Episode 12 The Wanted

-They're going straight to the back.

-Yeah, he is.

He's here. He's here.

He is here.

-Open it now!

-He's in the front.

-Watch the front.

-Front window?

He's going round the back.

Open the door now!

WOMAN SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY

Open it!

Where is he?

Every day in the UK,

the police are on the hunt for known and suspected criminals.

Get back from the door!

They are armed with warrants and big red keys.

The Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire forces

have granted exclusive access to their raids.

Their officers are wearing special equipment

to give you a cop's-eye view

and bring you closer to the action than ever before.

What's your name?

Britain's streets are a battleground.

-Stay back!

-Get out of the way.

On one side are the men and women fighting to keep us safe.

And on the other are...

West Yorkshire.

Its beautiful country landscapes attract hordes of tourists.

But its big towns and cities also have their share of urban crime.

There. No, no, there, there.

-Is he in there?

-Yeah.

-Did he go up the road, or...?

Yeah, he's just going up.

Bradford is a patch patrolled by roads traffic officers

James Alderson and Andy Sloan.

Today, they're targeting vehicles

used to carry out offences,

along with the wanted criminals behind the wheel.

Working in the area of Bradford, there's a lot of challenges.

There's a lot of roads policing problems

and a lot of unissued drivers,

a lot of unlicensed drivers.

And a lot of criminals using vehicles.

So the job keeps me busy.

Among their main targets are uninsured and unregistered vehicles,

known as pool cars.

There will be hundreds of pool cars out there.

What will happen is a group of friends will go out,

buy a car, and they will all use it.

The keys will just get passed around between various people.

Pool cars are generally used for criminality,

so from a roads policing point of view,

it's a good vehicle to go looking for.

When pool cars are used, they're involved in collisions,

people drive away, don't stop at the scene

and unfortunately members of the public do get injured.

I didn't see where the driver went either. I just saw him.

Today's shift has only just started,

but right away they spot a car

heading in the opposite direction at speed.

INDISTINCT

The officers suspect it's a pool car

that may have been used in a drugs deal.

But chasing it through a busy residential area carries risks.

-RADIO:

-'Can you confirm vehicle details, please?'

Green Ford Focus.

Right, right, right, towards Thornbury Roundabout.

Speed, 5-0.

-RADIO:

-'Policy has been granted for tax purposes.'

High-speed chases are part of the job description

for officers like these.

But they must remain calm and professional at all times.

You get that adrenaline dropped straight into your system

and you get that little bit of a euphoric feeling.

Then it's just a matter of managing it, controlling it.

Acknowledged, speed 6-0.

Up Barkerend Road.

-PC ALDERSON:

-The fact is that they are generally one step ahead of you

because you're slowing for junctions, you're being cautious

of what's around in the environment -

they're not, they're just trying to get away.

Right, right, right down Hipswell Street.

-PC ALDERSON:

-You've then got a job to do in managing that pursuit

and bringing it to a safe conclusion.

Left, left, left.

Oh, it's up the pavement on Killinghall Road, isn't it?

The officers decide it's too dangerous

to pursue the car any further.

They've lost sight of it for now.

No, no, no, it went over a pavement onto Killinghall Road.

That pursuit was a prime example of how

they will do anything to get away.

We won't.

We want to go home at the end of the day. It's our... It's our job

to do what we do, but at the end of the day,

I want to go home to my family

and I'm not taking the risks that they're willing to take to get away.

Has a green Focus come in here?

I knew it was still out there, I knew it was still being used.

I wanted to find it and I wanted to take it off

these people that were using it.

Officer Alderson has the vehicle registration,

so the car will remain on his wanted list.

Greater Manchester, home to the UK's third-largest police force.

Like all big city regions, it suffers from serious crime.

And when offences occur that pose a threat to life,

some suspects will go on a critical most-wanted list.

Right.

We've been allocated the manhunt for Neville Powell,

Operation Alum, as it's called.

I wonder if you could just give me an update in relation to what he is

wanted for.

Then just an overview, a summary of him and what he is about.

The Force Critical Wanted Unit was set up to deal with

Greater Manchester's greatest threats and risk.

