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00:00the highlands and islands of scotland is britain's biggest beat i'm injured with the car on fire
00:10i've got three wounded persons it is really easy to underestimate the highlands patrolling 12 000
00:18square miles of mountains lochs and islands we're gonna need a launch to be able to go out
00:25and get this boy lifted and searching for suspects deep in the wilderness the highland cops must go
00:34above and beyond to protect their communities we realized it was human remains so came back down
00:41and phoned the police i think in the highlands the blue line is very thin tackling traditional rural
00:46crimes it's absolutely related with shotgun pellet it's clear evidence that these birds are being
00:52persecuted and crimes that plague the nation
00:56bags of a white crystalline powder if you're getting one person off the street then it's like
01:05you've done your job this series goes inside the uk's most distinctive police force we are close
01:12we live in close-knit communities all right let's go we look out for each other to find out what it
01:19takes to walk the beach there's monkeys there's parrots it's all completely a lot of our comfort zone
01:24and keep the peace you just threatened to kill it said you were going to strangle it
01:29in some of the most beautiful and wild places in the uk
01:33you
01:49the a9 the main road that connects the highlands to the rest of scotland for the people who live here
01:58it's a vital artery but it also has a darker claim to fame
02:04a9 is a dangerous road but there is the main route to the north of scotland so
02:15got everything from the hgvs and the lorries traveling with all the goods up to the shops
02:20and the towns to a huge volume of tourist traffic as well
02:23so sunny i know half eight at night you would think it's like one o'clock in the afternoon
02:34how bright it is tonight pcs jamie embury and ross nairn are on patrol near avimor
02:42go ahead when the report comes in of an accident on the a9
02:49yeah control from four went off as the night shift in we'll start making our way but we're
03:04quite a distance away
03:11so it's plotting this side of the car bridge junction female is heard screaming and a male
03:18is grunting tourist
03:23we'll jake
03:28as the officers make their way to the scene they receive updates
03:32november five six nine
03:39reports coming in suggest this is a head-on collision between two vehicles
03:49when we hear of a head-on collision on the a9 vehicle traveling at 60 miles an hour northbound
03:54a vehicle traveling 60 miles an hour potentially southbound you know meeting together you know
03:59you're talking about 120 mile an hour impact that generally means that we're going to be driving into
04:05carnage
04:06carnage
04:13oh
04:15oh
04:17oh
04:19oh
04:21oh
04:23oh
04:25oh
04:27oh
04:29oh
04:36when we arrived on the scene there was bodywork of both vehicles strewn across the road
04:42the pickup truck was still on the road
04:44the minivan was wedged on top of the barrier
04:51there are three people trapped inside this minivan all from one family
05:06the moment the fire brigade have stabilized the vehicle it's kind of perched on quite a steep embankment
05:10that drops down quite a distance so they've winched up a cable to make sure that that vehicle doesn't go any further
05:17off the barrier and down into the embankment
05:19as the fire brigade make the vehicle safe and the paramedics tend to the family inside
05:26jamie and ross need to start gathering evidence immediately
05:29we don't know the reason why these vehicles have crashed and we have to establish that we have to investigate that
05:36so use all witness day yeah right let me grab names and details
05:42particularly if it's a serious one where there's going to be injuries potentially life-threatening injuries
05:47or did you get straight
05:49or did you get straight
05:50or did you get straight out 4909 and ross
05:51yeah
05:52yeah
05:53just vaguely moved into the next lane and there was no braking before impact
05:57you can see here make sure you're on the pavement though and just don't go
06:01sort of past the back of this fire engine okay
06:04just so you don't see anything alright
06:06this is one of the worst crashes on the a9 this year
06:10and there is devastating news about the mother of the family
06:14who was a passenger in the minivan
06:17so it's a fatal one females passed away unfortunately
06:22it's been confirmed so she's been confirmed life extinct is now so
06:27the woman's husband and adult children are still being treated by paramedics
06:35the other driver of the pickup truck who is the sole occupant of the vehicle
06:42is being rushed off to rig more hospital in inverness
06:45but there are quite a few people in that other vehicle where the female is now deceased
06:49i know that they were working on somebody else there as well
06:52the police see you know on a daily basis things that people wouldn't believe
06:59we deal with horrific injuries and horrific incidents which does take its toll
07:05i get great support from my wife at home so if i ever need to talk about something you know she's there for me
07:14you know we obviously are sympathetic towards the rest of the family who were in that vehicle
07:20but we still have to maintain our composure and try and get on with the job and figure out what exactly went wrong
07:26for their benefit as well just to make sure that they understand why they've suddenly lost their mother
07:33sorry disease confirmed three life threatening two two life threatening one disease two life threatening one
07:41one eye witness did have a clear view he was driving immediately behind the minivan
07:51one minute was fine next minute just veered over to the right
07:54and sadly impacted into the oncoming vehicle so it's a pretty nasty head-on
08:01i just told the boys to contact emergency services and then i just approached the first vehicle
08:06there was no braking before impact there was nothing to suggest there was any animals across the road or anything like that so yeah
08:17but there's still a lot of work to do to find out the exact cause of this crash
08:23specialist collision investigators have just arrived on scene they will work through the night in search of answers
08:35glencoe and fort william are among the busiest tourist destinations in scotland
08:52but even with thousands of people passing through in the surrounding vast wilderness
08:58it's all too easy to disappear and perfect for somewhere to hide
09:08this evening glencoe cop steven cooper and roddy sanderman are traveling north to fort william
09:15to meet up with some colleagues together they plan to search for someone dangerous who doesn't want to be found
09:23later on we'll be uh attempting to try and apprehend a male who's a high priority wanted person for us at the moment
09:30but there's a number of things he's been accused of um
09:33one of them being a knife point robbery so he's quite a sort of dangerous individual
09:36but a lot of road traffic offenses as well in the course of his trying to escape
09:40this male has evaded capture on a number of occasions i was searching and came within a few feet of him
09:50he exploded out from underneath a load of bushes in front of me and gave me the fright of my life if i'm honest
