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Police Interceptors S24E02 (6th October 2025)
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00:00This is Police Interceptors, and you're riding with the pride of
00:10Northamptonshire, Ace Pursuit drivers, with air support, and a crack dog unit.
00:23They bring down the bad guys, keep the streets safe, and battle 24-7, in the war on crime.
00:44This is what it is, isn't it? We find them, we lock them up.
00:51Coming up...
00:53A seven-tonner does a run-up.
00:58Extreme rambling in the woods.
01:04Get the dog, get the dog, get the dog!
01:06Come on, go down the A6, go down!
01:09And...
01:10This is incredible.
01:11Absolutely incredible.
01:13A drug haul for the ages.
01:15I have not seen anything like this in six years of policing.
01:23The war on crime...
01:33Stay where you are!
01:36Stay where you are!
01:37...sees many battles.
01:38Get on the floor!
01:39Put your hands!
01:40Get on the floor!
01:41Put your hands!
01:42Get on the floor!
01:43And in their rolling struggle with gangs who rob lorries...
01:45Put your hands on your back!
01:46After all that.
01:47Oh, bastards.
01:48Cops taste defeat as much as victory.
01:51They could get down to the bridge and go across onto, uh, Swamp Valley.
01:56But interceptors never give up the fight.
02:08We're just getting a report of, uh, uh, Ock Barrack at Watford Gap Services.
02:14Ock Barrack's the national operation in relation to theft of load from, uh, HGVs.
02:23Lucy Scalthorpe is arriving at a lorry park after CCTV captured a theft in progress from an HGV.
02:31.
02:36There's plenty of lorry drivers awake.
02:41Delta 17.
02:42I'm just having a look around the lorry park now.
02:44I'm just having a look down the line of lorries at the minute.
02:48These so-called curtain siding jobs involve slashing the fabric sides of lorries to make off with the goods inside.
02:56You can see how often these get done.
02:59These are all repaired, but there's loads of them.
03:05But just one fresh slash.
03:08That might be a new one.
03:10Hello!
03:11Police!
03:15You all right?
03:16OK, OK.
03:17So, we've been called because maybe people cutting.
03:20Yes, I'm, I'm looking at these, uh, two persons.
03:23You saw them?
03:24Oh, this way.
03:25OK.
03:26This driver disturbed two men in the process of cutting into his curtain side.
03:30Maybe 30, 40 minutes.
03:34OK.
03:35All right.
03:36Rather than confront the men, he started his rig to scare them off.
03:40This park place is very dangerous, eh?
03:43Yeah.
03:44The culprits seem to be long gone.
03:46OK, no problem.
03:48And you.
03:49But as Lucy returns to the road.
03:51Delta 17, I'm just joining the A14.
03:55News of another potential curtain side job.
03:59The sergeant's just been notified of a new set of plates for the cloned Iveco truck that we were looking for in relation to our barrack.
04:07But we've just had an activation in Northamptonshire near to our services.
04:12Thieves often use HGVs to carry off as much cargo as possible.
04:20And the cops are tracking a lorry they believe has previously been used in curtain siding.
04:25Brad's going to try and get behind it carefully.
04:28But we've just got to form some sort of plan as to how we're going to stop it.
04:31Because obviously it's quite a large vehicle.
04:33They don't expect stolen goods on board.
04:36The priority is to get the lorry off the road to avert potential thefts.
04:41And the plan is to box it in with multiple cars backed by air support.
04:49The helicopter's above now.
04:50The target lorry, all seven plus tons of it, will take some stopping.
05:02They can be really dangerous.
05:04They've got a massive size and weight advantage over our vehicles.
05:09Yeah, it can be really risky.
05:14Lucy joins serious horsepower for the super heavyweight boxing.
05:25Every car in this convoy is a cop.
05:28And the four at the front face the biggest risk.
05:33Move on, move on, move on.
05:36Because tactical pursuit and containment is go.
05:43Three cars surround the lorry.
05:46Box on, box on, box on.
05:50Now to slow down and drop a fourth in behind.
05:53But the lorry rams an armed response vehicle and brakes free.
06:00Oh my God.
06:02On September 6, this vehicle, they've got to stop.
06:09It is trying to ram up these vehicles.
06:12Bumber cars with a seven and a half tonner
06:14is understandably alarming for Sergeant Perry
06:17and his partner on the inside lane.
06:20Mate, mate, mate, mate, mate, mate, mate.
06:22No, I bet we've got people.
06:24No mate, we're on the next side.
06:26That'll cut it up.
06:28If we help me and talk about that.
06:32As cars behind negotiate debris from their ram colleague,
06:35at the sharp end,
06:40the unstoppable target leaves the A14.
06:45It makes it pop, pop, pop.
06:48Perry's Volvo is now the lead car,
06:50with a weight disadvantage of about six tons.
06:54Not one, not one.
06:58Not two, not two.
07:00Vehicle is taking the third, taking the third.
07:06The A512.
07:10Vehicle is still continuing down the A512,
07:13approaching red ATF.
07:15Wait.
07:16Neither blue nor red lights are stopping this lorry.
