Traffic Cops S15E06 (19 Dec 2016)
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00:00Britain's roads have become the front line in the fight against crime and disorder,
00:08from organised criminal gangs to the nation's worst drivers.
00:13And catching those using our streets to break the law is the job of the traffic cops.
00:19We can't run it. Stop. Do not resist.
00:22First, first, first. Chase it on foot.
00:25We'll chase them and we'll get hold of them.
00:27We'll go wherever we need to go to stop you.
00:30Tonight on Traffic Cops, the drunk...
00:33If you feel like you're going to barf, you do it in there.
00:36..the angry...
00:38Baby, don't say nothing. Make him feel it.
00:40He's a bad, violent man.
00:42..and those who won't come quietly.
00:44That's a substantial amount of blood.
00:46You can't put your cuffs on me. You aren't read my rights.
00:48Then you should have been listening.
00:52Welcome to Yorkshire, one of the biggest beats in Britain.
00:57From urban sprawl to the Yorkshire Dales,
01:00where every day the police face a different challenge.
01:03I can walk down a street and I can go,
01:06he assaults people, he deals drugs, he's a burglar, he's a car thief.
01:13Sometimes you think, when I drive to work,
01:15am I going across a line where just different rules apply?
01:19Get down, get down, get down!
01:27Across the UK,
01:29more than 70,000 people are caught drink-driving every year.
01:33And drivers who get behind the wheel whilst over the limit
01:36kill five people every week.
01:39For the traffic cops of North and West Yorkshire,
01:42dealing with the aftermath of drunk drivers
01:44and alcohol-fuelled incidents is an all too familiar occurrence.
01:49People are killed or seriously injured because of drink drivers
01:52and we go to those accidents and deal with the horrific consequences.
01:57In Yorkshire, traffic cops like John Kendal
02:00deal with 150 motorists over the drink-drive limit every week.
02:05People go out to have a drink and enjoy themselves
02:07and what we want is for them to do that and be safe and get home safe.
02:11It's not just about getting drunk.
02:14Tonight, on the A1 just north of Leeds,
02:17PC Kendal and colleague Lee Cobb are tailing a suspected drink driver
02:21who's been reported weaving across the motorway.
02:27John and Lee are now behind the driver
02:29with their blue lights flashing for it to stop.
02:32But the driver's either too tired or too drunk to notice.
02:3770 miles an hour in pursuit terms, it's not a high speed,
02:40but you're conscious of other users ahead.
02:43You might have slow-moving lorries,
02:45you might have people joining the motorway in front of us,
02:48so all the time you're thinking about that.
02:55With the van trapped in the motorway,
02:57it's not just about getting drunk.
02:59It's about getting home safe.
03:02He's weaving out between lanes. We need to get him stopped.
03:05With the van travelling at speeds of up to 80 miles an hour,
03:08extra police units join the chase.
03:11Sometimes the mere sign of extra cars coming in
03:14will be enough for the person to just pull over.
03:18But it didn't work on this occasion.
03:24We've got to wait for our chance.
03:26We don't want lorries involved, we don't want other cars involved.
03:31He's just broken off now for the M62.
03:33Stand by, we are just splitting.
03:37He's now committed, committed for the M62.
03:39With enough police vehicles now in position,
03:42John and Lee plan to use a high-risk tactic
03:44to force the van driver to stop.
03:47We're going to have to box him in so that he can't go any further.
03:50He's now taken to hard shoulder, hard shoulder.
03:52We don't want to damage our cars.
03:54However, we know that ultimately that's what the vehicle is for.
03:57Move someone up, please. Get him boxed on.
04:00It's potentially one of the most dangerous things you might have to do.
04:04But ultimately, we've got to stop him.
04:12We know he doesn't want to stop for us.
04:14He's going to keep doing what he can to get away.
04:22We are literally body-working, body-working at 70 miles an hour.
04:30Keep him there, keep him there.
04:35Bring it down, bring it down, bring it down, please.
04:40Contact, contact.
04:44Come on, box him in, box him in, box him in.
04:47With the driver completely out of control,
04:49John and Lee take another hit.
04:52Contact, contact.
04:54Vehicle is stopped.
05:01And he's stopped, he's stopped.
05:04But finally, the van is stopped.
05:07At that point, you're thinking, fantastic, right, we've stopped this,
05:10we've got somebody off the road who could have gone on to kill somebody.
05:14He's not injured, we're not injured,
05:16there's damage to the cars, but everybody's safe.
05:23Contrary to public perception,
05:25the days of traffic cops dishing out tickets
05:27to otherwise law-abiding members of the public are long gone.
05:32And when they're not dealing with drink drivers,
05:35traffic cops like John Kendall have become the first line of police response.
05:41A lot of our time will be spent dealing with non-traffic issues,
05:44for want of a better word, but there are police issues that need to be dealt with,
05:47and if we happen to be the nearest unit to go and do that, then we will do it.
