Episode 9 The Wanted

Third one on your left here, yeah. Just pull up here, mate.

Just before, just before, just before. Cheers, mate.

Police! Police!

-Police!

-Police! Police!

Every day in the UK,

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

Get back through 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 has one of the UK's busiest police forces.

Nearly 5,000 officers in a county of more than two million people.

POLICE SIREN

Going after wanted criminals often involves raiding homes.

Yeah, where's that location? Is that Keith?

But for roads policing officers like James Alderson

it means pursuing cars.

Thank you. Right,

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.

'In Bradford we have a big problem with people'

using the roads illegally and I'm not just talking about

antisocial behaviour of vehicles and speeding,

but we have a lot of people that... that don't

have documents for their vehicles, don't have driving licences,

we have a lot of uninsured cars on the road,

we have a lot of what we call pool cars,

which are cars that are used by criminals to...to commit crime.

Erm, we...we have a challenge on our roads to...

to try and keep these people off the road.

Five-zero. Been confirmed, failed to stop,

-break away...

-INDISTINCT RADIO VOICE

-Ten yards down.

-BEEP AND TONE

It's midnight

and James and his partner are chasing a driver

through the streets of Bradford.

Testing the camera.

He's failed to stop.

He's heading towards a residential area

and he's way over the speed limit.

Hold your arses, guys, I'm afraid.

To keep up, the officer is forced to drive over a road tank trap,

specifically designed to block cars.

INDISTINCT VOICE

Not supposed to get a vehicle over them

and you do see, when... when people drive over them,

quite often you get sparks from underneath the car and that stuff

so it's not good for your car to go over them,

erm, but obviously they think we're not going to...

going to take our cars over them,

so it's an easy way for them to...to get away from us.

-Go over tank traps.

-INDISTINCT VOICE

-RADIO VOICE:

-Confirm ahead.

Five-zero, been confirmed with assault, failed to stop,

break away, going through...

That, then, for me, when they start doing something like that,

going over the tank traps or going off road,

it affirms in my mind then,

yeah, they're trying to get away from here, because...

why else would you take that route

if you weren't trying to get away from the police?

Oscar Romeo. Five-zero.

POLICE SIREN

INDISTINCT RADIO VOICE

Five-zero, left, left, left. Goodson Avenue.

It's tango, nine, zero, three, VW Golf.

Just approaching junction with Little Horton Lane.

Stand by. Left-hand indication.

INDISTINCT RADIO VOICE

Finally, the driver realises there's no escape.

He decides to pull over.

Stand by.

-Oi, keys! Turn it off.

-POLICE SIREN

It's W... It's, er, Crick Lane, it's a stop, driver detained.

Keep your hands where I can see them.

-Keep your hands where I can see them.

-I just want my phone.

No, no, hands out of your pockets now.

-Do as you're told, do you hear me?

-Look...

-No, listen,

I don't want you fishing in your pockets, end of.

Step out of the vehicle, please.

'You get out of that car and that adrenaline's there.

'You've not blocked it out at that point.'

It's there and, and you, you're full of adrenaline.

It's still the same.

You've still got to manage it because, if you don't, you can go over the top obviously, you...

you need to control yourself in those situations.

Sit in the car, please.

-RADIO VOICE:

-Go ahead.

After detaining the driver,

the police need to establish why he was so keen to get away.

What's that all about, then? Is it your car?

-So, you've no insurance?

-No.

You got a driving licence?

-You're banned?

-Yes.

OK, sit tight. Two minutes, we'll get you sorted.

-RADIO VOICE:

-Here.

-Can you just run us this vehicle through, please?

Run through, Volkswagen Golf in blue, insurance not held, MOC valid.

As PC Alderson checks out the car and driver,

Special Constable Jamie Brown deals with the distraught passenger.

How do you know him?

Your boyfriend, all right, no worries. Is it his car?

It is his car?

It's not your fault,

you weren't driving it, were you? Don't worry about it.

All right.

So, disqualified from driving,

you've no insurance...

and obviously you've just driven in the way that you've driven over that tank trap.

But you can't drive over a tank trap.

This is what I'm trying to explain to you,

there's two options, all right?

I can arrest you, take you to custody, interview you in custody,

all right?

For disqualified driving.

-Right, OK then.

-Yeah.

-So,

the second option, but this requires your co-operation,

is that we interview you now, in the car.

Providing that everything's in order and I'm happy

then you can go home.

