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0:00:20 > 0:00:23It's very uncomfortable being down there in the hours of darkness.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27The area is extremely hostile.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34Hepburn Road, they call it Crack Alley.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39They're like, "What are you doing down Crack Alley?"
0:00:39 > 0:00:44I was like, "We're trying to make it so that it's not Crack Alley, basically!"
0:00:44 > 0:00:45HE LAUGHS
0:01:00 > 0:01:02All units, for your information,
0:01:02 > 0:01:04we're in a covert location on Hepburn Road.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09He's just bought.
0:01:12 > 0:01:13Another one out.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20- All right?- Oi!
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Give me my spray out my bag.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Wait. Don't do anything yet, don't do anything.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28We've got a dealing activity, Hepburn Lane.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32That guy has just come out and attacked a user who's pissed up with a stick.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34We haven't broken cover cos the guy's all right,
0:01:34 > 0:01:37he's just pissed up and he's still stood here, shouting at the address.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41There's tonnes of users in the lane.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43There's four officers on.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46If we go in there with not the right kit,
0:01:46 > 0:01:48somebody will end up getting hurt.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52There's a good job to be had here, it is just not tonight.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05I know it's wrong and I know it's bad, but I do enjoy it.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07A lot of things need to change in the way we treat
0:02:07 > 0:02:09drugs in this city and in this country.
0:02:12 > 0:02:13RADIO CHATTER
0:02:14 > 0:02:17I have surgeons, I've got lawyers, I've got doctors,
0:02:17 > 0:02:20a huge amount of young professionals.
0:02:20 > 0:02:21Police! Come out the car, get out!
0:02:21 > 0:02:24- Open your mouth.- Don't swallow the drugs, spit them out.
0:02:28 > 0:02:29I just told you, move.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33People say, "Oh, you're so young, you shouldn't be doing it,"
0:02:33 > 0:02:35or whatever. I'm just like,
0:02:35 > 0:02:37"I'd rather do it now when I'm young and get it out the way."
0:02:40 > 0:02:41If you've got money, I'll sell it to you.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45If you're pregnant, I'll sell it to you.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47This is the place everyone's coming to buy their drugs.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13I'm a Easton boy, and when I go out to do a deal,
0:03:13 > 0:03:14I can't go to St Paul's.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18It's just a totally different scene, like.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22They won't let you walk down the road.
0:03:22 > 0:03:27They'll tell you to cross the road for the simple fact that they will
0:03:27 > 0:03:29stash certain things in certain places.
0:03:29 > 0:03:33If I tried selling down there, I'd get run out the ends, especially,
0:03:33 > 0:03:36like, when it's a 6.5 foot tank bloke, like.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40"Who do you think you're talking to?
0:03:40 > 0:03:43"I'll punch your head in," and all that, like, "I'll cut your face open," like...
0:03:45 > 0:03:48I'll have a fist fight if he wants to have a fist fight.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50If he wants to use a weapon, I'll use a weapon.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57All my older brothers used to kick the shit out of me when I was
0:03:57 > 0:04:02younger to toughen me up. You can get yourself in sticky situations
0:04:02 > 0:04:05and I've been in sticky situations where you get chucked in the boot of
0:04:05 > 0:04:08a car or tied to trees, and...
0:04:09 > 0:04:13It's kind of intimidation, the street dealing,
0:04:13 > 0:04:19but it has to be, because what's stopping someone from just taking their stuff?
0:04:19 > 0:04:24I wear sort of boxer shorts and then Y-fronts underneath.
0:04:24 > 0:04:29They're uncomfortable, but you can keep your product down your trousers
0:04:29 > 0:04:31without no-one knowing that it's there.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35Nothing is falling out, like, nothing's going nowhere.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39I've only got a little amount, cos if I sell that right now,
0:04:39 > 0:04:41I can get that again right now,
0:04:41 > 0:04:46but I don't want to have a big load, but they will.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48I've gone down there and scored off
0:04:48 > 0:04:53of them and they've pulled out, like, that, filled up with...
0:04:53 > 0:04:56Like, there's... You could probably get 1,000 in there.
0:04:56 > 0:05:01I would not be walking around with that, but they do.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11The law side of it is, the police have just got to get lucky
0:05:11 > 0:05:14the one time.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16You've got to get lucky EVERY time.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Oh, he's dealing, he's putting items in his hand.
0:05:28 > 0:05:29Back up.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33- Yeah, look...- He's on a bike. - ..he's just getting on his bike.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36- He's got items in his hand. - Who's with him? That's the guy
0:05:36 > 0:05:38he just served up, so he's just walking off.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47There you go. Blatant.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50They've just sat on someone's front wall.
0:05:51 > 0:05:52I mean, he's probably
0:05:52 > 0:05:57one of 10, 15 people in an area of two square miles.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00It's just rife and it does feel like a constant battle, it really does,
0:06:00 > 0:06:04but at what point do you say that's acceptable,
0:06:04 > 0:06:08that someone looking out of their front room window at 8:30
0:06:08 > 0:06:11on a Friday night has got to contend with that?
0:06:11 > 0:06:14You know, it's just not right. He's not clocked us at all, has he?
0:06:15 > 0:06:19- We'll get CCTV to try and pick him up.- Yeah.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32When you look at something for long enough, you just get good at it.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36Maybe it's because I grew up on a council estate, and you see a drug
0:06:36 > 0:06:39dealer shuffling around, and you just get to know what it looks like.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45There was more drug dealing and street robberies going on in a
0:06:45 > 0:06:50couple of hundred metres of Hepburn Road than there is in any other part of this city.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57- Can you take me to all the nice places?- Oh, yeah.
0:06:58 > 0:07:03- Really romantic, sat watching Crack Alley, keeping an eye on everyone. - Yeah.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05How's those chips working out for you?
0:07:05 > 0:07:08- Quite nice, actually. How about you? - Mm, good.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11RUSTLING
0:07:11 > 0:07:13So, while it's quiet and early,
0:07:13 > 0:07:15shall we just go and have a little scout around and see if we can work
0:07:15 > 0:07:18- out what it is they're doing for later on?- Let's do it.
0:07:28 > 0:07:32So many needles, wrappers...
0:07:33 > 0:07:36They've got a clear run of the block of flats, I see, then.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38And the door's just wide open.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44See, look, all they've got to do is put a nice, big bag of rocks
0:07:44 > 0:07:48down there, and either we'll never find it or we just won't even be
0:07:48 > 0:07:50able to attribute it to anybody.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52They literally just stash stuff anywhere.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56I've had it before over in Easton where, you know, they've just had,
0:07:56 > 0:08:01- like, a fag packet on the floor... - Yeah.- ..and you go over and there's, like, 40 wraps in it.- Yeah.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03You know, all it, you know, something...
0:08:04 > 0:08:09..so small that it just blends in with everything, especially here, where there's just rubbish.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12- It's like finding a needle in a haystack.- Yeah.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17If you were the dealer, you could stand...
0:08:18 > 0:08:22..you could stand out there, one eye looking up and looking around for police,
0:08:22 > 0:08:25one eye looking for customers, and knowing where your stash is, and if
0:08:25 > 0:08:27anyone goes near it, you can go and retrieve it.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31- Four, five in the morning, there's hardly anyone walking down here. - No.- You're right out of the way.
