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00:00The Highlands and Islands of Scotland is Britain's biggest beat.
00:07I'm injured. There's a car on fire.
00:11I've got three wounded persons.
00:13It is really easy to underestimate the Highlands.
00:17Patrolling 12,000 square miles of mountains, lochs and islands.
00:23We're going to need a launch to be able to go out and get this boy lifted.
00:26And searching for suspects deep in the wilderness.
00:30Police for the dog. Anyone housing? 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.
00:50It's clear evidence that these birds are being persecuted.
00:53And crimes that plague the nation.
00:55Oh, 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.
01:14All right, let's go.
01:15We look out for each other.
01:16To find out what it takes to walk the beach.
01:20There's monkeys, there's parrots.
01:22It's all completely a lot of our comfort zone.
01:25And keep the peace.
01:26You're just threatening to kill it.
01:27It's like you were going to strangle it.
01:29In some of the most beautiful and wild places in the UK.
01:33The A9, the main road that connects the Highlands to the rest of Scotland.
01:55For the people who live here, it's a vital artery.
02:01But it also has a darker claim to fame.
02:04The A9 is a dangerous road.
02:12But it is the main route to the north of Scotland.
02:15So we've got everything from the HGVs and the lorries traveling with all the goods up to the shops and the towns.
02:20To a huge volume of tourist traffic as well.
02:23Tonight, PC's Jamie Embry and Ross Nairn are on patrol near Aviemore.
02:44Go ahead.
02:46When a report comes in of an accident on the A9.
02:49Can you start making me your response to the A9 car bridge?
02:55Call us here through A9.
02:57It'll be involved in RTC.
02:58Lots of screaming heard.
03:00Yeah, control from 415.
03:02As the night shift in, we'll start making our way, but we're quite a distance away.
03:07Yes, it's 215.
03:08Let's make it round.
03:11So it's plotting this side of the car bridge junction.
03:15A female is heard screaming and a male is grunting.
03:20Tourist?
03:22We're jake.
03:27As the officers make their way to the scene, they receive updates.
03:32November 569.
03:33They've received ambulance saying the helicopter is en route, landing 15 to 20 minutes.
03:39They'll need road closed.
03:41Reports coming in suggest this is a head-on collision between two vehicles.
03:49When we hear of a head-on collision on the A9, a vehicle travelling at 60 miles an hour northbound,
03:55a vehicle travelling 60 miles an hour potentially southbound, you know, meeting together,
03:59you know, you're talking about 120 mile an hour impact.
04:02That generally means that we're going to be driving into carnage.
04:17Don't match up.
04:18When we arrived on the scene, there was bodywork of both vehicles strewn across the road.
04:42The pickup truck was still on the road.
04:45The minivan was wedged on top of the barrier.
04:57There are three people trapped inside this minivan, all from one family.
05:03The moment the fire brigade have stabilised the vehicle, it's kind of perched on quite a steep embankment
05:11that drops down quite a distance, so they've winched up a cable to make sure that that vehicle
05:16doesn'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, and we have to establish that,
05:36we have to investigate that.
05:39So, use all witness there, 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,
05:47potentially life-threatening injuries.
05:49Or did you get straight?
05:50You got straight out 4909 and Ross.
05:52Yeah.
05:53Yeah.
05:54Just vaguely moved into the next lane and there was no braking before impact.
05:58You can stay here, make sure you're on the pavement though, and just don't go sort of past the back of this fire engine,
06:04OK, just so you don't see anything, all right?
06:07This is one of the worst crashes on the A9 this year.
06:11And 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-extinctous now, so...
06:28The woman's husband and adult children are still being treated by paramedics.
06:39The other driver of the pickup truck, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle,
06:43is being rushed off to Rigmore Hospital in Inverness.
06:45But there are quite a few people in that other vehicle where the female is now deceased.
06:49I know that they were working on somebody else there as well.
06:56The police see, you know, on a daily basis, things that people wouldn't believe.
07:01We deal with horrific injuries and horrific incidents, which does take its toll.
07:05I get great support from my wife at home, so if I ever need to talk about something, you know, she's there for me.
07:16You know, we obviously are sympathetic towards the rest of the family who were in that vehicle.
07:21But we still have to maintain our composure and try and get on with the job
07:25and figure out what exactly went wrong for their benefit as well,
07:29just to make sure that they understand why they've suddenly lost their mother.
