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00:00Police intercept is a rule I for.
00:01I'm going to tell my kids we're riding.
00:03And you're riding with the pride of Northamptonshire.
00:06Speed, one, two, zero.
00:09Ace Pursuit drivers...
00:11Contact, contact, contact.
00:12FS51.
00:13...with air support...
00:14Got two outs, I'm right.
00:16I'm out!
00:17...and a crack dog unit.
00:19If you leave, you will get hit.
00:23They bring down the bad guys...
00:25I believe you'll want it, mate.
00:27Keep the streets safe...
00:30Put your arms behind your back.
00:32Get on the floor!
00:34...and battle 24-7...
00:36Get down on the floor!
00:38...in the war on crime.
00:40Crash, crash.
00:42I'm just going now!
00:43This is what it is, isn't it?
00:44We find them, we lock them up.
00:49Coming up...
00:51...a teenage takedown...
00:53Get down on the floor!
00:54Get down on the floor!
00:57Light at the end of the taser...
00:59Please, stay where you are!
01:00Please, stay where you are!
01:01Please, stay where you are!
01:02Please, stay where you are!
01:03...and...
01:05...the price of entry...
01:08...one front door.
01:09Stay where you are!
01:10Stay where you are!
01:11Stay where we are!
01:12I'm here!
01:13Let's go!
01:30It's coming towards us!
01:31Some jobs are team efforts.
01:33Copy.
01:34We've just moved off, but we'll spin round...
01:35...here, here, here.
01:37And Richie and Harrison are doing a swift UE to back up fellow Interceptor, Lloyd.
01:41Yes, yes. Stand by.
01:44Boot it, Richie.
01:51We're with you, Lloyd.
01:53In the marked car ahead, Lloyd's, after a white Toyota Hybrid,
01:58reported for driving dangerously with bandana-clad lads on board.
02:02Target acquired. They need to get ahead of it.
02:13Easier said than done.
02:22The driver's held his line and blown a red.
02:27And Richie takes the hot seat as lead car.
02:32Nine-iron, I'm behind that vehicle, but now T-PAC trained, stupid driver.
02:38It's a medium risk of smoking in time.
02:40And approaching red ATS, weight one.
02:44The runaway doesn't slow at all.
02:46Clear left.
02:48Temporary high risk, back down to medium.
02:52Need location, mate.
02:53Yeah.
02:53Vehicle continues Campbell Street, heading to town.
02:56Just passing the magistrate's car to the near side.
03:00Those magistrates may see this driver soon.
03:03Speed's six, four.
03:04Approaching red ATS, weight.
03:08OK, it's through red ATS.
03:10Temporary high risk, back down to medium risk.
03:13Speed four, eight.
03:14Still continuing.
03:15They've got to get this car stopped and fast.
03:18Nine-Nine, can I have T-PAC authorised?
03:21The first tactic will be Stinger, followed by a box.
03:26Chess-playing football coach who knows a thing or three about tactics,
03:29Richie is a grandmaster on the roads.
03:33Stinger can't be achieved if you used a motley car box.
03:36And he'll need to be, to checkmate a driver with no care for safety.
03:41Road works on red lights mean nothing.
03:43Copy, it's a left, left, left, Kettering Road.
03:49Traffic is light.
03:51Have we got anybody who can get Stinger sights for us, please?
03:56Vehicle three, eight, yes.
03:59Still medium risk, speed seven, zero.
04:02A Stinger team lies in wait to take out the Toyota's tyres if it goes left.
04:09I'll push it left here if I can.
04:11Yeah.
04:11No, can't do that.
04:12The target swerved the trap.
04:15Vehicle continues through red ATS, temporary high risk,
04:18back down to medium, passing the white elephant to near side,
04:21Kettering Road, heading out of town.
04:23Speed, back down seven, zero.
04:25Still medium risk.
04:26It's like this driver's on a mission to blow every red light in Northampton.
04:31Approaching red ATS, wait.
04:37Vehicle through red ATS, speed five, zero.
04:39Temporary high risk, back down to medium.
04:41Speed increases, eight, zero, miles an hour.
04:45Still on the Kettering Road.
04:47A safe green light, but he takes the stupid option.
04:52Vehicle wrong side for red ATS, temporary high risk.
04:54Again, back to the correct side.
04:57Temporary high risk, back down to medium.
04:59Speed, eight, zero.
05:00Another T-pack train driver is now behind them.
05:04The net's tightening.
05:05If we get an opportunity to get in front, are we going to be able to get a two-car box down with a T-pack mobile behind us?
05:11It's a sound plan, but it needs Ritchie to get in front of the target.
05:15To do that safely on a road like this is a tall order.
05:24OK, vehicle continues.
05:26Temporary wrong side, temporary high risk, back down to medium.
05:29Speed six, zero.
05:30This is it.
05:40Ritchie passes the target and Harrison's primed to run, but the runaway is on the grass and into an estate.
05:49He can't shake off the marked car ahead, though.
05:52Nor the lamppost he's just stacked into.
