'If they want it, they can get it' Valley Cops

This programme/film contains very

strong language

This morning, drugs warrant to be

executed at unit seven,

Ffrwd Amos Industrial Estate.

It's situated in a compound. It's

gated. Metal fencing all around.

The gate itself is locked so,

obviously,

we've got to get through that before

we get anywhere near the unit.

There were other units there but

they have all been pulled down.

So it's the only building in

that compound

and that's the one that we're

going to be going into.

They've had a good four months now

to get in, set up,

and obviously harvest.

So what we're going into,

I don't know.

When we get in, looking at the

floor plans,

there's a mezzanine on the top

right.

One question, Sarge.

What's a "mezzanee"?

Mezzanine.

Yeah.

So it's above

the ground level.

First floor...

That's French, is it?

Possibly.

They say if you can work in the

Valleys, you can work anywhere.

We deal with the same people on

a daily basis.

Everybody knows everybody.

We're all one big family!

It's very close-knit around here.

So I think a strict, regimented

way of policing

would never work round here.

No, no. I just said...

Because it's a small community,

you know,

there's been occasions where I've

had to deal with my extended family

in custody. It's a bit awkward.

Yeah, that's why I've been trying to

stop it as well, thank you.

There is a big drug problem and

alcohol problem in the Valleys.

There's no-one else like me.

RADIO:

Rain will clear away this

evening and clouds

will gradually start to break up to

leave some clear spells.

Temperatures down to nine.

Up to you, bring him in for a strip

if you're going to though,

cos he'll put it in under his balls.

PC Jason Kedward, known as Rhino,

is part of a specialist drugs squad

working in the valleys.

Heroin has been in the valleys,

it's increased quite a lot over the

last ten years.

And we've seen that cocaine

is developing.

I was speaking to a lad the other

week around here and his

words were, "Jase, it's more common

now to go out

"and have cocaine in your pocket

than a pack of cigarettes."

I hate drugs because I've seen

the misery it causes.

Rhino and his team believe that

organised criminals

have moved into the area and are

using a disused warehouse

as a cannabis factory.

Who's in there?

Runner at the back!

There, look. Peggy! There!

How are we going to get

through that?

That's what I mean,

it's the only way.

Lima tango 60, any update?

Yeah, two in custody, correct?

There you are.

RADIO:

Yes, two in custody.

Yeah, that's noted.

Old crops.

Yeah.

Two people who jumped out

here will be the gardeners.

And they live in this room.

So basically their life is growing

those crops.

So they'll sleep there,

toilet, wash...

And they've just made themselves a

cup of tea.

Before we interrupted them. It's

human trafficking, isn't it?

They are brought to this country

under false pretences

for a new life. And that's

their new life.

It's quite sad. And obviously, they

won't reap the benefits.

It's going to be somebody who is a

lot more organised somewhere.

There's more than ten rooms full

of plants,

with a street value of

over £1 million.

The factory will be dismantled and

the cannabis destroyed.

I don't like the smell.

It makes me angry.

No, I don't like the smell. You get

used to it though. So...

No, it's a good factory.

It's well set up.

And it's took a while

to set up as well.

Especially the extraction.

The extraction is very good.

In the valleys, a lot of factories,

they are empty, I think.

Traditional industries closed down.

Nearly every village, every town,

had a mine,

if it didn't have a mine

it'd have a steelworks.

See, the area I come from had one

of the largest steelworks in Europe

at the time, there was thousands of

men working there.

They closed down, which left a lot

of people out of work.

1,140.

1,140 plants?

Yes.

In total?

Yes.

Personal use then, is it?!

Yeah.

It's absolute crap round

here for jobs.

There's no opportunity here at all.

I spent three or four years, I think

it was, on the dole,

trying to find jobs.

The majority of us do try, like,

you know?

Took me about seven years

to find a job.

I got there in the end.

You know what I mean?

Puppy boy.

24-year-old Morky is one of many

Valley boys who've never had a job.

I've tried to get jobs. I've never

had a chance. Even from...

No-one have ever given me the

chance, like.

I've tried and just...

