Police S01E02 Detective Constables

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Police S01E02 Detective Constables
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00:44Morning.
00:46Morning.
00:48Who took the actual form the other day there regarding this driving licence?
00:52What?
00:54Come up here a minute, please.
00:56Can we take a statement from them tonight?
01:00Give us the statement for a moment.
01:04Do you know what we're talking about?
01:06A chap coming with a driving licence.
01:08The name of?
01:10Er, Washington, I guess.
01:12Just clear the decks.
01:14There you are.
01:20Right, this was on the 20...
01:2222nd, is that right?
01:24When should he have brought the car back?
01:26Well, it was supposed to be back from London.
01:28The 25th.
01:30The 25th, so that's three days.
01:34How would you describe him?
01:36Well, he wasn't... I was a bit suspicious anyway,
01:38about him, because, er,
01:40he didn't look that respectable, I suppose.
01:42And, er...
01:44Well, I'm not sure about the licence.
01:46I did check the signatures, and I don't know whether
01:48he found it unsigned and then signed it or something.
01:50Yeah.
01:52But, er, he completed all of the forms.
01:54That's his handwriting?
01:56Yeah. The trouble is,
01:58these references, I think, in future
02:00should be phoned up when he's present.
02:02Yeah.
02:04So he gave that telephone number.
02:06When he was gone, you then made an inquiry there?
02:08They phoned up, they didn't know him,
02:10and that's when I started to get worried.
02:12And I got hold of this, um,
02:14Mr Washington's number.
02:16Yeah, the real Mr Washington.
02:18And, er...
02:20He said, oh, yes, he'd had his licence
02:22stolen from his car about a year ago.
02:24How long ago?
02:26A year, he reckons.
02:28As long ago as that?
02:30Yeah.
02:32Anyway, he came down, and he said,
02:34well, I think I know who it is, because he lives local.
02:36Well, I've seen him around anyway, this guy.
02:38The guy that did it?
02:40Oh, you've seen him before?
02:42I don't know him, I've seen him, you know,
02:44it's a passing...
02:46Do you live in...
02:48Yeah, I live in Leading, I've lived here some time,
02:50so you sort of get to know people, don't you?
02:52Definitely not one the same?
02:54Oh, no, no.
02:56Earring, you said?
02:58Yeah.
03:00Was it a stud or an earring?
03:02Well, it was one like this, without the...
03:04Just a plain earring.
03:06Which ear?
03:10His left ear, I think.
03:14So, 12 photographs.
03:16Take your time, have a good look.
03:18And if you think you recognise him,
03:20give me a number.
03:22No rush.
03:24Yeah, well, I can see it already, so...
03:28Six.
03:30Number?
03:32So, 11.40, I showed her an album
03:34containing 12 photographs.
03:3611.40.
03:38I am
03:40on
03:42Thursday.
03:4428th.
03:46Yeah, 28th of August.
03:48Deafnet.
03:50Yes.
03:52Any difference between that photograph and...
03:54Well, not there, I don't think he's got
03:56the side bits or the moustache.
03:58In other words, he's clean-shaven?
04:00Lovely.
04:02I could be checking you out for a drink later on.
04:04That's fantastic.
04:06It's fine. Right.
04:10That was easy, wasn't it?
04:12Eh?
04:14Yeah, I suppose it was.
04:18Filled with my fingernails, Charles.
04:20I know they're bitten.
04:23Where do I sign?
04:25I don't know.
04:27Right.
04:29Let's start with this one, shall we?
04:31You know where I said about
04:33I don't remember the licence?
04:35I don't, but I'd be interested to see it.
04:37Oh, yeah.
04:39To see if it's, you know, if he's signed it.
04:41We'll do that.
04:43Right. Can I have a signature?
04:45He nicks a driving licence,
04:47holds on to it for a year and has done nothing with it.
04:49I can't see that.
04:51Well, I expect he obtained it
04:53from one of the other yachts, wouldn't he?
04:55There's plenty of them around now, isn't there?
04:57We'll see what he's got to say.
05:01All right, so we can get him
05:03for dishonest handling of the driving licence.
05:05Yeah.
05:10Something about this bloke
05:12didn't report any driving licence nicks or something?
05:14Well, no. Allegedly, once his car had been screwed,
05:16he didn't see the point of telling us.
05:18He didn't think there was a lot we could do about it.
05:20So he's never done anything about it?
05:22I presume that SWAN have rung him up and said,
05:24this car that you've hired, and he's said, do what?
05:26And the only instance he can think of
05:28where his driving licence has gone is the car being screwed.
05:38Right.
05:40I'll be safe in some washing.
05:5129.