07:32One eye-witness did have a clear view.
07:48He was driving immediately behind the minivan.
07:52One minute was fine, next minute it just veered over to the right
07:55and sadly impacted into the oncoming vehicle.
08:00So it was a pretty nasty head-on.
08:02I just told the boys to contact the emergency services
08:05and then I just approached the first vehicle.
08:08There was no braking before impact.
08:10There was nothing to suggest there was any animals across the road or anything like that, so, yeah.
08:17But there's still a lot of work to do to find out the exact cause of this crash.
08:24Specialist collision investigators have just arrived on scene.
08:28And then they will work through the night in search of answers.
08:31Glencoe and Fort William are among the busiest tourist destinations in Scotland.
08:52But even with thousands of people passing through in the surrounding vast wilderness,
08:58it's all too easy to disappear and perfect for somewhere to hide.
09:05This evening, Glencoe cop 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,
09:35so he's quite a sort of dangerous individual.
09:37But 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.
09:51He exploded out from underneath a load of bushes in front of me and gave me the fright of my life, if I'm honest,
09:56because I wasn't quite sure what was going on.
09:58And he ran off, came close, but no luck, unfortunately.
10:04There's a dog unit starting at Inverness at 9 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 him this time.
10:24Stephen and Rory are part of a seven-strong team being deployed tonight
10:29to try to capture this 31-year-old fugitive who 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.
10:49That's the lay-by there.
10:52So not too far from the road.
10:54OK.
10:55And Mark goes along.
10:56We give a very brief update on, you know, because if we can see the tent or something.
11:00The 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
11:13and 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.
11:21So that's where we're going to go and find him.
11:25I try to, anyway.
11:27That means they will need to go into the woods after dark.
11:32Tonight, the team is led by Sergeant Emma Mackay.
11:36He does run.
11:37I would rather us were all there, ready and waiting.
11:40So he will like it.
11:42That's been two or three times now he's run away from the police.
11:45I can provide bulk, just not speed.
11:47Also joining the team are dog handler Adam and his German shepherd, Wolf.
11:56If he does run, then just stand still, just stop, and we'll get the dog going.
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.
12:19Enough resources and some good intel.
12:22So hopefully the game's stacked in our favour.
12:25OK, let's go.
12:28I think when someone's evaded cabochin for so long, you've got that bit between the teeth,
12:32I suppose, if you like.
12:34It's just like with any wanted person.
12:36We want to get them.
12:37They're wanted for a reason, and primary job of the police, isn't it, to catch the bad guy.
12:42You've got a lot of these in the shows, like bad ones like that?
12:56Yeah, all the time.
12:58A-9's a nightmare.
12:59I was in a nightmare.
13:02Investigations are underway into a fatal two-car collision on the A-9.
13:07Police have spoken to eyewitnesses.
13:10Now, they must secure physical evidence.
13:17I've turned away the cars that are there.
13:19Every other car is 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.
13:30Have you got details of it?
13:32I've got details of it.
13:33But before dash cam can be examined, it is vital that specialist crash investigators
13:40are able to examine the scene in detail.
13:43Once all the emergency crews pack up their gear and leave, the road policing units that are here,
13:49they'll be taking numerous photos, videos, markings, just to establish exactly what's happened.
13:56Leading the team is Sergeant Callum McCauley.
13:58Our people from the police who 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.
14:13The best opportunity that we have to go and recover evidence from what's happened at the scene is just now.
14:26I'll give that to you just now.
14:29The first task tonight is to build a technical picture of the scene before the road is cleared.
14:35The 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.
14:47Mm-hmm.
14:47All right?
14:48Yeah.
14:49All good.
14:51Collision investigators form a conclusion about what's happened, purely worked out from the physical facts,
14:58taken from the vehicles, taken from marks left on the road,
15:01what 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
15:17to see if any personal factors could have contributed to the collision.
15:22We have inquiry officers who will go and speak with families, witnesses,
15:26and the people who've been involved in the crash.
15:29One of the investigators, Ben, finds some documents in the minivan.
15:35Yeah, 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.
15:43His contact numbers aren't here as well.
15:45I think they're going to.
15:45The fact that the driver of the minivan is not from the UK could be significant.
