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On the Beat - Season 2 - Episode 03
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00:02Roger, let's call just in there, this was a female with a large knife outside of the
00:08pharmacy, parallel street, and she has to bring all back to those super-member, I guess
00:14they're on their stage, she doesn't see the price, over.
00:20Roger, we're late that way now, train station, that area, unit from Alpha 101 to control.
00:28Go ahead.
00:30What's the ETA of ASU?
00:43Up there on the right there, see that black lady there?
00:48Control Uniform, Alpha 101.
00:52Roger, I see you.
01:01Put the knife down, girl.
01:03Put the knife down.
01:07You're not going to go into a job where everything's perfect.
01:10There is extra responsibility when you are frontline.
01:14The drugs in the city is a massive challenge.
01:17It's a crack of coke.
01:18Like, we only ever really deal with criminals and high-end criminals and people who don't
01:22want to engage with us.
01:24I'm daddy!
01:26Get the rest of it now.
01:27Don't fucking waste our time.
01:31Every day we go out, there's challenges.
01:33You never know what's going to happen.
01:35What was the reason for the night?
01:38Listen up there, will ya?
01:39Get up.
01:39You're ruining the flowers.
01:41If he runs now and I run, right?
01:43You take the car.
01:44Go ahead.
01:48They'll see us coming.
01:49They'll have spotters.
01:50They'll have watchers.
01:51They have plenty of security measures.
01:53Are you ready?
01:53Get back to the door!
01:56There's no ending to the crime they're committing.
01:57They need to be taken on society for a while.
01:59You're fit, but not that fit.
02:02It's hard at times.
02:03Not everybody can do this job.
02:05It's not easy.
02:13You're coming back to the station, Gordon.
02:16You're from Alpha 101 to control.
02:20You can stand down ASU there.
02:21We have that female and the knife disarmed.
02:24It's just before 11am in Limerick City,
02:27and Gardie, Joe and Mark are dealing with a dangerous incident
02:30involving a knife and a very drunk member of the public.
02:33Here, what are we going to do with the van?
02:34It was an unusual enough one at that hour of the day
02:37to be that intoxicated.
02:39You know, she was quite abusive as well.
02:41But you see, at the end of the day, like,
02:42you just never know who's going to have a knife on him.
02:45He's protecting.
02:46No, not the legs.
02:47Not the legs.
02:47Not the legs.
02:48Not the legs.
02:49Just sit there.
02:50Just sit there now for a second.
02:51No, no, no, no.
02:52Just sit there for a second.
02:57Stop.
02:59What the fuck?
02:59That's a knife.
03:01We arrived at scene,
03:02and when we actually got there,
03:05I could see this lady was sitting on a bench.
03:07The knife was actually stuck down in,
03:10into the bench.
03:12So, when we got out of the car to come across to her,
03:15she picked the knife up
03:16and kind of swung it in across her body.
03:19You don't know if she's going to harm herself,
03:22if she's going to get up and come against us,
03:25or unknowingly to any member of the public
03:27that's actually still walking on footpath.
03:29she may not harm anyone,
03:31but we're also at that stage where we don't know.
03:34What was the reason for the knife?
03:37Oh, shit.
03:38The knife.
03:39What was the reason for the knife?
03:41Knife.
03:42I said knife.
03:44You could be dealing with someone
03:45that might not be mentally stable,
03:48or could be drug-fuelled or alcohol-fuelled,
03:50and they could have a knife on them and whatnot.
03:53It changes how you're dealing with the incident.
03:57Over the last 30 years,
03:59mental health care has dramatically changed in Ireland.
04:02It has shifted from treatment in psychiatric hospitals
04:05to a more community-based model.
04:07Hey!
04:10They're fucking dirty fucking scum.
04:13This has resulted in Gardie frequently interacting
04:16with people experiencing acute mental health crises.
04:27There she is.
04:31Let's go.
04:47Hello.
04:48Hello.
04:49How are you keeping...
04:49Mental health-related calls have jumped by 60%
04:53in the past two years.
04:54I'm going to move you up against the wall, okay?
04:55With Gardie increasingly dealing with incidents
04:58that would ideally be handled by mental health professionals.
05:01I get it, boy!
05:03He's not half German!
05:05It's five o'clock in the day. Stop shouting.
05:07When it's a mental health call,
05:09you have to factor in a lot more dimensions
05:11that you don't normally think about
05:12when it's a regular call.
05:15But we're not counsellors.
05:16We're not psychiatric professionals.
05:20We came across her while she was lying on the street,
05:22so we just want them to check on her.
05:25We will just wait a bit
05:27because they may...
05:28she may refuse to be treated as she just did.