09:55because i wasn't quite sure what was going on and he ran off came close but no luck unfortunately
10:01there's a dog unit starting in inverness at nine o'clock that will come straight down to fort william to help us
10:08i mean he's never going to outrun a dog so hopefully that will be the thing that uh
10:13changes the game for us and uh captures them this time
10:16steven and rory are part of a seven strong team being deployed tonight to try to capture this 31
10:31year old fugitive who has been on the run for around a year they've had a tip-off he might be
10:38hiding in a tent in the woods near lochailot about 30 miles west of fort william he's in those woods
10:46yeah that's that's the lay by there yeah so not too far from the road okay and mark goes along
10:56we give a very brief update on you know because if we can see the tent or something the intel also
11:02suggests when the man will be in his tent so we received some intelligence that the male's working
11:10on a fishing boat and the fishing boat's dropping him off nearby and he's staying overnight and then
11:14getting on the fishing boat um early the next morning and we have sort of times for when he's likely to be
11:20at the tent um so that's where we're going to go and find him i tried to anyway that means they will need to go
11:29into the woods after dark tonight the team is led by sergeant emma mckay he does run i would rather
11:37as we're all there ready and waiting yeah so he will like it that's been two or three times now he's
11:43ran away from police i can provide bulk just not speed also joining the team are dog handler adam
11:53and his german shepherd wolf if he does run then just stand still just stop and we'll get the dog
12:01he is going to be quite dangerous there's certainly intelligence about him carrying weapons and knives
12:09specifically and given he's wanted for a knife point robbery as well that kind of tends to ring true
12:15positive that we're gonna get him there's what i would say enough resources and some good intel so
12:21hopefully the game's stacked in our favor okay let's go i think when someone's evaded capture for so
12:29long you've got that bit between the teeth i suppose if you like it's just like with any wanted person
12:35we want to get them and they're wanted for a reason and primary job of the police isn't it to catch the bad guy
12:53you got a lot of these in the shows like bad ones like that yeah all the time a9's a nightmare i was in a nightmare
13:01investigations are underway into a fatal two-car collision on the a9 police have spoken to eye
13:09witnesses now they must secure physical evidence
13:15so i've turned away the cars that are there every other car is pretty much turned around anyway
13:22there's one possible vehicle that has dash cam he can't access it just now but he's going to try
13:30have you got details of i've got details of them
13:34but before dash cam can be examined it is vital that specialist crash investigators are able to examine the scene in detail
13:43once all the emergency crews pack up their gear and leave the road policing units that are here
13:48they'll be taking numerous photos videos markings just to establish exactly what's happened
13:55leading the team is sergeant callum mccauley
13:59our people from the police are usually first at these scenes are our divisional colleagues
14:04they'll attend initially and we'll come and take things over from there
14:09we deal with the collision to its end point
14:16the best opportunity that we have to go and recover evidence from what's happened at the scene is just now
14:24i'll give that to you just out
14:27thank you
14:28the first task tonight is to build a technical picture of the scene before the road is cleared
14:34the road is closed for such a long period of time because once we open that road all the evidence is impacted then
14:43we'll do the guide marks and then we'll do that vehicle
14:46mm-hmm
14:47all right
14:48yeah
14:49okay
14:50collision investigators form a conclusion about what's happened purely worked out from the physical facts taken from the vehicles taken from marks left on the road what they've found through the detailed examination
15:03they're carrying out a scan of the scene which will be used as part of a report that will be put to the procurator fiscal
15:12investigators will also piece together a picture of those involved in the crash to see if any personal factors could have contributed to the collision
15:21we have inquiry officers who will go and speak with families witnesses and the people who have been involved in the crash
15:28one of the investigators ben finds some documents in the minivan
15:33yeah this is the agreement serge
15:36the minivan is a hire vehicle picked up earlier that day
15:40confirmed home address in the united states
15:42there's contact numbers on here as well
15:44the fact that the driver of the minivan is not from the uk could be significant
15:50traveling here for people who've never never been to scotland before can be confusion because we drive on the left so confusion could be something that we would consider
16:01we would consider something that we'll look at
16:04fatigue contributes to nearly one-fifth of scotland's road traffic deaths so police are looking for signs of brake marks on the road
16:12if there aren't any that may suggest the driver has fallen asleep at the wheel
16:18we keep an open mind and we try to get to the bottom of what it is that's happened but something that we will consider is
16:24was tiredness a factor was a medical condition a factor
16:29the next step will be to take the remains of each vehicle to a garage and examine them piece by piece
16:36it's an exhaustive process
16:39the majority of the work that we do about around these crashes is done in the weeks afterwards
16:47once all this information has been gathered the guys here will take it back and they will scrutinise it and analyse it
16:56we're trying to support the families and make sure they have what they need to get them the answers for what's happened to why their loved ones no longer with us
17:09it's nearly midnight in fort william in the darkness on the edge of town police are on the trail of a wanted man
17:30at the moment there's seven of us and a dog heading out here two of us are in sort of all black clothing
17:37the hope is that they can sort of sneak in and get eyes on the campsite and see if he's there
17:42and then we can all come in and back up along with the dog unit
17:46it's only intelligence we've got at the moment that he's at this campsite he's never actually been seen there by police officers
17:51our roads policing colleagues have been out and have seen the tents in position
17:55so there clearly is somebody living there it's just whether he's going to be there tonight
18:04so we'll go along and see what we can see from the car
18:07as soon as we can see anything we might well just get everyone along and we'll just rush them I think
18:11ready let's go
18:13Emma and Roddy will take the lead
18:16as soon as they give the signal the rest of the team will go in
18:20in gear foot on a break ready to go
18:27I think we'd all be lying if we didn't say we're getting an adrenaline rush out of something like this
18:33something like this
18:41Do you want to come through Levi?