06:01A touch of tactical contact pins the Toyota in place and the driver's nicked.
06:07But the passenger's done run.
06:12Stay where you are!
06:13Stay where you are!
06:14Get down on the floor!
06:16Get down on the floor!
06:17Get down on the floor!
06:19Get down!
06:20Two detained.
06:21Got him, got him, got him, got him.
06:22Got his armour!
06:23OK, right, take time, take time.
06:24This pair may be tough nuts to crack.
06:27Youngsters often stay tight-lipped and stick together.
06:30I'm so sorry, force me to do it.
06:32Maybe not.
06:34I've got to force me to do this.
06:36Stupid.
06:38Who do you like to run, mate?
06:39It's my mum's car.
06:41The car belongs to the mum of the driver Harrison has in cuffs.
06:44He claims his passenger...
06:46Are you going too far?
06:47You're a stone, you're a complete idiot.
06:49Put him up to it.
06:50Seat backside down.
06:51OK, yeah, nice.
06:52Sit your backside down or I'll force you down now.
06:56Behave yourself.
06:57Do you understand me?
06:57Yes.
06:58Got a weapon on you?
06:59Nope.
07:00I ain't got nothing on me.
07:01You got any sharps on you?
07:02Nope.
07:04If I had my...
07:04If I had anything on me, you would have been stabbed by now.
07:07I would have been stabbed.
07:08I said I would have been stabbed.
07:09If I had anything...
07:10You've been endangered members of the public yourself and us, you idiot.
07:13That's why you don't work like that.
07:14It's a good result.
07:16Has he got away?
07:19But it's put the wind up the interceptors because the driver they've been tangling with is barely out of short pants.
07:25It's a 14-year-old.
07:2714?
07:28How old is he?
07:29He is 16.
07:3117.
07:32He's a child as well, isn't he?
07:36I don't even understand how dangerous and how many lives you've put a wrist on.
07:39Yeah.
07:39Not just you, but us, members of the public.
07:44My mum's at home.
07:45She'll find out.
07:46Don't you worry.
07:47Idiot.
07:4814-year-old.
07:50Just could have killed someone.
07:51Including the other men in the public.
07:54Play silly games.
07:56Get yourself caught.
07:57So you have to answer for your actions now, aren't you?
07:59So...
08:00But no one's hurt.
08:03But it could have been.
08:04Could have killed someone.
08:05No action was taken against the passenger.
08:11But the driver of mum's Toyota pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicle taking,
08:16dangerous driving, failing to stop,
08:19damaging a police car and driving without a licence or insurance.
08:24He was disqualified for 12 months and got a referral order to the Youth Offending Service.
08:30It could have been far worse.
08:32The idea of children getting hurt is obviously something that those police officers you never want to see.
08:38They don't know the risks they're taking.
08:40And had I known it being a 14-year-old, I'm not sure we'd have continued with that pursuit.
08:45It's the first time, in my recollection, I've dealt with a 14-year-old driving in this manner.
08:54Coming up.
08:56Ah.
08:58You, my friend, are under arrest.
08:59You've blown 50 watts.
09:00A matter of perspective.
09:02No problem, I'm not.
09:04A big problem.
09:06Smashing a cannabis operation.
09:10It's broke.
09:12And...
09:13On the floor, you're going to get sprayed.
09:15A parva palava.
09:17Did have a bit of a tussle, so we got sprayed.
09:19Good morning, everyone.
09:36It's early doors at Rushton, Nick.
09:39We're looking for mainly cannabis.
09:41The intelligence will be a cannabis factory.
09:42And the neighbourhood team is gearing up to raid two separate properties, both potentially linked to drug supply.
09:51The building is incredibly hot.
09:53It's five degrees hotter than the surrounding houses.
09:55There's a disused factory, so it should be many degrees colder.
09:59Target one is a warehouse which has been radiating temperatures typical for growing weed.
10:05As with all cannabis factories, just be aware of booby traps.
10:08It is a massive site.
10:10And make sure you look up as well as down.
10:12Led by Sergeant Lee Goodwin, cops roll out in numbers.
10:25And the warehouse isn't the only place oddly hot.
10:30Taz had this set on 27 degrees when I got in the cars in the morning.
10:35But with the heating dialed down in the beamer, the Sarge approaches their first target, cool as a cucumber.
10:41Are we all still in convoy?
10:44The warehouse is just minutes from the Nick.
10:50And they aim to be inside just as fast.
10:56Right, we're all ready.
10:58Let's go.
10:59The team is armed for anything.
11:03Monster bolt croppers make short work of chains on the gate.
11:08You two, round that side.
11:10And an upstairs door.
11:12I've got a hooli bar and a thing if you need.
11:15Is no match for the hooli bar.
11:20We're in.
11:25Please stay where you are.
11:26Please stay where you are.
11:29Taser dots are everywhere as they secure the site.
11:33Ben, wait for me.
11:34It's a major undertaking.
11:40But they eventually satisfy themselves that no one is on site.
11:45Good.
