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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
18:44MUSIC PLAYS
18:47MUSIC PLAYS
18:50MUSIC PLAYS
18:54MUSIC CONTINUES
18:58MUSIC CONTINUES
19:00I don't think it's this way. I think it'll be that worn path.
19:25In the dark, in this dense undergrowth, there are no clear lines of sight.
19:29Police, quiet door.
19:31MUSIC CONTINUES
19:32MUSIC CONTINUES
19:33And no signs of anyone running or hiding.
19:38MUSIC CONTINUES
19:40The police are struggling to find anything that might point them towards a fugitive.
19:47MUSIC CONTINUES
19:48But then, deep in the woods, they find something.
19:51MUSIC CONTINUES
19:52There's a tent over here.
19:56MUSIC CONTINUES
19:57Watch, Bob Dwyer.
20:01So we've found the campsite.
20:03We're just trying to figure out if he's been here or not.
20:06Or if he's in the area, so...
20:09We're not sure at the moment.
20:17The search dog, Wolf, is drawing a blank.
20:20Nothing at all. I took him down that way to see,
20:23but there's no back out of here.
20:27I think there's one way and one way out.
20:30Pretty dense, though, that way.
20:32Well, I don't think he's here. I don't think we scared him off.
20:36There's no noise in the woods.
20:38Huh?
20:39No noise whatsoever.
20:40No.
20:42There's clothing, there's empty alcohol bottles and cans
20:46and some empty food tins and things like that,
20:50so it's quite likely that that's where he's been.
20:54Who knows how recently, but...
20:56Well, that's it. We just don't know, do we?
20:58Good effort, guys. Good effort.
21:01Just relax, you're all right.
21:03The bad man is not here.
21:05WHOOP! WHOOP!
21:06Although there's no-one at home,
21:07there's enough to suggest that intel is correct
21:09on where the man has been hiding.
21:11has been hiding that's his campsite as described now they know his location the police hope the
21:18net is finally closing on fort williams most elusive resident just getting a grid reference
21:24of the tent in case you need to make further attempts because i suppose part of the problem
21:28was we struggled to find the camp initially um but we did get there relatively quickly i don't
21:36think we did disturb him um but yeah if we need to come back again if we can get a precise grid
21:43reference then hopefully that means we can just get straight there and a few more of us know the
21:47layer of the woods now so yeah hopefully we can try again looks like he tried to booby trap it
22:05almost to his barbed wire across the entrance to the campsite where his tent's pitched and the
22:12efforts he's gone to certainly which ted suggests he's not looking to be found anytime soon a bit
22:18disappointment we've not caught him but satisfied that we did everything we could to catch him
22:24there's a phrase that's overused to the max that they need to get lucky every day we only need to
22:29get lucky once i'm sure you've heard that a million times but it's very true you know you know you'll get
22:34him eventually case ness one of the most sparsely populated parts of the highlands and one of its
22:52most beautiful sergeant andy mckay has been policing here for 15 years it's a really nice place to live
23:01there's lots of like really nice scenery it's a small kind of close-knit community you just get
23:08left basically to your own devices we're kind of trusted up here to just get on with it and it's
23:14only 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 we're going to go
23:36and see if we can find this stolen vehicle the person that we suspected is a possibility for
23:43removing the vehicle is from a village just north of wick but they have associates in the town
23:52yeah so i'm just going to go past uh the area of town where they've sort of been known to frequent
24:00before and see if the vehicle is there
24:03so we're looking for a white transit van with a bit of rust
24:14so there's a white transit but it's the wrong ridge
24:24yeah i'll come up
24:41stevie g has found the vehicle on the other side of town so we'll just get there quickly quickly
24:54apparently the um driver says the vehicle was given to him but we've just noted a statement
25:01saying it was stolen you know the fact that they've got a stolen vehicle
25:05and they're saying that it's really theirs is uh it's a bit suspicious
25:10so let's go see what we got
25:22foreign member he's been under arrest for suspicion and suspicion of theft of a motorbike okay yeah
25:27so you're not obliged to say anything anything you do say maybe no to them maybe you've never
25:33pass it to me are you on your own you got something away he's got two dogs in the van
25:38oh okay the dog's friendly no no is there a way of getting the dog from the front of the van into
25:42the back or would have to take him out of the side door right i just have to put him in the back
25:48when did you buy the van i didn't buy the van it was bought by somebody else
25:53and how have you come to be driving the van because they've asked me to go out so i could
25:56borrow the vehicle to drive things yeah like i put bikes across here because i don't have a van
26:01myself like motorbikes or yeah two motorbikes so i was delivering them to like someone who bought
26:05them off okay the man claims he has borrowed this van not stolen it
26:13a search of his clothing uncovers something suspicious
26:17i've got the reason to lie what is it
26:20i'm asking you if i knew i would tell you yeah i'm genuinely i'm not being anything
26:24about complying but i've got the reason to lie
26:26so it's at the beach it was a wet pouch of something
26:29you're on the beach and you found a small white packet containing a substance and decided to pick it up
