Episode 4 The Wanted

We're just pulling up now near the address.

CAR HORN TOOTS

Yeah, we're just pulling up at the address now.

Go get the whammer.

-Police!

-Here you are, Rob.

-Rob...

-There you go!

Go!

-Police!

-Police!

-Police! Police!

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.

What's your name?

Britain's streets are a battleground.

-Stay back!

-Get out of the way. Calm down.

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

And on the other are the wanted.

Greater Manchester spans over 500 square miles

and has a police force of nearly 7,000 Officers.

The Serious Organised Crime Group

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

If everybody wants to go to the bottom end, we'll do a briefing.

Every single day that you come in to work,

you never know what you're going to come in to.

Robbery, drugs, kidnap, extortion.

The run-of-the-mill stuff, really.

Recently, the team celebrated success

after putting a large organised drugs gang behind bars.

Right, thanks very much, everybody,

for scrambling together this morning.

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

But now officers have been able to link one of the gang members

to another known drugs dealer

who's still at large.

We'd got in control of quite a big organised crime group

in the Oldham area

and by analysing the phone records, we moved on to Jahngeer Ali

and start looking at what his actions were

and what his criminality was.

Jahngeer Ali is already known to the team,

having previously served time for dealing heroin.

Today's operation, code name Sustain,

will involve taking Ali into custody and searching his property.

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

mobile phones, et cetera.

You've all been on these warrants numerous times

so you know what you're looking for.

There's no gate to it,

so we can get round the back, but it's, like, secure...

Let's just get going very, very quickly.

In charge of the operation on the ground,

Detective Sergeant Mark Whittaker.

There's always a suspicion

and I would always say that a sophisticated member

of an organised crime group, like Jahngeer Ali,

knowing that his criminal associates

have been arrested earlier this year,

will potentially be aware of the fact

that they may be the next person to be looked at

or investigated by the Serious And Organised Crime Group.

What do you want us to do now? Do you want us to wait here?

No, I need everyone up there now and secure the premises.

I'm looking at locking them up for possession and supplying.

Who's going?

New intelligence has come in

suggesting there could be drugs at Ali's house.

So the team's been brought together at short notice.

The officers need to act fast.

At any one time, there are hundreds of foreign criminals

hiding out in the UK.

They're on the run from the police in their own countries...

which are determined to bring them back.

The European Arrest Warrant gives the police here

the power to take them into custody,

then put them on planes bound for home - and justice.

A European Arrest Warrant

is basically issued for anybody throughout the EU,

and if they're wanted in one country

and living in another,

we can issue this warrant in order to arrest them

and send them to their country for sentencing, for trial.

Nobody has a problem with anybody that wants to come to the UK,

work hard, raise a family.

It's the people that are intent on coming here

and committing crime and not contributing anything to society.

I think the public have got less tolerance for these sort of people.

It's PC Dave Lockwood and his partner Andy Million

who deal with all the European Arrest Warrants for West Yorkshire Police.

Are you glad to come back to work?

-No.

-Oh, dear.

-But since I'm here anyway...

-Tell me what we're doing.

-..we might as well crack on.

The officers have just received a new warrant.

Right, we've got a high priority one

that's come through from the National Crime Agency.

It's a Polish chap called Rafal.

He's wanted for robbery and six assaults.

He stole money from a lass

and beat her and threatened her with murder

with an object resembling a firearm.

He...

showed blatant disregard of law and order

and he took part in beating... one, two, three, four males

with his hands, and kicked them,

exposing them to injury and direct danger and loss of life.

According to the Polish authorities,

Rafal Wrzeszcz could be violent

and may even possess a firearm.

Dave and Andy head to the address held on record for their suspect.

..It is, isn't it?

-Morning.

-That'll do.

-Do you both live here?

The warrant allows the team to search the property

if they believe the subject might be hiding there.

-Have you got ID? Passport?

-Passport?

-Yeah.

-Yes.

Am I OK to go upstairs?

Hello?

Are we OK?

OK?

Hello?

As Dave starts the search,

the Polish occupant of the house calls her English speaking-friend

who may be able to help.

All right, and they speak English?

Hello?

Hello there. Who am I speaking to? It's the police. PC Million here.

Hubert? Right, do you know somebody called Rafal?

Rafal.

How do you know him?

He lives here? How long ago did he move out?