15:52Travelling here, for people who've never been to Scotland before, can be confusion because we drive on the left.
15:59So confusion could be something that we would consider, something that we'll look at.
16:04Fatigue contributes to nearly one-fifth of Scotland's road traffic deaths, so police are looking for signs of brake marks on the road.
16:13If there aren't any, that may suggest the driver has fallen asleep at the wheel.
16:17We 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?
16:29The 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.
16:39The majority of the work that we do around these crashes is done the weeks afterwards.
16:47Once all this information's been gathered, the guys here will take it back and they will scrutinise it and analyse it.
16:59We'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 are no longer with us.
17:09It's nearly midnight in Fort William.
17:27In the darkness on the edge of town, police are on the trail of a wanted man.
17:31At 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.
17:43And 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.
17:50He's never actually been seen there by police officers.
17:52Our roads policing colleagues have been out and have seen the tents in position.
17:56So, clearly, as 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'll just get everyone along and we'll just rush them, I think.
18:12Ready. Let's go.
18:15Emma and Roddy will take the lead.
18:17As soon as they give the signal, the rest of the team will go in.
18:21In gear, foot on a break, ready to go.
18:30I think we'd all be lying if we didn't say we'd get an adrenaline rush out of something like this.
18:42Do you want to come from Levi?
18:46Everything's clear.
18:46What the fuck?
19:09What the fuck?
19:11I don't think it's this way.
19:19I think it'll be that worn path.
19:24In the dark, in this dense undergrowth,
19:27there are no clear lines of sight.
19:29Police fire door.
19:31And no signs of anyone running or hiding.
19:37Running.
19:37The police are struggling to find anything
19:42that might point them towards a fugitive.
19:47But then, deep in the woods, they find something.
19:57Watch, Bob Dwyer.
20:01So we found the campsite.
20:03We're just trying to figure out if he's been here or not.
20:05Or if he's in the area.
20:08So, we're not sure at the moment.
20:17The search dog, Wolf, is drawing a blank.
20:20Nothing at all.
20:21I 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.
20:29Pretty dense down that way.
20:32I don't think he's here.
20:33I don't think we scared him off.
20:34There's no noise in the woods.
20:38Huh?
20:39No noise whatsoever.
20:40Nah.
20:42There's clothing.
20:43There'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.
20:57We just don't know, do we?
20:58Good effort, guys.
20:59Good effort.
21:01Just relax, you're all right.
21:03The bad man's not here.
21:05Although there's no-one at home,
21:07there's enough to suggest that intel is correct
21:09on where the man has been hiding.
21:12That's his campsite, as described.
21:14Now they know his location,
21:17the police hope the net is finally closing
21:19on Fort William's most elusive resident.
21:23Just getting a grid reference of the tent
21:25in case you need to make further attempts
21:26because I suppose part of the problem was
21:29we struggled to find the camp initially.
21:32But we did get there relatively quickly.
21:36I don't think we did disturb him.
21:38But, yeah, if we need to come back again,
21:41if 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 way out of the woods now.
21:48So, yeah, hopefully we can try again.
21:50Looks like he tried to booby-trap it almost
22:06to his barbed wire across the entrance to the campsite.
22:09Where his tent's pitched and the efforts he's gone to,
22:13certainly, which, Ted suggests,
22:15he's not looking to be found any time soon.
22:18A bit of disappointment we've not caught him.
22:20But satisfied that we did everything.
22:22We're good to catch him.
22:24There's a phrase that's overused to the max
22:26that they need to get lucky every day.
22:29We only need to get lucky once.
22:30I'm sure you've heard that a million times,
22:31but it's very true.
22:33You know you'll get him eventually.
22:46Keith Ness,
22:47one of the most sparsely populated parts of the Highlands,
22:51and one of its most beautiful.
22:54Sergeant Andy Mackay has been policing here for 15 years.
22:59It's a really nice place to live.
23:01There's lots of, like, really nice scenery.
23:03It'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
23:16that we would then get that input from further up.
23:19Today, Andy and his colleagues are looking for a white van,
23:25which has been reported stolen in Orkney.
23:28The police believe it may be in Wick,
23:31one of the biggest towns in Keith Ness.
23:34We're going to go and see if we can find this stolen vehicle.
23:38The person that we suspected is a possibility
23:42for removing the vehicle
23:44is from a village just north of Wick.