0:08:31 > 0:08:36Well, how easy is it to drag someone off the main Stokes Croft, rob them here or give them a bit of a
0:08:36 > 0:08:38kicking, and then they're back out the way and they can just...
0:08:38 > 0:08:42- They can just go straight in to... - People shouting and screaming is quite normal round here.
0:08:42 > 0:08:46- Not even going to get reported.- So if that does happen to you, you've got no chance of it being called in.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50Hello, you'll probably see, yeah, this is where the drug deals go down at night, and...
0:08:50 > 0:08:53- Does it?- I don't know, I'm asking you.
0:08:53 > 0:08:54Funny how you're here.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Looks like you're looking for items.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01- Huh?- Looks like you're looking for items.
0:09:01 > 0:09:02- Will I find any?- What?
0:09:02 > 0:09:03Will I find any?
0:09:05 > 0:09:08I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine, isn't it?
0:09:08 > 0:09:09I'll have a look round, then, mate.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13Pathetic, man, I've never seen this before in my life.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15What is it you want, items?
0:09:15 > 0:09:19- Just seeing where...- Why don't you just swoop on them when they're actually selling it?
0:09:19 > 0:09:22Cos I've got an illness, I come here every fucking night and spend loads
0:09:22 > 0:09:25of money on my drugs. I go out thieving every day.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27They fucking cunts destroys my life.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29If you want to fucking do something real,
0:09:29 > 0:09:31instead of walking, like, around like zombies,
0:09:31 > 0:09:36come at 12 o'clock when they sell drugs and destroy lives like mine, yeah?
0:09:37 > 0:09:40Do you reckon if we take out the dealers, it'll make a difference?
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Course it fucking will, there's no dealers, no idiots like me.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45Listen, bang them up and take drugs off the street.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47Bang every fucking one up.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Simple. Bang every cunt up.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54He had a way with words, didn't he?
0:09:54 > 0:09:56I can see why he's pissed off.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59What he says marries right up with our intel, doesn't it?
0:09:59 > 0:10:04- They're obviously so comfortable being down here, every single night it's going on...- Yeah.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06We need to work out who's organising...
0:10:06 > 0:10:08It'll be one or two people organising it.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21We know it's busy down there...
0:10:21 > 0:10:24..and this is the place everyone's coming to buy their drugs,
0:10:24 > 0:10:28but the name that keeps cropping up time after time is this Kemar Lewis.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35We want to go after the drug dealers, the bad people.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38We want to go after the people that commit violence in the community.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40It's not about the users, not at all.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44We are putting more and more people into treatment,
0:10:44 > 0:10:49we're spending less and less police hours on dealing with possession of
0:10:49 > 0:10:53drugs, and it feels like the relationship between the police and
0:10:53 > 0:10:55drug users is getting better.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03Actual police officers, I like them, they're pretty sound.
0:11:03 > 0:11:04Like, they'll just pass me by.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07As long as they're busy, they'll just say, "All right?"
0:11:07 > 0:11:09or whatever, or check that no-one's bothering me and stuff.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Can you spare any change, please?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Where shall we go?
0:11:18 > 0:11:21- Here.- Yeah.- See, round there? - Oh, yeah, yeah.
0:11:23 > 0:11:24Do some drugs.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29- What is the drug?- Er...
0:11:29 > 0:11:31Yeah.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35- Yeah, more than that. I've put in, I put in quite a lot.- 40.- 40, is it?
0:11:35 > 0:11:37I think I prefer it more. Good.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Well, you can inject crack by itself.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46If you do, like, you don't really seem to feel any effect.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48You feel a little bit,
0:11:48 > 0:11:52but even, like, the tiniest bit of brown in it will make the whole thing completely really different.
0:11:53 > 0:11:58If there's more heroin, you're more likely to feel just... warm and, like, more relaxed.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02- This was really good last week for, like, days in a row, wasn't it? - Yeah.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05SHE MUTTERS
0:12:10 > 0:12:15- I won't be able to get myself now, will I?- Oh, you should do.
0:12:15 > 0:12:16I've been struggling.
0:12:20 > 0:12:21SHE SNIFFS
0:12:28 > 0:12:34Get, like, £10 for like roughly 0.1 of either, like, crack or heroin,
0:12:34 > 0:12:38and then you get three or five of them for 25.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41It depends what each day's like for earning money, but...
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Like, today, I've...
0:12:44 > 0:12:47..shared, like, two lots of £25 deals...
0:12:48 > 0:12:49..with people.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54It's better than the stuff I could only get this morning.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58I'm going to leave you to it, all right?
0:12:58 > 0:13:00- All right.- See you later, though.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08I've been around crack and heroin since I was, like, 15, 16, like,
0:13:08 > 0:13:11I somehow ended up with lots of heroin addict friends from a young
0:13:11 > 0:13:15age, and when I was doing it for fun, I could do it occasionally, and
0:13:15 > 0:13:17I thought that I'd never get addicted to it.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19This is the third time I've had a habit.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25I came up to Bristol to get clean in the summer and I stayed clean for a
0:13:25 > 0:13:30few months, but, yeah, it didn't take long to start finding it again.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32People say, "Oh, you're so young, you shouldn't be doing it," or
0:13:32 > 0:13:36whatever, it's like, "I'd rather do it now when I'm young and get it out the way."
0:13:37 > 0:13:40It's real moreish when you do it.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42While you're on it, you'll definitely, like, want more.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49When I first, like, started using in Bristol,
0:13:49 > 0:13:51it was quite hard for me to find dealers to...
0:13:53 > 0:13:57..serve me cos you have to get, like, a friend to...
0:13:59 > 0:14:00..er, like...
0:14:00 > 0:14:04..give you, like, the dealer's number and then speak to them and
0:14:04 > 0:14:07say that, you know, you're safe, and, you know...
0:14:08 > 0:14:11..you know, um, you're OK to buy off them.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14I guess there must be, like, at least, like, 200 dealers,
0:14:14 > 0:14:17but there's a sort of different levels of dealer, isn't there?
0:14:17 > 0:14:19People that sell ten bags and stuff.
0:14:21 > 0:14:26There's a place down a sort of, down a little alleyway, like, a little, tiny little road and,
0:14:26 > 0:14:30yeah, there's a big fence, you go up, sort of shout, like,
0:14:30 > 0:14:33call through and someone will come out...
0:14:33 > 0:14:37and hundreds of people know about this place you can just go to, like, literally...
0:14:37 > 0:14:40..80% of the fucking heroin addicts in Bristol know.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46They start real late at night and then they're serving, just, like,
0:14:46 > 0:14:49a constant stream of people, basically.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53I've only been there just with someone that knew the guys, and I...
0:14:53 > 0:14:55or, he said that he knew them, and then
0:14:55 > 0:14:57we got chased away by a... with a baseball bat!
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Loads of people out, isn't there?
0:15:16 > 0:15:19- Busy, busy. - We're now at the witching hour.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22HE LAUGHS
0:15:22 > 0:15:25Hepburn Road evolves into the beast.
0:15:25 > 0:15:26LAUGHTER
0:15:28 > 0:15:30Cometh the hour, cometh the crack.