Nothing have ever come up.

Like... They want me to do things

that is against my will, do you know

what I mean? Working in the meat

factory and things like that.

So that's when I just thought then,

I'll just make my own money.

At least they can't say I'm

a sponger.

Oi, Pepper.

Morky's ways of making money mean

that he and Rhino

have come face-to-face several

times in the past.

Some things might not have been

legal, but I mean,

that's up to me, isn't it?

If I don't get caught, I don't get

caught for it.

Like, buying stolen goods and that.

I used to like... If something was

stolen, obviously,

you'd pick it up cheaper then,

wouldn't you?

So I just used to, like, buy it,

change it a little bit

and try and sell it to someone

else like, for a bit dearer.

I got caught for it and

I stopped doing that.

I started just buying things

that were broken.

Fix whatever is broke and then put

it up for a better price.

The police suspect Morky might not

have put his criminal past behind

him.

For the last year, Rhino has been

building a case against him.

Morky has been arrested on three

separate occasions over a 12-month

period. The person he was arrested

with has admitted supplying heroin,

saying that he was selling on

someone's behalf.

I believe that that person's

behalf is Morky.

No drugs were recovered from him,

only some of the people he was with.

But he doesn't work.

He's got no source of income.

He's not claiming any benefits.

But he's got several thousand

pounds on him.

All the notes had abnormally amounts

of diamorphine on there,

which is heroin.

And on the last occasion also had

traces of high amounts

of cocaine. And upon executing the

warrant at his home address,

digital scales were found and on

those scales is traces of heroin and

crack cocaine.

He's either the most unluckiest

non-drug dealer person in the world

or he's a drug dealer.

Rhino needs the CPS to agree that

he's gathered enough evidence

to charge Morky for dealing. If he's

convicted, he'll face a minimum

of three years in jail.

It's bullshit, like. Do you know

what I mean? What, a bit of money.

That's not my problem it had a bit

of drug residue on it,

do you know what I mean? How many

druggies live around Merthyr?

Freeze. Police. Everyone stay down.

If we have intelligence that someone

is selling drugs

then I go out of my way to

find them.

If you care about the area you are

in then I think

you're going to do your damnedest to

make that area a better place.

Drugs have taken over everywhere.

Coke, crack, heroin, mamba, drink...

If they want it, they can get it.

It's fun for the people who do it.

One boy down by there, he thinks

he's Tony Montana.

You've got people that will take it

on the weekend and then you've got

people that you will see on a bench

on a Monday morning that are still

taking it. And they will be there

until Friday morning.

I was a heroin addict. I used to

take crack.

But now I've been clean about...

..six months.

So I'm doing well.

Touch wood.

Hiya, Dan. It's Julie Reilly from

Ponty police station.

Hiya. I'm all right, thanks.

Just to let you know, I'm just

coming down to Swansea prison.

I'm going to pick Jordan up when

he's released this morning.

You all right? Do you remember me?

What I want to do, is just try and,

you know, continue

to build up a relationship with him,

to get him focused on his housing

and his drug habit and, you know,

just keep trying with him, not to

just give up on him.

Have you had any visitors since

you've been in?

Nobody? Nobody over Christmas?

Santa didn't come in there, did he?

Jordan! I don't know what we're

going to do with you.

20-year-old Jordan has been in and

out of prison for the past year.

Often for violent offences he

committed when taking drugs.

How are you getting money to fund

your habit?

You're spending your benefits

on drugs?

You got to get your life sorted

out, Jordan.

To stop Jordan reoffending,

the police have offered him a place

on a rehab scheme

that will help with his

addiction and violence.

Myself, and all my colleagues,

we would rather be preventing crime

than detecting crime.

We always like to think that someone

will eventually turn a corner,

so that we don't just throw them to

the wolves and say,

"you've got to get on with it."

Why did you offend last time?

Is there anything we can do to stop

you reoffending?

Your mum and dad then,

they are not together?

No? So why don't you have any

contact with your father?

How old were you when

you left school?

12, 13?

12, 13, yeah.

Yeah. So you haven't had any

schooling since then.