About three or four years.

Yeah, but you might be able to find out where he's moved to?

-She lives here on her own.

-Two bedrooms.

Rafal used to live in the other bedroom before she moved in.

-I believe four years.

-Which one's this one in?

-I don't know.

We need to establish, cos there's some upstairs.

Just come upstairs with me a second.

If you go in that first bedroom directly above us,

as soon as you walk in the door, on your left,

there's a bed drawer open, you know, like a divan.

Is this your room?

Is this your room?

-No.

-You sleep...? OK.

Both bedrooms show clear signs of recent use,

so Dave strongly suspects that someone else is living here.

-So, you sleep in here?

-Mm-hm.

Yep. These all your clothes?

Someone's living in here. I'm not having it she's on her own.

No chance.

I'm going to do a full search of this room for ID, then.

What we're searching for, under the Extradition Act,

we have a power to search for ID.

So, what we're trying to do is rule this address out of our enquiries.

So...

Whilst Dave continues his search for ID,

Andy uses translation technology to help him communicate.

If I type English and then... Does that make sense?

Type in Polish, press English, I read and then I'll send it.

I don't know how I'm speaking in me Polish language for the camera...

But we've established why we're here.

-Thank you very much indeed.

-Thank you.

-Thank you for your time.

-No problem.

-OK.

It was absolutely clear that she couldn't speak English.

You know, she wasn't doing it to mislead us.

So, brilliant - Google Translate straightaway.

It's something Andy chose to do.

If Hubert finds out where Rafal is... Yeah?

Rafal.

No, Hubert. When I speak to him, he ring my friend.

-OK.

-Yeah?

-Mm-hm.

-He's got the number. It's OK.

-Fantastic. Thank you very much indeed.

-Thank you.

Brilliant, thank you.

Now they're confident their suspect has moved on, the team leave,

hoping their message will soon spread

that Rafal Wrzeszcz is wanted by the West Yorkshire Police.

Come on, Andy.

SIREN WAILS

In Greater Manchester, the Serious Organised Crime Group

are on their way to a drugs raid.

Hiya. Do you want us to go straight in this address?

They've received information

that drugs are being held at an address in Oldham.

Any particular vehicles we need to know outside,

we need to block in?

Keep heading for the direction. A vehicle's just left.

They're waiting on a cell site update.

Yeah, turn your blue lights off, mate, and pull over.

We're just pulling up now near the address.

CAR HORN TOOTS

Yeah, we're just pulling up at the address now.

Got the whammer?

As officers suspect there are drugs in the house, they opt for surprise.

They don't want to give the occupants any chance

to hide or destroy vital evidence.

There you go!

Go!

-Police!

-Police!

-Police! Police!

-Down!

-Police! Police!

-Clear!

-Clear!

Clear.

Come down. Get in there.

Police.

-Clear.

-So far, mate, clean.

I'm just going to take these items out of your pocket, OK?

Look away, please.

Officers find and arrest their suspect, Jahngeer Ali.

-Good teamwork, that.

-Yeah, thanks, mate. Cheers.

The team start their search.

And it's a fruitful one.

Stand back.

Their haul includes four large packages containing cannabis.

All the same, mate. Another two boxes here.

Things are not looking good for Jahngeer Ali.

You don't 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.

You're now under arrest. You're under caution.

You'll be coming to a police station

to be interviewed about the offence.

It was an amazing result,

because we'd gone in there to arrest Jahngeer,

concerning the supply of controlled drugs,

and as a result of his arrest,

we then do the house search, we secure everyone in the property.

We commence a house search after that

and subsequently find this large amount of drugs.

We just came across three boxes.

As you lift the lid of them,

it's just vacuum-packed bags of cannabis, a kilo per bag.

Which was just the icing on the cake for us. It was fantastic.

To find large amounts of drugs in anyone's house is fantastic,

but in Jahngeer's, with the fact that

he's been convicted previously for conspiracy to import heroin

was even better, cos it just shows he's not learnt his lesson.

And after the raid, the interview.

The officers take Ali to the station for questioning.

In West Yorkshire, a European Arrest Warrant is still out

for Rafal Wrzeszcz, wanted for

suspected crimes committed in Poland.

Officers Lockwood and Million have hit a dead end on tracking him down.

-Your favourite friends!

-WOMAN CHUCKLES

They've returned to their first address.

