Episode 5 The Wanted

MACHINE BEEPS

Where is it?

This one here.

Are you going to ram it?

On two...

Go.

-Police!

-Police raid!

-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!

-Drop to the ground!

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.

-Stay out of the way.

-No, stay back...

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

and on the other are the wanted.

Greater Manchester - a population of two and a half million

and a police force of nearly 7,000.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Eight of those officers are in the Divisional Tasking Team in Oldham.

Two are preparing for their night shift.

'We work at Oldham Divisional Tasking Team where basically'

we locate wanted people. That's our main target -

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.

This team deal with those wanted for low-level crimes

committed by everyone from novice law breakers to serial offenders.

A lad here, Carl Warren is wanted times six.

We've had no intel on him for ages.

It's just come to light now he might be in Warrington.

It's a good hour to get there, an hour back, but it's worth it -

he's a good prisoner.

Just causes loads of problem when he's on the run.

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

Officers Cross and Rawcliffe have been tracking down

wanted suspects together for the last six years.

When you're working in a small unit,

you get to know each other well,

you get to know, you know, bits about their personal life -

what they like, what they don't like, what winds them up,

what doesn't wind them up -

and, you know, you have the banter.

'But it's all part of being a small team

'and you know when you arrive at an address what each person's

'going to do and how they will react to certain things.'

You know you've got backup there.

So the hunt for Carl Warren begins.

He's been successfully avoiding his pursuers for weeks

and has even taunted them.

Thing is, he laughs...

In fact, last time I spoke to him on the phone -

not this time, this one, to the time before -

he said to me on the phone, "Cross, you'll never find me."

A week later, he was in custody,

so it was quite funny, actually.

The officers don't have definite information about

Warren's current address

but they do have his last one.

Hello, sir, it's the police.

Hello, sir, sorry to trouble you. It's the police.

Nothing for you to worry about at all. Erm...

Is... Does Carl live here?

-Carl?

-Carl Warren.

-No, no.

Did he used to? Is there a story there?

He's... I've not seen Carl Warren

-since he went back to Oldham.

-Oh, right.

'To find one person,'

we can do 15 addresses.

It starts off nice and tidy at the first one, home address,

Mum and Dad, brother, sister,

and then we have to expand it then to friends, associates,

erm, criminal associates,

'because they're like little rats hiding away everywhere.'

They may not have found Warren at the address

but their enquiries in the area have yielded valuable information.

We've just been to the secondary address,

which was on his intelligence last year.

Spoke to, erm, a fellow at this address,

who does know the offender Carl Warren,

because his son's an associate of his

and he's been seen in this area, I think it was last week,

and certainly within the last month,

in his stepson's vehicle,

so we've got the name of that stepson.

So we'll go there now and see if he's in.

Street crime is usually mopped up by uniformed officers.

Right, we're going to be executing a warrant shortly,

and that is the home address of Andrew McFadyen.

But when the criminals step up a gear,

it's the Serious Organised Crime Group that hunts them down.

Basically, intelligence indicates that he is a drug dealer

so we're going to be searching that house for drugs

and any other related paraphernalia. In terms of...

'It can be a difficult job.'

Could be recovering a load of drugs from a drug dealer.

It could be helping someone who's been burgled.

It could be someone who's been a victim of assault.

There's so many different things, and they'll look

to someone to come and help them, and you can come in there and try

and hopefully solve the crime, or get some kind of result for people.

The team's latest target is 40-year-old Andrew McFadyen,

who also has a previous conviction for drug dealing.

In terms of him, his warning markers are for drugs

and failing to appear.

He is currently on licence until around 2016,

in relation to being in possession with intent to supply.

He does have a violence marker.

He has been locked up for an affray back in 2004.

There's no intelligence or information regarding him

being in possession of any weapons.

Erm, when we go to the address, we're going to be forcing entry

straight away and going into the address. It's quite a big premises.

I'm concerned if we end up knocking on the door, and there is any

controlled substance in there, that could be flushed or destroyed.

I could do with two going round the back with a sledgehammer.

Any volunteers for that?

How do we get round the back? Do we know?

You're going to have to go to here.

Basically, the back of this address is just fields.

Erm, any questions?

No.

No? Right, let's get on the road.

Briefed, kitted up, ready for action,

but however good the preparations,

the team can never predict what awaits them.

'You look to see, do they carry weapons all the time,'

or do they use violence against people?

