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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!
01:12REEP HALLOWE...
01:15What are you saying?
01:16Tits coming towards us...
01:18Some jobs are team efforts.
01:32efforts. And Rich and Harrison are doing a swift UE to back up fellow interceptor Lloyd.
01:41Yes, yes. Stand by. Boot it, Richie.
01:45We're with you, Lloyd. In the marked car ahead, Lloyd's after a white Toyota hybrid reported
01:58for driving dangerously with bandana-clad lads on board.
02:05Target acquired. They need to get ahead of it.
02:14Easier said than done.
02:23The driver's held his line and blown a red. And Richie takes the hot seat as lead car.
02:32Nine-iron, I'm behind that vehicle. Now, T-PAC trained. Steeple driver. It's a medium risk
02:39at the moment in time. And approaching red ATS, weight one.
02:44The runaway doesn't slow at all.
02:46Clear left. Temporary high risk, back down to medium. Need location, mate?
02:53Yeah. Vehicle continues. Campbell Street, heading to town. Just passing the magistrate's court
02:58to the near side.
02:59Those magistrates may see this driver soon. Speed six, four. Approaching red ATS, weight.
03:05Okay, through red ATS, temporary high risk, back down to medium risk. Speed four, eight. Still
03:14continuing. They've got to get this car stopped and fast.
03:18Nine-Nine. Can I have T-PAC authorised? The first tactic will be Stinger, followed by a box.
03:25Chess-playing football coach who knows a thing or three about tactics, Richie is a grand master
03:31on the roads. Stinger 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. Roadworks on red lights
03:42mean nothing.
03:44Copy. It's a left, left, left, Kettering Road. Traffic is light. Have we got anybody who can
03:52get Stinger sights for us, please?
03:54Vehicle three, eight, yes. Still medium risk. Speed seven, zero.
04:01A Stinger team lies in wait to take out the Toyota's tyres if it goes left. I'm going to
04:08push it left here if I can. Can't do that. The target swerved the trap. Vehicle continues
04:15through red ATS, temporary high risk, back down to medium, passing the white elephant to near
04:19side, Kettering Road, heading out of town. Speed back down seven, zero. Still medium risk.
04:25It's like this driver's on a mission to blow every red light in Northampton. Approaching
04:31red ATS, wait. Vehicle three, red ATS, speed five, zero. Temporary high risk, back down to medium.
04:41Speed increases, eight, zero miles an hour. Still on the Kettering Road.
04:47A safe green light, but he takes the stupid option. Vehicle wrong side, red ATS, temporary
04:53high risk, gain back to the correct side. Temporary high risk, back down to medium. Speed, eight, zero.
05:00Another TPAC train driver is now behind them. The net's tightening.
05:04If we get an opportunity to get in front, are we going to be able to get a two-car box down
05:08with the TPAC mobile behind us?
05:10It's a sound plan, but it needs Richie to get in front of the target.
05:15To do that safely on a road like this is a tall order.
05:22Vehicle continues. Temporary wrong side. Temporary high risk, back down to medium. Speed six, zero.
05:29This is it.
05:30Richie passes the target and Harrison's primed to run, but the runaway is on the grass and
05:44into an estate. He can't shake off the marked car ahead though. Nor the lamppost he's just stacked into.
05:59A touch of tactical contact pins the Toyota in place and the driver's nicked. But the passenger's done one.
06:11Stay where you are! Stay where you are! Get down on the floor! Get down on the floor! Get down on the floor! Get down on the floor! Get down!
06:18Two detained. Got him, got him, got him, got him! Take time, take time.
