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Highland Cops Season 3 Episode 5
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00:00The Highlands and Islands of Scotland is Britain's biggest beat.
00:07I'm injured with a car on fire.
00:10I've got three wounded persons.
00:13It is really easy to underestimate the Highlands.
00:16Patrolling 12,000 square miles of mountains, lochs and islands.
00:22We're going to need a launch to be able to go out and get this boy lifted.
00:27And searching for suspects deep in the wilderness.
00:30Police for the dog, anyone hiding? Show yourself.
00:33The Highland cops must go above and beyond to protect their communities.
00:38We realised it was human remains, so we came back down and phoned the police.
00:42I think in the Highlands, the blue line is very thin.
00:45Tackling traditional rural crimes.
00:47It's absolutely related with shotgun pellet.
00:50There's clear evidence that these birds are being persecuted.
00:53And crimes that plague the nation.
00:56Oh, good effort.
01:00Bags of a white crystalline powder.
01:02If you're getting one person off the street, then it's like you've done your job.
01:07This series goes inside the UK's most distinctive police force.
01:12We are close, we live in close-knit communities.
01:14Alright, let's go.
01:15We look out for each other.
01:17To find out what it takes to walk the beach.
01:21There's monkeys, there's parrots.
01:22It's all completely out of our comfort zone.
01:25And keep the peace.
01:26You're just threatening to kill it.
01:27You said you were going to strangle it.
01:29In some of the most beautiful and wild places in the UK.
01:33The A9.
01:34The main road that connects the Highlands to the rest of Scotland.
01:43For the people who live here, it's a vital artery.
01:44But it also has a darker claim to fame.
01:49The A9 is a dangerous road, but it is the main route to the north of Scotland.
02:15And so, got everything from the HGVs and the lorries travelling with all the goods up to the shops and the towns.
02:21To a huge volume of tourist traffic as well.
02:29It's so sunny.
02:30I know.
02:31Half eight at night.
02:32You would think it's like one o'clock in the afternoon.
02:35How bright it is.
02:37Tonight, PC's Jamie Embry and Ross Nairn are on patrol near Avimor.
02:45Go ahead.
02:46When the report comes in of an accident on the A9.
02:49Can you start making me your response to the A9 Car Bridge?
02:54Call us here through A9 A9.
02:56It will be involved in RTC.
02:58Lots of steam in the air.
03:00Yeah, control from 4-1-Alpha.
03:02As the night shift in, we'll start making our way.
03:04But we're quite a distance away.
03:06Yes, yes.
03:072-1-Alpha is making route.
03:09So it's plotting this side of the Car Bridge Junction.
03:16Female is heard screaming and a male is grunting.
03:20Tourist?
03:22We'll check.
03:28As the officers make their way to the scene, they receive updates.
03:32November 569.
03:33We've received ambulance saying the helicopter is on route.
03:37Landing 15 to 20 minutes.
03:39They'll need road closed.
03:43Reports coming in suggest this is a head-on collision between two vehicles.
03:49When we hear of a head-on collision on the A9,
03:52a vehicle travelling at 60 miles an hour northbound,
03:55a vehicle travelling 60 miles an hour potentially southbound,
03:58and, you know, meeting together.
03:59You know, you're talking about 120 mile an hour impact.
04:03That generally means that we're going to be driving into carnage.
04:18Don't match up.
04:19When we arrived on the scene, there was bodywork of both vehicles strewn across the road.
04:43The pickup truck was still on the road.
04:49The minivan was wedged on top of the barrier.
04:58There are three people trapped inside this minivan, all from one family.
05:06The moment the fire brigade have stabilised the vehicle,
05:08it's kind of perched on quite a steep embankment that drops down quite a distance.
05:12So they've winched up a cable to make sure that that vehicle doesn't go any further off the barrier and down into the embankment.
05:21As the fire brigade make the vehicle safe and the paramedics tend to the family inside,
05:27Jamie and Ross need to start gathering evidence immediately.
05:31We don't know the reason why these vehicles have crashed.
05:35We have to establish that, we have to investigate that.
05:38So, you's all witnessed it, yeah?
05:41Yeah, yeah.
05:42Right, let me grab names and details.
05:44Particularly if it's a serious one where there's going to be injuries, potentially life-threatening injuries.
05:48Or did you get straight?
05:49We got straight out 4909 and Ross.
05:52Yeah.
05:54Just diagonally moved into the next lane and there was no braking before impact.
05:58You can see here, make sure you're on the pavement though, and just don't go past the back of this fire engine, okay?
06:05Just so you don't see anything, alright?
06:07This is one of the worst crashes on the A9 this year.
06:10And there is devastating news about the mother of the family, who was a passenger in the minivan.
06:18So, it's a fatal.
06:20One female's passed away, unfortunately.