But that doesn't really mean you can get an accurate picture of someone.

If he's had a particularly bad day or if he's used drugs that day

or there's a million things that could mean

he could have a particularly short fuse

if seven, eight people come bursting through his door.

'So you just try and plan for everything,'

always assume potentially there could be some risk,

get control of everyone, make sure no-one's in kitchens

and things like that, so that the risk to us is as low as possible.

Oldham PCs Kev Rawcliffe and Phil Cross

are on the hunt for a wanted man.

You might have to ask Mike the exact details of the want...

the various wanteds that there is now...

He's always... He's got, like, loads of restraining orders.

He's always breaching them.

Their search for Carl Warren has led them to Warrington in Cheshire.

He's been on the run for three months

and has now found a new hiding place.

Not for the first time.

When he's wanted, always, nearly always,

goes off area or away from division.

He's always really hard to... you know, get hold of.

Again, he's a lad with a load of contacts,

'who can quite easily just walk away from the division

'and go and, you know, get his head down wherever.

'He needed catching.'

-Spoke to him about the mic in case he comes out.

-Erm...

Can you get round the back?

473, showing the shop, this one on the corner.

There's not a back door to a flat there, is there?

The address we were at was an associate of his,

and we believed that person to be on a curfew,

so we were confident that he would be in.

-Push-bike and...

-Eh?

All sorts of...

Is that a shop front?

Yes, but it takes you...

Excuse me, sorry. It takes you through that way,

so there's nothing there apart from a shop front,

which is going to take you that way,

so I'm guessing it's going to be these here.

HE KNOCKS ON WINDOW

Thank you.

Erm, officers from the GMP

are trying to effect an arrest attempt at 47...

There were officers at the back, we were at the front,

and despite banging, kicking the door,

all sorts of verbal communications through the letterbox,

we got no response.

We made a decision at that stage that there's a good chance

he's going to be here, and we intended to smash the door in.

-WOMAN:

-Contact.

-He's here. He's just packing his bag.

-Right.

-He's here.

-Right, he's here.

Just step back from the door. Just open the door and step back.

'Because it wasn't his address,

-'he probably thought, "Right, now's a good time to give myself up."

-'

-It's not opening.

-Eh?

Why's the door not opening?

I don't know. Your door, not mine.

Inside, they find their fugitive.

How are you, Carl?

Mr Cross has got you.

-LAUGHTER

-How are you, mate? Are you OK?

-Long time.

-OK, I was just letting your... The bag...

-Does that come with me?

-Yeah, yeah, course it does.

Cheers, mate.

I could hear him behind the door saying,

"Hold on, hold on, I'm just packing my bag,"

'and fair enough, when his friend opened the door,

'he was stood there with his bag in his hand.'

Pyjamas and his toothbrush and his Sure deodorant.

Because some of the offences that you've been arrested for...

What offences?

Well, you're going to be told that in a second.

-Yeah, we'll give you the list in one minute.

-There's six of them.

-What?

-There's six of them.

Right, let's get him secured in the van, and then come back.

Warren's three months of evading justice are over.

You didn't expect to see us here, did you?

We just had a phone call saying you were in Warrington.

-Right.

-LAUGHTER

Sit on that, by that window.

'Great result for us,

'and a good, good result for the division, really,

'because all those crimes were showing on the division

'side of things as undetected, so it paid off.'

All that hard work from us, and perseverance, has paid off,

so, yeah, it was a good result.

Following his arrest, Carl Warren was formally charged

for the breach of his order.

He was later sentenced to 17 weeks in prison.

In Greater Manchester, the Serious Organised Crime Group

are on their way to execute a warrant.

Andrew McFadyen is wanted on suspicion of

the intent to supply class B drugs.

MACHINE BEEPS

Right, I'm putting it next door.

-What number are we after?

-This one here.

Got to ram it.

One, two...

-Go.

-Police!

-Police!

-Police raid!

-Police!

-Police!

Where is that room?

Police, police, police! Show yourselves!

'It's a bit strange, really,

cos you go in there, you're obviously hyped, thinking,

is it going to be people sitting on a couch who are just compliant?

Is it going to be ten guys who want to fight?

And you get in there, and you're obviously in someone's home

and they don't know you're in their home.

Clear. Clear.

'That's normally a little bit, sort of, surreal, I find.'

-Clear upstairs.

-Anyone?

-Clear. Anyone?

-Clear.

