0:00:02 > 0:00:04They're the Brits who race to the rescue down under.
0:00:04 > 0:00:06Multiple patients critical.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09Everyday heroes saving lives...
0:00:09 > 0:00:1112 miles to run.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13..battling fires...
0:00:13 > 0:00:14It's too late.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16It can be extremely dangerous.
0:00:16 > 0:00:17..and fighting crime...
0:00:17 > 0:00:19- Put your arm down. - Police! Open the door!
0:00:19 > 0:00:23..from the big city to the outback.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Our policing district is bigger than the whole of the UK.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27From the bush...
0:00:27 > 0:00:30He's been crushed between one of those dingo diggers and a ute.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33..to Bondi beach.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35The search continues for a British tourist who hasn't been seen
0:00:35 > 0:00:37since he went for a swim.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40You never quite know what you're in for or what's going to happen.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Three-three-two, mate, on the head in.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45Very high impact. He's really quite critically injured.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Brits on blue lights under blue skies.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Today, down under - a whole family's hurt in a car crash.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05It's a vehicle into a tree, 60km an hour.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Three-year-old, seven-year-old and a five-year-old.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Outback police officer Lorena books a drink-driver...
0:01:11 > 0:01:13You've been drinking. Oh, yes, you have.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16..and finds she's a wanted fugitive.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18There's an arrest warrant out for you.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20And in the Sydney suburbs,
0:01:20 > 0:01:24a British flying doctor is called to a serious industrial accident.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26So that's a... open-book pelvis fracture.
0:01:34 > 0:01:3724, tower on my left, cleared for takeoff.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40The flying doctor is an Australian folk hero,
0:01:40 > 0:01:42born in the age of the biplane.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46But this is how they take off today.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER
0:01:51 > 0:01:55And in New South Wales, he or she may well be a Brit.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Uh, rescue two-four. We're airborne out of Bankstown.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02James Milligan learned his life-saving skills
0:02:02 > 0:02:04on the wards of Leeds General Infirmary.
0:02:04 > 0:02:09Now he's about to bring them to the scene of a major road accident near Sydney.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16Rescue two-four, thank you. There is a call to Lower Portland.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18One adult and three paediatric patients.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24And one three-year-old patient with abdominal pain.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27James and paramedic Libby Hanrahan
0:02:27 > 0:02:30know that this crash could be complicated.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32It's a total of four patients, two adults, two paeds.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38Total of four patients, three-year old, five-year-old, seven-year-old
0:02:38 > 0:02:40and adult female.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44It's a vehicle into a tree 60km an hour.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Seven-year-old query fractured clavicle,
0:02:46 > 0:02:48five-year-old chest pain
0:02:48 > 0:02:52and a 38-year-old female with central cervical pain
0:02:52 > 0:02:54and query 'lse' prior to the accident.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Landing's going to be tricky.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01You've got some fencing under us directly now.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04..around three o'clock.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Understood, final checks.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Landing gear's down.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Check left.
0:03:12 > 0:03:17The team will have to drive the mile and a half to the accident scene.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20The littlest children is the most seriously injured
0:03:20 > 0:03:22as far as we're aware.
0:03:22 > 0:03:23That makes life difficult
0:03:23 > 0:03:26because kids are inherently a little bit trickier for lots
0:03:26 > 0:03:29of different reasons but harder to transport as well.
0:03:30 > 0:03:35This is the little triage centre that they've put together.
0:03:35 > 0:03:36We'll go and say hello.
0:03:36 > 0:03:41The family has been in a high-impact crash and doctor James knows
0:03:41 > 0:03:45the children's smiles could be masking serious injuries.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49The family was following dad Chris on a cycling challenge
0:03:49 > 0:03:50when the crash happened.
0:03:50 > 0:03:55Charlotte, aged three, and Amelia, aged seven, are causing the most concern.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58And I missed your name. What was your name?
0:03:58 > 0:04:00- Charlotte.- Charlotte.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04Charlotte and uh, has, has the bear got a name?