Those people who've either escaped from prison,

or they're wanted for really serious offences.

So, in essence,

they are set up to make sure that the community of Manchester is safe.

And they're a really unique team

with specialist skills at tracking down people

who really don't want to be found.

DI Robert Cousen's latest task

is to find a suspect wanted for assault.

46-year-old Neville Powell is from Jamaica.

He's known to be extremely violent.

The victim of the assault is a female.

He's tried on a number of occasions to initiate sexual contact with her,

and on all occasions she's sort of declined

and made it clear to him that that's not what she wants.

He's taken to exception to that.

At some stage has started to repeatedly punch her to the floor.

Whilst on the floor, he's then repeatedly kicked her.

He's broken off from that assault and gone into the kitchen,

boiled the kettle.

Come back into the room, having boiled the kettle,

and thrown boiling water over her.

Other intelligence or information...

The job of tracking Powell down

falls to Detective Sergeant Martin Ashurst.

If somebody's wanted and we know

that they present a significant threat to the victim,

we will do everything we can to make sure nobody suffers any more harm.

What else do we know about Powell at the minute?

When you look at his previous crimes,

he does clearly choose to target women.

There's a number of assaults featuring women...

-Yeah.

-..some of who he doesn't know, some of whom he's been

in relationships with.

He has said that he's going to come back and finish the victim off.

Intelligence would say that he wants to come back and kill her.

Obviously, the risk assessment management of her,

we'll deal with, but in terms of the need to get him, it is very live.

It's a medium to high-risk, without a shadow of a doubt.

There's a Taser authority, which we will need to revisit.

We have three categories in which we rate our subjects.

And that revolves around the risk that they pose.

We have a platinum category, which is really...

..significant threat,

immediate threat to life where it may be a kidnap situation.

We have a gold category,

which is a significant degree of risk

around them being at large, and then we have silver.

Neville Powell was a gold risk factor.

He had committed quite a serious offence

against quite a vulnerable female

and there was a massive risk whilst he was at large.

The team has crucial information of Powell's whereabouts.

As he presents a threat to the life of others, they need to act on it...

immediately.

In Bradford, roads crime team officers

James Alderson and Andy Sloan are back out on patrol.

They are looking for the car involved in the aborted chase

earlier in the day.

-RADIO:

-'It's a green Ford Focus.'

3-1, is there more than just me looking for this?

'No, just you.'

Right. We'll hunch up here because, now,

if it hadn't sighted a police car and made off,

if he's just driving stupidly,

it's no reason to go out of this area, is it?

-No.

-It's going to be between here and Barkerend estate.

If we get it on here, though, it's going to be so hard to turn around.

I won't let it get past me.

Suddenly, they spot it.

It's there. Yeah.

It's got the bonnet open.

Get ready to grab someone for me.

A group of boys have been standing by the car,

but once they see the police, they run.

We got runners from this vehicle, Leeds Road.

While James hopes to block the suspect's escape route,

it's a foot chase for Andy.

His fast footwork pays off.

He chases one boy to a stairwell,

where there's nowhere left to run.

THEY PANT

8-6-7-7.

8-6-7-7, I've got a prisoner.

Turn around. Turn around.

I saw it parked up a little dead end street.

There were a few lads around it,

it looked like they were doing some sort of maintenance on it,

putting some oil in it, I think.

And as soon as they saw our police vehicle, they were on their toes.

They were gone. Andy has then obviously gone off chasing on foot...

..and has detained the young lad,

not so far away from where the vehicle was.

Let's get back to t'car.

So it was a good feeling. It was nice

not only to have found the car and have got the car,

but to also arrest somebody that's had some sort of involvement in it.

James searches for any evidence linking the car

to the detained suspect.

But his search is quickly interrupted

by some interested locals.

THEY SHOUT INDISTINCTLY

See how it travels so quickly, news, can't you?

Everyone just wants to come and have a nosy and see who's been locked up.

See you later. Bye-bye.

Get in your car and go home, then.

-Go on, then!

-Why you taking his details for?

Get in your car and go away.

