Episode 7 The Wanted

We're just going to have to try and be a bit more fluid with it

and see if we can take him out in the street.

He's turning left and going up to the junction,

so he's dealing on Bexley Road.

-This is him.

-This is him.

-Just get ready.

-Are we going to go for it?

Yeah, course we are.

Just get out the...

Police, mate.

Police officers. West Yorkshire Police.

-Stop resisting. Police officers.

-Down!

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!

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

..and on the other, are the wanted.

West Yorkshire - home to 2.2 million people,

a minority of hardened criminals

and a dedicated police task force codenamed Quartz.

Quartz was set up five years ago now.

We do a lot of work around drugs

and drug supply and

dealing with people who

enforce drugs markets through the use,

or the criminal use, of firearms.

The team target Leeds' most wanted criminals,

and their reputation for getting results precedes them.

The plan is to go down there, sense it out,

arrest the occupant and search the premises.

This morning, they've received live intelligence

that a suspected drug dealer is currently supplying

in the Harehills district of the city.

SIRENS WAIL

Obviously, we don't know what we're going to come up against

but, you know, if we need to get off and running,

then we'll see how we get on.

The team's target is 20-year-old Nathan Murphy.

The officers intend to pay him a visit without warning.

Element of surprise is usually what we go for and, er...

When you get it right, it means that

someone's not got the opportunity to get away.

There are various levels of drugs dealers in the chain.

We'd look at this as being a mid-level dealer,

and we believe that this person

would be in possession of quite a large amount of drugs.

Typically, it would be, Class A controlled drugs

which would be crack cocaine and heroin.

On arrival at their stakeout point, the team hear from colleagues

who already have the suspect under surveillance.

He's on the move.

We're just going to have to try and be a bit more fluid with it

and see if we can take him out in the street.

Are you happy that that lad is dealing?

-Are you happy that he's in possession of drugs?

-'Yeah, yeah.'

Stuart were saying that it were Bexley Road when he dealt it before.

To catch their suspect, timing will be critical.

Officers must try to predict the route he'll take.

He's coming out of there.

They said he's turning left and going up to the junction,

so he's dealing on Bexley Road.

If he goes right out of there, he's going to come on to here,

walk along the gable end of the house and go up the next one.

We need to get him as he's gone up. If we park short...

-If we park short then...

-And get out.

-So Grove is this way, yeah?

-Yeah.

And Place is the one after.

With this particular operation, the plan was to try

and identify the dealer, which we did, which was Nathan Murphy.

Erm...it was to detain him and to achieve or obtain

the best possible evidence to show that he is...

he's been drug dealing and...

Because, ultimately, we need to build a case that goes to court

and is evidentially sound, and the best way to do that

would be to find the subject in possession of drugs.

-There's an old people's home there.

-So he's walking up the hill.

The issue here is we don't want to be premature and stop him

and to have no drugs on him. That's the...

The team have only one chance to take their suspect down.

It's now a question of waiting for him to make his move.

Greater Manchester - famed for music, football, fashion...

and car crime.

The county has a higher rate of vehicle thefts

than anywhere else in England and Wales.

It's going to be a short briefing

-cos we need to get out to

-BLEEP

-address before he gets to work.

Hunting down those wanted for this type of crime

is the Nominal Enforcement Team.

The Nominal Enforcement Team is set up to tackle

the most prolific offenders on the division.

These are the sort of people that we recognised

were active in burglaries,

robberies and other serious offences.

This morning, they're targeting a group of young petrol heads

who definitely aren't camera shy.

Most of the evidence that we've managed to get

so far is via mobile phone.

There is a number of photos of various vehicles.

What we need to be looking for as soon as we arrest the offenders

is that we take those phones straight off them.

In just nine months, this gang are thought to have stolen

14 cars from outside their owners' homes.

The police have been able to connect them to the thefts

after seizing a mobile phone linked to another crime.

Through that mobile phone, we've been able to evidence vehicles

that have been taken from the actual addresses.

There were pictures of the actual vehicles themselves

and taking the photographs quite brazenly on their own mobile phones.

What we're able to do is build that intelligence picture up

in terms of who were in the vehicles

and then associate those vehicles with the actual locations

where they were taken from.

It's 5.00am and the team are preparing to swoop

on their first suspect -

a teenager with previous convictions.

He's well known to the police

and he has been done for a long time.