0:15:30 > 0:15:31LAUGHTER
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Gather round nice and tight to the computer, please,
0:15:35 > 0:15:36because it's small.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Gather in, gather in, gather in.
0:15:42 > 0:15:47Right, this area of Hepburn Road, which is a courtyard,
0:15:47 > 0:15:50has been identified as a crime hot spot.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53A scoping profile has been done, which is this one here.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56In the last 18 months or so,
0:15:56 > 0:16:01there has been 2,700 crimes reported in the area where we're going to be operating tonight.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05And in, obviously, quite a few offences,
0:16:05 > 0:16:08they've had knives put to their bodies
0:16:08 > 0:16:09as they've been relieved of their property.
0:16:09 > 0:16:13Although, I say we've got a number of reported offences, actually,
0:16:13 > 0:16:15I think that we don't know the half of it.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17We've got new students coming into the city. If they're going down
0:16:17 > 0:16:21there and they're getting robbed, they're not going to report it to the police.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26There's two or three meeters and greeters that are out speaking to people,
0:16:26 > 0:16:30asking if they want drugs, and they're then luring them down into the lane.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35You see people with flashlights, calling people up and down the lane.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38And, if they get a response, they'll then go down and they'll score.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43Hepburn Road itself is a small road that runs from Stokes Croft,
0:16:43 > 0:16:48where thousands of people on a weekend will go and drink and enjoy themselves.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52So, you've got the associated recreational drug activities on one
0:16:52 > 0:16:54side of Hepburn Road...
0:16:58 > 0:17:01And then at the other end you've got St Paul's,
0:17:01 > 0:17:05where we've got a high density of problematic drug users,
0:17:05 > 0:17:07who are fuelling the crack cocaine and heroin market.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15You effectively bring those two forces together,
0:17:15 > 0:17:17and you arrive in the middle of Hepburn Road.
0:17:17 > 0:17:23And that is why you have a number of drug dealers at any one time...
0:17:23 > 0:17:25fuelling that drugs market.
0:17:29 > 0:17:33We know that there was a GBH about a month ago or six weeks ago,
0:17:33 > 0:17:37where somebody had their head stamped on and they were very seriously injured,
0:17:37 > 0:17:40but we think that that person was down there buying class A drugs.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43So, having been down there myself
0:17:43 > 0:17:46and seen some violence on behalf of the dealers towards some of the
0:17:46 > 0:17:50users, we know that there is a lot of fear and intimidation going on down there.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53All the intelligence suggests that they're so confident they've got
0:17:53 > 0:17:56the drugs on them and they just take orders through the fence,
0:17:56 > 0:18:00and they're serving up through the fence and a nice little orderly queue forms.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04I've done some checking today and overnight, last night,
0:18:04 > 0:18:06both security lights have been smashed.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08So, it's dark and dingy, and
0:18:08 > 0:18:11last night was very busy in that location.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Is it worth getting a picture of Kemar Lewis up?
0:18:14 > 0:18:17Cos all the recent intel we've had from people that have been down
0:18:17 > 0:18:21there scoring suggests that he is one of the main dealers down there.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25He's quite a, sort of, violent, aggressive bloke, as well, and...
0:18:25 > 0:18:29Yeah, he's pretty lairy, and he's quite, sort of, handy as well.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31OK. I think we've really got to be mindful that...
0:18:32 > 0:18:34..you know, it's an unknown quantity.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37It's very dark down there, they have got access to weapons and that will
0:18:37 > 0:18:40all form part of your, sort of, decision-making when you deploy into them.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42But that's a matter for you guys.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45I'm going to speak to Finn now and get a preauthorised Taser authority.
0:18:46 > 0:18:47And then we will go from there.
0:18:49 > 0:18:50- Everybody happy?- Yeah.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52Right, let's go and bring home the bacon.
0:18:54 > 0:18:55Because we're the pigs.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15As the sergeant, you're slightly nervous,
0:19:15 > 0:19:18because you're putting staff into a potentially volatile situation.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34It is a massive unknown when you deploy into areas like Hepburn Road.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38You just don't know what's going to happen, if it's all going to go really well,
0:19:38 > 0:19:42you don't know if people are going to make off, fight you, if they're going to be compliant,
0:19:42 > 0:19:44if you're going to come away with a really good result,
0:19:44 > 0:19:46if you're going to come away with nothing.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48It's all up in the air.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Police! Stay where you are.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02Police! Stay where you are.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Open the front door! Police!
0:20:04 > 0:20:06Open the front door! Police!
0:20:06 > 0:20:07Out the car, now.
0:20:09 > 0:20:10Police! Get out!
0:20:10 > 0:20:13- Get on the floor!- Get out! - Get on the floor!
0:20:13 > 0:20:14SHOUTING
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Get on the floor!
0:20:16 > 0:20:21- Put your hands behind your back, now.- Give me your hands, now!
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Give me your hands.
0:20:23 > 0:20:24Give me your hands.
0:20:24 > 0:20:25SHOUTING
0:20:25 > 0:20:28- Hands behind your back! - Don't move, get down.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31- All right.- Yeah.- Let me check, let me check, let me check, open your hand.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33I just come here to see my...to see him.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36You haven't been arrested, you've just been detained for a search.
0:20:36 > 0:20:37We're searching for drugs, OK?
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Look, as you can see, I come out, I come out to go...
0:20:39 > 0:20:42I appreciate that. Sit up, sit up, and stand up.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44One, two, three, go on. That's it.
0:20:44 > 0:20:45Just wait there, get into that car.
0:20:46 > 0:20:50- You've got money everywhere. - Yeah, I come out clubbing.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53I gamble, my friend.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55You can ask my lady, she works in the bookie's.
0:20:55 > 0:21:00We're just going to go up there and have a little drink now, and then I feel that in my face and everything.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10- With Kemar, we've got a knife on him?- Yeah.- What sort of knife is it? - It's a flick knife.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14- And where did he have it?- In his pocket.- Well, just lock him up for it...- Yeah.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17..and then we'll go from there.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21- Which way have they gone?- They're going to come that end.- All right, mate, if you...- Buddy, walk this
0:21:21 > 0:21:24- way.- Yeah, we'll see you. We'll walk up, on Stokes Croft.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45- Foil-lined.- Oh, well done, you. - Oh, well done.
0:21:45 > 0:21:50Crisp packet. It looks like they've foil-lined it with little slices of cannabis.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52There's got to be more, but it's whether it's on them.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54They're not just going to be down here selling weed, but...
0:21:54 > 0:21:58- Are they going to really leave a massive bag of crack and heroin, just out to get washed away?- No.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02- I reckon, if anything, they've got it on them or they've swallowed it. - Yeah, definitely.- So...
0:22:02 > 0:22:05- He had a lot of money on him, didn't he?- He had loads of money.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Right, let's get back to the nick, then.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13They're not just down there fucking selling weed.
0:22:13 > 0:22:18I'm hoping one of them's got 50 wraps down their pants.
0:22:20 > 0:22:21That's what I'm hoping.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25If they've swallowed drugs, they've swallowed drugs and they're lost. Can't do anything.