-What you like the non-custody-based option?

-Yes.

All right.

When are you disqualified till, mate?

-Ninth of next month?

-RADIO VOICES IN BACKGROUND

-So, what did you do today then, when you saw t'police car?

-Yeah.

From the minute I saw you on Canterbury Avenue,

do you think any of your standard of driving there was careless?

First and foremostly, you're reported for the offences of,

OK, disqualified driving and using a vehicle without insurance,

which is no...no big surprise to you, and you're also dis...

you're also reported for the offence of driving

without due care and attention and for failing to stop for police.

-Do you understand that?

-Yeah.

Do you have any reply?

You don't have to. It's just, we have to ask you if you've got a reply.

'It was his decision to drive.'

It was his decision to buy that car, to pay the money for that car,

knowing that he shouldn't be driving it, and to drive it on the road,

and then not only did he do that, he tried to get away as well, which...

which makes it worse,

so, no, I've no sympathy for him, he deserved it.

With the questioning over,

the officer ordered the car to be seized.

Kamile Konovsky and his girlfriend will have to walk home.

Nine weeks later, Kamile appeared in court,

charged with dangerous driving and driving whilst disqualified.

He was sentenced to a total of nine months' imprisonment.

He didn't get his car back.

Greater Manchester,

a sprawling conurbation with the third largest police force in the UK.

Officers make around 6,000 drug arrests every year,

but the war is never-ending.

The operation, Op Selenite, is put in place

to combat drug supply issues

around the Newton Heath and Failsworth area.

The aim of the operation is to conduct warrants at seven addresses

over the two-day period, six of which are going to take place today.

The latest operation involves police units

from across the whole of the county.

Obviously if we do get a seizure of drugs, consider the...evidence

that we'll need for supply -

cash, debtors' list, scales, snap-bags, mobile phones,

bank statements, et cetera.

And that...

is it. OK?

Operation Selenite

has been organised in partnership with the National Crime Agency.

60 officers are taking part.

Go, go, go, Matthew.

Go, go, go.

Acting Sergeant Anu Singh is one of them.

Suchlike operations are always a hush.

It's no point, er, advertising it.

So, the officer in case

has to keep it to her chest or his chest.

In this case, it was her chest.

You work on the intelligence we are getting from members of public,

from the people around your area.

Obviously we were getting something from the members of public

for us to be able to get those warrants,

go to a court, go to a magistrate

and say that, yeah, we have enough intelligence

to say that there is something going on, on those streets,

in that house.

Anu and her colleagues are planning co-ordinated strikes.

They have seven target addresses,

all in the Failsworth and Newton Heath districts of Manchester.

We only get to know what we are supposed to know.

In fact, I didn't know the address myself

until just a few minutes ago,

so the other addresses, I have no clue where we are

about the addresses, so, yeah, it's just all confidential,

at the moment.

Let's go, let's hit the address.

Is this Wes with us?

Get Wes to follow us so we can get the door done.

One of the team splits from the convoy

to hit the first address.

Pull over on your left here, yeah.

Just pull up here, mate.

Just before, just before, just before. Cheers, mate.

Here. Hold that.

Police! Police!

-Police!

-Police!

-Police!

-Police!

-Police!

Go.

Police.

-There's a dog in here.

-Yeah, dog secured.

A successful raid at the first address.

Officers find the suspects at home

and detain them while they begin a full search.

Meanwhile, Sergeant Anu Singh reaches HER target location.

BANGING ON FRONT DOOR

Police! Come to the door!

INDISTINCT VOICE

Police, come to the door.

The occupant seems to be making his way to the door.

Maybe the officers won't need their big red key this time.

Get it open.

'Well, we had intelligence to say that, yes, he was dealing,'

but obviously when you opened the door

you were expecting some...youngster.

-Morning, mate.

-Morning, mate.

-We've got a warrant to search the address.

And yet it was a shock to see...

somebody in his late 50s, early 60s, yes.

I'll give you a copy of the warrant there,

just entitles us to search the premises

under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

It's been authorised by the Magistrates' Court, OK?

Both suspects at home,

both properties secured,

now the searches can begin.

In West Yorkshire,

roads policing officer James Alderson is back on duty.

We're on Wapping Road towards Bolton Road.

I've got a vehicle failing to stop.

I'll, er, go to inter ops.

He's spotted this car acting suspiciously

while patrolling the streets of Bradford.

Three-one.

-He's failing to stop.

