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Highland Cops (2023) Season 3 Episode 7 - Sailing Towards Danger
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00:00Highland is Britain's biggest beat.
00:03I'm injured. There's a car on fire.
00:06I've got three wounded persons.
00:08It is really easy to underestimate the Highlands.
00:12Patrolling 12,000 square miles of mountains, lochs and islands.
00:18We're going to need a launch to be able to go out and get this boy lifted.
00:22And searching for suspects deep in the wilderness.
00:25Please do the dog! Anyone hiding? Show yourself!
00:28The Highland cops must go above and beyond to protect their communities.
00:33We realised it was human remains, so we came back down and phoned the police.
00:37I think in the Highlands, the blue line is very thin.
00:40Tackling traditional rural crimes.
00:42It's absolutely littered with shotgun pellet.
00:45It's clear evidence that these birds are being persecuted.
00:48And crimes that plague the nation.
00:53Good effort.
00:55Bags of a white crystalline powder.
00:57If you're getting one person off the street, then it's like you've done your job.
01:02This series goes inside the UK's most distinctive police force.
01:07We are close. We live in close-knit communities.
01:09All right, let's go.
01:10We look out for each other.
01:12To find out what it takes to walk the beach.
01:15There's monkeys, there's parrots.
01:17It's all completely out of our comfort zone.
01:20And keep the peace.
01:21You're just threatening to kill it.
01:22You said you were going to strangle it.
01:24In some of the most beautiful and wild places in the UK.
01:2925 miles west of mainland Scotland lies one of N Division's most far-flung beats.
01:48Lewis and Harris in the Western Isles.
01:52Growing up in the Western Isles was great.
01:58It's a small, very close-knit community.
02:01I decided to join the police having observed my father working as a police officer in the Western Isles.
02:09I saw how rewarding it was for him.
02:15And with my family all living here, I'm very invested into making our community as safe as possible.
02:21Especially having young children in the community.
02:26Detective Sergeant Daniel Smith is part of the Western Isles CID.
02:31And much of his work involves combating the influx of illegal drugs.
02:36Because although Lewis is more than two and a half hours by ferry from the mainland.
02:42These island communities are increasingly being targeted by dealers from other parts of the UK.
02:49I think drugs have always been present in communities, rural communities such as our own.
02:54However, certainly over the past decade, there has been a rise in drug supply activity.
03:02But also the drugs that are available are of a more serious nature.
03:09And appears to be readily available to people across all age groups.
03:15That often involves children in early secondary school.
03:19Today, Daniel and the team are about to execute a warrant on a property in the island's main town, Stornoway.
03:30Specific people have attended the address and purchased drugs.
03:35And these are people that are all well known to us for their addiction issues and what have you.
03:40What we're looking for today is any controlled substances in the property.
03:45In particular cannabis and anything else that would indicate that anybody at the home address is involved in the supply of controlled drugs.
03:54What I'd ask is if you do find anything of significance, let me know.
03:57I can come and photograph it in situ and then we can record it properly.
04:00All right, let's go.
04:01So the female that we are going to visit this warrant today, myself and other officers have had previous encounters with her.
04:22The address we're going to is just two minutes from the police station.
04:28There's been a lot of activity at the address.
04:31The intelligence indicated that the primary customers of this individual were young teenagers.
04:41It's not what we want for our children and I think we have a responsibility to enforce drug laws and to stop people in their tracks if they are carrying out a drug supply operation from their home.
04:55As the police arrive at the address, Daniel spots the woman they're after outside the house alongside a teenage boy.
05:08Hello, are you and me? Hello. I'm Daniel. I'm from the police and this is my colleague Davey. We've got a warrant to search the address.
05:17Search the address?
05:18Yeah. Are we able to come inside and I'll explain more?
05:21While the teenager is searched, the woman shows Daniel and the team inside. She seems keen to help.
05:34I've briefly spoken with Amy, the female occupant. She's indicated to me that she doesn't want us to stay in her part of the house.
05:40She does have cannabis in the address and she will basically tell us where it is.
05:46You have obviously indicated to me as soon as we come into the kitchen, there's a bag in there that's worth our attention.
05:51We do also have to search the address, okay? I appreciate you being really quite upfront and honest with us.
05:57So that is appreciated and like I say, we'll try and make things as smooth for you as possible.
06:01People we come across will try and deter us from carrying out a very thorough search by providing us with something as soon as we walk in the door.
06:14That's quite a lot. Right. Look at it. It is clearly herbal cannabis.
06:19Yeah, I mean you're talking like decent quantity there. That's not possession quantities at all.
06:30It's pretty undetectable unless you were to actually see it. It's right here and I can smell a thing off it.
06:36We'll obviously test that when we go back to the station, but yeah, I think with everything else we know, we're quite confident that that's what this is.
06:44The packages are around a kilogram in weight and if this is indeed cannabis, they could be worth 5,000 pounds.
06:52Substantial evidence to emerge so early into the search, but Daniel is keen to find out what else might be hidden in the house.
07:00I'll probably get you guys to start upstairs. Me and Donnie will do the kitchen. I will move towards the living room.
07:04My first observation is, there's a big safe here. So, is that it?
07:19Doesn't look like a safe key. Continuing to cooperate, the woman gives him the code for the safe.
07:39Over safe five.
07:51We've got cash in the safe. There's these things here.
07:55Yes.
07:56That's what you just caught the boy outside.
07:57Yeah.
07:58That's really good.
08:00Inside the safe, there's cash and some pre-rolled cannabis joints.
08:06I've never seen online. I've never experienced before. This is something I've never seen before.