0:22:27 > 0:22:32Well, Kemar Lewis, the intelligence has continued to come in about him,
0:22:32 > 0:22:36and that suggests that he's actually involved in the dealing,
0:22:36 > 0:22:41not just on Hepburn Road, Stokes Croft, but in St Paul's itself in quite a big way.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44So I think he's higher up the food chain than we first thought.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52I just need to check where Faz has found the weed.
0:22:52 > 0:22:57So she's got, like, a foil-lined crisp packet, with, like, individual bags of weed in it.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01So I think it was found in the back seat, so if it is, your man's going to have to get locked up.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05I think, Kemar's probably going to have the stash on him, as well, when he gets strip-searched.
0:23:05 > 0:23:10- Do you reckon?- Yeah. I think he's...Kemar's the ringleader, isn't he?- Yeah.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12And he's got burners on him, has he?
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Yeah, he's got two.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17Go and lock him up, and then have his phones off him.
0:23:18 > 0:23:19Cool.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Is there any update from the strip-search?
0:23:36 > 0:23:40Yeah, sorry, mate. I told Ivan that was a flat-out negative.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42OFF-SCREEN: Oh, fuck's sake.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Yeah, received, thank you.
0:23:47 > 0:23:48No.
0:23:53 > 0:23:54Nothing at all.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Where are the drugs?!
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Right. That's the end of that.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11He's going to get bail.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25I'm not fazed about the police. I'm not worried about them,
0:24:25 > 0:24:27I'm not scared about them.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31If I do see the police, I'll just chuck it
0:24:31 > 0:24:33as far and as wide as I can. Or, if
0:24:33 > 0:24:36I've got a big amount, I will run,
0:24:36 > 0:24:39stash it and distance myself from it.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43If I don't get the chance...
0:24:45 > 0:24:47..unfortunately, it will be going up my arse crack.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Yo.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55What, do you want two Bs and two whites?
0:24:56 > 0:24:57All right. How long?
0:24:58 > 0:25:00All right, I'll see you in five, all right?
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Yeah, I've got to run off in a minute.
0:25:08 > 0:25:09Ah, fuck sake.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Doesn't even fucking work.
0:25:14 > 0:25:15I have this problem every fucking time.
0:25:18 > 0:25:19Back in business.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Like, I normally work as part of a team.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26Like, my friend, he would be in the trap house with the things,
0:25:26 > 0:25:31I'd tell him what needs to go when the phone call comes,
0:25:31 > 0:25:35I'd go to the secret trap house, collect what needs to be collected,
0:25:35 > 0:25:37go do the deal, go drop it off.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Having a habit doesn't help.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48Cos you get yourself in debt, right, so you think, like,
0:25:48 > 0:25:51when I go like that and put it on, that's like a tenner,
0:25:51 > 0:25:55so it does accumulate quickly.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58If I'd picked up on the night-time and stayed up on the
0:25:58 > 0:26:01night, in the morning I could have nothing.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08I could smoke it all, easily.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13I've sat there and smoked an ounce.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16An ounce is like, 500, 600 quid.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Every day's different.
0:26:27 > 0:26:298:30, the phone goes on.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Some days your phone could ring 200 times.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35Sometimes your phone could ring once.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02I've probably got about...
0:27:02 > 0:27:04between five and ten people I can go see myself.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Like, the main guy, he's really nice.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Spare any change, please, sir?
0:27:13 > 0:27:14Thank you.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17He always calls me Abby. There's a few dealers like that,
0:27:17 > 0:27:19they just can't seem to understand my name, like...
0:27:19 > 0:27:21He said to me a little while ago,
0:27:21 > 0:27:25he said, "I see you as a friend now, not just a customer."
0:27:25 > 0:27:26That was quite nice.
0:27:27 > 0:27:28SHE LAUGHS
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Thank you. See you later.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33But if I don't ring him for a few days, he'll be like, "Oh, where have you been?"
0:27:35 > 0:27:38He's just got a bucket. Big, like, building bucket in his living room,
0:27:38 > 0:27:40just like full of change. Full of
0:27:40 > 0:27:43all, but, like, pound coins as well, like...
0:27:44 > 0:27:47You know, thousands and thousands of pounds in change.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52Hey, you all right?
0:27:52 > 0:27:53Yeah, it's Safi.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57I'm down town at the minute, harbour side.
0:27:59 > 0:28:00Yeah.
0:28:03 > 0:28:04Oh, glass boat? Oh, sweet.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06OK, cool. Yeah, I'll be, like, 5, 10 minutes.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Two Bs and a white, I think.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12Yeah, two Bs and a white.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18When you ring them, you've got to be, like, pretty non-blatant.
0:28:18 > 0:28:22Instead of saying, like, heroin and crack, you sort of say, like, "Two Bs and a white."
0:28:26 > 0:28:2712.30.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32If you've got money, I'll sell it to you.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35If you're pregnant, I'll sell it to you.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37I like money, innit?
0:28:37 > 0:28:38Who doesn't?
0:28:38 > 0:28:44I get paid for cutting it up for people, paid for cooking it for
0:28:44 > 0:28:47people, paid for selling it.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50I've made £1,000 in a day, easy.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56That's a £10 bill, crack cocaine.
0:28:56 > 0:28:590.1, so that works out at £100 a gram.
0:28:59 > 0:29:02And it's two for 15.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04It's a little bit under, but...
0:29:04 > 0:29:06Shit happens, innit?
0:29:09 > 0:29:11And then this is the heroin.
0:29:13 > 0:29:14Not a lot of people come for the B.
0:29:16 > 0:29:17They'll buy, like, one or two.
0:29:20 > 0:29:24But the crack, they can come for 100 in a day if they've got the money.
0:29:31 > 0:29:36You can tell by the way it's wrapped quite often cos, like, the dealers, like, they're real...
0:29:36 > 0:29:38It's like, professional, like, wrapping, really.
0:29:38 > 0:29:42They sell, like, 500, like, individual items or something a day.
0:29:44 > 0:29:49Some of them, they must... I think they probably pay someone, like, just to wrap it alone.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03Definitely the best stuff that's around town, I reckon.
0:30:03 > 0:30:05Ah!
0:30:05 > 0:30:07The person who gets it, he must pay a lot more for it.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09Loads, loads, loads more.
0:30:10 > 0:30:11He lives in London.
0:30:12 > 0:30:14Way out the way.
0:30:15 > 0:30:19If you get better quality, it's definitely worth having smaller sizes.
0:30:34 > 0:30:36Right, so...
0:30:36 > 0:30:39This was the guy that was arrested opposite McDonald's.
0:30:39 > 0:30:43- He's from London, he's just speaking to as many people as he possibly can.- Yeah.
0:30:43 > 0:30:46Obviously, this is 20 minutes prior to his arrest,
0:30:46 > 0:30:48so what he's doing, he's talking to people and just saying,
0:30:48 > 0:30:52"Have you got a cigarette?" and then they engage him in conversation and then, showing his mobile number,
0:30:52 > 0:30:56then he goes across Stokes Croft and he's just approaching students all the time.
0:30:57 > 0:31:03What we have is a new picture developing of drug dealers coming in
0:31:03 > 0:31:05from other areas with high purities of drugs.
0:31:05 > 0:31:10Individuals from other cities arrive in different places and start up new
0:31:10 > 0:31:12dealing lines, and this is called county lines.
0:31:14 > 0:31:19A phone number will be called a particular name and that name will follow that line.
