24.Hours.In.Police.Custody.S00E03.The.Home.County.Cartel.Part.1
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00:00I have been a surveillance operator for 32, coming up 33 years.
00:28For that duration, I have been in close proximity of some really, really, really nasty people.
00:44I think the type of people that we follow, we all know that they're dangerous.
00:52What they are trying to achieve is very detrimental to society.
01:02I have seen what drugs can do at the bottom end.
01:12And the people that are living at the top of the chain that are reaping the benefits
01:15from it never see the kids that are dying from it.
01:21And that annoys me.
01:28I retire very shortly.
01:30This is going to be my last operation.
01:37This is your opportunity to talk to me.
01:46They have lifted prints, are they going to be yours?
01:50Every minute that's taken away, there's evidence you're losing.
02:20Hello, driver, passport and CMR, please.
02:33OK, UK border force.
02:35This was loaded in Holland, in the Netherlands?
02:39Netherlands.
02:40OK.
02:41Did you see loading?
02:42No.
02:43No?
02:44Can I get you to go just to lane number four, please, on the left-hand side?
02:47I'm going to bring these to you over there, OK?
03:14It's even worse than I thought.
03:18In the back, we were able to identify what that consignment was.
03:22It was actually two pallets, two pallets of spider catchers,
03:25which seems a rather odd commodity.
03:27Actually, in the first pallet we looked at, three of the boxes had heroin in.
03:32So have you tested it yet?
03:33Yeah.
03:34Identification kit, it came back as heroin.
03:36And how much in total do you think you've got?
03:40There appears to be 45 kilograms.
03:48With the authorities aware of an attempt to smuggle
03:50over a million pounds worth of heroin into the UK...
03:59..the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit begin an investigation
04:03to uncover who is behind the importation.
04:06Good morning and welcome to Operation Prepper.
04:09I'm DCI Trevor Davidson from Ursu.
04:12This investigation has come to light following a seizure
04:15of 40 to 45 kilos of heroin by Border Force,
04:19which was hidden inside, as you can see here,
04:21a shipment of spider catchers and originated in Holland.
04:29And that was destined for a location in Hunsdon, Little Samuel's Farm.
04:34We now have control of that load
04:36and we intend to deliver that package to its destination
04:39with a view to identifying who is going to receive that
04:42and who will be involved in the onward supply.
04:45At this time, there's no subjects that have been identified in this operation
04:49and, as such, the risk level is unknown.
04:55So Ursu exists to catch the most serious criminals
04:58and the most dangerous criminals.
05:01You're up against people that are putting the most effort into not getting caught.
05:11Under close observation,
05:13the shipment is authorised to travel to its intended destination.
05:32EXPLOSION
05:37My team is predominantly a surveillance team,
05:40so my officers can't be identified
05:42because they are up close to criminals every day.
05:46PHONE RINGS
05:48Yeah, hello?
05:52Excellent. Good work.
05:54I don't want to intervene until those packages are open,
05:57but if you can brief any cars or vans going in and out
06:00from now on, we need the registration so we can run that through ANPRs.
06:23The criminals we're looking at are really hard to catch
06:26and they've got methods in place to avoid being caught.
06:31So it needs that whole range of tactics
06:33that are beyond the scope of normal policing.
06:37To reveal who is receiving the drugs,
06:40Ursu is given special authority
06:42to closely monitor the shipment using audio and visual equipment.
06:46EXPLOSION
06:56ETA for delivery is ten minutes.
07:16EXPLOSION
07:38Oh, here we are. I think the van's turning up.
07:41Right, this is the main bit.
07:47BEEPING
07:53Doors to the van have been opened.
07:57Yes, doors to the van have been opened.
08:03Just tell me when you're ready to go.
08:05Just pull it out, I need some paper.
08:08I'm going to go with you.
08:10Go further.
08:12Yeah, can't keep on...
08:17See you again.
08:22When you do call that strike, there's definitely pressure.
08:25You've got literally ten, maybe 20 people at the end of the radio
08:29all waiting for you to make the call.
08:31All of them sort of probably starting to think it should be now,
08:34it should be now, and you're holding off for a bit more evidence.