05:31Can we get a prisoner ban on New Street, please?
05:33Unfortunately, because of that gap,
05:36people are falling through it.
05:37If we stand you up, will you sit down and not move?
05:40I want more.
05:41Okay.
05:42The more resources that can be pumped into mental health,
05:45the better.
05:46It could prevent them from doing something
05:48that the rest of their family will have to live with
05:50for the rest of their lives.
05:57Hi, who are you?
05:57Guard of control room here at Anglesey Street.
05:59Just looking for an ETA in relation to a call for a suicidal male.
06:06Eight minutes. Perfect.
06:07Can I just take the CAD reference number for the call there as well?
06:18In an aim to try and combat the ongoing pressure for mental health calls,
06:22Angarda Siakana and the HSC have established a pilot scheme in Limerick City,
06:27which is the first of its kind in Ireland.
06:31CAST stands for Community Access Support Team.
06:35It's a co-response initiative between Angarda Siakana and the HSC.
06:42You have myself, clinical nurse specialist,
06:45with two Gardie in a bespoke squad car.
06:51We respond to any mental health 999 calls in the whole division.
06:59It's early evening in Limerick,
07:01and the CAS team have been dispatched to a potential mental health emergency
07:05involving a member of the public.
07:08This individual would call the family member,
07:11indicating that there was suicidal intent.
07:14He said he was going to enter the water above Ardna Krusche,
07:18which is a hydroelectric power station on the Shannon.
07:22I'm looking at this individual on our system.
07:26His last presentation was on the 18th.
07:30It mostly looks like alcohol dependence.
07:34Once he's drinking, he can become suicidal.
07:39I was able to look at his mental health records
07:43and there was a potential there for a serious deterioration.
07:50There was a level of history, suicidal intent.
07:53He was going to harm himself.
07:54He was going to enter the water.
07:56It's a very hazardous environment,
07:58so there's a huge level of concern with it.
08:01So we'll try to find out where he is.
08:07With several serious factors at play,
08:09the CAS team are faced with a daunting and dangerous challenge
08:12as they arrive at the location.
08:14Two friends of the man are at the scene
08:16and are quite concerned for his well-being.
08:22Uniform Alpha 802 to control.
08:25Control, will you mark us at scene there, please? Over.
08:29They had spoken to him on the phone.
08:32He was intoxicated.
08:33They were trying to piece together what information they had
08:36and try and minimise our search.
08:41How are you getting on?
08:42I'm George.
08:43I'm a mental health nurse.
08:45How has he been getting on the last sort of week or so?
08:47He's in the Bedfield.
08:48OK.
08:49And did he call yourself?
08:50Have you been here and he answered me?
08:53He's down there at a culvert.
08:55And has he gone in?
08:56Has he had any attempts?
08:59Has he gone into the water?
09:01Control, we have an approximate location of him.
09:05His friends are after saying he's at a culvert.
09:09Roger, thank you.
09:10We started the search.
09:12We moved towards the most immediate danger.
09:15The hydroelectric dam.
09:19The distance is 10 kilometres.
09:24It is quite an area to cover.
09:27We have no search and rescue equipment.
09:30So we spoke with the Coast Guard.
09:33Would you notify the Coast Guard for us, please?
09:36Roger.
09:37Due to the dangers associated with the water
09:39surrounding the search area,
09:42time is of the essence for the cast team to find the man.
09:49The culverts are down here.
09:51You look down there and I'll go down here.
09:53No problem. Perfect.
09:53No problem.
09:54OK.
10:01I have him here.
10:04I have him.
10:05I have him.
10:09Our first and immediate port of call really is to bring this person to safety.
10:15You'll see the guards, their demeanour will shift.
10:18We kind of measure our posture, everything and how we're dealing with it.
10:21Oh, yeah.
10:22We approach them in a therapeutic manner and bring the person to a place of safety.
10:28Hi there.
10:29How are you getting on?
10:30My name's George.
10:31I'm a mental health nurse.
10:34You can light up your cigarette there.
10:35You're all right.
10:36If a person is having a mental health crisis,
10:39a person needs, needs care.
10:42We'll get you a bit of help, all right?
10:44Sorry for close to.
10:46You have nothing to be sorry about.
10:47All right?
10:48Can you tell me a bit about what's going on?
10:51You lost everything.
10:54You lost everything?
10:56OK.
10:57That must have been very difficult for you.
11:02Depression.
11:03Depression.
11:05What sort of thoughts have you been having?
11:11OK.
11:13Now I can hear a lot of distress.
11:15It was a medical emergency.
11:16Ready?
11:18One.
11:18Two.