Get in your car and go away. Go on.

-Get in your car and go away.

-See you later.

See you, mate.

-I'll see you about, boys, all right(?)

-THEY SHOUT INDISTINCTLY

That were very close to getting out of hand there.

You've just got to bear in mind where we are

and what it's like around here.

Before we know it, if we start making arrests here,

you're going to have 50 people out on street.

You've just got to be a bit more tactful.

I think roads policing in general is widely disliked.

But we just have to remember

the reason why we're here and what we're here to do.

And you might get one person complaining one minute,

but then when you have to go to their house and tell them that their

partner, son, father, brother,

has been involved in a serious or fatal collision,

they're the first ones to say, "Why aren't you out there doing something about it?"

So I think we're stuck between a rock and a hard place, really.

Their suspect is taken into custody for further questioning.

'It feels good when you know that you've caught somebody,

'and it feels good that you're part of that team.

'You know, I know Andy's done the legwork and he's the one

'that's chased after him, but at the end of the day,

'we went out to find that car.

'When you go looking for something and find it, not only do you find it,

'but you get a prisoner from it, it's a nice feeling.'

It's a really nice feeling and it makes going out

and doing your job worthwhile.

Right, what's the circumstances of arrest, please?

Sergeant. Was stood next to a vehicle W621.

This vehicle failed to stop for the police.

There's no known keeper of this vehicle,

so he's been arrested for TWOC,

dangerous driving and failing to stop for police.

As a result of what the officer's just said,

I'm going to authorise your detention.

All right, you understand that?

-Do you want a drink?

-No.

-Fasting?

No.

Despite the search and the questioning,

officers could find no more evidence linking the youth to the vehicle

or the suspected drugs deal.

No further action was taken against him.

But the officers were satisfied

that another unregistered and uninsured car

was taken off the streets.

End of here, right, onto Stretford.

Top of here.

In Manchester, Detective Sergeant Martin Ashurst is leading a manhunt.

The team's target, Neville Powell,

wanted for a particularly vicious assault on a woman.

Shall we get our heads together now and formulate a plan

for attacking the address?

He's alleged to have violently assaulted a female over the weekend

by pouring boiling water from a kettle on her a couple of times.

And then he's attacked her with a bar.

Following that, he made reference to finishing her off

while he had a kitchen knife in his hand.

From that, he's... We believe he's really quite volatile,

owing to his lifestyle - high on drugs.

So the urgency to get him is mainly around the risk that he presents to

anybody that he comes across.

-RADIO:

-'We're not going to delay you, but you never know...'

Yes, yes. Can you keep us updated?

We are showing as...

2.4 miles away...

The team are waiting for confirmation that Powell

is at the address they're heading for.

Back at base, intelligence officers

use phone tracking technology

to gather the information they need.

We look at little pieces of the jigsaw that might

give us some clues as to where this person might be.

'We could look at people who he had rang.

'They obviously had mutual friends who we could start looking at.

'And there was a number of different avenues that sprung to mind

'immediately to say where Neville Powell was.'

And those are the lines that we followed.

Go ahead, Martin.

'Same location as of three minutes ago.'

Yes, yes, on that basis, you're happy for us to go straight to?

'Yes, yes. Obviously, if he's not there,

'we can sort of mask it somehow without giving the game away.'

Yes, yes. We won't give anything away.

Finally, Martin's team receive the confirmation

they've been waiting for.

It's time to go in.

Move, move, move, move.

Officers surround the house to seal off all possible escape routes.

Locked from the inside.

Police, open the door.

Police, open the door.

Police, open the door or we'll force entry.

The key's in the lock, so we'll just be careful...

-WOMAN OFFICER:

-Open the door or he's going in!

-DS ASHURST:

-TV on.

-Police, open the door.

-Police, open the door.

-Female contact.

-I was in the bathroom room, sorry.

Hi. OK.

Sit in here. Who's in here at the minute?

-Me and my kids.

-Is there anybody else?

-Is there anybody else upstairs?

-No, no, no. Let me just grab my kids.