08:13They come pre-rolled and packaged and sealed. It'll be interesting to know the strength of them.
08:20One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve, thirteen, thirteen hundred and twenty and twenty.
08:30Yeah.
08:31Do we know that somewhere?
08:32Yeah.
08:34This amount of cash, married with the amount of herbal cannabis that appears to be downstairs,
08:41that would certainly be evidence to me, or indicate to me, that this person is well and truly involved in supplying cannabis.
08:46The suspected drugs and money will be seized, but there's more to such.
08:52Daniel needs to establish how big any drug supply operation is that's being run from this ordinary-looking house.
08:59The Northern Highlands is one of the most sparsely populated parts of Europe.
09:20In some areas, there are more sheep than people.
09:33I'm just about to start shearing at the weekend. That'll be my plan on the weekend off.
09:37Sergeant Ali Mackay is a full-time traffic cop and a part-time sheep farmer.
09:44I definitely enjoy the farming on the side. I take my lambing holidays every April and a lot of the spring,
09:51the weather's just been horrendous, so we're behind on a few of the foot jobs, you know.
09:55Believe it or not, farming and policing cross about quite a lot, so we've always got a resident expert.
10:02I've got a background in agriculture, worked agricultural contracting for a year.
10:06It wasn't going to be a career for me, so one of my aunties suggested the police.
10:10Sure enough, eight months later, I joined the police and I was starting my first shift in Portree.
10:15Today, Ali and his colleague, Sergeant Doug Scott, are patrolling the main road between Ullapool and Inverness in an unmarked car.
10:26It's a busy route, notorious for accidents.
10:34A red Vauxhall overtaking them on a stretch of single carriageway catches Ali's attention.
10:40It wasn't a dangerous overtake, and he probably wasn't exceeding the speed limit, to be fair.
10:45But it's always interesting, a car overtaken in a queue of traffic like this,
10:49and he's tailgating right close to that car in front there just now.
10:56MLT expired on it as well.
11:0010th of May.
11:03We're going to be getting this vehicle stopped. Get a word with the driver.
11:07As you can see how close he is to the vehicle in front, and that's actually getting pretty bad.
11:12And they're likely to get him past, and he's still bullying his way past here,
11:16because you can see how close he is.
11:18Most significantly reduces any chance he's got of carrying out a safe overtake,
11:22because he can't see past the car.
11:24Because their car's unmarked, the driver doesn't realise the cops are just behind.
11:32Both hands off the wheel.
11:34Still both hands off the wheel.
11:38The speed limit is a 20-mile-an-hour zone here, and he's just sitting above the 30 here, so...
11:45That's what we look at. I saw how close he was to the pedestrian here.
11:51That's who's talked himself into a careless driving here anyway.
11:54We actually got a fright. He probably saw it.
11:55She definitely did get a fright.
11:56Before anyone gets hurt, it's time to pull the car over.
12:01So, we'll go speak to him and see what he's saying for life.
12:08Hello! How are you?
12:14Alright.
12:15Ah, good. I tell you, the reason we're stopping you...
12:18Well, we first noticed you, you overtook us on the way in, obviously.
12:21Then you were tailgating the car in front, trying to push for an overtake there, far too close.
12:24Next thing I know him, you're taking both hands off the wheel as the vehicle's going.
12:29Leaning back on the back of your head, which was pretty clear to see.
12:33That's a 20-mile-an-hour limit.
12:34You're accelerating up to 30.
12:36Then you pass the woman to the near side, do you?
12:39Step out.
12:40And what's she likely to do?
12:42She didn't step out on the road, she was a payment, but you move away from her.
12:46The woman got a fright there.
12:47MLT for the vehicle.
12:48Uh-huh.
12:49Shona's expired.
12:50Seriously?
12:51Yes. 10th of May.
12:5310th of May?
12:5410th of May.
12:56Oh.
12:57Shona's expired.
12:59I had no idea.
13:00Yeah.
13:01No, you don't get...
13:02In this car.
13:03You don't get reminders for it, so...
13:04Oh.
13:06New vehicle, new vehicle.
13:07Oh, I had no idea.
13:10We can give him a ticket for careless driving and for driving without an MLT, so...
13:20Erm.
13:21We'll just complete roadside procedures with him, so he'll do a drinking drug test, make
13:24sure he's okay to be driving first.
13:27Keep going, keep going...
13:28Ideal, perfect.
13:31If you take the tube there, because it's got your DNA on it...
13:34Oh, sorry.
13:35Cheers.
13:36Zero.
13:37Ideal, thank you.
13:38The driver passes the breathalyser test.
13:41Have you seen one of these before, sir? No.
13:43OK, it's a drug wipe test for cannabis and cocaine.
13:48And I'll get you to stick your tongue right out for me, please.
13:50Drug driving, obviously, is an emerging trend for us
13:52because we've only been able to look at it since 2019
13:56when we were introduced drug wipes.
13:58Good man, ideal.
14:00And this just takes eight minutes to test for it, OK?
14:03That has grown exponentially since that time.
14:07Right, sir.
14:09It's time to check the result.
14:11If the drug wipe shows two lines,
14:13it means the driver has cannabis in his system.
14:16It's a second line showing a positive result for cannabis, OK?
14:21Granted, it's a faint line.
14:23It's a fairly simple test at the roadside,
14:25so what we do is we take you into a police office.
14:28With the driver arrested,
14:30the next step is to take him for a blood test
14:33so the amount of cannabis he's taken can be precisely measured.
14:37Unfortunately, given the geography of the area,
14:41the nearest police station we can take him
14:43to get the blood taken from him is 56 miles away.
