Trace Track Get Car Back Season 01 Episode 07

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00:0050 seconds was enough time to reprogram that car so that they had control of it and we didn't

00:06but an army of investigators are fighting back the car is actually parked just there by fitting

00:12vehicles with high-tech trackers can't tell you what the devices look like or where we hide them

00:17so they can trace track it's a cat and mouse game now we just have to follow that signal

00:21and snatch them back from the crooks who took them there you go there we are got it before they're

00:25sold on or shipped overseas they're called organized crime groups for a reason they're

00:30organized they plan this stuff

00:38today the long search for a stolen machine finally comes to an end yeah i'm 100 sure it's in this

00:45vehicle but it's a case of near and yet so far looks completely missing here and when another container

00:54is cracked open at felixstowe port to me just scream suspicious there's a stark reminder

01:00of the true loss for the victims i suspect it's stolen because if you're exporting it you wouldn't

01:05be exploring it with your kids car seat in there and all the toys and everything else

01:16thieves have broken into a construction site just outside bristol

01:20they've stolen a heavy-duty tarmac roller worth tens of thousands of pounds and disappeared

01:28but what the criminals don't realize is the rollers fitted with a tiny tracking device

01:36vehicle recovery specialist richard taylor activates the tracker from hq

01:41a signal from the tracker's sim card is picked up by the nearest mobile phone mast or cell tower giving

01:50richard an approximate location

01:54we're heading towards crystal on the m4 it's a phone mast location that's indicating that there's a stolen

02:01machine that we're tracking down today in that location so once we get off the m4 we shouldn't be

02:07too long to get to the main cell area the construction company raised the alarm as soon as they realized

02:14the roller was missing there's no gps signal which means the criminals could be blocking it

02:21they noticed that the site cabin door had been tampered with but they couldn't see anything you know

02:27taken or stolen at that time so they just carried on but this morning which is like a day and a half later

02:33they've actually realized that one of their machines had been stolen the roller which is used for tarmac

02:41thefts like this make up more than half of richard's work

02:46those plant and construction machines make an easy target for criminals because they're easy to move on

02:52and they're highly valuable you know you can even small machines can be 30 40 000 pounds worth of equipment

02:58it's estimated that over 70 million pounds worth of plant machinery is stolen from construction sites

03:06every year the loss of valuable equipment can have huge financial consequences for contractors

03:13and it can cause project delays which may mean potholes unfilled and unhappy road users

03:19this bomag roller is quite commonly stolen so we probably recover five to ten of these a year so

03:27it's not a rarity the gps signal could be getting blocked by the van's metal sides and roof

03:35the fact we can't get a gps signal indicates to me that the likelihood is even stronger

03:41that it is in the back of a van so that represents a bit of a challenge because you know there's there's a

03:47lot of metal around a lot of material and that makes it a little bit tougher but you know more

03:52exciting for us i guess richard's honing in on the tracker's last known location but there's still no

04:00satellite signal vehicle trackers often don't just rely on gps they use radio frequency or rf tracking

04:11which unlike gps continues to provide a signal if the vehicle's hidden from view rf is also tricky

04:18for thieves to jam

04:23okay so we're going to put the roof antenna on try not to get run over in the process

04:29richard's switching to his trusty radio frequency receiver to help him locate the stolen roller

04:35so this has got a magnetic a magnetic base just sticks to the top of the roof

04:41he connects the antenna to a receiver inside the car right now we have power once he gets close enough

04:49he should be able to pick up an rf signal the cell site is a mile further on so we just carry on going

04:55down this road straight and keep our eyes peeled and our ears listening out for that signal

05:00as we're driving to the location if we pick up the signal it should get louder as the closer we get

05:10picking up an rf signal could take several hours

05:15it's not a piece of cake you know you have to know what you're doing and you have to have a bit of

05:19determination and perseverance to to stick at it at the end of the day this is a job for us and

05:27everyone likes to do the job and get the result they want you know it doesn't matter what line

05:31of profession you're in and what you do you're aiming to achieve your target what you're being

05:35paid for so the most important thing is for us to get that end result

05:42yeah just a very faint signal we've got the faint beeping sound that can be heard amongst the

05:48static might be the rf signal we're going to be within half a mile or so maybe here

05:57and at last there's a breakthrough

06:02i think got a signal there

06:07louder it's getting louder three and a half hours later later richard closes in on his target

06:18next van on the left hand side is the key suspect

06:22but is the stolen roller stashed inside

06:33felix dough is home to one of the busiest ports in europe

06:37but hidden within the thousands of shipping containers here are hundreds of stolen cars

06:43and it's up to port's intelligence officer adam gibson to hunt them down and intercept them before

06:48they're exported so we've got a container today uh manifest is auto parts we're going to unload