06:23It's been confirmed, so she's been confirmed life-extinct just now, so...
06:31The woman's husband and adult children are still being treated by paramedics.
06:36The other driver of the pickup truck, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, is being rushed off to Ragmore Hospital in Inverness.
06:46But there are quite a few people in that other vehicle where the female is now deceased.
06:51I know that they were working on somebody else there as well.
06:57The police see, you know, on a daily basis, things that people wouldn't believe.
07:00We deal with horrific injuries and horrific incidents, which does take its toll.
07:08I get great support from my wife at home, so if I ever need to talk about something, you know, she's there for me.
07:15You 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 for their benefit as well, just to make sure that they understand why they've suddenly lost their mother.
07:32Sorry, disease confirmed three life-threatening, two life-threatening, one deceased.
07:41Right.
07:45One eyewitness did have a clear view.
07:49He was driving immediately behind the minivan.
07:51One minute was fine, next minute it just veered over to the right and sadly impacted into the oncoming vehicle.
08:00So it was a pretty nasty head-on.
08:02I just told the boys to contact emergency services and then I just approached the first vehicle.
08:08There was no braking before impact.
08:11There was nothing to suggest there was any animals across the road or anything like that, so, yeah.
08:16Yeah.
08:18But there's still a lot of work to do to find out the exact cause of this crash.
08:24Specialist collision investigators have just arrived on scene.
08:29They will work through the night in search of answers.
08:47Glencoe and Fort William are among the busiest tourist destinations in Scotland.
08:53But even with thousands of people passing through in the surrounding vast wilderness, it's all too easy to disappear.
09:03And perfect for somewhere to hide.
09:05This evening, Glencoe cops Stephen Cooper and Roddy Sanderman are travelling north to Fort William to meet up with some colleagues.
09:18Together, they plan to search for someone dangerous who doesn't want to be found.
09:23Later on, we'll be attempting to try and apprehend a male who's a high priority wanted person for us at the moment.
09:31But there's a number of things he's been accused of, one of them being a knife point robbery, so he's quite a sort of dangerous individual.
09:38But a lot of road traffic offences as well in the course of his trying to escape.
09:41This male has evaded capture on a number of occasions.
09:48I was searching and came within a few feet of him.
09:52He exploded out from underneath a load of bushes in front of me and gave me the fright of my life, if I'm honest,
09:57because I wasn't quite sure what was going on.
09:59And he ran off, came close, but no luck, unfortunately.
10:05There's a dog unit starting at Inverness at nine o'clock that will come straight down to Fort William to help us.
10:09I mean, he's never going to outrun a dog, so hopefully that will be the thing that changes the game for us and captures them this time.
10:25Stephen and Rory are part of a seven-strong team being deployed tonight to try to capture this 31-year-old fugitive,
10:33who has been on the run for around a year.
10:35They've had a tip-off.
10:38He might be hiding in a tent in the woods near Loch Eilot, about 30 miles west of Fort William.
10:45He's in those woods.
10:47Yeah.
10:49That's the lay-by there.
10:51Yeah.
10:53So not too far from the road.
10:55OK.
10:56That goes along.
10:57We give a very brief update on, you know, because if we can see the tent or something.
11:02The intel also suggests when the man will be in his tent.
11:06So, we received some intelligence that the male's working on a fishing boat and the fishing boat's dropping him off nearby and he's staying overnight and then getting on the fishing boat early the next morning.
11:18And we have sort of times for when he's likely to be at the tent.
11:23So, that's where we're going to go and find him.
11:26Or try to anyway.
11:28That means they will need to go into the woods after dark.
11:32Tonight, the team is led by Sergeant Emma Mackay.
11:35He does run.
11:36I would rather us were all there, ready and waiting.
11:40Yeah.
11:41So, he will like it.
11:43That's been two or three times now he's ran away from the police.
11:46I can provide bulk, just not speed.
11:50Also joining the team are dog handler Adam and his German shepherd, Wolf.
11:57If he does run, then just stand still, just stop and we'll get the dog away.
12:02He is going to be quite dangerous.
12:06There's certainly intelligence about him carrying weapons and knives specifically.
12:11And given he's wanted for a knife point robbery as well, that kind of tends to ring true.
12:17Positive that we're going to get him, is what I would say.
12:20Enough resources and some good intel.
12:22So, hopefully, the game's stacked in our favour.
12:25Okay, let's go.
12:26I think when someone's evaded capture for so long, you've got that bit between the teeth, I suppose, if you like.
12:33It's just like with any wanted person.
12:36We want to get them.
12:38They're wanted for a reason and primary job of the police, isn't it? To catch the bad guy.
12:41You got a lot of these in the shows? Like, bad ones like that?
12:56Yeah. All the time.
12:58The A9's a nightmare. I was in a nightmare.