Our suspicion is he was actually one of the main organisers

and one of the main people responsible for the thefts.

KNOCKING AT DOOR

The officers are calling at the suspect's girlfriend's house

hoping to catch him before he wakes up.

Police. Hello?

-Morning. It's the police.

-Morning.

-Is

-BLEEP

-up there?

-Is he? I just need a quick word with him.

-A quick word with him.

Anybody else in at the moment?

Come on, mate. Get yourself up, pal. Keep yourself covered up, darling.

-Come on, mate.

-I'm up!

Yes, mate. You will be in a minute.

The suspect hasn't been in trouble with the police for a while.

He's unhappy at making their acquaintance again.

We'll explain everything to you.

Yeah.

Right. I'll explain to you the reasons why we're here. All right?

We've explained to you it's historic, haven't we?

He was very upset.

He was actually arrested at his girlfriend's address,

quite a respectable family, and that's where we attended.

And I think he was very shocked,

the fact that we'd attended his address after, in his words,

he'd stopped offending.

I think, to an extent, he always knew that his past might

catch up with him at some point, which it obviously did.

But absolutely no compassion for him cos of the amount of damage that

he's actually done, through his crimes, to victims.

The team search for anything relating to

the current spate of car thefts

and they immediately find incriminating evidence.

Sarge, these have been seized from the wall of the bedroom.

These are the same images that we recovered from the mobile phones

that were seized earlier on.

They show the person that's been arrested with some associates

in vehicles that we believe to be stolen.

It's really good evidence in relation to

the offence that we're investigating because, erm...

obviously, he's been brazen enough

to display these on his bedroom wall,

and we'll definitely use some of this as evidence against him.

And it's a total disregard for the victims of the crimes.

You saw him this morning -

he was trembling, he was shaking, clearly upset.

But you sort of go through the mind-set of the victim

when the vehicle was taken, and you've got people, young families,

and a lot of the time the vehicles were taken for pure pleasure,

so it wasn't even for any financial gain.

So it sort of puts it into perspective, really.

CLOCK TICKING

Back in Leeds...

We just wait now.

..the Quartz team are on a stakeout.

He's dealing on Bexley Road.

So...if they can scare him there...

They've received a tip-off that 20-year-old Nathan Murphy

is dealing drugs, and they're hoping to catch him in the act.

After an hour of waiting, a possible sighting.

-This is him. This is him.

-Just get ready.

-'Are you going to go for it?'

-Yeah, course we are.

Just get out...

-Police, mate.

-Police!

Down! Down!

-Down!

-Police officers, calm down.

Have you got any drugs on you?

You are detained for the purposes of a search

under the Misuse of Drugs Act, do you understand?

-You've been detained by the police, OK?

-All right.

Can we get on the radio, please, and inform them we've got him?

You don't have to say anything, but it may harm your defence

if you do not mention when questioned

something you later rely upon in court.

Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

You've been arrested on suspicion of being in possession

of controlled drugs with intent to supply.

We were concerned,

as he was walking towards us,

if he sees us, he's going to be off.

And because of the layouts

of the houses, and you can be down an alleyway or one of the back roads

and out of view within seconds.

Any drugs he's got on him are going to be gone, thrown in a bush,

thrown down the drain, and he's laughing then.

So we wanted to grab him or detain him

before he had the opportunity to do that.

Yeah, we need to move forward to the house now.

-He's locked up.

-We've got him, we've got him.

-He's in.

-Yeah, he's got gear on him.

He had street deals of heroin and crack cocaine,

so therefore he was arrested under suspicion of intent to supply.

Erm...

The heroin and crack cocaine, which was the Class A drugs.

And as officers had seen him leave his home address

immediately prior to his arrest,

we were then given the power to enter that address and to search

for evidence relating to the offence for which he's been arrested.

As Murphy is taken in for questioning,

the remainder of the Quartz team begin the search of his family home.

-Calm down!

-DOGS BARKING

Hey. Shut up!

BARKING CONTINUES

If there's any drugs in this house, you will be arrested, OK?

Right, well, they won't be mine.

No, if you tell me about them now, you won't be, possibly.

-I don't know of any.

-All right.

I've got a spliff on there.

I'm not too worried about that at the moment. We'll sort that out.

Yeah, dog's in there. He's chained up, though.

What's his name, the guy that's just left the house?

-My son?

-Yeah.

-Nathan.

-Is it Nathan?

-Yeah.

And which is his bedroom, then?