05:56Regarding a stolen driving licence that's been used.
05:59Can we come in? We've got some people with us.
06:02When did you last actually see your driving licence?
06:05When was the last time you actually saw it?
06:12Well, for all this, it got pinched, the original one.
06:15Yeah. About three months ago, yeah?
06:19Approximately, I can't...
06:23Let's put it this way. Your birthday was July 4th.
06:26You had a camera bought you for your birthday with your sister, correct?
06:30Yeah.
06:32And the camera was stolen as well at the same time.
06:34That's right. So it should have been sometime in July.
06:37July...
06:39This year? This year, yeah.
06:41And it was stolen while the car was where?
06:43In top rank?
06:48When did you return and find it broken into? How long afterwards?
06:53Two o'clock.
06:55How had you got into it? A.M.
06:57With keys, the door was open.
06:59Duplicate key had been used? Mm-hm, yeah.
07:02And what was stolen?
07:04Hang on, slow down.
07:06All right, tell me, I'll tell him.
07:08Driving licence.
07:10It was a wallet, wasn't it?
07:12Well, it was a wallet. They obviously thought money was in there.
07:14But all that was in there was my licence
07:16which was just a bit of paper.
07:18The MOT and insurance was in the glove compartment where it was tucked away.
07:21They didn't get that?
07:23So we've got a wallet containing your driving licence, a few bits and pieces.
07:26Camera and a load of photographs, holiday photographs and all that, we took them.
07:30A load of photographs.
07:32Cassettes, was there any cassettes?
07:34Um, yeah, we've got them.
07:36How many? 24 cassettes, a box full.
07:39All right, 24 cassettes. Cut in a case, yeah.
07:42Yeah.
07:45That hurt as well.
07:47Oh.
07:49Yeah, recordings from years ago and all that.
07:51Well, you say two pounds apiece, 48, 50 pounds?
07:55Yeah, yeah.
07:57Quick, isn't he? That's why he's writing, I can't write, you see.
08:01Had you signed your driving licence, the other one?
08:04Yeah.
08:06Oh, you had signed it, yeah.
08:08That's just to make sure that Maty...
08:10We haven't recovered the other driving licence, you see,
08:12but if Maty had got a hold of it unsigned,
08:15he could have popped his NECS Washington on there,
08:18SC Washington on there, and...
08:20It would have been the same, wouldn't it?
08:22It would have been all right.
08:24Now, do you know who's responsible for this?
08:26He's got a good idea. Good idea, yeah.
08:28How have you got a good idea?
08:30Going back to last, to Sunday last,
08:33somebody come up to me in Biggles Nightclub... Yeah.
08:36..and said to me, I don't know who he was,
08:38he said, is your name Stephen Washington? I said, yeah.
08:40Did you have your car broken into not too long ago?
08:42I said, I did, yeah.
08:44And apparently the guy who told me didn't like this certain bloke,
08:48and he said, well, his name's Colin Tyler, you know.
08:51Do you know Colin Tyler? Yeah, I do, yeah.
08:53Do you know what he looks like, do you? Yeah.
08:55No point in messing about with that one.
08:58Yeah, we can...
09:00That can come up later.
09:02Well, yeah, we can...
09:04No, we've got a few things on...
09:07I asked the description of the...
09:09Well, I said, what did he look like?
09:11And he said he's got short hair with an earring.
09:13You know, that's good enough for me.
09:15Where does the Colin hang out, any idea?
09:18Yeah, he hangs about in town. Yeah.
09:20In Cooper's Wine Bar.
09:21That's the last time I seen him, about three weeks ago.
09:24Right, well, it looks like he's in Exeter,
09:26or wherever he made the phone call from.
09:28Leave it with us.
09:29Were they like, we'll get something back for you?
09:31He may well have sold it in a pub, you know.
09:33I think the only thing we're going to get back is a driving licence.
09:36But leave it with us.
09:37No, Pep, Fon and Swan are more interested in their car.
09:40Yes.
09:41Right, yes, it's just a little bit...
09:45Bye-bye.
09:46Bye-bye, mate. Cheers.
09:47All right.
09:48OK.
09:51So what pub have I seen him in?
09:54I don't know.
09:55There's probably one with me somewhere.
09:58Which?
09:59Don't go to that many pubs.
10:01Ah, Clifton Arms.
10:06What are you doing, mate?
10:09He got in the Clifton Arms, didn't he?
10:11Zoom out to the pub, because it's only, oh, five miles down the road.
10:15See John and Jill, the landlord and landlady.
10:18Show them the picture. Yeah.
10:20And I'm sure it's him.
