Episode 3 The Wanted

Straight...straight up.

Yeah, this is the block, here.

There it is.

Stay close in.

-Go, go, go!

-Police!

Police, stay where you are!

Every day in the UK, the police are on the hunt for known

and suspected criminals.

Get back from the door!

They're armed with warrants and big red keys.

The Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire forces have granted

exclusive access to their raids.

Police!

Their officers are wearing special equipment

to give you a cop's-eye view

and bring you closer to the action than ever before.

-YELLS:

-What's your name?

Britain's streets are a battleground.

THEY ARGUE

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

..and on the other, are the wanted.

Greater Manchester,

the second largest conurbation in the UK, with a crime rate to match.

The Serious Organised Crime Group are tasked with

tracking down some of the region's most wanted criminals.

If everybody just wants to go to the bottom end,

we'll just do a briefing.

'Every single day that you come into work, you never know'

what you're going to come into - robbery, drugs, kidnap, extortion...

the run-of-the-mill stuff, really!

Today, DI Robert Cousen is preparing his officers for the latest phase

of an operation code-named Akera.

Right, thanks very much, everybody, erm, for scrambling together

this morning, I know you've all got other jobs on this morning.

It's an investigation into the supply of drugs.

So far, Akera has taken more than £2 million worth of heroin,

cocaine and cannabis off the streets.

As a result of activity last night on Operation Akera,

which is a long-standing drugs operation,

this morning the intention is to execute four warrants...

Uh, five warrants in the Oldham area.

It's dynamic, this, we're responding really quickly

to activity from overnight, so we just need to get out,

get to the addresses...

Secure any people within those premises.

They will be arrested on suspicion

of conspiracy to supply class A drugs

and then we'll be conducting a methodical search of the premises.

We're looking for any items, drug paraphernalia, drugs,

mobile phones, etc.

'It's only right and proper that we bring these

'people to justice. It sends a message out to the community.'

When they see the police van knocking on the door, taking them

away and then they don't see them for a few years,

I'm sure it just gives them

that little bit of better knowledge and a bit of satisfaction

to think, "Well, actually, they're criminals and now they're

"behind bars, so it doesn't actually pay off to do what they're doing.

"And the police are actually doing something about it."

OK, any questions on that? Nope? All right.

Thanks very much, everybody.

Today's targets are Andrew Winterbottom...

..and Mohammed Tubassum.

They're based at separate addresses in Oldham

but their criminal activities are thought to be linked.

A covert detective will lead the raid on Winterbottom's house.

As the team believe drugs are being dealt from there,

this won't be a polite knock on the door.

There's a stairwell here that leads upstairs,

over that gantry, where the door will be there.

We're just going to bosh the door straight off.

This covert officer and another team set out for the two addresses.

They'll raid them simultaneously and they're just minutes away.

Crime crosses country as well as county borders.

Every week, the UK extradites

more than 25 foreign suspects and criminals.

These are Europe's most wanted,

sought by police in their home countries for everything,

from murder and rape to a breach of bail.

The European Arrest Warrant allows police in the UK to detain them

and put them on planes back home.

If somebody has moved to the UK to avoid prosecution

or avoid serving their custodial sentence, it's down to us

to track them down, locate them,

arrest them, put them before the court, so the legal process

can start to extradite them back to their country,

to either serve that sentence or appear in court.

You can be on a murder one day and then you can be on an assault

the next day.

You just never know what's going to come in

and what sort of character you're going to meet.

Officers Dave Lockwood and Andy Million

have worked together for seven years.

They have been hunting down European criminals

hiding out in West Yorkshire.

Another night, another fugitive for them to find.

It's a Polish lad. If we get him tonight, we'll be taking him

to the local police station.

We'll be processing him there,

doing his paperwork

and we'll be sending him to London in the morning.

The man they're hunting is wanted back in Poland to stand trial.

He is suspected of committing

a string of serious offences

but his exact identity is a mystery.

He's either called Krystian or Mariusz,

they're his first names, I won't bother with the rest.

That could be from 2008, so bear that in mind.

He's wanted for three Section 47 assaults,

a Section 5 Public Order Act and threats to kill.

There is some confusion that he's got two totally different names.

The intercom's here.

77. See if we can get...

The suspect lives in a block with a communal door.

Because he is potentially linked to violent crime,

the officers don't want to buzz the flat directly.

Instead, they attract the attention of a resident at the window.