06:24may be tough nuts to crack youngsters often stay tight-lipped and stick
06:29together I'm sorry force me to do it maybe not I've got forced to do this
06:36stupid are you like tomorrow night it's my mom's car the car belongs to the mom
06:42of the driver Harrison has in cuffs he claims his passenger put him up to it
06:50sit back side down sit you back side down I'll force you down now behave yourself
06:57do you understand me got weapon on you it's a good result
07:15but it's put the wind of the interceptors because the driver they've been tangling
07:23with is barely out of short pants a 14 year old 14 how old is it he is 16 17
07:31he's been his child as well anyway I understand our dangerous and how many
07:38lives you've got a wrist right yeah not just not just you but us members of the
07:43public which you'll find out don't you worry
07:47yes 14 year old just killed someone including those men public um play silly
07:55games you get yourself caught so you have to answer for your actions now aren't you
07:59so but no one's hurt but it could have been could have killed someone no action was taken
08:10against the passenger but the driver of mom's Toyota pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicle taking
08:15dangerous driving failing to stop damaging a police car and driving without a license or insurance
08:22he was disqualified for 12 months and got a referral order to the youth offending service
08:29it could have been far worse the idea of children getting hurt is obviously something that those
08:36police officers you never want to see uh they don't know the risks they're taking and had I known it
08:41been a 14 year old um I'm not sure we'd have continued with that pursuit it's the first time in my
08:46recollection I've dealt with a 14 year old uh driving in this manner coming up ah you my friend are
08:59under arrest you blow 51 a matter of perspective no problem I'm not a big problem smashing a cannabis
09:07operation it's broke and it's gonna get spray a parva palaver did have a bit of a tussle so we got sprayed
09:19good morning everyone it's early doors at rushton nick we're looking for many cannabis the intelligence
09:41will be a cannabis factory and the neighborhood team is gearing up to raid two separate properties
09:46both potentially linked to drug supply the building is incredibly hot it's five degrees hotter than the
09:54surrounding houses there's a disused factory so it should be many degrees colder target one is a
10:01warehouse which has been radiating temperatures typical for growing weed as with uh all cannabis
10:07factories just be aware baby traps it is a massive site and make sure you uh look up as well as down
10:12lead by sergeant lee goodwin cops roll out in numbers and the warehouse isn't the only place oddly hot
10:28it has had this set on 27 degrees when I got in the car tonight but with the heating dial down in the
10:37beamer the sergeant approaches their first target cool as a cucumber we all still in convoy the warehouse
10:45is just minutes from the nick and they aim to be inside just as fast
10:53right we're all ready let's go the team is armed for anything
11:01monster bolt croppers make short work of chains on the gate
11:06you two found that side and an upstairs door i've got hooli bar and thing if you need
11:14is no match for the hooli bar
11:16we're in
11:21please stay where you are
11:26please stay where you are
11:28taser dots are everywhere as they secure the site
11:31Ben wait for me
11:34it's a major undertaking
11:38but they eventually satisfy themselves
11:44that 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 just found a crossbow
11:56good spot
11:58it soon becomes clear
12:00there's no smell of cannabis
12:01they're too late
12:03it's clearly been a cannabis factory
12:05there'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
12:14going
12:15sorry yeah gutted at this minute in time
12:17it's not the best start of the day but you know what they say
12:22if at first you don't succeed
12:26smash another door down
12:30their second target is not connected with the empty factory and it's a very different proposition
12:37check this lot
12:40a suburban terrace in wellingborough
12:42with a pretty tasty front door
12:51stay where you are
12:53stay where you are
12:54and one very surprised occupant
12:58drop your phone
13:01drop your phone
13:01with the team inside
13:03put your hands where I can see him
13:04turn around
13:04do not move
13:06he's soon in cuffs