10:22Now, if he goes miss for a few days,
10:24at least we've got one of his local pubs that can give us a bell or anything
10:27and we'll get him that way. Oh, yeah.
10:29I know what's going to happen. I'll play cricket on Sunday and he'll walk in.
10:33Without the moustache.
10:37Hello.
10:39Hello.
10:40Have we seen him in here?
10:42That's the reason I've come all the way out here.
10:44I'm positive I've seen him in here drinking.
10:46Name rings a bell.
10:51Never mind.
10:53Look, take away the sideburns, take away the moustache.
10:56Very short-haired. I'm sure that's the one I see in here on a Sunday.
11:02He does look familiar.
11:07It's just that I'm after him, you see.
11:09And I thought, where have I seen him, where have I seen him?
11:12And it suddenly clicked in here on a Sunday after cricket.
11:17Short hair. Yeah.
11:19Yes, clean-shaven. Yeah.
11:21Clean-shaven.
11:23Skinhead-ish.
11:26The eyes, actually. And the earring.
11:30He's got very piercing, light eyes.
11:33That's fine.
11:35He's been in the lounge bar.
11:37Yes, he looks very familiar.
11:39That's all I'm after.
11:41Lovely stuff. Good.
11:43Do you want a drink?
11:46Good.
11:47What do you want?
11:48Half a lager.
11:49Half a lager.
11:50Half a lager.
11:51Cheers.
11:52And a pint of shandy, please.
11:55Bitter.
11:56With a handle.
11:57Bitter.
11:58Bitter or mild.
11:59The main thing is, if you don't take that, what will you run after, is that?
12:03Yes, of course.
12:04Half a bitter.
12:05No, a pint of bitter shandy, please.
12:07In a handle.
12:08Cheers.
12:09What's his name?
12:11What's his name?
12:13Are they the same?
12:15Yes.
12:16Right.
12:17Yes.
12:18You see, the only reason I'm saying that is I feel I've seen him in here.
12:21He has been in here.
12:22I'm sure it's him.
12:23He's been here before.
12:24Clean-shaven, though, eh?
12:25Yeah, clean-shaven.
12:26I think you'll find his hair's what they call...
12:28Well, it's more like a...
12:30He's a bit of a punk.
12:31The skinhead.
12:32He's tall, yeah.
12:34Do you know his name?
12:35If I said a name, would you know it?
12:37Yes, say a name.
12:38Colin Tyrer.
12:39Tyler.
12:40No.
12:42Must be a double, then.
12:43Must be a double.
12:44It could be that.
12:45It could be.
12:46There is a guy that comes in here who's so like that, it's not true.
13:04Some of the old looks in there.
13:06Look at the paintwork.
13:07Bloody hell.
13:23What do you think, sir?
13:26Absolutely minimalistic.
13:27Eh?
13:28Absolutely minimalistic.
13:29See the paintwork?
13:30Yeah, it's very gringy.
13:33I'll give it a try.
13:35Good day, mate.
13:36Ah!
13:37Very good day.
13:39Who's living there?
13:4036.
13:41Yeah, yeah.
13:42From Renning CID.
13:43Yeah.
13:44You're from Woodley, aren't you?
13:47Yeah, used to be.
13:48Come here, sit.
13:49Good girl.
13:50Ask Colin, any idea where he is?
13:52Er...
13:53Brighton, last I heard.
13:54Brighton?
13:55Exeter, last we heard.
13:57Well, maybe.
13:58I don't know.
14:00When's he due back?
14:01He ain't.
14:02He ain't? He don't live here no more?
14:03Where's he moved to?
14:04Dunno.
14:06Who's his girlfriend, anyway?
14:08Only know her first name, don't know her last name.
14:10What's her first name?
14:12I don't know, Karen, Collette, something like that.
14:15Karen, Collette, something like that.
14:17Yeah.
14:18Don't see her a lot.
14:19Yeah.
14:20Penny, sit down.
14:22So he's moved on from here?
14:23When was he last here, then?
14:24Last week.
14:25I mean, he's moved on cos he wants to.
14:27You haven't had a barney, anything like that?
14:29No, he's just gone.
14:30Moves around a bit, does he?
14:31I dunno.
14:33Dunno, not well.
14:34Cos I don't want him coming back here every other day looking for him.
14:37He'll find him here.
14:40Who do you live here with, then?
14:41My missus.
14:42So that's you and your wife live there, and he was sort of lodging with you?
14:45Yeah.
14:48And you are, Mr...?
14:49Wood.
14:50Mr. Wood.
14:51How long did he sort of stay here?
14:55I don't know, couple of months.
14:57Couple of months, with his missus, with his girlfriend?