11:46And though the subsequent search is not without red flags...
11:52Just be careful when we're wandering around. Chris has just found a crossbow.
11:57Good spot.
11:58It soon becomes clear...
12:00There's no smell of cannabis.
12:02They're too late.
12:04It's clearly been a cannabis factory.
12:06There's the sheeting down in the rooms.
12:08There's the extractor fans and everything we would expect.
12:11There's no smell of cannabis, which makes me think they've moved out a couple of weeks ago.
12:15So, yeah, gutted at this minute in time.
12:17It's not the best start of the day, but you know what they say.
12:24If at first you don't succeed...
12:27Smash another door down.
12:32Their second target is not connected with the empty factory...
12:35...and it's a very different proposition.
12:39Check this, Lox.
12:40A suburban terrace in Wellingborough.
12:47With a pretty tasty front door.
12:52Stay where you are!
12:53Stay where you are!
12:53Stay where you are!
12:55And one very surprised occupant.
12:58Yeah, yeah.
13:00Drop your phone.
13:01Drop your phone.
13:02With the team inside...
13:03Put your hands where I can see him.
13:04Turn around.
13:05Do not move.
13:06He's soon in cuffs.
13:08What language?
13:10What language?
13:12Albanian.
13:13Albanian.
13:14OK.
13:14You're coming to custody.
13:18OK.
13:18And while the 19-year-old Albanian occupant gets his marching orders outside...
13:23It's the moment of truth inside.
13:27What do you need?
13:29Time to establish if the intel on this property is more current than the intel on the warehouse.
13:39Hallelujah.
13:39A vision in green.
13:44In fact, almost every room in the house is given over to the growing and cultivating of cannabis.
13:52Including the loft, which soon has Class B reigning from the heavens.
13:59And unlike the warehouse earlier, it looks like the interceptors arrived here bang on time.
14:05One room is ready to harvest while another is growing the next crop, making a lucrative year-round operation.
14:26So, they're doing two cycles constantly.
14:30So, you're probably talking about eight crops a year.
14:34So, you're going £500,000 a month.
14:36That's...
14:37That's £100,000.
14:39Yeah.
14:40There'll be no £100,000 turnover this year.
14:44We've only got one set of croppers in here, bud.
14:45Yeah, and there's going to be a load in that bag down there, the current bag.
14:49Because the current stock will be destroyed.
14:51I think there's about...
15:05I think they've said about £120,000 plants.
15:07So, um, probably about £50,000 worth.
15:10And this operation...
15:11..will never operate again.
15:15It's broke.
15:21It's fair to say that the morning finished better than it started.
15:25Ready?
15:26Yeah.
15:28I didn't know you was going to let it go.
15:33It comes as no surprise that the guy, surprised at the front door, pleaded guilty to production of Class B.
15:39He was sentenced to ten months in a young offender's institution
15:43and ordered to pay £187 in charges.
15:49And as rates go, one out of two's not bad.
16:06Bombers kicking off the afternoon shift.
16:08But there's no time for lunch to settle.
16:10There's a fail to stop on Radio Interceptor.
16:19We've got three TPAP vehicles making two to his location now.
16:25A colleague of ours tried to stop the vehicle.
16:27Yeah, T-CAP.
16:28Um...
16:29And the driver's just giving him a load of reviews and driven off.
16:34What's he going to?
16:34A housing estate.
16:37A few miles south in his very first pursuit since passing the course...
16:41Well, it's the next roundabout, offside indication.
16:44Max is after the runaway, who gave him a mouthful and took off.
16:48Is he trying to go back to the home address, anyone with local knowledge?
16:50Sounds like he's going that general direction.
16:54And so is Bomber, at a fair old clip.
17:01Bomber's life motto comes from Winston Churchill.
17:03If you're going through hell, keep going.
17:06And today, he's going through lunchtime traffic on the 509, which is much the same.
17:12And though Bomber keeps going, he may be too late.
17:24Near side indication, should go into a car parkway.
17:27Three miles away, ahead of Max's Volvo, the runaway's decamped.
17:33The rookie pursuit driver is on his own.
17:42The guy won't play ball.
17:52Come on, I need some more, please.
17:54Get on the floor, I'm going to get sprayed.
17:57Get on the floor.
17:58What for?
17:59We're on the restaurant, prepare him to stop.
18:01Get on the floor.
18:02Get on the floor, get on the floor.
18:04Get on the floor now.
18:05Get on the floor.
18:07All right, give me your hands.
18:07Wait, wait, wait, wait.
18:08Give me your hands, give me your hands.
18:10Max Parva sprays the struggling driver.
18:13It's taken the fight out of him.
18:14What have I done?
18:16You've failed to stop.
18:18Job and have got no insurance.
18:21And a one-man job is nicely done.
18:24Driver's secure, one in custody.
18:29Max has done really well there.
18:32Let's go have a chat.
18:33Are you known to the police?
18:34King David.
18:36Pardon?
18:36King David.
18:37King David?
18:38What, that's what you're known as to the police?