06:54the container and have a look at what's inside it the manifest is a document that details exactly

06:58what's meant to be inside each container and adam has just the tool to crack this one open

07:04don't need to have you boys

07:10beasts ain't they

07:15doesn't look much like auto parts

07:17inside is a high-end land rover defender 110 to me just screams suspicious like i say manifests

07:25auto parts when we get in there you've got a car like this this value it looks like it's had a few

07:31modifications to it fits bolted onto it so this wouldn't have been cheap getting close to if not

07:36over a hundred thousand pounds worth of car and there's some keys with the vehicle we'll now see

07:40whether it starts this could be consistent we get vehicles that are stolen through what we call car

07:44key burglaries where they've come into your house took the keys then took your car off the driveway

07:50or it might be legitimately being exported but we'll see in a second um but we'll see if we can get it

07:54started get it out and have a closer look at the vehicle with the keys packed inside the land rover

07:59it's a simple reversing job to get it out once adam opens the door of the black defender he uncovers a

08:06surprise it is a wrap so the car is actually a green car with um black wrapping to give it that

08:13satin black finish it's not long before the true identity of this hundred grand off-roader is exposed

08:22i've done some checks it's not a 2023 plate that it claims to be it is actually coming back as a

08:28stolen vehicle and it's coming back as a stolen vehicle through burglary so that's why the keys are

08:31with it so someone's gone in somebody's house and took their pride and joy off the driveway

08:36hence why they're putting in a container and getting out of the country a second car has been hoisted up

08:42at the back of the container they're going to have to get a forklift to remove the car safely

08:47it's a toyota rav4 which appears to have been a well-loved family car i suspect it's stolen because

08:55if you were exporting it you wouldn't be exporting it with your kids car seat in there and all the toys

08:58and everything else would you a quick background check confirms adam's suspicions this is a stolen

09:06car it's number plates say it's a 2073 it's not it's a 71 plate and it's coming back as stolen from

09:13london the last few weeks you've still got all the car seat kids toys everything else that would have

09:17been in there the night before when it was taken and also down here are the original number plates

09:24these number plates they use when they steal the cars and they literally fall off lucky if it didn't

09:30fall off on the way away from the scene they're literally just straight in the container along with

09:35people's personal effects stuff that was in the boot they didn't even bother to unload them

09:39the owners will be contacted and told the good news about their car being retrieved and the

09:45children can be reunited with their toys it's success stories like this that help motivate the team in

09:52their quest to disrupt organized crime gangs and sharon norton head of navsis the national vehicle crime

10:00intelligence service knows only too well that the ripple effects of car theft can be far-reaching

10:06so these are a couple of recent ones we got in as you can see again with these pickup trucks some

10:11of the tools are still in here from the workmen um so we'll see if we can make contact and get them

10:15reunited with those yeah looks like it could have been a plasterer or a trade yeah these tradesmen

10:23went to bed the next morning they're getting up thinking they've got to be on site it doesn't just

10:28inconvenience them inconveniences the people that they were supposed to be turned up to do the work

10:32for because they've lost out and um they've got no one there to do the work just amplifies how much

10:38the person is the victim of crime doesn't it it's not just about the car definitely

10:44and a quick look through some paperwork on the back seat shows the impact the theft has had on

10:49the victim's clients too this looks like he's done some work at a care home for obviously uh some gas

10:59work so you know you've got the most vulnerable people uh in a care home that are relying on this

11:06gas engineer to make sure that everybody's safe and uh they've had their vehicle stolen and all of their

11:12tools and you know it's just so heartbreaking this vehicle was clearly someone's workhorse and the tools

11:22of their trade yeah definitely yeah but again we get with some of the other cars some of the family cars

11:27you get in the car seats you're getting the kids toys that's never nice to see yeah um or their

11:32mobility vehicles and we even had one a few months back and it had the winch for somebody's wheelchair

11:37oh my god so that was all still in the back yeah i think when you see those sort of family personal

11:42items it really brings it home to you because you know everybody's within sort of touching distance of

11:48having their vehicle stolen you know your cars were sometimes like your home on wheels isn't it

11:53it's just a snapshot of your life isn't it and mine's my mobile office isn't it yeah yeah yeah

11:59later we meet a theft victim whose car was found in a container

12:05i got pictures of it come through and it was actually

12:08stood on its back wheels ratchet strapped to the roof this is a range rover it's over two tons

12:12in bristol richard's three hours into the hunt for a tarmac roller stolen from a construction site

12:25so it's not plain sailing because we're in quite a residential area there's lots of crisscrossing roads

12:31it sounds like they're getting closer

12:40i'm not sure if i should be in here but richard checks a bus depot

12:48good place to hide it no look here next an industrial estate with plenty of hiding places