0:04:04 > 0:04:06- Say what's your name? - My name's Dr James.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08So why don't you call him James?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Beautiful.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14Dr James knows, as a new dad himself, it's best to keep smiling.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17I do have a pink bow at home that I wear all the time.
0:04:17 > 0:04:18Call it Jamie.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23Now, I hear you've got a bit of a sore tummy - is that right?
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Let's have a look at this tummy of yours.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Oh, wow.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30He fears Charlotte may have an internal injury.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32Can you blow your tummy out like it's a big drum for me?
0:04:32 > 0:04:35Whoa! Look at that big tummy.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38- Where's your ow?- Um, my tummy. - In your tummy.
0:04:38 > 0:04:39And on my back.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41On your back?
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Children are especially difficult to treat.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46They find it hard to describe symptoms
0:04:46 > 0:04:49and their young metabolisms can compensate for injuries
0:04:49 > 0:04:52for a long time before suddenly deteriorating.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Let me go and say hello to Amelia cos she's all quiet
0:04:55 > 0:04:56and you're all chatty.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58You've got a friend to talk to here.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01Amelia is much quieter than her sister.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03That could be a bad sign.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06It looks like she's fractured her collar bone.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09And I'm a doctor. Which bits on you hurt the most at the moment?
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Up here?
0:05:11 > 0:05:14Dr James now faces a dilemma.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17He can only fly two patients to the hospital.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20The question is - which two?
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Amelia, Charlotte,
0:05:22 > 0:05:26their brother Daniel or their mum, who may have injured her spine.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28It's a difficult decision.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46Australia is home to nearly half a million Aboriginal people.
0:05:47 > 0:05:52Although they make up just 2.4% of the total population,
0:05:52 > 0:05:56in the outback, they often outnumber their European neighbours.
0:05:58 > 0:06:03They live by traditions that date back 40,000 years.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06They have Aboriginal law and white man's law.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09And um, Aboriginal law succeeds ours, really.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12And with white man's law, they don't really pay that much attention.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16In small towns like Laverton, 500 miles from Perth,
0:06:16 > 0:06:18it's Brits who uphold the law.
0:06:19 > 0:06:23Sarah Denny left Liverpool to become an outback cop.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25We carry um, a Glock...
0:06:25 > 0:06:28that... we got two magazines,
0:06:28 > 0:06:32we got 15 rounds in each magazine.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35I've had seven years of, of practice shooting.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37That's definitely got my confidence up now.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39So I do feel quite confident,
0:06:39 > 0:06:42if I have got to draw it, that my aim should be pretty good.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50Laverton, population 250, is so isolated,
0:06:50 > 0:06:54even the appearance of a mobile phone signal is a moment for celebration
0:06:54 > 0:06:58for Welsh-born senior constable Damian Eynon-Williams.
0:06:58 > 0:06:59Oh, I've got some signal.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Briefly I got, I got some e-mails to do so...
0:07:02 > 0:07:07He's a trained lawyer who acts as a prosecutor in the local courthouse.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09It's laid out exactly like a, a normal court room.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11We'll literally do something on,
0:07:11 > 0:07:15on video link here down to Kalgoorlie, 330km away.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17The local policing team
0:07:17 > 0:07:22lives with the harsh realities of life in the Australian desert.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26Summer temperatures average more than 40 degrees Celsius
0:07:26 > 0:07:30and the nearest big superstore is a ten-hour drive.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36So Laverton is um, very isolated in the sense that we're almost
0:07:36 > 0:07:391,000 kilometres from Perth.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41It can get very stir crazy here.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44Basically you want to be getting out of here
0:07:44 > 0:07:47every sort of couple of months, really.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51Uh, if you spend too long here you do end up going a bit, a bit la-la.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Gary Simpson is another Liverpudlian.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Burglar.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03His partner in uniform and at home is Lorena Cruz-Parker.