0:31:19 > 0:31:20PHONE DINGS
0:31:20 > 0:31:24So drug users will say, "Today, I'm scoring off X Man," or
0:31:24 > 0:31:27"Today, I'm scoring off Striker."
0:31:27 > 0:31:29PHONE DINGS
0:31:29 > 0:31:32It suddenly expands and then you've got a new line into a community.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39I think in the space of ten minutes, he's give out his number three or four times.
0:31:39 > 0:31:43And then he heads into Cabot Circus and he's doing the same over there.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45- So...- Yeah.
0:31:45 > 0:31:46He's a busy boy.
0:31:50 > 0:31:52It's just like a business.
0:31:52 > 0:31:53You can't think of it than anything
0:31:53 > 0:31:56else where you see an opportunity and you take it.
0:31:58 > 0:31:59You've got a new dealer.
0:31:59 > 0:32:02They've come down on the train or they've come down on the motorway
0:32:02 > 0:32:06with a huge amount of Class A drugs on them.
0:32:06 > 0:32:08They're speaking to drug users, saying,
0:32:08 > 0:32:12"If you give me five more names of your mates that are drug dependent,
0:32:12 > 0:32:14"I will give you two wraps of crack cocaine for your trouble,
0:32:14 > 0:32:16"and while you're trying it,
0:32:16 > 0:32:19"tell everyone else how good it is because this is real high purity."
0:32:19 > 0:32:21And, generally speaking, it is.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24We've had lads from Birmingham and London recently, all over
0:32:24 > 0:32:26St Paul's and in Easton,
0:32:26 > 0:32:30that don't know the areas and the rules and who knows who.
0:32:30 > 0:32:34And actually, there will start being conflict because, at the moment,
0:32:34 > 0:32:37people generally stick to their own little areas because they've got a
0:32:37 > 0:32:40good thing going there - but you get other people moving in,
0:32:40 > 0:32:41that's where you get the conflict.
0:32:41 > 0:32:44Well, they're an unknown quantity, aren't they?
0:32:44 > 0:32:46Mmm. Yeah, it is a bit worrying.
0:32:48 > 0:32:50When we identify county lines,
0:32:50 > 0:32:53we make it as hostile as we can for them, so that they don't see Bristol
0:32:53 > 0:32:55as an opportunity. We're all over it.
0:32:55 > 0:32:58SIREN WAILS
0:32:59 > 0:33:01RADIO CHATTER
0:33:01 > 0:33:04Somebody's just pressed their emergency button at Kingsmarsh House.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07That's where we suspect county lines are happening.
0:33:08 > 0:33:11CARS HONK
0:33:11 > 0:33:13RADIO CHATTER
0:33:22 > 0:33:24- He may have discarded stuff round there.- Oh!
0:33:24 > 0:33:25- Best thing is...- Right.
0:33:25 > 0:33:28'Man in black joggers, black kit, black hat...'
0:33:30 > 0:33:31HE MOANS
0:33:31 > 0:33:35- ..the wind in your eyes.- OK, so basically...- OK, just some water, then, at least?
0:33:35 > 0:33:37ALL SPEAK AT ONCE
0:33:37 > 0:33:39Where did he have this?
0:33:39 > 0:33:42Apparently Ben walked up to him, they just started scrapping with him straightaway.
0:33:42 > 0:33:43Ben said they were just...
0:33:43 > 0:33:45He started punching James,
0:33:45 > 0:33:47so they managed to get him on the floor and get him sprayed,
0:33:47 > 0:33:50he's obviously dropped that.
0:33:50 > 0:33:52That's what we're dealing with.
0:33:54 > 0:33:55We've just got to work out...
0:33:55 > 0:33:59They're going to have a flat in here somewhere.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01KNOCK ON DOOR
0:34:01 > 0:34:04Hello, sir. It's the police. Can you open the door, please?
0:34:04 > 0:34:05Hello. All right?
0:34:05 > 0:34:08- I'm Sergeant Green from Trinity Road.- Oh, hi there.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10There's just been an incident down by the foyer,
0:34:10 > 0:34:13where a guy's been arrested, potentially for a dealing offence.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16- He's got a knife on him as well, but we know they've come from a flat in here.- Oh, I see.
0:34:16 > 0:34:20Bearing in mind there was that situation last time where there was drug users...
0:34:20 > 0:34:23- drug dealers held up in here, I thought I'd come have a chat. - That's fine.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26- Is anybody in here at the moment? - There is someone in here, but there's no drugs.- OK.
0:34:28 > 0:34:30- I've got three in a flat. - All right.
0:34:30 > 0:34:34Just put some handcuffs on you while I search you. I'm Sergeant Green from Trinity Road.
0:34:34 > 0:34:39- The reason why you're being searched is because there's a whopping smell of cannabis.- Where you from?
0:34:40 > 0:34:42London? Oh, OK.
0:34:42 > 0:34:43- Where's he from?- London.
0:34:43 > 0:34:45This is not right, is it?
0:34:45 > 0:34:47Where are you from, mate?
0:34:47 > 0:34:49It feels a bit like deja vu here.
0:34:49 > 0:34:52- Where are you from?- London.- Got anything on you you shouldn't have?
0:34:56 > 0:34:57RADIO BEEPS
0:34:57 > 0:35:02- Can you confirm that the window I'm waving out of, is that by the ambulance?- Yeah, brilliant.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04Yeah, that would be a prime location for...
0:35:06 > 0:35:07RADIO BEEPS
0:35:07 > 0:35:09Yeah, so I want you to take a picture if you can on your job phone.
0:35:09 > 0:35:11How much crack and heroin we got?
0:35:13 > 0:35:19About... I think maybe there's probably about ten wraps of heroin
0:35:19 > 0:35:21and an...ounce of crack.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24An ounce.
0:35:24 > 0:35:27So this is looking like the county lines.
0:35:27 > 0:35:30I mean, you've got guys down here from London.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33There's been a big old fuss downstairs where the guy's just been arrested.
0:35:33 > 0:35:37And you've got a drug user here who's obviously got a pretty bad addiction,
0:35:37 > 0:35:40so he'll potentially be getting a few items a day to allow these to
0:35:40 > 0:35:42serve up out of his flat.
0:35:43 > 0:35:46These aren't down from London to do charity work in Bristol, are they?
0:35:46 > 0:35:49- I know these people...- No, I...- I've known them a long time, they're just friends of mine.
0:35:49 > 0:35:52- We just smoke cannabis and stuff. - I really don't accept that at all.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55- I don't accept that at all.- Well, they're not selling from the flat,
0:35:55 > 0:35:56- that's a fact.- They're not...
0:35:56 > 0:35:59They're not your friends. They're not your friends.
0:35:59 > 0:36:03They're not here in Bristol for any other good reason than to sell drugs, in my opinion, right?
0:36:03 > 0:36:07But they're here... They're not here in my flat to sell drugs, I promise you that.
0:36:09 > 0:36:11Cuckooing is a reasonably new concept.
0:36:11 > 0:36:15The dealers will identify a vulnerable individual that has an
0:36:15 > 0:36:19address, and it's right in the heart of where all the drugs are bought and sold.