13:00Investigations are underway into a fatal two-car collision on the A9.
13:08Police have spoken to eyewitnesses.
13:11Now, they must secure physical evidence.
13:13I've turned away the cars that are there. Every other car has pretty much turned round anyway.
13:22There's one possible vehicle that has dash cam.
13:28He can't access it just now, but he's going to try.
13:31Have you got details of...?
13:32I've got details of it.
13:33But before dash cam can be examined, it is vital that specialist crash investigators are able to examine the scene in detail.
13:44Once all the emergency crews pack up their gear and leave, the road policing units that are here, they'll be taking numerous photos, videos, markings, just to establish exactly what's happened.
13:56Leading the team is Sergeant Callum McCauley.
14:00Our people from the police are usually first at these scenes are our divisional colleagues.
14:05They'll attend initially, and we'll come and take things over from there.
14:10We deal with the collision to its end point.
14:20The best opportunity that we have to go and recover evidence from what's happened at the scene is just now.
14:25I'll give that to you just now.
14:30The first task tonight is to build a technical picture of the scene before the road is cleared.
14:36The road is closed for such a long period of time, because once we open that road, all the evidence is impacted then.
14:44We'll do the grind marks, and then we'll do that vehicle.
14:48All right? Yeah.
14:49All good.
14:51Collision 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.
15:04They'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.
15:13Investigators 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.
15:29One of the investigators, Ben, finds some documents in the minivan.
15:34Yeah, this is the agreement, Sarge.
15:37The minivan is a hire vehicle, picked up earlier that day.
15:41Confirmed home address in the United States.
15:44There's contact numbers on here as well.
15:46The fact that the driver of the minivan is not from the UK could be significant.
15:51Travelling here, for people who've never been to Scotland before, can be confusion because we drive on the left.
16:00So confusion could be something that we would consider, something that we'll look at.
16:05Fatigue contributes to nearly one fifth of Scotland's road traffic deaths.
16:10So police are looking for signs of brake marks on the road.
16:14If there aren't any, that may suggest a 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.
16:23But something that we will consider is, was tiredness a factor? Was a medical condition a factor?
16:30The next step will be to take the remains of each vehicle to a garage and examine them piece by piece.
16:37It's an exhaustive process.
16:40The majority of the work that we do around these crashes is done in the weeks afterwards.
16:46Once all this information has been gathered, the guys here will take it back and they will scrutinise it and analyse it.
17:01We'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.
17:25In the darkness on the edge of town, police are on the trail of a wanted man.
17:32At the moment there's seven of us and a dog heading out here.
17:36Two of us are in sort of all black clothing.
17:38The 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.
17:47It's only intelligence we've got at the moment that he's at this campsite.
17:49He's never actually been seen there by police officers.
17:52Our roads police and colleagues have been out and have seen the tents in position.
17:56So there clearly is somebody living there. It's just whether he's going to be there tonight.
18:05So we'll go along and see what we can see from the car.
18:08As soon as we can see anything, we might as well just get everyone along and we'll just rush them, I think.
18:13Ready. Let's go.
18:15Emma and Roddy will take the lead.
18:18As soon as they give the signal, the rest of the team will go in.
18:21In gear, foot on a break, ready to go.
18:29I think we'd all be lying if we didn't say we were getting an adrenaline rush out of something like this.
18:34MUSIC PLAYS
18:41THEY CONFER
18:49MUSIC CONFER
18:55MUSIC CONFER
18:59MUSIC CONFER
19:01I don't think it's this way.
19:19I think it'll be that worn path.
19:24In the dark, in this dense undergrowth, there are no clear lines of sight.
19:29Please find a door.
19:32And no signs of anyone running or hiding.
19:37The police are struggling to find anything that might point them towards a fugitive.
19:47But then, deep in the woods, they find something.
19:52There's a tent over here.
19:57Watch, Bob Dwyer.
19:58So we found the campsite.
20:02We're just trying to figure out if he's been here or not.
20:05Or if he's in the area.
20:06So...
20:07We're not sure at the moment.
20:09We're not sure at the moment.
20:17The search dog Wolf is drawing a blank.
20:19Nothing at all.
20:20I took him down that way to see, but there's no back out of here.
20:26I think there's one way and one way out.
20:29Pretty dense down that way.
20:32Well, I don't think he's here.
20:33I don't think we scared him off.
20:34I don't think we scared him off.
20:36There's no noise in the woods.
20:37Huh?
20:38No noise whatsoever.
20:39Nah.
20:40There's clothing.
20:41There's empty alcohol bottles and cans and some empty food tins and things like that.
20:50So it's quite likely that that's where he's been.
20:52Who knows how recently, but...
20:53Well, that's it.
20:54We just don't know, do we?
20:55Good effort, guys.
20:56Good effort.
20:57Just relax.
20:58You're all right.