05:52At the North Yorkshire Forces Control Room in York...
05:55Police, an emergency.
05:57..a member of the public has called to make a report of a violent incident.
06:09Two miles away from the pub fight, John Kendall is contacted by Control.
06:26I'll try and get you to come back to site.
06:28I don't know where it's going to be from, mate.
06:30One of the big challenges we have is all the different varieties of jobs,
06:33and there are less of us now than when I started, certainly.
06:40If you're on your own, you've got to be a bit more careful
06:43about how you approach it and what you do.
06:50This job was really an unknown quantity to me.
06:53It's a job I've never been to before.
06:55Five minutes later, a second unit arrives.
06:58Are you happy to move up then, mate?
07:00It looks fairly queue outside, but we don't know. All right, mate.
07:04We go forward and what appeared to be quiet when we first thought that wasn't.
07:09We've got people laid on the ground. Oh, dear.
07:12So I think initially we've got three or four people stood outside.
07:16The guy on the floor is clearly injured, he's clearly agitated.
07:20As we left, there's another guy.
07:22His jacket and his shirt were on the floor,
07:24so my first thought was, well, he's been fighting.
07:26So I basically detain him, take him over to my car.
07:29With one man detained,
07:31John will have to draw on all his policing skills
07:34to calm this drunk-fuelled bust-up.
07:4035 miles away in Halifax, West Yorkshire,
07:43traffic cops Mark Maiden and Paul Crabtree are on patrol
07:47as they get a call about local police in need of urgent assistance.
07:54Weekly? Well, I'm going mad.
07:57Just heading to assist a local unit who shouted up for a van.
08:02Don't know the circumstances, but we'll find out when we get there.
08:07Like their colleagues in North Yorkshire,
08:09Paul and Mark don't just deal with bad smashes and car crime.
08:13We've no idea what's gone on, but if there's an assistance issue
08:16or if we're round the corner and something's here, we'll obviously go.
08:21There's somebody laid in the road, there's somebody on a bonnet.
08:24There's stuff everywhere.
08:26The chap I went to assist was struggling with that woman.
08:30It looks like a complex domestic argument has turned violent
08:34and will need careful handling.
08:37Coming up, a high-speed chase through city streets...
08:42..and the roadside domestic becomes a medical emergency.
08:56In North Yorkshire, in the usually peaceful village of Bilborough,
09:00a drunken fight has resulted in a man being detained for assault
09:04by traffic cop John Kendall.
09:06Now John and his colleagues have to attend to the casualty.
09:11Make them feel it, Paul!
09:13You bastard!
09:15The injured man still wants to fight,
09:17but the cops must make sure he calms down
09:20and gets the medical treatment he needs.
09:22No messing about. I don't want you fighting.
09:25Concentrate on self-preservation now.
09:27Get yourself sorted out, all right?
09:29Leave your leg where it is, mate. Don't move it.
09:32He's shouting.
09:34He's clenching his fists. He's trying to get up.
09:36But clearly, if he gets up, he's going to fall straight back down again
09:39and potentially injure his leg even more,
09:41cos you could see at that point it was quite obvious he'd broken it.
09:44Whether he'd had that much drink that he didn't feel any pain,
09:47I don't know.
09:48Well, you ought to know better, didn't you?
09:50Bystanders are also making the situation worse.
09:52Yeah, but you know what...
09:54Mate, mate, mate, mate, we'd best not talk about it now, is it?
09:57Oh, sorry. Just keep still and then...
09:59Here's the ambulance now, mate.
10:02Just give us a bit of space now, guys. Listen to me.
10:05Right, listen to me.
10:07Right, listen to me.
10:09Right, the ambulance are going to treat you now,
10:11cos they're here to help you, mate, right?
10:13You understand me?
10:15It's vital that John and his colleagues keep the man subdued
10:18so the paramedics can get his leg into a splint.
10:21He's a bad, violent man that needs sorting out.
10:25He needs sorting out.
10:28Put that down for you! No!
10:30I'm going to...
10:31You're not going to help yourself, are you?
10:33You're going to do yourself some serious...
10:35One of the biggest skills that I think any police officer can have
10:38is the ability to talk to people.
10:40You need to go on the stretcher to go to hospital.
10:42I am not leaving.
10:44You need to go to hospital.
10:46I am not leaving. You need to, mate.
10:48No. Why not? No.
10:50Over the years, I've dealt with a lot of people with various issues,
10:53and it is very difficult to understand sometimes what those needs are.
10:56I can't go from here. I can't. Don't worry.
10:59You don't know whether he's lost somebody at the funeral.
11:02Would she want you to get help?
11:04He's clearly got to go to hospital. He's got a cut.
11:07He's potentially had a hit on the head when he's gone down on the ground.
11:10You don't know what other injuries he might have.
11:12Right, OK, we're going to go up onto the stretcher.
11:15Just hold your arms back there for me.