26:33i went at castledown so the one just outside there's a wall that's an odd thing to pick up
26:37no really what i pick up on my i pick up bits of weird rocks those bits of weird plastic those
26:42bits of weird wood thing sorry i go what were you going to do with it nothing i was like what is it
26:48just a souvenir from i completely forgot to even put it in my pocket genuinely we'll need to put it away
26:53for testing okay if it comes back in a controlled substance you'll get reported the man then tells the
26:58police there may be something else in the van you said that you think there might be something in
27:03the van i didn't say i think there might be there could be something in the van my friends they
27:06would they do they do what they do they smoke weed yeah you said there might be cannabis in your
27:10backy pouch yeah so would that be yours what my tobacco or my but i cannot i can avoid the weed
27:16the cannabis that's in the tobacco watch room so whose cannabis is it that's in the backy
27:20it would probably be like mine i would assume probably be it would be mine if there is any
27:25it'll be mine okay right the police decide they now have enough grounds to search the van
27:32more officers arrive on the scene sometimes with these things you just find a little bit and people
27:37are sort of like oh yeah sorry mate i had it from the weekend or whatever and kind of use it as a way
27:44to kind of subterfuge to make the police go oh well he's handed over that's fine you know no need to
27:48worry like here you know here's a wee ticket slap on the wrist don't do that again but that's
27:54absolutely our doorway to say right well what's in your van what's in your pockets it may turn out
27:59that who knows maybe there's a toolbox in the back that's got more in it
28:03in the front of the field thanks in nairn the two vehicles involved in a fatal crash on the a9
28:22are being examined by police scotland's specialist collision investigation unit
28:27so we're taking photographs of relevant damage make sure that there's no or as best we can rule
28:43out any pre-collision defects uh on the vehicle so checking all the the joints and stuff making
28:48sure everyone's connected as it should be albeit with crash damage it can be hard to tell
28:53you see the chassis bike yeah and even at the top you see it's all twisted yeah kind of supports the
29:04fact it's been quite a high speed head-on collision the investigators are also looking for clues about
29:11the movements of both vehicles before and immediately after the collision so this is the part of the prop shaft
29:19this is the bit that's just been disconnected so it was dragging underneath the vehicle and that's
29:23quite significant because we had two grain marks on the road and that led back to the prop shaft which
29:31shows its direction of travel after impact back to its resulting position so it gives us evidence of
29:37where the vehicles moved after collision so that's quite significant for us by matching parts of the car
29:44like this prop shaft to marks left on the road the police can trace the movement of the vehicles
29:50before and after the collision this will help pinpoint exactly where on the road the collision took
29:58place and could suggest one car had left its lane causing the head-on crash we tie it up to certain marks
30:07on the road and if you could place a vehicle in the road that can tell us where the collisions exactly
30:11happened and 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
30:25collision investigators examine the vehicles in great detail they examine the marks on the road in great
30:30detail and it's pieced together that the volkswagen multivan was in it was it was not traveling in its
30:38own lane at the time of the collision and that's the responsibility of this collision rests with
30:43the driver of that vehicle and there's one final crucial piece of evidence we have here dash cam footage
30:52of the collision
30:53the van gives us a really good opportunity for seeing what's happened
31:05can see that the van has crossed the middle of the road and collided with the oncoming vehicle
31:11the van was being driven by an american tourist when people visit scotland they tend to be
31:18try to cover a lot of the a lot of the country in the time that they're here and that can sometimes
31:24lead to tiredness there can be fatigue it can be a case that they don't know or can get confused or
31:32disorientated about what side of the road they should be traveling on
31:40the 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 it's just that the van has been on the wrong side
31:49of the road and ultimately that's led to the death of a lady and serious injury of
31:58her children and the driver of the oncoming vehicle
32:01as things stand currently the driver of the volkswagen multivan has been reported to the procurator
32:15fiscal for causing death by dangerous driving and also for causing serious injury by dangerous driving
32:23as well this driver has lost his wife and has seriously injured his adult children because of the
32:30way that he's driven the vehicle the impact that that's going to have on him and on his family
32:37that can't be changed
32:44in wick police have stopped a man they believe is traveling 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 thing so he's been detained under section 23 for a search of
33:02the van don't go near the back door there's there's two angry dogs in the back
33:08the dogs kind of adds a an extra layer to it you have to think what we're going to do there's a health