14:46We've just arrested a male in Ullipull for drug driving.
14:52We're currently just in Ullipull, just about a head through,
14:56so we'll be an hour or whatever it is from here.
15:00You taking me to Inverness?
15:04Yeah.
15:05What?
15:06It's blood. It's got...
15:07It's come from Inverness.
15:08I don't have the money to get back.
15:09I've got kids in the business at home that are expecting me.
15:11I've got shopping in the car.
15:13OK.
15:16Can we at least stop for the toilet?
15:18Yes.
15:19That's not a problem.
15:20We'll arrange that.
15:21Tiniest lie.
15:23Mm-hm.
15:24You're not going to run off, are you?
15:26I don't need...
15:27To where?
15:28Exactly.
15:29Well, to be fair, you'd get further than me, though,
15:30that's a thing.
15:32We get the blood taken off him,
15:34and then we have to take him home again
15:36because there's no bus service for him to get home,
15:39and we do have a duty of care for that gentleman.
15:42It is a hugely time-consuming part of our job.
15:46An hour later, they reach Inverness.
15:49What have you heard roughly?
15:50Come on.
15:51Hi, Matt.
15:52A couple of joints.
15:53Oh, I did.
15:54A couple of joints.
15:55Come on, too.
15:57Convictions for driving under the influence
15:59are on the rise in Scotland.
16:02Do you agree to provide a specimen of blood for analysis,
16:04and, Evno, what is your reason for refusing?
16:08If found guilty,
16:10this driver could face a 12-month ban.
16:13In Stornoway, D.C. Daniel Smith and his team are searching the house of a suspected drug dealer.
16:23They've made some startling discoveries.
16:25Large packages, believed to be cannabis, and a considerable amount of cash.
16:29But there's still more of the house to search.
16:30But there's still more of the house to search.
16:35Found a wee jar of green herbal substance in the cupboard.
16:36So I'll wait for Danny to come down.
16:37He can take a wee photograph of that as well.
16:41In the kitchen, there are more clues that a drug operation could be being run from here.
16:48Danny?
16:49Yeah?
16:50I got more cash, Dan.
16:51Great.
16:52More cannabis as well.
16:53No.
16:54The way it's sort of been.
16:55It's the way it's been,
16:56the way it's been.
16:58You've got more...
16:59I've got more cash.
17:00Great.
17:01...and more cannabis as well.
17:02In the kitchen, there are more clues that a drug operation could be being run from here.
17:11Danny. Yeah? I got more cash then. Great. More cannabis as well.
17:20No, it's the way it's sort of been bundled up in elastic bands, stored in packages such as
17:27this would indicate that this isn't somebody's life savings. This is very much the proceeds
17:35from the sale of controlled substances. Alongside large bags of the raw drug,
17:41there's also items that suggest a new wave of cannabis products.
17:44I think these are pastels as well. Gummies type things. Can you take a picture on your phone?
17:50And then we've got different liquids, some sort of high potency vape pen. And then this bag here,
17:57we've got a number of items, which are all gummies, which we're going to take as well. They'll have
18:04to be tested too. The stash includes drinks, vapes and flavoured sweets, all believed to be infused
18:11with cannabis. It's really worrying when you have packages with bright colours, vapes, cartoony motifs.
18:20All these things are very much geared towards tempting those younger in the community.
18:24Yeah, 100%. It's, you know, people in this house are dealing drugs. And that's what we're here to do,
18:31and disrupt them and take it away from them.
18:36I think people often view cannabis as a substance that isn't overly harmful. The problem is, time and
18:44time again, when we engage with young people, they are often in the throes of abusing cannabis. Fast
18:51forward five, six years later, there are other addiction issues. There are other social issues.
19:00Addiction is something many members of our community have experienced. It feels like our moral duty to do
19:10as much as we can to limit drug supply and operations locally.
19:17The suspected cannabis and almost £7,000 in cash is strong evidence of drug dealing.
19:24But the police's attention turns to proving how it might be linked to a bigger operation.
19:28This is a special delivery box that was found in the kitchen next to the bag containing the herbal
19:35substance. People are so brazen that they're using the Royal Mail to deliver drugs to the island. We've
19:39also got the return address here as well, so that can indicate to us who's supplied and gives colleagues
19:45down the road some further inquiry to do as well. It's a good lead. But just as the search is coming to a
19:53close, there's one final discovery that could prove even more crucial in linking the woman to suppliers
19:59from the mainland. So you find that in the jacket pocket? Yeah. Take £15 out of weed money.
20:07So this is an address. What it says on the note is put a return adi. I take that to mean put a return
20:13address and take £15 out of weed money. So what it could mean is that this is somebody who's potentially
20:21supplied Amy or is involved in her supply operation in some way. What? You got it.
20:29Again, you're not obliged to say anything. Anything you do say will be noted and may be used in evidence.
20:34OK? That's a comment.
20:39When Amy has seen this note, she remarked, ah, you got it. I've then reminded her she's under caution,
20:46that she's not obliged to say anything, at which point she said, I don't care.
20:50So it would indicate to us that there's some sort of evidential significance to this,
20:54which we can put to her later interview.
20:57Daniel is satisfied there is more than enough evidence here for the suspect to be charged.
21:05I am arresting you under Section 1 of the Criminal Justice Scotland Act 2016,
21:11on suspicion of Section 4.3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
21:18And that is namely being concerned in the supply of drugs in accordance with the law. Do you understand?
21:22The scale of things at that address is clearly, ah, larger than we anticipated, I would say.