13:07what language
13:09what language
13:11Albanian
13:13Albanian
13:14okay
13:14you're coming to custody
13:17okay
13:18and while the 19 year old Albanian occupant gets his marching orders outside
13:22it's the moment of truth inside
13:26time to establish if the intel on this property is more current than the intel on the warehouse
13:34hallelujah
13:40a vision in green
13:44in fact almost every room in the house is given over to the growing and cultivating of cannabis
13:51including the loft
13:54which soon has class b reigning from the heavens
13:57and unlike the warehouse earlier
14:01it looks like the interceptors arrived here bang on time
14:05they're quite sticky
14:07and you can see there's a decent amount of bush on each of these ends
14:14so these probably would have been cropped in the next week or two
14:18one room is ready to harvest while another is growing the next crop
14:23making a lucrative year-round operation
14:26so they're doing two cycles constantly
14:30so you're probably talking about eight crops a year
14:33so you're going 500 grand
14:35that's
14:36100 grand
14:39yeah
14:39there'll be no 100 grand turnover this year
14:43we've only got one set of crops in here
14:45yeah
14:46there's going to be a lane in that bag down there
14:48because the current stock will be destroyed
14:51i think there's about i think they said about 120 plants
15:07so um probably about 50 000 pounds worth
15:09and this operation
15:11will never operate again
15:15it's broke
15:20it's fair to say that the morning finished better than it started
15:24ready
15:25yeah
15:26i didn't know you were going to let it go
15:30it comes as no surprise that the guy surprised at the front door pleaded guilty to production of class b
15:38he was sentenced to 10 months in a young offenders institution
15:43and ordered to pay 187 pounds in charges
15:47and as rates go
15:50one out of two's not bad
15:52bomb is 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
16:17we've got three t-pack vehicles making to his location now
16:23a colleague of ours tried to stop the vehicle
16:27yeah t-camp
16:28um
16:29and the driver's just giving him a load of reviews and driven off
16:33he's going to a housing estate
16:35a few miles south in his very first pursuit since passing the course
16:41right so next roundabout offside indication
16:43max is after the runaway who gave him a mouthful
16:47and took off
16:48is he trying to go back to the home address
16:49anyone with local knowledge
16:51sounds like he's going that general direction
16:53and so is bomber
16:55at a fair old clip
16:57bomber's life motto comes from winston churchill
17:03if you're going through hell keep going
17:06and today
17:07he's going through lunchtime traffic on the 509
17:11which is much the same
17:12and though bomber keeps going
17:22he may be too late
17:23three miles away ahead of max's volvo
17:29the runaway's decamped
17:31the rookie pursuit driver is on his own
17:36the guy won't play ball
17:52control i need some more please
17:53get on the floor
17:55i'm going to get sprayed
17:56get on the floor
17:57get on the floor
17:58get on the floor
18:02get on the floor
18:02get on the floor
18:03get on the floor now
18:05get on the floor
18:06all right give me your hands
18:07give me your hands
18:09max power sprays the struggling driver
18:12it's taken the fight out of him
18:14what have i done
18:15you've failed to stop
18:17driving without no insurance
18:19and a one-man job is nicely done
18:24driver secure
18:25one in custody
18:26max has done really well there
18:30let's go have a chair
18:32are you known to the police
18:34king david
18:35what then king david king david
18:38what that's what you're known after the police
18:40yeah that's what i'm known after the police is king david
18:41arise your majesty the cavalry's arrived
18:45do you mind one of you just staying with him
18:46just to check the car
18:47well done maximus
18:49good work
18:50ended up in a bit of a tactical reinforced stop
18:54because of the mud
18:55that's right
18:56i couldn't stop
18:57you haven't done any damage have you
19:00i don't i don't think so
19:01it literally literally pissed it
19:03just move it out of the way don't you
19:06so we can get into the boot
19:06and in the boot
19:10interesting
19:13you're coming for that as well then
19:16yeah definitely
19:16behold the sword of the king
19:19it may have been a blessing that the boot was blocked
19:22at this moment in time
19:24you're further on the rest on suspicion of possession of a bladed article