07:25Vehicle has taken a right-wide drive down the nil-nuts lane.
07:28And there's no room to box it in here.
07:32The cops are running out of moves.
07:34Oscar 1 from Leicestershire.
07:35Are you in command of it?
07:38They're also running into Leicestershire,
07:40where county cops will take the lead from Sergeant Perry.
07:44We're trying to keep our distance back under circulation.
07:47We keep our ball on.
07:49As they race into a village,
07:51North Hans hands the bat on to Leicestershire.
07:55Oh my God, the cavalry.
07:59But with seven and a half tons of runaway hell-bent on escape,
08:03the cavalry looks pretty helpless.
08:07There's no way that one can do this.
08:10So.
08:12Two counties of cops can't stop the runaway,
08:14whose next move is the craziest of all.
08:16It's the wrong way down the carriageway.
08:21Don't follow me.
08:23The super heavyweight lorry is racing the wrong way down a dual carriageway.
08:31It's gone midnight and the roads are quiet.
08:33But as cops track it on the right side of the road...
08:39The lorry is racing towards headlights up ahead.
08:43Interceptors are after a runaway lorry they suspect has been used in curtain-side thefts.
09:02It's clipped an armed response vehicle and broken out of a box.
09:12There's no way that one can do this.
09:15Then made a crazy manoeuvre on Leicestershire's patch.
09:19One way down the carriageway.
09:21Oncoming headlights are heading for the seven and a half ton battering round.
09:26A car swerves onto the slip road seconds from disaster.
09:32And with cops from two counties on one side of the carriageway,
09:37the lorry slows on the other.
09:40Two men have bailed out.
09:46And as the pair make a break for it, cops leg it across live lanes in pursuit.
09:52The runners have cleared a fence and dropped into the woods.
10:02Get the door! Get the door!
10:04Somebody go down!
10:06Go down!
10:08Two cops follow the men in.
10:10While more move to contain any points where they can be picked up.
10:13Come on, go down the A6! Go down!
10:16Go down here!
10:18It's dense woodland.
10:19But the eye in the sky sees all.
10:23They're passing into the bushes.
10:24They're going towards the housing estate.
10:27Led by the chopper, they're closing in.
10:33Northside is a high fence.
10:34We're trying to get out of a high fence.
10:36We're now going back towards the rear of the lorry along the fence line.
10:40So the rear of the lorry, along the fence line, still at the A6 side.
10:44Just when it looks like the pair are in the net.
10:50Yeah, but we've lost sight of them, though, in the bushes.
10:53They pull a vanishing trick.
10:54We've not come out.
10:56But they can't hide for long.
10:57I've got them again.
10:58Back officer, stop, stop, stop.
11:00On your left-hand side now, immediately on your left.
11:03As far as you can go into the woodland.
11:05The net's tightening now.
11:08So you go the right way.
11:10When you get to the fence, turn left.
11:12And that'll take you towards them.
11:13Second officer will go.
11:14Stay where you are.
11:16Directly in front of you.
11:17Now standing still against the fence.
11:19Led from above, Leicestershire units are bang on target.
11:23I don't have a tiny under-rest felt stopped.
11:25Dangerous drive, okay?
11:26Don't say anything, mate.
11:27I'm going to figure the metro and question something.
11:28I don't call any user.
11:29Making an evidence, okay?
11:32Both men are soon in cuffs.
11:35You just unloosen that one slightly.
11:37Ready for a ride to the neck.
11:39Thank you, you've got both detained now.
11:42Are you happy for us to resume?
11:44Cops achieved their goal of taking a cloned lorry with suspected links to curtain siding off the road.
11:51Any potential thefts from the lorry park earlier in the evening were also thwarted.
11:56After a lengthy investigation, no action was taken against the tight-lipped pair nicked in the woods, as cops couldn't prove either was driving.
12:04Another night, another shot across the bows in an endless battle with suspected curtain siders.
12:13Six walks, failing to stop, failing to stop.
12:20As dramatic as life as an interceptor can be,
12:23Police! Stop it now! Stop it now!
12:25The biggest jobs
12:30Get out of the car! Get out of the car now!
12:34Aren't always the loudest.
12:43So, we're currently on the Hemingwell in Wellenborough.
12:50This area predominantly is known for drug use and drug and gang violence.
12:56Josh and Alex are on an evening sweep of a drug hotspot.
13:00We're going to patrol the area for a little while and see what we can find.
13:03It's all quiet on the Hemingwell front.
13:06No one's out tonight. No one's playing out.
13:09And the guys are considering moving on.
13:11When the only car on the road triggers their collective spidey sense.
13:19When you've got cars with blacked out windows going to an estate like this,
13:25it's always good to run them through the box to see if we've got any information on our systems about them.
13:31The question is, do their checks on the shady Golf R warrant a peek behind its tinted windows?
13:36Yeah, let's put it, mate. Let's get rid of it and see what he's doing.
13:40I'll just say what he's doing.
13:41Yeah, he's doing.
13:42Yeah, he's doing a nice thing, yeah?
13:43Yeah.
