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On the Beat - Season 2 - Episode 01
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00:00Controls Uniform Charity 101. Uniform Charity 101.
00:05Okay.
00:06101, would you mind coming out?
00:10I do know it's registered.
00:12I'm going to be Kendrick.
00:15Do you want me over and check her out?
00:17Are you starting 2 o'clock tomorrow?
00:20Yeah.
00:21Thanks, man.
00:24Who are they?
00:27Do you know what? Hang back a minute.
00:28You just wonder that they're up with the hoods at this time of the day.
00:40Pull in there, lads, for a sec.
00:43Oh, it's your man. It's your man that signs on.
00:44It's your man.
00:46Pull over.
00:47Pull over now.
00:53He's gone.
00:53Where is he?
01:01Pull over now, c**t.
01:21You're not going to go into a job where everything's perfect.
01:23There is extra responsibility when you are front line.
01:28The drugs in the city is a massive challenge.
01:31It's a crack of coke.
01:32Well, we only ever really deal with criminals and high-end criminals and people who don't want to engage with
01:38us.
01:38I'm daddy!
01:40Get the rest of it now. Don't f**king waste our time.
01:44Every day we go out, there's challenges. You never know what's going to happen.
01:49What was the reason for the night?
01:51Listen up there, will you? Get up.
01:53You're in with the flowers.
01:55If he runs now and I run, right, you take the car.
02:02They'll see us coming. They'll have spotters. They'll have watchers.
02:05They have plenty of security measures.
02:06I'm sure they get back to the door!
02:09There's no one in the requirement of committing.
02:11They need to be taken on society for a while.
02:13You're fit, but not that fit.
02:15It's hard at times.
02:17Not everybody can do this job.
02:19It's not easy.
02:30It's early morning in Limerick City,
02:32and Gardie, Aidan and Paul have just encountered a man who is known to them
02:36and has evaded them while riding an electric scooter.
02:42I suppose we're having awful issues with scooters in the city anyway,
02:46but when you're driving up the footpath, there's two of them on the back foot.
02:49But one is wearing a ski mask.
02:51You know, your attention is drawn to someone straight away.
02:53Any luck with the other fella?
02:55No, I'll catch him though.
02:56Who's driving there?
02:57Oh, f***.
02:58Why wouldn't he stop for us?
02:59I don't know.
03:00Do you have stuff on him?
03:01What?
03:01Do you have stuff on him?
03:02What do you mean stuff?
03:03Do you have anything you shouldn't have on you?
03:04I'm going to search her, yeah.
03:06All right.
03:07Under section 23, the misuse of drug sex.
03:09All right.
03:10Yeah.
03:10You had a bit of common sense.
03:11Why did he tell you get off?
03:12Well, I don't know.
03:13I got off.
03:13I know all reasons to run.
03:14Where are you coming from?
03:15My house.
03:16In Lee Estate.
03:17Yeah.
03:19The sale and supply of drugs is massive, like.
03:21It's everywhere.
03:22It's everywhere.
03:23And it's ruining lives.
03:25It's ruining families.
03:26And it's kids younger and younger and younger
03:29that are getting involved.
03:31What age are you?
03:3217.
03:33Where did you get that money?
03:34I was.
03:35Why is it all in different denominations?
03:37Who had the stuff?
03:38What?
03:38Who had the stuff?
03:39F*** up.
03:40What do you mean what stuff?
03:43Kids doing it, they see the lifestyle.
03:46They see the money.
03:47They see the flashy clothes.
03:48They see this.
03:49They see that.
03:50But you're going to get caught, like.
03:52At some stage.
03:53You're going to get caught.
03:55Grant, go on the way, sir.
03:57Yeah.
03:57I'm going to buy that, my friend.
03:58Yeah.
03:59Tell you.
04:00He's after nine minutes now.
04:02I'll meet up with him soon.
04:04Thanks.
04:08I f***ing pulled and he turned.
04:10He's on the blower, Tim, now, sure, look.
04:12Yeah.
04:13It's very easy to get roped into it.
04:15And more than likely, the people that are distributing the drugs are probably providing
04:20the scramblers, probably providing the scooters.