18:40Yeah, that's what I'm known as to the police as King David.
18:42Arise, your majesty.
18:44The cavalry's arrived.
18:45Do you mind one of you just staying with him?
18:46Just to check the car.
18:48Well done, Maximus.
18:50Good work.
18:51Ended up in a bit of a tactical reinforced stop.
18:54Have you bubbled?
18:55Because of the mud.
18:56That's right.
18:56I couldn't stop.
18:59You haven't done any damage, have you?
19:00I don't think so.
19:02It literally pissed it.
19:04Just move it out of the way, don't you?
19:06So we can get into the boot.
19:07And in the boot.
19:13Interesting.
19:14You're coming for that as well then?
19:16Yeah, definitely.
19:17Behold, the sword of the king.
19:20It may have been a blessing that the boot was blocked.
19:23At this moment in time, you're further under arrest and suspicion of possession of a bladed article.
19:27What, it's in the boot of my car?
19:28You're under arrest and suspicion of driving, failing to stop, no insurance, driving or watching the occurrence of a licence,
19:35and also possession of a bladed article because there's a machete in your boot.
19:38We need to take you to the police to interview you.
19:40Obviously, you failed to stop for me, so you clearly don't want to talk to us about something.
19:43Yeah?
19:43Yeah, about me being King David.
19:45Okay.
19:46That's one.
19:50It's King...
19:50No, King 1-5.
19:51How do we get on with transport, please?
19:53Send a suitably regal carriage.
19:55King David.
19:57So who's the king?
19:58Who's the king you work for?
19:59He says he works for the king.
20:00Yeah, I do.
20:00And I want to know what king he works for.
20:02King Charles.
20:03He works for King Charles.
20:04And there's a King David.
20:06Where?
20:06King David and King Charles.
20:08Not in the UK, there's not.
20:09How do you know that?
20:10Because the king of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, it's King Charles.
20:16It's not King David or King Frederick.
20:17No, King Charles is a term for Viking.
20:23Dogman Brown is getting the full history lesson.
20:26That's at the ancient time, from when it came back.
20:28From back in the days, when you become a king, how did you become a king?
20:31By monopolising the territory, whether it's a village, whether it's a town.
20:35You monopolise it, and you become a controller of it, and then you crown yourself as king.
20:39What's that going on to do with no insurance?
20:41I'm a Nubian.
20:42Nubian nation.
20:43I'm not a Nubian from the UK.
20:46Well, I'm not a Nubian, British, that's German.
20:50Your German, your old Elizabeth is a German.
20:53Even Charles is not even English, he's German.
20:55He's King now, isn't he?
20:56No, he's not.
20:56He's a Viking, he's not King.
20:58Where did you get the crown from to crown himself King?
21:00That's a self-proclamation.
21:03Easy for you to say.
21:04I'm King, I know these things.
21:07Remarkably, the King's speech has barely begun.
21:09You're hiding my money from me, that's why I'm being arrested.
21:12He's your king, he ain't my king, and he's driving a convertible.
21:16He's King of the Hebrews, he's not King of the Nubians.
21:20Well, your highness.
21:21He's not King of the Nubians.
21:22Your chariot awaits.
21:25It's not going to cause any trial, are you?
21:27No, no, no, this is going to cause.
21:28The right royal pain in the neck had his day in court for possessing a machete, obstructing
21:37the police, failing to stop, and driving without a valid license or insurance.
21:41He received a total of eight points on his license, a three-month prison sentence suspended
21:46for 12 months, and ordered to undertake 200 hours of unpaid work.
21:52And Max's first pursuit got the seal of approval from his majesty's finest.
21:56Oh, thank you very much.
22:05I appreciate that.
22:06It's my first time doing it, especially on my own as well.
22:10Coming up.
22:11Somebody want to come down there, there's a van being loaded up.
22:14Disturbing the burglars.
22:18Where same folk fear to tread.
22:21Not the worst story ever since, sir.
22:22Yeah, you've got chumps out of this somewhere.
22:24It's like someone's been eating everything.
22:24And what do blue lights mean?
22:27Yeah, I'm looking.
22:28What do blue lights mean?
22:29Yeah.
22:30The roadside quiz questions get progressively harder.
22:33Do you have something to drink?
22:34Life on the road is full of temptations.
22:57I broke yesterday.
22:58I had a supercharger rack from KFC.
23:01And it can be hard to be virtuous.
23:03Yeah.
23:04Supercharger rack?
23:05Yeah, it was well nice.
23:06But there's one roadside indulgence no interceptor would ever entertain.
23:11Drink driving.
23:12We see it when we go to collisions, people have been drinking.
23:15It's never them.
23:16It's the one that comes off worse.
23:17It's always the person they hit or the person they kill will be the person in the vehicle.
23:21So, no safety for them.
23:27It's coming down cats and dogs in Kettering.
23:30Oh, what?
23:31The driver is currently disqualified from driving.
23:34And Nick and Harrison are behind a man you wouldn't want to meet on a dark, wet road.
23:39You're speeding up?