21:39The first thing you feel is actually quite sad about the whole situation. You just think,
21:44how on earth has this person got themselves into this situation? You know, don't get me wrong,
21:48um, she's clearly profiting massively from it. But, ah, it's just, it's some way to live, some existence.
21:58While the suspect is taken into custody,
22:01Daniel can take a closer look at some of the more unusual evidence.
22:11The little bottle here is labelled Family High Range Fanta, 500 milligrams.
22:18Apparently, it's pineapple flavoured, um, and infused with D9 distillate.
22:22What we've got here is a number of different, um, edibles, vapes and pre-rolled, uh, cannabis joints.
22:32What's interesting about these items is that they're all colourfully packaged. They've got
22:39spacemen on them and other sort of little cartoony designs that are really appealing to children.
22:46Um, which, it's a real concern.
22:47Daniel and the team will now put the evidence they have found to the suspect
22:54and attempt to establish how she fits into the wider drug supply chain.
22:59Drug suppliers are profiting off those who are less fortunate. Our job is to make their job harder,
23:09so that other people, including the vulnerable and the young, have less opportunity to fall into addiction.
23:17You can be signed up for maximum 12 now.
23:24Nearly a hundred miles south-east of Stornoway, detectives Chris McLeod and Chris McAuley
23:30are responding to an urgent incident.
23:35Will I just pull up beside them?
23:38Let me on, man.
23:39Urgent call back.
23:41On their way back to the station after a stakeout, they've spotted a vehicle driving erratically.
23:47Hi, from November 104, it's on the Shore Street roundabout, turning right onto Shore Street.
23:52As we were driving our oncoming vehicle, we were driving on three wheels with the
23:56fourth wheel scraping off the road and missing the tyre.
23:59We're the vehicle behind it, but it's now going past McNichols and Travis Perkins.
24:06It's lost the front near-side wheel. It's pulling off over.
24:09It's going to crash.
24:13It's going to cause a collision. He's going right across the road.
24:15It doesn't matter if you're a police constable up to the chief constable.
24:19If you're a police officer on duty, it's your job to deal with the present risk.
24:24And he was presenting a very clear and immediate risk to the public.
24:29But the two Chrissies have a problem.
24:31Their unmarked detective's car doesn't have blue lights or a siren,
24:36so it's difficult to signal for the driver to stop.
24:39Moving on to Shore Street roundabout.
24:42Shore Street roundabout.
24:43Into the...
24:45Oh, it's crossing all the lanes, to be honest.
24:46Stand by third direction.
24:49Where am I going?
24:49He's on Shore Street.
24:51Towards Shore Street roundabout, headed towards...
24:55Town Centre, over.
24:56Yeah, confirmed. We've got blue lights in our vehicle.
25:09It's taking a right onto Friars Lane and continuing on to Bank Street, over.
25:13Bank Street, isn't it?
25:18We did what we could with our horn and our hazard lights and our headlights
25:23to try and get them to stop.
25:25And when we realised that wasn't working,
25:26we realised we were going to have to just try and keep other cars out of its path.
25:35How's he still moving?
25:36I don't know.
25:47He's got a car share.
25:48Yeah, it's a male driver in the front, near side tyre
25:53is completely off the vehicle.
25:55It's on the rims.
25:56It's on the rims.
25:58It's just driving over bollards and driving through the road.
26:06Commanders in the control room are concerned about the risks of following the car.
26:10It's not safe to stop him.
26:13It's not safe to not stop him.
26:15It's not safe to not stop him.
26:16Yeah, from Remembersky 104, he's very likely to cause a collision.
26:20He's driving in front of oncoming traffic.
26:22I'm not sure how he's not struck something up to this point.
26:26It's not safe to withdraw from his pursuit because he's going to cause a collision.
26:32We've got our hazards on just to highlight oncoming vehicles and vehicles behind us.
26:37He clearly had no control of the car and he kept veering towards oncoming traffic.
26:41At one stage, almost colliding with a bus.
26:43Eventually, the detectives get back up from traffic cops.
27:11I'm stopping.
27:11Yeah.
27:13Yeah, that's the vehicle coming to the sand bill.
27:17Lock him in.
27:18Good job, guys.
27:18That's copper.
27:19Do you want to watch?
27:20Keep up there.
27:31Yeah, mail under control.
27:32No fancy stopping now.
27:35You didn't notice.
27:36You had no tyre.
27:37You almost had a bus.
27:38You have to try and move this, aren't we, a little bit.
27:47Yeah.
27:49I'm short of a miracle that there's not been a collision with any other vehicle or pedestrian,
27:54but as you can see, that is not a vehicle that is fit to be driven at any point.
27:58Yeah.
28:00Yeah.
28:00Do you want us to keep going towards them?
28:03You have to be on the road traffic.
28:04Yeah.
28:05Suspected intoxicated driver.
28:07So, eventually, he's managed to get him stopped here, and our colleagues in uniform are going
28:14take over the traffic procedures. We need to go back for a brief bit. Yeah, we left it there
28:20for our colleagues to deal with. They're the ones that can deal with the kind of road traffic
28:24procedures that we're not able to given our role within CID. I can't, I mean did you see him go over
28:35the, I couldn't think, what do you call that? I was almost going to say the road traffic furniture,
28:41that's what I nearly said. It's been that long since you did your driving for us. I can't remember,
28:46something about a solid white line. We see firsthand the damage that lies in the wake of
28:52people that drive their vehicles and ultimately crash them when they're intoxicated. We shouldn't
28:58be seeing it anymore.