I'm not asking these questions

to be nosy.

No.

But it's trying to understand

why you're like you are.

You know, you're not just offending

and violent and drinking and taking

drugs for no reason at all.

Jordan has been released from

prison on licence.

One of the conditions is that he

mustn't contact his ex-girlfriend,

who he attacked whilst on drugs.

You're only on licence

for two weeks.

So you know now within

this two weeks,

you can be recalled to prison.

So I'm going to be on to you, right,

the next two weeks,

you put a foot out of line, you'll

be back in there.

Four times, is it?

OK. What a waste of your life, isn't

it?

I know.

Before going to prison, Jordan was

living with his grandad.

Come on, by here. Aw, what?

But since finding drugs in

the house,

his grandad has kicked him out.

I always told you from day one,

I don't mind you having a can,

but there's no way on earth I'm

having drugs in my house.

Didn't I? Cutting my mattress,

hiding bloody...

What do they call it?

Cannabis.

Cannabis. Why?

Just get your life sorted out.

That's all I ask in life.

Well, I hope this is the last time

you're going back.

To prison. I honestly do.

I told you. Buck your ideas up and

I'll help you.

I'll help you get a flat. I'll help

you furnish it.

I'll help you with clothes.

Be the little scrote that you keep

being, and forget it.

And I mean that.

What can I say about him, really?

His parents was very young when

they had him.

The mother wasn't very...

Motherly, shall we say.

The father wasn't no better.

There was no food in the cupboards.

There was drugs in the house.

His upbringing was absolute crap.

Absolute crap.

In hindsight, we should have

taken Jordan

and brought him up as our own.

I do feel a bit...

A bit guilty about it.

But you can't turn the clock back,

can you?

But I want him to have a good life.

As part of the rehab scheme,

the police have arranged for Jordan

to view a flat in three days' time.

In the meantime, he has to stay

off drugs and away from his ex.

He have got a good heart, that boy.

He'll do anything for anybody.

But I just wish he'd grow a brain

with his heart.

That's all I wish.

Growing up around here, I think,

you've got a sense of family.

Like, I live in the same street

as my mother.

I know a couple of my friends live a

street up from their parents.

Parents are supposed to be a role

model and an influence

on a child's life. My parents are

still an influence on me.

I still do things and I think, I

shouldn't have done that,

I'm going to have

a clout when I get in.

But these kids are growing up

watching their parents smoking

whatever they smoke and injecting

and sniffing or whatever they do

and they think it's acceptable.

RADIO:

The party zone, every

Saturday night from 11. GTFM.

We just try to get an idea of how

many is out on the town tonight,

that's all. Busy here

tonight, isn't it?

In Merthyr, the police are searching

for leads after a man was run over

outside a nightclub.

There's no CCTV and getting

witnesses to go on the record

is proving difficult.

People don't like to be snitches.

If you're a grass around here then

you're seen as a bad person.

You know, so if you know something,

then people don't intend to give

that information out.

A lot of people will tell us off the

record who has done something but

there's still the fear to put

pen to paper,

to give us a witness statement,

to stand up and give evidence

against someone who they've known

or they might know their mother,

their father,

the grandmother, to give evidence

against one of your own

is a massive thing.

Only one person's name has come up.

Morky.

Hearing that police want to talk to

him, he's handed himself in.

All right?

Yes.

So allegedly, he used a car to run

over a male

who was out on a night out with his

friends, rather than get out

and sort him out, I suppose it's

easier give it a drive through.

And he didn't get a big Mac.

So, no, but it's a nasty offence.

Luckily, the guy, like,

there was no serious injuries but

the potential there was massive.

Obviously, he could have killed him.

I've known him since he was a

whippersnapper, and I've watched him

develop and watched his criminality

develop with him but I've never

known him go to this length

of violence, if it is him on

that allegation.

Morky's been in trouble with the

police since he was a kid,

and has served time in prison for a

violent robbery.

Merthyr's a small town,

so it is pretty violent.

No knives or nothing, just all...

I don't know, just fighting, and

bats, and bars, and bricks.