04:23So, if we take one away, they're going to have another one in 10 minutes' time.
04:27Right back.
04:28He had 100% stuff on him there.
04:30I would have been very surprised.
04:32If he didn't, he would have stopped, sure.
04:33Especially when we knew his name.
04:34Do you know what I mean?
04:36He's actively in detail and supply of drugs around the city, like.
04:39So, he had a bit of stuff on him, I'd say, and that was it.
04:52As the largest city on the west coast of Ireland, the Gardaí police in Limerick City
04:57rarely have a quiet day.
05:03Considered one of the busiest stations in the country, Henry Street Station, nestled in
05:08the heart of the city, has 289 Gardaíes spread across regular duty and specialist units,
05:14including drugs, serious crime, immigration and community policing.
05:24It's a busy city.
05:26There's always something happening in it.
05:29It's never quiet.
05:30It's rewarding, too.
05:33The city is busy today.
05:36I suppose it's busy.
05:37But today, today.
05:38It's Wednesday.
05:40I don't want to see Sentra now for the rest of the day.
05:42Why?
05:43What have you got from Sentra?
05:43I've been in there about four times today.
05:45Different calls.
05:46Theft?
05:47Theft.
05:47Yeah, a few thefts.
05:50You have a lot of crime in the city, but it would be mostly thefts on a daily basis.
05:55You could have up to 10 and 12 in different shops.
06:04It's just in the shopping centre down here.
06:11We do have a very big drug problem, and a lot of these people, both drug and alcohol,
06:18need a way to feed their habit, and it's an easy way in running into a shop, taking a
06:23few items, legging it out.
06:28Hi, how are you?
06:30Yeah, is it Denise?
06:32Okay, perfect.
06:33Is it a theft, or do you wish to report?
06:36Holland and Bart, in the city centre, it would be a shop that, I would say, would be hit daily.
06:42And there's a box there?
06:44You've got the box.
06:45Do you have a box with you?
06:47Do you have a box with you?
06:49Members stop approaching when they show the bag because there's nothing in the bag.
06:52At 14.32, they'll pass all the payment points without making any payment for a product.
06:57Thanks very much, thanks.
07:10The city is currently dealing with a major drugs problem that is taking its toll on the many
07:15good people that live here and creating a variety of ongoing challenges for the Gardaí
07:20tasked with keeping the public safe.
07:22The drugs in the city is a massive challenge.
07:26In Limerick, crack cocaine and heroin, it's just everywhere.
07:41It's down the lane, I'd say.
07:48What's going on?
07:51What's going on?
07:52Oh, that's your man, ****.
07:53Who's down there?
07:58He's up for a number of offences at the moment.
08:01Look, he's telling them we're coming now.
08:08Come down here.
08:11Don't even think of getting rid of that.
08:14You, stay there.
08:15Stay there.
08:17They would know me by name, you know, or they would know my colleagues by name.
08:22You know what I mean.
08:23You're meeting these people on a daily basis, once, twice, three times a day.
08:37Come down here a second now.
08:39I don't want to be going through this now for the night with you.
08:41What have you on you?
08:41I don't want to be on a daily basis.
08:44I don't want to be on a daily basis.
08:45I don't want to be on a daily basis.
08:45If we're searching, lads, they would say, Aidan, I actually have an uncapped needle in that
08:49pocket.
08:50So, if you are searching, be careful.
08:53I've searched some people before, and they haven't told me they've uncapped needles
08:57in their pocket.
08:57And I've asked them, and I've repeatedly asked them.
09:01Do you have any sharps?
09:02No, no, I don't use the fuckers.
09:05What's that?
09:06What's that?
09:06Like, yeah, scrape my bike.
09:09That's sharp.
09:10That's, that's, that's, that's my brother, like.
09:12It's sharp.
09:15Yeah, it's sharp.
09:16You have to be careful, like, you know what I mean?
09:17You can't just go out and just start sticking your hands into bags or pockets.
09:22Because, you know, people have got pricked by needles, and it's, it's not a nice thing,
09:26like, you know.
09:27I'm gonna have to discard this, okay?