0:36:19 > 0:36:23The more time they spend indoors with a stash of drugs,
0:36:23 > 0:36:25the less chance they've got of being caught.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28And that vulnerable person that's inside will, generally speaking,
0:36:28 > 0:36:32have a drug addiction, and they will be offered drugs for every day that
0:36:32 > 0:36:34they allow their place to be used.
0:36:35 > 0:36:39If you think about it, in the beginning that probably seems like an attractive offer, doesn't it?
0:36:39 > 0:36:43The fact that your habit will get paid for, free,
0:36:43 > 0:36:46just by having a couple of guys sit in your front room.
0:36:46 > 0:36:49But the consequences are far-reaching.
0:36:49 > 0:36:54And I've seen it all too often when that attractive offer
0:36:54 > 0:36:57becomes a very sinister scenario.
0:36:57 > 0:37:01You're all under arrest for possession with intent to supply a controlled drug.
0:37:01 > 0:37:03You're concerned in the supply of drugs.
0:37:03 > 0:37:05A large amount of drugs has been thrown out the window, OK,
0:37:05 > 0:37:07which has been found downstairs.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09You're here in Bristol, you've got
0:37:09 > 0:37:11no reason to be here in Bristol, you're in a drug user's flat.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14You're not his friend. I believe you're involved in the supply of drugs.
0:37:14 > 0:37:18You don't have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you don't mention when questioned
0:37:18 > 0:37:21something you later rely on in court. Anything you say may be given in evidence. OK?
0:37:22 > 0:37:24There you go, mate, in that lift.
0:37:25 > 0:37:29These people want to be out of the way of the police and they want to
0:37:29 > 0:37:32build up a portfolio of cuckooed addresses that they can move around
0:37:32 > 0:37:35to every few days so that they can frustrate the police.
0:37:38 > 0:37:40RADIO CHATTER
0:37:40 > 0:37:43Certain people are in bad places and, who knows,
0:37:43 > 0:37:44a year down the line they'll come
0:37:44 > 0:37:47out of the other end of it and they'll get back into recovery.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54We don't see them as the root of all evils,
0:37:54 > 0:37:58we see them as people with drug habits who need to be helped.
0:37:58 > 0:37:59I'm not arresting you,
0:37:59 > 0:38:00I'm not putting you in the cells,
0:38:00 > 0:38:03and I'm giving you an opportunity to change your life.
0:38:09 > 0:38:12SEAGULLS SQUAWK
0:38:25 > 0:38:29At the minute, I can tell I'm already getting a bit bored of the cycle, this way of living, like.
0:38:39 > 0:38:43I haven't been doing that much begging, well, not as much begging as...
0:38:44 > 0:38:47..normal, recently. Well, I got moved on from my spot,
0:38:47 > 0:38:48so I can't sleep there any more.
0:38:49 > 0:38:53People complained to the police and I can't stay there, so I'd rather just not stay there.
0:38:53 > 0:38:55I have to go out and beg somewhere else.
0:38:55 > 0:38:57I don't get anywhere near as much money.
0:38:57 > 0:39:00Last night it took me, like, over three hours to get, like, £6.50...
0:39:00 > 0:39:03which is ridiculous.
0:39:03 > 0:39:07But then some days I'll go out stealing stuff, like today.
0:39:07 > 0:39:10Just any phone gadget things and...
0:39:11 > 0:39:14..headphones and electrical stuff. Er...
0:39:14 > 0:39:16..scissors.
0:39:45 > 0:39:49A lot of my veins that I would have used, like, before, like, you know,
0:39:49 > 0:39:51when I first started, I can't really use now.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56I have the odd day every few weeks
0:39:56 > 0:39:58where I really struggle to get a vein.
0:39:58 > 0:40:00And I had a bad day last week, and my feet...
0:40:00 > 0:40:02But, like, yeah...
0:40:02 > 0:40:05Little bits where I've missed the vein and you get these big lumps
0:40:05 > 0:40:06and it really fucking hurts.
0:40:06 > 0:40:10Especially on your feet, obviously, cos you're walking on them, and...
0:40:10 > 0:40:11Yeah, it really hurts.
0:40:13 > 0:40:15Yeah, when I was younger and I was...
0:40:15 > 0:40:18Well, even, well, for years until I actually started injecting, really,
0:40:18 > 0:40:21I did tell myself and everyone else
0:40:21 > 0:40:23that I wouldn't start injecting drugs.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28I'd seen, like, you know, my friends with their abscesses and, like, how it...
0:40:30 > 0:40:33Well, some of them, how it proper changed them as a person, into...
0:40:33 > 0:40:36You know, like, my friend, she became a prostitute and, like, stuff
0:40:36 > 0:40:39to, like, you know, um, to fund her habit.
0:40:39 > 0:40:43And, like, other people that, it made them into...
0:40:43 > 0:40:46Well, you know, took away their morals, really.
0:40:53 > 0:40:57In the next, like, month, I'm going to get clean, properly clean,
0:40:57 > 0:41:00and I'm going to get... I want to get an apprenticeship or something,
0:41:00 > 0:41:03doing motor bike mechanics and restoration,
0:41:03 > 0:41:05or do a couple college courses,
0:41:05 > 0:41:07and do my own business, and that.
0:41:07 > 0:41:11That's my plan, yeah, for the beginning of summer.
0:41:12 > 0:41:14Yeah.
0:41:27 > 0:41:29- OVER RADIO:- Green, just so you know,
0:41:29 > 0:41:31he's out of the flat and into Gwyn Street.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33I'm into Hepburn Road now.
0:41:36 > 0:41:39Just the two males. One may be female.
0:41:42 > 0:41:46Fucking hell. Have I got enough staff to do this?
0:41:55 > 0:41:58Right, can you confirm you've got Kemar Lewis on Hepburn Road?
0:42:00 > 0:42:03We have Kemar Lewis leaning against the fence.
0:42:03 > 0:42:08Black North Face jacket, hoodie underneath, hood up, dark trousers.
0:42:08 > 0:42:11He has done a hand-to-hand deal.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14The user has placed it in his mouth and walked away.
0:42:17 > 0:42:18We're going to do a strike.
0:42:18 > 0:42:21We are turning left, left, left into Hepburn Road.
0:42:21 > 0:42:23Just grab whoever you can.
0:42:23 > 0:42:25BANG
0:42:25 > 0:42:29- On the floor, sir!- Police! - Police, police!- Police!- Police!
0:42:31 > 0:42:33Police! Police!
0:42:33 > 0:42:34OK, guys?
0:42:34 > 0:42:37- Up here.- Do you want a drugs bag? - Please.
0:42:39 > 0:42:41Hang on.
0:42:43 > 0:42:45So Kemar is detained where?
0:42:45 > 0:42:50- In the stairwell, literally just there.- He's detained down there. They've managed to make it to the
0:42:50 > 0:42:52top, so all this area is game-on, even this bit,
0:42:52 > 0:42:54because they could have just shut the door, too.
0:42:54 > 0:42:57BANGING
0:42:59 > 0:43:00There's a hole downstairs.
0:43:03 > 0:43:04You've got access here...
0:43:04 > 0:43:07- This goes out?- ..down into the courtyard and to the fence.
0:43:07 > 0:43:10- Does it? Let's have a look.- Look.- It will all make sense when you go out there.