12:56shipping container

13:03not loud enough to be in this

13:15half past nine now about four and a half hours it's been quite tricky but we're definitely up on

13:21the trail here but we've got to be within 800 meters i'd say and then we're going off now so i'll need to turn around

13:32come back down again

13:36but yeah i reckon five ten minutes we should have it now

13:41richard's convinced the roller's hidden in the back of a van

13:45but which one so what we're looking for now is

13:50sort of a white van

13:52but with the suspension down on the back the radio signal suddenly gets louder

14:00that looks a possibility

14:05so that could be it definitely on that corner so it's one of those vans there i think

14:10it's worth another look right so the next van on the left hand side

14:20is the key suspect that one there the mercedes sprinter

14:27but has richard found the van containing the stolen machinery

14:31so we just transferred to the handheld unit now and then take a walk around it

14:41using the handheld receiver will give him a more precise signal it's a low frequency receiver this is

14:48gives us the direction but it's quite accurate to less than a meter so i should be able to walk

14:54around this band and confirm it's inside without too much of a problem

15:01fire it up

15:07so we just come closer to it as i'm walking up it's getting stronger signal

15:12and just turn it down a bit

15:27very loud through the air gap of the door changing the level down that's a level three

15:33there's more signal coming through the cab so i'm up to a level down to level two

15:38so yeah i'm 100 sure it's in this vehicle and there's something else about the van that suspect

15:46these number plates look quite nice compared to the rest of the van so i'd expect those number

15:51plates have been made recently this could mean the van is stolen too and on fake plates

15:58richard wants to eyeball the stolen machinery for himself just to be sure locks completely missing here

16:04the van is locked but he doesn't want to leave it overnight because it may not be here in the morning

16:14i'm sorry was it you who reported you said you've been sent to recover

16:17i'm been out recovering a stolen piece of plant equipment that's reported to avon and somerset police

16:23this morning to get the van and its contents seized and stored securely richard needs police assistance

16:31i work for the tracking company and the uh the rollers in the back of a white mercedes sprint event

16:38the police will have a good look at the locks to see if they can gain access in any which way shape

16:43or form later it's the moment of truth for richard we find them in the back of these vans all the time

16:53yeah yeah yeah i've never got it wrong in 14 years so

17:05organized crime gangs are driving a huge increase in vehicle thefts by stealing luxury family cars

17:11from residential streets and driveways and shipping them across the globe

17:15vehicles still failing to stop several police forces have launched crackdowns but only two percent

17:23of crooks are getting caught anthony wilson lives in bishop stortford essex with his wife danielle and

17:30their three-year-old son last year anthony awoke to discover their range rover had gone from their gated home

17:38it's almost an arrogance in i'm going to take this i'm going to take it from right underneath your

17:45your nose and you'll see the whole thing later on when we're long gone we had a 2019 range rover sport

17:53which we bought as our family car when we discovered that we were having our son we decided that we'd go

18:00and look at family cars i mean it was big um we had a coupe first and very quickly bought a baby seat and

18:08realized it doesn't fit very well in a coupe so that was going to be our kind of general purpose

18:13car that would do all the things we wanted we kind of had orchestrated the house to be quite safe we

18:20always thought we live in a very good area we actually have it gated private driveway and we

18:26then added some cctv so that we can see everything on the drive from a couple of different angles

18:32the car would always get parked on the drive whenever we got out of it it would lock no problem

18:36keys all would go in the same place we have a faraday bag one night in july anthony and his family were

18:43all at the house went to bed of course cameras are on gates closed no problem went to sleep woke up the

18:51next morning a few missed calls from a private number um didn't think too much of it um came downstairs to

18:59the kitchen flicked the kettle on as i always do in the morning sort of 10 to 7 something like that

19:04sort of looked and double looked and then looked around the wall there's no range rover

19:13as anthony went outside to investigate the police arrived

19:18they stopped and pulled into the driveway and they said we've just been sent out to have a

19:25conversation with you because we've been trying to reach you all night

19:27um at sort of 150 in the morning your range rover was stolen the car had a basic tracker fitted by the

19:35manufacturers so anthony immediately contacted range rover but there was bad news there's no tracking of

19:44the car it disappeared offline what appeared to be a few minutes after it was stolen and it's vanished

19:50ever since we're not really sure where it is anthony viewed the cctv system which showed there were two

19:58thieves involved one stealing the car and another driving the vehicle they arrived in

20:05they climbed over the fence at the front where they stood around talking and then eventually you

20:11see one guy in a kind of jacket and face covering walk along in front of the house right up in front of

20:18the front door i mean they were really really close to the internal cameras even picked them up they

20:22were that close to the front door and then you watch them kind of creep across the gravel driveway