'He is a drug dealer. He's received a custodial sentence

'and he'd just been released,

'so he's still on licence for drug dealing.'

-Clear top room.

-Cool. All clear!

'He had some kind of job doing some kind of manual labour'

but when you looked at his house, it looked very affluent.

It was very nicely done up.

It looked like someone who earned a lot more money lived there.

Have you got a search kit?

Yeah, there's one in the back of my car.

No-one is in the house,

but when officers have already obtained a warrant,

they can search it for any evidence of drug dealing.

'We split off into teams of two

'and we just start working our way through the house.'

'The house was a three-storey townhouse.'

On the ground floor was a garage, a kitchen,

and me and my colleague, Wes Knights,

we started in the garage,

'started searching round the garage

'and we found a suitcase in the corner of the garage.'

One, two, three,

four, five,

six, seven.

What do you reckon that is, mate?

-By the appearance, it's amphetamines, Sergeant.

-Very good.

-Right.

-All right.

-Very good.

I'll just make sure we're getting all the photos and everything.

We've got about seven kilos of amphet in the garage

so can you make sure phones come in?

There's another couple here. Sarge!

How many more is it, Wes?

Another three, but, I mean, they do look slightly dinky, these.

-Another three here, mate.

-Another three kilos?

Three more in a bag on top of the fridge.

When we go into an address like that, just because McFadyen

is a drug dealer, we have to be reasonably open.

He could turn round and say,

"I didn't know anything about those drugs."

So we need to have quite an open mind so people who are living

in that address and have control of that address,

initially they will be treated as suspects.

Andrew David McFadyen.

Yep.

He's only just...

-1st August, so his brand-new passport.

-Take that, mate.

When you find a significant amount like that, it's always good.

It's getting product off the streets, potentially

dangerous drugs which could harm people when they take it.

It's good cos it's harming the dealers themselves.

You know, that's a lot of money,

there's a lot of investment in these drugs from them

so that's financially harming them and it's always really good

for the team cos the team will get buoyed up by that.

It's really positive result

and everyone will be buzzing after a result like that.

To the east of Greater Manchester are the Pennines

and across these hills is West Yorkshire.

Its beautiful country landscapes attract hordes of tourists.

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

Did you hear about the robberies yesterday?

Ken Robbo rang me and said they're linking them.

'Here, uniformed officers have their own wanted list.

'They're taking part in a crackdown known as Operation Keyman.'

Operation Keyman is an operation that's run in Bradford

just to focus on the arrests of wanted people.

We get so distracted on dealing with other things and...

whether it be paperwork and bureaucracy and things like that.

And it's just really, get out, find people that are wanted, lock 'em up,

bring them in and they'll get dealt with.

What's this guy called, then?

Shazam Hussain, born in 1990, he's wanted for an assault.

Happened back in March, he's been wanted for quite a while

so we'll see whether he's there cos the intel says that the father

confirms he's living at the address. So we shall see.

The team have been searching for this suspect for five months.

He's been avoiding his known address.

Today the team have received new information about Hussain.

He's been spotted coming and going from this house in Bradford.

Morning, I'm looking for Shazam.

Can I have a word for a second? Who else is here?

It was a young child who answered the door, it was a young boy

who initially said that he wasn't in and you just get that sense

or that little feeling that, "That's not right, I think maybe he is,"

so we sort of asked if we could come in, which he let us.

-Where will he be at the moment?

-I don't know.

-OK, does he have a bedroom here?

-Yeah.

Can you show us his bedroom?

The officers believe their suspect is inside the house

and, because he's classed as a wanted person,

they have legal powers to search it.

Shazam?

Hi, how are you doing, just sit down there for two seconds.

What have you got behind your back? All right, cool.

-Do you know why we're here?

-I don't, no.

OK, so you're wanted for an offence of assault, OK,

that happened on the 23rd March of this year.

At the moment, you're going to be arrested on suspicion of that.

I'm going to caution you, you don't have to say anything but it may harm

your defence if you don't mention when questioned

something which you later rely on in court.

-Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

-OK.

I'm just going to let my colleague do a quick search of you.

Have you got anything in your pockets or anything like that

that could hurt you or me? No, sure?

Just turn around and face the bed.

It's easier to do it that way, mate.

Where was this?

-Pocket?

-Yeah, his pocket. Come out with the tissues, yeah.

Can I put on my T-shirt and jacket?

Just bear with us, we'll sort that out in two seconds.