08:47Both pallets in one. Good.
08:50Both pallets are in building one.
08:52Yeah, I've just looked at the company's house, Happy Days Camp.
08:55Cool. Could be a front.
08:57Might not be a real company.
09:16BEEPING
09:22They're opening the box.
09:41Intel suggests the pallets are being dismantled,
09:44the boxes are being taken off.
09:55And that's it.
10:07They might spread them out there, I'm not sure.
10:15Audio's gone dead, so I think we can enforce at this point.
10:19It's gone dead, so you might want to be pretty sharpish.
10:22Strike, strike, strike.
10:24Straight into the whitewash, yeah?
10:26Yeah.
10:44Entering the compound.
10:48Watch the doors, watch the doors.
10:55Police officer, stay where you are!
10:57Show me your fucking hands! Get your hands here!
10:59Give me your hands!
11:01Show me your hands! Turn around!
11:04Turn around!
11:09Other hand.
11:11Bend it.
11:14Oh.
11:20Show yourselves!
11:22Anyone else here?
11:24Anybody else here?
11:26Two men are under arrest after taking delivery of 45 kilos of heroin...
11:30Other hand.
11:32Anyone else in here? No, just you.
11:34..while being live monitored by a covert police operation.
11:38Forward.
11:44Strike's gone in, mate. They're in.
11:50What's your name, mate?
11:52Richard.
11:56What's your name?
11:58Tom.
12:00Right. Got anything on you that's sharp?
12:02No.
12:04No?
12:06Whereabouts?
12:08In there, yeah?
12:15Did they have it to you?
12:17Yeah, they did to me, yeah.
12:19Someone had a plain red on, didn't they?
12:21It's all clear, is it, isn't it?
12:23Yeah.
12:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.
12:32We've got an EncroChat phone, which is unlocked.
12:35Oh, fantastic.
12:37And there's a tool for a tracker on the chat of it.
12:40Right. In fact, they've got encrypted phones,
12:43you don't have Encro phones unless you're into something moody, do you?
12:49So, was it open, was it? Yeah.
12:51Oh, blimey. Open, and then he's...
12:53Thank God he's recorded the bloody thing.
12:55So it looks like Richard is talking to someone called Jaguar Palace.
12:59Messages are not going through, mate.
13:01Your messages did not go through for an hour.
13:03Hello, hi, still waiting.
13:05Hey, Luton's just... A Luton van has just turned up.
13:08Could be us, let us know in five.
13:10OK, keep on your toes.
13:12So someone's reporting back to this other person about vans turning up.
13:17OK, so open them up and check what's in, mate.
13:20Keep eyes open for another two.
13:22Seems to be something under product.
13:24Under product, can you ask why?
13:27Shut up, I am not joking.
13:29OK, is it a tracker?
13:31Get them all out and go put them in another car.
13:34Not one of our cars.
13:36Keep an eye out, mate.
13:38Have to be Mini for Mini. Yeah.
13:41Where's your Mini? Where?
13:43Where's the car? In there.
14:01It's a minimum 15,000 to me.
14:05Maybe that's how much they're making.
14:07Also, I think you told him when you went to see him,
14:1020K a week, every week, you would work for him only.
14:1420K a week?
14:16My God.
14:22It just locked back. It was on a timer. It locked out.
14:25I got as much as I could.
14:28What's the passcode for your phone, mate?
14:30Sorry, mate? What's the passcode for your phone?
14:32I don't know, mate. You don't know?
14:34You don't know? Is there a fingerprint for it?
14:36Or a code that you draw?
14:40You don't know? OK.
14:44Yeah, just put a seatbelt on and we're all good, mate.
14:54The ultimate aim is to aim for the top of the tree.
14:57Who is organising that whole criminal network?
15:00Because ultimately they're going to have
15:02the most careful measures in place
15:04to distance themselves from the group.
15:06They're not going to be anywhere near that particular crime
15:08when it's taking place.
15:10The more people they've got round them that will take the fall
15:12if it comes to it, the better.
15:21Officers begin a forensic search of the unit,
15:25looking for vital information
15:27that could expose who is in the wider criminal network.