OK.

Does this lady have Hubert's mobile number?

SHE TRANSLATES INTO POLISH

My mother try call to Hubert.

-Is this your mum?

-Yes.

-Ah, right.

They know that a man associated with the suspect,

known as Hubert, has been in contact with Wrzeszcz.

Hubert helped us last time and he made loads of calls.

And the man that we were trying to speak with,

I think Hubert spoke to.

So, we just need to speak to Hubert again and see if he can help us.

-He's on his way back home now?

-Yeah, yeah.

-Hubert.

-0777...

Superb. No trouble here.

We've no problem with you. We just need his help.

OK? Well, it's been a pleasure meeting you.

-Take care. See you later.

-Thanks again.

-Thank you, bye.

Now armed with Hubert's number, Dave puts in a call.

My job is to arrest him and get him before the court, OK?

When he gets to court, he will have a legal team,

he will have an interpreter, and if he's got that evidence

that you're saying he's trying to get hold of, he can put that...

Yeah. He can put that before the court.

All right, see you, bye-bye.

Basically, what Hubert's just said

is that he is not directly in contact with this guy.

They're from the same village, he does know him

and he's hung around with him.

The only way he's in contact with him

is via Facebook with his family in Poland.

So he keeps messaging his family in Poland.

Family in Poland and they message back over here.

And they get get him over here, yeah.

What he's saying is, it's lies what the Polish are saying, er,

it's not true, and he's going to prove that he was in the UK

when they said he's carried out this offence.

So he's getting payslips,

he's getting all information from work,

he's sort of building his own case

and doing his own investigation.

And what he's saying is, he's going to hand himself in

over the next couple of days, so we can all deal with it then.

-We're trying to find Rafal, OK?

-Yes, I know him well.

Later, Hubert returns from work.

Officers can now talk to him personally.

Yeah, I will do, as long I can help the guy, I will,

because he's a good lad, he haven't done what they saying he done,

because he wasn't in Poland. I'm not saying that because

I'm trying to cover his... But he was here...

Just because he gets arrested...

..at the time they're saying he's been in there,

-which is impossible.

-..it doesn't mean he's going back to Poland.

It starts a legal challenge, a legal argument,

and if he's got evidence to show...

Yeah, but that's the time for him to get it.

If he get it now, he don't have to be worried.

Well, he's had five weeks. We're police, we can't sit and wait

-for him to sort himself out.

-I understand.

I'll pass all details, and hopefully get in touch with you tomorrow,

-or by latest tomorrow morning.

-Right, superb.

-That's all I can promise.

-All right.

-OK.

-Enjoy your tea.

-So... I hope.

-All right, cheers.

The reason he'd absconded was

he wanted to prove his innocence,

so if arrested and put into prison

he'd not be able to do that,

so he just needed time.

But when a European Arrest Warrant is issued,

the suspect must be hunted down.

I will not give up on one.

If there's any possible lead whatsoever and it's not dead,

any lead, I will follow it. I will not give up.

In Greater Manchester, a tip-off about a drugs delivery

led to a raid on this house.

-Police!

-Police!

-Police!

Once inside, officers found large bags of cannabis.

Two boxes here.

The main suspect, Jahngeer Ali, has now been taken into custody.

But the investigation is only just beginning.

Back at the house, four other people are also arrested.

Now, they obviously need investigating,

cos in the eye of the law, they are in possession of cannabis.

But you can't just show to a court,

"Well, we've just "picked on this particular chap."

Our job then is to determine,

"Well, actually, who is responsible for this?

"Who is the person that's supplying these drugs?"

The scenes-of-crime officers have arrived.

They'll take photographs of the drugs

which will later be used as evidence in court.

-What do your spots mean?

-No idea.

Those ones there, the smaller ones,

look like tester samples, you know,

as if to give them out as a tester. I don't know.

-What's the difference?

-Mmm.

As the drugs are laid out, the full extent of the find is revealed.

And there's a lot of it to document.

-30 bags.

-There's 30?

30, and we reckon a kilo a bag.

-Skunk.

-£6,000 a bag.

-Bloody hell.

-Street?

-Mm.

We've found 30 large bags of...

Vacuum bags of what we believe to be cannabis.

It's worth a large amount of money.

I wouldn't like to put a value on it at the moment,

but potentially in the region of £200,000,

but all that will be assessed back at the police station.