0:08:03 > 0:08:10So we're on an afternoon shift, um, so we work from four, 4pm
0:08:10 > 0:08:13until midnight and then another crew start at 7pm
0:08:13 > 0:08:16and they'll work till three in the morning.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22BEEPING
0:08:29 > 0:08:30I'm the sober driver.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Who's in the car?
0:08:33 > 0:08:35- My son, he don't drink.- Hello.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38There's a major problem with drink-driving in the outback
0:08:38 > 0:08:42and some of Australia's most dangerous roads are unsurfaced.
0:08:42 > 0:08:46OK, one long breath till I say stop. No. Stop.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Take a deep breath and blow until I say stop.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51- No, I've got asthma. - OK. Try again.
0:08:51 > 0:08:55You don't need a licence to drive off road, but if you don't hold one,
0:08:55 > 0:08:58the permitted level of alcohol in your blood is zero.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04- You've been drinking. Oh, yes, you have.- No.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06So when was your last drink?
0:09:06 > 0:09:07I had about two cans.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10- So you have had a few drinks? OK. - I'm a diabetic...
0:09:10 > 0:09:13All right, well, you're going to have to come back to the
0:09:13 > 0:09:15station for a breath test, OK.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Jump in. You got anything in your pockets?
0:09:18 > 0:09:19- Nothing.- OK.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Alcohol is a central part of Aussie culture.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36The woman's in town for a funeral.
0:09:36 > 0:09:37Whether she gets to go to it
0:09:37 > 0:09:41will depend on a further breath test at the police station.
0:09:46 > 0:09:47For the people of the bush,
0:09:47 > 0:09:50the flying doctor is an Aussie icon,
0:09:50 > 0:09:53bringing life-saving care from the skies
0:09:53 > 0:09:55to the remotest corner of the outback.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59But Dr Chris Cheeseman's patients
0:09:59 > 0:10:02are the people of Australia's biggest city.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06In Sydney, the CareFlight helicopter is a familiar sight,
0:10:06 > 0:10:08flying a highly trained trauma doctor
0:10:08 > 0:10:11direct to the scene of accidents.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Chris used to do his rounds at a hospital in Staffordshire.
0:10:16 > 0:10:23Now he covers 5,000 square miles of Australia's most populated state.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Today's mission is to a waste disposal site in the suburbs
0:10:31 > 0:10:36where a worker has been badly injured in an industrial accident.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38What have we got for a landing site near there?
0:10:38 > 0:10:44There are wires on the western side.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48Loose dirt on the ground so there will be dust kicked up also.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Trouble is it's all fairly high fencing, isn't it?
0:10:50 > 0:10:54Yeah. Getting out of there is the issue.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56Let's look for the closest option.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Golf course at two o'clock with a low fence.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Copy that. Mobilise.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07The team's going to have to hitch a lift to the patient.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Three, two, one.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19The police work closely with the CareFlight team.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21The patient's a mile from the landing site.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27How was your flight out, boys?
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Yeah, not bad. Nice day for it!
0:11:30 > 0:11:33One-four. The CareFlight doctor should almost be on top of them.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Yeah, there's 25 there.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43I'm Chris, one of the doctors. How you doing?
0:11:43 > 0:11:45- How's the pain for you now? - It's just in the hip area.
0:11:45 > 0:11:46You walked for a bit, Keith?
0:11:46 > 0:11:49Yeah, I walked from one side to the other but...
0:11:49 > 0:11:53Keith Haslip is 64. He was crushed by heavy machinery he was using.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55He's lucky to be alive.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57What have his numbers been like with you?
0:11:57 > 0:11:59He was 120 systolic, I think, they got him on
0:11:59 > 0:12:01and 110 heart rate initially.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Morphine, that's the only thing we've done for him so far.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10Chris suspects Keith has serious internal injuries.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12The first paramedics on scene
0:12:12 > 0:12:15have used a brace to hold his pelvis together.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18- Are you guys starting to use these now?- We are.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20A broken pelvis is agonising
0:12:20 > 0:12:22and moving Keith from his stretcher
0:12:22 > 0:12:25into the chopper could worsen the injury.