I'm going to further arrest you for possession of cannabis, OK?

I'm going to remind you that you're under caution

and you don't have to say anything.

Do you need anything to take with you? I see there's a phone

-down there, do you need that?

-Yeah, I'll take my phone.

Some tissues have come out of his pocket, I've seen a bag of cannabis.

I thought, "Right, there's another offence, there."

Arrested for that and I took him down to the van

with another officer.

There was no reason up to that point, because he'd been arrested

for assault, necessarily to search for the offence of assault.

Having found the drugs, though, it was quite clear this could be

somebody with a habit, there could be other things in the room.

We're lawfully on the premises,

we've therefore got the power to then search.

Just watch your step up there, mate. All right?

I've taken him to the van, we've placed him in the cage of the van.

As I'm done, sort of thing, I've been contacted on the radio

by PC Boswell to say come back upstairs.

Still in the same one?

PC Boswell has discovered further evidence

of potential criminal activity.

There was that amount of money, that and that, all folded up in that bag.

There's all them.

Empty dealer bags, what I believe are dealer bags at the moment,

So I'm going to go through it with a fine tooth comb

-just in case there's owt.

-Right, OK.

Then we continued to search his room. It wasn't a big room

by any stretch. There was, I think from memory, a wardrobe or two

and couple of sets of drawers.

'And then we found some further stuff.'

In the jacket, just down at the bottom of the bed there,

I think it's got some cash in the top pocket.

In this bottom pocket here is a carrier bag.

There's about I would say 15 maybe dealer bags that looks as though

it's got cannabis inside. It's definitely green vegetable matter,

smells distinctly of cannabis as well.

Coupled with what we've found in terms of the bags and the cash,

another couple of sort of standard Nokia phones that are used,

then this gentleman will be getting arrested further on suspicion

of possession with intent to supply cannabis.

There's clearly signs of dealing from the dealer bags, from the cash,

from the phones.

So what is it? Is it top, top left pocket, top left heart pocket?

Probably say it's good bobbying and, you know, that's what

people would expect and the public would expect bobbies to be doing,

police officers to be doing, going out and being thorough

and looking for those extra things but with an element of luck,

I would suggest, as well.

The police search ended with Shazam Hussain admitting to possession

of the drugs but not supply.

He received a fixed penalty notice.

No further action was taken regarding the alleged assault.

Earlier in Manchester, the Serious Organised Crime Group

raided the home of a known drug dealer.

-Go. Police!

-Police!

-Police!

-Stay where you are.

-Police!

-Police!

Andrew McFadyen has already served one jail sentence.

The search of his house means he's in serious trouble again.

Reviewing some intelligence and we've seen Mr...

The individual who lives with Andrew McFadyen, he is involved

and linked to drugs, so based on that, we've gone to the magistrates.

They've given us a warrant to come and search this premises,

and on doing so, we've found this large quantity of what

we suspect to be amphetamine, so we're just in the process of trying

to find Mr McFadyen, so then we can speak to him regarding this.

The stash of drugs has an estimated street value of £400,000.

The priority is to take it out of circulation,

identify the owner and ask some serious questions.

Just finishing getting all the exhibits

and everything bagged and tagged.

They could come back to the address

so with that in mind, we're going to keep a couple of officers here,

just in case that does happen,

and they can then obviously effect the arrest, if they do come back.

Detective Sergeant Meeney's hunch,

that the suspect would return to the house soon,

proved to be correct.

'I was standing on the landing on the first floor'

which is where the main living room is,

cos it's a townhouse, and I just saw this van coming along.

-Yeah, it's him.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

'I went downstairs. I went flying out the door,

'at which point, he'd just finished his three-point turn

'and he was just accelerating away.

'So I managed to get the reg of the vehicle,'

to pass that to other officers in the area to try and locate.

For a white flat-back truck...

believed to have an Andrew McFadyen on board

who can be arrested once the vehicle's stopped and he's on board.

To me, initially, it showed, A, he knows there's something

criminal in that house, so that for me was a really important fact.

If he was to turn round and at a later date say,

"I had no idea what was in my garage.

"Someone could have put it there I didn't know who put it there."

That wouldn't explain the way that he drove off.

WHISTLING

The drugs were later taken to the laboratory to be tested

and the house was made secure.

Following that, we then start what we call a manhunt,

which is just trying to find him,

and there's lots of different tactics of things

we would do to try and find him.