-The right attic, the smallest one.

-OK.

At that side.

Knowing how the deals operate, they usually keep the drugs

in the bedroom, so special effort was made on his bedroom.

We didn't find any drugs in the bedroom,

a little bit disappointed.

And it was then that we started searching in the kitchen

and hung up on the back of the door which led up to the staircase

was, like, a hooded top.

-'Just calm yourself down.

-Calm down!'

-There's some shots of either

heroin or crack cocaine in that pocket and then some more in here.

I would suspect that the brown one is the heroin

-and then the white ones are wraps of crack cocaine.

-'Just calm down!'

There's several bowls of shots here.

-'What is it?

-Class A drugs find.

-Is it?'

Lofty! Lofty! We've found the shots, mate.

The search is proving to be fruitful.

But you are in the house where drugs have been found so you could be...

-I don't live here!

-I know, I know.

You've already got your hand on my back for one thing.

Your stuff's upstairs, isn't it?

Your stuff is upstairs, isn't it?

Why are you in there with the cameras?!

Downstairs, the officers think they may have found another substance,

this time under the kitchen sink.

Cleaning lint.

Brasso, you know, for pans.

If we test it, it's not amphetamine, is that what you're saying?

It smelt like amphetamine to me, it looked like amphetamine to me

and he was saying it was Ajax or Brasso or something, I don't know.

I mean, there's only one way of finding out, really,

is to get it sent off to the lab.

But because we suspected that it was drugs, he was arrested as well.

Well, anyway, you're under arrest on possession of a Class B drug,

amphetamine. You don't have to say anything, but it may harm

-your defence if you don't mention...

-I'm under arrest for what?

You're under arrest on suspicion of possession of that.

It's as simple as that, all right?

Let me get it right - you're charging me with this?

No, you're not getting charged.

We'll just ask you a few questions about that, and if it's not yours,

there's no issues.

But because we've got a procedure, you're going to have to come.

-All right?

-I'll come. Not a problem.

So I'll just put these on you and then we'll take you down the road.

Right, have a seat in there, fella.

Following questioning at the police station, the male occupant

of the house was released with no further action taken against him.

But the outcome for Nathan Murphy was far worse.

He was charged with possessing Class A drugs

with the intent to supply

and is now serving a two-year prison sentence.

In Manchester, Sergeant Nasim and his colleagues are continuing

their dawn raids on a group of suspected car thieves.

They've already arrested one

and are hoping he hasn't alerted his partners in crime.

They obviously know each other quite well.

Especially with social media these days, it's very easy to communicate.

And we had a look at one of the tablets upstairs in the bedroom,

and there was a message there from one of the other males

that we're interested in.

So they obviously communicate quite easily with each other,

which further hampers the investigation.

And one of the things that we need to be conscious about

is the alerting each other that they've been arrested.

So when we got in, we straightaway seized his mobile phone

to take that sort of avenue away from him.

So hopefully, when we arrive at the next address,

they're unaware that we are attending this morning.

Next up for an early morning wake-up call is Jordan Irving.

Jordan had gained a bit of a

reputation in the community as being the driver.

They nicknamed him Stig, actually, because of his driving skills.

The thing about Jordan is he's very distinctive.

He's very tall and very skinny, so he sticks out like a sore thumb.

Open the door, please. Police!

It's the police. Can you open the door?

-Hey.

-Morning.

-Sorry to disturb you.

-Is Jordan in?

-Yeah.

-Is he in bed?

No, he's not in bed. He's on the couch.

Where is he?

-Where is he?

-Police!

-Upstairs.

-Eh?

The officers find their man in an upstairs bedroom.

Sergeant Nasim lays out what Irving's suspected to have done.

Jordan has absolutely no respect for the police or the community.

Quite often he'll be involved in stealing these vehicles.

And you think in terms of what they're actually getting out of it -

it was a car to use for that night

before they were dumped or sold on for peanuts, basically.

So it was quite satisfying going round to his address

and arresting him.

There's a number of items that we've seized from the address.

Couple of pair of trainers and a mobile phone.

Previously, we've used footwear for forensic analysis

from addresses where burglaries have taken place

and match the pattern.

So maybe that's why, one of the reasons why he was a bit reluctant

to tell us which trainers he'd been wearing.

We've recovered a pair from the stairs,

and if you look at the bottom of them,

they look like they're quite fresh,

i.e. - they've been worn quite recently.