I've got somebody here. Hello?

Sorry for troubling you, it's the police.

Hello, sir, what number are you?

77? You couldn't buzz us in, could you?

Could you buzz us in and let us in, please?

A bit of confusion when we got there, which flat it were.

When we were knocking on the door, he actually popped his head out

and he were the one that buzzed us in to the flat.

I didn't even recognise him, his picture was so different

to that that I'd been provided from Polish authorities,

I just didn't recognise him.

-DOG BARKS

-Out that way?

-Yeah, dog.

Hello, sir.

There you go. Here you are.

What's your nationality, sir? Nationality?

-I don't know.

-You don't know your nationality?

Can I come in and talk to you, please?

-We'll bring the dog.

-Come on.

-I just need to check your ID, please?

-Mariusz.

-Mariusz?

-Mariusz, yes.

-Mariusz? Have you ever used any other name?

Who?

-Have you ever used a different name?

-Mine?

-Yeah.

-No.

-Andy? It's... It's him.

-All right.

-There's a warrant been issued for your arrest in Poland.

-Why?

Erm, for...threatening to kill - a Section 5 Public Order

and for three 47 assaults.

So I'm just trying to establish your identity

because you look extremely different from the picture we have.

Yeah, have you used the name Krystian Lucas Konopczynski?

-No.

-You've never used that name?

No.

-Is that you in a younger life?

-Yeah.

Yeah, that's your picture on there, isn't it?

You look very different now.

Have you had issues in Poland with the police?

-No.

-You've never had any issues?

-No.

-You've never been in trouble with the police in Poland?

-No, no.

Are you sure you're understanding what I'm saying,

-with the language barrier?

-Yeah.

OK.

Andy, we have a power under the Extradition Act

to search the property.

Because of the confusion, I'm going to talk

to National Crime Agency now.

We will be arresting him, we will be putting him

before the court for them to make a decision on his identity.

You're wanted in Poland, so I'm arresting you

because I believe you are the person that this warrant relates to.

So you're under arrest.

You do not have to say anything

but anything you do say may be given in evidence.

We're going to be a few minutes cos we just need to have a search

to see if there's any ID in your other name, OK?

As Andy looks for anything that may confirm their suspect's identity,

Dave gets through to a police translator.

I have a gentleman with me who I have under arrest.

He speaks Polish and very little English.

I need you to explain to him that he's under arrest

and he's with me and what's going to happen.

First of all, can I pass you to him to make sure that you can

speak with each other and you understand one another?

OK. Polish, Polish lady.

Hello.

HE SPEAKS POLISH

'When we started conducting the search, obviously'

I had to remain with him, he were really unpredictable,

I couldn't judge his, erm, his character and his behaviour...

So we'd always stay with him anyway, but that left Andy searching

on his own, and at this point, he didn't have his handcuffs on.

Handcuffs on...

Handcuffs on.

Just threatening to self-harm... if I don't give him a cigarette.

He's put his hands round his own throat.

-Making things difficult, aren't you?

-Please, one cigarette?

No cigarette, you're getting nowt.

He tried to throttle himself, really bizarre.

'People can snap. Once they realise we're coming through the door

'and they're going back, they can deal with things differently,

'with stress and pressure,'

and when they snap, we need to make sure

we're not the ones getting injured, nor them, cos they're in our care.

With their suspect handcuffed

and under control, the officers can resume their search.

A search that soon yields results.

There we are, it's no surprise, is it?

Not massive but...

Got to tell you, you're now under arrest for possession

of cannabis, OK?

The officers find drugs in a washing powder box.

You're under arrest for that cannabis over there,

we're going to deal with that as well for you.

We've come here and arrested him on the European Arrest Warrant,

so now we must put him before the next available court.

It's just gone midnight,

so he'll be leaving maybe six o'clock in the morning

to go to court in London.

Because Andy has found the drugs, we've now arrested him

for drugs offences... We've still got to put him before the court

or we're going to lose the European Arrest Warrant,

so this gives us a window of between now, midnight, and 6am

to deal with him for the drugs.

No fast movements, yeah?

-No kicking, no moving.

-OK, OK.

If you do, if you do, me angry, yes?

-I smoke?

-No.

Back in Oldham, Operation Akera is under way.

Hello? We've all tipped out on Akera.

OFFICER CHUCKLES

The Serious Organised Crime Group are preparing to raid

an address at the centre of alleged drug dealing.