Yes, mate, what we'll do is, we're just going to go and just do

a general area search around Oxendale

cos it's a previous address of his. So if you stick with us, follow us

and then keep an eye out for him on foot, generally, in the area.

That manhunt is now on.

All units are put on high alert to look out for McFadyen and his truck.

I'm hoping, of course, Michael,

-this kid doesn't know he's wanted.

-We'll see.

In Bradford, Sergeant Mike Cox and his team are still rounding up

their wanted criminals as part of Operation Keyman.

'Operation Keyman's been really, really effective.

There's a push every day for the cops going out

on the streets of "here's your current list of wanted people"

but they've got to balance with going to 999 calls,

dealing with everything else that your general, day-to-day,

you know, policing work involves.

This time their target is Shuel Ali,

wanted on a suspected burglary charge.

He's already known to the police.

Come on, then, mate, how are you doing?

Well, sit up, mate, and I'll have a quick chat with you.

Just sit yourself up.

Officers find two brothers at the address -

both bear a strong resemblance to the photo of the wanted suspect.

-What's your... What's your name?

-Shuel.

-Eh?

-Shuel.

That's you. Stick some clothes on.

-Yeah, are you decent?

-No, I'm not.

Right, well, you're going to have to jump out, decent or not,

stick some underwear on.

I've had a copy of the photograph, of which Alex hasn't.

I think Alex has spoken to the lad in the bed and got his details.

I've compared to the lad that I've found in the bed to the photo,

and been fairly certain, shall we say,

that he was the lad on the photograph,

so I've duly arrested him on suspicion of the burglary.

-Right, OK, you're under arrest, OK?

-What is that for, then?

On suspicion of burglary.

-Burglary?

-Yeah.

When I caution you, you don't have to say anything

but it may harm your defence if you don't mention

when questioned something you later rely on in court.

Anything you do or say can be given in evidence.

-OK?

-Are you sure?

-Yeah. Jump up.

The one that I arrested and the one that I spoke to

was telling me that he wasn't who we were after,

he wasn't Shuel Ali, who we were looking for.

Erm, but then, do you believe them on face value?

Especially given that they look like the photograph.

'One of the other considerations that we had was

'if you're not happy with them, arrest them both on suspicion of...

'Bring them down to the police station,

'put them on the fingerprint machine.'

Given that he was known to us before,

he will have come up on his fingerprints,

and that's 100% accurate,

so we'd have known then.

Come in here, my friend.

We shall get to the bottom of it.

-Jump in here, my friend.

-And we'll do that.

The officers get the brothers into one room to

compare their faces to the photograph.

That's more like it.

Finally, the wanted man reveals himself.

He also then said that he has had a domestic at county court

-earlier this year.

-So how do we say your first name?

-Shuel.

-Shuel.

Right, Shuel, start putting some clothes on, mate.

The correct brother, Shuel Ali - the wanted man -

is taken off to custody for formal charging.

Well, I'd hope my son wouldn't be in the court.

Hopefully the police won't be coming for him.

Stop swearing, you're the one talking about being respectful

so stop being disrespectful.

That's personal...

Come on. In you get, kid. Sit down.

-Can you please loosen these?

-We will do.

We're about five minutes away from the nick,

and then we'll loosen them, mate, OK?

Just sit tight, it's a big rocky.

You're under arrest for burglary, committed on the 26th,

which we explained to you. You do not have to say anything

but it may harm your defence if you do not mention

something you later rely on in court

and if you do it may be given in evidence.

We're quite happy now he's the right brother,

but on the face of it, they look quite alike, cos I think, generally,

brothers do, in the family link, but we're quite happy now.

He is the right chap. We'll get him in and CID will deal with him.

All right?

How are we you doing buddy, are you all right?

'We don't always have the time just to focus on people that are wanted,'

so that's where the Operation Keyman sort of fills that void

'and gets bodies in cells

'and gets people off the streets that we want to.'

Shuel Ali appeared before the courts

and was found guilty of the burglary charges.

He was sentenced to 32 months in prison.

Back in Greater Manchester, the Divisional Tasking Team

are searching for a man wanted on recall to prison

for breaching his parole conditions.

If you two go past it, and go round the back,

and get in position at the back ready to knock on the front door,

when you're just dropping on,

we'll go straight to the front of the address.

Officers Cross and Rawcliffe are tracking down the suspect who

was last seen in the Oldham area.