0:12:25 > 0:12:30Dr Chris decides to drive his patient to hospital.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33We'll go by road. What, 25 minutes to Westmead, yeah?
0:12:35 > 0:12:36Go, go.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40Keith is impressed by the speed of the CareFlight response.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43How's that, sore down here is it, or? Where's that sore?
0:12:43 > 0:12:45In your pelvis or in your tummy?
0:12:45 > 0:12:49Yeah, across... Seems to be right in that area here. Right across.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53All right, mate. Um, what I'm going to do is a bit of a scan of your tummy.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55OK, we've got our little ultrasound machine there.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58Right, just mainly looking for fluid, OK.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Did it crush you front the front or side?
0:13:00 > 0:13:02- Side on.- Side on.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05Yeah. Ah! Hip to hip.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Yep.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10- Well, I heard a crack so... - Yeah.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14Yeah, he had a bit of pain there, mate.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17Might've broken his pelvis or his hip there.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19Chris is giving Keith a powerful painkiller.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Yeah, well, ketamine is uh,
0:13:21 > 0:13:25an excellent drug for this type of environment
0:13:25 > 0:13:28because it takes away all that pain and discomfort and that anxiety.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31It makes his journey a lot more comfortable.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33I've only give a small dose.
0:13:36 > 0:13:37SIREN WAILS
0:13:43 > 0:13:45Oh, it's another one going the other way.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48Who's got priority there?
0:13:48 > 0:13:49THEY LAUGH
0:13:49 > 0:13:53Whoever's got the most guts to just keep driving.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57Keith's not today's only casualty, but a medical team is already
0:13:57 > 0:14:02awaiting his arrival at the Westmead Hospital, Sydney's biggest.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04Dr Chris used to work here
0:14:04 > 0:14:07and his former colleagues soon confirm his hunch.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11X-rays reveal Keith's pelvis is broken in two.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14So that's a... open-book pelvis fracture.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Classically you see with these type of crush injuries.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18That should be attached to that.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21So this is a, it is quite a serious injury so the paramedics
0:14:21 > 0:14:25putting on the pelvic binder at scene certainly was a very useful
0:14:25 > 0:14:27and essential, um, intervention from their point of view.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29And the good news for him
0:14:29 > 0:14:31is that there is no blood in his uh,
0:14:31 > 0:14:33pelvis there. So um, it should all
0:14:33 > 0:14:35turn out to be pretty good for him
0:14:35 > 0:14:37so a very lucky escape, I'd say.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Keith spends two months in the Westmead.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44But he's determined that one day he'll return to work.
0:14:59 > 0:15:04Western Australian Police pound the biggest beat in the world.
0:15:04 > 0:15:071.6 million square miles
0:15:07 > 0:15:11covering almost half this vast continent
0:15:11 > 0:15:15and Laverton is one of its most remote outposts.
0:15:15 > 0:15:19Being here is completely different than being in Merseyside.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22I was on um, a burglary team and a robbery team
0:15:22 > 0:15:26but I've come out here in the country and I deal with
0:15:26 > 0:15:31absolutely everything um, from stealings to burglaries to assaults.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33Um, a lot of domestic violence.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36They don't get taken off us by detectives.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39We have to see the whole thing through.
0:15:39 > 0:15:43For British cops Lorena Cruz Parker and her partner Gary Simpson,
0:15:43 > 0:15:47a routine traffic stop has just taken a more serious turn.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51We'll just see if the sergeant's got your licence details here.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Your licence is suspended. When were you last in court?