This isn't just the fact that they've got a bin liner

and stuffed it full of cannabis.

This is extremely well packaged and sophisticated,

set up to stop the smell of cannabis

when they're transporting it.

All from when it's imported from other countries.

The drugs will be taken to the lab for analysis.

But the team are going to need a bigger vehicle.

FEMALE OFFICER LAUGHS

You've done it before!

In Leeds, PC Dave Lockwood has been attempting to track down

and execute a European Arrest Warrant on a suspected criminal.

He is Rafal Wrzeszcz,

wanted by the police in Poland in

connection with robbery and assault.

We've been looking for this lad for two months, loads and loads

and loads of work and enquiries.

Dave is briefing his shift partner PC Andy Johnson

on the recent developments in the case.

Basically, I've been talking to his legal team and we've managed

to negotiate an agreement where

he's going to surrender himself today.

So hopefully he's going to come in within next 20 minutes,

we'll be arresting him here and then taking him through to custody.

-Show me a picture of this lad.

-This is the picture.

He reminds me of...

-Mmm, can't think.

-Yourself.

Well, he's got a little bit of resemblance,

he looks a bit more fair-haired than me. Shall I get in t'back?

-LAUGHING:

-Yeah, change jackets.

I don't know what he's going to look like,

-you just have to use that as a guide, don't you?

-Yep.

After being on the run for weeks,

the fugitive has engaged a solicitor and agreed to hand himself in.

He claims he's needed time to gather evidence that he can use

back in Poland to prove his innocence.

Rafal?

Hello. OK, good English?

-Er, it's not bad.

-You OK, are you OK?

-Yeah, yeah.

Would you come down here, pal?

Thanks for coming, have you got all the things you need?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-Have you got them with you as well?

-Yeah, I have... my passport here.

-Yep.

Er, this is my payslips,

my statement here which prove I've been working at that time.

OK. Could I just take your passport, please?

'I have to rely on, you know, what other agencies

'and other forces tell us, and they've laid the fact out that

'he's committed these offences and he needs to go deal with them.'

It doesn't matter

if I think he's guilty or not,

I do t'job same way, don't I?

Right, I'm arresting you on a European Arrest Warrant

that's outstanding for you.

So you do not have to say anything,

anything you do say may be given in evidence.

The European Arrest Warrant relates to a robbery which

occurred in 2008, four section 47 assaults which occurred in 2007

and a section 18 assault which occurred in 2008.

You're going to be going to London in the morning,

-you understand all this, don't you?

-Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

And your solicitor's meant to have sorted court out ready for you.

-Mm-hmm.

-Right. OK, let's go through to custody.

You want me to come with you?

This European Arrest Warrant's different to the last one,

different to the one before that,

and you don't know where it's going to take you

or where you're going to find them,

'and what story the individual's going to have

'or if they're going to talk to you.

'You just deal with what's in front of you and be right with them...

'and take it from there.'

You're producing your bank statement?

-Yes, from the time, yeah.

-So that's during November 2008?

-Yes.

-To show where you were.

En route to custody, Rafal shares the evidence he's gathered.

He says this proves he was in the UK

at the time of the alleged offences in Poland.

The time sheet there for...15th of November 2008.

-Then you've got your payslip.

-Yes.

-For that period.

-This should be enough?

I can't say, I'm not sure.

My job's to get you before the court

and put all the available evidence before the court.

So I'm putting through the evidence that's come from Poland

and t'National Crime Agency and what I've collated.

I'll be putting that there. I'll put yours there as well,

and basically I give everything to the court and they decide tomorrow.

I can't promise you. It's down to the judge, your legal team,

what happens tomorrow.

-Still I get my, all them papers, yeah?

-Yeah.

I was very sad, because, you know, how I can...

So if we'd have got you three weeks ago without those papers,

you wouldn't have been able to prove your innocence.

Yeah, and then I will get big problems,

now I've got something so I feel more confident now, yes.

He was quite a likeable chap when you were talking to him.

He was working hard here, law-abiding life here,

not committing any crime.

He had a good life here, good job, good family,

so maybe it's just a mistake from the past.

Wrzeszcz later appealed against the extradition,

but it was rejected by the court in London.

Six months on, he was sent back to Poland to stand trial.

If you come from one of the Eastern European countries

and you make a mistake,

sort it out, cos it won't go away, they don't forget.