23:40It is speeding up.
23:41Doing 84 at the minute.
23:4394 now.
23:44If he is aware of the unmarked car on his bumper, then this isn't the brightest bulb in the box.
23:51I think that is a fog light, isn't it?
23:52It is fog light, yeah.
23:54Maybe it's just coming off here.
23:55It must be coming off here.
23:57Foggy's drifting all over the road.
23:59Standard driver's pretty poor, isn't it?
24:02But they light him up and he drifts to the side.
24:10Go here, Mitch.
24:11I'm not 100% sure he's stopping yet.
24:17Stand by.
24:18I thought I might have had a foul stop.
24:21Are you going to stop or not?
24:30Turn the engine off.
24:32Take the key out.
24:33Turn the engine off.
24:34Take the key out.
24:35My vehicle's secure.
24:36Step out for me, big man.
24:39Jump out.
24:39The less time you're behind the wheel, the better.
24:43Sorry?
24:43The less time you're behind the wheel, the better.
24:46Speak a little bit more.
24:47OK.
24:47Get out of the car.
24:49OK.
24:49You're starting for 10.
24:51What do blue lights mean?
24:52Yeah, I'm looking.
24:53What do blue lights mean?
24:54Yeah.
24:55No.
24:56Stop.
24:56Yeah, yeah.
24:57Yeah.
24:57And you didn't.
24:59Let's rewind.
25:00Yeah.
25:01I'm looking.
25:01When you travel along the A14, yeah, dual carriageway, 90 miles an hour, passing everything, yeah, the blue lights are for you.
25:12Yeah, yeah.
25:12Yeah, so you stop.
25:15He smells a drink.
25:18Have you had something to drink?
25:20Little bit.
25:21OK.
25:22Little bit to drink.
25:23How long ago you've had something to drink?
25:26No, how long?
25:27What time?
25:29Two hours.
25:30Two hours ago you had something to drink.
25:31And how much?
25:33Little bit.
25:34OK.
25:34I'm going to ask you to blow into a machine at the roadside.
25:38I'm looking for the blue.
25:39No, you're not understanding.
25:41I'm going to ask you to blow into the machine at the roadside.
25:44How old are you?
25:46How old are you?
25:47How old are you?
25:47Age.
25:49Age.
25:51Me?
25:5253.
25:53You?
25:5345.
25:55OK.
25:56Yeah, yeah.
25:59Blow, blow, blow.
26:01Blow, blow, blow, blow.
26:03Keep going, keep going.
26:06Ah.
26:07You, my friend, are under arrest for drink driving.
26:10The legal limit is 35.
26:12You've blown 51.
26:14Yeah?
26:16OK, you need to keep walking, then.
26:17You can walk to work from here.
26:19He's got two passengers.
26:21I'm so sorry.
26:23And zero sympathy.
26:25Sorry.
26:26You won't be sorry when you killed someone, would you?
26:27I know, I know, yeah.
26:28You won't be sorry then.
26:29Oh, yeah.
26:29I'm drunk.
26:30No problem.
26:30I'm no...
26:31A big problem.
26:33Not no problem.
26:34Big problem.
26:35There's no need for...
26:35There's every need to put handcuffs on him.
26:38I see.
26:38But no, he's dangerous, people.
26:40One.
26:40One is dangerous because he's doing too fast on the road.
26:44Yeah?
26:44He's driving at 100 miles an hour on a 70 road.
26:47100 miles?
26:47Yeah.
26:48Secondly, he's drunk.
26:50Yeah?
26:51I would say he's very...
26:52He's over the legal limit.
26:53I see.
26:54I see.
26:54So I would say he's very dangerous.
26:56But no, he's dangerous for...
26:57You can go now, sir.
26:59What type of licence do you hold?
27:01Normal.
27:01Licence normal.
27:02B.
27:02What's a normal licence?
27:03B.
27:04A UK licence, a Spanish licence, a Romanian licence?
27:07Spanish.
27:08Spanish licence.
27:08When it comes to his licence, the slurry driver is something of an international man of mystery.
27:14So before you had a Spanish?
27:15Yeah.
27:16What licence do you have now?
27:17Now, Romania.
27:19A Romanian licence?
27:21You probably won't have any licence for much longer.
27:23You're drinking.
27:25It's not good.
27:26You're going to kill...
27:26Ah, no chance.
27:27You're going to kill someone.
27:28I know, no chance.
27:29Yes, sir.
27:31And it won't be you, will it?
27:33Mercifully, the only thing he's crashed into tonight is the language barrier.
27:37I don't understand you.
27:39You've just spoke English.
27:41What language is best for you?
27:43Spanish.
27:43Spanish?
27:44Yeah.
27:44OK.
27:47Back at El Nick...
27:49Can you explain that he'll be charged with drink driving?
27:53He's charged with the help of a translator.
28:00Then it's adios, amigo.
28:02My car?
28:03Yes.
28:04Where is my car?
28:05But outside, he rediscovers the English language.
28:08It's gone to a compound.