-POLICE SIREN

On the roof.

Put it on the roof. Put 'em on the roof.

POLICE SIREN DROWNS SPEECH

Get in here.

The driver needs to answer some questions.

Ah...

First off, who owns the vehicle?

If this check comes back and it's not in your name...

Obviously it's not going to be in my name.

-So, whose name is it in, then?

-I told you, it's my friend's car.

-Right, so what's your friend's name?

Well, I wouldn't ask if I didn't need to know, would I?

The officer has to establish

that the car has been used with the owner's permission.

If it hasn't,

he can arrest the driver for taking without owner's consent,

also known as TWOC.

All right, then.

OK, in that case, you're under arrest on suspicion of TWOC.

You're under arrest on suspicion of TWOC.

So, tell me who owns it, then.

'He were very awkward,'

I didn't believe the details he were telling me were correct and...

you know, I went down the... potentially arresting him

for TWOC route, because he said it was his friend's car,

as much, if anything else,

to make him think twice about this tale of lies he were telling me.

It's all right. They just need checking out, all right?

Backup officers arrive to assist James

with the passengers in the vehicle.

Step out of the car for me, please.

You stay there, you watch them. Put your hands on the roof.

-Got anything in your pockets you shouldn't have?

-No.

-Nothing at all?

-No.

-Who's the driver?

-He's in the car.

-What's he called?

-Huh?

-You what, sorry?

-I don't know.

-You don't know who the driver is?

-You get into a car and you don't know who the driver is?

-I don't know his name.

-OK.

What I'll say to you, all right,

is...if you are lying to me about your identity...

-Hmm.

-..all right,

and I find out you're lying to me about your identity...

-Right.

-..I'll lock you up and you'll go to custody

and you'll not only get done for your driving offences, you'll get done

-for attempting to pervert the course of justice...

-I'm lying to you, then.

-There we go.

After these words of advice the driver, Sahil Khan,

finally decides to tell the truth.

You must have thought I were born yesterday, you.

I've been doing this job a little while, you know.

I know how it works around here. I work round here all the time,

so giving it all this "it's my mate's" right,

you just say "I bought it to run around in", which is the truth.

A lot easier.

You're still going to get done for no licence, no insurance,

but it means you ain't going to get locked up for TWOC.

Thank you. Surname is Khan, first name is Sahil.

-RADIO:

-He's shown as disqualified until, erm,

the second of the first, 2015.

It's now clear why the man has been withholding his details.

At the minute, the offences you're committing

is driving whilst disqualified,

no insurance and no licence, all right?

Yeah? Makes sense. Did you know you were disqualified?

Right, OK.

-You knew you didn't have a licence, though, yeah?

-I was...

And you knew you didn't have insurance?

The driver might be in serious trouble

but his friends in the car still think it's all a bit of a joke.

I think laughing and joking isn't really conveying

the seriousness of what's happened, is it, really? Yeah?

If you think it's funny, then...carry on.

But I don't think it is, do you?

Reprimanded, and with their details taken,

the passengers are free to go on their way.

I'm trying to understand why young lads round here

just buy cars for t'sake of it and drive round,

cos everyone does it, don't they?

So, you bought it to sell?

So what did you pay for that, then?

£600? And what would you sell it for?

Give over.

Who's going to pay nine for that?

What's t'mileage on it?

What's a bit high?

Pfff...

You'll be lucky if you get 400 for it, mate.

You'll be lucky if you get owt for it now, cos we're taking it off you.

Right, I just need to do a seizure notice and then you're...

you're out of here.

Well, you'll have a job. You ain't got a licence.

With his car seized,

Sahil Khan will have to make his own way home.

I hope for your sake you don't see me again.

See you later.

'It's all right him having a bad attitude, but, er,'

yeah, he got his comeuppance when t'judge sentenced him

to 14 weeks in prison for...

for clearly ignoring what he'd been told in the first place,

so I don't imagine he'll be laughing quite so hard now.

Earlier, officers in Manchester

carried out simultaneous raids on homes in the Failsworth District.

Police!

-Police!

-Police!

Operation Selenite

is designed to crack down on drug dealing.

Someone at the back...

-Morning, mate.

-Morning, mate.

We've got a warrant to search the address.

-Anyone else at the address, pal?

-Mr Bell, is it, yeah?

-Just you?

Is there any, er, drugs on the property?

Er, just a bit of...

-whizz.

-A bit of whizz?