'We're round now.'

Yep, lovely.

Morning! Hello, it's the police.

-Hello, police!

-That door's open.

Hello, police!

You don't know what you're going to turn up to sometimes.

You go on, you knock on the door,

and when you go in,

very often things are as you as you expect them,

but other times, you think, "My God, look at the state of this."

-COUGHING

-Hello! Hello, police.

'You can't, you can't walk away from it.'

You've just got to do what's in front of you,

and you never know what's in front of you.

-Is that a child?

-There's a young kid here on his own.

What?

No brother here.

SOMETHING THUDS

Police. What's your name?

The suspect isn't in.

Instead, the police discover a six-year-old child

and two teenagers, home alone in poor living conditions.

And your name, darling?

Eh?

How old are you two?

16, man.

Where's the adult in the house?

-My mum.

-Where is she?

She should be back by now.

How old's that little lad in there?

Six.

-Right, and you two are looking after him, are you?

-Yeah.

-Why's the house such a

-BLEEP?

I'm a bit concerned, really.

-Are social services involved with this family?

-Yeah.

It didn't really twig to start with,

until you sort of went into the kitchen area, and then upstairs.

It was a mess, and it was, you know, unkept and horrible downstairs

but it didn't really set in,

until you went into that kitchen and then upstairs.

Watch where you're standing, cos there's poo everywhere.

The kids were living in squalor,

the electrics were condemned,

there was microwaves with electric wires into bowls

in the area of water.

There was no food in the address.

There was dog faeces in the toilet - on the floor, I mean.

It was just horrendous.

Roger, could you just put this address in the box just to see

if there's any child issues?

'Yeah, bud.

'Children subject to a protection plan.'

-RADIO BEEPS

-Roger, thank you.

It's horrendous, isn't it?

-Right.

-Just make sure they don't put a call in upstairs.

Please, she's got a telephone.

Some officers stay at the property to keep the children safe

until social services arrive.

It's a distressing scene but it's not unique.

The sad thing is there's children involved, and it is sad.

You know, you go in and you... Children are helpless.

They rely on you to make important decisions, whether it be

what's for tea, what clothes am I wearing, have I got clean clothes?

Where are we going today? Am I going to look OK at school?

And very often the adults just neglect them,

so we have to take positive action,

not only as police officers but as mums, dads and as adults.

You walk in and you think, "Right, I'm not putting up with this.

"There's a victim here and that victim's a child."

The suspect was later found by another team

and was sent back to prison.

There has since been regular contact between social services

and the children.

Earlier, the Serious Organised Crime Group raided the house

of a known Manchester drug dealer.

-Police! Police!

-Stay where you are!

His name, Andrew McFadyen -

a 40-year-old who's already served jail time for drugs offences.

The latest raid uncovered a substantial amount

of illegal amphetamines.

It's initially been valued at around about £50,000,

on the basis that

one kilo can go for £5,000,

but it depends on purities

and lots of different things like that.

When McFadyen returned home,

Sergeant Dave Meeney had to give chase on foot.

His wanted man drove away,

but he couldn't escape eventual arrest.

A couple of days later,

we were able to track him down to a flat, or to a building

and do some enquiries at that building

and we were able to locate him in one of the flats.

The suspect was taken into police custody to be interviewed.

I'm going to caution you, Andrew

and the caution is that 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

and anything that you do say may be given in evidence.

He was arrested, he was charged in relation to the drugs,

um, he answered "no comment" on interview.

I'm just going to go through with you the items that were recovered.

Inside the garage were ten packages.

-Do you know anything about those?

-No comment.

-OK.

There were ten of those trays

that were sealed in individual bags, OK? Do you know anything about that?

No comment.

What was found in the address?

-No comment.

-OK.

-Did you attend at the address?

-No comment.

-Did you drive away from the address?

-No comment.

-OK.

McFadyen later appeared in court,

charged with possession with intent to supply class B drugs

worth £400,000.

He pleaded guilty and was jailed for six years.

It's a really good result, because we've recovered a lot of drugs

from a guy who clearly, the fact he's gone to prison hasn't changed his offending pattern.

He still has gone into prison, come out of prison

and carried on doing exactly what he was doing,

even though he's still technically serving a sentence

for dealing drugs.

Um, there was a lot of drugs recovered,

he's pleaded guilty at the first instance, erm,

which just shows that we were right

and the fact that he is guilty of that offence.