11:19Three.
11:20This individual was suffering from alcoholism and suicidal ideation.
11:25We're just going to try and get you the help you need.
11:29Is that all right?
11:29The person was brought then to hospital to undergo detox treatment.
11:36But we're going to do what's best for you.
11:38I promise you that.
11:40Our primary role is the preservation of life.
11:45When we have the HSC and we respond with this blended response, we're far more effective.
12:03I'll let you through to the Garda emergency services.
12:05What's your emergency?
12:07OK.
12:07Is anyone injured?
12:08Does anyone require an ambulance?
12:10You're safe there, yeah?
12:11Could you give me your description tonight?
12:13What size it was?
12:14You're OK.
12:14Look, you're OK.
12:15You're OK.
12:16We'll be with you there shortly, OK?
12:17Do you have any idea where he might have gone?
12:40It's early evening in Waterford City, and a major security operation is underway following a violent armed robbery of a
12:47city centre jewellery shop.
12:57As the local Garda conduct a widespread search for anyone matching the perpetrator's description, Waterford City's crime unit are examining
13:05the preliminary CCTV from the crime scene.
13:08The guy gone in is wearing a blue jacket and a baseball hat and has a machete.
13:14Inside the shopping centre?
13:16Inside the shopping centre, yeah.
13:18We're roughly looking at about 75 seconds.
13:21He's in and out in 75 seconds.
13:23Sean and Liam have come back with footage from the robbery.
13:29Here we have the three girls.
13:34OK.
13:34There he is in.
13:35Is the time correct on the footage?
13:37Seems to be, yeah.
13:39Yeah.
13:39Seems to be.
13:41It's a fairly vicious attack now, I have to admit.
13:49He has it with the hair.
13:50Yeah.
13:52Is she injured?
13:53She's very, very traumatised.
13:57I mean, he's certainly got away with, oh, an awful lot, an awful lot of stuff there, you know.
14:05There she runs, and he goes out.
14:10You can see that it's pandemonium.
14:17She was very lucky, in one sense, that he didn't use that.
14:21Do you know what I mean?
14:22If he used that weapon on her, God only knows what would have happened, you know?
14:25Hmm.
14:27He left on a bike, but the lads have come in now, and they've said that he has abandoned the
14:32bike.
14:33So, we really don't know what he's on.
14:35More than likely on foot.
14:37We have our own footage down on the quay.
14:39We have our own footage at the other side.
14:41So, he has to pass some of our cameras somewhere along the way.
14:46We're fairly covered in terms of...
14:48That side of town, yeah.
14:48...every route into the Schattelzender and out, yeah.
14:52In a way.
14:52It's going to be a long, hard one, because he's so well dressed up, and he has so many ways
14:58of escaping.
15:06As soon as he left, somebody ran after him.
15:08So, what we can see on the footage is, your man is coming running after him.
15:11He stops at the end of the alleyway.
15:13So, he can either go straight on or right.
15:16May I ask you a question?
15:17Have you had one or two wee drinks, have you?
15:19I had a couple in the area.
15:21Yeah.
15:21I think you've been drink driving, okay?
15:23No, no.
15:24I disagree with you.
15:25You disagree with me?
15:26One.
15:26One.
15:30Many.
15:31One.
15:32One.
15:35Two.
15:35Two.
15:37Two.
15:42Two.
15:44Two.
15:44Two.
15:45and road traffic collisions are still a major concern for Angarda Chicana's roads policing service.
15:54Texting, texting, texting, texting, texting.
15:57That's the one you want. Can't deny it.
16:01I'm looking at you, you're looking at me.
16:05Definitely a phone.
16:07Oh, 100%.
16:09Hurry up.
16:11Your driving license on you, please.
16:14And there I could see this person texting on the roundabout.
16:18If somebody runs out in front of you, you know, that split second, you're sitting on your phone.
16:24You're not going to see it.
16:25You know why I stopped you?
16:27Yep.
16:27You're holding the mobile phone while driving.
16:29I don't speak, I'm just looking for what I'm at though.
16:32The fence is holding the mobile phone while driving.
16:34Yeah, I know.
16:34Okay.
16:38All the mod cons are in the car now, all the Bluetooth, everything,
16:40and still they have to have it in their hand.
16:43They just can't put it down.
16:44The penalty is three penalty points and 120 euro fine, all right?
16:48Good man.
16:51Just be careful going out there now.
16:57Hmm.
16:57You're not impressed as I know.
17:00He really didn't care what we were doing.
17:04You know, he kind of was kind of looking at us and like, what's the big deal?
17:09That never happens.
17:10You never get somebody just coming along like that there and you in the patrol car.