0:15:56 > 0:16:00My court was here but I change it over to Warburton.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Their suspect, it turns out, is wanted for failing to appear
0:16:03 > 0:16:09in court earlier this year and she's also banned from driving for life.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Well, according to our system there's a warrant, an arrest warrant
0:16:12 > 0:16:16out for you cos you didn't turn, you didn't attend court at Warburton.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19So the magistrate then has issued a bench, a bench warrant for you.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22It means that even if she passes a second breath test,
0:16:22 > 0:16:25she may not be going home tonight.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27So take a deep, big deep breath.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32And blow into the machine and I'll tell you exactly when to stop.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Keep going, keep going, keep going. Stop.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36Perfect.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40So you blew into the machine
0:16:40 > 0:16:45and you gave a reading of 0.079 grams of alcohol in your blood.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47OK. Now do you know what the...
0:16:47 > 0:16:49It's in my blood, is the medication.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53Do you know the legal limit of what you can have in your system?
0:16:53 > 0:16:57Do you know what you're allowed in your system in W.A.?
0:16:57 > 0:17:01- WOMAN KEEPS TALKING - So, it's zero. Listen, it's 0.05 OK.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04But because you don't have a licence, you're subject to zero.
0:17:04 > 0:17:09She's going to be spending the night in the local lock-up.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Tomorrow, the drink-driver will face a court.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Do you want to contact ALS? Aboriginal Legal Service. Yeah?
0:17:16 > 0:17:17OK.
0:17:20 > 0:17:25Tonight, Lorena is the chef as well as arresting officer.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27So the lady'll, she'll get a,
0:17:27 > 0:17:30she's requested that she has some dinner so, and on an evening time
0:17:30 > 0:17:33we give them a pie which gets warmed in the microwave.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41That OK? Do you want some magazines or something?
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Would you like a newspaper?
0:17:43 > 0:17:47Her suspect is well fed but there are some unobtainable English delicacies
0:17:47 > 0:17:49the British outback cops crave.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51I miss fish and chips.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53I miss Holland cheese and onion pies.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55I miss prawn cocktail crisps.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58I miss Gregg's cheese and onion pasties.
0:17:59 > 0:18:05Uh, cheese and onion crisps. Skips. Wotsits. Hula Hoops.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Ah, I miss all the food in England.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17In the woods around the Hawkesbury River just outside Sydney,
0:18:17 > 0:18:22a family outing has ended in a serious road accident.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Flying doctor James Milligan is trying to decide
0:18:24 > 0:18:28which of three children will be flown to hospital in the city.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Now I'm going to have a little gentle feel on this side, OK?
0:18:31 > 0:18:34Is this is where it's sore on the other side?
0:18:34 > 0:18:37Seven-year-old Amelia appears to have a broken collar bone.
0:18:37 > 0:18:41Her brother Daniel has chest pain.
0:18:41 > 0:18:42So I'm thinking these two.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Yep.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47Possibly dad as well, two on stretchers, one on the back seat.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50Yeah, we just need to work out weighting and things
0:18:50 > 0:18:53but that, we would optimally take as many as we can.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55So far they've been lucky.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59Collisions with trees are a major cause of road deaths down under
0:18:59 > 0:19:01and back home.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03But their car seats appear to have saved them.
0:19:03 > 0:19:04- All the kids are doing OK.- Yeah.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07All right. All this is just precautionary.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Dr James is trying to reassure the kids' mum,
0:19:10 > 0:19:12who was driving, it wasn't her fault.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Charlotte's tummy now is nice and soft, OK?
0:19:14 > 0:19:18Now she's had some painkiller. You can hear her talking away, can't you?
0:19:18 > 0:19:21- She never stops.- She never stops. Well, she's, she's keeping going now.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23All right, so that's really pretty reassuring for us.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26What we're going to do is going to get you to stand up.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Get off this hard ground.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31Watch your sister and we'll just get you on to this stretcher over here.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33The kids are going to be flown direct
0:19:33 > 0:19:37to the Westmead Hospital in Sydney, 30 miles away.
0:19:37 > 0:19:42It's getting dark and taking off from the confined landing site could be risky.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46That's the worst collar I've ever put on.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49That's all right. It always changes when you lay down.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Charlotte, I'll look after Mummy and you go with Dr James
0:19:54 > 0:19:57- cos he will look after you, OK? - Yeah?