14:59Sometimes.
15:00Sometimes.
15:01Yeah.
15:02And it seems unusual that you don't know her name properly.
15:05Well, she comes, she went.
15:09Yeah.
15:11How's your brother getting on?
15:13I dunno, you should know. You lot put him away.
15:15I didn't put him away.
15:17We put him away?
15:18Yeah.
15:19Did he break the law?
15:20Might have done.
15:21Well, it's not our fault for putting him away, then, is it?
15:24Charlie's. That's Charlie, isn't it, your brother?
15:26Yeah.
15:27Yeah.
15:28Oh, he's getting on well with old Charlie. He's all right, is he?
15:31Yeah, he's always all right.
15:32We put him away?
15:33You couldn't break the law, you wouldn't have done, then, would you?
15:35Well, what you're asking me is they'll put somebody else away, innit?
15:38Come on, Doug.
15:39Well, it shouldn't break the law, should it?
15:41Well, whatever he's done, nothing to do with me, is it?
15:43I said it was.
15:45Yeah, we'll find him.
15:46Thanks very much for your help.
15:47Very kind of you.
15:48Cheers, mate.
15:59Oh!
16:03Hello.
16:06Oh, he's out.
16:08It's the ID control. Are you calling the DC cab, over?
16:11Yes, I am. Is he there, over?
16:14Yeah. Can you pass the message, over?
16:16Yes, two things.
16:17From his office, Mr Webb wants to see him urgently, apparently.
16:20And secondly, could he phone BBC on a 385, over?
16:26Yeah, will do. Stand by.
16:29Phone BBC on 385?
16:31Well, we'll go in. Mr Webb wants to see me.
16:33Well, the BBC's here.
16:35Give me a left.
16:37OK, left.
16:39And what Mr Webb wants?
16:40I know what it's about.
16:42Those tapes.
16:49So our man is on the trot?
16:52Yes.
16:55Circulation required.
16:59Well, we can do a complete...
17:01Can you do the door?
17:02Pardon me, please.
17:03Yeah, I need a mezzanine door, over.
17:11I'm coming home.
17:17It's like going into the black hole of Calcutta, isn't it?
17:22Place of no return.
17:24Abandon hopeful ye who enter here.
17:35Those are perfectly all right, but when you carry them,
17:37the photographs jump out all over the place.
17:39And as I opened up and laid it in front of her,
17:41there was one or two jumbled, and I just moved them,
17:43and I think I moved number six.
17:45And she said, oh, I can see it immediately.
17:47I said, well, take a long, hard look.
17:49I can see it, number six.
17:51I can see it, number six, and I thought, oh, I don't know.
17:54Well, I'm sure I moved it, you see, and I don't want to be...
17:57I thought that I was influenced.
18:00I put this big red line round it.
18:02It said there's 12 photographs, choose the one you want.
18:05Deep, deep.
18:06Here, you can borrow my felt-tip.
18:08Have you been in my drawer?
18:10Yeah.
18:12What does John Webb want?
18:14I don't know.
18:17It's the...
18:18It's the hour of the reckoning.
18:20It's the cassette.
18:21Yeah.
18:22It's nice that you're here, cos you started it all.
18:25And if it goes really awful,
18:28I expect to cry on your shoulder and for you to buy me a pint tonight.
18:34I hope not.
18:35Eh?
18:36I hope it doesn't go awful.
18:37No, I think he's just going to say, you know, you ought to know better.
18:40It's true, really.
18:41Totally my fault.
18:44OK.
18:46HE CLEARS THROAT
18:49Those biscuits were recovered yesterday.
18:51Those what?
18:52The biscuits were recovered yesterday.
18:54Erm...
18:55It was a betting shop fiddle.
18:57Oh, erm, Ian Upton's job.
18:59We recovered a load of biscuits from the place
19:01and took them back today to the factory,
19:04and they said,
19:05one of our security boats just rang up
19:07and a lorry driver's dropped off some biscuits at house on Tylers.
19:11So at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning, we can go up there
19:14and get some more biscuits back.
19:17As you're having such good success these days,
19:19you might as well do this one as well.
19:24Yeah, just throw it all together.
19:26Throw it in a heap and let it come down in two separate files.
19:29Yeah, yeah.
19:30Now, come on, who's going out tomorrow, then?
19:32I don't know.
19:33If you want to come, you can come.
19:35I can't think of anybody better.
19:37What time?
19:38Make it at six.
19:39Jeans?
19:40No, no.
19:41Sweater?
19:42Suits.
19:43Where is it?
19:44Tyres.
19:45Can't we meet you there?
19:47He can leave home.