Left here, mate. Immediate right.

Yeah, this is the block here.

It's a flat belonging to 50-year-old suspect Andrew Winterbottom.

It was only ten or 15 years ago where we used to go to a door

and you'd put your size tens through the door

and you'd kick your way in.

Unfortunately, we don't do that any more - or fortunately,

we're equipped with better tools to be able to get into these addresses.

So we've got a number of different items that allow us

to get into properties quickly and effectively.

When officers have a warrant relating to a serious offence,

they don't have to ring the doorbell.

They need to get in fast, before vital evidence can be destroyed.

Keep going, come on.

Go on... Go on.

'When we use the tools that we do to get in addresses,

'people know that it's not the postman knocking on the door,

'it's somebody who really wants to get in there as fast as possible.'

Police, stay where you are!

'The main concern is that if there's drugs in there,'

they'll get rid of them. Whether or not they're throwing them

out of windows or flushing them down the toilet, it's a concern,

cos you just want to get in there as fast as you possibly can do.

-Clear...

-Clear!

Successful entry as, erm... nobody present.

-OVER RADIO:

-'Yes, got that.'

Inside, there's no sign of the target or anyone else.

The team must now search the property

for any evidence of drug dealing.

Just over a mile away,

the next phase of Operation Akera is unfolding.

Two cars here.

The black one's his, the red one's not.

Detective Sergeant Martin Ashurst

is leading the raid on the next address

belonging to the team's second drug dealing suspect, Mohammed Tubassum.

It's 10am and time for an alarm call he's unlikely to forget.

-Police!

-Police!

-Police!

-Police!

-Police!

-Where are you?

-Police!

Police!

Male detained. One detained. Out of bed.

On the floor. One detained.

Stay where you are. Do not move.

I went into the first bedroom,

where Mohammed Tubassum was asleep on the bed.

So he was taken onto the floor and was handcuffed.

He must have been in quite a deep sleep

because he wasn't aware of our presence until literally we sort of

identified ourselves as the police and dragged him off his bed.

I'm not quite sure how I'd react if I had some burly copper

standing over me when I was, erm, knocking Zs out!

It's always good to get your man

and, you know, it's one for the good guys, isn't it?

As their suspect heads to the station,

the team start the search for evidence.

Across the Pennines,

uniformed officers have detained Polish citizen Mariusz,

aka Krystian Konopczynski, under a European Arrest Warrant.

Watch your head.

There you are.

We're going to the police station,

I'll be watching you through the other side, OK?

See you at the police station.

They also found cannabis at his flat,

that means more trouble for the suspect

and more paperwork for the officers, and the clock is ticking.

If the transport's there ready to take them

and we're not ready, if they don't appear before that court and we say,

"Oh, don't worry, we'll send them the next day,"

that's it, the warrant can be thrown out.

You need to get them before the next available court.

So if we don't do that, they could be wanted for the most serious offences,

but if we don't adhere to protocol - gone, get to stay, warrant's gone.

How far off are we, Andy?

-Five minutes.

-Five minutes off, Sarge.

The custody sergeant at Elland Road has just rung me.

Luckily there's no-one in the queue,

so we'll be straight in when we get there.

That'll help us with the timing.

We had four hours to get to custody, erm, interview him,

deal with the drugs, deal with all that side of things

and then do the paperwork for the European Arrest Warrant

and not be in a rush that we've missed anything out of it

and have all that done and dusted, him ready for 6am to go to London.

Leeds, LS2...

There's been a European Arrest Warrant.

However, when we was at the property,

searching for ID under the extradition power,

my colleague has found some cannabis in the kitchen.

So, at 23.59,

I have then arrested him for the possession of the cannabis.

He's now been brought here for the extradition,

which has already been executed.

It's quarter to two... We're good, we're still good, we can...

We can do it, but it'll be... It'll be tight.

Two thumbs.

There's been confusion over the suspect's true identity.

Officers hope the fingerprints

and recent photographs will provide the answer.

One of the PNC files has been deleted and linked,

so it's linking both the men together.

-It's put it on as an alias, as Krystian...

-Oh, superb.

So this is the name we've got

and this is the alias name he's given.

It's now merged the two together, so if he ever gives one,

it will always give us both names, as well as just the one he's given.

So we can always see if he's trying to get out of who he is,

like apparently he's tried today.