0:19:57 > 0:20:01And you give Jamie the bear a cuddle and we can get you a blanket.
0:20:01 > 0:20:02Oh, way to go.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08- On lift. Ready, steady, lift. - Lift me high in the air.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Here we go.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12I'm flying!
0:20:12 > 0:20:13You're flying!
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Best day ever! You are the funniest kid.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18Shall we get rid of this one, yeah?
0:20:18 > 0:20:19A house.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22In a house?! No.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26So this helicopter is very noisy.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29OK, so it's a bit, it can be a bit loud.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34But that's not something to be scared of, is it?
0:20:34 > 0:20:36No.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39There's going to be a couple of little bumps.
0:20:40 > 0:20:41The team's brought intensive care
0:20:41 > 0:20:44direct to the woods where the crash happened.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46A bit bumpy, Amelia.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Now it's time to fly.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Rescue two-four will be taking off
0:20:52 > 0:20:54with three passengers, including Dad.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58They're all doing great. This is all precautionary.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02But, but, uh, it's... It's...
0:21:02 > 0:21:05I haven't seen worse but I know there is worse.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Yeah. They're pretty trendy glasses.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Don't get them stuck on your nose.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14It's getting a bit loud now, OK.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17Rescue two-four will have the family in hospital
0:21:17 > 0:21:18in less than half an hour.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24Uh, we'll come up to 200 uh, feet, uh, any problems, we'll abort.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Otherwise continue airborne.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28I'm just going to kill the lights.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Thank you.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Yeah, just, if you could bring that down.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35But there's no margin for error in terrain like this.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37OK, and lifting.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40Time two two.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Trees are feet from the rotor blades.
0:21:45 > 0:21:51- I'll just get a little bit higher... - You're clear of obstacles on the left.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Rotate left.
0:21:56 > 0:21:57Power lines off to our right.
0:21:57 > 0:21:58Yeah, got that visual.
0:21:58 > 0:21:59And on the nose there.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Dr James and paramedic Libby
0:22:04 > 0:22:06must get used to monitoring their patients
0:22:06 > 0:22:08in almost total darkness.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Any bright lights could blind the pilots.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14We are loaded with two paediatric patients and a parent.
0:22:15 > 0:22:20Tracking to Westmead kids' and we'll be on the ground there at 18:36.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Libby's alerting doctors at the Westmead
0:22:24 > 0:22:27to be ready for their young patients.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31Their brother is being driven to A & E, as is their mother.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34Be soon on descent into Westmead. Weather's good.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Beautiful night for flying.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40Sydney's cityscape is spectacular by night
0:22:40 > 0:22:44but the team's focus is on the landing ahead.
0:22:44 > 0:22:49Rescue two-four is touching down within yards of A & E.
0:22:49 > 0:22:53They'd like us to...slide right.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Over the next two hours,
0:23:12 > 0:23:14doctors will be assessing the kids
0:23:14 > 0:23:17and scanning them for internal injuries.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19This is Charlotte. She's three years old.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22She was a restrained passenger in the back in a good child seat.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24No significant injuries found.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27She just had one vomit in the helicopter as we came into land
0:23:27 > 0:23:29so be careful when you're feeling around.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Only real thing, little bit tummy pain, little bit of lower back pain.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Amelia is Charlotte's big sister. She's seven years old.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39Again in the rear in a good car seat.
0:23:39 > 0:23:43Um, she self-extricated but had some pain in her left foot
0:23:43 > 0:23:45and had some difficulty walking on it.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Nothing much to see there.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50And she also complained of some pain in her right shoulder
0:23:50 > 0:23:53with a very obvious seat belt mark there and a query of a clavicle fracture.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57Thankfully, nothing serious is found beyond Amelia's collarbone.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00And it looks like brother's just arrived.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02So patient number three's here.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03And they're sent home to recover
0:24:03 > 0:24:06from what's been a very frightening ordeal,
0:24:06 > 0:24:10made more bearable by their British flying doctor.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25It's a new dawn in the red desert of Western Australia.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27So I'll just print that out for you
0:24:27 > 0:24:31just so you've got a copy of it in case you need it.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34Come on now, up you get.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38The woman arrested yesterday is due to appear in court via CCTV.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42But there's an unexpected problem.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45The prisoner is complaining of pain from an ankle injury.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48- You right? - No, my ankle is broken.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50- Really?- Yeah. - When did that happen?