-What I have, yeah.

-What YOU have?

-Yeah.

-Right, OK. Where's that located?

In here where the safe is...

-Where the safe is?

-Yeah.

-All right, OK.

The occupant, Alan Bell,

claims the amphetamines are for personal use,

but as the police have received intelligence

that he could be dealing,

they begin a detailed search of the property.

You never know where they might be hiding.

It's relating to a drug or a small SIM card,

things like that,

it can be anywhere, anywhere in little holes and stuff,

so you have to be very thorough.

We're trained to be, you have to be a good searcher

to be able to go to that little place and find it.

Fantastic. Thank you for doing that, yeah.

Cheers. Thanks.

They have found some scales

with white residue on it, some spoons,

silver spoons...

er, with, er, white,

again, white powder on it.

They found a plastic... a clear plastic bag with some,

again, white powder in it.

I'm arresting you

on suspicion of possession with intent to supply controlled drugs.

You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence

if you do not mention when questioned

something which you later rely on in court.

Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

Do you understand that? Yeah?

We've gained entry and we've got one male detained.

The dog looks worried.

-Eh?

-The dog looks worried.

Yeah, he don't like people touching me.

Shall I leave him in the living room?

-Sorry?

-Shall we leave him in the living room?

-Yes, we will, yeah.

-He's got enough food and everything, hasn't he?

-Yeah.

-OK.

-OK, is everything all right?

-Yeah, all right.

-OK.

Oh, I was worried. Hm!

I was more concerned about the dog than him, the man,

because I knew that this fellow was going to be arrested,

so I was more concerned who's going to look after that dog.

How's... Who's going to feed, er...feed that dog

until that fellow is in the custody?

I'll see you later.

Of course you will.

The officers took Bell to the station for further questioning.

His pet had to stay behind.

DOG WHIMPERS

Alan Bell was later charged

with possession with intent to supply Class B drugs.

He was given a community order and an £80 fine.

There are more than 100

outstanding arrest warrants in Greater Manchester.

Those wanted range from novice law-breakers

to serial offenders.

The divisional tasking team in Oldham

is responsible for tracking many of them down.

-Somebody get the...

-Ladders.

-..ladders and the ooley.

Tonight, officers Kevin Rawcliffe and Phil Cross

are working through their list.

This one here, a lad called Adam Butterworth,

he's asked to make contact with his ex-partner,

asking to see the daughter.

When the ex-partner said her daughter was in bed

and it wasn't possible, he still attended.

He's been kicking the door and the door frame that hard

that it's caused a radiator to come away from the wall.

Erm, from then, he's threatened to...kill her.

We're taking it serious because it is a domestic-violence job.

A lot of work's been done to try and trace him up to now,

we've had no joy, but there's another address we've managed to

get hold of last week, so fingers crossed he'll be there and, er,

he can be arrested for this crime.

The team have received a tip-off

that Butterworth has been staying at a friend's house.

Hello, mate. All right?

We're after...

Adam Butterworth?

He went, er...last night.

-He went last night?

-Yeah.

-Well, we're going to have to search, mate, all right?

-Sure, mate. Yeah.

How long's he been staying here for, mate?

Just on and off.

It's important to visit friends, family, et cetera,

and visit them as many times as you can.

'He clearly had been staying with him

'and I think when we've turned up at the address...'

I think he obviously wasn't there, because we searched it, but...

'he'll have been there and disappeared.'

He came to the door.

I said, "Adam Butterworth, is he here?"

He just said, "Come in."

And he just pointed...in here.

So we've come in here and there's just a coat and a cushion there

but he's of the opinion that he was here, but...

clearly we can't...he's not here at the moment.

I mean, normally we...we have had people in cupboards before,

you know, the ground-floor sort of cupboards but...

Come on out.

GENTLE LAUGHTER

Can of Fosters.

Who else does he know, or where would he have gone to?

What about your brothers?

Have you got a brother in Royton?

-He wouldn't?

-No...

It's domestic-related.

'This particular friend,'

he was told that we would be back and...

we're waking the family up,

we're waking his kids up or his baby up, et cetera,

but we would be back,

because he was wanted for such a serious offence.

The search for Butterworth has gone cold

and he remains on the police wanted list...

for now.

Hunting wanted criminals is a relentless 24/7 job.

In the north of Manchester, the task falls to the fugitive team.

It's because of his long face, I think it's him.

Are there no more pictures on his...thingy?

