05/11/2012 Inside Out North West

Hello. Welcome to inside del. This week we are in Manchester where we

are meeting the murder squad giving a TV's New Tricks a run for its

money. At the UK's first real civilian a

murder squad. We are a slightly older bunch but we know our job.

investigate whether we are doing enough to protect our children and

find out what lessons we can learn from Europe. The Dutch government

seemed to be 10 years ahead of the British. And why the Isle of Man is

now the 4th most likely nation in the world to next land a person on

the Mona. This expedition will take someone further than anyone has

You may have seen the TV drama New Tricks which features veteran

detective solving murders. Police here in Manchester have their own

homicide unit which can match Denis Waterman and his pals and they are

all civilians. The Manchester unit is helping Bobby's get back on the

beat. When it comes to murder, the police

in Manchester are busier than most. This community have been trying to

comprehend what exactly happened at this house behind me. This city is

consistently in the top three areas in the country for murder rates.

Guilty of murder, sentencing him to life in prison. Was between the

summers of 2011 and 2012, at GMP had to deal with 41 homicide cases.

0 a number of people see some of the crime series that take place on

television and think all these things are done within an hour. The

hard work starts when people are arrested and charged and that is

the primary responsibility of our unit. Monday morning at Chadderton

Police station and the category C murder unit holds its weekly

debrief. But this is no ordinary team. This is the country's first

civilian murder squad. None of the team are police officers and they

do not have powers of arrest. But their rhino butchers, bakers or

candlestick makers here. They are predominantly former detectives and

they are very good at wrapping up murder cases. We have accrued loss

of experience. We are specialists. I retired as a detective after 30

years and they were advertising for people with experience to come back

to the units. We are not at the sharp end and I accept that, I have

done my time as a police officer. We are as close as we can be to

frontline policing. The team's high average age means they have been

likened to the detectives on a certain TV programme. How long have

I have seen New Tricks and it is good. There are some resemblance of

asked their. We are a slightly older bunch but we know our job.

would like to think I am not Denis Waterman but he has a requisite

amount of experience and so do I and why waste that if you can put

it to good use. The unit was formed by Greater Manchester Police in a

bid to reduce the amount of paperwork done by a frontline

detectives. It is the first of its kind in the UK and so far it seems

to work. What we have allowed this for our detectives to hit the job

for our detectives to hit the job at the beginning, really do a

thorough job and then hand over that volume of information and

evidence to a team to support. Police divide murders into

different classes, category A are high risk cases where the killer's

identity is unknown. Category B refers to cases where the identity

is not clear but there is less risk to the public and category C is

where the offender is known and the evidence is likely to be relatively

easy to gather. Relatively easy to that there is a joke. Their

business such thing. Most murders come at you usually as a category A

but the role of the police is to turn every category A as a category

Wednesday morning at Bradford Park. Home to the forensic services unit.

Investigating officer at Ian Storey is taking two murder weapons for

examination. This may be a category C murder but without rigorous

attention to detail, they will not Part of the examination is to try

and obtain fingerprints from both weapons that we have got the

offenders fingerprints in the victim's blood. I joined a GNP in

1975, I retired. This job was created on the major incident team.

I came back and I have been working my socks off. Not all members of

the team are former detectives. Charlotte Wood worked as an

organisational consultant before joining the unit. Gory details are

now a part of her everyday life. did think that would be very hard

to handle at first before I started at the unit, it has not been as bad

as expected. I have been attending post-mortems and attending the

images because you need to know everything about the case. The ones

involving children are harder because I am a mother of a two-

year-old and with experience it makes it easy, but that is

difficult for me at the moment. Under the watchful eye of an

experienced mentor and after just 12 months in the job, Charlotte has

been asked to lead an investigation. Operation Scarcroft. Be it was a

young male who was strangled and put into a wheelie bin and dumped

on open land. It is not the nicest of jobs to be dealing with but it

has to be dealt with. It is very traumatic. The young man was

strangled. And then his body turned It is really upsetting when you

have to look at those sort of photographs, you go to the second

post-mortem. She put together a really good file. Anything she is

unsure about, she can ask anyone about it. An investigator will do a

piece of work but it is checked by a supervisor and there is a change

of command that is checked and rechecked before it goes to the

unit. Friday morning an investigating officer at Lyndon

Wright is coming to the end of five men's work of a gruesome case.

people have been charged following the discovery of a body. Police

were called to Victoria Street last Thursday evening after reports of a

burglary. It was a difficult case to bring and it was a difficult

case to manage at court. There were a lot of issues with witnesses and

evidence in the case was not easy to present, so yes it was a

challenge. We had a five week trial, both defendants were convicted of

murder and we are now on our way to Preston Crown Court for sentencing.

The role that the category C unit performs is vital admitted some of

the unsung activity that is necessary within the judicial

process. We are getting cases to court twice as fast. Both

defendants are sentenced to 23 years in prison and another case is

closed by the category C unit. A dead body found in a flat and two

people there, you could not ask for an easier cased yet six months down

the line, after a six-week trial, it is only now we get our justice

for the family. A team will carry on with their

usual good humour. It was really all the detectives who thought, we

have a bunch of old cops here, you only have to look at the work we

are doing, the detail and presentation of the files at court.