17:13You see it all the time when you're not working.
17:15They see us before we see them, you see it.
17:19Well, he didn't.
17:21Based in Carrick Macross in Monaghan, Gardie, Bernie and Samantha are part of the Monaghan Cabin
17:26Rhodes Policing Unit and have been working together just over a year.
17:31They launched Operation Guide last July.
17:34They wanted to really focus on Rhodes Policing in Carrick Macross and they decided to team myself and Bernie up
17:40together.
17:41I think I spend more time with Samantha than I would at home, really, because we're six days on and
17:45we're ten hours together.
17:46Yeah.
17:47And then when we do overtime, you know, you'll be in each other's pockets.
17:52Yeah.
17:53She hasn't got sick of me yet.
17:54No, not yet.
17:55Yes.
17:55Or you, haven't got sick of me.
17:57So, yes.
17:58Yes.
18:06While out on routine patrol, their attention is drawn to a car following a notification from their car's ANPR system.
18:13Did you see that car burning?
18:15Yeah, no tax.
18:17Shit.
18:18I wonder if he, to see if he's gone on here.
18:26ANPR, or Automatic Number Plate Recognition, is a technology that automatically scans vehicle registrations
18:33and notifies the guardee if there's an issue with any they pass.
18:40Oh, there he is.
18:42Technology now in our job is fantastic.
18:46The ANPR and the mobility app is just an absolute game changer for us.
18:50It picks up.
18:50No tax, no NCT, no insurance.
19:01Hello.
19:01How are you?
19:02Is there a reason why you didn't pull in when we had the lights on?
19:04I didn't know where to pull in.
19:07I'm sorry.
19:07Have you got your driving license on you, please?
19:09Thanks.
19:11You're a learner driver?
19:12Yeah.
19:13You know that you should have a person accompanying you.
19:16I'm going to have to seize the vehicle, okay?
19:18Are you serious?
19:18Yeah, I'm sorry.
19:19My hands are tied.
19:20I can't let you drive on.
19:21All right?
19:21He admitted he was a professional licensed driver.
19:23He's committing a road traffic offence by being a learner driver unaccompanied.
19:27Because he committed a road traffic offence, I decided to do a drugs test on him.
19:31Stick out your tongue as far as it can go, all right?
19:33And I'll just swab it.
19:33Just get a lot of saliva into your mouth, so roll your tongue around your mouth.
19:37We can test for cocaine, cannabis, benzos, amphetamines, and opiates.
19:45All right, now it's going to take eight minutes for a result to come back, but you're obliged to wait,
19:48all right?
19:50Drug driving is just off the scales at the minute.
19:56And I'd say it's even bigger than drink driving.
19:59The main drugs that we're getting are cocaine and cannabis.
20:02That's across the board as well, especially the cocaine.
20:06It's across the board.
20:07Anybody could be on it.
20:08Cannabis has come up here on the stick for me.
20:10Yeah, look.
20:11All right.
20:12Yeah.
20:12No, no, dead on.
20:13Look, I'm just going to arrest you now, all right?
20:16On the section, we're at the Road Traffic Act, okay?
20:18You're not obliged to send them unless you wish to do so, but then you do say I'm taken down
20:20right
20:20and maybe given an evidence, all right?
20:23He was arrested, cautioned, and taken to Carabin Cross, Garda Station,
20:26where then we have to get a specimen of blood from him.
20:34People don't realise that it actually stays in your system for a longer period of time.
20:39Some people might think that they're able to drive again.
20:41But at the end of the day, it's in their system, and it's still affecting them,
20:45even though they mightn't feel the effects of it, but it still could impair their driving.
20:49You do feel empathy for people, of course, like you're only human, but at the end of the day,
20:53you have a job to do, and that's, you have to do it to the best of your ability.
21:07With the suspect for the machete robbery still at large, Waterford City's crime unit are in the process of obtaining
21:13as much evidence as possible from the scene.
21:17One of the city's most senior detectives seeks out all relevant CCTV in the hope of identifying the person behind
21:23this shocking incident.
21:26From the experience that I have, I would know what cameras, say for example, the shopping centre.
21:31Well, there's three entrances and exits into the shopping centre, so he has to pass one of them to get
21:37to the shop.
21:41You piece as many pieces as you can together in the hope that you get a picture.
21:48We looked at the entrances in and out, and then basically what you do then, you analyse it.
21:54If he goes down here, does he go left? Does he go right?
21:56If he goes right, what camera catches him here?
21:59And you go to the next camera, and you go to the next camera.
22:02You basically do a sweep, I suppose, roughly a kilometre in circular fashion.