28:10We'll give you a bit of paper to get it back.
28:14You'll have to pay for it, though.
28:16Yeah?
28:18That's fine.
28:21Sulking over there won't help.
28:25OK, bye-bye.
28:28Sorry?
28:29Why am I bringing you home?
28:32You walk home?
28:33You walk home.
28:36He wouldn't not oblige to give him a lift home.
28:38He's an adult.
28:39He's got his card on him.
28:41He's only a mile and a half from home.
28:42And the fact is that he's going to kill someone tonight.
28:49The incredible sulk eventually made his way home under his own steam.
28:53No action was taken regarding the document offences.
28:56However, he pleaded guilty to drink driving and was banned for more than three years.
29:01He was also ordered to do 80 hours unpaid work and pay £199.
29:05With around 300 automatic number plate recognition cameras...
29:19ANPR cameras have picked up a vehicle that's used in theft from vans.
29:26...vans, stinger units...
29:30Vecal stung, fecal stung.
29:31...and an elite dog unit at their disposal.
29:35Right, we've got a big metal security gate down the bottom here.
29:38He's climbed over it.
29:39Interceptors rarely let a thief off the hook.
29:42Another one.
29:43Stay where you are.
29:45Don't move.
29:47But for the few that do get away...
29:51...the next best thing is upsetting their plans to ensure crime doesn't pay.
29:56Really, it's just inconveniencing them as much as we possibly can.
30:00And also, we get whatever they've stolen back.
30:03So, it's almost a wasted outing for them.
30:06And really, I'd say that's a win for us, to be honest.
30:20Come on, Ru. Can I have the postcode again, please?
30:22It's the midnight hour.
30:24Where exactly has he climbed over, and what does it back onto?
30:30And someone's up to mischief.
30:33It's a male who's climbed over into the logistics yard,
30:36where they distribute goods on HTVs.
30:43Dog handler Lucy Scullthorpe is en route to deal with a break-in at a lorry depot.
30:48But they take stuff off the back of lorries that are ready to leave.
30:52She suspects it's the work of a gang looking to loot freshly loaded lorries before they hit the road.
30:57And she knows the location well.
31:00Get back onto the A14.
31:02As a dog handler with 15 years on the force,
31:06Lucy's dealt with thieves like this before, and knows all their tricks.
31:11I'm just going to knock these blues off,
31:13because if there's a car parked in a lay-by on the A14,
31:16I don't really necessarily want them to see us coming.
31:18Including the fact that gangs often have getaway drivers waiting at pick-up points.
31:23Well, I couldn't see any dodgy-looking vehicles parked up in the lay-bys, etc., as I came in.
31:31But with nothing to do on the A14...
31:33It might be worth, if there's a car coming in,
31:35just sitting in that, just in case anyone pops out.
31:38Lucy presses on to the scene of the crime.
31:42The lorry depot that's already been searched by firearms cops.
31:46The padlock's been cut off on the front gate.
31:49But police dog Bryn is keen to show them how it's done.
31:53Somebody want to come down here? There's a van being loaded up.
32:03Left, all the way down to the bottom.
32:10Whoever was loading the van has legged it.
32:14Yes, yes.
32:17But Bryn's picked up a scent.
32:23It's a huge sight with plenty of obstacles.
32:33Can somebody with security get a code for this?
32:37It's a code padlock.
32:38But time is of the essence.
32:41Hold him.
32:42No.
32:43Bryn, Bryn, this way.
32:44Bryn, this way.
32:45Hold him really tight.
32:46He's going to try and get to me, and I'm going to climb over, all right?
32:48How's he going to be going up there?
32:49He'll be fine.
32:51This is a major assault course, but Lucy and Bryn are up to it.
32:57Right.
32:58Let him jump.
33:00Bryn.
33:00No, no, no, no, no.
33:05Yeah.
33:06The track leads them across a main road.
33:10Into some bushes.
33:22And then...
33:24Straight to the lay-by, Lucy scoped out earlier.
33:31They've hidden in there, and they've been picked up.
33:34If firearms spooked them, then the fleeing thieves could have been hiding in the bushes when Lucy drove by.
33:41That's so annoying.
33:43She may have missed the getaway car by minutes.
33:49Retracing their steps.
33:52He wants to go back over now.
33:54Bryn leads Lucy to another lay-by.
33:57I think they might have just found the second pick-up point.
33:59It looks like the men split up.
34:01The track's literally just stopped.
34:03And then got picked up from separate lay-bys.
34:06From where he's tracked, the other officers have been able to do some AMPR inquiries, and we think we've identified a cloned vehicle that hit a camera on the A14, so that's probably going to be the vehicle they've got into and got away in.
34:20As frustrating as this is for the cops...
34:23Yeah, to do that now.
34:25..it's also frustrating for the thieves whose work they disrupted.
34:29This has been cut.
34:31So you can see the angle grind marks on here, where this whole section of fence has been taken out.
34:36And back at the scene...
34:38..and I think all the cables have been cut here.
34:42It becomes clear what that work was.