'Are you being serious? Have you seen the state of the...bedrooms?'

Have you? Have the seen the state of the bedrooms?!

He's a 13-year-old lad and he's abused his bedroom...on camera!

So...

We've got a job to do, we've got to go in there.

We were reasonable in terms of the search

and what we left there, but she was obviously upset about

the invasion of her private space.

But at the end of the day, if her son's going to commit a crime,

we are going to go to the address.

With two suspects arrested and now in custody,

the Nominal Enforcement Team can continue their hunt

for the rest of the gang.

Each year in the UK, there are around 50,000 robberies.

Surveillance cameras in businesses and banks

have helped bring many of those responsible to justice.

But CCTV footage alone isn't enough.

Violent offences like armed robbery need thorough investigation.

And in Greater Manchester,

that's the job of the Serious Organised Crime Group.

Right, thanks very much, everybody, for coming to this meeting

in relation to Operation Saker.

I'm sure you're all aware we've got four people in custody now

who we're going to be interviewing in due course.

And what we need to do today is to go through

the offences that we suspect that these four have been involved in.

Every single day that you come into work,

you never know what you'll come in to.

Robbery, drugs, kidnap, extortion.

the run of the mill stuff, really.

The group are currently investigating eight armed robberies

carried out in Greater Manchester and beyond.

The gang behind them has terrorised bookmakers and shop workers,

brandishing firearms and making threats.

These were really nasty robberies.

They were going in with their faces covered,

they had a sawn-off shotgun,

so it must have been absolutely terrifying for the victims

in these cases.

You know, they're just doing an honest day's work,

and the next thing, they've got people coming in

with their faces covered, balaclavas, face coverings

and they're pointing guns in their face.

Some of them, they actually put the guns to the heads of these people.

So far, the police have arrested and charged four men

in relation to the robberies -

Rahman Richards, Kyodo Freeman, Jake Prempay and Omar Berryman.

But they believe there could be a fifth gang member out there.

We had intelligence which suggested

that there was another person involved.

Albeit we had four people who we knew were responsible,

in these kind of offences, you always have other people

that drop in and drop out at any point.

And that's why it's really important that we follow every line of inquiry

just to make sure that we're not missing owt.

The team have a Photofit image of a suspect

and an address in the Salford area.

A covert detective is leading the operation on the ground.

19442 Foxtrot.

'Morning. Go ahead.'

Good morning. Could you create us a flin, please,

for a Section 8 PACE warrant execution?

'I will do.

'You're on the wrong channel.'

MAN SPEAKS INDECIPHERABLY OVER RADIO

-With the Lexus in the drive?

-Yeah.

KNOCKING AT DOOR

Got the warrant, Ray?

HE KNOCKS FORCEFULLY

It's the police.

Good morning. Greater Manchester Police.

Got a warrant to search your property. All right to come in?

Is anybody else in the house?

Right, OK. We've got a warrant to search the house, all right?

It's in connection with a robbery investigation.

We're looking for items in connection with robbery offences.

OK?

The suspect isn't at home.

His mother is, and she's distressed.

It can be upsetting for family members.

You know, they don't particularly want the police in their house

at the end of the day, but we've got a job to do.

And at the end of the day, we had a lot of really, really upset victims

and people have been absolutely petrified,

so it's only right and proper that we do

a really thorough investigation to get to the bottom of these crimes.

The manhunt may have drawn a blank for now,

but the team hope the search will yield positive results.

We did recover some clothing and some footwear,

which we then are able to take away and examine that

in comparison to CCTV evidence, and that's what we did in this case.

We were able to then establish whether that person

or if those clothes or the footwear were present or not.

Earlier, Manchester's

Nominal Enforcement Team made two arrests.

They're investigating a spate of recent car thefts

and are now about to give a third suspect a surprise alarm call.

Come on, open the door.

Watch that razor wire there, lad.

One of the team heads round the back to prevent a possible escape.

They've got a dog. Just let them know at the back.

A dog?

I can hear a dog, mate. It might be next door but just let them know.

-Hiya. Are you doing OK?

-Morning. Give me a minute.

-Police!

-Put some clothes on, mate.

Once again, he was in bed with his girlfriend.

Not best pleased.

Quite a cocky attitude, in terms of he didn't think we'd got

a lot of evidence in terms of

getting him in to the police station.