18:44I don't know
18:45I don't know
18:46I don't know
18:47I don't know
18:48I don't know
18:49I don't know
18:50it's this way
19:05I think it'll be that worn pack
19:07I don't think it's this way
19:08I think it'll be that worn path
19:24In the dark
19:25in this dense undergrowth
19:27there are no clear lines of sight
19:29Please fire the door
19:31and no signs of anyone running or hiding
19:34The police are struggling to find anything that might point them towards a fugitive
19:47But then, deep in the woods, they find something
19:51There's a den over here
19:56Watch, barbed wire
19:57So we've found the campsite
19:58We're just trying to figure out if he's been here or not
19:59or if he's in the area
20:00so
20:01we're not sure at the moment
20:04The search dog, Wolf, is drawing a blank
20:18Nothing at all
20:19I took him down that way to see but
20:20there's no back out of here
20:22I think there's one way and one way out
20:28Pretty dense down that way
20:30Well, I don't think he's here
20:32I don't think we scared him off
20:34There's no noise in the woods
20:37No noise whatsoever
20:39No
20:41There's clothing
20:42There's empty alcohol bottles
20:44and cans
20:45and some empty food tints and things like that
20:48So
20:49It's quite likely that that's where he's been
20:53For quite a while
20:54Who knows how recently but
20:55Well, that's it
20:56We just don't know, do we?
20:57Good effort, guys
20:58Good effort
21:00Just relax, you're all right
21:03The bad man's not here
21:05Although there's no one at home
21:06There's enough to suggest that intel is correct
21:09on where the man has been hiding
21:12That's his campsite as described
21:15Now they know his location
21:17The police hope the net is finally closing
21:19on Fort Williams' most elusive resident
21:22Just getting a grid reference of the tent
21:24in case you need to make further attempts
21:26because I suppose part of the problem was
21:29we struggled to find the camp initially
21:33but we did get there relatively quickly
21:35I don't think we did disturb him
21:37but yeah, if we need to come back again
21:40if we can get a precise grid reference
21:42then hopefully that means we can just get straight there
21:45and a few more of us know the way out of the woods now
21:47so
21:48yeah, hopefully we can try again
22:03Looks like he tried to booby trap it almost
22:05to his barbed wire across the entrance to the campsite
22:07where his tent's pitched and the efforts he's gone to
22:12and certainly, which Ted suggests
22:14he's not looking to be found any time soon
22:17A bit of disappointment
22:18we've not caught him
22:19but satisfied that we did everything we could to catch him
22:23There's a phrase that's overused to the max
22:26that they need to get lucky every day
22:28we only need to get lucky once
22:29I'm sure you've heard that a million times
22:30but it's very true
22:32you know, you know you'll get in there eventually
22:46Case Ness
22:47one of the most sparsely populated parts of the Highlands
22:51and one of its most beautiful
22:54Sergeant Andy Mackay has been policing here for 15 years
22:58it's a really nice place to live
23:01there's lots of like really nice scenery
23:02it's a small kind of close-knit community
23:06you just get left basically to your own devices
23:10we're kind of trusted up here to just get on with it
23:13and it's only when things go completely pear-shaped
23:15that we would then get that input from further up
23:19Today Andy and his colleagues are looking for a white van
23:23which has been reported stolen in Orkney
23:27the police believe it may be in Wick
23:30one of the biggest towns in Case Ness
23:33We're going to go and see if we can find this stolen vehicle
23:38the person that we suspected is a possibility for removing the vehicle
23:44is from a village just north of Wick
23:48but they have associates in the town
23:50so I'm just going to go past the area of town
23:56where they've sort of been known to frequent before
24:01and see if the vehicle is there
24:10We're looking for a white transit van with a bit of rust
24:13so there's a white transit but it's the wrong ridge
24:23it's the wrong ridge
24:30Go ahead
24:34Yeah, it'll come up
24:36Stevie G has found the vehicle on the other side of town
24:43so we'll just get there quickly, quickly
24:46Quickly, quickly.