34:45It's going to have been a copper theft in progress.
34:48The gang weren't robbing lorries.
34:50I made a right mess of this.
34:52They were ransacking the site's electricity substation to strip out its copper.
34:56You can see where there's copper elements in here that have been cut off.
34:59It's estimated that metal theft has cost the UK more than £4 billion over the past decade.
35:07So there's cables there.
35:09But tonight's job won't earn the thieves a penny, and the interceptors may have done them a favour.
35:16There's a sign there that says electric shock emergency resuscitation.
35:20There is a big risk of getting electrocuted doing this.
35:24When they're cutting through stuff like this with metal angle grinders,
35:27there's a fairly decent chance that they'll electrocute themselves to death.
35:31And it does happen.
35:32And their mates leave them.
35:33They don't ring an ambulance for them because they don't want to get caught.
35:36So they leave them and they die.
35:39That's the risk they're prepared to take, clearly.
35:44The copper thieves managed to slip through the net this time.
35:49However, there will be no more getaways in the van seized at the site.
35:54It was crushed, and ironically, it's scrap metal.
35:57It was recycled.
36:05Coming up!
36:06He's doing 50, and now he's doing 80.
36:08Age is just a number.
36:09I'm 17, how can I be arrested?
36:11Say again.
36:12I'm 17.
36:13You can arrest people at 17?
36:15And your number's up, son.
36:17Can arrest people at any age?
36:17Yeah.
36:18It's estimated that one in five new drivers will have an accident within their first year on the road.
36:38When drivers first learn, particularly youngsters, teenagers, their decision-making hasn't developed,
36:48which would explain the disproportionate number of collisions within the first couple of years of passing your test.
36:54Perhaps with experience and maturity, you understand the risks and the consequences of your actions,
37:02which you perhaps don't think through so much when you're a teenager and an inexperienced driver.
37:07It's the early hours, and Callum and Tom are in the unmarked Volvo on the M1.
37:28And he's lane four, and he's doing about 30 miles an hour.
37:33Where one of the few things on the road has Callum's nose twitching.
37:38I'm on lane four behind, with no reason to be there.
37:42A motorbike crawling down the overtaking lane, but as it speeds up...
37:49We're doing 50, and he's just...
37:52Just...
37:53...approaching.
37:54It's clear the motorbike is actually a Golf with one headlight.
38:02Volkswagen. No insurance.
38:05Oh, brilliant.
38:06Erratic driving, no insurance, one headlight.
38:09This is someone they'd like to know better.
38:14Split up now.
38:16But he's got other ideas.
38:18Because he's doing 50, and now he's doing 80.
38:20In fact, he's suddenly in a hurry to say goodbye.
38:24What's it linked to our needs?
38:27Some hundred different people.
38:28Any jobs?
38:29Nothing.
38:30Er, no.
38:32Callum overtakes.
38:33Tom lights the follow me sign in their rear window,
38:36and they usher the Golf off the motorway.
38:40He's got his wrong indicator on as well.
38:41We're turning right.
38:42He's put his left indicator on.
38:45Hmm.
38:46Callum's pet peeves are middle-lane hoggers and unobservant drivers.
38:53So he's hit the jackpot tonight.
38:57Surprised he didn't come with us, to be fair.
38:59Yeah, yeah.
39:00I thought he was going to do a little darby-dar at the last minute.
39:03Maybe he is.
39:05Why is he going that way?
39:05Turn your engine off.
39:15Yes, sir.
39:16Turn your engine off.
39:17I'm sorry.
39:18I thought you were not following me no more.
39:20No.
39:20The sign says follow me, doesn't it?
39:22Not just go off in your own direction.
39:25Pass me your key.
39:29Your car?
39:30Yes, sir.
39:30Driving license?
39:31Er, I don't have.
39:32And insurance?
39:33I don't have, because...
39:34Have you got insurance?
39:35No.
39:36You haven't got insurance?
39:37No.
39:37OK.
39:38For a teenage driver with questionable decision-making,
39:41a drug test is nailed on.
39:44I would like to know why you want to put me down.
39:46Say again?
39:46Why will you try to test me?
39:49Why am I testing this?
39:50Yeah.
39:50OK, your manner of driving is shocking, OK?
39:53You're sat in just lane four for no reason.
39:56You're speeding and you're swerving all over the road, OK?
39:59So I believe you might be impaired by either drink or drugs, OK?
40:02So because of that, I'm going to require a sample of saliva
40:05and breath at the roadside.
40:07I just need to take nine wipes on your tongue with this.
40:12Do you want to put your handbrake on?
40:13That would be helpful, wouldn't it?
40:15Stick your tongue out.
40:16Nine wipes later, Tom tags Callum.
40:19I'm just going to do a quick breath test with you, all right?
40:21Who's on breathalyser?
40:22Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
40:24Stop.
40:24This one is quicker than in Romania, huh?
40:28Is it?
40:28Yeah.
40:29In Romania, you need to take all your...
40:31Well, I'd argue if you're getting breathalysers in Romania and England,
40:34you should probably take some more driving lessons.