19:27what's in the boot of my car
19:28you're on the rest on suspicion of driving
19:29failing to stop
19:31no insurance
19:32driving otherwise in accordance with a license
19:35and also possession of a bladed article
19:37because there's a machete in your boot
19:38we need to take you to the police
19:39to interview you
19:40because obviously you failed to stop for me
19:41so you clearly don't want to talk to us about something
19:42yeah
19:43yeah about me being king david
19:45okay
19:46that's fine
19:47send a suitably regal carriage
19:55king david
19:56so who's the king
19:57who's the king you work for
19:59he says he works for the king
20:00yeah i do
20:00and i want to know
20:01what 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 you know the king
20:12yeah
20:12of the united kingdom
20:13and the commonwealth
20:14yeah
20:14it's king charles
20:16yeah
20:16king david
20:17king charles is a
20:19i'll just state in fact
20:20king charles is a term for viking
20:22dogman brown is getting the full history lesson
20:25that's at the ancient time
20:27from when it came back
20:28from back in the days
20:29when you become a king
20:30how did you become a king
20:31by monopolizing on the territory
20:34whether it's a village
20:35or it's a town
20:35you monopolize it
20:36and you become control of it
20:38and then you count yourself as king
20:39what's that got to do with no insurance
20:40i'm a nubian
20:41a nubian nation
20:42i'm not
20:43i'm a nubian
20:44from the uk
20:46but i'm not a nubian
20:48british
20:48that's german
20:49your german
20:50your lord elizabeth
20:52is a german
20:53even charles is not even english
20:54he's german
20:55he's king now
20:55no he's not
20:56he's a viking
20:57he's not king
20:57where did he get the crown from
20:59to crown himself king
21:00that's the self-proclamation
21:01proclamation
21:02easy for you to say
21:04i'm king
21:04i know these things
21:05remarkably the king's speech
21:08has barely begun
21:09you're hiding my money from me
21:11that's why i'm being invested
21:12no he's your king
21:13he ain't my king
21:14and he's driving a convertible
21:15he's king of
21:17he's king of the hebrews
21:18he's not king of the nubians
21:19well your highness
21:21he's not king of the nubians
21:22your chariot awaits
21:24it's not going to cause any
21:26trial are you
21:27no no no
21:27this is going to cause
21:28the right royal pain in the neck
21:34had his day in court
21:35for possessing a machete
21:36obstructing the police
21:38failing to stop
21:39and driving without
21:40a valid license
21:41or insurance
21:41he received a total
21:43of eight points
21:43on his license
21:44a three-month prison sentence
21:46suspended for 12 months
21:47and ordered to undertake
21:49200 hours
21:50of unpaid work
21:51and max's first pursuit
21:54got the seal of approval
21:55from his majesty's finest
21:57oh thank you very much
22:04i appreciate that
22:05it's my first time doing it
22:07especially on my own as well
22:08coming up
22:10somebody want to come down there
22:12there's a van being loaded up
22:14disturbing the burglars
22:16where saint folk fear to tread
22:20not the worst story ever since
22:21sir
22:22yeah you've got chunks out of this
22:23somewhere
22:23and what do blue lights mean
22:27yeah i'm looking
22:28what do blue lights mean
22:29yes
22:30the roadside quiz questions
22:31get progressively harder
22:33we have something to drink
22:53life on the road is full of temptations
22:57i broke yesterday
22:58i had a supercharger rat from kfc
23:00and it can be hard to be virtuous
23:03supercharger rat
23:05yeah it was well nice
23:06but there's one roadside indulgence
23:07no interceptor would ever entertain
23:10drink driving
23:12we see it when we go to collisions
23:14people have been drinking
23:15but it's never them
23:16it's the one that comes off worse
23:17it's always the person they hit
23:18or the person they kill
23:20will be the person in the vehicle
23:21so no city for them
23:23it's coming down cats and dogs in Kettering
23:29oh what
23:31driver is currently disqualified from driving
23:33and nick and harrison are behind a man
23:36you 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
23:47then this isn't the brightest bulb in the box
23:50i think that is a fog light isn't it
23:52it is fog light yeah
23:53maybe it's coming off here
23:55it must be coming off here
23:56foggy's drifting all over the road
23:59standard driver's pretty far isn't it
24:01but they light him up