24:55Apparently, the driver says the vehicle was given to him,
25:00but we've just not had a statement saying it was stolen.
25:02You know, the fact that they've got a stolen vehicle
25:05and they're saying that it's really theirs is...
25:09It's a bit suspicious.
25:16Let's go and see what we've got.
25:19The former member has been under arrest for suspicion
25:23and suspicion of theft of a motorbike, OK?
25:25Yeah. OK.
25:26So you're not obliged to say anything.
25:27Anything you do say, maybe no to them, maybe no to them.
25:30OK?
25:31Can we just pass it up to me?
25:33Are you on your own or have you got something away?
25:35No, no.
25:36He's got two dogs in the van.
25:37Ah, OK. Are the dogs friendly?
25:38No.
25:39Is there a way of getting the dog from the front of the van into the back?
25:42Or we'd have to take him out of the side door?
25:45I'd have to put him in the back.
25:47When did you buy the van?
25:49I didn't buy the van.
25:50It was bought by somebody else.
25:52And how have you come to be driving the van?
25:54Because they've asked me to go out and say I could borrow the vehicle
25:56to drive things.
25:57Yeah.
25:58Like, I put bikes across here because I don't have a van myself.
26:01Like, motorbikes or...?
26:02Yeah, two motorbikes.
26:03So I was delivering them to someone who bought them off me.
26:05Ah, OK.
26:07The man claims he has borrowed this van, not stolen it.
26:11A search of his clothing uncovers something suspicious.
26:16I've got no reason to lie.
26:17What is it?
26:18I've got no reason to lie.
26:19I've got no reason to lie.
26:20What is it?
26:21I've got no reason to lie.
26:22I've got no reason to lie.
26:23So it was a beach.
26:24It was a wet pouch or something.
26:25You're on the beach and you found a small white packet containing a substance
26:27and decided to pick it up.
26:28They went at Castletown.
26:29So the one just outside, there's all the bits...
26:30It's an odd thing to pick up, no?
26:31I don't really want to pick up on my...
26:32I pick up bits of weird rocks.
26:33There's lots of bits of weird plastic.
26:34There's lots of bits of weird wood.
26:35Sorry.
26:36What were you going to do with it?
26:37Nothing.
26:38I was like, what is it?
26:39Just a souvenir from Castletown Beach?
26:40I completely forgot I'd even put it in my pocket.
26:41Genuinely.
26:42We'll need to put it away for testing, OK?
26:43Of course, yeah.
26:44If it comes back, I can try it.
26:45Keep it away.
26:46Keep it away.
26:47Keep it away.
26:48Keep it away.
26:49Keep it away.
26:50Keep it away.
26:51Keep it away.
26:52The man then tells the police there may be something else in the van.
26:56He said you think there might be something in the van.
26:58No, I didn't say I think there might be.
26:59There could be something in the van.
27:00My friends, they do what they do.
27:01They smoke weed.
27:02Yeah.
27:03But you said there might be cannabis in your backy pouch.
27:04Yeah.
27:05So would that be yours?
27:06What, my tobacco or my...?
27:07I can avoid the weed, the cannabis that's in the van.
27:09I don't know.
27:10I don't know.
27:11I don't know.
27:12I don't know.
27:13I don't know.
27:14I don't know.
27:15I can avoid the weed, the cannabis that's in the tobacco box around.
27:18So whose cannabis is it that's in the backy?
27:20It would probably be mine, I would assume.
27:22Probably?
27:23It would be mine if there is any.
27:24It would be mine.
27:25OK.
27:26Right.
27:27The police decide they now have enough grounds to search the van.
27:31Take it from there.
27:32More officers arrive on the scene.
27:34Sometimes with these things you just find a little bit and people are sort of like,
27:37oh yeah, sorry mate, I had it from the weekend or whatever,
27:41and kind of use it as a way to kind of subterfuge to make the police go,
27:45oh, well, he's handed it over, that's fine, no need to worry.
27:48Like, here's a wee ticket slap on the wrist, don't do that again.
27:52But that's absolutely our doorway to say, right, well, what's in your van?
27:56What's in your pockets?
27:57It may turn out that, who knows, maybe there's a toolbox in the back that's got more in it.
28:02In Nairn, the two vehicles involved in a fatal crash on the A9 are being examined by Police Scotland's
28:23Specialist Collision Investigation Unit.
28:29Forced.
28:30Forced.
28:31Forced.
28:33It's on time.
28:37So we're taking photographs of the relevant damage.
28:39Make sure that there's no, or as best we can, rule out any pre-collision defects on the vehicle.
28:45So, checking all the joints and stuff, making sure everything's connected as it should be.
28:49Albeit, with crash damage, it can be hard to tell.
28:56You see a chassis bike?
28:57Yeah.
28:58Pretty deformed than that is.
28:59Yeah.
29:00And even at the top, you see it's all twisted.
29:02Yeah.
29:03Kind of supports the fact it's been quite a high-speed head-on collision.
29:06The investigators are also looking for clues about the movements of both vehicles before and immediately after the collision.
29:16So this is the part of the prop shaft.
29:18This is the bit that's been disconnected.
29:20So it was dragging underneath the vehicle.