15:32SIREN WAILS
15:37We're going to see if there are two cars that are in here.
15:39Yeah.
15:41And there's a photo ID of somebody in the red Fiesta
15:43called Robert Brooks. Yeah.
15:49So apparently the Fiesta's registered to Robert Brooks.
15:52Oh, right, OK. That's interesting.
15:54So show me that photo again.
15:56It shows he's a driving instructor by the looks of it.
15:59That's him, isn't it? Yeah, it looks like him.
16:02Looks a bit older now, though, doesn't he?
16:04Yeah.
16:16All right.
16:18Feel free to speak for a minute.
16:20It looks massively like a front. Yeah.
16:23We've got paperwork inside.
16:25And there's very little...
16:27There's a bank statement for the business account
16:30showing no activity in June and July.
16:33The second male who had the encrotes
16:35got a Happy Days campers T-shirt on.
16:38It's ironic. He's not going to be happy today, is he?
16:41Yeah. Very unhappy. Yeah.
16:49Police head to search the home of one of the men under arrest,
16:52Richard Campbell,
16:54looking for leads that will uncover how the group operates
16:57and the identity of Jaguar Palace.
17:03Quite nice, isn't it?
17:15Can you open the door, please?
17:17Does Richard live here?
17:19Richard. Campbell.
17:21Yeah? Yeah. Can we come in?
17:23Thanks very much.
17:25All right? My colleagues are just going to have to go upstairs
17:27and make sure there's no-one else here, OK?
17:29Yeah, of course. Go, go, go.
17:41DOORBELL RINGS
17:45Please can you state your full name, date of birth?
17:48Richard Campbell.
17:50My name's Tomash...
17:53What's next?
17:55Tell me about Happy Days Camping.
17:58No comment.
18:00Is this your business? No comment.
18:02If not, whose business is it?
18:04No comment.
18:06Is it Richard that's in charge?
18:08Yeah.
18:12Is there anything in the house you think I need to know about?
18:15No. No? OK.
18:17Have you got any... Is there any large amounts of cash in the house?
18:20No. Is there any drugs in the house?
18:22No. No? OK, I'll have to ask.
18:24OK. I'll have to ask.
18:26When you were arrested, a phone was seized from your person.
18:30That phone's an Encro phone.
18:32It's a highly encrypted, expensive phone.
18:34Who were you talking to?
18:36No comment.
18:38What was this conversation about?
18:40No comment.
18:42The drug's been placed in the boot of the Mini.
18:45The chat on the Encro phone supports this
18:48and suggests that these drugs needed to be moved on quickly.
18:51All of this suggests that you're deeply involved
18:54with the importation of carceral drugs.
18:57If I am wrong, tell me.
19:00No comment.
19:13What does he do for a living at the Mini? Where does he work?
19:16He works at Hertford.
19:18Right.
19:20It's a company, a hire company.
19:22Ah, right.
19:24Is he employed there, or is it just cash-in shopping?
19:26No, his friend...
19:28It's his friend's place, and he just goes there.
19:31Yeah.
19:33When the mate at home's go out and come in, he sort of...
19:36It's a lot of seasonal stuff.
19:38Who's his friend? Who's his mate that runs the place?
19:41Robert Brooks.
19:43Robert Brooks? Yeah.
19:46You haven't got a number, then?
19:50Oh, I see.
19:52Yeah, I might as well do that, eh?
19:58Don't worry about it, I understand.
20:00OK, marvellous. Yeah.
20:04Oh, they are?
20:08PHONE RINGS
20:11Hello?
20:13Oh, I'm all right, mate, I'm all right. How are you?
20:16Yeah, good, good. Mate, we're at this address.
20:18It is his home address?
20:20Well, she's got a see-through. She just has absolutely no idea what is going on.
20:24Mate, she says that a fellow works at that location we're at today.
20:28A couple were coming in to hire a camper van.
20:30That's what he's told her.
20:32He works for Robert Brooks.
20:34They're in Spain at the moment on holiday.
20:37OK.
20:39The officer who filmed the encro, there is talk of Spain on that encro,
20:44and that might tally up.
20:46All right, mate, happy days. I'll speak to you in a little while. Bye, mate.