24:03and he drifts to the side
24:05not 100% sure he's stopping yet
24:14are you gonna stop or not
24:23turn the engine off
24:31take 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
24:38jump 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
24:45okay get out of the car
24:48okay
24:49you're starting for 10
24:50what do blue lights mean
24:52yeah i'm looking
24:53what do blue lights mean
24:54yeah
24:55no
24:55stop
24:56yeah yeah
24:57yeah
24:57and you didn't
24:58let's rewind
25:00yeah
25:01i'm looking
25:01when you travel along the a14
25:03yeah
25:04dual carriageway
25:0690 miles an hour
25:07passing everything
25:09yeah
25:09the blue lights are for you
25:11yeah
25:12yeah
25:13so you stop
25:14he smells a drink
25:16have you had something to drink
25:19a little bit
25:21okay
25:21a little bit to drink
25:23how long ago you've had something to drink
25:24no how long what time
25:28two hours
25:30two hours ago you had something to drink and how much
25:32little bit
25:34okay
25:34i'm going to ask you to blow into a machine at the roadside
25:37i'm looking for the blue
25:39no you're not you're not understanding
25:41i'm going to ask you to blow into the machine at the roadside
25:44how old are you
25:45how old are you
25:47how old are you age
25:48age
25:50me
25:5153
25:52you
25:5345
25:54yeah yeah
25:57blow blow blow
26:00blow blow blow blow
26:02keep going keep going
26:04thank you
26:04ah
26:06you my friend are under arrest for drink driving
26:10the legal limit is 35
26:12you've blown 51
26:13yeah
26:15okay you need to keep walking then
26:17you can walk to work from here
26:18he's got two passengers
26:20and zero sympathy
26:24sorry
26:25you won't be sorry when you killed someone would you
26:27you won't be sorry then
26:29no problem
26:30i'm no
26:31a big problem
26:32not no problem
26:34big problem
26:35there's no need for put that one
26:36there's every need to put handcuffs on him
26:38one is dangerous because he's doing too fast on the road
26:44yeah he's driving a hundred miles an hour on a 70 road
26:47yeah
26:48secondly he's drunk
26:50yeah i would say he's very he's over the legal limit
26:53i see i see
26:54so i would say he's very dangerous
26:55but no he's dangerous for put this for the
26:58you can go now sir
26:59what type of license do you hold
27:01normal license normal b
27:02what's a normal license
27:03b
27:04a uk license a spanish license a romanian license
27:07spanish
27:08spanish license
27:09when it comes to his license the slurry driver is something of an international man of mystery
27:14so before you had a spanish
27:15yeah
27:16what license do you have now
27:17now
27:17romania
27:18a romanian license
27:20you probably won't have any license for much longer
27:23you're drinking
27:24it's not good
27:25you're going to kill
27:26you're going to kill someone
27:28i know
27:28and it won't be you will it
27:32mercifully the only thing he's crashed into tonight is the language barrier
27:37i don't understand you
27:38you've just spoke english
27:40what language is best for you
27:43spanish
27:44spanish
27:44okay
27:45back at el nick
27:49he's explained that he will be charged with drink driving
27:52he's charged with the help of a translator
27:55then it's adios amigo
28:01my car
28:03yes
28:04where is my car
28:05but outside he rediscovers the english language
28:08it's gone to a compound
28:09we'll give you a bit of paper to get it back
28:12you'll have to pay for it though
28:15yeah
28:16that's fine
28:19sulking over there won't help
28:22okay bye bye
28:26sorry
28:29why am i bringing you home
28:32you walk home
28:33you're not obliged to give him a lift home
28:38he's an adult
28:39he's got his card on him
28:40he's only a mile and a half from home
28:42and the fact is that he's going to kill someone tonight
28:46the incredible sulk
28:50eventually made his way home under his own steam
28:53no action was taken regarding the document offenses
28:56however he pleaded guilty to drink driving
28:58and was banned for more than three years
29:01he was also ordered to do 80 hours unpaid work
29:04and pay 199 pounds
29:06with around 300 automatic number plate recognition cameras
29:19ampr cameras have picked up
29:23a vehicle that's used in theft from vans
29:27stinger units
29:29vehicle stop
29:30vehicle stop
29:31and
29:32an 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
29:44don't move
29:45but for the few that do get away
29:49the 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 that's a win for us to be honest