20:59The bad man's not here.
21:01Although there's no one at home, there's enough to suggest that intel is correct on where the man has been hiding.
21:11That's his campsite as described.
21:15Now they know his location, the police hope the net is finally closing on Fort Williams' most elusive resident.
21:23Just getting a grid reference of the tent in case you need to make further attempts,
21:26because I suppose part of the problem was we 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, if we can get a precise grid reference,
21:43then hopefully that means we can just get straight there.
21:46And a few more of us know the layout of the woods now.
21:48So, yeah, hopefully we can try again.
21:50Looks like he tried to booby trap it almost to his barbed wire across the entrance to the campsite.
22:08Where his tent's pitched and the efforts he's gone to certainly would tend to suggest he's not looking to be found any time soon.
22:18A bit of disappointment.
22:19We've not caught him, but satisfied that we did everything we could to catch him.
22:23There's a phrase that's overused to the max that they need to get lucky every day, we only need to get lucky once.
22:29I'm sure you've heard that a million times, but it's very true.
22:32You know, you know you'll get him eventually.
22:34Case Ness, one of the most sparsely populated parts of the Highlands, and one of its most beautiful.
22:53Sergeant Andy Mackay has been policing here for 15 years.
22:58It's a really nice place to live. There's lots of like really nice scenery. It's a small kind of close-knit community.
23:07You just get left basically to your own devices.
23:11We're kind of trusted up here to just get on with it.
23:14And it's only when things go completely pear-shaped that we would then get that input from further up.
23:21Today Andy and his colleagues are looking for a white van, which has been reported stolen in Orkney.
23:27The police believe it may be in Wick, one of the biggest towns in Case Ness.
23:34We're going to go and see if we can find this stolen vehicle.
23:39The person that we suspected is a possibility for removing the vehicle is from a village just north of Wick.
23:48But they have associates in the town. So I'm just going to go past the area of town where they've sort of been known to frequent before and see if the vehicle is there.
24:03So we're looking for a white transit van with a bit of rust.
24:17So there's a white transit, but it's the wrong ridge.
24:23Stevie G has found the vehicle on the other side of town, so we'll just get there quickly, quickly.
24:46Quickly, quickly.
24:55Apparently, the driver says the vehicle was given to him, but we've just noted a statement saying it was stolen.
25:02You know, the fact that they've got a stolen vehicle and they're saying that it's really theirs is a bit suspicious.
25:10PHONE RINGS
25:19Let's go and see what we've got.
25:21The former member has been under arrest for suspicion, and suspicion of theft of a motorbike, OK?
25:26Yeah.
25:27So you're not obliged to say anything.
25:28If anything you do, you say maybe no to them, maybe nothing else, OK?
25:31Can we just...
25:32Pass that to me.
25:33Are you on your own or have you got something away?
25:35Not my own.
25:36He's got two dogs in the van.
25:37Oh, OK.
25:38Are they dogs friendly?
25:39No.
25:40Oh.
25:41Is there a way of getting the dog from the front of the van into the back?
25:43Or would I have to take him out of the side door?
25:45Right.
25:46I'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 van because I drive things whistled.
25:58Yeah.
25:59Like, I put bikes across here because I don't have a van on myself.
26:02Like, motorbikes or...
26:03Yeah, two motorbikes.
26:04I was delivering them to someone who bought them off here.
26:06Ah, OK.
26:07The man claims he has borrowed this van, not stolen it.
26:13A search of his clothing uncovers something suspicious.
26:17I've got a reason to lie.
26:18What is it?
26:19It looks like...
26:20I'm asking you.
26:21I knew where I did it.
26:22I was going to put a word for those.
26:23Yeah.
26:24I'm not being as implying.
26:25I've got a reason to lie.
26:26So it was at the beach.
26:27It was a wet pouch or something.
26:29You were on the beach and you found a small white packet containing a substance and decided
26:32to pick it up.
26:33They were at Castletown.
26:34OK.
26:35So they weren't just outside...
26:36It's an odd thing to pick up, no?
26:37I don't really want to pick up on my...
26:39I pick up bits of weird rocks.
26:41There's lots of bits of weird plastic.
26:42There's lots of bits of weird wood.
26:43Sorry.
26:44I go...
26:45What were you going to do with it?
26:46Nothing.
26:47I was like, what is it?
26:48Just a souvenir from Castletown Beach?
26:49I completely forgot to even put it in my pocket.
26:51Genuinely.
26:52We'll need to put it away for testing, OK?
26:53Of course, yeah.
26:54If it comes back in a controlled substance, you'll get a report.
26:57The man then tells the police there may be something else in the van.
27:01You said you think there might be something in the van, so...
27:03No, I didn't say I think there might be.
27:04There could be something in the van.
27:05My friends were...
27:06They do what they do.