22:08And then you just keep moving out, and keep moving out until you get him.
22:14I joined the Guards in December 1986. I just kind of fell into it, you know?
22:18If you were hanging around Ireland in the 80s, there was very little work.
22:23I applied for the post office, the bank, and the Guards.
22:27And whichever one would have come up, I would have taken.
22:31There was a murder case here in 2006.
22:34As a result of that, I spent probably two years of my career looking at CCTV footage in relation to
22:41that incident.
22:42And as a result of the experience I got with that, and then when looking at CCTV footage, I'm very
22:48patient.
22:49I can stare at a screen for a long time.
22:52Then when you get involved in all the major incidents that are in Waterford, you get to know where the
22:58CCTV cameras are, you know where the good ones are, you know where the bad ones are.
23:02Under the present rules of evidence, it's very important. It's nearly as important as forensics now at this stage.
23:08With hours of footage to draw through, Joe begins the painstaking work of trying to find a clear visual of
23:14the suspect.
23:15Basically what you're looking at here is three entrances into the shopping centre.
23:22That's the jeweler's shop there. So we know he came from this side.
23:31That's him arriving. You can see that. The green bike.
23:41So there you have to see that. I did ask to come up there. And he heads in the door.
23:52Now he comes in here now. So straight away, you know, he's come from that direction.
24:00As you can see, fairly intimidating.
24:16You think there that he'd be a big, strong individual, thinkable thing.
24:20He could be wearing two or three jackets to make himself look big.
24:23He's wearing a baseball hat. He's wearing a hood underneath it.
24:27The possibility that he'd discards the baseball hat.
24:31He'd hoped that he would.
24:34So he goes left.
24:44So straight away from that, you can see he went out that entrance.
24:56This is him leaving the rubbery. Coming down.
25:00The laneway. That's on the laneway. So he goes in there.
25:03As soon as he left, somebody ran after him.
25:05So what we can see on the footage is, your man is coming running after him.
25:08He stops at the end of the alleyway. So he knows this guy hasn't gone past him.
25:14So he can either go straight on or right.
25:19He doesn't come back down.
25:22So we then go to the top of the street, find the camera there to show us which way he
25:29went.
25:36See? That's the alleyway.
25:41Okay.
25:42Now, as you can see, he's changed.
25:44Jacket's no longer blue.
25:46So he's got rid of the baseball hat.
25:48But you still have the trousers with the distinctive mark.
25:53You still have the runners on with the three stripes on it.
25:55He goes away.
25:58It's the nightclub area of the town.
26:01I mean, there's cameras everywhere.
26:04I mean, there's one premises down there that has 98 cameras.
26:07You know?
26:08So, I mean, if you don't catch him on that, you'll have nothing.
26:11And then he walks past there.
26:14Then you have a camera further on down.
26:17He doesn't go there.
26:18There's no fellow matching his description.
26:20So what do you do then?
26:21You come back again.
26:23And you go the other direction.
26:28This is the guy that we spotted up further.
26:35And he's crossing the street.
26:44The next camera.
26:53The next camera.
26:56The next camera.
26:59The next camera.
27:16Because I'm probably at it so long now, you're going, right, I've got this bit.
27:22Now where am I going to get the next bit?
27:23You're always chasing that, I suppose, the one moment.
27:42So it's all about analysis, studying what you're doing and making sure that you're right.
27:48I suppose when you look at it, it could be an addiction.
27:51You're always looking to get the next one, to get the next one, to get the next one.
27:55It's very satisfying, but as I said before, as soon as you solve one, you've solved that one now.
28:03What about this one? And what about this one? And what about this one?
28:06You're constantly chasing that, I suppose, the one moment.
28:11You can't beat a full Technicolor picture of the guy that did it.
28:16I suppose the unusual part of this is that he ran down an alleyway that they wouldn't normally run down.
28:22And I suppose, look, we were lucky. We had a guard, a camera down there, and we spotted him.
28:29And he had only one way out, and we had a camera at the top of the street.
28:35I'd be confident that we have our man.
28:55Saturday night in Castle Blaney in Monaghan, and Gardie, Aidan and Stephen are out on patrol.
29:04Well, I like to think I get on with everybody that he interacts with.
29:07And as you get older, and as you gain more experience, or as you get long in the tooth with
29:11this job,
29:12you get to know what way the public would be.
29:18Do you know who's just thinking, s***? I haven't seen you in ages.
29:21I don't know what happened. What?
29:23That's right. I'm keeping well. Did you get a new car?
29:25I don't know.
29:26That's right. Jesus Christ, that.
29:29It's going to be, what, minus two tonight?