When we turned up at that address,

there was absolutely no doubt in my mind that Neville Powell was inside

that address. And straightaway,

you start to go through that risk assessment process -

what am I going to be faced with when I get inside here?

How am I going to deal with it?

Where's he going to be? And the priority is just get him.

Get him detained, make sure we're all safe.

Is there anybody else in this address?

Despite the woman's denials,

the officers' instincts are correct.

Powell has tried to conceal himself under a bed...

unsuccessfully.

-DS ASHURST:

-Come out, fella.

-Stay there.

-Stay exactly where you are, mate.

Don't even think about moving, do you understand?

-You've got a red dot on you.

-Contact, the front bedroom.

OK, you move, you're going to get Tasered with 50,000 volts.

-Do you understand?

-Yeah?

-Show me your hands.

-You understand?

-Show me your hands.

-I need you to fully understand,

when we lift this up, you say exactly where you are.

You do not move, or you will get Tasered.

-Do you understand me?

-I understand, man.

-You understand me, yeah?

-Pass your other hand over now.

Pass the other hand over to me now.

-Cuffs on.

-It's all right, he's trapped.

-THIRD OFFICER:

-You got him?

-Yeah, yeah.

What's your name, fella?

Definitely him.

-NEVILLE:

-All right. So why are you breaking up our bed?

-DS ASHURST:

-You just sit down there, mate.

You just chill out. OK.

It's 18:35, and what I'm now going to say to you is,

you're under arrest on suspicion of a Section 18 wounding.

You do not have to say anything,

but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned,

something which you later rely on in court.

Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

OK?

-Come on, stand up.

-Search him.

Have you got anything in your pockets that's going to harm us?

Have you got anything on you now?

OK.

Yeah, we've got a male detained. Can you coordinate a van for us?

'Yes, yes, will do, mate.'

He's got a knife in his pocket.

-He has?

-Yeah.

I'd be inhuman if I wasn't nervous and if I didn't go through

the range of emotions that every human being goes through.

But we're provided with really sound training.

And knowing that I'm going into an address with really experienced

colleagues that I can rely on and trust with my life - and they me -

helps you sort of plan for a job and get through that situation.

The female occupant of the house will also be arrested

on suspicion of harbouring a criminal.

What we really need to do is find someone suitable that can look after

those children tonight. Clearly,

your next-door neighbour isn't going to be able to look after them beyond

maybe an hour or so.

Tanya, I need you to come and get the kids from next door.

I've got to go to the police station.

Just leave that there, actually. Now we've took him out,

we'll just do a proper search of here.

Just stand there. All right.

Calm down, calm down.

Just keep calm.

I know that. But I don't want you to do anything else.

Serious organised crime is a job for the detectives, but there are around

100 outstanding arrest warrants in Manchester for petty,

low-level criminality and it is the uniformed officers who have to mop

them up.

PCs Phil Cross and Kev Rawcliffe are part of Oldham's divisional tasking team.

Somebody get the ladders?

I joined the cops, my father was in the cops and my uncles were in the cops

to chase the bad guys, for want of a better word.

Put them in handcuffs, put them before the courts.

It is a cliche to say, but it is the thrill of the chase.

For the last fortnight,

the team have been hunting for a juvenile offender who cannot be

identified because of his age.

He is wanted for failure to appear at court,

for offences of wounding and battery.

I came across him probably when he was ten years old,

and he's only 16 or 17 now.

It is just ongoing.

Having said that, the family have been known to me since I came to

division back in 1989 so it is an ongoing process,

passed down the line and we have ended up with this chap now who is

our pain in the backside at the moment.

The youth is known to use several different addresses which makes the task

of tracking him all the harder.

To find one person we can do 15 addresses.

It's not just, "Is he here? No" - walk away.

We have to go in, search the house, properly,

do the loft, and look everywhere for these people.

First stop today, the boy's grandparents' house.

-Yeah, we are in.

-Hello, mate.

-Are you all right? Is

-BLEEP

-here?

No, he was here last night. No, he was here last night.

He was here last night? He is definitely not here now?

No. Go and have a look.

The officers can't just take the grandfather's word for it.

They will have to conduct a thorough search to see if the youngster is

hiding there.