27:07They smoke weed.
27:08Yeah.
27:09But you said there might be cannabis in your backy pouch.
27:11Yeah.
27:12So would that be yours?
27:13My tobacco or my...
27:15I can avoid the weed, the cannabis that's in the tobacco pouch.
27:18So whose cannabis is it that's in the backy?
27:20It would probably be mine, I assume.
27:22Probably?
27:23It would be mine if there is any.
27:24It would be mine.
27:25OK, right.
27:26The 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,
27:36and people are sort of like, oh, yeah, sorry, mate.
27:39I had it from the weekend or whatever,
27:41and kind of use it as a way to kind of subterfuge
27:45to make the police go, oh, well, he's handed it over.
27:47That's fine, no need to worry.
27:49Like, here's a wee ticket, slap on the wrist, don't do that again.
27:53But that's absolutely our doorway to say, right, well,
27:56what's in your van?
27:57What's in your pockets?
27:58It may turn out that, who knows,
28:00maybe there's a toolbox in the back that's got more in it.
28:03In Nairn, the two vehicles involved in a fatal crash on the E9
28:21are being examined by Police Scotland's Specialist Collision Investigation Unit.
28:26Fourth.
28:27Fourth.
28:28Fourth, three.
28:29Oh, yeah.
28:30It's not intact.
28:31So we're taking photographs of relevant damage to make sure that there's no,
28:42or as best we can rule out any pre-collision defects on the vehicle,
28:46so checking all the joints and stuff, making sure everyone's connected as it should be,
28:50albeit with crash damage, it can be hard to tell.
28:56You see the 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
29:12before and immediately after the collision.
29:16So this is the part of the prop shaft.
29:19This is the bit that's been disconnected.
29:21So it was dragging underneath the vehicle,
29:23and that's quite significant because we had two grind marks on the road
29:27that led back to the prop shaft, which shows its direction of travel after impact,
29:34back to its resulting position.
29:36So it gives us evidence of where the vehicles moved after the collision.
29:39So that's quite significant for us.
29:42By 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.
29:53This 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.
30:03We tie it up to certain marks on the road, and if we could place a vehicle in the road,
30:09that can tell us where the collision exactly happened.
30:12And sometimes it can prove whether somebody's in the right or somebody's in the wrong.
30:18It's Sergeant Callum Macaulay'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.
30:30And it's pieced together that the Volkswagen Multivan was not travelling in its own lane at the time of the collision.
30:39And the responsibility of this collision rests with the driver of that vehicle.
30:44And there's one final, crucial piece of evidence.
30:49We have here dashcam footage of the collision.
30:53It gives us a really good opportunity for seeing what's happened.
31:01You can see that the van has crossed the middle of the road and collided with the oncoming vehicle.
31:10The van was being driven by an American tourist.
31:14When people visit Scotland, they tend to be trying to cover a lot of the country and the time that they're here.
31:23And that can sometimes lead to tiredness. There can be fatigue.
31:27It 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.
31:35The thing that we can prove in this collision is that the van's been on the wrong side of the road.
31:44And the reason for that, it's almost immaterial.
31:47It's just that the van has been on the wrong side of the road.
31:50And ultimately that's led to the death of a lady and serious injury of her children and the driver of the oncoming vehicle.
32:05As 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.
32:24This 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.
32:44In 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.
32:55Right, let's open the back first then.
32:58So 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 to it as well.
33:14That dog's barking that appears to be aggressive.
33:16What happens if it bites me?
33:17If we were sort of closer 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.
33:30You've come up positive for cocaine already.
33:42Waiting for the cannabis now, it takes eight minutes, but you're positive for coke.
33:45How?
33:46Yeah, because there's obviously cocaine in your system.
33:49Which is over the legal limit.
33:50Yeah, yeah, yeah.
33:51The drive.
33:52Yeah, where it was.
33:53Just do not be on a bank, no system.
33:55What the ****?
33:57So please don't tell me you having cocaine in your system.
34:00Someone else's fault as well.
34:01No.
34:02No.
34:03No, I'm not saying that at all.
34:07You do a swipe.
34:08Sorry?
34:09You prove to me that you've not got cocaine in your system.
34:11Me?
34:12Yeah.
34:13I'd happily take a drug test right now.
34:14Okay, do it.
34:15Let's see.
34:16I want to prove that these aren't ****ing tests.
34:19It's not how it works though, we're here to test you.
34:21No.
34:22Okay.
34:23There was a certain aroma of something in the air when he was talking.
34:26It was just a pile of rubbish, to be honest.
34:28Like, we kind of all saw through it straight away.
34:31Positive for cannabis, Uncle Ken.
34:34The man has now tested positive for two controlled substances,
34:39meaning he will be arrested.
34:41But the search of the van has just started,
34:44and his troubles are just beginning.