11:17Ready, steady, lift.
11:20We're going to go on the ambulance and check you out on there, mate, all right?
11:23I think what the paramedic was saying,
11:25he's potentially going to need surgery to get that fixed.
11:27It depends on the break.
11:29Either way, it's obvious the cops won't be getting any thanks.
11:33The main thing was that he could do himself more injury.
11:36Yeah, he could hurt himself more.
11:38I don't know whether it's the drink or the anger or what's gone on.
11:41I don't know, but there were some issues with that guy.
11:43I don't know whether it's the drink or the anger or what's gone on.
11:46I don't know, but there were some issues with that guy.
11:48Yeah.
11:5340 miles away, in Halifax, West Yorkshire,
11:56traffic cops Paul Crabtree and Mark Maiden have been called to a disturbance.
12:02He's hurting me! Are you all right?
12:04A woman is under arrest for obstructing the police in their duty
12:07and is being restrained by a local officer already on the scene.
12:11It is over! Listen. Listen to me.
12:15Just chill and relax, all right? Stop pushing me.
12:17Stop pushing back and we don't have to push down.
12:19All right, all right, OK. Just chill.
12:21Although the police believe drink and drugs
12:23are the main contributory factor behind this incident,
12:26with her partner appearing to be having a fit,
12:29the officer's duty of care is a much more pressing concern.
12:32Do you want someone to protect his head?
12:34The chap on the floor had a fit, so they had to deal with that
12:37and make sure he was OK.
12:383-7, can we have an ambulance, please?
12:44Has he taken something? Be straight with us now.
12:46He's not looking right well, so has he taken something?
12:48Has he been drinking? No!
12:50Is he meant to take medication?
12:53He's not saying anything, he's having a fit.
12:55He's having a fit, so answer the question.
12:57Right, thank you, that's all I wanted to know.
12:59He's epileptic. He's epileptic!
13:01Fine, so we'll just try to look after him.
13:03You become the common enemy sometimes.
13:05They'll be fighting with each other,
13:07we'll turn up and wade into their private life
13:09and then all of a sudden both of them are like, well, who are you?
13:12The cops find evidence of self-harming.
13:14The woman we dealt with had just hurt herself,
13:16she had cut marks on her wrist that were fresh,
13:18so she's obviously got some issues.
13:20There's something going on in the background that we're not aware of.
13:23OK.
13:25All right.
13:26As much as we're trained and we're given understandings and insights
13:29and guides and best practice of how to deal with them,
13:32I'm not a mental health nurse, I'm a police officer, that's my role.
13:35With another unit arriving, the cops are now able to secure the woman.
13:40What's he got on there?
13:42What? What's in it? It's a pipe.
13:44What else? I don't know, have a look.
13:46That's it, that's it.
13:47Her medication's in the bushes.
13:49Yeah, well, we'll just... Where, where?
13:51It's in the bushes. Which bush?
13:53Please, come on. I won't get no line.
13:55While Mark looks for the woman's medication, the painkiller morphine,
13:59other cops make sure the man is OK
14:01as they wait for the ambulance to arrive.
14:05I've got mine, I've got mine.
14:07But as he comes round, the man becomes agitated
14:11and his partner starts banging on the inside of the police van.
14:16With one cop already injured,
14:18the circumstances surrounding the incident are gradually becoming clear.
14:22The initial call was that there's somebody slashing his wrists
14:25in the woods with some razor blades
14:27and it would appear to be this male that they've detained
14:31and has, for whatever reason, just turned on the police officers
14:35and punched the sergeant in the face.
14:39As I've taken hold of him to try and have a look at his wrists,
14:42he's pulled away and he's struck me full-on with his right fist
14:45underneath my jaw here, knocked my jaw across
14:48and he's broken both my teeth at the back on the top here.
14:54There's a high risk of getting assaulted
14:56when you're dealing with people hands-on.
14:58Be that deliberately, they will punch you to get rid of you,
15:01but if somebody's thrashing out to escape
15:03and inadvertently catching you,
15:05or you injure yourself getting hold of somebody.
15:09Even with the paramedics on the case, the cops are still needed.
15:15He's off again.
15:20He's kicked off of the ambulance staff,
15:22so we've then had to go in and try and restrain him
15:24in the back of the ambulance.
15:26They're trying to help you.
15:27You're a big lad and in the back of the ambulance
15:29we had to leg restrain him, which is like big Velcro straps,
15:32yet it took my, if I don't know what,
15:34I wear with all my kit on and I'm 14 still without it,
15:38sat on him to hold him down
15:40and still having to pull myself down onto the stretcher.
15:42Straighten your legs. No!
15:45Finally, the man, although under arrest for assaulting a police officer,
15:49is calm enough for Mark and Paul to leave.
15:52After all the adrenaline and emotion,
15:54they now have to get back to being traffic cops.
15:57You get used to switching on and switching off.