09:29No, no, no, no, no.
09:30No, no, no, no.
09:31Now, you can't have drug paraphernalia in the street.
09:34I know you're a drug user.
09:35No, I, yes, I am.
09:36Yes, so you can't consume that in a public place.
09:39Look, man, we've it duty care to the public.
09:41You can't be consuming...
09:42I love where I was, man.
09:44No, no, no.
09:44What do you mean, look, really?
09:45What's this a public place?
09:46People conduct their business here.
09:47No, for them, they make it like you, man.
09:49You would often see the chefs coming out of here.
09:50Obviously, the drugs have been consumed.
09:54So, in relation to a criminal offence, he didn't have drugs on his person.
09:59He had consumed it.
10:00People just can't come off the likes of crack cocaine, you know,
10:04all them kind of drugs, because it's highly addictive.
10:06It's a continuing cycle that I don't see stopping.
10:17Following the theft at Holland and Barrett, Gardie, Lorna and Jas are conducting a checkpoint
10:22when they come across a person that is potentially involved in the earlier incident.
10:31Oh, Jas!
10:33Jas!
10:34Come here for a second.
10:37Are you good?
10:38Sorry!
10:39Sorry!
10:40Oh, yeah, that's good.
10:40Come here for a second.
10:42We were conducting a checkpoint up in Milk Market, and my colleague spotted the mail matching
10:47the description what we'd seen in the CCTV.
10:50And she called me over, and I recognised the person.
10:56Yeah, that's him.
10:57What?
10:58I didn't get it.
10:59I just live over there.
11:00Come here to me.
11:01Have you anything in your bag?
11:02You shouldn't.
11:02No.
11:03Where were you today?
11:05I was in the fucking town.
11:07Where were you?
11:08Do you know why we're stopping you?
11:09Nothing.
11:10Were you in Holland and Barrett earlier?
11:11Were you in Holland and Barrett earlier?
11:13In the past?
11:15I don't know.
11:16I was in the...
11:17Were you in the shopping centre?
11:18So he had, like, a lot of stuff in his bag.
11:21He had two deals of drugs on him.
11:24And when I went searching the bag, I didn't realise the bag had needles that were used.
11:30What have you in here?
11:31That's the rest of the room.
11:33Have you any sharps, any needles, knives, anything?
11:35In the bag.
11:36Are you an active needle user?
11:38Yeah.
11:38What? Heroin?
11:39Yeah.
11:40While Lorna and Jas continue their search, the suspect attempts to hide what was stolen earlier.
11:46Right, now, keep your hands out of the pocket.
11:48Is this yours?
11:49Keep your hands out of your pockets, good man.
11:51Just wait a second.
11:51We'll probably bring you back to the station for a thorough search, all right?
11:54Wait, there's too much here.
11:57Oh, yeah.
11:58Actually, he dropped the stuff there.
11:59What?
12:00He dropped that stuff there.
12:01Oh, here you go.
12:03Can you stop touching the stuff, please?
12:05I'll put them in your bag.
12:05Before we use handcuffs, right?
12:06Give it to me.
12:07Give it to me.
12:08I'll put them in your bag.
12:09We informed him, Jas informed him.
12:11We'd bring him back for a further search.
12:14He just lost it.
12:16Put your money in there.
12:17We won't be touching it.
12:18Put your money in there.
12:21We won't be touching it.
12:23Uniform Alpha 103 to control.
12:26Get down.
12:27Get down.
12:28I'm not in there, 103.
12:28Can we get assistance on Mulgrave Street, please?
12:31I think he had some drugs in the system.
12:33It was very hard to put him down the ground.
12:36My colleague then deployed the pepper spray there.
12:39You're going to get pepper spray if you move.
12:45All right, Jas.
12:47Get down, Jas.
12:48There you go.
12:49Hello?
12:49Get down on the ground.
12:50That was my first time using the pepper spray, yeah.
12:54Right.
12:59Get him on the ground.
13:00So when they have taken something, they are more tense,
13:04you know, so it is quite difficult.
13:06I don't know if he was having a bad day or whatever,
13:08but he just did not want to be arrested.