Tracking down the wanted when they're on the move

is the job of the roads policing officers.

We go out and we tackle

criminality on the roads,

criminal use of motor vehicles,

road traffic offences, general things around the roads.

Why has that just changed its mind, coming out of there?

PC James Alderson has been part of

West Yorkshire Roads Crime Team for nearly six years.

I never know what's going to come,

never know what's going to be there that day.

I might get in one day, you know,

and I might have to go to a serious road traffic collision.

I might get in the next day

and be taking a car off someone for no insurance.

You never know.

5-0, can you do me a moving vehicle check, please?

Leeds Road, at Thornbury.

Tonight, James is patrolling Bradford,

looking out for suspicious vehicles that may be involved in crime.

-OVER RADIO:

-'The driver of the vehicle....'

Gone, that's where it was.

'..McMenamin, who's the registered keeper.'

I come to the junction and there were a couple of cars approaching,

and I was indicating to go right, and this VW at the very last minute

when it saw me, it indicated to turn,

and it was all very last minute,

which straightaway sets alarm bells ringing in my head.

"Why has it done that? What's the reason for it?"

It could be nothing, but it could be

somebody not wanting to drive past me.

Blues, mate.

James turns the patrol car's blue lights on as a request

for the vehicle ahead to stop.

But it fails to pull over.

5-0, got a vehicle failing to stop.

-'All right, then.'

-The chase is on.

Yeah, Bolton Road -

Foxtrot, Hotel, 5, 2, Delta, Whisky, Yankee.

Going to inter-ops.

SIREN WAILS

5-0.

'Romeo, 5-0.'

5-0, we've just gone right, right, right, onto Kildare Crescent.

'If I'm perfectly honest, you don't notice the speed.

'There's times when you're in pursuit and you think

'you're doing 30, and you look and you're doing 70.'

The nature of our job is that we are trained to drive fast

and we do often drive fast,

so it's like anything, you become used to it.

Speed...5-0 miles per hour, risk assessment at this time is low.

Going left, left, left, Ashbourne Drive, it's safe to continue.

We're down to 2-0mph, we might have some mechanical problems here

and it's a right, right, right, back alley behind some shops.

Decamp, decamp. Go, Jamie.

The driver leaves his passengers behind and flees,

but Special Constable Jamie Brown is closing in fast.

Units to Bolton Lane, please, that's where he's decamped, Bolton Lane.

-Then back-up officers arrive.

-Spin round!

He's going to be gone up Bolton Lane. Just watch them.

Jamie's gone down there, but I don't know exactly where he is now, pal.

Vic, he's detained.

The special constable's efforts have paid off.

Yeah, he got him.

He's caught up with the driver.

Humberside, go on.

-Humberside...

-Stop shouting.

-All right, all right.

-Behave yourself.

We don't want no Humberside here, get a life.

SUSPECT LAUGHS

-You got anything you shouldn't have, mate?

-No.

Officers search their detainee, but there's no sign of a car key.

-Are they keys for your house?

-Yeah.

An important piece of evidence that would identify him as the driver.

-Young man, all right?

-All right?

That weren't the most sensible thing you've ever done, wasn't it?

-Where's t'keys?

-What keys?

It is hard to stay cool and collected when

you absolutely know 100% that he's the driver and they're...

They're just blatantly lying to your face, that frustrates you.

-..already done it.

-No, no, no,

I'm asking you where t'keys for t'car are,

since I've just seen you get out of the driver's seat with it.

All right, kid. Have a nice night in custody, yeah?

See you, dude.

'If he wants to play silly beggars'

and he wants to spend all night in custody because he's going to lie

and say that he wasn't driving - fine, let him do that.

Everyone can go home. Right, go on.

With no sign of the keys, the car's passengers face a long walk home.

But Officer Alderson is convinced he's caught his driver.

Back at the station, he gets a chance to review

the onboard camera footage.

I don't particularly believe in luck, because I think you make

your own luck, but I have to say...

I don't know what it is, but I have got

this sort of knack of being in the right place at the right time.

And tonight, his luck is in.

-OTHER OFFICER LAUGHS

-Good effort.

110% yes, there's no getting out of this.

We've got his image of him getting out the car.

He can deny it all he wants,

but he's going to get charged with this offence.

After we've interviewed him.