34:47Bladed article.
34:48Where?
34:49It's more of a Stanley knife, but it's easy access.
34:52Hey, where's the blade?
34:53It's just Stanley knife blades.
34:55Yeah.
34:56Is that a locking one?
34:57It looks like it locks you.
34:59The lock knife is within his reach,
35:02which means that he's therefore in possession of it,
35:05and it's an offence to be in possession of a lock knife in a public place.
35:08If it had been stored in a toolbox in the back of the van,
35:12then that would be okay,
35:15because, you know, people have legitimate reason to have lock knives
35:17and transport them about the place.
35:19This is the powerful knife sofa that we've found.
35:22So we've got two pipes there,
35:23a spoon for melting, sootting drugs on,
35:26and he's already been showing that he's got drugs in his system already.
35:31Oh, another knife.
35:33And that was in the jacket pocket?
35:35That was jacket pocket wedged beside the passenger door.
35:40We'll put you in the van, we'll get you back to the office,
35:42we'll get you booked into custody, we'll get you your rights.
35:45We'll have to do the road traffic procedures,
35:47because you're giving us a positive specimen at the roadside, okay?
35:52And then once you've done that, we'll interview you.
35:54Yeah, so I arrest you in terms of road traffic act, 1988,
35:57so I arrest you for failing drug practice, cannabis and cocaine,
36:01so you're not obliged to say anything,
36:02but anything you do say will be noted and maybe using evidence.
36:05Do you understand that?
36:06Yeah.
36:08Mind your head.
36:21With the man in custody,
36:22the police now need to negotiate with the dogs.
36:25Come on, there you go.
36:27It's all right.
36:30Have you got another treat?
36:32Yeah.
36:33It's all right, he's just terrified, that's all.
36:35He's not going for me, he's just a bit scared.
36:38There you go.
36:40There you go.
36:42Yeah, he likes a treat.
36:45With the dogs happy,
36:47officers can finally make a thorough search of the van.
36:51And although nothing else significant is found,
37:01there is already enough to charge this man with drugs and weapons offences.
37:05On the face of it, he doesn't appear to be the kind of Pablo Escobar of Orkney,
37:10but the fact that he has a little bit of cannabis on him,
37:13that's absolutely our gateway to make these further inquiries,
37:16just to be doubly sure of what we're dealing with.
37:19North and west of Inverness, the landscape empties of people.
37:23The hills and mountains here are amongst the wildest and most remote parts of the United Kingdom.
37:36Usually, officers of the police mountain rescue team, like Katie Johnson would expect to be sent here to rescue a walker or climber in distress.
37:49But today, they have a different and upsetting job to do.
38:06There has been a discovery of some human remains.
38:11It's really difficult to get to.
38:13So, we're there to make sure everyone gets their stuff there safely
38:16and then recover the remains out of the area once we're done.
38:19You 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.
38:32It'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
38:42and decide if they have been a victim of crime.
38:45So, quite a lot of it is really unexplained.
38:49But 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 going to preserve any evidence that has been left there.
39:06Police are managing this incident from a small station deep in the Western Highlands.
39:15Katey and her team are briefed on the body's discovery by crime scene manager Kevin Bunn.
39:23About 1500 hours on Wednesday, two local residents were walking their dogging area.
39:28When they became aware of what they appeared to be a hiking boot and items of clothing scattered nearby,
39:34they've then felt like a bone inside the leg and it's been identified as a femur.
39:40It's possible the remains have been there for a prolonged period of time, possibly over a year.
39:47It 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, there is information out there that someone's looking for them.
39:59So, 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 is closing in
40:15and when you go off the hill, then let me know and we'll make that decision.
40:18Yeah, four o'clock, I think, the weather is really meant to change.
40:22So, it'll 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.
40:48We're very much open to the elements.
40:50We 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,
40:59but we have to keep an open mind.
41:04A team of forensic anthropologists will accompany Katie on the mountain,
41:09which will be treated like any other crime scene.
41:13Once we get to the locusts and start the recovery of the remains,
41:16it'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.
41:26And 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.
41:30Our first and foremost role is policing.
41:34So if it's not a sightseeing spot, if it's not a well-known walking spot,
41:38why have they taken themselves there?
41:40So it could be that they've gotten themselves in some sort of confusion.
41:43If people are suffering from hypothermia, they can do strange things that you wouldn't normally do,
41:49and 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.
42:04I've been on one before, and yeah, they're sturdy, but they are not comfy.
42:10See whose breakfast comes first.
42:13So the area itself, it was pathless.
42:17Very difficult ground to walk in.
42:19It was on a large estate that we had to access via 4x4 trucks
42:25and 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
42:33and 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,
42:41especially someone with no equipment with them.
42:54Four hours after leaving Inverness, Katie finally reaches the spot
42:58where the remains lie, and her investigation can begin.