29:22And that's quite significant because we had two grind marks on the road that led back to the prop shaft,
29:29which shows its direction of travel after impact, back to its resulting position.
29:35So it gives us evidence of where the vehicles moved after the collision.
29:38So that's quite significant for us.
29:41By matching parts of the car, like this prop shaft, to marks left on the road,
29:47the police can trace the movement of the vehicles before and after the collision.
29:52This will help pinpoint exactly where on the road the collision took place
29:58and could suggest one car had left its lane, causing the head-on crash.
30:05We tie it up to certain marks on the road.
30:07And if we could place a vehicle in the road, that can tell us where the collision exactly happened.
30:11And sometimes it can prove whether somebody's in the right or somebody's in the wrong.
30:18It's Sergeant Callum McCauley's job to put together a theory of what caused this crash.
30:24Collision investigators examine the vehicles in great detail.
30:27They examine the marks on the road in great detail.
30:29And it's pieced together that the Volkswagen Multivan was not travelling in its own lane at the time of the collision.
30:39And that's the responsibility of this collision rests with the driver of that vehicle.
30:44And there's one final crucial piece of evidence.
30:48We have here dashcam footage of the collision.
30:57It gives us a really good opportunity for seeing what's happened.
31:04You can see that the van has crossed the middle of the road and collided with the oncoming vehicle.
31:09The van was being driven by an American tourist.
31:13When people visit Scotland, they tend to be trying to cover a lot of the country in the time that they're here.
31:21And that can sometimes lead to tiredness.
31:25There can be fatigue.
31:26It can be a case that they don't know or can get confused or disorientated about what side of the road they should be travelling on.
31:34The thing that we can prove in this collision is that the van's been on the wrong side of the road.
31:43And the reason for that, it's almost immaterial.
31:46It's just that the van has been on the wrong side of the road.
31:49And ultimately that's led to the death of a lady and the serious injury of her children and the driver of the oncoming vehicle.
32:00As things stand currently, the driver of the Volkswagen multivan has been reported to the Procurator Fiscal for causing death by dangerous driving.
32:19And also for causing serious injury by dangerous driving as well.
32:23This driver has lost his wife and has seriously injured his adult children because of the way that he's driven the vehicle.
32:32The impact that that's going to have on him and on his family, that can't be changed.
32:38In Wick, police have stopped a man they believe is travelling in a stolen van.
32:49He has admitted there may be cannabis in the van, which allows them to do a more thorough search.
32:56Right, let's open the back first then.
32:59So he's been detained under Section 23 for a search of the van.
33:02Don't go near the back door. There's two angry dogs in the back.
33:05The dogs kind of adds an extra layer to it.
33:10You have to think what we're going to do.
33:12There's a health and safety aspect too as well.
33:13That dog's barking and appears to be aggressive.
33:16What happens if it bites me?
33:18If we were sort of close to Timberness, we'd probably ask for maybe the dog handler to come and help us.
33:26While the van is being searched, police test the man for drugs.
33:30Are you positive for cocaine already?
33:31Waiting for the cannabis now, it takes eight minutes, but are you positive for coke?
33:32How?
33:33Because there's obviously cocaine in your system.
33:34Which is over the legal limit.
33:35Yeah.
33:36The drive.
33:37Yeah.
33:38Yeah, we must.
33:39Do not be on banknotes or something like that.
33:40What the ****?
33:41Like, I'm...
33:42So please don't tell me you having cocaine in your system.
33:43It's someone else's fault as well.
33:44No?
33:45No.
33:46No.
33:47No.
33:48No.
33:49No, I'm not saying that at all.
33:50You're due to a swipe.
33:51Sorry?
33:52You proved to me that you've not got cocaine in your system.
33:53Me?
33:54Yeah.
33:55I would happily take a drug test right now.
33:56You could take a drug test right now.
33:57You said I'm positive for coke.
33:58I didn't think there's any trouble as well.
33:59Can you take a drug test right now?
34:00Is that a drug test right now?
34:01It's a drug test you're gonna walk through.
34:02Fine, did you use your drug test right now?
34:03I'm positive for coke.
34:04Yeah.
34:05Because there's obviously cocaine in your system.
34:06Yeah, that's good.
34:07Which is over the legal limit.
34:08The drive.
34:09Yeah, where it must.
34:10in your system? Me? Yeah. I'd happily take a drug test right now. Do it. Let's see.
34:16I want to prove that these aren't f***ing tests. It's not how it works, though. We're
34:20here to test you. No. Okay. There was a certain aroma of something in the air when he was
34:26talking. It was just a pile of rubbish, to be honest. Like, we kind of all saw through
34:31it straight away. Positive for cannabis and cocaine. The man has now tested positive for
34:37two controlled substances, meaning he will be arrested. But the search of the van has
34:43just started, and his troubles are just beginning. Bladed article. Where? It's more of a Stanley
34:50knife, but it's easy access. Where's the blade? It's just Stanley knife blades. Is that a locking
34:57one? It looks like it locks. The lock knife, it was within his reach, which means that he's
35:04therefore in possession of it, and it's an offence to be in possession of a lock knife in a public
35:08place. If it had been stored in a toolbox in the back of the van, then that would be okay,
35:15because, you know, people have legitimate reason to have lock knives and transport them
35:18about the place. This is the powerful knife so far that we've found. So we've got two pipes
35:23there, spoon for melting, putting drugs on, and he's already been showing that he's got
35:31drugs in his system already. Oh, another knife. And that was in the jacket pocket? That was
35:35jacket pocket wedged beside the passenger door. We'll put you in the van, we'll get you back
35:42to the office, we'll get you booked into custody, we'll get you your rights. We'll have to do
35:46the road traffic procedures, because you're giving us a positive specimen at the roadside,
35:51okay? And then once we've done that, we'll interview you. Yeah, so I arrest you in terms
35:55of road traffic act 1988, so I arrest you for failing drug-backed cannabis and cocaine,
36:00so you're not obliged to say anything, but anything you do say will be noted and may be using evidence.