So, it was a really good result for the team.

In Oldham, the divisional tasking team are on night duty.

They're taking part in an operation to track down criminals

who've been grooming underage children for illegal sex.

-Trapped in a flat?

-With some males.

-Trapped in a flat with some males.

-Right.

That gives us authority to kick the door off, if ever I've heard it.

Okey doke. Officers Cross and Rawcliffe are responding

to information about a local girl in her teens.

We've got a report that there's a vulnerable young girl

who's stuck in this block of flats here,

er, allegedly distressed and with four males.

We don't know the nature of that distress

or the nature of these males yet, so we're going to go and have a look.

Er, just sort of see if we can, one, find her

and make sure she's all right.

In order to respond immediately,

the 999 call is categorised under a special code name...

messenger.

Messenger...

is the operational name

for people, or youngsters,

both male and female,

who are subject to child sex exploitation.

Yeah.

Open the door.

Do you not think on back of the lock?

Who's locked you in?

BLEEP

Who else is in there with you?

You seen the girl?

-BLEEP

-Is she all right?

Is everybody all right in there?

Well, you look it, you're walking around with a drink in your hand.

I threaten him,

that I hear or you go out of sight or this and that and the other

then I will put the door in, full stop.

But she complied and to a certain extent remained by the door

where I could see her or hear her.

There's a girl inside, saying she's trapped in there with three lads and another female,

just wondering if you can come up and drill the lock.

-You all right, darling?

-An officer.

-You all right?

Yeah, yeah. How old are you now, darling?

Right, I understand that.

You know, we've got to make sure she's all right

and we've got to make sure there's nobody else in there who hadn't

conversed with us through the door.

She's saying, I'm fine, I'm fine, but for all we know

there's somebody with a knife to her throat,

saying, "tell 'em you're OK" when really she's not,

so we have to stay there, we have to get the job done properly.

We've got two options.

-One, obviously, our concern is for you, cos you're 17.

-Yeah.

But if you're not in any grave danger, you don't feel you're in grave danger

we can wait for somebody to come and drill the locks.

Failing that, I'm going to smash the door down.

As it turned out, through talking through the letterbox,

she's just sort of fed up, because...

you know, the keys have gone missing

and she's probably drank all the drink that's in the house.

So, therefore that's why she wants to get out,

not because she was being held...

and all the time she was there she was...

'on the other side of the letterbox while I was talking to her'

and the other people in the address were there.

I think it were basically a party where they'd lost the key

and they were drunk and they needed to get out

and so, let's use the police as an excuse to get out

and drill the lock.

Right, the joiner's here, just step back from the door now.

Just step back from the door, the lad's going to drill the lock. Move back from the door now.

INDISTINCT VOICE

Shut up.

-Keep away from the door.

-Keep away from the door.

-Yeah.

Inside, the officers find two teenage girls,

plus three adult males,

all apparently under the influence of alcohol.

Sit down!

On what basis?

On the basis I've told you to sit down, now sit down.

The behaviour of the adults in the flat was disgraceful.

They were acting like idiots.

Er, they were drunk,

thought it was some big, erm

fascination that the police were there

and they had to play up and perform in front of us.

-Stop drinking while we're here, mate, OK?

-I'm not drinking.

-Where are the keys?

-I don't know.

-Can't get out.

Phoned the fire brigade at first.

Well, they've got fires to put out.

If they'd been on the streets, they would've been arrested.

It's as simple as that.

But because they were in their own flat,

not causing any major problems to anyone else,

erm, there was very little we could do.

The operation finishes

with no further action being taken against anyone in the flat.

Crazy, innit?

In the end, it was all about a missing key,

not a sex crime.

A relief for all concerned,

but also a matter of frustration for the officers.

You come down here

from a call where she's trapped in a flat, she's distressed,

she's with four males, we don't know anything, to...

you know, within five or ten minutes of being there,

it just becomes a big, you know, joke to them.

I mean, she's in drink, she's had drink,

er, it's just an absolute joke.

It's our...a waste of our time to a certain extent,

because she isn't, in this particular instance,

as vulnerable as she made out on the telephone.

Yet the next phone call we have from her, she might be

desperately in need of our help.

It could be treated less seriously than we've treated it tonight

and she gets seriously sexually assaulted, or seriously beaten up.

If you manifest that...numerous times,

just for the Oldham area, then it just becomes an absolute...

er...

well, just a vicious circle.