19:48What is it?
19:49We'll pass it off to the latest, then,
19:50cos we haven't got anyone to cover it.
19:51The one with the crime, or what?
19:52If you would, please, yeah.
19:53Yeah?
19:54What's happened, then?
19:55Oh, it's...
19:56Some time today, somebody's been in there
19:57and broken in through the doors.
19:58What, euphoria?
19:59Yeah, through the...
20:00The other day, they got them wire cage doors inside.
20:02Not Shrink's place, is it?
20:03No, it's upstairs.
20:04Gone in through there,
20:05and had, you know, about...
20:08..about 15 rings out of the jewellery box.
20:11And then, the woman's, this afternoon,
20:14had one of these rings brought back in to be sold back to her.
20:18So, which somebody else has bought from somewhere else.
20:21And she'd been round the jewellers,
20:23who she normally goes to see,
20:25and one of her rings is in peepers.
20:27The woman in peepers has bought one.
20:29So somebody's still running around the...
20:31Description of the lads?
20:32She hasn't seen them.
20:33All I've seen is the woman who's...
20:36..who's lost it.
20:37What's the name of the woman who lost it?
20:39Woodman.
20:40Where does she live, Chris?
20:42Over down the road.
20:45Bit of a cheek, isn't it?
20:46Go and nick the rings,
20:47then take them back to the place where you saw them from.
20:49Sell them back?
20:50Sell them back at the pub, isn't it?
20:52I don't know the full story of it, but it's...
20:54What's the value?
20:55She's now, well, she's running 200, 300 quid.
20:58Good rings, then.
21:01He's probably taken them back for 100 quid each.
21:06I'll call him, anyway.
21:07Yeah, all right.
21:08Dave Snyder will be at four, maybe he can get them to there.
21:11Can you ring Mr Webber and tell him I'm off at four,
21:14unless he hurries up on going home under a white flag?
21:19OK, then.
21:20Yes, carry on.
21:24Do you want them to stay?
21:25Yes, I don't mind.
21:26As far as I'm concerned, they should see everything.
21:29Yeah, OK.
21:30All right, have a seat.
21:31Thank you very much.
21:35Right, number one, then.
21:37I want to see you in the first instance
21:39about the inquiry over the cassettes.
21:44Yes, sir.
21:45Now, you will recall that I did see you on a particular day
21:49and asked you where they were.
21:51That's right, sir, yeah.
21:52And you were unable to give a satisfactory explanation,
21:54and in fact I understand they were found in your locker.
21:56That's right, yeah.
21:57I found them in there, sir.
21:59Anyway, that has gone to the deputy,
22:01and he's very unhappy about the state of affairs,
22:04to say the least,
22:06and that he wants you to be left in no doubt
22:08that this type of conduct will not be tolerated
22:11and that you, on this occasion,
22:14have come very close to formal discipline,
22:16and I'm telling you, Brian,
22:19that this is not the way to go on at all,
22:22and if it happens again for anything like it,
22:25then you'll probably find yourself
22:27before the chief constable, okay?
22:29Yes, sir, yeah, I understand.
22:31Now, you will probably understand that, don't you?
22:33Yes, sir, indeed.
22:34Yeah, okay.
22:35That's that part.
22:37The next part that I want to deal with
22:41is your suitability to remain as a CID officer.
22:46When you came off the regional crime squad,
22:48or the serious crime squad, I should say,
22:53there was a report put in on you on the 15th of January
22:56and, following that, you saw Mr Milner,
23:00and when you came off, he said that when you returned to division,
23:04that you were very much on trial.
23:06Yes, that's right.
23:07Okay?
23:08Well, I've now received a report from your supervisors
23:12that say that, and they say, rather,
23:16that throughout that time,
23:18whilst you've been a very cheerful kind of a fellow and so forth,
23:22and on the face of it, you're enthusiastic,
23:26you appear to lack confidence since you've been back
23:30and have not really come up to expectations.
23:38It is said, and let me make it very, very clear to you,
23:41because I shan't hold me punches,
23:43that it is felt that you have been dodging the work
23:47where aggravation is likely to be produced,
23:52and, in fact, it's got to the stage
23:54where some of your younger colleagues are saying about you
23:57that you are one of the old stages who are untouchable
24:02and no-one has got the courage of their convictions
24:06or the strength of character to recommend that you be moved.
24:11Well, the time has come that it is now happening today,
24:16and in view of the reports that I've received,
24:21the conversations that I've had,
24:23I'm recommending that you be returned to uniform duties
24:27as soon as possible.
24:32What do you have to say about that?
24:39I'm just absolutely and utterly speechless.