29:13On Scotland's west coast, where rugged hills meet white sand beaches,
29:20there's another isolated corner of mainland Britain, the Ardnemurchan Peninsula.
29:36It is part of the Scottish mainland, but you wouldn't believe it. It's a bit difficult to get
29:47to other than by the ferry. It seems more like an island when you're there, even though it is
29:51connected to the Scottish mainland. Today, PC Roddy Sanderman is crossing over to the village of
29:57Strontian on an unusual assignment.
30:14We are going over Strontian today to assist with a warrant for seizing a pine mountain.
30:20We've had information from the SSPCA and I think members of the public that
30:28a male in Strontian is keeping a pine mountain in his house.
30:36Pine mountain is the same family as stoats and weasels and otters. They are one of Scotland's last
30:43larger predators. Quite an interesting wee animal. One of several animals that are protected
30:49under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Because it's a protected wild animal,
30:54it's illegal to keep a pine marten at home without a license. This guy does not have a license.
31:01He allegedly rescued the pine marten when it was very young from the side of the road.
31:07It won't have the ability to hunt for itself in the wild in its natural environment and be
31:12free and, you know, where pine marten should be, it's going to be living in someone's house.
31:17So that's kind of why it's important.
31:21We're just coming into the village and it's just here.
31:29Roddy's first stop is the Strontian village police station.
31:34The SSPCA here.
31:35I'll pass that. That's the warrant for everyone to need.
31:44Before they head out, local cop PC Angie Campbell briefs Roddy and wildlife inspector Yvonne Sloss from
31:51the SSPCA. It turns out the pine marten they are going to rescue has a name.
31:57So this is the picture of the the pine marten. He's named Derek.
32:02He's originally orphaned and he's been told numerous times that he's got to hand over to
32:08be rehabilitated and released. Unfortunately, he's refused to do that and he's now advertising
32:13people to come for pictures.
32:17Roddy's main concern is how to persuade Derek to come willingly.
32:21Have you got like a box and you're just going to...
32:23I need to see how tame it is because I might be able to, if it's really tame,
32:27it'll be easy to scruff, put it into a box. I do have some jam with it because they go crazy.
32:35They absolutely love jam and it's sweet. So that's like my wee secret weapon in my pocket.
32:41I've got big leather gloves. So if you do need a hand, I can help if you need it.
32:47Yeah, if we need to take a corner then. Hopefully not.
32:50Mike, it's household. Right, let's go.
33:00We explained to him that I could keep it for a short period to make sure that it was going to,
33:04you know, make it through the next few days. But then it's, he's now kind of more domesticated.
33:11He's quite a shouty man and...
33:13Eccentric.
33:14Eccentric, yeah.
33:17Oh, well, I expect the unexpected.
33:22As the two cops approach the house, they don't know what sort of reception they'll get from Derek
33:28or his keeper.
33:30Attention, please. The area is under surveillance.
33:34With its vast landscapes and tight-knit communities, the Highlands have long been seen
33:57as one of the safest parts of the UK.
34:06But across the region, the last five years has seen an increase in knife crime.
34:11We are finding a lot more people are in possession of knives or other weapons.
34:19It can be quite a scary thought, whatever job that you go into, that potentially someone might
34:24be in possession of a weapon.
34:25As specialist taser officers, PC's Darren Shield and Jimmy Sutherland are often the first to be called to incidents involving a knife.
34:34Having a taser, it, it does give us that extra bit of security when you are being faced with a knife.
34:45Today, Darren and Jimmy are on a routine patrol.
34:48When they are suddenly diverted to an urgent incident.
34:52Two years old, good to see you, thank you.
34:55Yeah, he had a large kitchen knife.
34:57We're back into the property with the knife.
35:01A man's been seen carrying a large knife outside.
35:04Alarmed neighbours have reported him to the police.
35:07Multiple officers are rushing to the scene.
35:26Yeah, the male was conversing with us at the window.
35:30At that point, he didn't have anything in either hand shown as a bladed article.
35:34He's just gone out of sight.
35:36Standby, we'll give you an uptick.
35:38Their concern mounts when they discover the identity of the suspect.
35:42Is this the male Alan Craig?
35:44Confirmed.
35:48The male Alan Craig, sir.
35:50Yeah.
35:50A crack cocaine addict known for his paranoid outbursts.
35:56Craig has multiple previous convictions.
36:00We just turn, go on to Kenneth Street.
36:03The suspect has now barricaded himself in his home.
36:06In his kitchen at the other side.
36:08Yeah, I can't see out.
36:10Someone go round the back.
36:16Having been called to multiple incidents here in the past.
36:19Hello, rascal.
36:20Jimmy has managed to build up a rapport with Craig.
36:23So, he takes the lead.
36:26Alan.
36:28Alan.
36:30I'll get a member.
36:34Alan.
36:35Jimmy, Jimmy.
36:36That's Jimmy.
36:37Alan, speak to me, man.
36:38Right, listen, I know you're right.
36:39Right.
36:40You're waiting to listen to me.
36:41Well, speak to me.
36:41Take it down a notch.
36:42I'm in the garden and I go, right?
36:44Right.
36:45OK, I've got a kitchen knife, right?
36:47All right.
36:47I'm cutting your f***ing marrow out my dog's bone.
36:50Can you get it right?
36:51All right, mate.
36:52That's fine.
36:52Right.
36:52Why are you here?
36:54Right.
36:54Because, right, I'll tell you what it was.
36:55Come on!
36:56Some, a member of the f***.
36:57Alan.
36:58Alan, come back and speak to me.
36:59Oh, f***.
37:00Let me speak.