23:49But they have associates in the town.
23:52So I'm just going to go past the area of town
23:56where they've sort of been known to frequent before
24:01and see if the vehicle is there.
24:03So we're looking for a white transit van with a bit of rust.
24:18So there's a white transit, but it's the wrong ridge.
24:29Yeah, that's the other one.
24:31Good.
24:31Stevie G has found the vehicle on the other side of town,
24:44so we'll just get there quickly, quickly.
24:55Apparently, the driver says the vehicle was given to him,
25:00but we've just not had a statement saying it was stolen.
25:02You know, the fact that they've got a stolen vehicle
25:04and they're saying that it's really theirs is a bit suspicious.
25:19Let's go see what we've got.
25:20So you're not obliged to say anything.
25:28Anything you do say, maybe no to them, maybe even anything else.
25:31Okay?
25:31Can we just pass it up to me?
25:34Are you on your own or have you got something away?
25:36Not my own.
25:36He's got two dogs in the van.
25:38Oh, okay.
25:38Are the dogs friendly?
25:39No.
25:40No.
25:40Is there a way of getting the dogs from the front of the van
25:42into the back?
25:43Oh, I'm going to have to take them out of the side door.
25:46I just have to put them in the back.
25:48When did you buy the van?
25:49I didn't buy the van.
25:50It was bought by somebody else.
25:53And how have you come to be driving the van?
25:54Because they've asked me to go out and say I could borrow the vehicle
25:57to drive things a bit.
25:58Yeah.
25:59Like, I put bikes across here because I don't have a van myself.
26:02Like, motorbikes?
26:03Yeah, two motorbikes.
26:04So I was delivering them to someone who bought them off me.
26:06Ah, okay.
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 no reason to lie.
26:18What is it?
26:20I'm asking you.
26:21If I knew I would tell you, I'm not being anything but complying.
26:25I've got no reason to lie.
26:26So it was a beach.
26:27It was a wet pouch of something.
26:29You're on the beach and you found a small white packet containing a substance
26:32and decided to pick it up.
26:33The one at Castletown.
26:34So the one just outside.
26:35It's an odd thing to pick up, no?
26:38I don't know what I 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.
26:44Sorry.
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?
26:50I completely forgot to even put it in my pocket.
26:51Genuinely.
26:52We'll need to put it away for testing, okay?
26:54If it comes back in a controlled substance, you'll get reported.
26:57The man then tells the police there may be something else in the van.
27:01He said you think there might be something in the van.
27:03No, I didn't say I think there might be.
27:04There could be something in the van.
27:05My friends, they do what they do.
27:08They smoke weed.
27:08Yeah.
27:09But you said there might be cannabis in your backy pouch.
27:11Yeah.
27:12So would that be yours?
27:14What, my tobacco or my...
27:15But I 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 like mine, I assume.
27:23Probably be...
27:24It would be mine if there is any.
27:25It would be mine.
27:25Okay, right.
27:27The police decide they now have enough grounds to search the van.
27:31Take it from there.
27:32More officers arrive on the scene.
27:34Sometimes with these things, you just find a little bit and people are sort of like,
27:38oh, yeah, sorry, mate.
27:39I had it from the weekend or whatever and 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.
27:48No need to worry.
27:49Like, here's a wee ticket.
27:51Slap on the wrist.
27:51Don't do that again.
27:52But that's absolutely our doorway to say, right, well, what's in your van?
27:57What's in your pockets?
27:58It may turn out that, who knows, maybe 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 E-9 are being examined
28:22by Police Scotland's Specialist Collision Investigation Unit.
28:29Force.
28:31Force.
28:32Force.
28:33So we're taking photographs of the relevant damage.
28:40Make sure that there's no, or as best we can, rule out any pre-collision defects on the vehicle.
28:46So checking all the joints and stuff, making sure everything's connected as it should be,
28:50albeit with crash damage, it can be hard to tell.
28:56You said, that's a bike.
28:58Yeah.
28:58Pretty deformed than that is.
28:59Yeah.
29:00And even at the top, you see it's all twisted.
29:03It kind of supports the fact it's been quite a high-speed, head-on collision.
29:07The investigators are also looking for clues about the movements of both vehicles before
29:13and immediately after the collision.