My team is doing as good if not a better job. The results produced

mean it is the category C team having the last laugh. We are good

at our job and if you need someone to investigate your relatives

murder, who D one? You want people who know what they are doing.

Coming up: is there life on Mars? Quiet the Isle of Man could hold

the answer. If life were discovered on Mars are it would be the first

time that extra terrestrial life has been proven.

Never have there been so many questions about whether we do

enough to protect our children. It is not just the allegations about

Jimmy Savile, it is the sexual grinning of white girls bike

largely Pakistani men and whether authorities have turned a blind eye.

We investigate what more can be What we are talking about is

hardcore criminality. She went to hell in back in terms of what these

perpetrators did to her. Nine men convicted of exploiting young girls

in Rochdale have been given prison sentences. The shame of what

happened here is detailed in every newspaper. I tried to overdose

because of what happened. I am a broadcaster. Our organisation works

to build a better order and that -- understanding between diverse

communities and that is why I am on a personal journey across the North

of England and to Holland to discover more about the realities

of grooming and child sexual exploitation. Recent scandals

centred on Rochdale and Rotherham raised questions not only about why

Asian men are disproportionately involved in the crime but also

broader questions about how the system failed to prevent it. This

is the street where the Rochdale grooming gangs operated from. A

recent report admitted that the police and social services

repeatedly failed to listen to the cries of help from victims. What

did they miss and what were the consequences? A I think what is

important as a starting point is that it can happen to any child

from any family. This woman is an expert in identifying the signs

that so many people seem to have missed. A definite pattern of

behaviour in both of the grooming gang and their behaviour. It is

highly sophisticated and the men and know what they are doing.

in Harrogate there is an acceptance that the problem can be found in

virtually all towns and cities and as girls and parents from across

the country have told us, most victims are not from a children's

home. You will find what you hear next a disturbing. The men had

given her vodka or, mobile phones and some cards. They received a

text messages all the time and sometimes that they would demand

that they immediately leave the house. I talked to a young guy and

went to his house and we ended up in a hotel. I was drunk and I woke

up with no clothes on. She may be passed from man to man. I slept

with a lot of men, it would be around 30. The consequences of this

are lifelong, both for the child and the family. There are two of

you, parents trying to make a living and you have a daughter you

love falling apart in the most horrific circumstances. It affects

all aspects of your life. I tried overdosing, I cut myself, my arms

are scarred, I did not want to live. In the cases of the victims and

parents we spoke to, the horror and suffering were compounded when

police and social workers failed to take action. We had photos, a

number plates and we gave them all to the police, gave it to them on a

plate. If I had had more help, I would have stopped. You think the

police will step in and social services will help, you would think

that would make arrests more likely, but that is not what happened.

police forces and social service departments have recently dedicated

more staff and introduced more training but given that the

failures by a authorities across the North that we have uncovered it

is fair to say that strategies to get grooming of our streets is

still patchy. This is why I have come up to Amsterdam. When it comes

to developing at plan to tackle child exploitation and the Dutch

government seemed to be ahead of the British government and they are

claiming some degree of success. Police and social services began to

knit together an approach and decade ago. In 2002, we figured out

it was necessary to co-operate with different parties but if you see

this situation in 2002 and compare it to the 2012, you see an enormous

increase in agencies, organisations that combine their efforts in

solving the problem. You cannot solve it as law enforcement alone.

In the spirit of this, they have played their part. The Pakistani

community should confront exploitation and this man has done

the same in Amsterdam by campaigning against remain in his

Moroccan community. In my neighbourhood there was a problem

of guys in grooming some girls. It was hard core criminality. I

started to make alliances with mosques and we combined forces. In

the UK, our mosques say it is nothing to do with them, yet here

in Holland, you and the masks have taken a proactive stance, why is

that? I think it is important to take responsibility and raise

social issues, put them on the agenda and get rid of the taboos. I

think that for England and other countries it is important that

mosques are developed to tackle the issues of modern-day society. A

young people are looking for mosques that are relevant. I hope

that my brothers in England will do the same as what we have done.

in West Yorkshire, these sentiments have residents, but the reaction of

English mosques is complicated by hostility from the far right which

call this demonstration following allegations of child grooming.

Whilst at the English Defence League calls for the Pakistani

community to stand up and take action, a youth group has been

doing that. Only a few weeks ago, the English Defence League were

here. This is an anti- grooming workshop, attended by members of

the pack this do -- Pakistani community. It is completely unique.

It affects us a very severely because when a picture like this is

on the news, imagine what kind of impact it will have on how people

perceive us. The workshops came about through our normal youth work.