33:13and safety aspect too as well that dog's barking that appears to be aggressive what happens if it
33:17bites me if we were sort of closer to timberness we'd probably ask for maybe the dog handler to come and help us
33:27while the van is being searched police test the man for drugs
33:31you come up positive for cocaine already waiting for the cannabis now it takes eight minutes but
33:44you're positive for coke yeah because there's obviously cocaine in your system which is over the legal limit
33:50yeah okay so please don't tell me you having cocaine in your system someone else's fault as well
34:01no no no i'm not saying that at all
34:07you do a swipe sorry you prove to me that you've not got cooking in your system
34:12me yeah i'd happily take a drug test right now
34:14it's not how it works though we're here to test you okay there was a certain aroma of something in
34:25the air when he was talking it was just a bit of rubbish to be honest like we kind of all saw through
34:31it straight away the man has now tested positive for two controlled substances meaning he will be
34:40arrested but the search of the van has just started and his troubles are just beginning
34:47bladed article where it's more of a stanley knife it's easy access hey where's the blade
34:54it's just stanley knife rage is that a locking one it looks like it locks the lock knife it was within
35:01his reach which means that he's therefore in possession of it and it's an offense to be in
35:07position of a lock knife in a public place if it had been stored in a toolbox in the back of the van
35:13then that would that would be okay because you know people have legitimate reason to have lock
35:17knives and transport them about the place this is the powerful so far that we found uh so we've got
35:23two pipes there spoon for uh melting sooting drugs on and he's already been uh showing that uh he's got
35:31jumped in his system already oh another knife and that was in the jacket pocket that was jacket pocket
35:36wedged beside the passenger door we'll put you in the van we'll get you back to the office we'll get
35:43you booked into custody we'll get your rights we'll have to do the road traffic procedures because you're
35:48giving us a positive specimen at the roadside okay and then once you've done that we'll interview you
35:55yeah so i'm arresting you in terms of um the traffic act 1988 so i arrest you for failing
36:00uh drug practice cannabis and cocaine so you're not obliged to say anything but anything you do
36:03say will be noted and maybe using evidence do you understand that yeah mind your head
36:09what's the man in custody the police now need to negotiate with the dogs come on there you go
36:30it's all right have you got another treat yeah so he's just terrified that's all
36:36he's not going for me he's just just a bit scared there you go there you go yeah he likes a treat
36:46with the dogs happy officers can finally make a thorough search of the van
36:58and although nothing else significant is found there is already enough to charge
37:03this man with drugs and weapons offenses on the face of it he doesn't appear to be the kind of
37:09pablo escobar of orkney but the fact that he has a little bit of cannabis on him that's absolutely our
37:14gateway to make these further inquiries just to be doubly sure of what we're dealing with
37:20we're dealing with north 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
37:51usually 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
38:07there has been a discovery of some human remains
38:12it's really difficult to get to so we're there to make sure everyone gets their stuff there safely
38:17and 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 but definitely
38:27raises just a lot of questions in your mind about what's happened the 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 and decide if they have been a victim of
38:45crime so quite a lot of it is really unexplained but what we do know is that the remains have been
38:52there for quite a long time we have to treat it like there's potentially some suspicious circumstances
38:59until we rule it out so we are going to preserve any evidence that has been left there
39:07police are managing this incident from a small station deep in the western highlands
39:15it is
39:18katie and her team are briefed on the body's discovery by crime scene manager kevin burn
39:24about 1500 hours on wednesday the two local residents were walking their dog in the area
39:28when they became aware of what they appeared to be hiking boot and items of clothing scattered nearby
39:34the thing felt what 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
39:45It raises a lot of questions of why they were there and who they are, yet you always expect
39:54if the remains of somebody is found, there is information out there that someone's looking
39:59for them, so it is really unusual to have somebody found and not know any circumstances
40:06surrounding it.
40:08It's supposed to rain this afternoon, so good chance we're all getting soaked.
40:12I'll leave it to your discretion, Mountain Rescue guys, if you think the weather's closing
40:15in and 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, so it would be good if we
40:24kind of get towards that time that we'll just take stock and see where we are with it.
40:29Any other issues?
40:30Okay, we'll go for it then.
40:39The biggest challenges today is the location, the terrain is very remote, it's boggy.
40:48We're very much open to the elements, we look to try and establish, is there any criminality
40:54involved 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
41:00have to keep an open mind.