With the identity confirmed as Krystian Konopczynski,

Dave needs to complete all the documentation.

Only then can his detainee appear before a London court

and be put on a plane back to Poland.

It's now just gone three o'clock,

so we'll have this finished in 30, 40 minutes, hopefully.

We've obviously been on the go now for 13 hours, so...

Yeah, I'm all right, probably a few yawns,

but, erm...we've just got to make sure fatigue don't go into paperwork

and we get it right.

In Oldham, the Serious Organised Crime Group have raided

two addresses in an attempt to dismantle a drug dealing ring.

They have arrested one suspect, Mohammed Tubassum...

..and taken him in for questioning.

But the other wanted man,

Andrew Winterbottom, wasn't at home.

A search of his property is now under way.

Among the findings, a metal box that's firmly locked.

There was a cash tin found at an address,

which we clearly needed to get into, to see whether or not it was cash

or whether it were drugs or a drugs debtors' list

within that, erm, item.

The key wasn't actually at the address.

-Drugs?

-Yeah.

Oosh!

-How did you get it open? Forced it?

-Yeah.

Early indications are that it's...

There's some white powdered substance in there in knotted bags.

There's also a set of scales in there as well, so that would

indicate to us that this lad wants this stuff kept safe by having it

in a locked box and obviously with the presence of scales,

it would indicate to us that these are controlled drugs.

So there's a few ounces just by the appearance of it,

so it would be worth quite a few pounds

on the streets of Manchester and Oldham, so it's a good find.

It would be nice to get a grip of this lad now

and take his keys off him to see if he's got the matching key to that lock...

That would just add to the evidence that it's his actual box

and that he's not keeping it for somebody.

As the search continues, a man appears at the door.

Give us the keys...

It's their wanted man.

Come in and have a sit-down in here. What's your name, mate?

Andrew Winterbottom.

Andrew. Just have a sit-down on this...on your sofa there, Andrew.

-How you doing, all right?

-Yeah.

-Andrew? Erm, got to tell you, mate, that you're under arrest...

-Right.

..on suspicion of possession of class A controlled drugs

with intent to supply.

OK, it's one minute past 11.

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, do you understand?

OK, mate, I'm not going to handcuff you cos I don't think

you're going to be fighting with us or anything today, are you?

-No.

-No, OK.

'The occupant, Andrew Winterbottom, he turned up whilst'

we were searching at the address, so the first thing we needed to do

was to check the keys that he had, to see if they fit the tin,

which we did, and unfortunately,

none of his keys actually fitted that tin.

Meanwhile, Detective Ashurst's team continue their simultaneous search

of the other Oldham address,

the one belonging to Mohammed Tubassum.

They don't discover drugs but they do find money.

There was a significant quantity of cash recovered

in his jacket pocket, I think about £2,000.

So that was seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Erm, I don't keep that in my bank but it's quite significant

if somebody is walking around with that kind of money, erm,

that they're probably involved in...in wider criminality.

During the operation, the team receive an important call

from the other address.

'Yeah, could I just ask all the teams that are searching, please,

'to be mindful of some small keys that would fit'

a secure, lockable cash-type box during their search, please?

It's important to find the key

because obviously the key linked to the drugs

and then we'd found Tubassum with a significant amount of cash.

So if he had the key to that tin, then it clearly showed

that he had knowledge and, in fact,

was in control of the contents of the tin.

A search of Tubassum's house fails to turn up the key,

so the team turn their attention to his car.

Hiya, mate, how you doing?

A bit of cash, erm, some documentation

and some SIM cards,

nothing significant in terms of finds.

-I don't know if that's going to be relevant...

-Oh!

Do you know this key that you're looking for...?

What size is it, roughly?

It's only small.

As in, like, a tiny minuscule padlock or maybe, like, a bit

bigger in terms of a suitcase size?

Erm, one minute, let me put you on to the person that's seen the lock.

One sec.

-Hiya, mate.

-Hiya, pal, you all right?

We've got a key that is approximately an inch in length.

Well, that could be it, couldn't it? Cos it's, erm...

It's about an inch, no bigger.

Maybe it would fit like a small padlock or, erm...

-You mean, like a suitcase lock?

-It's bigger than a suitcase lock.

-Well, that could be it.

-OK, mate, no worries.

Cheers, pal, bye-bye.