37:01Alan, I need to explain to you why we're here.
37:07Just FYI, he's got the knife in his hand again.
37:09So just if he does come out of there, just be careful.
37:11Just in the last, I did briefly converse with him.
37:14I've usually got quite a good relationship with him.
37:17But he did say that he was out in his garden and he was cutting the bone marrow for his dog's bones
37:24in his garden the whole time.
37:25And then he's got angry and now he's sort of going back between windows.
37:29The man's prior convictions, his anger and his refusal to hand over the knife,
37:35make this a potentially volatile situation.
37:38Requiring a broad emergency response.
37:44And there's a further escalation.
37:46Something's pro for burning in there.
37:47Is that coming from his house?
37:49Yeah.
37:49Yeah.
37:50There's a fire alarm going off from within his address.
37:53We can smell burning coming from the house.
37:56So we're not quite sure what's going on in there.
37:59Going through my head was, was there a fire now within that house?
38:03Yeah, control, two zero delta.
38:05But we are just going to take precaution and get the upstairs neighbour out for the time being.
38:10He was on a ground floor flat, so there was someone that was up above him.
38:13It was trying to then make sure that the surrounding properties and people were evacuated as soon as we possibly could.
38:18Yeah, I believe in this block there's just one other property.
38:24We're just knocking the door just now to get him evacuated just now.
38:30He's burning something within this house which is causing a whole lot of smoke.
38:33So we've got fire service and ambulance also in attendance for any sort of fire or any injury risk.
38:38And it's just a case of just containing the situation for the time being.
38:43I'm worried about you.
38:44No, no, no.
38:45You're going to f*** me.
38:46Alan, you've got a reason, you've got a reasonable excuse to have that night.
38:50You've given us it.
38:51Yeah, I do.
38:52No, no, no.
38:53Right, do you know what, do you know what my concern now is?
38:57Because your house might go on fire.
38:5870 miles away on the west coast.
39:17Attention, please.
39:19The area is under silence.
39:20PC's Roddy Sanderman and Angie Campbell are trying to rescue a pine marten called Derek.
39:26Sorry to bother you.
39:27Attention, please.
39:28Are you okay?
39:30Can we come in and have a word?
39:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.
39:32I thought you'd come in.
39:35One, two, whiskey.
39:36That's entry into the house.
39:38One, two, half.
39:38Can you just hold back just now?
39:46Do you want to take a seat just now?
39:47Yeah.
39:48The pine marten.
39:49Yeah.
39:49Now, we were contacted by the SSPCA.
39:53Yeah, they contacted me.
39:54Yeah, that you weren't willing to hand it over to them.
39:56No.
39:57No.
39:58So I've got a warrant actually to seize the pine marten.
40:01So it's going to be taken away.
40:03When?
40:03Today.
40:06Okay.
40:06I've got the paperwork as you know.
40:10No, you haven't because I've spoken to Nature Scotland and I've spoken to the SSPCA.
40:16You haven't got a license for it.
40:17No, I asked him for one.
40:19Asking isn't having.
40:20They're not willing to give you one as well.
40:22Yeah.
40:23They are not happy to give you a license to hang on to it.
40:26So it is a criminal offense to possess it.
40:29So that's the reason we've got a warrant and that's the reason we need to take it.
40:32Okay, there's the warrant there.
40:34If you're just a standard shift cop, you can feel a bit like,
40:37I didn't even know this was a crime.
40:39Because it's not like you deal with it every day.
40:41It's been issued by a sheriff as well.
40:43Yeah.
40:47Okay.
40:47One, two, Alpha.
40:48Can you come up please?
40:52Sorry, I know it's a bit of a shock for you.
40:59I felt sorry for him.
41:00He's clearly attached to it.
41:02But it's the welfare of the pine marten at the end of the day is what is the most important thing.
41:07SSPCA officer Yvonne Sloss arrives to take Derek away.
41:17He's reacted in a more upset way than angry way, so that's good.
41:21That's okay.
41:22And he's not, he's obviously understanding what's happening.
41:26Not happy about it, but he's not going to be an issue, I don't think.
41:29And it's still, we still got it.
41:31Yeah, it's just in the back room.
41:32I've not seen it, but he's,
41:34I think he's going to want to help you, but I do want him to avoid doing that if possible.
41:41Yvonne and Roddy attempt to persuade Derek into a cage.
41:45I don't want to grab it because he'll lose his trust, I suppose.
41:52There he is.
41:55Good, nice one.
41:56I can see why he's attached to it.
41:58He was no problem. Yeah, he's in the cage.
42:02He quickly said goodbye to him.
42:04Once they have him in the cage, it becomes clear that Derek is a young pine marten known as a kit.
42:10It was, went really well actually. The pine marten's very, very tame.
42:15We managed to catch it no problems and to make sure that it wasn't too stressed.
42:21So you can see it's, it's, it's quite tame and it's quite quiet and it's quite comfortable.
42:25We'll get him in our centre, which there is other kits there.
42:28Merge him in with the other kits and then hopefully his natural instinct and his wild instincts will kick in.
42:33He'll be able to get into a wild state again and then hopefully October time they can all be released successfully.
42:39So that's, that's ultimate goal anyway, so.
42:41Job complete. Angie and Rory can also leave.
42:46Plus one pine marten.
42:51He is very, erm, passionate about pine marten and he's obviously become really attached to, er, to little Derek.
43:00So he's been charged with, er, possessing a schedule five animal.
43:04I think they can be pretty, obviously that one's really tame, but they can be pretty vicious.
43:08They can be and, and they can, they can carry disease as well, so, erm.