That is the best thing to do is to advise the girl. We have no support

from the Government in terms of financial backing. The groom her is

isolating him the victim. We talk about had to tackle issues like

this. School has are taking a more precautions in educating young

people. It is not often that I am speechless, but this has been an

amazing experience to with his best. If we can deliver this in every

part of our country, then I believe we can start to eradicate this evil.

This in video is encouraging the victims to speak out and be heard.

I think everyone has a few regrets but if I could, I would go back and

have a word with myself. I still believe that there is an over-

representation of Pakistani men convicted of child grooming and my

community has to come from this. At the same time, wider society has to

recognise that 80% of child sexual abuse is carried out by white men.

For me, the story should not be about comparing of the racial

identity of abusers, but the about protecting these vulnerable young

victims. Now, a traditional industry here in

the north-west is based on the expansion of canals and railways.

One part of our region is looking deep into outer space for future

growth and as Jacey Normand reports, the Isle of Man's ambitions are not

as far-fetched as you might think. Three weeks ago Felix Baumgartner

leapt from the edge of space and into the record books. For over 50

years, man has been enthralled by space travel, first we orbited the

earth and then landed man on the moon and we have sent robots to

Mars. Until Felix made his jump, these milestones were all achieved

by government sponsored space programmes. The idea of private

space tourism is a relatively new concept. Like Richard Branson's

Virgin Galactic flights, they will allow people to fly into the

earth's atmosphere and experience weightlessness for six minutes. But

if you want more than a short trip into space and then head to the

Isle of Man. They do things differently. They have big

ambitions. According to analysts, it has become the fourth most

likely nations to return someone to the moon. It seems unlikely, but

with government backing it has become the leading place in Europe

for space business. This is a frame from a Soviet space station that

was built during the Soviet period. About seven of them have flown in

space. This company believes it can send anyone into space by using it

second-hand Russian spacecraft and paying a hefty fee. Its presence on

the island is the main reason why the Isle of Man is rated one of the

most likely nations to return to the moon. The people who buy this

expedition will have to tell us how long have they would like to stay

there and exactly where they would like to go. It is a private

expedition just like to the South Pacific in the last century.

are the people who will go on these trips? I wish I knew their names.

We had a market study down and they told us that there were 29 people,

in their opinion, he would go in the next ten years, so that is

about three people per year and that is what we can handle. The

first one is going to be the most difficult because it is new. It

will either be a government who will have their astronauts go to

the moon or it will be a private individual or individuals who want

to fly there in the spirit of exploration. You get to see the

moon, you get to see the earth and you will even get to see both of

them at the same time. This is our capsule which has already flowing

into space. It went up and stayed there for one month. It was in

space for a month and it landed and came back down and it was

relaunched again. It is a little space shuttle. It is small. I took

the opportunity to step inside of this surprisingly spacious quarters

for the astronauts. Just go up that ladder and stick your head end.

This is amazing. It is really a DoE. How far could they go? This

spacecraft would go approximately 60,000 miles beyond the moon. This

is further than any a human being has ever been. Only 28 people have

been to the moon and no one has been 6 in thick -- significantly

further than that. Someone on a commercial space flight will go

further than any of human being has done, then? Do not expect to see

these trips in your local travel agent, the price tag is spitting at

an astronomical �100 million. -- fitting.

You may think that businesses were drawn to the island because of

corporation tax cuts, but it must offer more because it is now half

a... This range of companies is what contributes to the incredible

Isle of Man story. This is a polishing lap. He Helmut Kessler

has been here for 40 years and thinks it is ideally placed for

space exploration. His company's lenses were used on the curiosity

Rover which landed on the surface of Mars in the Aegean and is

currently exploring of the Martian surface. The optics we made went

into one of the lasers. They will see what is going on and what is in

of the soil. They will look for life on Mars. The optics look

fairly unremarkable compared to some of the other optics we do.

Just to clarify, made in the Isle of Man is an optic which is

currently on Mars looking for a life there? That is correct. It has

travelled a long way and is probably the furthest any Manx made

product has been exported. It is very exciting for us and for our

work for us to be able to contribute to a mission like that.

It traces of life or former life were discovered on Mars it would be

the first time in a human history that extra-terrestrial life has

been proven. It is easy to see why the government on the Isle of Man

is backing the space business, it is worth billions of pounds. If you

look at the projected turnover for the company is based on the Isle of

Man, it has been estimated to be in excess of �1.7 billion over the

last eight years it has brought in a �36 million in Exchequer benefits.

It has created jobs and help diversify the economy. We have an

amazing collection of companies on the Isle of Man, satellite

operating companies, the first International Institute of Space

commas, so it is not just a one horse show, we had many aspects to

our industry. That growth has led to the European Space University to

base part of their course on the island. These graduates hope to one

day take part in future space missions and they will have the

Isle of Man to thank for their training. In order for the space

business to take off in the Isle of Man are they still need to find

that first special Astra not. have always been people that wanted

to do something for humanity and the exploration of space is an

activity that humanity will do and the people that do it will be

remembered for ever. So if everything goes to plan, it will be

a small step for man but one giant leap for the Isle of Mankind. I am