13:44Do you live here?
13:45No, no, it's good with my friends.
13:46Huh?
13:47No, it's good with my friends.
13:48Oh, is this your friend here?
13:49Yeah.
13:50They're an unlikely duo.
13:51And while one half of the odd couple searches for his driving licence, the other looks for clarity.
14:00What's going on?
14:01What's going on?
14:02What?
14:03What's going on?
14:04But there are more questions than answers.
14:05How do you know him?
14:06We drink sometimes, together, beer.
14:07You drink beer together?
14:08Yeah, we do.
14:09Yeah, we do.
14:10Yeah, we do.
14:11Drinking buddies then.
14:12How do you know each other though?
14:13How have you met?
14:14Oh, no, we work together.
14:15I went in canto.
14:16Okay.
14:17Or work colleagues.
14:18How are you?
14:1940.
14:20You're 40.
14:21You're 40.
14:22You're 40.
14:23You're 40.
14:24I'm 40.
14:25I'm 40.
14:26I'm 40.
14:27I'm 40.
14:28You're 40.
14:29I'm 40.
14:30I'm 40.
14:31I'm 40.
14:32I'm 40.
14:33I'm 40.
14:34I'm 40.
14:35I'm 40.
14:36I'm 40.
14:37I'm 40.
14:38I'm 40.
14:39I'm 40.
14:40I'm 40.
14:41You're 40, are you?
14:42Either the driver has an incredible skin care regime, or these guys are quite the intergenerational
14:47double act.
14:48Have you ever been stopped by the police before?
14:51No, not really.
14:52Just for that speeding.
14:53That's it.
14:54Sorry, my friend.
14:55I'm going to go grab a cigarette and come back to you, yeah?
14:58Okay, good, good.
14:59You stay here for a sec.
15:00Stay here.
15:01All right, yeah.
15:02Just going to take you through our system, but okay.
15:04Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
15:06While Alex runs him through, Josh jolks the driver's memory.
15:09You've been arrested before, haven't you?
15:11Uh, no, I haven't.
15:13I've only been arrested.
15:14That was a long, long time ago.
15:17Easily forgotten.
15:18A couple of years ago, man.
15:20You're good.
15:21You're good to go.
15:22Can I go back?
15:23Yes.
15:24Yeah, it's fine, yeah.
15:26Life begins at 40, and one half of the odd couple is free to go and enjoy it.
15:32His history checks out.
15:34His drinking buddy-come-work colleague, on the other hand...
15:37Moment of time, mate, you are going to be saying under section 23, Mr. Jugs Act.
15:41Yeah.
15:42Okay?
15:43Do you understand that?
15:44Yeah.
15:45Cool.
15:46Put your hands in front of me, please.
15:47They're going to search him and his golf.
15:48Is your car unlocked for my friend, yeah?
15:49Yeah, let me unlock it, then.
15:51Because it seems he's forgotten quite a lot.
15:54The grounds of my search is that we've got recent information on police systems to suggest
15:58that you are involved in supplying drugs in Wellenborough.
16:01Okay?
16:02You have met up with a lad much older than you.
16:05Yeah.
16:06Okay?
16:07And you both told me different stories while you're meeting with each other.
16:09Okay.
16:10Okay?
16:11You told me you worked with him and he said you're just here to have a drink with him.
16:13Yeah, exactly.
16:14So, for me, it raises my suspicion that one of you are lying.
16:18No worries, no worries.
16:19Okay?
16:20Do you understand?
16:21Yeah.
16:22So, you're here.
16:23What are you doing?
16:24Nothing.
16:25What's up with you?
16:26Nothing, nothing, nothing.
16:27Why do you keep moving around, then?
16:28I don't know.
16:29Are we going to find anything, fellas?
16:30So, you might as well be honest with us.
16:32Yes.
16:33Just a couple of bags of wraps.
16:34That's it.
16:35Wraps of what?
16:36Just cocaine.
16:37Wraps of cocaine?
16:38Yes.
16:39Whereabouts today?
16:40In my pocket here.
16:41In your pocket?
16:42Yep.
16:46Just that's all.
16:47Anything else in the car, chap?
16:48No, that's it.
16:49I'm just cash.
16:50That's it.
16:51Which, obviously...
16:52How many bags you got?
16:53We've come to a party.
16:54Just about six person in use.
16:55That's it.
16:56He's gone after six deal bags of coke plus pocket money.
17:00Where's your cash?
17:01Is it in it?
17:02It's in it.
17:03Yeah.
17:04Well, there's no dealing as well.
17:05I don't do no dealing.
17:06I work at the barbers.
17:07I work at the barbers.
17:08Holy heck at 100.
17:10You must be a whiz with the scissors.
17:12How much cash you got on you, buddy?
17:14Quite a lot of cash, isn't it?
17:16That's not a lot of cash, because that's my barbering money.
17:20Given the coke, the cops have doubts about his barbering money.
17:24The time is 20-25 and you're under arrest for possession of intent to supply class A drugs.
17:30He's still trying to spin the amnesia about past dealings with cops.
17:35But I've not been arrested there before, though.