40:36To the cop's surprise.
40:39That's all fine, mate.
40:40The driver passes the breath test.
40:43You pass that wipe, then?
40:45And the drug wipe.
40:47Yeah.
40:48There's just a matter of his insurance and licence.
40:50What driver licence have you got?
40:52Have you got...
40:52I have provisional.
40:53Yeah.
40:54But I wanted to...
40:56I'm practising.
40:57So, have you only got a provisional?
40:58Have you got a foreign national licence?
41:00No, I have...
41:01So, you've only got a provisional?
41:02Yeah.
41:02So, you shouldn't be driving then anyway, should you?
41:04Not unless you've got L plates, insurance and a licence driver to supervise.
41:09The way you learn the plates, has your passenger got a full driving licence?
41:13He's banned.
41:15Brilliant, all right.
41:17So, you shouldn't be driving anyway, should you?
41:18And you're not allowed the motorway without an instructor who's approved to go on the motorway.
41:22And isn't banned.
41:23You've got to look round all the tyres.
41:25OK.
41:26So, you are going to be reported for two offences of driving without insurance and driving otherwise
41:30and in accordance with a licence, OK?
41:32Vehicle's going to be seized.
41:34Hold your horses, Tom.
41:35Tom, have you done that ticket yet?
41:36Say again.
41:37Have you done that ticket yet?
41:38I'm in the process of...
41:39Add on a tyre.
41:40I'll chat.
41:41The minimum legal tyre tread is 1.6 mil.
41:44Below 1.6?
41:46Well, there's nothing.
41:47Oh.
41:47He's on a space saver, which A is maximum 50 mile an hour.
41:50He's doing 90.
41:51Yeah.
41:52B, the entire inside of the tyre is exposed.
41:55Nice.
41:56Can I have a look at this?
41:58If the lad's decision-making was poor before, it's off the chart now.
42:03It's like down to...
42:04What is that?
42:05Yeah.
42:05That is literally like a Pop-Tart.
42:08You're driving on a Pop-Tart.
42:10Not for much longer.
42:13That's disgraceful.
42:14Why have you got a space saver on, anyway?
42:17What do you mean, space?
42:19I have this tyre on.
42:20Yeah.
42:20Because this morning, when I wake up, I seen the car like this, you know?
42:26And I changed the tyre.
42:28My tyre was popped.
42:30And look, I have a problem with my tyre.
42:31So, hold on, you changed the tyre this morning?
42:35Look, I have a problem with the tyre.
42:38So, you changed this tyre this morning?
42:40Yeah.
42:40And you didn't notice that?
42:41No, I didn't notice that.
42:43Serious.
42:44There are record-breaking levels of idiocy at play here.
42:47I think that's the worst tyre I've ever seen.
42:49It's the worst tyre I've ever seen, sir.
42:51Yeah, you've got chunks out of it somewhere.
42:52It's like someone's been eating.
42:54I told you it's a Pop-Tart.
42:58Mercifully, the Pop-Tart didn't pop at 90 miles per hour on the motorway.
43:02We followed you, and you've been ping-ponging between the lanes.
43:04Ping-pong.
43:05You've been driving over the left line, driving over the right line.
43:07Then we've run your car through and showing no insurance.
43:11Yeah, man, some water-cozmin.
43:12You know, I'm listening.
43:13Yeah, some water-cozmin.
43:15Chuckles has as much sense as he does tread.
43:17Here.
43:18Hello.
43:19And the cops may have saved his life.
43:22Wait for a letter to come through the post from us.
43:24If you don't respond to the letter, then you'll be wanting to be arrested, the right says.
43:27I'm 17.
43:27How can I be arrested?
43:29Say again.
43:29I'm 17.
43:30Yeah.
43:30You can arrest people at 17?
43:32You can arrest people at any age.
43:33Yeah.
43:33I'm bigger age now.
43:34Big enough to have your car seized and make your own way home to Nottingham.
43:39We were going to take you to the garage, but now you're going to have to walk.
43:42But you would have already been there if you had followed me.
43:45So can I follow you quick?
43:46Please?
43:48Not in the car, no.
43:49You can't...
43:49You're driving.
43:49I'm not driving that.
43:51It's a shed.
43:52A shed that needs re-tyring.
43:55Can I just grab it, please?
43:56In every sense.
44:00The tread-free teenager faced the consequences of his questionable driving decisions,
44:06pleading guilty to driving without a license or insurance and with illegal tires.
44:12He had to pay £111 in charges and costs, got six points on his provisional license,
44:17and, thanks to Tom and Callum, gets to see his 18th birthday.
44:24See you, brother.
44:25Bye-bye.
44:55Bye-bye.
44:56Bye-bye.
44:56Bye-bye.
44:56Bye-bye.
44:56Bye-bye.
44:56Bye-bye.
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44:57Bye-bye.
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44:58Bye-bye.
44:58Bye-bye.
44:58Bye-bye.
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44:59Bye-bye.
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45:09Bye-bye.
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