36:04Do you understand that? Yeah. Mind your head.
36:21With the man in custody, the police now need to negotiate with the dogs. Come on, there you
36:27go. It's all right. Have you got another treat? Yeah. It's all right. He's just terrified,
36:34that's all. He's not going for me. He's just a bit scared. There you go. There you go. Yeah,
36:43he likes the treat. With the dogs happy, officers can finally make a thorough search of the van.
36:50And although nothing else significant is found, there is already enough to charge this man with drugs
37:03and weapons offences. On the face of it, he doesn't appear to be the kind of Pablo Escobar of Orkney,
37:09but the fact that he has a little bit of cannabis on him, that's absolutely our gateway to make these
37:15further inquiries just to be doubly sure of what we're dealing with.
37:31North and west of Inverness, the landscape empties of people.
37:36The hills and mountains here are amongst the wildest and most remote parts of the United Kingdom.
37:50Usually, officers of the police mountain rescue team, like Katie Johnson, would expect to be sent here to
37:57rescue a walker or climber in distress. But today, they have a different and upsetting job to do.
38:06There has been a discovery of some human remains. It's really difficult to get to.
38:13So we're there to make sure everyone gets their stuff there safely and then recover the remains out of the area once we're done.
38:22You try not to jump to any conclusions of why they're there and who they are,
38:25but definitely raises just a lot of questions in your mind about what's happened.
38:29The body is unidentified. It's in a remote location and the remains don't appear to be linked to any missing persons report.
38:38The task of the police is to help identify this individual and decide if they have been a victim of crime.
38:45So quite a lot of it is really unexplained. But what we do know is that the remains have been there for quite a long time.
38:55We have to treat it like there's potentially some suspicious circumstances until we rule it out.
39:00So we are long to preserve any evidence that has been left there.
39:07Police are managing this incident from a small station deep in the Western Highlands.
39:12Katie and her team are briefed on the body's discovery by crime scene manager Kevin Bunn.
39:24About 1500 hours on Wednesday, two local residents were walking their dogging area.
39:28When they became aware of what they appeared to be hiking boots and items of clothing scattered nearby,
39:34the thing felt like a bone inside the leg and it's been identified as a femur.
39:39It's possible the remains have been there for a prolonged period of time, possibly over a year.
39:46It raises a lot of questions of why they were there and who they are.
39:51Yet you always expect if the remains of somebody is found,
39:56there is information out there that someone's looking for them.
40:00So it is really unusual to have somebody found and not know any circumstances surrounding it.
40:06It's supposed to rain this afternoon, so good chance we're all getting soaked.
40:11I'll leave it to your discretion, Mountain Rescue guys, if you think the weather's closing in
40:15and when you go off the hill then let me know and we'll make that decision.
40:19Yeah, four o'clock I think the weather is really meant to change.
40:22So it would be good if we kind of get towards that time that we'll just take stock and see where we are with it.
40:27Any other issues? Okay, we'll go for it then.
40:38The biggest challenges today is the location. The terrain is very remote, it's boggy.
40:44We're very much open to the elements. We look to try and establish, is there any criminality involved in the first instance.
40:55On the face of it, it looks like it's maybe someone who's lost in the hillside, but we have to keep an open mind.
41:00A team of forensic anthropologists will accompany Katie on the mountain, which will be treated like any other crime scene.
41:12Once we get to the locus and start the recovery of the remains, it's a process that will take them as long as it takes.
41:19It's something that needs to be done methodical to make sure that they capture everything there that we need.
41:25And it's something you can't always plan because you just don't know what you're going to find once you start moving things.
41:32Our first and foremost role is policing.
41:35So if it's not a sightseeing spot, if it's not a well-known walking spot, why have they taken themselves there?
41:40So it could be that they've gotten themselves in some sort of confusion.
41:44If people are suffering from hypothermia, they can do strange things that you wouldn't normally do.
41:50And they could take themselves into that kind of area.
41:56Out here, it's the end of the road.
41:59The only way forward is on a specialist vehicle loaned by a local gamekeeper.
42:07I've been on one before, and yeah, they're sturdy, but they are not comfy.
42:11See whose breakfast comes first.
42:12So the area itself, it was pathless, very difficult ground to walk in.
42:19It was on a large estate that we had to access via 4x4 trucks and thereafter an Argo Cat to assist us to get to the location.
42:29You can see a road, but that's way off in the distance and there are no paths to get into the area that we were.
42:37So it's not somewhere you'd expect anyone to go walking, especially someone with no equipment with them.