He'd taken these photographs of cars

which obviously didn't belong to them

and they felt, obviously, they were quite proud

they were getting these vehicles, evading capture,

and taking photos as a group.

And then putting them on social media.

The suspect is detained and taken off to custody for questioning.

It's been a productive morning for the Nominal Enforcement Team.

We've sort of hit gold, really, this morning.

We've done lucky. I think the five o'clock start's helped us.

We were able to get out early and we've...

Yeah, we've done OK, getting all three.

The team have now arrested three suspects,

but the operation is only just beginning.

That's the easy bit out of the way, if you like, the arrest phase.

Now comes the hard work with the interviewing

and, obviously, liaising with the CPS.

And that'd leave... The last thing of the day would be

ringing the victims of crime

that these lads have been, sort of, wreaking havoc on

and informing them that we've got someone charged with,

sort of, their incident.

Watch your step.

Before officers can interview their suspect

about any possible connection to the stolen cars,

he must be booked in by the custody sergeant.

Conspiracy to commit burglary, Sarge.

Between 26/8/13

and 14/8/14,

13 burglaries where high-powered vehicles have been stolen.

This lad is believed to be one of five responsible.

-Yeah, I will do.

-'What, are they getting seized, then?'

Yeah. Here's your trainers.

They're obviously quite foolish in terms of the actions that

led us towards apprehending them,

but they're very brazen, they've absolutely no respect for the law,

they've absolutely no respect for

the people that they take the property from.

Erm...

They feel like everything revolves around them,

in terms of their offending.

And I'm sure they get quite a bit of a buzz out of it, in terms of

the excitement they got planning where they're going to and stuff.

But absolutely no regard for the victims and the damage,

the untold damage it leaves them with for the future.

In Greater Manchester, the Serious Organised Crime Group

are investigating a series of violent armed robberies.

The police have arrested four people they believe are responsible.

But they think there may be a fifth gang member still at large.

KNOCKING AT DOOR

Good morning. Greater Manchester Police.

Got a warrant to search your property.

So far, they've been unable to find him.

Let's get inside and I'll explain to you.

We were then contacted by his

solicitor, who wanted to make

arrangements so that he could

hand himself in.

That's something that happens on quite a few occasions.

So we make those arrangements.

At the end of the day, it's just important that

we speak to that person, find out if

they were involved in the offence or not,

if they've got any kind of alibi.

We have to keep a really open mind in relation to these investigations.

The man proves true to his word.

He does turn up to the police station as promised.

He's been arrested by myself at 2.30, call number is 14832.

He was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit robbery.

It's a series of eight linked robberies across Greater Manchester

and Derbyshire area, whereby black males have been committing

armed robberies against convenience stores and bookmakers

with the use of a single-barrel sawn-off shotgun.

Can I have your hat?

-Yeah.

-Cheers.

When he came into the police station and then he was interviewed

at the police station and gave various pieces of information,

which we then followed up on.

And as a result of that, he was initially bailed

and then no further action was taken against him.

Following a thorough investigation,

the male who handed himself in was released without charge.

You've got to follow every line of inquiry in relation to

these types of investigations, and we do that.

We make sure it's really thorough and,

albeit there's sometimes that people don't like

the fact that they've been arrested or that the house has been searched,

it's really important that we do it

because if we're going to prove they're innocent,

then we've got to follow all those valid lines of inquiry,

and that's what happened on this occasion.

But for the four already in custody, it was a very different outcome.

All later appeared in court and received sentences

ranging from six to 15 years for the armed robberies.

Operation Saker was a fantastic investigation

into a group of criminals who had absolutely no regard at all

for the public.

They produced a firearm, which was a sawn-off shotgun,

on a number of these offences.

The people who were working in these locations were absolutely petrified,

and I'm sure are still scared to this day.

And they had no regard at all for those people.

At the end of the day, we all have family and friends

who perhaps work in these types of establishments

where they were committing offences,

so you know that people are safer, the public are safer.

So you just know that deep down - you've done your job,

you've taken dangerous criminals off the streets.

And it just makes the world a little bit safer place

for everybody else to live in.

West Yorkshire - over 2,000 square kilometres

policed by almost 5,000 officers.

Its largest city is Leeds, home of the Operation Quartz team,

which tackles drugs and firearms offences.

OK. Good morning, everybody, and welcome.

I'm just going to go through...

Today, they're on the trail of a man who's wanted for both.