13:20That's a taxi.
13:22Stop resisting.
13:23Put your hands on your back.
13:27Oh, fuck.
13:29You get a, like, burning sensation there.
13:32You can't see anything.
13:34But you got a job.
13:35You have to finish your job when you started.
13:36Back towards me now.
13:37You're going to have to stay nice and calm now, all right?
13:38For the watch out there.
13:39Come on.
13:40All right.
13:40Come on to me.
13:41Come on to me.
13:41Come on to me.
13:42Now, big step down.
13:43Come on.
13:44All right.
13:44Straighten up there.
13:45Come on.
13:45This particular guy, I've met him when he's sober,
13:49when he hasn't taken.
13:50And he's a decent guy.
13:52He's somebody's son.
13:53He's somebody's brother.
13:54You know, he'll talk to you as you walk down the street.
13:57But I think this just particular day, whatever he took,
14:01it just drove him wild.
14:04And he just wanted more and more.
14:14He had little drops that he had taken from the shop,
14:16and he had two little deals of crack cocaine on him
14:21and a few tablets.
14:27I have a prick on my hand.
14:29I don't know if it's to do with the needles,
14:30but I will have to get checked out.
14:32The mail will be charged
14:33and will be brought before Limerick District Court this evening.
14:37And he has two live bench warrants,
14:39which will be executed before the courts.
14:42The mail will be probably charged with section 4 theft,
14:46obstruction for resisting the arrest.
14:49And the two deals of crack will have to be tested
14:52to see what they are that was on his persons.
15:00It's right to be told, we deal with the same people.
15:03Oh, there she's done, boys and girls.
15:04Now, now, messes.
15:06You went running.
15:08It's quite dangerous job at times,
15:10particularly in Limerick City,
15:11you have some ongoing feuds at the moment.
15:12Open the door! Go in!
15:14Open the door!
15:35Nestled in the north-east of Ireland,
15:37Castle Blaney in County Monaghan is a busy town.
15:40Gardaí here have a large area to cover that is a mix of urban and rural policing.
15:45With close proximity to the border, the challenges here can be varied and no day is ever the same.
15:51I like it.
15:52I like it. I like it.
15:53It's good fun.
15:54I have a good rapport with my colleagues, with the people I work with, the community as well.
15:58You could be dealing with a serious thing one day, doing nothing the next day.
16:04And then, in a split second, you could be performing CPR, trying to keep somebody alive.
16:10You could be at a serious traffic accident.
16:11It's always changing.
16:17If I think about the area that we cover,
16:20like we cover the whole way over to Coot Hill in County Cabin,
16:23and then we cover a lot of areas south Monaghan as well.
16:26You can just imagine the spiderweb of roads.
16:28It's different trying to get out and cover the whole area.
16:31You can't do it in a shift.
16:33A lot of policing around here is driving.
16:37A lot of country policing is driving.
16:39I mean, proper patrolling, like.
16:44We don't deal with 95% of the people, like.
16:48That's why I always laugh, like.
16:49People say, you're here this long, I've never seen you.
16:51But I've never seen you means nothing.
16:53It means you haven't been in trouble.
16:54And you've been lucky enough not to be the victim of any kind of a crime as well.
16:59Whilst out on their daily morning patrol,
17:01Gardie, Aidan and Amy's attention is drawn to a person that is well known to them.
17:06It's right to be told, we deal with the same people,
17:08the same small minority of people, day in, day out, week in, week out.
17:14Where's .
17:15Where's .
17:16There.
17:17Oh, yeah.
17:18In front of us.
17:19You know what?
17:19We should see if these go for a car.
17:21She is disqualified.
17:24Catriona, could you check is disqualified, please?
17:28Roger.
17:30I'd say the vast majority of disqualified drivers learn from their mistake
17:34and don't drive for the period that they're disqualified.
17:38But again, there's a very small minority that the penalties and disqualifications stack up.
17:43They're never going to get insurance.
17:44We do deal with that a lot.
17:51What?
17:51What?
17:52What?
17:52What?
17:52What?
17:52What?
18:00There's no way she can come.
18:07It's getting lifted now, anyway.