17:38But you've been arrested now?
17:39Yeah.
17:40Yeah?
17:41Yeah.
17:42How many phones you got on you?
17:44Just two.
17:45Which you can check anyway.
17:47You got two?
17:48Yeah.
17:51And someone really wants a haircut.
17:57073.
17:58Incoming numbers make the useful intel.
18:00And those wet shave appointments just keep on coming.
18:07These phones are very active.
18:09Yeah.
18:12It's not active for the drugs.
18:14Hmm?
18:15It's not active for the drugs.
18:18Right.
18:19It's cold, isn't it?
18:20I'm going to sit you back in the car.
18:21And I'm going to sit you back in my car and I'm going to search your car.
18:25No.
18:26Okay?
18:27On your head.
18:28And that search...
18:33Oh, my God.
18:35Turns up a whole lot of barbering money.
18:39An insane amount of cash.
18:42There's got to be thousands upon thousands in there.
18:46Got more cash here.
18:49He's also got a parking ticket, so it's not a good day for him.
18:53He's not got much to smile about.
18:58Alex.
18:59Yeah.
19:00Does he need his teggies?
19:01Does he what?
19:02Does he need his teeth?
19:03Won't he teeth?
19:04Yes, please.
19:05Yeah.
19:06Yes, please.
19:07But at least he's got his pearly whites.
19:09The family will be taking him to custody.
19:11So, yeah, it's going to be a long night for him.
19:14And he's not the only one.
19:15Because with the world's best barber checked into the north, Hans Hilton, it's blues, twos
19:27and high-speed driving for Josh and Alex.
19:30We're on our way to a search of a property of the suspect who we've just locked up.
19:36The reason why we're going on our blues and twos is because we've got intelligence to believe that his friends have been calling up on his mobile phone,
19:43so they might get with that he's been arrested.
19:45Therefore, they might go to the address to see if he's left any drugs or cash at the house.
19:51So, time is off the essence for us now. We need to get to that address.
19:55And at warp five, that doesn't take long at all.
20:04I need seven. That's copy. Thank you.
20:11On arrival, they break the bad news to the barber's family.
20:15He's been arrested, so we've come in here to search his house.
20:17Did you show us his bedroom? Is that okay?
20:19Which one's his bedroom?
20:21Top of the stairs on your right. It's the one with the Class A drugs in.
20:26Jesus, that's what it's in here, mate.
20:27Is it?
20:30Let's get it in situ.
20:32Wow.
20:36Crikey.
20:39So, obviously, in this bag we've got quite a lot of suspected Class A.
20:43It's obviously what we're looking for.
20:45And that's just the starter.
20:47But there's more.
20:49Wow.
20:50There's absolutely loads here.
20:51There's thousands of pounds worth of street value here.
20:54I've suspected Class A.
20:56This isn't so much.
20:59Jesus.
21:02This is incredible.
21:04Absolutely incredible.
21:05Oh.
21:06It's the Class A gift that keeps on giving.
21:08I've not seen anything like this in six years of policing.
21:18And we deal...
21:19We deal with a lot of drug corn.
21:21We rest a lot of drug dealers.
21:24Every...
21:25I mean, there's another bag full.
21:26Thousands and thousands of pounds.
21:28I think it's going to be more.
21:31Yeah, there you go.
21:32Thousands of pounds.
21:33This is just incredible.
21:34This is just incredible.
21:35It's a really, really good result.
21:37This is.
21:38Absolutely.
21:40I've never seen anything like it.
21:43Never seen anything like it.
21:44It's an insane amount of drugs.
21:46Oh, look.
21:47There's more, isn't it?
21:48Just quickly, mate.
21:49We're at the 18.
21:50I'm not joking when I say this.
21:53There's about 500 wraps of cochlear.
21:56And that's at a minimum.
21:59Biggest job ever, mate.
22:00It's got to be the biggest job ever, mate.
22:02Has to be.
22:05This is massive.
22:06Massive.
22:10The guys can't wait to get back to the Knicks
22:12to tot up their haul.
22:15It's amazing.
22:16That's why we do the job.
22:24Tests confirm the drugs seized were indeed cocaine,
22:28with an estimated street value of £36,000.
22:33Cops also seized more than £8,000 in cash.
22:37The forgetful barber pleaded guilty to conspiracy
22:40to supply Class A drugs and possession of criminal property.
22:43He awaits his sentence.
22:47We've taken quite a big fish out of the game today.
22:50We want to rid our streets of these people.
22:53This product would have been sold to users,
22:55some of which are vulnerable.
22:57Some might have been given to children to deal.
23:04Coming up.
23:05Stand by, stand by.
23:06Eyeball on the second vehicle.
23:08Exit stage left, pursued by a dog.
23:11One runner, one runner.
23:13Stopping a fail to stop.
23:16Get your hand behind your back!
23:18Do it now!
23:20And a blunt reminder.
23:22That's come right through your engine, babe.
23:24Not to sit on the fence.
23:26If that had been another couple of inches higher,
23:28you'd be looking at being impaled by it.