29:31I might ask this crowd here to have a hot water bottle, do you know?
29:34Hot water, what?
29:35It is right.
29:35F***ing look after yourself. Take care of me, man.
29:40We would notice. Saturday night, weekend nights aren't as busy as they used to be, which means
29:46it can go a lot, lot slower.
29:52Rumour has it the guards are stopping people here now, so, eh.
29:55Well, you're re-stopped now, Steve.
29:57I know, so listen, you want to get out of here before the guards stop you.
30:01Take care. Bye-bye.
30:11While conducting the checkpoint, they get a call reporting a potential drunk driver seen
30:16driving erratically through the town.
30:19Yeah.
30:21You can kind of see and know what to expect from somebody that may be under the influence
30:28of drink or drugs, the manner of driving.
30:32Within a matter of minutes, they have located the suspect and witness his poor driving.
30:37Well, he's after driving across the roundabout.
30:43He is in the middle of said road.
30:48This driver, he coming from Main Street onto the old Managhan Road drove across the roundabout,
30:53not indicating, then slowly took the turn without indicating again.
30:58Hello, how are we?
31:00How's the matter?
31:01Are you well?
31:01How's the matter?
31:02What's the crack?
31:03I'm pretty good.
31:04Yeah?
31:05Why do you think I stopped you, a good man?
31:09No problem.
31:10Straight away, as soon as I started speaking to him, you could get the smell of alcohol on
31:15his breast.
31:16May I ask you a question?
31:17Have you had one or two wee drinks, have you?
31:19I had a couple there, yeah.
31:21A couple.
31:21Listen, I'm just going to caution you at the moment, all right?
31:23You're not obliged to say anything unless you wish to do so.
31:25Whatever you do say, we'll be taken down right and maybe given evidence, all right?
31:28OK?
31:29Just switch off the ignition if you can.
31:30Please.
31:32I informed the opinion that you've committed an offence.
31:34I think you've been drink-driving, OK?
31:37No, no, I disagree.
31:38You disagree with me?
31:40OK.
31:40Right, right, right.
31:41It seems to be on the rise again.
31:43I don't know why it seems to be on the rise.
31:45There seems to be a lot of people maybe wanting to take a chance again.
31:51I don't know what it is.
31:52It's hard to describe.
31:54It's unfortunate.
31:57Just step out of the vehicle, OK?
31:59Yeah, you've had more than a few drinks there now, have you?
32:01Not at all.
32:02Not at all.
32:03Have you been out since the rugby earlier on?
32:05Yeah, I'm going to ask you to come round this side here, please, OK?
32:09Under suspicion of drink-driving, the suspect is arrested and brought back to the station
32:13to undergo tests to determine the alcohol level in their system.
32:17But there's always going to be so many little chances.
32:21Do you know what I mean?
32:22And we have to...
32:22We're on the roads trying to find them people that are willing to take the risk.
32:27Not only they're risking their own lives, they're risking everybody else's life that's on the road.
32:33This is guard of Amy Cowell.
32:35Amy Cowell, this is guard of Amy Cowell.
32:37She is the member in charge of this station.
32:39Have you ingested, taken drugs or any medication?
32:42No.
32:46Have you consumed alcohol recently?
32:49No.
32:54This is nurse Mary O'Reilly.
32:58She is a designated nurse.
32:59She's authorised to obtain from you blood or urine for the purpose of this processing.
33:04So I now must ask you which you wish to provide.
33:09You want to give a urine sample?
33:11Fantastic.
33:12Everybody hears or sees the news about the headline, fatal traffic accidents or serious incidents.
33:18They don't take into consideration the lesser ones where somebody may have gotten seriously badly hurt.
33:26They don't make the news, but they are a lot more frequent and a lot more often than people may
33:32think or understand.
33:34Looks like you're getting a large specimen.
33:40Yep.
33:41If you're going to hand that to the nurse now, she will be able to do the rest of the
33:44process, okay?
33:45Yeah.
33:45They take a turn or a bend in the road a foot over the line and they meet an oncoming
33:50car and then it's not nice what you see, not nice what you have to deal with.
34:04143.
34:06142.
34:09That's high as today, isn't it?
34:11Yep.
34:13Some drivers are mortified to be stopped.
34:15Other ones just don't care.
34:18Detective vehicle travelling at a speed of 142.
34:20If you want to look in there, you can see it.
34:22You just didn't seem to understand what was...
34:28With over 20 years of experience of roads policing between them, Gardie, Bernie and Samantha have witnessed all that the
34:35job entails.
34:37I suppose every day we go out, there's challenges.
34:40You could be taking cows off the road in the morning and by the time you finish your shift, you've
34:45dealt with maybe a fatal traffic collision.