29:15So this is the part of the prop shaft.
29:19This is the bit that's been disconnected.
29:20So it was dragging underneath the vehicle, and that's quite significant because we had two grind marks on the road that led back to the prop shaft, which shows its direction of travel after impact, back to its resultant position.
29:36So it gives us evidence of where the vehicles moved after collision.
29:38By matching parts of the car, like this prop shaft, to marks left on the road, the 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, and could suggest one car had left its lane, causing the head-on crash.
30:04We tie it up to certain marks on the road, and if you could place a vehicle on the road, that can tell us where the collision exactly happened, and sometimes it can prove whether somebody's in the right or somebody's in the wrong.
30:16It's Sergeant Callum McAuley's job to put together a theory of what caused this crash.
30:24Collision investigators examine the vehicles in great detail, they examine the marks on the road in great detail, and it's pieced together that the Volkswagen Multivan was not travelling in its own lane at the time of the collision, and that's the responsibility of this collision rests with the driver of that vehicle.
30:44And there's one final, crucial piece of evidence.
30:49We have here dashcam footage of the collision.
30:58Gives us a really good opportunity for seeing what's happened.
31:05You can 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.
31:14When people visit Scotland, they tend to be trying to cover a lot of the country and the time that they're here, and that can sometimes lead to tiredness.
31:25There can be fatigue. It can be a case that they don't know or can get confused or disorientated about what side of the road they should be travelling on.
31:34The thing that we can prove in this collision is that the van's been on the wrong side of the road, and the reason for that, it's almost immaterial.
31:46It's just that the van has been on the wrong side of the road, and ultimately that's led to the death of a lady and the serious injury of her children and the driver of the oncoming vehicle.
32:00As things stand currently, the driver of the Volkswagen multivan has been reported to the Procurator Fiscal for causing death by dangerous driving, and also for causing serious injury by dangerous driving as well.
32:22This driver has lost his wife and has seriously injured his adult children because of the way that he's driven the vehicle.
32:31The impact that that's going to have on him and on his family, that can't be changed.
32:37In Wick, police have stopped a man they believe is travelling in a stolen van.
32:49He has admitted there may be cannabis in the van, which allows them to do a more thorough search.
32:56Right, let's open the back first then.
32:59So he's been detained under Section 23 for a search of the van.
33:02Yep.
33:03Don't go near the back door. There's two angry dogs in the back.
33:07The 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 and appears to be aggressive.
33:16What happens if it bites me?
33:18If we were sort of close to Timberness, we'd probably ask for maybe the dog handler to come and help us.
33:24While the van is being searched, police test the man for drugs.
33:39You've come up positive for cocaine already.
33:41Waiting for the cannabis now, it takes eight minutes, but you're positive for coke.
33:44How?
33:45Yeah, because there's obviously cocaine in your system.
33:48Which is over the legal limit.
33:50Yeah, okay.
33:51The drive.
33:52Just do not be on banknotes or something like that.
33:55What the ****?
33:56Like, I'm...
33:57So please don't tell me you having cocaine in your system.
33:59Someone else's fault as well.
34:00No?
34:01No.
34:02No, I'm not saying that at all.
34:07You do a swipe.
34:08Sorry?
34:09You prove to me that you've no good cocaine in your system.
34:11Me?
34:12Yeah.
34:13I'd happily take a drug test right now.
34:14Do it.
34:15Let's see.
34:16I want to prove that these aren't ****ing tests.
34:18It's not how it works though.
34:19We're here to test you.
34:20No.
34:21Okay.
34:22There 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.
34:33The man has now tested positive for two controlled substances, meaning he will be arrested.
34:41But the search of the van has just started, and his troubles are just beginning.
34:46Bladed article.
34:47Bladed article.
34:48Where?
34:49It's more of a Stanley knife, but it's easy access.
34:51Where's the blade?
34:52Where's the blade?
34:53It's just Stanley knife blades.
34:54Is that a locking one?
34:57It looks like it locks you.
34:59The lock knife, it was within his reach, which means that he's therefore in possession of it, and 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, then that would be okay, because people have legitimate reason to have lock knives and transport them about the place.
35:18This is the powerfully so far that we've found. So we've got two pipes there, a spoon for melting, sootting drugs on, and 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?
35:34That was jacket pocket wedged beside the passenger door.