23:30It's the night shift, and Dan Bradley Brophy is out in the burbs with police dog Cola.
23:51Just like it's travelled down from West Yorkshire this evening through West Yorkshire, then on towards.
24:00Interceptors are tracking a car with multiple markers, resulting from intelligence gathered by other forces.
24:06Fork focus, ST in black.
24:09It's got a mark on it that it's been involved in throw-overs at prisons, and also has failed to stop for another fork.
24:19Throw-overs involve bad guys throwing things like drugs or phones over prison walls, to be collected by inmates.
24:27A recent op has cut throw-overs in half at Northampton's biggest prison.
24:32He's curiously come down the M1 from, I think, Derbyshire, and for some reason now popping up around Northampton.
24:40And any car linked to them is a car of interest, particularly one that has previously run from cops.
24:47The traffic units are going to have a look for it, and I think we'll go give them a hand, just in case it should turn into a bit of a failed stop.
24:56Dan's preferred patrol car is anything with a dog in the back.
25:00So he's golden tonight.
25:02But his dog van isn't the fastest ship in the fleet.
25:08The plan is for speedier ARVs to get behind the target.
25:12Er, where are they?
25:14No, they're there, no.
25:15But...
25:20That plan needs recalibrating as Dan spotted the Ford.
25:25I think he's towards some P's way, er, going about.
25:29The dog man holds the Ford until the extra horsepower rides in.
25:33There's multiple markers on this car, so, er, I think we should try and compliantly stop it rather than T-pack it and then just see what reaction we get.
25:53It's a plan, but road drivers didn't get the memo.
25:57Don't try and squeeze your A in, mate.
25:59Formation tightened, it's time to test the water.
26:06I'll stick the lights on.
26:09They don't know who was driving it at the time, but the Ford has form for failing to stop.
26:14Er, no compliance at this time.
26:18And early signs are tonight's driver won't book that trend.
26:22Failing to stop the blues and twos, the Ford slows to a crawl and the masked passenger pops out and takes off.
26:41Down in the park, one running.
26:45He's dropped something, which he's risked going back for.
26:49Car's off, fail to stop, fail to stop.
26:51Dan and Cola are going after the butterfingered runner.
26:54Empathy.
26:55We're far at road now.
26:56Left, left, left.
26:57We're far at road now.
26:59Left, left, left.
27:00We're far at road.
27:01We're far at road.
27:03Two ARVs are going after the car he got out of.
27:09Which is running reds at a high rate of knots.
27:11The ARVs split up as the second car hammers the back streets, trying to get ahead of their target.
27:21Firearms cops know these roads inside out, but slowed by pedestrians
27:29and by traffic, this one needs to go some.
27:41But at the speed the runaway's travelling, the back street shuffle proves a lost cause.
27:51And they're still second fiddle to the lead car.
28:01It's a high speed convoy as the runaway leaks two cars out of town and onto rural roads.
28:11Before suddenly, throwing in the town.
28:25Hands out!
28:26Hands out!
28:27Hands out!
28:28Hands out!
28:29Hands out!
28:30Hands out!
28:31No!
28:32Get your hand out!
28:33Hands behind your back!
28:34Get it behind your back!
28:35Get it behind your back!
28:36No!
28:37The driver's struggling.
28:38Mate, get your hand behind your back!
28:40Get your hand behind your back!
28:41Do it now!
28:42Put your hand behind your back, mate!
28:43Do it now!
28:44Get your hand behind your back!
28:45Right.
28:46That's all you need to do.
28:47You can knock me out.
28:49Go on, mate.
28:50Go on.
28:51Okay, pal, you're under arrest for dangerous driving and failed to stop at the minute.
28:54You don't have to say anything.
28:55My own defensive.
28:56Do not mention when questioned.
28:57So it was later on in court.
28:59As they get him to his feet, the driver looks fine for his struggle.
29:03Hey, you got any injuries or anything like that?
29:06Are you all good?
29:07You okay?
29:08This looks good though, yeah?
29:09As long as you're okay.
29:10I'm good.
29:11Here's your mate that ran off.
29:12Shh, shh.
29:13It's okay.
29:14It's all on camera.
29:16Come on.
29:17It is indeed.
29:19But the driver doesn't seem to remember this guy bailing out of his passenger door.
29:24You don't know what we're talking about.
29:29So you don't put guns on you?
29:30Yeah.
29:31For what?
29:32What?
29:33For firearm stuff.
29:34Where are you from?
29:35I was visiting my cousin from Northampton.
29:37I'm from London, sir.
29:38You're from London, sir.
29:39There were two others in the car when it was stopped.
29:42So I'm just going to search you now, all right?
29:44But a search of all three occupants and the vehicle reveals nothing dodgy.
29:49Yeah, steady, steady.
29:51The cops suspect the country drive was to draw them away and allow the decamping passenger
29:56to escape.
29:57Can I come in?
29:59If so...
30:00I've been moving quite quickly.
30:03It worked.
30:04Yeah, just not my day for getting him.
30:06But the car's been stopped and the driver's been arrested.
30:10It won't, however, prevent the man at the wheel of the car he left from facing driving
30:15charges.