No court in t'land's going to believe him

when he says it's not him driving.

Sure enough, the driver was found guilty of dangerous driving

and theft of a motor vehicle.

He received a five-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months,

and was disqualified from driving for a year.

In Manchester, the Serious Organised Crime Group have arrested

Jahngeer Ali on suspicion of dealing Class B drugs

after finding a large amount of cannabis at his address.

Have you conspired with others to supply these controlled drugs?

No comment.

Is that how you choose to answer all your questions

-during this interview?

-No comment.

He was challenged on the fact

that the drugs were found

in his particular address

and also the fact

of these text messages

on his mobile phone, and he answered

"no comment" to every single question.

You were found in possession of a mobile phone.

No comment.

Jahngeer will have had legal advice and it's not for me to comment on

his legal advice, but, to me, my own gut feeling is when

someone's going "no comment" on an interview,

they've got something to hide.

Albeit they do have a legal right to answer "no comment" if they wish.

After a successful morning's raid,

Mark reports back to his boss, DI Robert Cousen.

Where are we at, then, now in terms of the actual investigation?

Jahngeer's been interviewed and at this stage has gone "no comment",

and we're currently working our way through the numerous mobile phones

that were seized up from Jahngeer and his family.

-Any indications at the minute of any...

-Yeah.

-..any relevance?

Yeah, certainly. Incoming messages requesting,

"Have you got any bud?"

There's mention about 2.5k.

Various messages indicative of the supply

and distribution of drugs.

It's just another nail in his coffin, that, ain't it?

-Yeah, certainly.

-Well, crack on, then.

-OK.

-Excellent.

But Operation Sustain isn't over yet.

There's still a question mark over a car seen outside

Jahngeer Ali's house just before the raid.

Was this the vehicle that delivered the drugs to him?

We did a lot of investigation surrounding that vehicle -

who owned the vehicle, who insured the vehicle?

And try and trace that vehicle and its movements

for that particular day.

Numberplate recognition technology helped officers

establish that the car had earlier been driven

to a motorway service station by these two men.

What was very unusual is this car is travelling throughout

the early hours of the morning.

It's travelling down the M6, down the M1

at sort of two, three o'clock in the morning.

Very unusual when you look at the pattern of it,

of its movements prior to it.

It just wasn't right, and my initial hunch

and suspicion was that this car has travelled down somewhere

to collect a commodity to bring it back up to Oldham.

Police identified one of the men on the CCTV

as 37-year-old Sohile Earfan.

They found that he was both the owner of the vehicle

and the insured driver.

We're just leaving now, should be

at the RV point in about 15 minutes.

Further enquiries led officers to Earfan's address

in the Rusholme area of Manchester.

Straight across.

Sure enough, the car was parked outside.

We believe that that vehicle had transported those drugs

from a location in London back up into Oldham.

As a result of that, with an inspector's authority,

we took that vehicle for forensic examination to look for any other

identifiable property or any further evidence to support this case.

Earfan was later cleared of any involvement in drugs offences.

However, he was also found to be living in the UK illegally

and was deported.

Can you just make sure that you've notified West Yorks

that you're on their patch?

'Yeah, I'm doing it, just stand by.'

But the hunt for the second man on the CCTV footage continued.

Police soon identified him.

With a population of over two million, West Yorkshire Police

have high crime rates to deal with

and a long wanted list to work through.

It's a multicultural city, is Bradford.

You work there long enough,

you get used to it and you know how to police it.

It's not always easy,

and you take more stick than

you maybe do in other places, but you just...

you get on with it, you deal with it.

Steph, you monitoring?

INDISTINCT REPLY

Thank you. It's Victor, 9, 5, 4.

Tonight, Roads Policing Officer James Alderson

is back on patrol in Bradford.

Started down Leeds Road and just had a car set t'speed camera off

trying to get away from me, but he's slowed down now.

'..believe it were involved in a make off...'

Yeah, it's a silver Avensis.

Turn it off.

Just have a jump out for us, mate.

What's happened?

Just want to have a chat with you, that's all.

Just have a seat in our cab. Watch the rest of them, mate.

Jump in our motor.

Jump in there. You're a disqualified driver, aren't you?

Are you not any more?

Are you sure?

All right, watch your arm, let me shut t'door.