35:40We'll put you in the van, we'll get you back to the office, we'll get you booked into custody, we'll get you your rights.
35:45We'll have to do the road traffic procedures, because you're giving us a positive specimen at the roadside, okay?
35:52And then once we've done that, we'll interview you.
35:54Yeah, so I arrest you in terms of road traffic act 1988, so I arrest you for failing drug-backed cannabis and cocaine.
36:01So you're not obliged to say anything, but anything you do say will be noted and may be using evidence. Do you understand that?
36:06Yeah.
36:08Mind your head.
36:15With the man in custody, the police now need to negotiate with the dogs.
36:26Come on, there you go.
36:30It's all right.
36:31Have you got another treat?
36:33Yeah.
36:34It's all right, he's just terrified, that's all.
36:35He's not going for me, he's just a bit scared.
36:39Here you come.
36:40there you go yeah he likes a treat with the dogs happy officers can finally make
36:49a 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
37:07be the kind of pablo escobar of orkney but the fact that he has a little bit of cannabis on him
37:13that's absolutely our gateway to make these further inquiries just to be doubly sure of what we're
37:19dealing with north and west of inverness the landscape empties of people
37:37the 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
37:57here to rescue a walker or climber in distress but today they have a different and upsetting job to do
38:05there has been a discovery of some human remains it's really difficult to get to so we're there
38:14to make sure everyone gets their stuff there safely and then recover the remains out of the area once
38:19we're done you try not to jump to any conclusions of why they're there and who they are but definitely
38:26raises just a lot of questions in your mind about what's happened the body is unidentified it's in a
38:33remote location and the remains don't appear to be linked to any missing persons report the task of the
38:39police is to help identify this individual and decide if they have been a victim of crime so quite a lot of it
38:47is really unexplained but what we do know is that the remains have been there for quite a long time
38:56we have to treat it like there's potentially some suspicious circumstances until we rule it out
39:01so we are long to preserve any evidence that has been left there
39:07police are managing this incident from a small station deep in the western highlands
39:17katie and her team are briefed on the body's discovery by crime scene manager kevin burn
39:24about 1500 hours on wednesday two local residents were walking their dog in the area when they became aware of
39:29what they appeared to be a hiking boot and items of clothing scattered nearby the thing felt what felt
39:36like a bone inside the leg and it's been identified as a femur it's possible the remains have been there
39:42for a prolonged period of time possibly over a year it raises a lot of questions of why they were there
39:50and and who they are yet you always expect if the remains of somebody that is found there is information
39:58out there that someone's looking for them so it is really unusual to have somebody found and not
40:05know any circumstances surrounding it it's supposed to rain this afternoon so good chance we're all
40:10getting soaked i'll leave it to your discretion mountain rescue guys if you think the weather's
40:15closing in and when you go off the hill then let me know and we'll make that decision yeah four o'clock
40:20i think the weather is really meant to to change so it'll be good if if we kind of get towards that time
40:25that we'll just take stock and see where we are with it any 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 we look to try and establish
40:52is there any criminality involved in the first instance on the face of it it looks like it's
40:57maybe someone who's lost in the hillside but we have to keep an open mind
41:04a team of forensic anthropologists will accompany katie on the mountain which will be treated like any
41:11other crime scene once we get to the locust and start the recovery of the remains it's a process that
41:17will take them as long as it takes um it's something that needs to be done methodical to
41:22make sure that they capture everything there that we need and it's something you can't always plan
41:27because you just don't know what you're going to find once you start moving things
41:32our first and foremost role is policing so if it's not a sightseeing spot if it's not a well-known
41:38walking spot why have they taken themselves there so it could be that they've gotten themselves in some
41:42sort of confusion if people are suffering from hypothermia they can do strange things that you
41:48wouldn't normally do and they could take in themselves into that kind of area
41:57out here it's the end of the road the only way forward is on a specialist vehicle loaned by a local
42:04gamekeeper
42:05so the area itself it was pathless very difficult ground to walk in it was on a large estate that
42:22we had to access via four by four trucks and thereafter an argo cat to assist us to get to the
42:29location you can see a road but that's way off in the distance and there are no paths to get
42:36into the area that we were so you it's not somewhere you would expect anyone to go walking especially
42:42someone with no equipment with them
42:44four hours after leaving inverness katie finally reaches the spot where the remains lie
43:00and her investigation can begin