21:05Oh, God.
21:07Where was that?
21:16How much do you think there is? Three or four grand?
21:19Five grand.
21:38Hello? Hello?
21:46OK.
21:57Excellent.
22:08Right. I've got a bit of an update for you.
22:10Go on.
22:12So, this is from the active Dutch authorities.
22:14These are the two pallets that were put on hold by the company,
22:17and we're inside the boxes where the spider catches again.
22:19Is that what it's saying? Yeah, yeah.
22:21But when you open it up, there's a kilo of coke inside.
22:24They've arrested someone, Peter Manson, and they've sent us this as well.
22:28Oh, they got the encro thing as well? Yeah.
22:31And they got in his phone.
22:33But look who he's talking to.
22:36And that's the same person Richard Coward...
22:38I love speaking to, yeah.
22:40So, whoever he is, he's bloody important,
22:42cos he's obviously speaking to everyone,
22:44and he seems to be co-ordinating it.
22:47There's that Spanish again as well, isn't there? Yeah.
22:50And do we know how many previous deliveries have been made
22:53to Little St Louis Farm from the same companies in Holland?
22:56We do.
22:58So, the legitimate company in the middle that have been dealing with us
23:01has sent us this spreadsheet.
23:03These are all the previous deliveries from the same companies
23:07that have sent drugs previous to our enforcement.
23:10And when you look at the dates, it is almost weekly,
23:13which kind of goes with the encro conversations
23:16of how much they're making per week.
23:18Yeah. And how many in total, sorry?
23:2037. So, what I've done, it's a little bit crude,
23:23but if they were all the same,
23:25you're looking at, well, 1.8 tonnes of Class A
23:29for the whole conspiracy period.
23:32There's a lot of drugs. It's a hell of a lot of drugs.
23:37When you do these sums and sort of estimate the actual scope of the job,
23:42it's...it's huge.
23:44Police believe there's a large-scale conspiracy
23:47behind the delivery of the drugs.
23:49It's one of the biggest clients in England.
23:51It's a hidden conspiracy.
23:53My son was born on the day before this.
23:56So, the police are checking the blood in the blood vessels
23:59of his son in order to find out
24:02whether or not he is clearly on drugs.
24:04Police believe Robert Brooks is the leader in a conspiracy to import 58 million pounds
24:19worth of drugs.
24:22Ursu closely monitor his movements as he returns to the UK.
24:31This is a really intrusive tactic to follow people around, listen to their conversations
24:35in cafes, take pictures of people.
24:38And putting a surveillance team on the road for a protracted period of time costs a lot
24:41of money, so it needs to be targeted against the most dangerous criminals and the most
24:45serious criminals.
24:46He's got his sunglasses on now, look.
25:02Just come off a volley, put my sunglasses on.
25:21So at PREPA we get 40 kilos of heroin coming to the UK, and then we go through an arrest
25:27phase.
25:28We then get two subjects charged, put before court, both remanded?
25:31Yeah, both remanded.
25:32We don't often get that level of importation into our region, and the bit I just wanted
25:36to tease through with you is how are we going to understand the wider organised crime group
25:40picture and what are the next steps?
25:42Okay, so you obviously know about the two that were remanded, so bits and bobs we've
25:47done around the scene have led us to believe that Robert Brooks may be sitting above Richard
25:53Campbell or operated as part of the same group as Richard Campbell.
25:56There's also an inference from the telephone download where we did the scene that the person
26:01that Campbell was communicating with about the drugs coming into the country was in
26:05Spain, and we've now done enquiries and established that Robert was in Spain, so we've formed
26:11that opinion that he's upstream or at least working alongside Campbell, and now we're
26:16starting to look into their criminal network and try and understand what their role is,
26:20if they're just a team of people importing drugs on behalf of different OCGs, or if they're
26:25involved in an OCG in their own right, that isn't clear at the moment.
26:29Okay, so I guess next stage, develop the intel picture, look for the opportunities and use
26:36that as a bit of a launch pad.
26:37Yeah, definitely.
26:38Is that a fair summary?
26:39Yes.