15:59You do have some sympathy when you're dealing with them at the time,
16:02but you've got to be able to deal with it as that stand-alone scenario
16:05and then be able to switch off and go back to what you're doing,
16:07otherwise you take everybody else's trouble away with you.
16:12Incidents that result from drinking during the day are all too common,
16:16but when night falls, they happen even more frequently.
16:22In the last 12 months, more than 2,000 people in West Yorkshire
16:26have been arrested for drink driving.
16:29Drink driving has always been one of our main areas of business, if you like.
16:33To me, getting in a car and driving while you've had a drink is ridiculous
16:36because I'm in a position where I've seen the outcome and it's not pleasant.
16:40Since 2011, 45 people have been killed in incidents on West Yorkshire's roads
16:45directly related to alcohol and drugs.
16:49It's a mandatory ban, so they are off the road.
16:51They're out of the picture.
16:53And there's no defence they can have to it now.
16:56Halifax, West Yorkshire.
16:58Paul Crabtree and his colleague Jamie Brown have received a report
17:01of a man allegedly assaulting his ex-partner in a bar
17:05and the police suspect he's driven off drunk.
17:16Five-zero, yeah, quite happy to go over and have a look.
17:19Paul and Jamie head to the scene,
17:21hoping to stop the man before he causes an accident.
17:25We know what we're looking for,
17:26so we've got a bigger picture than a lot of jobs.
17:29We know the car, we know roughly where it's going,
17:31so we were looking for it en route.
17:34And then we came across him.
17:37Oh, that'll be that, then.
17:41That's that white car, so we're looking for a bad look of it.
17:43A mile outside Halifax town centre, the driver has clearly misjudged the bend.
17:51It's obvious, as you can see from that wall there,
17:53he's come round this bend, lost it and gone into there
17:55and come to rest here.
17:57He's not with it.
17:58As you can see, there's blood in the footwell on this side.
18:03There's also a trail of blood leading from the car.
18:06Is he losing it? I'm going to say, can we follow...
18:08Romeo, five-zero.
18:11Oh, yeah, mate, there's a load here.
18:14There.
18:16Yeah, that's a substantial amount of blood.
18:20Although the driver is a suspect in an alleged assault
18:23and suspected of drink-driving,
18:25the traffic cop's priority now is his welfare.
18:28Anything could have happened.
18:29He could have got ten yards away and collapsed.
18:31He could have hit a major artery,
18:32he could be bleeding away in the things,
18:34and you haven't got long if you have that kind of injury.
18:37Which way do you think he's going?
18:39Let me check these stairs.
18:41Paul goes to search the surrounding area,
18:43but there's no sign of the driver.
18:46Have they got out and seen us coming deep round the corner?
18:49But if he's bleeding that much, has he passed out?
18:51Is he unable to move?
18:54The cops decide to follow the trail of blood
18:56to see if it will give them any clues.
18:59Is there any more?
19:00No, other than that there in the middle,
19:03it just seems to stop, which is really random.
19:08But it just seems strange that there's no more.
19:13Do you reckon if somebody's picked him up?
19:14Cos it just seems to stop,
19:16but conveniently where there might be a vehicle.
19:18Do you know what I mean? It's just pulled up.
19:21It's quite thick and all, is that?
19:43The witness has now confirmed that the driver was picked up.
19:52All right, cos we've preserved that then, won't we?
19:54Yeah, yeah, yeah.
19:55Wherever it is.
19:56While their colleagues check the local hospitals
19:58to try and find the driver and any passengers,
20:01Jamie and Paul's job now is to preserve the scene
20:04and find out what really happened.
20:06There's the marks on the road, the marks on the car,
20:08is all evidence to piece something together.
20:10Should we need to do it,
20:11should it have turned out to be a fatal collision,
20:13we can then reconstruct it and put where people were.
20:1620 miles west in Leeds,
20:18traffic cops Chris Spencer and Mike Rowe
20:21are alerted to a suspicious car.
20:24We've just had some information
20:26that a vehicle had failed to stop earlier on in Pontefract,
20:29just coming into Leeds City Centre.
20:31The Citroen car has fled from a police stop.
20:34A second unit gets involved, Dan Robson and Paul Morris.
20:38Our thoughts initially were that the vehicle had been stolen.
20:41Later on at night, good chance it's one that's just been pinched.
20:44Then the cops get a lucky break.
20:46We saw it parked on a petrol station forecourt.
20:49We thought, this is good because it's already at a stop.
20:53Hopefully we can grab hold of it.
20:56But the driver has other ideas.
20:58He's seen us, panicked straight away and bolted.
21:02He'd taken a left turn off the dual-carriageway and he stopped.
21:05We thought, all right, fine, this is OK, we can speak to the driver.
21:09We got to the side of the car and he put it in reverse and he floored it.
21:19The driving then becomes even more difficult.
21:22We've got to be careful.
21:24We've got to be careful.