This was another significant piece of evidence,

quite a key find, and we always refer to evidence as finding

different pieces of the jigsaw and this brought a really crucial

piece of the jigsaw into the puzzle that we had in front of us.

Once a key was found, it was important that we checked to see

if it fit the tin.

Tracking down serious organised criminals

is a job for the detectives.

But there are more than 100 outstanding arrest warrants

for petty criminals in Greater Manchester.

And it's the uniformed officers who have to execute them.

How many prisoners have they had for the week?

PC Phil Cross is part of Oldham's Divisional Tasking Team.

Right, I'll see you down there, mate.

Basically, we target,

erm...any wanted people, any intelligence that comes in

where we need to execute warrants

and go out, locate wanted people.

People who are wanted for crime,

they're a little bit hard to find, so we have to do a lot of digging,

go to loads of addresses sometimes

to find these people, lock them up and get them before the courts.

His first job on this shift -

arresting a known offender who's been seen on the street.

He's currently wanted for a robbery and a shoplifting, he's just...

We've just sighted him on, erm, just down the road here.

He's prolific, this lad, he's always committing crime,

he goes into prison. No sooner is he out then he's back again.

SIREN BLARES

The male suspect has been seen with a friend, Abu Munahim, who is also

suspected of involvement in a knife-point robbery.

PC Cross stops to liaise with another team.

-How are you, mate?

-I don't know who...

I don't know what the relation is.

-He's wanted anyway, that Abu, isn't he?

-Abu Munahim...

-Yeah, so it's the last house down there on the left.

-All right.

'Together, the pair of them,

'they are a problem'

and together they can be quite intimidating.

Right, he must be coming here.

'He's gone down an alleyway somewhere round here,

'it splits two ways, to be honest.'

Suddenly, the other team radio through.

They've spotted one of the targets.

He's here somewhere.

Keep it coming, Nick, I'm on, erm, Middleton Road.

'He was going back towards the main road, that's the last I heard.'

Where are you, Nick?

Are you coming back towards the van or the main road?

'Yeah. Back towards, erm,

'the car park on Washington Street, towards where my van is.'

Yeah, got you, mate.

So we've got one of the two, Nick's with him here...

So...fingers crossed the other one won't be far behind.

-How are you? You all right?

-Yeah.

-What you doing round here?

-Chilling.

They were both obviously nearby together.

Fortunately ... made the mistake of coming out,

having a wander around the street.

-Give us the run around, you, today.

-I have?

Yeah. Been looking for you.

'Nick Cohen, erm, "the Gazelle", saw him

'and, erm, gave chase and he was detained.'

Inside... Good lad.

He's wanted for a robbery. He's been detained by 3519 just off main road,

Middleton Road. Can you book us a room, please?

Male adult, for robbery.

When you saw him, you ran away, did you? Gave it legs?

I did give it a bit of leg, yeah.

Then I, then I come to my senses and handed myself in.

Do you think you could have outdone him?

-LAUGHING:

-Yeah, I could, yeah...

I think it's cos of the fitness training

that we receive as officers.

LAUGHTER

'I think he's a victim of circumstance'

and the friends he's got, they just want him

to go out grafting, committing crime every day.

I don't think he'll change and he wants money in his pocket,

so he'll go out, he will continue to commit crime, unfortunately,

unless he can meet someone to turn him around

or he realises that what he's doing is wrong.

'There are a few success stories out there, which is good to see,

'but I don't think he'll be one of them.'

When did you last have a good meal?

-Erm...

-Really? We'll sort you out.

'I think, as long as you're fair to these people

'and they know where they stand... There's no point going in'

being the big tough man and all the rest of it,

hiding behind the uniform.

We're not robots, we're human beings and we need to treat people

that way, so a little bit of compassion, really.

All right, be good. See you in a bit.

The male suspect may be in custody

but his suspected accomplice in the robbery is still on the streets.

Abu Munahim has now moved to the top of PC Cross' wanted list.

That's one down, one to go.

It makes life a lot easier

if we've got both in custody at the same time,

so the frustration starts then trying to...trying to hunt Abu down.

-Go, go, go!

-Police!

Earlier, the Serious Organised Crime Group

raided the homes of two suspected drug dealers in Oldham.

-Police!

-Police!

-Police!

-Police!

-Police!

At one, they discovered a locked box containing possible class A drugs.

-How did you get it open? Forced it?

-Yeah.

At the other, they found a key which appears to match it.