30:16You've got a driving licence?
30:17Huh?
30:18Provisional?
30:19Yeah.
30:20Have you got insurance?
30:21Yeah.
30:22It's mobility, so it's open insurance.
30:24Well, not for you if I'm on a provisional licence.
30:26He's on a provisional, and therefore unlikely to be covered by insurance.
30:30Just jump in there, mate.
30:31I'll give you a bit of leg room.
30:32Just jump in.
30:33So, no passenger but one in custody.
30:36And some suspicious wheels off the road.
30:39The focus that's been taken away now had markers from other forces in relation to
30:45being involved in drop-offs in prisons with drones.
30:48So, using drones to drop drugs and other contraband into prisons.
30:52It also had some other markers about it failing to stop for police.
30:57So, yeah, it's nice to get that off the road.
31:00The driver of the runaway Focus, who forgot his fleeing passenger, was convicted of dangerous
31:06driving and driving without a licence or insurance.
31:10And he got a four-year suspended prison sentence.
31:23I saw the car pass me about 100 miles an hour.
31:25Oh, right.
31:26Interceptors attend more road traffic accidents than they'd like.
31:29Any injuries?
31:30They've seen all kinds of crashes.
31:32He's done a red line.
31:33Yeah.
31:34Laurie's flipped him, and then he's made off.
31:36With all kinds of drivers.
31:38Because you've been involved in a collision, and you're currently under arrest on suspicion
31:42of driving a motor vehicle whilst over the prescribed limit of alcohol.
31:45But by far the most likely group to be involved in an accident.
31:49So, you changed this tyre this morning?
31:51Yeah.
31:52I think that's the worst tyre I've ever seen.
31:54Are new drivers with no experience.
31:56It's got chunks out of it somewhere.
31:57It's like someone's been eating it.
31:58Yeah.
31:59You learn to drive with an instructor, but you really learn how to drive when you're out
32:06doing it on your own.
32:07New drivers, no matter what their age is, don't know their limits or their capabilities.
32:13So, I'd say they definitely are more at risk of crashing.
32:20Yeah, pause to it.
32:21It's the early hours, and Keith and Michael are in a hurry.
32:34It's off the 8.45.
32:35Yeah, and it's the work road down to...
32:38Towards Wharton, yeah.
32:39Yeah.
32:40They're responding to an urgent call about an RTC.
32:44The car has come through a fence.
32:47Reports say a car crashed on a straight road with no other vehicle involved.
32:51It's supposed to be a dodgy to me.
32:54Advanced driver, advanced motorcyclist.
32:57Michael's even got his HGV licence.
33:00It's fair to say he can drive in a straight line.
33:03Hello.
33:04How can you crash on a straight bit of road?
33:07Yeah.
33:08On the straightest road since Roman times, they approach the crashed car.
33:13Wow.
33:14He's in a right mess with that, isn't he?
33:17Steppin' heck.
33:20Amazingly, driver and passenger walked away.
33:24Oh.
33:25Are you all right?
33:26Yeah.
33:27Who's the driver?
33:29I'm the driver.
33:30You've gone through one fence, gone out and come back through another fence.
33:33Yeah.
33:34Bravo.
33:35How are you going to do that, then?
33:36I was drinking my water and I wasn't paying attention.
33:38You was drinking your water and you wasn't paying attention?
33:40Yeah, Mike.
33:41So, because of that, we're obviously going to have to breathalise you.
33:44OK.
33:45Have you had an alcoholic drink today?
33:4620 feet battalion driving.
33:47All right, OK.
33:48Have you had any drugs at all?
33:49No.
33:50OK.
33:51How old are you?
33:5217.
33:5317.
33:54When did you pass your test?
33:55Uh, three months ago.
33:56OK.
33:57So, would you suggest that probably it's your lack of, uh, skills behind the wheel?
34:02Yeah, probably awareness.
34:03Yeah.
34:04All right.
34:05True to his word...
34:07Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
34:10Fence killers had neither drink...
34:12Put your tongue right out.
34:13...nor drugs.
34:14That's a negative on the drugs.
34:15That's a negative on the drugs.
34:16But he's likely to face charges for his driving.
34:19Because, uh, of what you've done to your car, what you've done to the fences, you're
34:25going to be reported for driving without due care of attention?
34:28OK.
34:29All right.
34:30He should be relieved he's around to be reported at all.
34:33Have you seen the wood?
34:35No.
34:36No.
34:37You're a lucky boy.
34:38Well, where's the wood?
34:39Really lucky.
34:41The fence they crashed into is a pointed reminder to always pay attention at the wheel.
34:47Has it gone through the windscreen?
34:52Wow.
34:53That's come right through your engine bay.
34:55It's flying.
34:57If that had been another couple of inches higher, you'd be looking at being impaled
35:01by it.
35:02A fence post passed right through the engine bay and buried itself in the driver's seat.
35:08His legs must have been either side of it at impact.
35:12I'm actually unsure how that's missed him.
35:15This guy should buy a lottery ticket pronto.
35:18I've never seen anything like that before.