Let's cut to the chase, shall we? Cos I've met you before,

you've met me before, and we know we don't mess about, all right?

You're disqualified, and you're still disqualified.

You said this last time.

You said the exact same thing the last time I dealt with you

about 12 months ago, that you were disqualified...

Saying what, though?

Right, that might be the case but you still...

If that is the case and you have got a letter

saying your disqualification has ended - which it hasn't,

cos you're disqualified until the 7th of the 11th,

you're still only a provisional driving licence holder.

I'm getting deja vu from 12 months ago here.

We're having the same conversation that we had 12 months ago.

We're going to end up same as we did last time.

All right, I'm going to interview you at t'roadside

about your disqualification.

All right?

Do you want some legal advice before we do the interview?

You do know the basics, cos we've done this before, haven't we?

I didn't go to court last time.

Really? So how come you got disqualified again?

PNC shows that you're disqualified, do you have any comment to that?

Right, so you deny, you deny that you're driving without insurance

and driving whilst disqualified? Do you deny it?

Yeah, I know, it's weird, innit?

Mmm.

We all have to pay insurance premiums

if we want to be legal and legitimate, and unfortunately,

the comeback of these criminals driving without insurance

and without licences and being involved in collisions maybe,

is that our premiums go up and we have to pay more

towards insurance because they do what they're doing.

It's a vicious circle, you know, they're driving without documents

because they can't afford insurance, but by driving

without documents they're actually bumping the insurance up more.

So we're the victims.

Right, mate, last thing to say is that you're reported for

driving whilst disqualified and using a vehicle

without insurance. Got any reply?

I'll get you your seizure notice in a minute.

Seizure notice.

Seizing the vehicle.

Cos you don't have any insurance or a licence.

Right, well, I know you haven't, so...

Every time we have this game, don't we?

We have this game, where you deny it and I say you are,

and you say you don't, but you know the score, all right?

So, the man has been caught again for driving

with no licence or insurance.

With his car impounded, he had to walk home.

He was eventually given a conditional discharge,

six points endorsed on his licence and a £15 fine.

-Police!

-Police!

-Police!

In Greater Manchester, the drugs operation code-named Sustain

came to a successful end.

30 bags.

Three people were arrested, including

their main target, Jahngeer Ali.

He was charged with conspiracy to supply Class B drugs

with a street value of £300,000.

After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to four years

and six months in prison.

It couldn't have been a better result for us.

The fact that we've made this arrest, that we've recovered

such a large amount of drugs,

it's just the icing on the cake.

Investigations like Operation Sustain just show

how much drugs are actually out there and how much hard work

we put in to dismantling these organised crime groups.

Now we've taken out people like your Jahngeer Ali,

we're clearing up the streets,

we're getting rid of these individuals

that are impacting heavily on our communities.

Shahnawaz Qumer, caught on CCTV while suspected of

delivering cannabis to Ali,

was eventually detained during the investigation.

You said that you did not know Jahngeer Ali,

but contained within the phone seized of Jahngeer Ali

is your number saved as Shani.

No comment.

You've contacted him 136 times,

how do you account for that?

I haven't.

-Who has?

-No idea.

Shahnawaz Qumer said he didn't know Jahngeer Ali on interview.

What we found on Jahngeer Ali's phone is Shahnawaz Qumer's name

and telephone number on his phone.

Quite clearly not telling the truth

on interview of how he does actually know Jahngeer Ali.

The trip which we saw you captured on CCTV cameras,

was that in the Volkswagen Passat?

No comment.

Well, who drove that car to those service stations?

No comment.

Have you conspired with others to

import controlled drugs into the UK?

No.

Are you under any duress to conduct criminal acts

in fear of your own or another's life?

No.

Following this interview, Qumer was also charged with

conspiring to supply drugs.

He was later convicted and jailed

for two years and three months.

A positive outcome for the Greater Manchester Force

and its Serious Organised Crime Group.

I joined the police for quite a specific reason, and to me,

it's quite an interesting reason.

One particular night I went out with me dad for a pint

and we called at an off-licence to get him some cigarettes.

And as we went round the back there was clearly an armed robbery

going on, which ended up

us tackling these armed robbers and they eventually got detained

and were arrested a few weeks down the line.

So that inspired me to become a police officer,

and hence the reason why I think

I've moved into the Serious and Organised Crime Group,

because that is the type of stuff that interests me.