43:14Leave them in the wild.
43:15Exactly.
43:24In Inverness, a man reported for carrying a kitchen knife in his garden,
43:29is now locked in a standoff with police.
43:32If he had just came to the door, I could have seen that for myself.
43:46We believe it to be a frying pan that was on the hob, which he has now removed.
43:51Although the risk of a serious fire seems to have subsided for now, police can't leave until the suspect comes to the door.
43:58PC Siobhan Cooper also knows him well and tries to help negotiate.
44:04Helen, I thought you liked me?
44:06No, I don't like you. I f***ing hate you. I just cried you.
44:09Helen!
44:10Just hanging the, hanging from the ceiling just to hang you for your ankles.
44:14I think if I was a year or two in and someone threatened to kill me and they had a knife and they were in a house and I was standing in their back garden, I'd be terrified.
44:23It's almost like I'm used to it now, but I always take it as a sort of, okay, you're going to kill me. So it just becomes like normal.
44:33Alan, you see that threats you're making just now, mate? That's why you were here.
44:37Come on, come on.
44:38That's why you're going to get lifted.
44:39Come on, Jenny. She's running a conflict.
44:43But you've just threatened to, you've just threatened to kill her.
44:46Said you were going to strangle her.
44:49But as well as considering the threats to their own officers, the police are concerned that Craig's volatile behaviour could endanger him.
44:59In the past, there was a, he was cutting about here with a firearm.
45:03Well, it wasn't a firearm, it was like an imitation firearm, and it was a firearms job.
45:08He nearly got shot, so he wouldn't put it down.
45:12But things like this.
45:18If someone's got some mental health concerns, that maybe at that particular time or moment, they actually don't know what's, what's, what's happening.
45:25So they seem to escalate the situation themselves because of that.
45:29I'm trying to get you to come to the door, so we can.
45:31Come on the door.
45:32Why not?
45:33Why not?
45:34Because you're going to arrest me, right?
45:36Do you understand where I'm coming from?
45:37I do, aye.
45:38When a situation escalates quite quickly, then our sort of policy is to contain and negotiate.
45:46And we don't want that situation to get any bigger than, than what it is.
45:50Right, Alan, there's a possibility now you may be arrested because of your behaviour.
45:54And I'm not lying to you, that's a possibility.
45:56Yeah.
45:57So why don't you make it easier for yourself than just coming?
45:59Because of my behaviour.
46:00No wonder I go mental, do you know what I mean?
46:02No wonder I go mental.
46:03Alan.
46:04No wonder I go mental, do you know what I mean?
46:06There's only so much that we can do to protect ourselves and protect other members of the public.
46:10Right, Alan, can you go down?
46:11Do you know what I mean?
46:12Because I don't know what you're going to do.
46:13Do you know what I mean?
46:14You're going to hurt yourself.
46:18Alan.
46:22I'm not going to go away, Alan.
46:28If it was required, then we would have to force entry into that address.
46:35With all communication having broken down, the police must now consider a change in the tactics.
46:43He seems to be boarding up the windows, so our inspectors and sergeants are discussing whether
46:48it'll go in, have to go in the door. His behaviour just seemed to escalate and
46:53now he's just completely shut down and I'm not speaking to us at all.
47:06Having rescued the Pine Martin, PC's Roddy Sandeman and Angie Campbell are now responding to another call
47:31at the other end of the remote Ardnemarkin Peninsula.
47:42You know, you might get two calls in your eight hour day or your nine hour day, but they will be completely the opposite end of the beat.
47:50It takes you a fair while to get from A to B. The only section of Tulane is the bit from the ferry to Strontian.
48:01Everywhere else a single track. It can be quite hairy sometimes, shall I say, driving on the roads.
48:10Their destination is an isolated stretch of coast, which has recently hit the news.
48:16A boat belonging to a local fish farm has sunk, spilling diesel into the sea and drawing attention from environmental activists.
48:28A trap turned up a couple of weeks ago with a view to filming the vessel getting lifted.
48:34He is an activist and he's got his own YouTube channel and he's looking to film it and make it public basically
48:41and raise awareness about fish farms and what he believes they're doing wrong.
48:47He used to actually work on a fish farm before he decided that he was anti-fish farm.
48:54With tensions rising, the fish farm have reported the activists to the police for filming them with a drone.
49:00I think this guy's just obviously wanting to keep tabs on them and they obviously don't want to be bothered by what he's doing.
49:07The purpose of today is more just to let both sides know that we are aware that they've both got issues
49:13and just so they both keep themselves in check.
49:16Fish farming is a divisive topic and the cops have to tread carefully.
49:21There's a lot of fish farms in the area, a massive employer.
49:26It does have another side in that a lot of people look at them as environmental problems or polluters.
49:34There's definitely a conflict in the area, which we have to kind of weave a narrow line between
49:41just to make sure that people aren't committing offences.
49:45Here he is.
49:50Hi Jamie, how are you getting on?
49:53We had another call from the fish farm about, I think it was yesterday.
49:57Were you filming some more over the site yesterday?
50:00Yeah.
50:00Yeah.
50:02How close were you, do you know?
50:0320, 30 metres.
50:04Right, OK.
50:06The police need to check Jamie is flying his drone legally.
50:10Have you got an ID on it for us, an operator's ID?
50:14You need to have an operator's ID for any drone.
50:16Really?
50:17No.
50:17Just purely for if the drone was to crash into something,
50:21they would be able to trace it back to who it was that was flying.
50:23So it shouldn't be exploiting animals either.