26:40I think it'll either be they're going to hide it now because it's such a big seizure, or
26:43they'll have to restructure and try and set it all back up and we should be in a good
26:46place to try and see that if that happens.
26:59There's a lot of background done prior to every operation, so you have some idea of
27:10what you're dealing with, but mostly you go out with pretty much an open book, blank canvas,
27:17call it what you will, and you just build on that.
27:21You want to get as much under their skin as you possibly can, what they do, if they've
27:24got any habits, where do they go, what do they do?
27:32Sat within vehicle.
27:43PSB leaning across towards the centre console, and now sits back up.
27:55It's not always obvious where people sit within the organised crime group.
28:03There are some that are very sophisticated and very good at what they do.
28:08If you're living an ordinary lifestyle and knocking about in an ordinary car, doing ordinary
28:13things that everyday people would do, you are not going to attract attention.
28:19So there is a real sort of cat and mouse feeling about it.
28:36Standby.
28:37That's out the range, walking, walking from the range, generally back towards the vehicle.
28:49Now at the vehicle.
29:05When you look at those encroachs, the actual conversation, he's earning 15 grand an importation,
29:10and if he's doing one of those every couple of weeks, he's earning more than I'm earning
29:15in a couple of weeks, or in a year, in a couple of weeks.
29:18He's definitely showing some signs of having some wealth though, isn't he?
29:22Yeah.
29:23Because he's like, in his golf society, he's got that house in Spain.
29:29I don't know how we're going to get anything more on Brooks.
29:31We need him to do something more.
29:33Do we think then that the Jaguar Palace is a person or a group?
29:37A person.
29:38Definitely a person.
29:40The only way we're going to really get to the bottom of that is if Brooks does have
29:45some further meetings with people or discuss it again with somebody else.
29:49Yeah.
29:51At the point we decide to show a hand, we need to have real confidence that we've got
29:54what we need, that we're over that threshold to make sure we can lock them up.
29:57It can be really harmful for some of our jobs if we aren't able to remind them straight
30:02into custody.
30:03So we need to make sure with CPS that we're at a point that we're all comfortable, we've
30:07got enough evidence to lock them up properly the first time we arrest them.
30:14Due to the scale of the drug's importation, a specialist lawyer works alongside Ursu throughout
30:19the investigation to advise on strategy.
30:24So at this point we've got those persons arrested and we're relatively content, but we've then
30:29got this problem with Robert Brooks, the directors of this company, and we then do a section
30:35at Richard Campbell's house and his partner indicates that Richard Campbell was really
30:40close friends with Robert Brooks.
30:42And when we start looking through the messages, there's a few messages that give weight to
30:46the fact that Robert Brooks is actually involved.
30:48So first of all, the person on the other end of the encrypted messaging is saying, I'm
30:53still in Spain on holiday at the moment, and there's messages specifically to say they
30:58discover that there's a police wire in there.
31:02Hopefully at that point, Robert Brooks, or we think it's Robert Brooks directing it,
31:05says get the drugs out of the packages and put them in the cars, but not one of our cars.
31:10And his car is in the yard at that time, a Ford Fiesta.
31:14So we're suggesting that he's trying to distance himself from the drugs and doesn't want the
31:19drugs to be found in his vehicle.
31:21Yeah, no, I think that's helpful.
31:22Yeah.
31:23I think the main issue is going to be really attribution of those messages to Brooks, isn't it?
31:27To firm up more of a hands-on approach to the organisation of what's going on here.
31:33Yeah, I suppose we are really torn.
31:36Have we got enough to run it and have a go?
31:38At the moment, your evidence is at its best circumstantial, isn't it, really?
31:43I mean, it's a shame we can't get more firmer links with the phone work in terms of trying
31:50to identify him as being somebody more significant in the OCG.
31:55I would also expect to see their customer, who the onward supply chain is.
31:59I don't know if you clearly haven't come across anything that would allude to that.
32:04I don't think it's like a drugs job where you go and meet loads of customers.
32:07They may be working for two individuals, for example, who then they're responsible for
32:12actually sending it up to loads of OCGs.
32:14I mean, it sounds as though they're going to wait until the dust settles before they're
32:17going to take any proactive action in any event.