43:07Were 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.
43:12Pretty 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 pointed out initially
43:21and you were walking at a little bit of a distance,
43:23you wouldn't have even seen the remains there.
43:26The moss has grown over,
43:28so it almost looks as if it's become part of the earth itself.
43:33So it had been there for some length of time.
43:36If it had been another couple of years that it hadn't been discovered,
43:39it might never have been discovered at all.
43:41At the moment, I'd go white male.
43:44So what determined it was male?
43:46So at the back of male skulls, there's a really big, bumpy bit.
43:50Because males have heavier heads,
43:52they have more muscles that go up the back of the neck,
43:54so the bone produces more bone
43:56because it needs a bigger surface area for that muscle to attach.
43:59It's a start, but it's all the forensics team can conclude
44:05from these remains and the clothes nearby.
44:08As the weather closes in,
44:11the team must leave the mountainside for the day.
44:17The body was in a difficult position,
44:19so we have to get the remains out of that in a respectful way
44:24but also in a safe way that we are taking up hills
44:28and through an area with no paths and everything like that.
44:31So our responsibilities are, you know,
44:33both to make sure that we're gathering everything respectfully
44:37but also the forensic opportunities are saved.
44:44It's bringing up more questions than answers at the moment.
44:47The kind of, the choices for footwear and outerwear
44:52is not really what you generally see for hill walkers
44:56or anything like that.
44:58And they had a fluorescent vest on again
45:01which is more for somebody that's by the roadway
45:04and in the dark,
45:06so it doesn't kind of really fit in with that.
45:08So again, it just kind of,
45:10it leaves us with more questions at the moment.
45:13The police will need to return to this hillside again
45:16to see if there are any more remains or clothing
45:20which could help solve the mystery of who this was
45:24and why he died out here.
45:26I think it's difficult to put into words
45:29how each sudden death feels to you.
45:32You feel a sense of sadness
45:35that this person has died alone in this remote area.
45:39It's difficult to not know who they are
45:44and not be able to provide a family with answers
45:47of where their loved one has come to rest.
45:54It's not something you want to leave unknown,
45:57so we have to look at every avenue we can
46:00to try and identify this person.
46:15In Inverness, PC's Dan Shield and Jimmy Sutherland
46:19are responding to a call from the post office.
46:22We've had a call from the mail sorting office
46:26to say that they've got a package
46:29that possibly contains cannabis
46:31and this mail of it is the tell-tale signs.
46:36We're just going to go down there and have a look
46:39and see if it is cannabis, take it back for testing.
46:42Drugs coming through the post is on the increase.
46:47It's easier to distance yourself
46:49when it's coming through the post
46:51because you're not in possession of them.
46:53So it's a lot harder to find the person
46:56that's actually sent the items itself.
46:59Because the mail is becoming a more popular method
47:02of drug supply, police across the UK
47:05are sending sniffer dogs to sorting offices
47:08on a regular basis.
47:10This morning, a police dog got a whiff of two packages.
47:15So, both of the items are here.
47:19It was the police dog that sniffed them out.
47:21In fact, the police dog actually tore that one.
47:25It was so convinced there was something in it.
47:30The dog has identified one of the packages
47:33as containing some kind of controlled drug.
47:36We'll just get them opened up.
47:37We'll make sure that they do contain drugs
47:39and then we'll get the packages seized.
47:45Yeah, there's not really much of a smell, to be honest.
47:47I don't think...
47:48Is that the one the dog's done?
47:50And that's been torn open as well, so...
47:52I think if it wasn't for the dog, I think...
47:55It's a wee bit of a smell, but...
47:57I think it might be what we call as cannabis edibles.
48:02I see.
48:03So, it might be a kind of a liquid kind of form of cannabis.
48:14I'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 powder, etc.
48:25Obviously, we don't know what that is.
48:26I don't want to open it up in case it is anything of kind of harmful nature or anything like that at all.
48:31Understood.
48:32So, 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.
48:42Whilst 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.
48:54Cannabis is kind of a sort of sweet, sort of sickly sort of smell.
49:00Yeah, they've obviously...
49:01You 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.
49:11The gentleman who says this is for him is at the customer service point right now.
49:17Oh, is he?
49:18Yeah.
49:19Oh, that's handy.
49:20I was going to say, that's never happened before.
49:21But he's coming to get this.
49:24Oh, right.
49:25He's obviously wanting them in a hurry.
49:28Dan 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 used in evidence.
49:48Do you understand that?
49:49Yeah.
49:50What have you got to say about that?
49:52No comment.
49:53No comment.
49:54Okay.
49:55No worries, Tom.
49:56We'll see where we're going to go from here just now.
49:57Okay.
49:59Obviously, we need to go back to the station.
50:01We 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.
50:08You're eligible for what we call a recorded police warning.