The squad was formed seven months ago

and Acting Sergeant Anu Singh is a key member.

Let's go, let's go, let's go.

The sole purpose is to arrest people, get as many bodies

at the counter as possible, deal with crimes,

get them out so that we are ready to deal with the next batch.

The team rely on intelligence, hard work

and occasionally a slice of luck.

Yes, I do.

Jamie Parker has been on the team's hit list for a while.

He's wanted on suspicion of an offence

of racially aggravated criminal damage.

He had called the Asian shop owner, erm,

racial names, and called him... abused him.

I think he came down here, he came across here somewhere.

Is that him there? Going in that place there.

-He's just gone in here?

-Yeah.

We think, we're not sure yet.

The team think Parker may have entered a business premises.

They don't have a warrant but they do have the right to enter the building

if they believe the fugitive is inside.

-I need to see Jimmy Parker.

-Why? What's he done?

He's wanted.

-Is there a risk?

-Yeah, yeah.

Where's he going to be, that way or that way?

Can I just see some ID, please?

I'm a uniformed police officer.

You can have my warrant card but I can go inside your premises

if I know a person wanted by Greater Manchester Police is in there,

and if I have reasonable suspicion, being a PC,

I had seen somebody, and then the lady then said that

that was Jamie Parker,

that was enough grounds for me to go inside the premises.

Showing them my warrant card... I was in uniform,

I can show you my warrant card and I can go in the premises and get him.

After gaining access to the site,

Officer Singh spots her suspect in the distance.

Sorry, Joy, I've just detained the male wanted.

..and then I'll just explain.

-Yeah, go and finish it.

-Just sit here?

-Yeah, yeah, OK.

You do your job, you don't think.

You don't think what you're getting into.

That was not really anything serious I was doing,

but, yeah, you don't. None of the officers think

when they're... There's this thing in their mind

that "I have to go and get him", or "I have to do this job".

They don't think of the danger and at times it is worrying, really.

'This wasn't anything dangerous, but, yeah, it is worrying

'that you're doing it on your own.'

You crack on with it and you try and get the result.

Right, you're under arrest for racially aggravated criminal damage.

You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence

if you do not mention when questioned something which you may later rely on in court.

Anything that you do say may be given in evidence.

The time now is 13.09 and the reason why we are arresting you

is just to gather evidence, and by interviewing you

and obviously this is a racially aggravated for... a vulnerable victim.

Thank you.

Usually we don't like to go in a working place

but because we knew he was wanted for a while,

and his mum has known for a while that he was wanted

and she wasn't helping us,

so we had no choice but to go and arrest him.

He was literally cycling just in front of us then,

and Anu recognised him, and we just followed him into here

and, bang, he was there, you know, so it's really, really good.

Really good result.

Jamie Parker received a year-long community-order sentence

for the racially aggravated public order offence.

No further action was taken with the criminal-damage allegation.

Another result for the fugitive squad and Anu.

You do your job as a cop.

If you start putting yourself in a compartment and saying that, yeah,

you're a woman, you're an Asian, then I think that won't work.

I'm wearing a uniform here. I have to be a cop.

If I start generalising,

if I start putting myself in a category,

I think I'll never survive.

In Oldham, the divisional tasking team are back on nights.

For the second evening in succession,

Adam Butterworth is at the top of their wanted list.

After being told by his friend that we visited the address

in the early hours, he told the sergeant

he was going to hand himself in within the hour.

That's not the case, so unfortunately we're going to have

to go and knock on a few doors now and try and find him.

All it does is cause hassle for other people, really.

They're at home, peaceful, and we're coming round

at daft o'clock at night trying to find this guy.

But he's had his chance.

We'll find him, hopefully very soon.

It's at the end of this terrace here, ain't it?

You can get straight round the back.

Wanted on suspicion of making a threat to kill,

Butterworth promised to hand himself in after last night's visit.

KNOCKING

It's the police again.

His failure to do so prompts a return journey to the house

where he's assumed to be staying.

-Hello.

-Are you all right, are you OK?

-Yeah.

-He's not turned up, Adam, has he? Is he here?

-No, he did set off.

-Can we come in a sec?

-Yeah.

Have you got his number?

We need to ring him because he said he was coming

-and would be there within the hour. He's not come.

-Right.

It's not fair on you either, is it?

You're being dead on the level and he's really mugging you off

and mugging us off.