24:44My DS was telling me just how well things have gone
24:47and the jobs that I've had under my belt.
24:49I'm so pleased. I really am, sir.
24:51I've never had such a good time for basic police work
24:54as I've had in the last... I'm staggered.
24:59Absolutely and utterly.
25:03Well, all right, then, if you say that,
25:06I didn't intend to carry out your appraisal today,
25:09and I still don't intend to, but let's have a look at that.
25:13You say that you're working to the proper standards, is that right?
25:19Well, I've never had any comment other than that.
25:25Are you saying that nobody's brought your shortcomings to your notice?
25:33I had all my shortcomings pointed out to me
25:35when I came off the serious crime squad.
25:39And as far as I know, I've never had anybody...
25:50It's just unbelievable, sir. I mean, I've just...
25:53Would you like me to carry on?
25:58No, not really.
26:03Somebody's got to tell you.
26:08You see, you probably sound a bit cruel,
26:10but I'm going to be honest with you.
26:12The young lads in the department think you're a bit of a bloody joke.
26:16I can't help, sir, what the young lads in the department think.
26:19No, no, but I'm saying that this is what your supervisors say about you.
26:23Just a moment. This is what your supervisors say about you.
26:27The youngsters have got certain ideas about you.
26:31And in general, what I'm saying to you,
26:33and in view of recent developments
26:35and the fact that you didn't make it on the serious crime squad,
26:38Brian, the time has come where it's time.
26:41You've got a uniform.
26:43It's time you got a uniform,
26:45went off and tried to do a good job of work
26:48and tried to consolidate your position.
26:54If I had come back from the serious crime squad, sir,
26:57and I'd sat on my arse and did nothing, I can understand it.
27:00When my DS, who's away in Birmingham, as you know, at the moment,
27:03has told me about the amount of work I've put in,
27:06the amount of detections I've had,
27:08and people have come up to me that I've known for years and said,
27:11well, at last, you're really putting some effort into it.
27:13And for the last two and a half... well, two months, I've sat
27:16and I've thought, I feel good, I'm working, things are going right.
27:19And I come up here and I've got an idea what this is about.
27:22To be thrown that, I don't believe it.
27:24I just don't believe it.
27:27As I say, if I'm like you, I'm very honest,
27:30and if I thought that I was lazy or I'd been underparsed,
27:33especially since the serious crime squad,
27:35I'll be the first to say, you're right.
27:37No way do I accept that.
27:39I'll be the first to say, well, I can't comment on that.
27:42But if people want to look in books and find out from my DS
27:45and my colleagues the work and the prisoners I've had,
27:47I just don't believe it.
27:49And I'm afraid, sir, I just absolutely stagger.
27:51Yeah, well, what you're basically saying is that
27:54Detective Inspector Jessett is wrong,
27:56Detective Inspector Miller is wrong,
27:59Acting Superintendent, until recently,
28:02Detective Chief Inspector Buckle is wrong,
28:05Detective Chief Inspector Warren is wrong.
28:07All these people are wrong, but, Brian, you were right.
28:10No, you know I can't take them on, sir.
28:12Well, you know, but I'm saying...
28:14No, I'm not saying that at all.
28:16I'm not saying that at all.
28:18If they're given certain facts and figures by certain members of the CID,
28:21they will make of it as they will.
28:23And I cannot comment on that, sir.
28:25Well, there you are, Brian. I've spelt it out to you.
28:27I've left you in no doubt at all how you stand.
28:30You know exactly what the recommendation's going to be, don't you?
28:38Just staggered.
28:40All that work for nothing.
28:45I can understand how you feel at this very moment.
28:48You probably think that the world's collapsed around you.
28:51But there are other things in life, erm...
28:55that are good things to be...
28:57good work to be carried out in the police service.
29:01And there really is.
29:04The CID is not the be-all and end-all of police life.
29:08And if at the moment people are not thinking
29:12that you're working to the proper standards,
29:15well, Christ, it's not something to get all excited about, is it?
29:20Yeah, it is. Well, it's not.
29:22Well, I think it is, sir.
29:24I'm sick and tired of people going behind my back and saying things.
29:27Well... I'm sorry about this, but...
29:29Well, that's all right. I understand it.
29:31I don't mind you getting upset.
29:33The way you want to approach it is,
29:36I'll get my uniform, I'll come out,
29:39and I'll show them what a good chap I am.
29:41And that's a way.
29:44Come back bloody fighting. Let's have some grit about it.
29:47I know, Governor. Now, I've done that.
29:49I came off the Serious Crimes... Have you got a minute?
29:52I've got an hour.
29:53I came off the Serious Crimes Squad under a cloud, and do you know...