35:20Seasoned traffic cops Michael and Keith can't quite believe it.
35:24Oh, my God.
35:25That has gone right through the...
35:27Over the engine.
35:28Over the gearbox.
35:29Through there.
35:30So precise, isn't it?
35:31It's gone.
35:32Missed everything.
35:33Yeah.
35:34Including him.
35:35Somehow, the state missed the engine.
35:37The gearbox and the drivers.
35:39Va, va, va.
35:43Looking at that, he's come down here.
35:45Somehow, lost control.
35:47Clipped the kerb there.
35:50He's probably then overcorrected, hasn't he?
35:52That vehicle's all in all of the...
35:53But then that's clipped him across.
35:54Clipped him across.
35:55Clipped him across.
35:56Over there.
35:57Yeah.
35:58So you can see wood in there as well.
36:00Where he's hit it, it's kind of...
36:03there.
36:04Yeah.
36:05There.
36:06In there.
36:07Literally just...
36:09destroyed the whole fence.
36:11And it seems the wood in the driver's seat isn't the only stake that stabbed the car.
36:17The engine bay looks like a game of kerplunk.
36:20It's punctured the sump.
36:22Really?
36:23Yeah.
36:24Even the engine itself was pierced.
36:26There's a stream of oil going through the grass.
36:28Yeah.
36:29I've showed you that, where he's...
36:30Yeah, yeah.
36:31...punched the sump.
36:32And with the driver's dad on hand to see how close his son came to disaster...
36:36Then you can see the oil...
36:38all the way.
36:40Everyone can breathe a monster sigh of relief.
36:43I've seen these types of things where people are not coming out alive.
36:48So your son is a very lucky boy.
36:51Lucky boy's good fortune continued.
36:54No further action was taken regarding allegations of driving without due care and attention.
36:59It's fair to say, somebody up there likes him.
37:03I've been 17 years old.
37:05And that bit of wood's missed him, well...
37:08missed him by centimeters, isn't it?
37:11Just amazing.
37:21Sounds pretty concerning at the minute.
37:24Coming up.
37:25No witness to seeing a female being fast into a vehicle.
37:29All systems go after reports of a kidnap.
37:32We're gonna head to that address as quick as we can.
37:35It's approaching midnight.
37:37It's approaching midnight.
37:4199.
37:42We've been a mate.
37:43We've been a mate.
37:44We've been a mate.
37:45We've been a mate.
37:469-9 likewise.
37:47Richie and Harrison are racing to reach the scene of a worrying incident called in by the public.
37:56No witness to seeing a female being fast into a vehicle.
37:57I've got limited details at the minute.
37:58Apparently you're screaming, take it off me.
37:59Probably could be treated as a potential kidnap.
38:00It could be as hard as nails, but Harrison's a family man with a soft spot for anyone in a tight corner.
38:03Sounds pretty concerning at the minute.
38:04Sounds pretty concerning at the minute.
38:055-4-5-0-5-0-5-0-5-0.
38:065-4-0-5-0-6-0-5-0-5-0-5-0.
38:075-0-5-0-5-0-5-0.
38:11That's the scene of a worrying incident called in by the public.
38:13No witness to seeing a female being fast into a vehicle.
38:16I've got limited details at the minute.
38:23with a soft spot for anyone in a tight corner.
38:27It sounds pretty concerning at the minute.
38:335.45 feet of space, star car.
38:40Roger.
38:42The description of the car into which the girl was bundled is pretty vague.
38:46Yeah, I'm just trying to search on local cameras at the same time
38:49for anything that sort of fits that description,
38:53and sort of black in colour in a state car.
38:56And the plot thickens.
38:58How have you found a phone at the scene?
39:01It contains a bank card.
39:03Cops have found a phone where the suspected abduction took place
39:06and a cash card with a teenage girl's name on.
39:1019 years old.
39:12Richie and Harrison come to a decision.
39:14We're not far from the address. We're grade 1 in there now.
39:18Roger.
39:18So ARVs have found a bank card for someone
39:24that's in a phone case by the looks of it.
39:30We've had a look on Niche and we've found a location
39:33that the potential female that's had some involvement.
39:36We've got to head to that address as quick as we can.
39:39They need to piece together the facts.
39:43If this is kidnapped, then the phone could be a victim's or a suspect's.
39:47Or the whole thing could be a mistake.
39:51Left, left at the top.
39:52Either way...
39:54Right, right again.
39:55The registered address of the girl on the bank card
39:58is a good place to start fact-finding.
40:02Clearly.
40:04But before they get there...
40:05The female's turned up.
40:07The bank card girl returns to the scene in a black corset.
40:11And it's...
40:12She's with a IC3 male.
40:15She's arrived with a friend to find her phone.
40:19Bit of a coincidence, though, isn't it?
40:20With no grounds to detain,
40:23firearms cops at the scene have let the girl retrieve her phone and go.
40:27But Ritchie and Harrison have doubts.
40:30Just a big coincidence, isn't it, for my liking?
40:33It's a bit strange at the minute.
40:35There's a person returned to pick the phone up
40:38from where this potential kidnap happened.