I was made aware that a key had been found

and there was a reasonable belief

that it may have fit, so it was important

that once we dealt with everything forensically,

once that had been done correctly,

we got the staff to come back to see if the key fitted.

The tin was checked, it was opened, it opened the box

and that was one of those kind of, erm, bingo-type moments,

where, yes, we've found some really good evidence here

and the officers are really pleased at that point

because they know they've found a crucial piece of evidence.

Don't forget...

Brilliant, that.

With Tubassum's key opening up the box, the case was stacking

up against him.

That formed a crucial link

in terms of the evidence that we then had against him

and the others to prove that they were involved in quite

a sophisticated conspiracy to supply controlled drugs.

Detectives found the box at a flat occupied by Andrew Winterbottom.

The key was in a car belonging to their other wanted man,

Mohammed Tubassum.

As Tubassum's now in custody, the covert detective arranges

to meet with his solicitor to disclose the evidence against him.

BUZZER

So part of an investigation into drugs supply in the Oldham area,

your client was identified as being involved as part of an organised

-crime group involved in the supply of class A and class B drugs.

-Yeah.

During a search of your client's address, a number of items

were seized. Your client will be questioned regarding these

items and his suspected involvement in the offences.

-Any significant comments or anything?

-No.

-On arrest? OK.

It's really important

when we interview people that tactically we get it right.

At the end of the day, when we're interviewing somebody,

we don't give them all the evidence that we've gathered.

It's... Sometimes it's like a game of poker, you know, we might

show so many of our cards and then you see what they want to come back

with in terms of, erm, what they...how they want

to answer the questions.

Come on, buddy.

Following the disclosure process,

the detective gets the opportunity to interview Tubassum.

In fact, go over that side, mate, and we can get near these buttons.

It can be really boring when people are just

answering "No comment" and, indeed, I've conducted lots of interviews

where people literally sit in silence the whole way through and

that's just a one-way conversation, and that can be really boring.

Both suspects later pleaded guilty

to conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis.

Winterbottom received a two-year prison sentence.

He was vulnerable but he clearly knew what

he was doing, he knew what part he played and he was gaining

financially from his role within that criminal team,

so albeit he had vulnerabilities

and perhaps that's the reason why he first was recruited,

and I use that term because that's what happens,

people do get recruited to get involved

in this type of criminality.

Right. If you could put him back in...16.

Tubassum was locked up for eight years.

Tubassum was higher up the tree,

he was organising, he was facilitating what was going on,

and clearly orchestrating what the other members

would be doing and then he'd be the one that had taken the money

and, erm, no doubt he was the one

that was buying drugs in greater bulk,

which was then being distributed in the Oldham area.

All right, pal, nice one...

Operation Akera's been really successful

and it's taken out over £2 million worth of drugs off the streets.

You can't underestimate just how much that helps the people of

Manchester because, you know, that's...

Goodness knows how many people

who aren't going to be the victim of crimes because these people

aren't going to go out robbing and stealing to fund their

drugs lifestyle, so it's...it's a massive, massive difference

and also these people who have been gaining financially

from their drug criminality,

they're behind bars for a significant period of time.

Do you want a drink?

In Oldham, the suspected knife-point robber

is being released on bail after spending a night in the cells.

But PC Phil Cross is still on the hunt for his alleged accomplice,

Abu Munahim.

We're going to call in at an address that we went to yesterday.

Got loads on, but we'll go there

just on the off-chance that we can get

a bit of information and have a look around for him.

I mean, fingers crossed he'll be there, but if not,

you know, we've lost nothing.

We went to that home address, front and backed it

cos he always climbs out the window, he thinks he's Spider-Man

and we always catch him when he does it, so I don't know why he bothers.

-Hello? Who's upstairs, do you know? Nobody?

-Me daughter.

Just your daughter?

Just have a look round...

Come on.

The officer's in luck.

Get up. Police.

He gets to deliver an unexpected wake-up call.

-You're under arrest, come on.

-What for?

-Robbery.

-Robbery?

Yeah. I must tell you that you do not have to say anything

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

when questioned, something you later rely on in court.

Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

Just stand up for me, please.

You've got nothing else with you?

Right.

So you've got a firearm there,

what's classified as a firearm, that.

OK, you're also under arrest

for possession of a Section 5 firearm, OK?