34:51Grown up in a small town, there would have been a lot of car accidents and fatalities, you know, with
34:55people around my age then as a teenager.
35:00You know, you see the absolute heartache and just horrendous.
35:04So even if you can just stop one person from...
35:09You've done your job.
35:10Yeah.
35:10Yeah.
35:11You know, look...
35:13It is what it is, really.
35:16Getting a bit emotional there.
35:18The N2, it's a massive commuter road.
35:21It goes from Derry to Dublin.
35:25Beggars belief why there is so many fatal collisions and collisions that cause serious injury on that road because it's
35:30such a good road.
35:36If you actually travelled along the N2, you'll actually see the headstones, like, plotted along the way.
35:47The whole way along that stretch of road, you've got memories of people that have passed.
35:56So you have to think of the families that lost people in that tragedy, like, their lives are devastated and
36:00they'll never be the same again.
36:03That's why we concentrate a lot on the N2.
36:06And that's where we get most of our offences.
36:10Alerting people to where the guards are is just ridiculous.
36:15Yeah, sometimes they could be there for a reason.
36:17Like, do you know what I mean?
36:18Some...
36:18Serious reason, like, yeah.
36:22143.
36:25142.
36:25Get in!
36:30A van, too.
36:48That's high today, isn't it?
36:49Yeah.
37:05Look, what we're doing there was a speed checkpoint, OK?
37:07So, detective vehicle travelling at a speed of 142.
37:10If you want to look in there, you can see it.
37:13You just didn't seem to understand what was the problem.
37:17They're on the road and they're doing that speed.
37:18And it's crazy to think that that doesn't bother them.
37:22There's a wee licence back.
37:23All right.
37:24Look, I'll be using a ticket relating to the speed, all right?
37:26And the ticket will come in the post to that address on your driver's licence.
37:28OK.
37:29All right. OK. Good luck.
37:31That's it, yeah. Thanks, good luck.
37:40Is that it?
37:41That's it.
37:43What more?
37:44What more do you want from me?
37:49The difference in having a road traffic collision at 142 kilometres per hour
37:54to having a collision at a reduced speed is massive.
38:00Some drivers are mortified to be stopped.
38:04Other ones just don't care.
38:06And they'll just always remain the same.
38:08You'll never change them.
38:10Code, have your driver's licence, please.
38:12Sorry?
38:12Driver's licence, please.
38:14Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:16It's never an accident.
38:17It's always somebody's mistake.
38:19Somebody's done something wrong.
38:20Somebody's distracted.
38:21Someone's had an intoxicant in their body.
38:24They're just not paying attention.
38:25It's an error on someone's behalf.
38:28And that's our job, is to try and change their behaviours.
38:35It's never just an accident.
38:45We do want to check off road.
38:47Up by Turnock on the Mile Hill Road.
38:50Yeah?
38:50Yeah?
38:51Yeah.
38:52We'll go do that.
38:53And we'll do that for a bit of crack.
38:55See who's about.
39:02Ooh.
39:04Well, there's an ambulance in a fire brigade, isn't it?
39:07A fire brigade, yeah.
39:08Jesus fucking Christ.
39:14I think we'll see if we can be of assistance or something.
39:16Let's see what the story is.
39:18Amy, I'm just gonna move this up.
39:20Yeah.
39:20It was a quiet enough midweek night.
39:22And as we were heading back in towards Casablania,
39:24we observed the flashy blue lights of an ambulance and fire brigade.
39:29It's just common courtesy just to stop and say,
39:31do you need a hand?
39:32It's nice to offer help, even if it's not needed.
39:36How are you?
39:37How are you?
39:37Is everything all right?
39:39We just...
39:41I'm responsive.
39:50Do you have any idea,
39:50Do you think we need a candle in on the light?
39:58I don't think that's just perfect.
39:59This is a good idea.
39:59At any one time,
40:00you have to be ready to deal with these life-changing,
40:04life-altering, horrific situations.
