that can only happen during the

nighttime because of how busy the station is. I appreciate you are

going to be here now for over two nights, OK? Cleared it out. Do you

want something to eat? I ordered spaghetti Bolognese. I will get it

for you. Two of them. I'm a big boy. You don't need a Gary every day.

He's committed a response, but we have -- committed an offence, but we

have a responsibility to look after him. It is pretty harsh to listen to

him talk. He carries around his mother's ashes. Would he be here

today if life had treated him a bit better? Maybe not.

Spread the fucking love! It is 10pm. An hour since the curfew has run out

on the Million Mask March. A hard-core element of protesters are

refusing to leave, and start to throw fireworks at the police. Jane

says this group will not go. We are going to be telling them conditions

have expired, and directing them, or requesting them to leave. Send

somebody up and start making arrests.

The police respond by using their supermarket sweep tactic, having

identified one of the people responsible. Take him!

Angry lads, angry lads. I'll do it. Is this our last one, is it? Is this

our last space? Hello, there. Sorry, one moment. I speak Italian or

Spanish. Do you speak any English? A little bit. The subject has been

detained. It's under section 80 of the explosives act 1875. PRO HE

SPEAKS ITALIAN. MY CITY IS DIFFERENT. MY CITY IS

MAFIA, POLICE, AND I RELAX. We are going to go in and make as

many arrests as we can. It has taken nearly two hours to disperse the

protesters. There is now only a few left in Parliament Square, but they

are also refusing to leave. The BBC are real bastards, yeah? Either way,

how come you reported something 20 minutes before it actually did. It's

supposed to be a 24 hour vigil, man! How are we being anti-social? Leave

me alone! Look at you! Shame on you! Why are you pulling me down? Get off

me. Just stand there, mate. I've done nothing wrong, and I've just

been sitting in the chair. That's all I've been doing. You are putting

metal chains on me. I am shivering because I am doing a 24-hour vigil

for fuel poverty to highlight the fact that 15,000 people were killed

in their own homes they couldn't access heating. We've made a total

of 47 arrests, got one officer injured, minor I believe, one

protester who has suffered injuries, not life threatening. And we've

pretty much got sort of west end unaffected, and things starting to

return to normality, apart from the huge numbers of police everywhere.

On a tactical and operational level, in my view, we've done a bloody

brilliant job, and that just goes to show that London police officers are

great at what we do. With hindsight, it does seem a

hugely expensive, costly operation for what was in effect a smaller

element than you would get at a standard Saturday afternoon football

match. It could have easily been the other way. It just isn't worth

taking the risk on reducing that resource when there could be so much

cost to London. So, it's just the way it is, I'm afraid.

Andy has been investigating a series of brutal cat killings for the last

six months. With over 50 bodies found mutilated so far, he has

finally been given a lead. We are going to a flat which is two or

three miles away from Croydon. It's the address of a man who was

arrested ten days ago for a serious sexual assaults, a rate, on an

elderly lady at her home address, which was within Croydon. Since his

arrest, his name has been given to us by a few different people, saying

they think he is involved in the cat mutilations series. Nothing specific

as to I know he did it, but we haven't had an offence in ten days.

The night after he was arrested, they stopped. Right, what we are

looking for is the obvious bits of cats. Knives, shears, anything that

will cut with two edges that can be used that way. If he's got bits of

cat here, if they are not in the freezer, you will smell them before

you see them. Anything obvious? That doesn't fill me full of confidence

that it's going to be down here. Mankini, but no dead cats. You still

get that little pang when you open up the freezer, what is going to be

in there. Maybe, maybe not, but you open the door to find... You don't

know what you're going to find. Despite evidence of cats being in

the flat, there's nothing to suggest the man who lived here is

responsible for the series of killings.

I wouldn't have got the warrant if I didn't think it was a possibility it

could have been him. It's seemingly not. There you go. But we're getting

used to it on this job. Lots of doors opening, and being slammed in

your face at the moment. We'll get there, but I don't know how many

more of these we will do before we get there. There are now more than

100 cats who are thought to have been killed and mutilated by the

same culprit. I think all the time they are carrying on, we would get

crucified if we stepped away from it. If, for example, this fellow

would go out there and start doing this sort of thing on humans, I

would be kicked from here to Chelsea, and it would be like, why

didn't we do this sort of thing at a lower level? I think it runs until

it is stopped. Find out more about policing and how

crimes are solved at: Next time. The pavement is a

pavement. Police! The subject is present. You've been identified as

being responsible for the murder of a David McKenna.