When was the last time you seen him?

INDISTINCT

He isn't. The officers will have to look elsewhere.

Oldham's streets are well known to the team.

They have searched hundreds of houses here while tracking down suspects.

I think our team have to be 80-strong to do all the houses at once so we can

get him on the first lift rather than spending days and often weeks trying to find him.

Next stop, the suspect's home address.

We've just got to the place. I'm sure it was...

Yeah, we're on the door, mate. This is the one where we got him

-in the loft last time.

-Hello. Are you all right?

-What's the matter?

-Hello, darling. Are you all right?

-Yeah.

-We're just going to have

-a search done, is that all right?

-Yeah.

-OK?

-Yeah.

-Definitely not here?

-Take a look.

-I don't want to have to arrest you for assisting him.

-I swear on my kid's life he's not here.

-So if you tell me he's here or even...

-INDISTINCT

-..you can point.

-He's not in the loft?

-No.

-Are you sure?

-I swear on my baby's life, yeah.

-Right.

-He was in the loft last time here.

-Was he?

-Yeah.

-Are you all right, Steve?

-Yeah. Just checking.

-Yeah.

He hid in this one. In the hatch and on the far side of the building.

It took a while to find him, to be honest.

He's quite a small lad.

Quite wiry.

So he was up there. There was no ladders. By the time we came in the door

he had got up there and hidden himself.

Are you all right? Do you want to go on my shoulders?

This time the boy isn't in the loft, so the officers must rely

on a well-used strategy to find him.

To go to the addresses where family and friends are and basically just

annoy the heck out of them and just be a pain in the backside,

a complete and utter pain towards everybody, and then searching the address tends to grind them down.

'And grind them down pretty quickly.'

The way their make-up is within this family,

they'll never let up. They won't give anything away, really.

Across the city, the Critical Wanted Team have tracked down their man.

Come out, fella. Stay exactly where you are, mate.

Neville Powell is suspected of a vicious assault on a woman.

Officers have found him hiding at another woman's house and they have

arrested him with extreme caution.

You move, you're going to get Tasered with 50,000 volts, do you understand?

Show me your hands. Do you understand?

'Because of the risk factor surrounding this male,'

he initially had a Taser trained on him and that was basically to

reduce any risk he might present us but also the risk to himself.

It basically stopped him from wanting to fight with us and he was

'subsequently handcuffed without any problems or risks to us or injury to him.'

Powell will now be taken to the custody suite where he will be formally charged.

'It's a good buzz when you find somebody when you are looking for

'them, when you know they're a risk to other people,'

it is a really good feeling for the team it's a good motivator for

the team, because you know

as well as doing your job you are making other lives safer.

The female occupant of the house is also off to custody.

'As it transpired, she hardly knew him.'

'She'd met him via a dating website, he'd rocked up with a bag and

'she knew nothing about him and she'd inadvertently exposed her kids to quite a

'significant threat from a male that she knew nothing about.

'I'm not judging her,'

it's how these people tend to get on,

they prey on females that are vulnerable for whatever reason,

take as much as they can out of them and ruin their lives and move on.

Any investigation where if you are looking for somebody, you'll have

the people who do know what they are doing, and it is quite right that

they get brought to justice, but then you get, as in this case, the innocent people who don't know

until you go knocking on the door and then they are absolute shock,

and you feel sorry for those people because she clearly didn't know the risk she

was putting herself and her family under by allowing him to go to her address.

In Oldham, the Divisional Tasking Team are continuing the search for a

juvenile serial offender who is wanted for breaching bail conditions.

They've received a tip-off that he's at his girlfriend's new flat,

and they've just obtained the address.

-Are we far away?

-No, just around the corner.

-Right.

So this bottom flat now on the left, right here. Everyone out, right here.

Right.

Fellas, it's round this one. Come around the corner now towards me.

The team's persistence has paid off.

Through a window, they identify the youth watching television with his girlfriend.

Yeah, he's here.

He's here. He is here.

Their quiet night in is about to end.

Open it, now!

The suspect has markers for violence and has previously run from the police.