40:09and then once it's done and dealt with you're you're back in to deal with something else
40:14something completely different we do deal with a lot of traumatic incidents it can be harrowing at
40:19times like you can imagine going to a traffic accident where somebody's passed away like that's
40:25that's horrific but one of the other things that i'll always remember is and it's always
40:33going to stick with me is the harrowing moment of when you tell a parent that their son or daughter
40:41or a loved one has passed away by suicide that's horrible because you hear the
40:49you hear the heartbreaking scream of a mother and a father
40:58that's always there with you like you can sit here and i can take a bit i can still hear
41:02hear the screaming
41:07these things do play in your head and it's a matter of opening up and talking about them
41:11i find that a great help
41:19that's one thing i will credit the the job with is the service the offer for counselling
41:27i've had to attend sessions incidents that i've dealt with throughout the years
41:36when i did open up and say i need help there was there was the service there from the god
41:43inspire counselling and the support i've gotten then from number one first and foremost like my wife but
41:51i think yeah it's like it's yeah
42:05so we all have a vulnerable side don't we aden yeah so we do
42:12well all right yeah yeah yeah
42:17oh
42:27thankfully now i understand the importance of opening up to the ones you love the most
42:57In Limerick City, the CAS team have been called to assist an ambulance crew
43:02that are dealing with a member of the public.
43:05What's the story?
43:07He's collapsed three times.
43:08An ambulance crew are looking for assistance because he can be volatile, that's all.
43:11Yeah.
43:12He has a few physical health that's going on as well.
43:14He has.
43:16Yeah, so this could very well be a medical emergency.
43:32The ambulance crew are standing by waiting for guards.
43:36Ambulance will risk assess their calls.
43:39If an individual has a propensity for a kind of aggression or violence, they will request our assistance.
43:46This individual is known to the CAS team, so we kind of have a greater awareness of some of the
43:52needs that might be there.
43:57He had been referred to as previously into CAS.
44:01We knew there was issues there.
44:03His behavior with ambulance crew was incredibly challenging.
44:08When you're mixing drugs and when there's that level of intoxication, there's a level of concern.
44:18He's in the back.
44:19Oh, they have him in the back.
44:21Okay.
44:30How are you?
44:31Yeah, so he's doing the usual.
44:33It's just we're just sick of taking the problem now at this stage.
44:36Getting verbally abusive with us again, saying that he's going to kill us, all this kind of shit, and whacking
44:40his head again.
44:41Yeah.
44:41We might just let you guys have a word with him.
44:44The paramedics that were there had come across this individual for three days straight, and there was a frustration there.
44:52Last time I was here, I was 40 minutes late to a cardiac arrest because I didn't know.
44:56I'll have a chat with him.
44:58It's very difficult to do assessments on him when he's in the state.
45:01It's more so the day afterwards, because you've probably never seen him sober, nor have I.
45:08Will you talk to me?
45:10I've met you here before.
45:12No, I've met you before.
45:15I've been in this situation when you've seen you twice before.
45:17No.
45:18Where you've been in the ambulance, and you're going out to the emergency department.
45:22Yeah.
45:22I've never spoken to you sober, and I really want to do that.
45:32I don't want to go with that.
45:34Get the fuck with them.
45:35I'll fucking kill them all.
45:37All right.
45:38Stop, please.
45:39Stop.
45:39Stop.
45:40Stop.
45:40Stop.
45:41Stop.
45:41Stop.
45:41Stop.
45:42Stop.
45:48Stop it.
45:52There's also a behavioral element involved in this, where the person was banging his head
45:58and self-harming in that capacity in the ambulance.
46:04We're all here to help you.
46:06Do you not understand?
46:07I want to stop you.
46:09What?
46:09I can help you.
46:12I want to speak to you tomorrow.
46:14And I want to try...
46:15I want to speak to you tomorrow.
46:17Okay, good.
46:20The individual agreed at that point for me and the team to come out to see what we can
46:25do for him.
46:29Okay.
46:30Okay.
46:33Look, we're just trying to get you started.
46:35That's all we're trying to do.
46:36We're just trying to help you out.
46:38Please answer the phone tomorrow, and let's try and get you into a rehabilitation center.
46:44The beauty of CAST is that after there's a crisis call, there's a call back the next day.
46:51And the call back really is where a lot of the work happens, especially in those addiction
46:57cases.
46:59I don't know if you're going to start this one.
47:01I appreciate your frustration with it.
47:03It's the same on our side.
47:04It's not even...
47:05It's like...
47:05See you later, Ciara.
47:06See you now.
47:06Thanks.
47:07We're actually concerned for him.
47:09Yeah.
47:09He's in a bad way.
47:10And he's not getting the help he needs.
47:12So hopefully this will help.
47:13And sure, for yourselves as well, it's going to burn you out as well, because I mean, this
47:18is part of CAST to try and lessen these specific cases.
47:25Oh, it's incredibly difficult for the ambulance services today.
47:30I have enormous respect for the ambulance services.
47:36A collaboration like this can help bridge those gaps.
47:43You can come to a person in their darkest moments and possibly see them come out the
47:50other side of it.
47:51You can come to a person in their darkest moments and see them come out of the night.
47:56You can come to a person in their darkest moments and see them come out of the night.
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