41:02A team of forensic anthropologists will accompany Katie on the mountain, which will be treated
41:10like 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
41:18them as long as it takes.
41:20It's something that needs to be done methodical to make sure that they capture everything there
41:25that we need, and it's something you can't always plan because you just don't know what
41:28you're going to find once you start moving things.
41:32Our first and foremost role is policing.
41:34So, if it's not a sightseeing spot, if it's not a well-known walking spot, why have they
41:39taken themselves there?
41:41So 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
41:49normally do, and they could take themselves into that kind of area.
41:57Out here, it's the end of the road.
42:00The only way forward is on a specialist vehicle loaned by a local gamekeeper.
42:05I've been on one before, and yeah, they're sturdy, but they are not comfy.
42:11See whose breakfast comes first.
42:15The area itself, it was pathless, very difficult ground to walk in.
42:20It was on a large estate that we had to access via 4x4 trucks and thereafter an Argo Cat to
42:28assist us to get to the location.
42:30You can see a road, but that's way off in the distance, and there are no paths to get into
42:36the area that we were, so it's not somewhere you'd expect anyone to go walking, especially
42:42someone with no equipment with them.
42:54Four hours after leaving Inverness, Katie finally reaches the spot where the remains lie, and
43:00her 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, I'm pretty sure this is them.
43:16There's what, we're hoping there's 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,
43:24you 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
43:41been discovered at all.
43:42At the moment, I'd go white male.
43:45So what determined it was male?
43:47So at the back of male skulls, there's a really big bumpy bit, because males have heavier heads,
43:53they have more muscles that go up the back of the neck, so the bone produces more bone,
43:57because it needs a bigger surface area for that muscle to attach.
44:02It's a start, but it's all the forensics team can conclude from these remains and the clothes
44:08nearby.
44:10As the weather closes in, the team must leave the mountainside for the day.
44:18The body was in a difficult position, so we have to get the remains out of that in a respectful
44:24way, but also in a safe way that we are taking it up hills and through an area with no pass
44:30and everything like that.
44:31So our responsibilities are both to make sure that we're gathering everything respectfully,
44:37but also the forensic opportunities are saved.
44:45Bringing up more questions than answers at the moment.
44:48The kind of, the choices for footwear and outerwear is not really what you generally see for
44:56hill walkers or anything like that.
44:58And they had a fluorescent vest on again, which is more for somebody that's by the roadway and
45:06in the dark. So it doesn't kind of really fit in with that. So again, it just kind of, it leaves us with
45:11more 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
45:20which could help solve the mystery of who this was and why he died out here.
45:26I think it's difficult to put into words how each sudden death feels to you.
45:33You feel a sense of sadness that this person has died alone in this remote area.
45:41It's difficult to not know who they are and not be able to provide a family
45:46with answers of where their loved one has come to rest.
45:54It's not something you want to leave unknown. So we have to look at every avenue we can to try
46:00and identify this person.
46:15In Inverness, PC's Dan Shield and Jimmy Sutherland are responding to a call from the post office.
46:23We've had a call from the mail sorting office to say that they've got a package that possibly
46:30contains cannabis and the smell of it is the telltale signs. We're just going to go down there and
46:38have a look and see if it is cannabis, take it back for testing.
46:44Drugs coming through the post is on the increase. It's easier to distance yourself when it's coming
46:50through the post because you're not in possession of them. So it's a lot harder to find the person that's
46:56actually sent the items itself. Because the mail is becoming a more popular method of drug supply,
47:04police across the UK are sending sniffer dogs to sorting offices on a regular basis.
47:09So both of the items are here. It was the police dog that sniffed them out. In fact,
47:22the police dog actually tore that one. It was so convinced there was something in it.
47:31The dog has identified one of the packages as containing some kind of controlled drug. We'll just
47:37get them opened up. We'll make sure that they do contain drugs and then we'll get the packages seized.
47:45Yeah, it's not really much of a smell, to be honest. I don't think...
47:48Is that the one the dog's done?
47:50And that's been torn open as well. So I think if it wasn't for the dog, I think...
47:56It's a wee bit of a smell, but...
47:57I think it might be what we call cannabis edibles.
48:01So 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. So I won't open that just now, Ali,
48:20just because I'm just seeing that there is quite a lot of sort of powder, etc. Obviously,
48:25we don't know what that is. I don't want to open it up in case it is anything of kind of harmful
48:30nature or anything like that at all. So we'll just seize that and we will do our own testing
48:36on 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,
48:46there'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 just kind of a sort of a sort of sweet sort of sickly sort of smell. Yeah,
49:00they've obviously you can see they've wrapped it up a number of times in an effort to disguise it,
49:05but they've not done it very well. Then an unexpected breakthrough.