42:43Four hours after leaving Inverness, Katie finally reaches the spot where the remains lie, and her investigation can begin.
43:01Were you thinking that for the forward?
43:08Yeah, that's where we've gone up and looked.
43:10They've come here. They've not fallen after the fact.
43:13Pretty sure this is them.
43:15There's what we're hoping is maybe a hat with a lot of moss on it.
43:19If someone hadn't have pointed out initially and you were walking at a little bit of a distance, you wouldn't have even seen the remains there.
43:26The moss has grown over, so it almost looks as if it's become part of the earth itself.
43:34So it had been there for some length of time.
43:37If it had been another couple of years that it hadn't been discovered, it might never have been discovered at all.
43:41At the moment, I'd go white male.
43:45So what determined it was male?
43:46So at the back of male skulls, there's a really big, bumpy bit.
43:51Because males have heavier heads, they have more muscles that go up the back of the neck.
43:55So the bone produces more bone, because it needs a bigger surface area for that muscle to attach.
44:01It's a start, but it's all the forensics team can conclude from these remains and the clothes nearby.
44:08As the weather closes in, the team must leave the mountainside for the day.
44:13The body was in a difficult position, so we have to get the remains out of that in a respectful way, but also in a safe way that we are taking it up hills and through an area with no pass and everything like that.
44:30So our responsibilities are, you know, both to make sure that we're gathering everything respectfully, but also the forensic opportunities are saved.
44:39It's bringing up more questions and answers at the moment.
44:47The kind of, the choices for footwear and outerwear is not really what you generally see for hill walkers or anything like that.
44:57And they had a fluorescent vest on again, which is more for somebody that's by the roadway and in the dark, so it doesn't kind of really fit in with that.
45:08So again, it just kind of, it leaves us with more questions at the moment.
45:13The police will need to return to this hillside again to see if there are any more remains or clothing which could help solve the mystery of who this was and why he died out here.
45:25I think it's difficult to put into words how each sudden death feels to you.
45:32You feel a sense of sadness that this person has died alone in this remote area.
45:40It's difficult to not know who they are and not be able to provide a family with answers of where their loved one has come to rest.
45:50It's not something you want to leave unknown, so we have to look at every avenue we can to try and identify this person.
46:01In Inverness, PC's Dan Shield and Jimmy Sutherland are responding to a call from the post office.
46:20We've had a call from the mail sorting office to say that they've got a package that possibly contains cannabis and the smell of it is the tell-tale signs.
46:35We're just going to go down there and have a look and see if it is cannabis and take it back for testing.
46:43Drugs coming through the post is on the increase.
46:47It's easier to distance yourself when it's coming through the post because you're not in possession of them.
46:52So it's a lot harder to find the person that's actually sent the items itself.
46:59Because the mail is becoming a more popular method of drug supply, police across the UK are sending sniffer dogs to sorting offices on a regular basis.
47:09This morning, a police dog got a whiff of two packages.
47:16So, both of the items are here. It was the police dog that sniffed them out. In fact, the police dog actually tore that one. It was so convinced there was something in it.
47:28The dog has identified one of the packages as containing some kind of controlled drug. We'll just get them opened up. We'll make sure that they do contain drugs and then we'll get the packages seized.
47:44Yeah, it's not really much of a smell to be honest. I don't think...
47:48Is that the one the dog's done?
47:49And that's been torn open as well. So, I think if it wasn't for the dog, I think...
47:54It's a wee bit of a smell, but I think it might be what we call cannabis edibles.
48:01Ah, I see.
48:02So, it might be a kind of a liquid kind of form of cannabis.
48:13I'm not even going to open that here, just in case.
48:16So, I won't open that just now, Ali, just because I'm just seeing that there is quite a lot of sort of...
48:23Yeah, you can see...
48:24Powder, et cetera, obviously. We don't know what that is. I don't want to open it up in case it is anything of kind of harmful nature or anything like that at all.
48:30Understood.
48:31So, we'll just seize that and we will do our own testing on it back at the office, just so that we're not opening it up, obviously, in here.
48:38I appreciate that. Thank you.
48:41Whilst the officers can't say yet what this first package is, there's little doubt what's in the second package.
48:50Strong smell of cannabis coming from that one.
48:52Yeah, that one was more straightforward.
48:55Cannabis is kind of a sort of sweet, sort of sickly sort of smell.
49:00Yeah, they've obviously... You can see they've wrapped it up a number of times in an effort to disguise it, but they've not done it very well.
49:08Then, an unexpected breakthrough.
49:12The gentleman who says this is for him is at the customer service point right now.
49:17Oh, is he? Yeah.
49:18Oh, that's Andy.
49:19I was going to say, that's never happened before.
49:21That's what...
49:22He's coming to get this.
49:23Oh, right.
49:24He's obviously wanting them and I have you.
49:27Dan and Jimmy will give the bad news to the waiting man.
49:32Not, perhaps, the delivery he was expecting.
49:36So, we've obviously been taken here or asked to come here because they have seized a package which strongly smells of cannabis.
49:43At this moment in time, you're under caution that you're not obliged to say anything but anything you do say will be noted and may be using evidence. Do you understand that?
49:48Yeah.
49:49What have you got to say about... about that?