32:19But maybe the best thing is to let it run its course for the next couple of weeks and
32:23review where we are with them.
32:24And then I think it will be an operational decision on your part in terms of whether
32:27you continue along that route or whether you park it for a while and see what happens.
32:33I'm going to look for a phone now, aren't I?
32:54Ursu continued to monitor Robert Brooks for signs of criminal activity.
33:03Ursu continued to monitor Robert Brooks for signs of criminal activity.
33:16It's paying cash.
33:19246812468224
33:28240, I guess.
33:33246812468224
33:56When you're doing surveillance, you're constantly rolling through your mind where you are, what
34:00you're doing, who's looking at me.
34:03Who's looking at them?
34:08Subject, out, out, out.
34:16Walking generally back towards the area of the home address.
34:21You should always have some sort of reason for being there.
34:24And that's where the acting natural comes in.
34:28The moment you start getting nervous, you go into the realms of unnatural behaviour
34:32and that will pick you out.
34:41Walking together, in conversation.
34:50The criminals that we look at are definitely smarter than the average criminal.
34:55They're obviously a bit older, a bit wiser, a bit more experienced and they're now much
34:59more clued up about how they go about their business and making sure they don't get those
35:03big sentences at the end of the day.
35:05So what they decide to do at any given moment is really unpredictable.
35:09We're constantly adapting our tactics depending on what we see in front of us.
35:25SIREN WAILS
35:39How's it going?
35:40Yeah, good, you?
35:42So, we're not quite sure exactly what's happened but Brooks, he's gone to Hertford Police
35:46Station to try and hand himself in.
35:48So what, he's not?
35:49He's probably wondering why the hell he's not being nipped or why no-one seems to be
35:52interested in him and then...
35:54The thing is, he's got to know as well that he's the registered keeper of that business.
35:57He's got to have been expecting it almost since we did the warrant.
36:11I reckon that's unlikely.
36:24..and he's gone.
36:25So I've spoken to the officer who spoke to him and I've got Brooks's number now so I'm
36:30just going to give him a call probably in a couple of days and get him to come into
36:34Hatfield in a week or so, just trying to play it down a bit.
36:37Yeah, it'd be good to make him think that we're not that bothered and it's not a priority
36:42to get him in.
36:43Because he's going to be really keen to try and establish how much we know already, isn't
36:47he?
36:48Definitely.
36:54GUNSHOT
37:03So you're happy with what we're doing in the interviews?
37:05Yes.
37:06Pretty happy.
37:07We'll just cover whatever you want, like, reactively.
37:09Anything that we've found out either abroad or with the farm owners or whatever else is
37:14all fine, but I think we just need to keep clear of anything proactive and not slipping
37:18up about the fact that we've done anything around him at all.
37:21I think the key to the whole thing is when he leaves the building he needs to think,
37:24like, that is the end of it.
37:25So, unless there's a real reason to, I think no bail is the way to go.
37:29I'm not sure they'd agree to it anyway because his hand was out there.
37:32Yeah, OK.
37:33Get a contact number just because it sounds a bit better that we'll just give him a bail
37:36when we're finished rather than, like, we're going to visit again because we definitely
37:39want him to walk away thinking, that's it, now I'm done, they haven't got enough to charge
37:43me, I can carry about my business.
37:51DOORBELL RINGS
37:55Do you want to do that now?
37:59Mr Brooks, Damon Rees, I, Robert Brooks, deny knowledge and or involvement in a conspiracy
38:04to import car safe drugs.
38:07I have largely been using unit 5 at Little Samuel's Farm to store my vehicles and work
38:12on them.
38:14My knowledge of Richard Campbell is as that of him and I being on-off acquaintances who
38:20have a liking of VW camper vans.
38:24With regard to Mr Wozniak, I believe I may have met him twice when he has visited Mr
38:30Campbell at the union.
38:32I believe he's Mr Campbell's gardener.
38:35I have nothing more to say at this time and I will now make no comment to your question.
38:41I know you've said in your statement here, prepared statement, that you've got no knowledge
38:47of that.
38:49Do you have any involvement in that delivery?
38:52No comment.
38:55What have you got to say about any of this?