The clientele that we deal with most of the time,

they aren't co-operative and they won't assist you,

but...so therefore you've got to be subtle, but forceful.

So he's not been very fair on you, has he?

No, but he...he got a lift and that was his plan.

-Who did he get a lift off?

-Erm, some girl in Oldham, I'm not sure.

If we ever find him here, you'll both be arrested

for harbouring an escaped prisoner as such.

See you later on tonight, then.

Don't be thinking you're getting a good night's sleep here, mate,

-because there's a victim at the end of all this.

-Right.

And that's what we're looking for.

'You've got to put pressure on these people.'

You've got a young child there.

We don't want to be waking that child up at all hours of the night.

It's not fair on them, it's not fair on the neighbours, you know.

While we're kicking the door, the neighbours are waking up,

they're looking out their window.

They're fed up with it, we're fed up with it,

and the people at the address are fed up with it.

Unfortunately, if that's our only port of call

and it's the only way we can contact these people,

that's what we have to do to get the result.

At the end of the day, if we don't get a reply on the door,

your door's going in, OK? We think he's here,

Section 17 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act,

if we reasonably suspect he's here, we'll be coming in.

As the officers leave the property, they receive new information

about Butterworth over the police radio.

I'm just locking the door, he's just walked in.

-Right, he's there.

-Right.

It's no coincidence that a short while after

we'd been to the address he turned up at the police station.

He knew that his mate had probably been ringing him, giving him grief

about us going every night, the neighbours had probably been going

on to him, and he's probably said, "Listen, hand yourself in

"cos you're not staying here any more,"

or something along those lines, and fortunately he did.

No further action was taken over the threats to kill.

However, the police went on to charge Adam Butterworth

with criminal damage.

He remains at large

and is still on the wanted list.

In West Yorkshire, roads policing officer James Alderson

is responding to an emergency call.

He's fighting through rush-hour traffic

to contain a van thought to be carrying Class A drugs.

Guys, can I suggest we pull into the old...

police station on t'right-hand side, let it come towards us

otherwise we're going to miss it.

Just trying to intercept the car,

the Fiat Doblo that's got a load of heroin on board, mate.

I see it coming now.

As the white van passes in front of him,

Officer Alderson needs to make his move.

Stay there!

Hands where we can see them, pal.

With the assistance of colleagues,

he manages to box the van in.

Listen, mate, because of information that we've received,

you're going to be searched under Section 23 of Misuse of Drugs Act.

-Do you understand?

-Yeah.

-All right. I'll ask you now before we start searching.

Anything in this vehicle there shouldn't be?

Two tins under that coat there of what?

Right, OK, so some type of drugs, all right.

Mate, intel's right, there's two massive tubs of coke in here.

Officers had earlier received a tip-off

that the driver, Scott Fothergill,

was due to transport a significant amount of Class A drugs.

It looks like that intelligence was correct.

You're being arrested on suspicion of possession of controlled drugs, do you understand that?

So 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. Do you understand?

-Yeah.

OK. Is there anything else at all in your pockets - knives, needles, anything else?

No. Nowt bad.

Right, we'll sit you in our vehicle,

just step to one side for us.

Take a seat in there for us, please.

The only thing I'd say, despite the fact he's obviously running

a lot of drugs, you've got to give him a little bit of respect

for being so all right with us and for not causing us

a lot of problems, for not trying to get away, for not trying

to take a pursuit, and not causing other members of the public

any danger, so you've got to give him a little bit of respect for that.

Right, plan is, lock him up, take him to Trafalgar.

We're heading off now so I'll speak to you as soon as we get to Trafalgar.

-Cheers.

-Right. See you down there.

See you down there, all right.

-Job well done, weren't it?

-Nice one. Well done.

As you can see, we're just convoying down to t'police station,

where we'll probably get Scenes of Crime to come

and photograph it in situ and then we'll get it recovered

and get it seized, and the lad's under arrest for the possession

of the drugs with the intent to supply them at this moment in time.

This phone's on the move, it's currently on Abson Street,

which is, I believe, off Burnley Lane.

-Yeah.

-In Oldham, PC Kev Rawcliffe is on the hunt again.

This time his target isn't a criminal but a phone - a stolen phone.

So we're using this to track my iPhone.

Our intelligence unit is tracking it at the moment

and it's on a place called Abson Street,

which is just down and not far from where the burglary occurred.

It might be in the hands of the lad, or the person who's done the break,

burglary, or it could be somebody who's bought it.