49:53No comment.
49:54No comment, okay. No worries to talk.
49:55We'll see where we're going to go from here just now, okay?
49:58Obviously, we need to go back to the station. We obviously need to test it.
50:02Just to obviously make sure that it does obviously contain a drug.
50:05You can't be ordering your controlled drugs through the post.
50:07You're eligible for what we call a recorded police warning.
50:09It was beneficial just to give him the recorded police warning because it just gets the matter sort of dealt with.
50:14Accepting the recorded police warning isn't an admission of guilt.
50:17I said it's a warning, okay, for you.
50:20If he was to re-offend or if he was to be found in possession of drugs again, then he would not be eligible to then receive the recorded police warning again.
50:29The man is sent on his way without his post.
50:33Thank you very much.
50:34Finding suspicious items in the post, predominantly drugs, happens about two or three times a week on average.
50:42This system, we like to think, proves highly effective.
50:46We've both got a record of it happening, so there is the proof that these items are being intercepted.
50:52It is a banned substance, it's a controlled substance, so if it gets sent through the Royal Mail network and we intercept it, then our job is to contact the police and that's what we do.
51:04That's one thing that I would love to change, would be to have no drugs within Inverness.
51:09I know that's probably an unrealistic goal, however, fighting the war against drugs, crime, that's ultimately what I joined the job for and that's what I will keep on doing and I will carry on doing.
51:22You'd think he would have seen the police firm.
51:24I thought.
51:26Maybe that's for me.
51:28I thought, oh yeah, I'm ordering cannabis.
51:30In the mountains of the North West Highlands, police still have to confirm the identity of the man whose remains were found on a remote hillside.
51:46Today, Dan Sutherland, who is part of the mountain rescue team, is heading back to the location to continue the investigation.
51:54I don't know who they are, but we're coming back today to undertake further searches to see if we can find further remains.
52:02So we've got victim recovery dogs with us today.
52:05They're trained in recovery and sniffing out of human remains, so fingers crossed we can get some good results with them today.
52:15The remains couldn't provide enough DNA to help identification.
52:19Police hope Dan and the dogs unit might be able to find more remains for DNA testing, or any clothing and effects that might have been missed in the original search.
52:34This is the first job I've come across where it's been really difficult to identify a body.
52:39The majority of bodies that we find tend to have some form of ID, or there is an outstanding missing person where we've got a very good idea of potentially who they could be.
52:51But in this case, it's a bit more difficult.
52:54We just don't know anything about him or the family and how he's come to be and how he's even got here.
53:03These boys are going to have to move, eh?
53:06First challenge of a day.
53:07First challenge of a day.
53:10Go on.
53:11Go on.
53:12Go on.
53:15Go.
53:23We always worry with young calves as well, like cows and calves, never great.
53:29That's it.
53:30Good girl.
53:31Where the body is located, it's just quite a really remote section of land.
53:42Very little mobile phone signal, if any.
53:45It's not a place where generally the public would be seen at all.
53:50So it was really quite surprising to find out that someone had been found there.
53:52had been found there obviously we don't know how he's died but it is sad that you can just
53:59lay down or fall down on the ground and they won't come across you for years and years
54:10dan will be accompanied by cadaver dogs cooper and gus and dog handlers adam and daniel
54:22so i think the body was here was it was the body just here by the locker was it
54:31if there are more human remains on this hillside the hope is the dogs will find them today we've got
54:37two different dogs both trained to the same standard uh one's obviously a cocker spaniel he's
54:41nice and energetic he's ready to go and we've got a slightly younger labrador both dogs are trained
54:47to indicate on decomposition by means of barking come no come all right he's gonna go back fine
54:55before long it looks like cooper has found something
55:01cooper whether there's the scavenger that's a burrow and it's taking something that's right
55:08the beat yeah the dogs give an indication there's a hole here so just see if anything's been taken
55:18down there by any animals body or bone of some whatnot it looks like a burrow because it's there's obvious
55:27marks of burrowing further in some sort of small animal where the body was found obviously just behind
55:34just just over to our side here like so dogs indicating here but the burrow is too narrow and
55:41deep for the officers to see anything themselves cooper's indicated our sort of burrow relatively
55:48near to the recovery site we just can't get to at the moment it's impossible to say what it is but i
55:52suspect it's a bone and it's very specific and very close to the the body site location which would
55:58indicate he's very he's definitely right the team search for the rest of the afternoon
56:04but the dogs don't find anything else if there are more remains on this hillside it looks like they
56:10they may be buried forever
56:19i don't think it was completely unexpected it's always going to be difficult but i was kind of
56:36hoping that we'd get at least a bone or two maybe that's just an indication of how long the body's been
56:44there there will be no more searching on this hill but the investigation into this man's identity
56:54and clues about his fate will go on they're going to have to start doing a lot more digging through
57:02historical records of missing people from not within not just within scotland across across all the uk
57:08forces and potentially international as well some people just don't get traced they don't get found
57:16and when they are found like this then they don't necessarily all can be identified
57:38next time please deal with a crash on skies main road
58:08just in case the car explodes in inverness stop officers race to catch a fleeing suspect
58:21and on the isle of sky a major drug operation is rumbled i'm going around room to room
58:28and there's cannabis plants everywhere
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