29:57no-one has stood back and said,
29:59no-one has stood back and said why.
30:01Right. Now, I cribbed about that to certain people,
30:05not of rank, just to one or two people I think I can trust in this job.
30:10Having cribbed about that, I wanted to know why.
30:13Can I...? No, I don't. Thank you.
30:16All I got was three months, three months, three months.
30:19So I got three months, and Dave Giles and Mr Jesse worked.
30:23Right. I work like a Trojan. I'm very pleased about it.
30:27I've been through all this before, and this is a bombshell,
30:30because I said to Dave Giles...
30:32I had an idea what Mr Jesse's put there.
30:34I said to Dave Giles, if I'm not succeeding, if I'm an idiot, let me know.
30:38Now, no-one has said a thing,
30:40and all I'm getting now, apart from me, is what the young lads in the office say.
30:44I don't know. I've worked like a bloody Trojan,
30:46and now they still say I'm not up to standard.
30:49If I don't fit, why don't they just tell me to my face I don't fit?
30:53Because there's more to it than Brian Kirk isn't doing the job.
30:56I have done the job well,
30:58and I'm telling you, my Chief Superintendent, to your face, I have done it well.
31:02They're saying no, right. Fair comment.
31:05If there's going to be something more to it,
31:07then maybe I'm not prepared to put up with it.
31:09It's not the ignominy of going back into uniform.
31:12That's the most important job in the police force, as far as I'm concerned.
31:15It's what's going on.
31:17The smiles and hello, and I've brought this prisoner in, am I doing anything wrong?
31:20Are you suggesting there's a bit of a conspiracy to put the skids under you?
31:24A bit of a conspiracy. Yes, they want the skids under me.
31:27Who? I don't know. Conspiracy? I can't say that, sir.
31:30Why do you think they want the skids under you?
31:32I don't know. I don't know.
31:35Various reasons. Maybe it's because I'm too leery.
31:38I can't help it if I'm rabbity.
31:41And at 31, the police force...
31:43Well, now you're a noisy bugger anyway.
31:45Well, yeah. I can't help that. Maybe people don't like that.
31:49But what's getting me, I was told to pull my socks up.
31:52I am not stupid and I've pulled them up and I'm very proud of myself.
31:55I mean that.
31:57Now, this, I can't see it.
31:59If it was justified, believe me, sir,
32:01I'd stand here and say thank you very much and go.
32:03That is not justified.
32:05And I've got no comeback, no redress.
32:07You're going to get a top hat and just keep your mouth shut and get on with it.
32:10Well, you have got some form of redress.
32:12It's quite open to you to go and see Mr Milner, Detective Chief Superintendent.
32:16Or indeed to see the Chief Constable, if you wish, isn't it?
32:19Yeah, that'll happen there.
32:22Let's look at the future, shall we?
32:25Let's really look at the future.
32:27Let's just accept the fact that you're going to be put into uniform, OK?
32:32Let's just look at that for a moment.
32:34Do you think that is really the end of the world?
32:37Honestly? It's not.
32:40What's being done to me is not right.
32:43For God's sake, if this happens, why don't...
32:46As I said to you just now, go and get your uniform.
32:50Come and see me. Let's talk it out.
32:52Get out there.
32:54There's a lot of work to be done out in those streets of Reading and this division.
32:58The public need experienced men to look after them.
33:03And you've got a lot of experience behind you.
33:06So if you start going out the door thinking about resignation and things like that...
33:10No, I'm...
33:11No, no, no, really, Brian.
33:13If you start thinking about that, that is very short-sighted, believe me.
33:17Now, look, you're a bit upset at the moment, to say the least.
33:20What I want you to do is to go away, just digest it a little bit, nice and quietly.
33:27Go and get yourself a cup of coffee, OK?
33:29And for goodness sake, come back and see me and we'll talk about your future.
33:34Because it's a question of where might you be best suited to carry out a uniform function?
33:42Where can you give the best service?
33:45I don't believe this.
33:46Well, you've got a lot to offer.
33:48You're not the first chap that this has happened to.
33:50No, I know that.
33:51Well, I'm not the first chap to go back in uniform.
33:54I'm quite aware of that.
33:55It happened to me many years ago.
33:59Well, you, off you go now and just think about it.
34:03And do come back and see me and discuss it, will you?
34:07Yeah, I will.
34:09I'll go off and have a think.
34:11OK, good luck. Thank you very much indeed.
34:14Bye, Brian.
34:19You haven't heard yet. You're surprised.
34:21I knew. I knew.
34:24How did you know?
34:25Someone, Dave Giles, told me.
34:27Oh, for fuck's sake.