21:26We've got to be careful.
21:28We've got to be careful.
21:30The driving then becomes even more dangerous.
21:33The car reversed back up to the main road.
21:37Straight through the junction.
21:44He even rams the police car.
21:47This is the point where I'm thinking, this is getting naughty now.
21:50It could have been T-bone, it could have been a car accident or anything.
21:54The runaway Citroen shows no signs of stopping
21:57and is driving at speed down the wrong side of a dual-carriageway to escape the cops.
22:06He's driven at speeds far in excess of the speed limit.
22:10The car is all over the road, endangering other vehicles.
22:21Paul's telling where the car's going.
22:23We're listening to that and trying our best to second-guess where the car's going to go.
22:31Our lights are illuminating on the police car.
22:33That's telling him to stop.
22:35He decides that he doesn't want to.
22:38Our belief was that he was going to go the wrong side of the motorway.
22:46I've aborted the pursuit there and then, thinking this has got too dangerous.
22:50Frustrated, the cops stand down the chase.
22:53It would appear that these people that we pursue,
22:56they know the criteria of what we do and why we do it,
23:00so they take the heightened risks.
23:02There's many an occasion where they'll drive the wrong way on a dual-carriageway.
23:06They already know this, and we won't chase them.
23:11For now, they've lost the battle, but they'll be back.
23:16Coming up... You're all under arrest.
23:18Lads get leery.
23:24And the runaway Citroen comes back for more.
23:35In Leeds, two police units were chasing a runaway Citroen.
23:39They were forced to abandon the pursuit when the suspect car took potentially fatal risks.
23:48But now the plot takes a twist.
23:50As it turns out, it doesn't go through the motorway junction.
24:05For Paul Morris and Chris Spencer, the hunt is back on.
24:09You're always playing that catch-up game because it were driving quite fast.
24:13We managed to catch up a bit, more or less, where it started from.
24:19It's gone to Dewsbury Road. It's just taken one side of the road.
24:23It's going left, left, left on Cempiss Road.
24:26I know the area well, and I've said to Dan that he's going to go to a dead end.
24:30OK, well, let's go towards the de-camp here.
24:32The dead end is going to be a de-camp.
24:34We've listened to Paul, said it's a dead end.
24:36And we think, like, here we go, he's going to leave it, he's going to run.
24:41Local knowledge pays off.
24:43The suspect is about to be cornered, sandwiched by two cop cars.
24:47It's there.
24:51Go on, mate.
24:53We've got the male detained.
24:55We've pulled up at the exact perfect time.
24:58You couldn't have timed it any better if we'd tried.
25:00They're just detaining this chap at the minute.
25:056-1, yeah, we've got one detained, it's a driver, none outstanding.
25:08There's some damage to his car, but not from this pursuit, by the looks of it.
25:12His driving was absolutely scandalous.
25:15It was a disgrace, you know.
25:17He's taken so many risks trying to lose the police
25:20that it could have ended in so many ways.
25:23It makes you wonder, what has he done?
25:25This must be something more than a drunk driver.
25:27And you just think, has he got any weapons in the car?
25:30Are we going to find a massive haul of drugs?
25:32Because it's a driver, this man, it's just ludicrous.
25:37But there are no weapons and no drugs.
25:41It turns out he's the brother of the registered keeper,
25:45he's insured to drive it, but unfortunately he's drunk.
25:51It's ridiculous to do that and to put other people at such risk
25:56just because you're drunk and just because you don't want to get caught.
26:00It's mind-blowing something that people really are that selfish.
26:06As well as drunk drivers across Yorkshire,
26:09some of the biggest problems at night are burglary and car theft.
26:1612 miles to the west in Bradford,
26:18a member of the public has tipped off the police about some suspicious behaviour.
26:34Traffic cop Darren Wood is on the hunt for a suspect car.
26:40And the occupants have been seen to be wiping something like a screwdriver
26:44down the side of it.
26:46Wiping some screwdrivers down to us, he's thinking, right, burglars,
26:50breaking into houses, breaking into cars.
26:55We got there just a few seconds after our other unit arrived
26:58and there were four young lads there.
27:01They were in the car but there was nobody sat in the driver's seat.
27:04Who's the driver? Nobody. All right.
27:06According to the four lads, none of them has been driving the car.
27:09Where is he now? The driver?
27:13Where's Aqib now, then?
27:16None of this lot claiming to be the driver. They're all drunk.
27:20So is someone going to get hold of the driver on the phone, then?
27:23They're all just saying the driver's gone home, but surprise, surprise,
27:26nobody knows where this person lives.
27:28Pretty quickly, we found that one of them had the key to the car
27:31and that was underneath his leg, one of the guys sat in the back seat.
27:35I suspect that one of the people there had been driving,
27:37but at that moment in time, we don't really have any way of proving it.
27:40The young men have been drinking and they're making life difficult for the cops.