20:28so they didn't make any noise and then go around to the side of the car before just opening the door

20:33and i think that was the first time we were aware of the fact that the car was open so it wasn't locked

20:41was locked when we left it but was not locked when they actually walked up the drive to get it

20:49it appeared that the thieves used a key reprogramming device to take control of the car

20:56they deactivated the tracking device before driving away

21:02they pulled into a private road and went through a locked electric gate with three cctv cameras pointing

21:12at the drive with lighting it's not dark it's light all the time even through the night

21:19they did it in front of us on a gravel drive in less than a minute

21:26anthony later discovered the criminals had programmed a new key so his keys were no longer recognized

21:3350 seconds was enough time to reprogram that car so that they had control of it and we didn't

21:42in the weeks that followed the incident anthony and his family began to feel vulnerable

21:46when you're at home you're inside your house your house is your castle everybody feels safe that's

21:52the one place you've got that you should feel really safe we had a new alarm fitted in the house actually

21:56and went another level up of inter-monitored security etc because it was it challenged the

22:03safety and i'm hang on my family are here and i don't want this could have been a whole lot worse

22:10a month after the car was stolen anthony received a call from tilbury port

22:15saying the car had been discovered wedged inside a shipping container

22:19i got pictures of it come through and it was actually stood on its back wheels ratchet strapped

22:26to the roof of a container with two great big straps like this is a range rover it's over two tons

22:32and there was obviously two in the same container but the car hadn't escaped unscathed half of the

22:38bonnet was dented and had rubbed on the top of the container to the point it was all bare metal and the

22:43bumper had all been damaged underneath and all pulled and scratched and the thieves had torn it to bits

22:48rip the carpet up rip the ends of the dash off torn out all of the back and then you could see the

22:53tracker hanging out with the wires pulled due to the extensive damage the insurance company declared

23:01the car a write-off we're not going to be the victim of it all it's somebody took this from us

23:08we can't sit indoors all the time of the doors locked we don't want to get on and have a life it

23:13is just a car um actually in any circumstance as long as we're safe then you just carry on but the

23:21financial penalty the emotional penalty is left with you the victim of a car theft

23:35cars with keyless entry unlock automatically when the key comes within a short distance of the car

23:40car but this technology can make cars more vulnerable to being stolen

23:48in fact it's estimated between 60 and 70 percent of cars stolen in the last year were keyless models

23:57a criminal using keyless or relay car theft uses technology to intercept the signal from a car

24:04to unlock it and start the ignition but there are steps you can take to avoid relay crime

24:14when you're at home keep your keys away from the car windows and doors

24:20use a signal blocking faraday bag

24:25park the car in a garage overnight

24:27and a steering wheel lock can act as a deterrent

24:37in bristol richard's been tracking a stolen tarmac roller

24:42he's picking up a signal from the back of this van and he's called in police backup

24:47i can just walk around the vehicle with this

24:55and that's our tracker system that's in that in inside the roller inside the back of the van

25:01obviously the this is the normal sort of sort of van that we find them in the back of

25:07richard's convinced he's found the stolen machinery

25:11six hours after he left base he's about to find out if he's got his client's property back

25:16we find them in the back of these vans all the time yeah yeah yeah i've never got it wrong in 14 years so

25:25if richard's right and the roller is inside then the thieves may have left the van here for a cooling

25:31off period in case they've been tracked all they're looking for is that the fact there's no double yellow

25:36lines and it's not directly into no one's house is opposite

25:44there's only one way to find out for sure if the role is in the back

25:48and that's to force entry

25:56super richard's suspicions are confirmed hidden in the back of the van is the stolen equipment

26:04construction site thefts are on the rise but in this case the criminals have been thwarted it is

26:10a great result and that's what we need at the end of these long days and you know 20 25 30 000

26:15pound for these machines they can be sold cash 10 or 12 15 grand half price maybe you know it's

26:23this good money thanks to richard's persistence and his high frequency radio equipment he's got another

26:29result it's hidden away inside here for obvious reasons to keep it out of sight and also to defeat

26:36some of the tracking technology that's out there suspecting the van is also stolen police check the

26:42vin or vehicle identification number if it doesn't match the number plates they're false yeah definitely

26:48being tampered with the vin numbers partially erased this could be a deliberate attempt to disguise the

26:55van's true identity the plan now is to have the suspect van and its contents taken to a police

27:01compound while investigations continue the police are very happy with the fact that we've identified

27:07this is a stolen piece of plant and that the ban is most likely stolen as well two vehicles recovered

27:14in this case thefts from construction sites cost a staggering 800 million pounds a year

27:21but in this case the role has been recovered and will soon be back at work normally from when we first

27:26get the signal it's a five minute ten minute turnaround you know when we find the van in this case it took a

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