38:57No comment.
38:58Is there anything that you need to tell us now?
39:01No comment.
39:02OK.
39:04Right, I've got no further questions, Robert, and I'm going to turn the tape on.
39:10How did you get on?
39:13He does know Richard Campbell because they've got a joint interest in VW campers and Thomas
39:20Wozniak, he said he's met maybe twice and thinks he's Richard Campbell's gardener.
39:26His gardener?
39:27Yeah.
39:28Right, an actual gardener?
39:29Well, allegedly, yeah.
39:31OK.
39:33OK, well, I'll be interested to see you out there.
39:37OK.
39:39OK, well, I'll be interested to see how he responds when he leaves.
39:50Intelligence reveals Robert Brooks has not worked in the two months since he returned
39:54from Spain.
39:56Ursu continued to covertly monitor his movements, for any sign that he's rebuilding the spider
40:01catcher drugs importation.
40:03Subject's towards the sliding door to the side of the vehicle.
40:09Looks like he's removing items from within.
40:12He's now walking, walking with the golf trolley.
40:17Subject wears a grey coloured long-sleeved top, dark trousers.
40:33He's now walking, walking, walking with the golf trolley.
40:58He looks quite relaxed, doesn't appear to be too bothered.
41:03Surveillance can be really frustrating and it tends to be after you seize a certain amount
41:09of commodity or make some arrests.
41:11At that point, generally speaking, that crime group is going to lay low.
41:22The fear is you could set about a really long investigation which costs loads of money with
41:27loads of resourcing implications and you don't get that evidence you need and you never get
41:32that feeling of satisfaction that you've caught the whole crime group.
41:36I've got to be making that decision, is my team better placed now to target a new crime
41:40group or a new threat somewhere else?
41:42So it's constantly working out how effective we're being to make sure I'm getting the most
41:46out of that surveillance team.
41:48There we go, let's get this, a year, executive gold 3,000, silver 2,000, fuck.
42:08See he's paid some money for that, hasn't he?
42:11Yes.
42:12If they're a half-decent mega gold club plus that goat trolley, got to be close to a grand
42:18he's pushing around there, plus his membership.
42:27With the suspect they believe to be Jaguar Palace showing no signs of reorganising his
42:32drug operation, the detectives look for alternative ways to prove Robert Brooks' involvement in
42:38the conspiracy.
42:57Officers download a dash cam that was seized from his car during the search of Happy Days
43:01campers, his front business.
43:04They hope it will reveal his movements in the months leading up to the raid.
43:08Starting normal recording.
43:11Brooks.
43:12Interesting, so he's started the recording, like if you look, he's got his key there and
43:21he's locked the exit.
43:22Starting normal recording.
43:24So whenever he locks it, it looks like it starts recording, so maybe it's like a security
43:30thing to make sure people don't like bump into you when it's parked.
43:42The 14th of August, two pallets were delivered at 12.15 to Little Samuel's Farm, so I'd be
43:53interested to see if this one is actually here, and if it is you should be able to.
44:21So what have you got?
44:35Looks like there's a car arriving, because there's Campbell.
44:40This is from the car?
44:41Yeah, this is the dash cam from the car, in the back of the car, and this Audi A5 arrives.
44:51Straight into the garage.
44:54And the 14th is a delivery day, isn't it?
44:56Yeah.
44:57So the delivery notice, paperwork, says there's one at 12.15, so this is ten minutes after.
45:10And they're shutting the club.
45:12Straight in there, shutters are down.
45:16I can't quite believe they've been stupid enough to leave this on.
45:25It's got to be a customer, isn't it?
45:26It's got to be, isn't it?
45:27It's got to be.
45:28It's really not what you would expect for a 40 kilo drug dealer, you know?
45:52My ideal point to get to would be to firmly be able to say, you are Jaguar Palace.
45:58All we've got to do is put a bloody Encro in his hand.
46:02Mr Brooks, it's the police, can you open the door please?
46:05Hello?
46:06Strike, strike, strike.
46:10Open the door now!
46:12Open the fucking door!
46:16And the pursuit continues same time tomorrow at nine, but if that's too long to wait, you
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