Information we have is intelligence states that a Steven Deegan,

born 11/7/70, is dealing controlled drugs,

namely cocaine and amphetamine.

So the intention for today is to execute a warrant

under the Misuse of Drugs Act,

secure the property and the occupants present,

conduct a thorough search of the premises

and arrest for any substantive offences.

Along with drugs, officers also expect to find weapons.

Deegan is believed to possess two unserviceable shotguns

and one serviceable high-powered air rifle.

Because of the seriousness of the alleged offences,

the officers will give their suspect no warning.

Police!

A man appears at the door...

-If you've got a lock on that door, undo it now.

-Open the door.

..but then decides against letting the officers in.

He's running upstairs. Keep going. Get out of the road, Jim.

There's another bolt there.

Watch it, mate. On the chin.

-Go, in!

-Police officers!

-Get him secured.

-Police officers!

It's 25 past. Get some clothes for him, yeah?

If you were to hear a great big banging

coming from your door, you're going to look to see what it is

and who it is.

And, er...if you're in that world,

erm...it could be a variety of people.

It could be the police, it could be a rival drug dealer,

it could be anybody.

And we've had operations in the past where, believe it or not,

the people have been relieved that it is the police

because if it wasn't us, it was someone else coming

with a more sinister intention than what we've got for them.

With their suspect detained, the officers can start

the search for the items detailed on the warrant.

Blimey.

Sam's located the drugs here, so looks like there's

the amphetamine there and the cocaine in that little yellow tub.

I'd say that's a substantial amount for anybody to have,

you know, as a street dealer.

Probably a couple of thousand pounds of street money there.

OK, mate. You're under arrest for suspicion of supplying Class A drug.

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 say may be given in evidence.

Do you understand that?

So other than this, is there another firearm here at this address?

Just stay there. Just sit down.

-If you just, sort of, explain.

-There's one here.

Even just looking round, straightaway there's

what looked to be a shotgun on the mantelpiece.

Just into the dining room, there looked to be another shotgun

in two or three pieces leaned up against the wall.

And then there was what looked to be an all-signing, all-dancing

high-powered air rifle.

And so, we found them sort of...

Well, you just seen them in the address straightaway.

Do you hold a shotgun licence?

OK.

Arrest him for possession of a Section 1 without certificate.

OK, so obviously, you're...

You're also under arrest, at this time, on suspicion of

possession of Section 1 firearm, OK?

Steven Deegan is taken off to custody for questioning

and the team will continue their search for evidence.

CLOCK TICKING

In North Manchester, the Nominal Enforcement Team have tracked down

three suspects in connection with a spate of car thefts.

The gang believed to have been responsible have been brazen enough

to take trophy photographs of themselves in the stolen vehicles.

Evidence of Megane turning up and dropping off the Mercedes.

-The silver one?

-A-Class, yeah.

It's an '06 plate.

But there were two Meganes stolen.

-So we don't know which one of the two it is?

-No.

-Renault Megane.

-Yeah.

Officers have had to analyse all the photos in preparation

for the court hearing,

a detailed and painstaking process.

They always stood in front of the registration plate,

so we couldn't actually make out the registration plate of that car.

So what we had to do was link that car to a particular burglary.

And the sort of things we did were look at

particular details of that vehicle - there might have been

a sticker in the rear window - then speak to the victim

to see if they could identify

if there's any sort of stickers in their vehicle.

Because there was a number of vehicles,

it's putting all that together as a jigsaw

and making sense of where these vehicles have gone from,

who was actually associated to those vehicles

and those people on the photos that we didn't know,

so we had to go through a process of identifying them,

making those associations,

so we could present a good, solid case at court.

A few weeks later, four suspects are attending a bail hearing

at Manchester Magistrates' Court.

Sergeant Nasim and Detective Chadwick are there to witness the outcome.

-Any news?

-Yeah, it's good news.

All four have been remanded in custody

and it's adjournment for the next couple of weeks.

Erm...

It was hard work, really, because the case was complex.

And I think, in all fairness to the CPS,

though he did his best to explain the various aspects of the case,

Jack actually had to take the witness stand and swear oath

and clarify some points, which definitely went in our favour,

so I'm really glad we actually came this morning.

In the end, there was insufficient evidence to connect

the suspects with the burglary charges.

However, one suspect received a two-year suspended sentence

and 100 hours community service for ten counts

of handling stolen goods, namely the cars.