30:08it's the midnight hour
30:24where exactly is he climbed over and what does it back onto
30:29and someone's up to mischief
30:32it's a male who's climbed over into the logistics yard where they
30:37distribute goods on htv's
30:42dog handler lucy sculthorpe is on 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
30:51she 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 backed 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
31:10i'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 pickup points
31:23i couldn't see any dodgy looking vehicles parked up in the lay-bys etc as i came in
31:29but with nothing to do on the 14
31:33it might be worth if there's a car coming in just sitting in that just in case anyone pops out
31:38lucy presses on to the scene of the crime
31:40the lorry depot that's already been searched by firearms cops
31:46the padlock's been cut off on the front gate
31:48but police dog brin is keen to show them how it's done
31:52somebody want to come down here there's a van being loaded up
31:58whoever was loading the van has legged it
32:13yes yes
32:15but brin's picked up a scent
32:19it's a huge site with plenty of obstacles
32:30can somebody with um security get the code for this it's a code padlock
32:38but time is of the essence
32:40hold him
32:41no
32:42brin
32:43brin this way
32:44brin 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 and still
32:50he'll be fine
32:50this is a major assault course but lucy and brin are up to it
32:55all right let him jump sprint no no no no no
33:01the track leads them across a main road
33:10into some bushes
33:19and then
33:23straight to the lay-by lucy scoped out earlier
33:29they've hidden in there and then been picked up
33:33if firearms spooked them then the fleeing thieves could have been hiding in the bushes when lucy drove by
33:39so annoying
33:42she may have missed the getaway car by minutes
33:46retracing their steps
33:50he wants to go back over now
33:54brin leads lucy to another lay-by
33:56i think he might have just found the second pick-up point
33:59it looks like the men split up
34:01the tracks literally just stopped
34:03and then got picked up from separate lay-bys
34:06from where he's tracked
34:09the other officers have been able to do some ampr inquiries and we think we've identified a cloned vehicle
34:14that hit a camera on the a14 so that's probably going to be the vehicle they've got into and got away got away in
34:20as frustrating as this is for the cops
34:23yeah it's doing it now
34:25it's also frustrating for the thieves whose work they disrupted
34:30this has been cut
34:31so you can see the angle grind marks on here where this whole section of fence has been taken out
34:36i'm back at the scene
34:38and i think
34:40all 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
35:01it's estimated that metal theft has cost the uk more than four billion pounds over the past decade
35:07so there's cables there
35:10but tonight's job won't turn the thieves a penny
35:12and the interceptors may have done them a favor
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
35:28there's a fairly decent chance that they'll electrocute themselves to death
35:31and it does happen and 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 its scrap metal was recycled
36:05coming up because he's doing 50 and now he's doing 80.
36:08age is just a number i'm 17 how can i be arrested
36:11say again i'm 17. you can arrest people at 17.
36:15and your number's up son
36:33it's estimated that one in five new drivers will have an accident within their first year
36:37when 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
36:53passing your test perhaps with experience and maturity you understand the risks and the consequences
37:01of your actions which you perhaps don't think through so much when you're a teenager and an
37:06inexperienced driver
37:15it's the early hours and calum and tom are in the unmarked volvo on the m1
37:28and he's laying forward he's doing about 30 mile an hour where one of the few things on the road has calum's nose twitching
37:37a motorbike crawling down the overtaking lane but as it speeds up
37:49we're doing 50 and he's just just approaching
37:56it's clear the motorbike is actually a golf with one headlight
38:02volkswagen no insurance oh brilliant erratic driving no insurance one headlight
38:09this is someone they'd like to know better
38:11split up now but he's got other ideas because he's doing 50 and now he's doing 80.