27:44Don't start with me, otherwise I'll lock you up for drunken disorderly behaviour.
27:47All right? You've already swore once at me.
27:50Open your mouth again, you'll be in them wristlets
27:53and you'll be in custody as quick as you can blink, all right?
27:57Sit there and be quiet.
27:59We run the registration through of the car and that came back to Manchester.
28:04The registration on the car doesn't match the chassis number.
28:07The discrepancy means the police will dig deeper to find out the truth.
28:11What's the proper one?
28:13He's run it through and it's come back as a stolen car.
28:15Stolen from Pudsey on the 23rd of June,
28:19so all four of these are getting locked up.
28:22Darren's about to break up the party.
28:25Chuck your fag out, fella.
28:27Bye, guys.
28:29You're all under arrest at the moment.
28:31OK, suspicion of burglary.
28:33The car you're sat in is a stolen car.
28:35OK.
28:37You don't have to say anything, but in my army defence,
28:39if you don't mention or question something later on in court,
28:41anything you do say may be given evidence, all right?
28:43But we don't know whether it's them that's stolen the car,
28:46but somebody has put clone plates on that,
28:49and that's purely and simply just to disguise the fact that it's a stolen car.
28:52Just stay where you are for now.
28:54Just stick these on you.
28:56You can't put your cuffs on me.
28:58You can't put your cuffs on me, you haven't read my rights.
29:00Have you read my rights?
29:02Then you should have been listening when I told you.
29:04No, you haven't read my rights.
29:06One of the lads might be a legal expert,
29:08but the drink has made his friend feel a little queasy.
29:12No, no, you're under arrest. Put your leg in.
29:14Yeah, but let me...
29:16You can always lean out and throw up, can't you?
29:18Now put your leg in.
29:20And then the mood changed a bit.
29:24He started becoming less compliant,
29:26started giving verbal backchat, being disrespectful.
29:29What's your name, anyway? We haven't been introduced, have we?
29:32What's he saying?
29:34Where do you live?
29:36As soon as we got enough vehicles there, I thought, right,
29:39try and get these lot split up, if possible,
29:41and then it might help control the situation.
29:44He's not drinking, he says.
29:49There are people, there are houses there, people trying to sleep.
29:52Well, don't say anything.
29:55He's been annoying me for the past hour, you don't understand.
30:02Keep your voice down, otherwise you will be going to the back of the van.
30:05Being quiet is your ticket to that car,
30:07being noisy is your ticket to the back of the van.
30:09Some of it, I think, was just the drink speaking, to be honest.
30:13I'm sure if they'd all been sober,
30:15they wouldn't have been quite so verbal.
30:18A search of the boot reveals evidence
30:20that it may have been more than just a drinking session.
30:23There's these two screwdrivers in the boot.
30:25I'll seize them, because the original caller said
30:28that they were wiping some screwdrivers down,
30:30so there's a possibility they might be linked
30:32to some other burglaries or theft and stuff.
30:34We had an unusual sequence of events,
30:36in that it started off with some potential burglars
30:39we'd seen with screwdrivers,
30:41then we've got a car with no driver,
30:43with occupants who had all been drinking,
30:46and then it's developed then into a stolen car on cloned place.
30:51With the young men all detained and kept separate,
30:54the cops hope to find the truth about the car they deny driving.
30:58Sick bag, bring your legs.
31:00If you feel like you're going to barf, you do it in there.
31:03All right, happy days.
31:05Never let it be said that we don't do our bit for the community.
31:09The biggest sick bag you'll ever have in your life, that.
31:15Back in Halifax, Paul Crabtree and Jamie Brown
31:18are doing their best to preserve the scene
31:21after a suspected drunk driver has crashed on a bend
31:24and then disappeared, leaving a trail of blood behind.
31:35But it's started to rain heavily, washing away the evidence.
31:48Can you get a close-up, and then what we'll do is we'll...
31:51I'll stand where it is and you'll photograph it in relation to the junction,
31:55if that makes sense? Yeah.
31:57All right? Yeah, got that one.
32:00But my thing's not working cos, erm, cos of water.
32:04In which case, I'll stand in the middle of the patch
32:07and you can get one at junction with me in it.
32:11Yeah?
32:13Where will the bit appear?
32:15It may be that when they find him, he's not badly injured
32:18and we can step everything down, but if we lose it, we've lost it,
32:21we can't come back to it later.
32:23While they struggle to preserve the evidence,
32:26a call comes in from one of their colleagues at the local hospital.
32:46As it turns out, we'd only missed him by a minute or so
32:49because some chap had turned up and took him to the hospital.
32:52The passenger is being assessed in hospital,
32:55but it appears the driver has done a runner.
32:58It's just a whole nightmare and the repercussions could be massive.
33:03While their colleagues try to track the driver down,
33:06Paul and Jamie wait for the recovery truck.
33:09But it appears they're not alone.
33:12Mate, there's somebody messing about with your sign in the middle of the road.