50:26That's the thing, and we're not here to say you're wrong, they're right,
50:30that you're wrong, you're right, we're here to enforce the law.
50:33Obviously you have an opinion.
50:33The law allows this animal exploitation to happen.
50:36The law's corrupt.
50:37OK.
50:38This won't be the law.
50:39In the future, this will be illegal.
50:41Just the fact that the law's not caught up with basic ethics yet is a worry.
50:46Yeah.
50:47We have to go with what the law is at the moment.
50:50We can't go with what the law is going to be in the future.
50:52Do you think animal exploitation's OK, ethically, yourself, morally?
50:59What I think doesn't matter.
51:00No.
51:02I'm not paid to have a moral opinion.
51:05I'm paid to enforce the law.
51:06To do what you're told, yeah.
51:07Enforce the law, effectively, yeah.
51:09And you can see that as me being a... doing what I'm told, but...
51:12Well, that's what it is.
51:13OK.
51:13Wow.
51:14I was just there to give him some advice and remind him of his obligations
51:18while flying a drone.
51:19I wasn't telling him he couldn't be there or anything like that,
51:22so...
51:22But I think for...
51:24In this instance, he already had his mind made up about
51:27the reason for our attendance.
51:30This is the way this multinational's got you to work,
51:32and they've got the police to come out here
51:34because I've got a drone that's not registered, that's a toy drone.
51:38This is pathetic.
51:42I can't even believe this is happening.
51:43If someone makes an allegation that someone's not doing something within the law,
51:46then it's we are duty-bound to investigate it.
51:48But it's not against the law.
51:50Well, it is for the operator ID.
51:53It can be difficult to not be seen as taken aside.
51:58I think in this instance, he had an opinion that we were on the fish farm side,
52:04which is certainly not the case.
52:07I'm not trying to be difficult.
52:08I'm just trying to make sure everything is...
52:09I think it's pathetic.
52:10Okay, well, you can think that.
52:11It's totally pathetic.
52:12Okay.
52:13I think you must feel that a wee bit yourselves too, surely.
52:16Not really.
52:16Talking about a toy drone here.
52:17Okay.
52:18That's what you just do.
52:19Again, I could make it difficult, but I'm trying to help you
52:23and offer you the advice now so things don't...
52:26Yeah.
52:27Okay.
52:27Having told the man to display an operator's ID on his drone,
52:33there's no need for further action.
52:35So Roddy and Angie start the long drive home.
52:38I normally try and make a good effort of trying to win them over,
52:43and be like, look, I'm not against you,
52:45which I was trying to do with him, but he wasn't having it.
52:48I don't think there was any convincing him that we're not
52:52corrupt in the pocket of multinationals, is what he said, wasn't it?
52:56I know.
52:58I think a lot of the time they just see the uniform and they just automatically...
53:02Yeah, exactly, yeah.
53:03Think that you don't share the same views or that you don't have an opinion,
53:08and we're just robots and told what to do and where to go.
53:13And he said, oh, yeah, you're not paid, you just do what you're told.
53:18But that kind of is what it is, because if we start taking sides,
53:22then where's that going to lead?
53:24We can't be taking either side, because if we took his side,
53:27then we'd get complaints from the fish farm.
53:30So you don't take a side, you just...
53:38In Inverness, negotiations with the knife suspect have now completely broken down.
54:06The street's been closed and neighbours evacuated.
54:11If he does come out of that door, then you need to be standing this side.
54:17We'll get you...we'll get you getting hands on him and getting cuffs on him.
54:19Concerned that the suspect might hurt himself as well as others,
54:25the police are now preparing to break into his home, if necessary.
54:29Our main aim is to get someone out of that property without causing them any harm.
54:33So, ultimately, if that means have to stand there and talk to someone for a number of hours,
54:37then that's what we'll do, up to a certain point where they become a risk to themselves.
54:41And if they do become a risk to themselves, then another risk assessment will be made,
54:46and the chances are that they'll end up going through the door for that reason.
54:52Yeah, he's now got a golf club in the kitchen.
54:56He just seems to be swinging it about.
54:59But with the suspect apparently preparing to meet them with violence,
55:03breaking in would be fraught with risk.
55:05He's got a small gas canister, like a camping stove style, on the window.
55:11Yeah, he's now got a candle.
55:16It's right beside where the gas canister is.
55:20He has also poured boiling water into something and has also poured bleach into
55:27the boiling water. I can't see what it actually is.
55:35So, after assessing the risks to the officers and the public,
55:41commanders in the control room decide to bring in a firearms team,
55:45who are equipped to break in if necessary.
55:58I thought I was getting somewhere. I thought I was going to get him to come out,
56:00but then he just turned and he basically just started talking about the nods.
56:03Jimmy hands over to specialist police negotiators.
56:08Okay, I just wondered if there was anything to use.
56:10Nine, nine more than as usual. It's just the dogs.
56:12It was that he thinks we're going to take the dog away from him as well, so it's...
56:16Right, okay.
56:17Five hours after police were first called by a concerned neighbour,
56:22with the fire service and ambulance crews on standby and the whole area cordoned off,
56:28there's still no sign of an end to the standoff.
56:31We're just being relieved by other units who are going to come over and take over from us.
56:37Negotiators haven't been able to get anywhere with them as yet.
56:41You have heard of these sieges taking 24 hours, you know, so it could go on and on.
56:46And we just don't know. It's impossible to say at this stage.
56:50No, no, no.
56:58It's impossible to say at this stage.
57:00No, no.
57:01No, no, no!
57:02No, no.
57:04Never.
57:05No, no, no.
57:06Yeah.
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