34:29He told me about, what, an hour and a half ago.
34:33Why?
34:34He didn't say why, he just said, do you know?
34:36I said, no, I don't.
34:37But how does he feel?
34:39I don't know. He wouldn't say.
34:42He said, just, what's happened?
34:44I said, were you going to see Mr Webb?
34:46No.
34:50Although, nothing in this job surprises me.
34:53Whether it's you or anyone else, it doesn't surprise me at all.
34:57You've got to think about yourself now, Brian.
35:00Forget about anyone else.
35:01I'd love to know for what reason.
35:03It certainly can't be work, can it?
35:07Yeah, can you get Dave and get me a call?
35:09Then I'll ring the missus up.
35:13Now, what do you expect me to bloody do?
35:16Well, what I'd like to do is find someone that...
35:19Well, we all know what you've been doing.
35:22Well, was it enough?
35:25Christ.
35:26You couldn't have done any more than you did, man.
35:29See, well, so why is it?
35:31Well, you're just saying... Well, no, no, you're not just saying it.
35:34I'm not just saying it.
35:36Honestly, you know how much bloody work I do,
35:39and you know how much work the rest of the shift do.
35:42Unfortunately, I'm not under the bloody eagle eye, you see.
35:45Well, fortunately for me, I'm not under the eagle eye all the time.
35:50I don't know what to do now.
35:58Well, other people have got over it, haven't they?
36:01I don't mind the uniform bit, Dave.
36:04Why?
36:06That's what I object to.
36:09There's no appeal, is there?
36:11There's no appeal, is there?
36:13There is. I'm thinking of appealing.
36:15Who do you appeal to?
36:17Chief Constable.
36:22How?
36:23Brown groups?
36:25No, but you can appeal to him about being moved... a move.
36:29And if he thinks right, then...
36:32See, John Mack said,
36:34take your relocation book and all your files up, show them what you've been doing.
36:38I just don't... Dave, if they said,
36:40you've got three months to make the grade,
36:42I think I've made it and overtaken it.
36:44Yeah, definitely.
36:45He mentioned the fact that your junior members of this office
36:48think that you're an old lag and you don't do much.
36:52You know who we're talking about?
36:54Yeah, the new teacher, Bloody Talk.
36:59Mother, got some bad news for you.
37:04Well, I've worse than that.
37:06They've put me back in uniform.
37:09Yeah.
37:12So did I. They've just called me up to the office.
37:16I don't know. Don't know.
37:18Just two or three of the governors have put reports in saying I'm unsuitable.
37:23Yeah.
37:27Well...
37:29I'll probably spend less,
37:31but I will give serious consideration to the rest of my future on the job.
37:35Quite honestly.
37:38Yeah.
37:41Well, I... Well, it'll be up to me.
37:44I can go... John Webb says he wants to see me, cos I cut up a bit.
37:48And I presume that I can say,
37:50look, uniform patrol at Reading's a bit embarrassing,
37:53can I go to Pangbourne and maybe patrol Tilehouse and Barfield?
37:56Like I used to.
37:57And knowing him, he'll say yes.
37:59So there's that.
38:01Back on nights, back on earlies.
38:04Spend a lot less money.
38:05I mean, I might as well start looking on the bright side.
38:09Out of the...
38:11n amount of hundreds of pounds I earn in a month,
38:14the amount I spend would be negligible.
38:16I really was working so well that I thought,
38:19if anything goes monkey, I am going to appeal.
38:24Yeah.
38:26Yeah.
38:27It was all filmed at the BBC.
38:29Yeah, they've been filming me all day,
38:31so when I went in for what I thought was a telling-off,
38:34they said, can we come?
38:35And I said yes, because I feel it's all part of life, isn't it?
38:39Of course, the telling-off turned into something else,
38:42and, yeah, little handkerchief job.
38:47You think I'm joking?
38:49Oh, yeah.
38:51Well, if they'll ask me, I'll look at it.
38:54And if I decide, yeah,
38:55it'll go over in front of two or three, 20 million.
38:58Why shouldn't people see what goes on?
39:02Cheer up, let's go and get you a drink.
39:04Where are we going to get a drink?
39:06How about the money?
39:08I shouldn't worry about the money.
39:10That'd probably be the least of your worries,
39:12because I expect you'll be earning as much after the 1st of September.
39:19I expect you'll be earning much after the 1st of September.
39:23You are now.
39:25Yeah, I will, but I won't be having the overtime, will I?
39:28Oh, there's always this special duty, isn't there?
39:30Oh, I know what you mean.
39:32I'll be doing pointing duty next.
39:35Hello, Sarge.