But that's not really...

That's probably the highlight of the

place...

..when it kicks off.

If something happens,

you're guaranteed,

every gate will be full from the

next few streets down.

Every person will be out watching.

In interview, Morky's got no comment

to all questions about the man

being run over.

He's used to his name coming up

because of the reputation

he earned when he was younger.

Do you know what I mean?

So far, all the police have to link

the crime to Morky are shots of him

in a blue Golf, captured

two days earlier.

11, ten, empty house.

It's up to us if we've got the

intelligence from the community,

then us as cops,

we've got to try and turn that

intelligence into evidence.

They're not living here,

are they?

No, but have they still got the

keys to it to hide a mobile phone?

If Morky's charged

with dealing heroin

and the attack at the nightclub,

he could be sentenced to up to

ten years in jail.

The countryside around here's just

out of this world but,

it's blighted then by no work, no

money, lots of time on your hands,

drugs. It's just that one circle,

which just keeps getting bigger and

bigger and bigger.

Jordan's been out of prison

for 24 hours.

He is due to view a flat in a

couple of days,

so his grandad's been checking

up on him,

trying to keep him out of trouble.

Hello. Well, where are you?

How much of that shit have you put

inside you?

Drugs.

Don't lie to me, mind.

Have you had food?

Have you had a bath? Are you sure?

I can smell you on this end of

the phone, bud.

You listen to me now, big boy.

Behave yourself, don't get in

any trouble.

You know where I live.

You've got my phone number.

Love you. Ta ta. Ta ta.

He's got this appointment, two

o'clock this afternoon,

so if you do hear from him, will you

just give me a ring and let me know?

But when the appointment to view the

flat comes around,

Jordan doesn't turn up.

Right.

And Julie gets a tip-off that might

explain why.

He's believed to be possibly back

with his girlfriend,

whom he's not supposed to be with

because he's got a licence condition

not to contact this girl.

If he has been in contact with her,

then he'll be recalled to prison.

For so long.

Julie's tip-off proves to be right

and just six days after being

released, Jordan is arrested again.

For breaking his licence conditions,

Jordan will go back to prison for

another two months.

He's had more support than

anybody else I know.

Any of our offenders I know,

he's had the most support and he's

just turned it down,

but as the saying goes, you can take

a horse to water

but you can't force him to drink it.

News of Jordan's arrest has reached

his grandad.

We thought he'd turned the corner.

He was doing, he was doing quite

well and we thought, great, now

you're starting to wise up a bit.

But we were wrong.

We were wrong big-time.

And it hurts.

You know, like I say, he'll always

be my grandson,

I'll always love him.

But there's only so much I can

do for him.

So, I don't know.

I honestly don't know.

At Merthyr police station,

Morky's waiting to find out if

he'll be charged

for the assault at the nightclub.

Detectives are still searching

for witnesses to the attack.

We believe the vehicle has

rounded this corner,

on the opposite side of the road,

has taken him out there,

has then driven off and then taken

the first immediate right.

There are witnesses

but unfortunately,

people are intimidated by him, you

know. There's no two ways about it.

They're not prepared to put sort of

pen to paper and go to court,

you know, and that's just a problem

we've had because of who this guy

is.

Whilst the community are reluctant

to go on record,

the police believe they've

discovered a motive.

It's alleged that Morky's

girlfriend, Mollie, had an argument

with the victim earlier

in the evening.

Now she's been arrested, too.

The police have put their case

against Morky to the CPS.

Just have a stand by there for me.

On the 10th of December, 2016, at

the street junction

of Aberdare Road, Dynevor Street and

Penry Street in Merthyr Tydfil,

jointly with Mollie Jones,

unlawfully and maliciously wounded

BLEEP

with intent to do him grievous

bodily harm. All right?

How can you charge me for that when

I didn't do it?

Well, I don't see how you can

charge me with that when I haven't

done it, to be honest.

So I'll caution you now, you do not

have to say anything but it may harm

your defence if you don't mention

now something which you later rely

on in court. Anything you do say may

be given in evidence.