Jordan Irving is currently serving 14 months in prison

for four counts of handling stolen goods.

Quite often we feel that people are committing offences

and sometimes laughing in our faces,

but we haven't quite got enough evidence

to actually put in front of the court,

and actually being able to do that

gives us a massive sense of satisfaction.

-Go! In!

-Police officers!

Get him secured.

In the Beeston area of Leeds, the Quartz team have raided the home

of suspected drug dealer Steven Deegan.

As he is taken away for questioning,

the search for evidence gets under way.

Well, everything has a place, doesn't it?

And everything's got to go in its place.

So this, yeah. No, I'm not happy about that.

And...

I mean, how can you go to bed on the night and leave that like that?

I wouldn't be able to sleep.

Even if the dishes were like that and I got in at 3am,

I'd have to wash them all before I went to sleep.

Officers discover large wads of cash inside the house...

920.

..along with CS gas spray and other weapons.

This is a samurai sword.

People use them as ornaments.

And the blade has had some use.

So, yeah, obviously another nasty piece of kit.

And there's the issue of the potentially unlicensed guns

that still needs to be addressed.

Looks like a dismantled shotgun,

full-barrelled, double-barrelled one.

One's on display on the mantelpiece, which is a double-barrelled as well,

and then there's this really...looks like high-powered air weapon as well

with, like, all the canisters and stuff,

so...SOCO here.

We're not firearms experts.

We have the luxury of several

brilliant firearms experts on tap.

So, erm...

whenever we recover a firearm or a suspected firearm,

the golden rule which we can't go wrong with

is we treat it as though it's a genuine, viable, live,

lethal firearm that's illegal, until we're told otherwise.

CHATTER OVER RADIO

There's knives and that.

I think they're the ones that go on your belt.

Following PC Herbert's call,

specialist firearms officers are sent in.

They're legal to own, them. It's purely for an air rifle,

and the only way of determining whether an air rifle's illegal

is by testing the power on it.

Obviously, if it's over 12ft/lbs, then it's illegal.

-All right, OK.

-But we can't tell you that today.

Yeah, that's fine. Yeah.

If we ever find a firearm, or a suspected firearm,

we stop straightaway. And that's because we don't know

the condition of it, where it's been, who's handled it,

if it's loaded or not, if it's safe to handle.

So we then ask for armed officers to attend at the scene.

And what they do is what's called prove, or make the firearm safe

to handle and safe to carry and so on.

What's the legitimate use for these, then?

-Hunting. Hunting vermin.

-Hunting?

-Yeah.

-Farmland, sort of?

-Yeah. Rabbits, squirrels, rats - stuff like that.

Safety's off.

-It has got a magazine in it, mate, underneath.

-Right.

Scenes of Crime Officers are also requested to attend,

who photograph the exhibits as best as you can in situ.

Then only when the Firearms and Scenes of Crimes Officers

are happy they've finished,

we can then remove the firearms from the scene.

It's a very sophisticated bit of kit.

If I saw that green dot on me, I wouldn't be happy.

Armed officers have examined the weapons now.

The first one, which was on the mantelpiece,

is going to have to be sent off to the lab

cos we don't know whether it can be fired or not

or whether it can be adapted to fire,

so that's the...we're arranging that now.

The one that was on the floor down here looks like

an all-singing, all-dancing, high-powered air weapon,

again, which may or may not be illegal, depending on

how powerful it is.

And they're examining the third one now, which looks to be

in very similar condition to that one that was up there.

There's quite a fair amount

that looks like amphetamine, cocaine in there as well.

So you've got a house here with a guy who's got guns,

he's got CS spray, he's got drugs, he's got cash.

Everything we look for, we've found here,

so it's been a successful warrant.

Even though there was a substantial haul of weapons,

in the end, they were all legally licensed.

However, Steven Deegan later appeared in court regarding

the Class B substances and the CS gas spray.

He was found not guilty of supply

but guilty of possession of amphetamine

and ordered to pay £255.

We've had some fantastic results over the years and recovered

some really significant and substantial firearms -

by that I mean automatic weapons and things like that -

and we've recovered large quantities of drugs

which are worth hundreds of thousands of pounds,

and that's got to affect...

Someone's going to be really annoyed,

whoever that may be, whether that's ultimately the person we've got

or someone else connected to it, either financially

or to the drugs themselves.

It's not a good day for them if they've lost that amount of drugs,

but it's a good day for us.