I'm sure Abu would have preferred to rather wake up, you know,

have a nice cup of tea and a slice of toast

but instead he's met there looking at some old policemen

looking at him, laughing, so I can't imagine he was too chuffed.

'But he knew we were going to come for him eventually,

'it's just a waiting game.'

Right. You're going to be going to a police station,

-where you'll be interviewed, OK?

-Yeah.

-There's nothing in your pockets, mate, is there?

-No.

I'm just going to lock these cuffs

so they don't get any tighter for you.

Abu never ever shows any remorse for what he's done,

he never ever says sorry, you know, you never look at him

and think, "Yeah, you regret what you've done," because he doesn't.

I love locking people up, really, you know, it's good.

It's just nice to ring a victim, to say to them,

"Look, the person who committed that crime is now in custody.

"Hopefully he'll go to jail," and, you know, you can hear

them on the phone, they're really happy that that result's come.

I wouldn't say it's hard on me

but it just opens your eyes a lot more,

there's too many victims out there having their cars stolen

and broken into, they're burgled and the amount of robberies.

That's because there's a lot of idiots out there

that need putting away.

I wouldn't say that makes me hard, just makes me a realist, really.

Several months after their arrests, both Abu Munahim and the suspect

appeared in court to stand trial for the knife-point robbery.

Munahim was found guilty of the robbery

and was sentenced to 44 months in prison.

The suspect was found not guilty of the knife-point robbery.

However, he went to prison for a number of shoplifting offences.

In West Yorkshire, it's an early start for PCs Dave Lockwood

and Andy Million.

It's 4.30, I've just come on duty at four o'clock,

we've got the bus ready.

Today we are going on a road trip.

500 miles, 16, 17 hours...

We're going down to London to extradite Krystian Konopczynski.

We are going to go down and take him to the airport

and pass him to the Polish authorities.

It's 12 weeks since the officers arrested their Polish suspect.

In that time, he's been in custody in London, waiting for his case

to be processed through the courts.

But under the law, the prisoner remains

the responsibility of West Yorkshire Police Force.

So it's down to Dave to make sure he's extradited correctly.

I've done 265 miles, by my calculations.

Good effort.

This chap got taken to London, I booked an interpreter for him.

He got a good solicitor and then he fought his case

and he appealed it initially and then, I think halfway through,

he just gave in and said, "Right, I'll go back."

Right, so come out of prison and then straight drive to airport.

Yeah.

The prison's here, just on the left.

The jail where their prisoner is being held

is over 300 miles from where the officers arrested him.

It's nice to see it from start to finish, when you've been

involved from it first coming into West Yorkshire,

doing the research and you've been involved in every stage,

it's really nice when you do it throughout

and you've got that continuity.

With their prisoner now on board,

there's just one more leg of the journey to complete.

The airport is a special designated airport,

just for Polish prisoners,

and when we have a flight booked, we get forces

'coming from all over the UK -

'basically, it's not just West Yorkshire

'that has an extradition team, other forces too.'

Extradition time.

-OK, got everything?

-Yep.

Come down, pal.

Yeah, pull it towards you.

'A lot of them come here to the UK and just decide, "I'm going

'"to have a different date of birth and a different name."

'I couldn't do it'

but they just start a new life.

He's got a fake name, you know, alias,

so the ID for this man here, Mariusz Konopczynski,

but it's a fake, false name, but there's two IDs in that name.

It turns out this Polish citizen bought his new identity documents

after arriving in the UK.

You got that in England? How much?

Pounds?

-English pounds?

-Yeah.

Pretty good.

£600 to live a normal life,

knowing police aren't going to be chasing you - is it worth it?

-Happy?

-Yeah.

Have you got some handcuffs for him and we'll swap him over?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, cool.

They all make mistakes. Even though they've got their new ID,

mistakes crop up and when those mistakes crop up,

it just sets one little alarm off and that's it,

that's enough for us to go and get them.

So they can't hide from it for ever. It'll come, it'll come,

it's just a matter of time.

I will not give up on one. If there's any possible lead

whatsoever and it's not dead, any lead and I will follow it,

I will not give up. I think that's what the public would want me to do,

just keep going until somebody tells me not to keep going any more.

Once you've got them, it's really easy to switch off.

Sometimes if it's been a really difficult, really hard one,

I might have a good beer, you know, just to, when I get home.

If I had cigars, I'd imagine it'd be a big fat cigar,

but I don't smoke, it'll just be a beer.