0:43:12 > 0:43:15- See where that is?- Oh, yeah.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17And this... I think this could be...
0:43:17 > 0:43:19You know, do you remember we saw...
0:43:19 > 0:43:20Serving up here originally, yeah.
0:43:22 > 0:43:23Mmm!
0:43:23 > 0:43:25The plot thickens.
0:43:26 > 0:43:30If they've ran in and they've panicked, they've had 30 seconds straight...
0:43:30 > 0:43:34- There's nowhere to get rid of it up there...- No.- ..unless you swallow it or put it down your pants.
0:43:34 > 0:43:36- Yeah.- So...
0:43:36 > 0:43:38We've got one bag of wraps, anyway, haven't we? So...
0:43:42 > 0:43:44We've got Kemar Lewis in handcuffs.
0:43:47 > 0:43:53But have we got enough evidence to forensically link him to the drug package and then prove a supply job?
0:43:58 > 0:44:00I don't think we're there.
0:44:04 > 0:44:07Obviously, we found a decent stash of drugs...
0:44:08 > 0:44:10..but it was under that, it was under
0:44:10 > 0:44:13a step in a communal area, so
0:44:13 > 0:44:15unless there's forensic opportunities,
0:44:15 > 0:44:16which more often than not
0:44:16 > 0:44:19there isn't on really, really small packaging,
0:44:19 > 0:44:25like around wraps, then we're going to struggle to link that job to him, so, um...
0:44:25 > 0:44:27It's just going to be really difficult to prove.
0:44:28 > 0:44:30He's going to make bail.
0:44:52 > 0:44:55In terms of securing a conviction against a drug dealer,
0:44:55 > 0:44:58the burden of proof is huge.
0:44:58 > 0:45:02The jury has to believe beyond all reasonable doubt that that
0:45:02 > 0:45:04individual has supplied drugs on the streets of Bristol.
0:45:06 > 0:45:09Evidentially, we have to see the exchange.
0:45:11 > 0:45:14We have to follow them, and not lose them to sight,
0:45:14 > 0:45:16and we have to detain them in possession of the drugs.
0:45:18 > 0:45:21As you can see from the footage, got a male there and they're using
0:45:21 > 0:45:25the torch from the mobile phone just to see what they're doing.
0:45:25 > 0:45:27So the female user there,
0:45:27 > 0:45:30she's just looking down on the vehicle at the moment,
0:45:30 > 0:45:32sort of picking up the smaller items.
0:45:32 > 0:45:33And what are you...
0:45:33 > 0:45:36Cos last time when we come down in the vehicles, there was a lot of
0:45:36 > 0:45:39activity on the forecourt where you're looking at now.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42But they're really hypersensitive to every car that came past, and I
0:45:42 > 0:45:44think that's how we lost our element of surprise.
0:45:44 > 0:45:46So...
0:45:46 > 0:45:47How has that developed?
0:45:47 > 0:45:49When a car pulls in here,
0:45:49 > 0:45:52it gets illuminated and they're ducking behind the front part
0:45:52 > 0:45:54of the vehicle out of view.
0:45:54 > 0:45:56So our guy, Kemar Lewis, he's featured again, has he?
0:45:56 > 0:46:00It appears so, yeah. It's difficult with the ID, cos it's so dark
0:46:00 > 0:46:02down there, but it certainly would appear.
0:46:02 > 0:46:05I mean, that would be a good possibility for Kemar there.
0:46:07 > 0:46:11It's not as simple as being as clear-cut as someone's committed a
0:46:11 > 0:46:13criminal offence and the police will go after them.
0:46:13 > 0:46:15Certain individuals haven't started their life out saying,
0:46:15 > 0:46:18"I'm going to be a drug dealer, and I'm going to stand in a horrible
0:46:18 > 0:46:22"dark corner of a lane and I'm going to sell drugs to people."
0:46:22 > 0:46:25There's more to Kemar Lewis than being a drug dealer.
0:46:25 > 0:46:27Who knows what is going on in his life?
0:46:27 > 0:46:30Who knows the other people that he's supporting?
0:46:30 > 0:46:36You know, perhaps other people are relying on him to go out and make that money.
0:46:36 > 0:46:38And it may be that the first couple of times you make bail,
0:46:38 > 0:46:41but take that as your chance to go and do something different, and
0:46:41 > 0:46:43change your life while you can.
0:46:43 > 0:46:47And I think that we will get to a point with him where if he doesn't
0:46:47 > 0:46:53take that opportunity, we will catch him red-handed, and it will almost
0:46:53 > 0:46:57be a sense of, "Well, surely you saw the writing on the wall."
0:46:57 > 0:47:00"This was only going ever going to go one way and now is going to
0:47:00 > 0:47:03"result in you going to prison, potentially for a really long time."
0:47:03 > 0:47:05So I guess that's the frustration, really.
0:47:20 > 0:47:24As long as you're sneaky and you're sly and you keep your wits about
0:47:24 > 0:47:26yourself, and you're aware of your surroundings and you know what's
0:47:26 > 0:47:32going on, like, you've got quite a big choice of where to put it, basically.
0:47:34 > 0:47:36In the day, it's at my house normally.
0:47:36 > 0:47:40But at night it's in different places every time.
0:47:40 > 0:47:44Like, I did have some across the road and buried it and I had a
0:47:44 > 0:47:49little stick poking out the ground, like, um, like a Irn-Bru can.
0:47:49 > 0:47:52Crack it a couple of times, snap it, put it inside,
0:47:52 > 0:47:55bend it over so it looks like it's just been stood on, and then just
0:47:55 > 0:47:57fucking dash it in a bush.
0:47:57 > 0:48:00So everyone can see it as they walk past, but no-one knows what's in it.
0:48:01 > 0:48:03- PERSON OUTSIDE:- Oi!
0:48:03 > 0:48:04Ah...
0:48:06 > 0:48:07People say I'm paranoid.
0:48:12 > 0:48:16Paranoia is being aware of what's around you, and I've been doing what
0:48:16 > 0:48:18I've been doing ten years.
0:48:18 > 0:48:21Like, so... I've never been to jail.
0:48:25 > 0:48:27They've got bigger fish to fry than me.
0:48:28 > 0:48:30That's what I'm hoping, anyway.
0:48:31 > 0:48:34They've got bigger fish to fry. They want the people above me.
0:48:36 > 0:48:37SIRENS WAIL
0:49:07 > 0:49:11Tonight is our last opportunity to take out Kemar Lewis,
0:49:11 > 0:49:15but let's try and make it count, because if it doesn't happen
0:49:15 > 0:49:17tonight then we'll have to give it to another unit.
0:49:18 > 0:49:19OK?
0:49:22 > 0:49:25As we all know, with drug suppliers we really have to catch them right
0:49:25 > 0:49:29in it with items on them, not two yards away.
0:49:32 > 0:49:36So, till I'm sure that somebody has got something in their pocket or
0:49:36 > 0:49:39it's blatant and we're on, then I'm not going to call it.
0:49:41 > 0:49:43It might be a long night but we'll just wait and see how it goes.
0:49:46 > 0:49:49We'll come as a pack, we'll come down on foot and we'll take Kemar Lewis.
0:49:52 > 0:49:54They're very twitchy.