40:40And the car she left in isn't far away.
40:44It's this vehicle in front.
40:45They've been spoken to, but...
40:48I'm just trying to establish further details.
40:50They're convinced something doesn't add up.
40:55No, no, we're behind that car now.
40:58Might stop it again and give us further questions.
41:00And decide to shed a little blue light on the mystery.
41:15Hello there.
41:16I know you've just spoken to some of my colleagues,
41:18but can I just...
41:19rather than just so it's safer.
41:20Do you mind just stepping out on the car,
41:21which I'll chat you there, please, both of you.
41:26I don't know how much the officers told you earlier, okay,
41:29but I'm going to tell you maybe a little bit more than they have
41:31because I want to bottom this out.
41:32Earlier this evening,
41:34right where your phone was found,
41:36there was reports of a female
41:38having some sort of argument with one or two males
41:40and it looked to someone
41:42like they'd end up being pushed in the car.
41:44Is it possible that that was you?
41:46No.
41:49Richie's favourite TV show is The Traitors
41:51and he'd be a damn hand in the castle.
41:55All it takes from Sergeant Lie Detector
41:57is a look.
42:00Just thinking it was a prank.
42:02Pardon?
42:02Yeah, it was a prank.
42:03So, was it you?
42:04Yeah, yeah, yeah.
42:05So, you just said...
42:05You said no.
42:06It was not.
42:07I need a straight answer here.
42:08What was going on there?
42:09It was just wrong.
42:10Tell you what,
42:11do you want to come and chat with me?
42:12Yeah, it was wrong.
42:13Okay.
42:14So, what happened?
42:16We were messing around.
42:17Okay.
42:18Like, playing around
42:19and I ran out.
42:21So, I didn't like this song.
42:21We were just messing around.
42:22It was supposed to be a prank.
42:23So, you've had an awful lot of police officers
42:25looking into this
42:25because we think it looks like a suspected kidnap.
42:28So, your prank's gone a little bit wrong
42:29in that sense, hasn't it?
42:30You see what I mean?
42:32I'm so sorry.
42:32That was not supposed to happen.
42:35They need to be sure she's not lying
42:37out of fear for her safety.
42:40So, you've got an opportunity
42:40to tell me something different here.
42:41Was it a prank
42:42or was it a little bit more serious?
42:43I'm completely fine.
42:45What happened in the prank?
42:46You tell me.
42:47What did you do?
42:48I just ran.
42:49I got out of the car
42:49and then I was running away as a joke.
42:51Who were you running away from?
42:53This man here?
42:54Is he partner, boyfriend, friend?
42:56No, just a friend.
42:56OK.
42:57And who else?
42:58Um, my other friends.
42:59Your other friend?
43:00Yeah.
43:00And what did they do to you
43:01as part of that prank?
43:03I jumped out as a joke
43:05and they came to chase me.
43:06It's like...
43:06It's a thing on TikTok.
43:09Right.
43:10Yeah, I think you probably...
43:11I don't know if you've heard of it before.
43:12I don't do TikTok.
43:13So, go on.
43:14What's it on TikTok?
43:15It's just like a trend.
43:16Is it?
43:17You run away.
43:18It seems they were trying
43:20to resurrect an old online trend.
43:22It's from years ago.
43:24Where folk uploaded clips
43:25of staged chases.
43:27Why'd you run after her?
43:28Because you were just trying to be silly.
43:30I'm actually so sorry for wasting...
43:32I didn't remember...
43:32We've called out...
43:33Somebody's been called out
43:34to review some specialist CCTV.
43:36You weren't far away
43:37from instigating
43:38a major police operation.
43:40your friend
43:42that was also involved.
43:44Yeah, he just stopped...
43:45The third man.
43:46Is this him?
43:47Yeah.
43:48Can I talk to him?
43:48Yeah, you can talk to him.
43:49Hello?
43:50Hello.
43:51Hello there.
43:52It's the police.
43:53The third man's version
43:54of events checks out.
43:56Probably not the wisest
43:57of options.
43:59I'm 100% not.
44:00And the prankster three
44:02are innocent.
44:03Is this going to go on TV?
44:04I hope so.
44:06And it's going to go on TV.
44:07Look at my hair.
44:08It's not even going to pop me
44:09even in pajamas.
44:10It's not the hair,
44:11but it's the Crocs.
44:12Yeah, I've got Crocs on as well.
44:14That should be a criminal offence.
44:16In the absence
44:16of the fashion police,
44:18no further action
44:19will be taken
44:19against the prankster three.
44:21Anyway,
44:23I'll let you two
44:25hopefully be the stars
44:26of a police intercept show
44:27at some point
44:28with your Crocs
44:28and PJs.
44:30Wait, I watched this show.
44:31I actually watched
44:32all that night time.
44:34Well, you're free to go.
44:35You're free to go on your way.
44:36Enjoy the rest of your night
44:37and in the nicest possible way
44:39I hope we don't see you
44:40in the same circumstances again.
44:41I'm going to get kidnapped again.
44:51I'm going to get kidnapped again.
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