-Go to the back. Open the

-BLEEP

-door now!

The team can't take any risks in detaining him.

Open it!

Where is he?

Where is he? Where is he?

SHOUTING AND BANGING

Let go of me.

SHOUTING

Back off. Back off now. Move.

Get in there now!

Move!

-Get your hands there!

-I'm not doing nothing!

SHOUTING

-Turn over! Turn over!

-I will! Argh!

-Get your arm out!

-What am I doing?

-Bend your arm.

-I am.

Come here!

-You're having

-BLEEP.

-Shut up.

Out, out, out!

Argh!

-Right, right, right!

-Come here.

-Please don't leave me.

-Out, out, out!

-Please don't leave me.

I have run into the bedroom and immediately pinned him on the bed and then tried to handcuff him,

which I am sure was quite robust and possibly overboard, I don't know, but I don't know

what he's up to, I don't know what he has in his hand, what he's going

for, and he hadn't been compliant up till that point because we'd knocked

on the door and he'd ran off.

'I did not know what he had possibly armed himself with,

'what he was thinking.

Bring my other trainers, not the blue ones.

-Stop shouting.

-Stop shouting.

-Come on.

You call yourself family, don't you?

CLAMOUR

Go back to your house, and we'll bring him round

-if he's calming down.

-No.

-You're not going near him the way he is.

Just go back to your house. We'll bring him round when he calms down.

I love you.

Romeo and Juliet, aren't they? You've got to be careful.

They always say, "Can I have a quick...?" Sometimes if they put a bit of drugs in their mouth,

they transfer the drugs from one to the other,

we might have searched him, he's got nothing with him, and she'll give

him a kiss, pop something there,

a bag of weed or whatever, and then he's in the car secretes it and it goes

into prison, so we have to be very careful with that side of it.

Get in!

Argh!

BANGING DROWNS SPEECH

'Is he broken? Is the system broken? I don't know.'

But somebody like him, whatever you do

to assist or help and put things up in place for him,

he just rebukes everything and then just carries on,

because it's in his make-up, and that IS sad.

You know.

And it is sad that it's been passed down from generation to generation.

-What she said was calm down, OK?

-Can I have one kiss off her, please?

-Unfortunately not.

-I beg you.

-No.

-Why?

-Because you were naughty. You're a very naughty man.

One arrested, and hopefully the courts will keep him in this time.

He is a nuisance to society. He's breaking into cars,

burgling, everywhere he goes he causes problems.

Even the neighbours here are fed up with him.

SHOUTING FROM VAN

-You can hear that.

-BLEEP.

-Obviously he cries every time he gets locked up.

Hopefully the courts will keep him in.

A good result for everyone.

Following his arrest,

the teenager was sentenced to 12 months in youth custody for the assault charges.

It is not the hardest job in the world.

It is not the easiest job in the world but somebody has got to do it.

Right, right, right, down...

Earlier, Roads Policing Officers James Alderson and Andy Sloan

successfully tracked down a car they had chased through the streets of Bradford.

We want to be out there trying to stop criminals who using

our roads, and I want to stop them committing crime

because at the end of the day that is what we are here for.

Now they are back on the road again looking out for the unregistered,

uninsured vehicles known to the police as pool cars.

-There. There.

-Is it in there?

-Yeah. It's going on.

CHATTER ON RADIO

They soon spot one vehicle whose occupants are behaving suspiciously.

CHATTER ON RADIO

Once again, the chase is on.

Don't do it, don't do it!

'There's kids on the street,

'there's families in their cars and they don't think about that.'

All they think about is not getting caught with the drugs they have got

on them and they just want to get away.

That is all they want to do. The worst-case scenario is someone gets killed.

RADIO CHATTER

Left, left.

CHATTER

Driver has gone left, driver has gone left.

Down that ginnel.

The driver and his passengers have abandoned the car.

Andy must give chase on foot.

-Down there.

-Down there.

INDISTINCT

The officer may have lost his man but he does have a description.

Romanian looking male, short black hair, large build wearing a dark top.

James has stayed with the car searching for evidence of drug dealing and

for any clues of the driver's identity.