0:49:54 > 0:49:57They're running scared that the police are watching them.
0:49:57 > 0:50:00And they've moved off that hardstanding and they've moved even
0:50:00 > 0:50:02further, down to Hepburn Road.
0:50:10 > 0:50:13We're going to be a group of partygoers heading into the lane.
0:50:14 > 0:50:18And the first time that those dealers know that we're there is
0:50:18 > 0:50:19when we're on top of them.
0:50:23 > 0:50:28- RADIO:- From CCTV I couldn't get a decent enough look at his face.
0:50:28 > 0:50:31But it did look a bit like Kemar Lewis.
0:50:41 > 0:50:45The one in the black coat and the blue hoodie is the one that you
0:50:45 > 0:50:47think potentially is Kemar.
0:50:47 > 0:50:49I couldn't say, "Yes, it was him."
0:50:51 > 0:50:52What do we do?
0:50:52 > 0:50:54He doesn't know 100% if it's him, does he?
0:50:57 > 0:51:00Well, two out of three say it might be him.
0:51:56 > 0:51:58Get on the floor! Police!
0:51:58 > 0:52:00- Get your arms out. Get your arms out, now!- No!
0:52:02 > 0:52:06- Put your arm out or you're getting sprayed.- Wraps on the floor.
0:52:06 > 0:52:09Somebody look in his mouth and tell me if there's any wraps in there, please.
0:52:09 > 0:52:14- Open your mouth. If you don't open your mouth, you're getting sprayed in the eyes.- He's not opening it.
0:52:14 > 0:52:17- Right, behind the ear, pressure point.- Pressure point. - Open your... He's not opening.
0:52:17 > 0:52:19Kemar, Kemar, this is for your safety.
0:52:19 > 0:52:21Don't swallow the drugs, just spit them out.
0:52:21 > 0:52:24We've caught you with it loading already, open your mouth.
0:52:24 > 0:52:26- Is he taking air in?- Yeah.
0:52:29 > 0:52:31- Open your mouth.- Yeah, he's resisting, still.
0:52:31 > 0:52:32Open your mouth, Kemar.
0:52:34 > 0:52:37- Listen...- Kemar.- Kemar, don't swallow the drugs.
0:52:37 > 0:52:40- Open your mouth.- Kemar, it's for your safety, buddy, spit them out.
0:52:40 > 0:52:41Spit them out.
0:52:41 > 0:52:43MUFFLED SHOUTING
0:52:43 > 0:52:46Right. Right, let's just play a waiting game, guys.
0:52:46 > 0:52:50- Spit them out.- Spit them out.- He's done it.- He swallowed them.- He's swallowing.- I think he swallowed.
0:52:50 > 0:52:53- He's chewing them, he's chewing them.- He's chewing them up.- Yeah.
0:52:53 > 0:52:56- Can someone give me some more spray, please?- Yeah. What, spray?
0:52:56 > 0:52:59- Right you are.- No, no, no, no, no. - Do his neck, if you do his neck...
0:52:59 > 0:53:01There we go, there we go, there we go.
0:53:01 > 0:53:03We've got him. Get him away, get him away, get him away.
0:53:03 > 0:53:05Pull him back. Pull him back, pull him back.
0:53:07 > 0:53:10Right, you're under arrest for being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.
0:53:10 > 0:53:12You don't have to speak, but it may harm your defence if you
0:53:12 > 0:53:15don't mention something which you later rely on in court.
0:53:15 > 0:53:17Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
0:53:17 > 0:53:20Open your mouth nice and wide, there. Nice and wide. Nice and wide.
0:53:20 > 0:53:22- Get them all out. That's it, get them all out.- Spit it out. - That's it.
0:53:22 > 0:53:26- Is that it?- Yeah, yeah.- Under your tongue, show me under your tongue? - That's it.
0:53:26 > 0:53:28- OK.- That's it.
0:53:29 > 0:53:31- Right. Hang on.- Sit him up, get some air into his lungs.
0:53:31 > 0:53:34- Are you done?- Yeah, we're done.
0:53:34 > 0:53:37- Right, hang on.- Right, get some air into your lungs.
0:54:50 > 0:54:53You know, him going round just trying to find loose wraps just sums
0:54:53 > 0:54:57up what we're dealing with down here, and it's sad, isn't it?
0:55:00 > 0:55:02He never started life that way, he never...
0:55:02 > 0:55:05it was never written for him that he was going to be down at three
0:55:05 > 0:55:09o'clock in the morning, under dim torchlight, trying to find wraps to feed his habit.
0:55:18 > 0:55:20That first night that we come down and we identified...
0:55:20 > 0:55:24the openness of the drug market, I think, it just demonstrates...
0:55:25 > 0:55:28..the last few months, how busy the drug market is in Bristol,
0:55:28 > 0:55:32just how many drug-dependent individuals that we've got, and
0:55:32 > 0:55:38the lengths that the drug dealers are willing to take to meet that demand.
0:55:38 > 0:55:40You know, tonight, we've taken out Kemar Lewis
0:55:40 > 0:55:43and we've come down and caught him red-handed, and that is a good feeling.
0:55:43 > 0:55:47You know, that's what, that's what we're in the game for, isn't it,
0:55:47 > 0:55:51to take people out that harm the community and make them pay for what they've done.
0:55:51 > 0:55:54But now we need to look at what we're going to do long-term.
0:55:54 > 0:55:56How are we going to make this area better?
0:55:56 > 0:55:59How are we going to make people feel safe walking through this area?
0:55:59 > 0:56:01How's it going to look different?
0:56:01 > 0:56:04And it's all those issues that are going to make this area feel different,
0:56:04 > 0:56:05not just what we've done tonight.
0:56:07 > 0:56:08Yo!
0:56:08 > 0:56:10He's just about to serve up.
0:56:12 > 0:56:13All right? Police.
0:56:15 > 0:56:17- All right? Police.- Yeah, police.
0:56:45 > 0:56:48PHONE RINGS
0:56:48 > 0:56:50Yo.
0:56:50 > 0:56:52What?
0:56:52 > 0:56:54All right, I'll see you in five, all right?
0:56:56 > 0:56:58There will always be...
0:56:58 > 0:57:00consumers for it.
0:57:03 > 0:57:06If I didn't do it, someone else would.
0:57:41 > 0:57:43PHONE RINGS
0:57:43 > 0:57:44Yo. Two and one, yeah?
0:57:46 > 0:57:48Meet you same place, make sure you come on your own, though, innit?
0:57:48 > 0:57:50PHONE RINGS
0:57:50 > 0:57:52Yeah, what is it you needed?
0:57:52 > 0:57:55Yeah, I can come down for two, but I'm not coming out for one, fuck that.
0:57:55 > 0:57:57PHONE RINGS
0:57:57 > 0:58:00Yo. No, I've only got three and one left.
0:58:00 > 0:58:02You'll have to wait till I re-up, or do you just want that?
0:58:03 > 0:58:05PHONE RINGS
0:58:05 > 0:58:06Yo.
0:58:10 > 0:58:13For a free poster with information about drugs and their effects on
0:58:13 > 0:58:19society, call...
0:58:19 > 0:58:21..or go to the address below and
0:58:21 > 0:58:23follow the links for the Open University.