50:10It was beneficial just to give him the recorded police warning because it just gets the matter sort of dealt with.
50:15Accepting a recorded police warning isn't an admission of guilt.
50:18I 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.
50:35Finding suspicious items in the post, predominantly drugs, happens about two or three times a week on average.
50:42And this 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.
50:54It is a banned substance. It's a controlled substance.
50:56So 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.
51:10I know that's probably an unrealistic goal.
51:12However, 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.
51:22I think he would have seen the police van.
51:24I thought. Maybe that's for me.
51:27I thought, oh yeah, I'm ordering cannabis.
51:34In 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.
51:55I 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. They're trained in recovery and sniffing out of human remains.
52:10So fingers crossed we can get some good results with them today.
52:15The remains couldn't provide enough DNA to help identification.
52:22Police 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.
52:40The 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.
53:01These boys are going to have to move, eh? First challenge of a day.
53:10Go on. Go on. Go on. Go.
53:23We always worry with young calves as well, like cows and calves, never great.
53:28That's it. Good girl.
53:38Where the body is located, it's just quite a really remote section of land.
53:43Very little mobile phone signal, if any.
53:45It's not a place where generally the public would be seen at all.
53:49So it was really quite surprising to find out that someone had been found there.
53:54Obviously, we don't know how he's died, but it is sad that you can just lay down or fall down on the ground and you won't have come across you for years and years.
54:03Dan will be accompanied by cadaver dogs Cooper and Gus and dog handlers Adam and Daniel.
54:18Good.
54:19So I think the body was here, was it? Was the body just here by the lochum, was it?
54:31If there are more human remains on this hillside, the hope is the dogs will find them.
54:36Today we've got two different dogs, both trained for the same standard.
54:40One's obviously a cocker spaniel, he's nice and energetic, he's ready to go.
54:43And we've got a slightly younger Labrador.
54:46Both dogs are trained to indicate on decomposition by means of barking.
54:51Come! No, come!
54:55Before long, it looks like Cooper has found something.
54:59Get back!
55:03Whether there's a scavenger, that's a burrow and it's taking something.
55:07Is that quite a bit cool? Yeah.
55:10The dogs give an indication.
55:13There's a hole here, so...
55:16Just see if anything's been taken down there by any animals.
55:20The body, the bone or something.
55:23I don't know.
55:24It looks like a burrow because there's obvious marks above it.
55:27There's obvious marks of burrowing further in.
55:30Some sort of small animal.
55:32Where the body was found, obviously, just behind...
55:35Just over to outside here, like so.
55:37Dogs indicating here.
55:39But the burrow is too narrow and deep for the officers to see anything themselves.
55:45Cooper has indicated at a sort of burrow relatively near to the recovery site.
55:50We just can't get to at the moment.
55:52It's impossible to say what it is, but I suspect it's a bone.
55:54And it's very specific and very close to the body site location, which would indicate he's definitely right.
56:00The team search for the rest of the afternoon, but the dogs don't find anything else.
56:06If there are more remains on this hillside, it looks like they may be buried forever.
56:11I don't think it was completely unexpected. It's always going to be difficult.
56:12But I was kind of hoping we'd get at least a bone or two.
56:13I don't think it was completely unexpected. It's always going to be difficult.
56:14But I was kind of hoping we'd get at least a bone or two.
56:15Maybe that's just an indication of how long the body's been there.
56:18I don't think it was completely unexpected. It's always going to be difficult.
56:20But I was kind of hoping we'd get at least a bone or two.
56:25Maybe that's just an indication of how long the body's been there.
56:30There will be no more searching on this hill.
56:31But the investigation into this man's identity and clues about his fate will go on.
56:36They're going to have to start doing a lot more digging through historical records of missing people.
56:37From not within, not just within the rest of the hill, but the investigation into this man's identity and clues about his fate will go on.
56:58They're going to have to start doing a lot more digging through historical records of missing people.
57:04from not just within Scotland, across all the UK forces
57:08and potentially international as well.
57:13Some people just don't get traced.
57:15They don't get found.
57:17And when we are found like this,
57:18then they don't necessarily all can be identified.
57:34¶¶
58:03Next time, please deal with a crash on Skye's main road.
58:08We need to deal with a casualty further away that way, please.
58:12Just in case the car explodes.
58:14In Inverness...
58:15Stop!
58:16Officers race to catch a fleeing suspect.
58:19Stop!
58:20And on the Isle of Skye...
58:22A major drug operation is rumbled.
58:26I'm going around room to room
58:28and there's cannabis plants everywhere.
58:33I'm going around room to room, please.
58:35I don't want to force them at the very top
58:41Stop!
58:42Not like I had ready for you!
58:46San Jose and his new life.
58:48Let's go!
58:50Feen prohibition of the chair.
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