His efforts soon attract an audience.

The vehicle has recent intelligence suggesting it is drug dealing in the

area. And you can tell, there's other telltale signs that it is,

for instance, a lot of the panels have been removed,

not by me, but previously by whoever it is that has

access to the vehicle.

The tow truck arrives to take the pool car for further examination.

'Of course you're frustrated that you've let a criminal get away, but the bottom line is'

you've got to think, you're not the favourite there, ever.

So if you get someone it is a really big bonus and if you don't you have

to try not to get frustrated and

sort of think positive and think of the fact you've got another car off the road that is

potentially out there causing people problems.

With no legal owners to claim them, this is where most seized cars end up -

at the scrapyard awaiting destruction.

I initially came into the police for family reasons. My dad was a police officer,

I grew up around it, I saw the cars, and kind of when I left school there was nothing else in my

house that you were ever going to do.

That was it, so that's what I did.

But when you talk about now, ten years in,

it's trying to motivate yourself daily, weekly,

monthly, and the way I do that is by knowing there are criminals out there

and my job is to catch them and to stop them.

You feel like you have done your job. We're there to do these sort of things.

We're there to take these cars off the road to catch these criminals

and on that day we did just that.

Earlier in Manchester, the Critical Wanted Unit found their target suspect.

Come out, fella. Stay where you are, mate.

Hiding under a bed, Neville Powell was wanted for a violent assault.

Front bedroom.

He was arrested with the help of a police Taser.

You move, you're going to get Tasered with 50,000 volts, do you understand?

Show me your hands. You understand?

Fantastic feeling. It's always good to know we've taken a dangerous

individual off the streets.

On a number of levels it's satisfying, because you know

the personal sacrifice you've made

in not putting your kids to bed or bathing your kids,

or getting home on time, or seeing your wife and family,

you know that hasn't been for nothing.

You know you've done the right thing by the victim, but also you've

done your job well, and you've all come out of that safe and you've done it professionally.

Now in police custody, Neville Powell will be formally charged.

The assault that he was wanted for was a really nasty assault and that

is something where it is not a one-off,

this person had antecedents of being a violent criminal and that is what

it was and that is why it was really important we arrested him as soon as we

possibly could do to make the life of the victim a lot easier, but the risk to

the wider public, there was a risk to them as well.

Time for the team to question their suspect about the violent attack.

'You have been arrested on suspicion of a section 18 assault,

'which is a serious assault.

'It is alleged that you have arrived at the address,

'knocked on the door and asked if you could go in.

'After that, you became

'more and more aggressive and started pacing up and down.

'She then felt a blow to her head

'and being dragged to the floor by her hair.

'She has been stamped on,

'punched several times and you've then got a knife in the kitchen.

'She's scared to death. You've come back in the room with a kettle

'full of boiling water, thrown it at her.

'You've had some disclosure through your solicitor,

'what we believe has taken place at that address.

'Do you agree with that?

'Is that a true account of what went on that morning?

'What has this person done to you

'to make you

'pour scalding water over her...

'..punch, kick and God knows what else you were about to do?'

INDISTINCT

Whenever you deal with any type of offence where there is significant

violence used to a person, you think to yourself,

how can one person do that to another? And it really does sort of,

it is quite distressing but you have to deal with it with a level head,

and you've got to be subjective when you're dealing with these kind of things.

And over time and experience

you learn to manage your emotions just to get the job done.

Enough evidence was eventually gathered in order for the team to take the

case to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Neville Powell was detained in police custody.

I just like arresting people.

Arresting criminals.

I like outsmarting criminals in their own back garden, and taking the fight to them.

Yeah, they may be able to go out and commit crimes, commit horrible things against decent

people but ultimately there is a team out there

that are dedicated to bringing these people to justice and sending them

to jail and I am one of that team.

When the case finally went to court,

the jury found Powell guilty of grievous bodily harm with intent.

He was sent to prison for 13 years.

A great result for the Critical Wanted Unit.

I'm just really proud to be head of that team, and to see the fantastic results

that they keep achieving.

I'm just the person who sits in the background,

it's them that go out and do the real hard work.