43:02were you thinking that for the forward yeah that's where we've gone up and looked
43:10they've come here they've not fallen after the fact pretty sure
43:15this is them there's what we're hoping is maybe a hat with a lot of moss on it
43:20if someone hadn't appointed out initially and you were walking at a little bit of a distance you
43:24wouldn't have even seen the remains there the moss has grown over so it almost looks as if it's become
43:31part of the the earth itself so it had been there for some length of time if it had been another
43:38couple years that it hadn't been discovered it might never have been discovered at all
43:43at the moment i'd go white male so what determined it was male so at the back of
43:48male skulls yeah there's a really big bumpy bit because males have heavier heads they have more
43:53muscles that go back the neck so the bone produces more bone because it needs a bigger surface area for
43:58that muscle to attack it's a start but it's all the forensics team can conclude from these remains
44:07and the clothes nearby as the weather closes in the team must leave the mountainside for the day
44:17the body was in a difficult position so we have to get the remains out of that in a respectful way but
44:25also in a safe way that we are taking up hills and through an area with no pass and everything
44:31like that so our responsibilities are you know both to make sure that we're gathering everything
44:37respectfully but also the forensic opportunities are saved
44:44it's bringing up more questions and answers at the moment the kind of the choices for footwear and outer
44:52wear is not really what you generally see for hill walkers or anything like that and they had a
44:59fluorescent vest on again which is more for somebody that's by the roadway and in the dark so it doesn't
45:07kind of really fit in with that so again it just kind of it leaves us with more questions at the moment
45:14the 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 i think it's difficult to
45:28put into words how each sudden death feels to you you feel a sense of sadness that this person has died
45:37alone in this remote area it's difficult to not know who they are 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 and
46:01identify this person
46:15in inverness pc's dan shield and jimmy sutherland are responding to a call from the post office
46:22that's fair we've had a call from the mail sorting office to say that they've got a package that
46:29possibly contains cannabis and this mail of it is the telltale signs we're just going to go down there
46:38and have a look and see if it is cannabis take it back for testing drugs coming through the post is
46:46on the increase it's easier to distance yourself when it's coming through the post because you're not
46:51in possession of them and so it's a lot harder to to find the person that's actually sent the the items
46:58itself because the mail is becoming a more popular method of drug supply police across the uk are sending
47:06sniffer dogs to sorting offices on a regular basis this morning a police dog got a whiff of two packages
47:16so both of the items are here it was the police dog that sniffed them out in fact the police dog actually
47:25tore that one it was so convinced there was something in it
47:28the dog has identified uh one of the packages as containing uh some kind of controlled drug we'll
47:37just get them opened up we'll make sure that they do contain drugs and then we'll get the the packages
47:41seized yeah it's not really much of a smell to be honest i don't think is 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 it's a wee bit of a smell
47:57but i think it might be what we call is cannabis edibles i see so it might be a
48:05a kind of a liquid kind of form of of cannabis
48:14i'm not even going to open that here just in case so i won't open that just now
48:20ali just because i'm just seeing that there is quite a lot of powder etc obviously we don't
48:25know what that is i don't want to open it up in case yeah it is anything of kind of harmful nature
48:30or anything like that at all um so we'll just seize that and we will do our own testing on it back
48:36at the office just so that we're not opening up obviously in here whilst the officers can't say yet
48:44what this first package is there's little doubt what's in the second package
48:49strong smell of cannabis coming from that one yeah that one was more straightforward
48:56cannabis is kind of a sort of a sort of sweet sort of sickly sort of smell yeah they've obviously
49:02you can see they've wrapped it up a number of times in an effort to disguise it but
49:06they've not done it very well then an unexpected breakthrough the gentleman uh who says this is for
49:15him is at the customer service point right now oh is he yeah oh that's handy i was gonna say that's
49:20never happened before but he's he's he's coming to get this all right he's obviously wanting them in
49:27dan and jimmy will give the bad news to the waiting man not perhaps the delivery he was expecting
49:36so we've obviously been um taken here or asked to come here because they have seized a package
49:41which strongly smells of cannabis at this moment in time you're under caution that you're not obliged
49:46to 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 no comment okay no worries to talk
49:55we'll see where we're going to go from here just now okay obviously we need to go back to the station
50:00we obviously need to test it just obviously make sure that it that it does obviously contain a drug