49:11The gentleman who says this is for him is at the customer service point right now.
49:17Oh, is he? Yeah. Oh, that's handy.
49:19I was going to say, that's never happened before. But he's coming to get this.
49:24Oh, right. He's obviously wanting him 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
49:42which strongly smells of cannabis. At this moment in time, you're under caution that you're not
49:46obliged to say anything, but anything you do say will be noted, maybe using evidence. Do you understand that?
49:49Yeah. What have you, what have you got to say about, about that?
49:54No comment. Okay, no worries. We'll see where we're going to go from here just now. Okay.
49:59Obviously we need to go back to the station. We obviously need to test it.
50:02Just obviously make sure that it, 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.
50:10It was beneficial just to give him the recorded police warning because it just gets the matter sort of dealt with.
50:15Accepting the recorded police warning isn't an admission of guilt.
50:18I said it's a warning, okay, for you if he was to re-offend or if he was to be found in possession
50:25of 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.
50:34Thank you very much.
50:36This 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.
50:53It is a banned substance, it's a controlled substance, so if it gets sent through the Royal Mail network
51:00and we intercept it, then our job is to contact the police and that's what we do.
51:06That'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.
51:13However, fighting the war against drugs, crime, that's ultimately what I joined the job for
51:19and that's what I will keep on doing and I will carry on doing.
51:21I think he would have seen the police farm.
51:24I thought, maybe that's for me.
51:27I thought, oh yeah, I'm ordering cannabis.
51:37In the mountains of the North West Highlands, police still have to confirm the identity of the man
51:43whose remains were found on a remote hillside.
51:46Today, Dan Sutherland, who is part of the mountain rescue team,
51:51is 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,
52:00to 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.
52:10So fingers crossed we can get some good results with them today.
52:16The 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
52:28or any clothing and effects that might have been missed in the original search.
52:35This 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
52:46or there is an outstanding missing person where we've got a very good idea of potentially who they could be.
52:52But in this case, it's a bit more difficult.
52:56We 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 it. First challenge of a day.
53:11Go on. Go on.
53:15Go.
53:16We always worry with young calves as well, like cows and calves, never great.
53:30That's it. Good girl.
53:31Where 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.
53:50So it was really quite surprising to find out that someone had been found there.
53:53Obviously, we don't know how he's died, but it is sad that you can just lay down or fall down on the ground
54:01and you won't have come across you for years and years.
54:10Dan will be accompanied by cadaver dogs Cooper and Gus and dog handlers Adam and Daniel.
54:23So 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.
54:37Today 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!
54:54All right, he's going to go back then. Fine.
54:55Before long, it looks like Cooper has found something.
55:01Cooper!
55:04Whether there's a scavenger that's a burrow and it's taking something...
55:08That's quite a bit cool. Yeah.
55:11The dog's given indication.
55:14There's a hole here, so just see if anything's been taken down there by any animals.
55:20It looks like a burrow because there's obvious marks of burrowing further in.
55:24It's a small animal.
55:25Where the body was found, obviously, just behind it, just over to outside here, like so.
55:28The dog's indicating here.
55:29But the burrow is too narrow and deep for the officers to see anything themselves.
55:43Cooper's indicated at a sort of burrow relatively near to the recovery site.
55:49We just can't get to at the moment.
55:51It's impossible to say what it is, but I suspect it's a bone and it's very specific and very close
55:56to the body site location, which would indicate he's definitely right.
56:01The team search for the rest of the afternoon, but the dogs don't find anything else.
56:07If there are more remains on this hillside, it looks like they may be buried forever.
56:12I don't think it was completely unexpected. It's always going to be difficult, but I was kind
56:36of hoping we'd get at least a bone or two. Maybe that's just an indication of how long the body's been there.
56:47There 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.
56:57They're going to have to start doing a lot more digging through historical records of missing people
57:05from not just within Scotland, across all the UK forces and potentially international as well.
57:13Some people just don't get traced. They don't get found.
57:17And when we are found like this, then they don't necessarily all can be identified.
57:27That's what what the supremacist says.
57:32I love it.
57:36I was about one man who didn't think it should be an great baby
57:55Next 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... Stop!
58:16Officers race to catch a fleeing suspect.
58:19Stop!
58:20And on the Isle of Skye...
58:22Hey, don't you have?
58:24A major drug operation has rumbled.
58:27I'm going around room to room and there's cannabis plants everywhere.
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