38:20in fact he's suddenly in a hurry to say goodbye
38:25what's it linked to on these 700 different people any jobs
38:30nothing uh no
38:32calum overtakes tom lights the follow me sign in their rear window and they usher the golf off the motorway
38:38it's got his running wrong indicator as well we're turning right but it's left indicator on
38:45hmm
38:49calum's pet peeves are middle lane hoggers and unobservant drivers so he's hit the jackpot tonight
38:57surprised he didn't come with us to be fair yeah i thought we were going to do a little darby dive
39:01at the last minute maybe he is why is he going that way
39:08so
39:11pull up alongside him
39:14turn your engine off yes sir turn your engine off
39:20no the sign says follow me doesn't it not just go off in your own direction
39:25pass me your key thank you your car yes sir driving license
39:31uh i don't have and insurance and don't have have you got insurance no you haven't got insurance no
39:37okay for a teenage driver with questionable decision making a drug test is nailed on
39:44i would like to know why will you want to bring that one say again where will you try to test
39:49why am i testing this okay your manner of driving is is shocking okay you're sat in just lane four
39:55for no reason you're speeding and you're swerving all over the road okay so i believe you might be
40:00impaired by either drink or drugs okay so because of that i'm going to require require a sample of
40:05saliva and breath at the roadside i just need to take um nine wipes of on your turn with this
40:12trying to put your handbrake on that'd be helpful wouldn't it stick your tongue out
40:16nine wipes later tom tags callum okay just gonna do a quick breath test with you all right
40:21who's on breathalyser keep going keep going keep going keep going stop this one is quicker than
40:27in romania is it yeah in romania you need to take all your well i'd argue if you're getting
40:32breathalyser romania and england you should probably take some more driving lessons to the cop surprise
40:39that's all fine mate the driver passes the breath test you pass that one then and the drug wipe
40:47yeah there's just a matter of his insurance and license what driver license have you got have you
40:52got i have provisional yeah but i wanted to i'm practicing so is have you only got a provision
40:58have you got a foreign national license uh no i have so you only got provisional yeah so you shouldn't be
41:02driving then anyway should you not unless you've got l plates insurance and a licensed driver to supervise
41:09the way you learn the plates has your passenger got a full driving license yeah he's a band
41:14brilliant all right so you should be driving anyway should you and you're not allowed the motorway
41:19without an instructor who's approved to go on the motorway and isn't banned you gotta look around
41:24all the tires okay so you are going to be reported for two offenses of driving without insurance and
41:29driving otherwise and in accordance with a license okay the vehicle's going to be seized hold your horses
41:34tom tom have you done that ticket yet say again have you done that ticket yet i mean the process of
41:39add on a tire the minimum legal tire tread is 1.6 mil below 1.6 well there's nothing oh he's on
41:48a space saver which a is maximum 50 mile an hour he's doing 90 yeah b the entire inside of the tire is
41:53exposed nice come have a look at this if the lad's decision making was poor before it's off the chart now
42:02it's like down to what is that yeah that is literally like a pop-tart you're driving you're
42:09driving on a pop-tart not for much longer that's disgraceful why have you got a space saver on
42:16anyway uh what do you mean space uh sorry you have this time on yeah uh because uh this morning when
42:22i would talk i seen the car like this you know and uh i changed the tire my tire was popped and look
42:30i have problem with my phone so you changed the tire this morning look i have problem with the tire
42:38so you changed this tire this morning yeah and you didn't notice that no i didn't notice that serious
42:44there are record-breaking levels of idiocy at play here i think that's the worst tire i've ever
42:49seen it's not the worst area ever since sir yeah you've got chunks out of it somewhere it's like
42:52someone's been eating yeah i thought it was a pop-tart
42:58mercifully the pop-tart didn't pop at 90 miles per hour on the motorway we followed you and you've
43:03been ping-ponging between the lanes ping-pong you've been driving over the left line driving over the right
43:07line uh then we've run your car through and showing no insurance yeah man somewhere
43:12because you know i'm listening that's some other questions me chuckles has as much sense as he does
43:16tread here hello and the cops may have saved his life wait for a letter to come through the post
43:23from us if you don't respond to that then you'll be wanting you'll be arrested the right says i'm 17
43:27how can i be arrested again i'm 17. yeah you can arrest people at 17. can arrest people at any age
43:32yeah i'm bigger age now big 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 gonna have to walk but you would have
43:42already been there if you had followed me can i follow you quick please not in the car no you can't
43:49you're driving i'm not driving that it's a shed a shed that needs retiring can you just grab it please
43:56in every sense
43:57the tread free teenager faced the consequences of his questionable driving decisions pleading guilty
44:06to driving without a license or insurance and with illegal tires he had to pay 111 pounds in charges
44:14and costs got six points on his provisional license and thanks to tom and callum gets to see his 18th
44:21birthday
44:24see you brother bye
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