33:15Oi! Move!
33:18I'm dying to use my new spray.
33:21It's important the sign stays in place to avoid any more accidents.
33:27Hello, mate. I'm just checking a picture.
33:29Right, OK. Not really a cracking idea we're doing, is it?
33:32Which way are you going?
33:34Shallow.
33:36Shall I go on that side, cos this side's shut?
33:38Off we go.
33:43I have no words.
33:45Selfie in front of a police flow sign.
33:48The harmless drunk is sent on his way,
33:51but another suspected drunk, the one suspected of driving the car,
33:55has some serious questions to answer.
33:57Had he killed somebody, had he seriously injured somebody,
34:00that then cascades out onto families, people, everybody else.
34:05Back in Bradford, Darren and Mark have arrested four lads
34:09who claim that none of them had been driving a stolen Golf they were all sat in.
34:15Now the suspects must be processed at the police station.
34:20When you go into custody, you can be there for hours.
34:23You can turn up into the waiting area of the cells
34:26and you're the tenth in line waiting to book in.
34:29It feels like you're there forever.
34:31I'm sure his parents will be very proud.
34:34This lad, you know, the drinks got the better of him by this point in time.
34:38And he's getting wound up by other people who are also sat in the waiting area
34:42who are being verbal with him.
34:46The holding cell can be a flashpoint, especially when alcohol is involved.
34:50And tonight, racial tensions are an added pressure.
34:54Every single day, you'll get something like that in custody.
34:57We can only book in one person at once,
34:59so, inevitably, people are going to be waiting round.
35:09A lot of the people who are in custody,
35:11they're going to be there for hours.
35:13They're going to be there for hours.
35:15They're going to be there for hours.
35:17They're going to be there for hours.
35:19They're going to be there for hours.
35:22A lot of the people sat in there have been drinking or on drugs,
35:25can't control themselves.
35:27He's the next one, then. It's this lad afterwards.
35:31Our aim, obviously, is to get through custody as quickly as possible.
35:34I think, in the end, they're just a really slow process.
35:37It wasn't helped by the fact that one of them caused problems
35:40when they got to the custody desk.
35:42What's your name?
35:44How old are you, please?
35:47Are you sure about that?
35:49After a boozy night, the young man doesn't seem to be co-operating.
35:53Stand up.
35:55The lad that we were booking in turned out to be someone completely different
35:58to the name he'd actually given us at the roadside.
36:07You know that we're going to find out who you are
36:09once we've taken your fingerprints, don't you?
36:11So why don't you just tell us your correct details now, please?
36:14All that's happening is you're just extending your stay here, aren't you?
36:17OK?
36:31He could have been giving false details for all sorts of reasons.
36:34He may have been wanted for other offences and thinking,
36:37if I give my right details, they're going to get me.
36:39Or he might have just been trying to give a false name
36:42so that we didn't go to his house and his family find out what he's done.
36:47He won't be leaving here until we've verified who he is, anyway.
36:51Coming up...
36:53Bradford's red light area gets the blue light treatment.
36:56Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me.
36:59I've told you. Listen to me. I smell the cannabis, you smell the drink.
37:09It's 4am.
37:11Traffic cops Paul Crabtree and Jamie Brown
37:13are on patrol in Bradford's red light district.
37:16The red light area's changed.
37:18It's got smaller, but it is still there,
37:20and it goes on all night, right on through until business starts in the morning.
37:24But prostitution isn't their only concern.
37:27Experience tells them that a lot of the customers driving round
37:30will not be sober.
37:32You'll get them cruising round.
37:34A lot of them are pissed as well.
37:36It's the old mill area. There's a lot of derelict mills.
37:38There's a cobble track on the bottom that's really secluded,
37:41so it's where that kind of activity takes place.
37:44It's got no lights on. Yeah, it's potentially got one in.
37:48They stop a Toyota with a man driving and a female passenger.
37:53Stay in. You're all right. Stay sat in. Hello.
37:56You could smell cannabis coming from the car as soon as you walked up to it.
38:00Now, then, what are you up to?
38:02Where's the cannabis? Cos I can smell it.
38:06Is that all?
38:08What are you up to, then?
38:10Where's he picked you up from, love?
38:12Pardon?
38:14Oh, right.
38:16Paul's not buying their story.
38:18He suspects both drugs and drink are involved.
38:21Right, unit, swap cars. Do you want to come jump in with us?
38:24Just before you go any further, you've got a hot knee, you shouldn't have.
38:27I've got drugs on you.
38:29Put your arm down.
38:35You've been detained for the purposes of search and demisuse and drugs act, OK?
38:40Go round back at car while I search you, pal, cos it gives you time.
38:44The woman seems concerned about her left home.
38:48He's not going to be, is he? Cos he's pissed and drugged, so...
38:56Taxi fare you've given me, is it?
38:58All right. Why is it if he's taking you home?