It's on here somewhere.

Chip's up at the top here... Oh, I see.

Many modern mobiles are fitted with tracking software

that can signal their exact location to others.

It's going to be roughly that house where we went the other week.

Has it stopped moving?

Well, it's certainly not them, which is that white-ended house there.

This is the gable end that you can see there of that one,

-so it could be...

-The top two or three.

The technology puts you in an area,

and certainly with a lot of the addresses in the Oldham area,

which go back to the old mill days, the terraced houses, side by side,

or back to back - in this instance it's side by side -

it puts you in an area,

so therefore you do really need to start knocking.

The officers think they've narrowed down the phone's location

to an area around a few houses.

Morning.

Sorry to bother you. Are you OK? We're investigating a burglary.

A phone's been stolen.

We've tracked it to this area so it's within this area.

Are we allowed to come in for a minute? Is that OK?

I can explain everything to you.

-Are you all right in there?

-Yeah.

KNOCKING

While the doors are open, one of the team presses a button

to activate an alarm on the stolen phone.

Go ahead.

We've found it.

Their colleagues have heard a noise from a rubbish tip

in the back alleyway.

CHIMING

You've pressed the action.

Oh, I pressed the button.

It's spot on, that, innit? That noise anyway.

I pressed it when I was in that address.

-That shows you how accurate that is as well.

-I know.

I just press the button and it makes that noise.

I'm not ringing it. It's an activation thing.

Under the rubble, PC Rawcliffe finds

a pillowcase containing a laptop...

..and the burglary victim arrives just in time to see his iPhone found.

Six o'clock in the morning when we got up for work

we went downstairs, didn't see anything wrong,

and then I noticed the computer were missing,

and then we knew we'd been done.

And then I remembered I'd got an app on my iPhone

so I phoned the police again and told them about it

and that's what led us here.

Technology works now and again.

When you reunite anybody with any stolen property

from burglaries, you know, cars or whatever, it's a great feeling.

It's probably the best. It's what we do the job for, ain't it?

Seeing how many police came out just for all this.

It means a great response.

Thanks!

Stay there.

Earlier in Bradford...

Hands where we can see them, pal.

..the traffic cops detained Scott Fothergill,

wanted on suspicion of transporting drugs.

Officers have now taken Fothergill's van to the station.

Make sure someone stays with it for the time being.

Things are being put in place now to get a forensic examination done.

After stopping the van at the roadside,

PC James Alderson found two large packages

thought to contain Class A drugs.

Now it's time for a more thorough search.

It's one of the biggest ones I've ever seen.

I mean, we don't know what's in them yet because obviously

they're all taped up and packaged, but certainly if it is

any sort of Class A drug, yeah, it's certainly a large amount.

You'd think they'd have hidden it, wouldn't you, really?

I mean, why's he left it on open view there?

I reckon what he's done, he's gone into t'house with his jacket on and put it in his jacket

and come back out with it in his jacket and put it in t'footwell.

I mean, the van's full of workman gear, so he probably

wouldn't put it in there, without making it dead obvious.

Do you think he's tried to blag it, driving through rush-hour traffic?

Look how clean it is, look how clean every little bit of it is.

There's no way he's driven that from Darlington, that's been washed so it

looks like a new van, a respectable van so it don't get pulled.

Why would you, really? Seat belt on, why would you pull him?

PHONE RINGS

-Same lad keeps ringing his phone. He said his phone was

-BLEEP,

just keeps ringing him over and over and over again,

'Somebody wants those drugs. They are somebody's drugs.'

He's transporting them for somebody,

and there's somebody waiting for them drugs to be delivered.

Someone's obviously getting quite desperate

and that was exactly what it were like in this case.

Somebody was getting more and more desperate and making more and more

phone calls to try and get hold of this lad, who was obviously now

in custody and we had his phones in our possession.

I think he's probably... "We'll give you a bit of brass.

"Go and pick up a package and we'll give you a few hundred quid."

-And he's got a newborn to look after.

-Has he?

Well, so he says.

-There you go, then.

-Good job.

-Good little stop.

Fothergill was later charged with possession with intent to supply

Class A drugs.

He was convicted and sentenced to six years in jail.

Absolutely cracking result, to get that amount of drugs off the road,

off the streets of... potentially England,

because they were going... I know they weren't staying

in West Yorkshire, the suggestion was they were taking them

up North, so to get that amount of drugs off the street is really good.