50:05you can't be ordering your controlled drugs through the post you're eligible for calls or record a police
50:09warning it was beneficial just to give him the recorded police warning because it just gets the
50:14matter sort of dealt with accepting the recorded police warning isn't an admission of guilt i said
50:18it's a 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
50:30the man is sent on his way without his post
50:33finding suspicious items in the post predominantly drugs happens about two or three times a week on
50:41average and this system we like to think proves highly effective we've both got a record of it
50:47happening so there is the proof that these items are being intercepted it is a banned substance it's a
50:55controlled substance so if it gets sent through the royal mail network and we intercept it then our job is
51:02to contact the police and that's what we do that's one thing that i would i would love to change would
51:08be to have no drugs within inverness i know that's probably an unrealistic goal and however fighting
51:13the war against drugs crime that's ultimately what i joined the job for and and that's what i will
51:19keep on doing and i will carry on doing you think you would have seen the police fan i thought
51:25maybe that's for me i thought oh yeah i'm ordering cannabis
51:37in the mountains of the northwest highlands police still have to confirm the identity of the man
51:43whose remains were found on a remote hillside today dan sutherland who is part of the mountain rescue team
51:51is heading back to the location to continue the investigation i don't know who they are but we're
51:58coming back today to undertake further searches to see if we can find further remains so we've got
52:03victim recovery dogs with us today they're trained in recovery and sniffing out of human remains so
52:12fingers crossed we can get some good results with them today the remains couldn't provide enough
52:18dna to help identification police hope dan and the dogs unit might be able to find more remains for dna
52:27testing or 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
52:41majority 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
52:51could be but in this case it's a bit more difficult we just don't know anything about him or the family
52:59and how he's coming to be and how he's even got here
53:04these boys are going to have to move it first challenge of a day
53:07they always worry with young calves as well like cows and calves never great that's it good girl
53:31where the body is located it's just quite a really remote section of land very little mobile phone
53:44signal if any it's not a place where generally the public would be seen at all so it's really quite
53:51surprising to find out that someone had been found there obviously we don't know how he died but it is
53:57sad that uh can just lay down or fall down on the ground and wouldn't come across you for years and years
54:03than will be accompanied by cadaver dogs cooper and gus and dog handlers adam and daniel
54:16so i think the body was here was it was the body just here by the locker was it
54:31if there are more human remains on this hillside the hope is the dogs will find them
54:37today we've got two different dogs both trained to the same standard uh one's obviously a cocker
54:41spaniel he's nice and energetic he's ready to go and we've got a slightly younger labrador
54:46both dogs are trained to indicate on decomposition by means of barking
54:52no come all right he's gonna go back fine before long it looks like cooper has found something
54:58whether there's a scavenger that's a burrow and it's taking something that's quite a bit cool
55:11the dogs give an indication
55:14there's a hole here so just see if anything's been taken down there by any animals
55:21body or bone of some
55:22what not it looks like a burrow because it's there's obvious marks of burrowing further in
55:29some sort of small animal where the body was found obviously just behind just just over to our side
55:36here like so dogs indicated here but the burrow was too narrow and deep for the officers to see
55:43anything themselves cooper's indicated a sort of burrow relatively near to the recovery site we just can't
55:50get to at the moment it's impossible to say what it is but i suspect it's a bone and it's very specific
55:55and very close to the the body site location which would indicate he's very 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
56:20i don't think it was completely unexpected it's always going to be difficult but i was kind of
56:36hoping it was there we'd get at least a bone or two maybe that's just an indication of how long
56:43anybody's been there there will be no more searching on this hill but the investigation into this man's
56:53identity and clues about his fate will go on they're going to have to start doing a lot more digging
57:01through historical records of missing people from not within not just within scotland across across all
57:08uk forces and potentially international as well some people just don't get traced they don't get found
57:17and when they are found like this then they don't necessarily all can be identified
57:38next time please deal with a crash
58:06on sky's main road we need to go with a casualty further away that way please just in case the car
58:13explodes in inverness stop officers race to catch a fleeing suspect stop you are and on the isle of sky
58:24a major drug operation is rumbled i'm going around room to room and there's cannabis plants everywhere
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