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Can't be broken, then. Just sore, is it? Right.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Come on, then.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Come on, then, let's get you to hospital.
0:25:04 > 0:25:09Damian and Sarah have sought medical advice about their prisoner's ankle.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12She's off to the local clinic for a check-up.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19Laverton's largely Aboriginal population
0:25:19 > 0:25:22has relatively poor health by Aussie standards.
0:25:22 > 0:25:27Life expectancy is 10% shorter than their European neighbours.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Diabetes is another health problem
0:25:30 > 0:25:33that afflicts many indigenous people out here.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Their suspect is a sufferer.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39What she doesn't apparently have is an ankle injury
0:25:39 > 0:25:44and she's soon back in court for her virtual appearance before the bench.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Her fate is in the hands of a magistrate
0:25:49 > 0:25:54more than 200 miles away in the gold-mining town of Kalgoorlie.
0:25:54 > 0:25:59Senior constable Damian is doubling as prosecution counsel.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01I am a qualified lawyer here in Western Australia and um,
0:26:01 > 0:26:03I've, I've actually done a prosecuting course
0:26:03 > 0:26:06and spent some time at Perth prosecuting.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09Um, so it, it is a bit different obviously in the UK you have um,
0:26:09 > 0:26:12the Crown Prosecution Service, so you have own, own solicitors
0:26:12 > 0:26:17and um, barristers there that, that actually do, do this kind of work.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19But we're obviously expected to do it as well.
0:26:21 > 0:26:25It's a short hearing and the verdict is bad news for the suspect.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28She's basically been remanded in custody.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30It wasn't as simple as I first thought
0:26:30 > 0:26:32cos it was actually two JPs as opposed to one.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34So they could've actually granted her bail today
0:26:34 > 0:26:38but being the fact that um, I put forward a good argument,
0:26:38 > 0:26:40yeah, she's been remanded in custody.
0:26:40 > 0:26:41The woman is on her way to jail
0:26:41 > 0:26:45via one of the world's most unusual prison transport vehicles.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48The main custody area is in Kalgoorlie
0:26:48 > 0:26:52which is, like, 330 kilometres away, approximately.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55So we're going to take her now and put her on the plane
0:26:55 > 0:26:57and they'll fly her down to the prison.
0:26:57 > 0:27:02Australia operates its own fleet of "jailbirds" - twin-engined planes
0:27:02 > 0:27:07shuttling detainees from the outback to big city jails.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11We've got bitumen roads leading out uh, from here down to,
0:27:11 > 0:27:16down to Kalgoorlie um, but general, it basically just takes too long.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25It's just started to rain.
0:27:26 > 0:27:27Horrendous.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30And it's very windy.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32This is not actually typical of Laverton.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36I mean, it does rain a little bit in the winter which is now.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39But generally it's about 46 degrees in the summer.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Last day in work today and then um, then I'll be flying out to uh,
0:27:42 > 0:27:44nice sunny Bali.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Get a bit of uh, bit of sun.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Bit of a tan.
0:27:59 > 0:28:00Thank you.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05Holding a prisoner means they have little time
0:28:05 > 0:28:09for upholding the law and it's finally time to get back on patrol.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13Despite the isolation,
0:28:13 > 0:28:16neither Damian nor Sarah would return to the UK.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20Just 6,000 officers
0:28:20 > 0:28:24maintain the thin blue line in Western Australia.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27Hundreds are Brits
0:28:27 > 0:28:31and there's no shortage of recruits wanting to join them down under.