Anything you want to say?

Na.

They're back talking to each other.

While Morky's in the cells,

Rhino has some news about

the investigation

into his alleged heroin dealing.

Mind your head.

Mind your head.

Oh, you're up, are you?

Can I have a chat with you, bud?

Between the 10th of May '15 and the

12/12/15,

in Merthyr Tydfil, who concerns

supply the quantity of diamorphine,

a controlled drug, namely, of heroin

to others in contravention

of section 41 of the Misuse

Of Drugs Act.

You do not have to say anything...

Anything you do say may be

given in evidence.

Have you got anything to say to

that?

What are you on about?

What the fuck are you on about?

You're being reported for summons

for the offence of supplying heroin

in Merthyr Tydfil.

What do you mean,

report for summons?

What does that mean?

It's the same

as being charged,

only you're going to go to court.

I don't get you.

You're going to go to court for

supplying heroin.

I haven't even had any heroin to

supply.

Well, you've been arrested on a

number of occasions

and the matter's being investigated

and the evidence

has been put to the CPS,

and they've come back with the

charge for you to attend court

for those charges.

Whatever.

All right?

Yeah.

I thought you was talking to me.

After being interviewed, Mollie is

released on bail.

Come on then, Moll.

Morky is remanded in custody to face

his GBH charge in the morning.

Last time I was in court,

they used to call me a celebrity

because I'd have

so many family members there, like.

So there'll probably be a couple

there tomorrow.

There'd better be, anyway.

I come from a gypsy background, so

I've got plenty of family,

so I don't need friends, do you

know what I mean?

Very big family.

We tend to have rows, but if

something goes wrong,

then everyone's there, do you know

what I mean?

He'd admit to it if he'd done it.

Yeah.

If he had done it, he'd come and

tell us but at the end of the day,

we are family. He would tell us, but

he definitely haven't done it.

Surprising what liars can do,

isn't it?

Because that's what it's down to.

All liars.

With charges for selling heroin to

answer as well,

Morky's family will have to make

several trips to court

over the coming days.

I've never seen someone to go

in the police station just for one

thing and come out with about ten.

Why can't they just leave him alone?

It would be nice to get over

the line,

because there's a lot of work gone

in there but it's not up to me

to decide if Morky has been doing

that or he hasn't.

That's all I've got is some

evidence, some circumstances.

It's the jury, the 12 ladies and

gentlemen who have got to make the

decision if he has been doing it.

He's banging.

That one.

You all right?

MORKY:

Moll!

What?

MORKY:

I love you.

Love you, too.

All right, boy?

Yeah.

If they decide then he has, then

it's great.

I'll have a beer. And if they decide

he hasn't, I'll still have a beer.

We are going to court now and see.

He looks skinny, don't he?

Don't he look skinny?

Looks all right though, don't he?

Jordan's been out of prison for

nearly three months

and has been sofa surfing

around the valleys.

Jordan hasn't seen his grandad since

he was released.

I've spoken to Jordan once now in

the last, I'd say, three months.

I feel like a mushroom - kept in

the dark and fed on bullshit.

Jordan remains on the police

rehabilitation programme

but Julia's concerned that without

family support,

he'll end up back behind bars.

You know, he has said himself that

he's going to make the effort

to go to his grandfather.

He is going to apologise for his

behaviour the last time he was out.

His grandfather may, you know,

may have had some time to calm down

and rethink

and might give him another chance.

We'll see.

You look terrible.

So what have you

been taking altogether?

And what's Phet? What do it do?

So why would you want to take that?

You're in a hell of a mess,

aren't you?

You're in a hell of a mess,

let's be honest.

When was the last time you had food?

And you can't live on

one meal in eight days.

And I'm too scared to give you any

money, I'm scared you'll buy drugs.

You've gone downhill further now

than ever.

And now we're all going to stand

around your graveside, are we?

So what are we going to do, boy?

Here you are.

Get yourself some food.

Don't buy anything else out of it.

OK?

Come here, give me a cwtch.

I'm out now, aren't I?

So Merry Christmas.

Yeah, I'm all right.