39:02Don't be telling me that.
39:04The man is still protesting his innocence.
39:09Stop raising your hands and trying to put your hood up.
39:12Just do as you're told. Sit in there.
39:18No, listen. Listen to me. Listen to me.
39:21Listen to me. Listen to me.
39:23No, listen in time. Listen. Listen to me.
39:26We've stopped you cos you're driving a car without any lights on, OK?
39:29There's a smell of cannabis...
39:31You didn't have any lights on when we stopped you.
39:33So that's why we've stopped you. OK?
39:35Listen to me.
39:38Listen. Are you going to listen? Are you going to listen?
39:41Right, well, shut up and listen to me while I explain what's happening then.
39:44The car smells of cannabis, you smell of drink,
39:46so therefore once we've tested you for that, if it's under,
39:49you can be on your way, can't you?
39:51A breathalyser will settle the argument one way or the other.
39:54OK, when you're ready. Make a nice, tight seal and blow when I tell you to stop.
39:58Keep going, keep going. Lovely. Thank you.
40:03Goodness, Lord. It's a good one.
40:06And he's blown 146, the legal limit being 35,
40:10which is obviously outrageously high.
40:12Right, at this time, you're under arrest
40:14on suspicion of driving whilst over the prescribed limit through a drink.
40:17He was telling me he wasn't drunk and I knew he was
40:19because we've got a really drunk here, 140, hardly blue.
40:22A drugs test is also positive for cocaine.
40:25But you don't have to say anything about me or my defence.
40:27If you don't mention me in question or something,
40:29you're later lying in court and if you do say anything,
40:31they'll be giving evidence, all right?
40:33He's going to be coming with us, lover.
40:35He's going to the police station, but his friend wants to talk to him first.
40:39She's wanting a taxi fare back.
40:55We saw her walking up the road as we drove on.
40:58Cars driving around the area and then, strangely enough,
41:01both of them end up in there together.
41:03Coincidence? I think not.
41:07At the station, the man continues to protest his innocence.
41:21As the man's antics begin to slow the custody process down,
41:25Paul's patience is wearing thin.
41:27He was pushing as far as he could.
41:29He was finding the line as to what we would accept and what we wouldn't.
41:33Right, no, listen...
41:35Right, in which case, stop pulling things on your head
41:37and stop picking things up. Just do as you're told.
41:40Right, in which case, if you've got nothing to hide,
41:42you know what to worry about, don't you?
41:49OK.
41:52All right.
41:53A lot of the time with drinking drugs, they're delaying the process,
41:56so they'll try and be as long as possible
41:58before putting the air into the machine to let the alcohol come out.
42:01At 140-plus, he'd be there for...
42:03He'd have a lot of delaying to do. He'd be talking like 12 hours.
42:07With the formalities finally completed,
42:09Paul and Jamie take the man for an evidential breath test.
42:13But once again, the man tries to obstruct the process.
42:16Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
42:18No, we failed that one. You only get so many goes.
42:21After four attempts to take the breath test
42:24and an hour after he was first stopped,
42:26the man is still almost three times over the drink-drive limit.
42:30Lovely, that's it. Neat, two-on.
42:32We were always going to get the alcohol conviction
42:34because he was never, ever going to go anywhere near the legal limit.
42:38But the testing isn't over.
42:40Paul asks for the man's blood to be taken for drugs analysis.
42:44Tell me he wasn't drunk, tell me he hadn't taken drugs.
42:46I know both of those to be a lie,
42:48because I've got the evidence in my hands to prove it.
42:50Despite further delaying tactics, ultimately a blood sample was taken.
42:54The man's fate will now be in the hands of the courts.
43:01The van driver on the A1 was found to be twice the legal limit for alcohol.
43:06He was sentenced to four-and-a-half months in prison
43:09and a two-and-a-half-year driving ban.
43:12The man injured outside the pub in Bilbra didn't make a formal complaint,
43:16so the man arrested for his assault was released without charge.
43:20The man suspected of driving the white Corsa
43:23was charged with failing to provide the driver's details
43:26and failing to report an accident.
43:28If found guilty, he could receive a minimum of six penalty points
43:32and a possible fine of up to £1,000.
43:35The driver of the runaway Citroën
43:37pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and drunk driving
43:40and was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment
43:43and given a three-and-a-half-year driving ban.
43:46No further action was taken against the four lads in the stolen Golf.
43:51The young man who didn't want to wait with the suspects
43:54is awaiting trial for theft from a motor vehicle.
43:59And the drink-and-drug driver arrested in Bradford's red-light district
44:03was banned from driving after blood tests confirmed
44:06he was more than twice the legal alcohol limit,
44:09more than three times the limit for cannabis
44:12and six times the limit for cocaine.
44:15He was not charged with any curb-crawling offences.
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44:22and retailers battling it out for our emotions.
44:25Catch the greatest ever Christmas ads brand new at ten.
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