18:08Yeah.
18:12Oh, she went to someone's house.
18:15Oh, well.
18:16Well, that's all right.
18:17We're going to take the car and we'll prosecute her.
18:19We knew there was no tax in the car.
18:21We knew that she was uninsured.
18:23We would know that lady in question.
18:24We would know her family.
18:25She wouldn't have high liking for regard to she economy.
18:29No, no, missus.
18:31You went running.
18:33You did.
18:34You did.
18:36You did.
18:36I seen you driving.
18:38I did see you driving.
18:40No, you're not getting anything out of that car.
18:43It's not your car to go into.
18:46Yeah.
18:46But it's not your car to go into.
18:48Yeah, but my push is in there.
18:50That's grand.
18:50But you said you're...
18:51And how's your push in that car?
18:52And how's your push in that car?
18:55And how's this car here?
18:56How's this car here?
18:57All right?
18:58I wasn't driving no car.
18:59It'll be another someone's push for you.
19:00That's okay.
19:01I wasn't driving no car.
19:02Do you know what's going to happen as well
19:03is someone for allowing you to drive his car with no insurance?
19:07I wasn't driving the car.
19:07You were driving.
19:08Will you stop lying?
19:09We've seen you driving.
19:10I'm not lying.
19:11We've seen you driving.
19:12Driving at a speed like that in a state where there's kids,
19:15like, you need to have more sense.
19:16I'm talking about what she's talking about.
19:18That's all right.
19:21She was always going to deny it.
19:23She was always going to deny it.
19:25And she will go to court and her daughter was quite blind
19:28that she wasn't driving it and somebody else is driving it.
19:30Yeah.
19:31And as you can see, she loves the guards.
19:35She had a great time for us.
19:51Across Ireland, the sale and supply of illegal drugs
19:54is a constant challenge for An Garda Síochána.
19:57This is no different for Limerick.
19:59With Class A drugs being a major issue in the city,
20:02Limerick's drugs unit are conducting a large-scale operation
20:05targeting a local organised crime gang
20:08in an effort to stem the flow of drugs into the city.
20:12We target organised criminal groups or groupings of people
20:14that are involved in the sale and supply of drugs
20:16on a wholesale basis.
20:17That's our target.
20:19That's the kind of level we're at.
20:21The operation is built on intelligence,
20:23but we try and build again on that intelligence
20:25by searching the properties.
20:27We just do our best to get there together
20:28and get in as simultaneous as we can into these houses.
20:31If there's anything else, lads,
20:33now is the time to show the load.
20:35Other than that, as if, if everyone is transported
20:37and everyone knows where to go on,
20:38we'll take our time, we'll line up properly outside
20:40and we'll get more men.
20:42So this group, we put an operation in place
20:45to target and build intelligence on them.
20:47Everything has to be risk assessed before we go.
20:49So planning for that can take up to, realistically up to a week,
20:52can take the planet to get the convoy moving then
20:56is the most important and get it out to their location
20:58and to hit these locations at the same time.
21:01So you need to have that element of surprise.
21:04A convoy of over 20 vehicles
21:06carrying more than 40 members of Angarda Siakana
21:09will descend on the location simultaneously,
21:11so there's no margin for error.
21:14Each search team will be led by a senior member
21:17of the Limerick Drugs Unit.
21:20Obviously the safety of the public is what comes first
21:23and it's securing evidence
21:24and then who is this criminal on that operation
21:27or that day that we're targeting.
21:29What's their form?
21:31Do they move drugs?
21:32Do they move drugs and firearms?
21:33Your decision-making model has to be constantly
21:37utilised in how we approach it.
21:39And again, the aim is to make sure it's done safe,
21:41smoothly, methodically, hopefully with an end result
21:44of securing evidence, arresting somebody
21:46and bringing them before the courts.
21:52So there is a bit of a problem with crack cocaine
21:56in Limerick City at the moment.
21:57This has been targeted under Operation Para,
22:00but of course every time we take one step forward
22:04the drug dealers are just constantly evolving,
22:06so we're adapting to their methods.
22:08we have to be trying to stay ahead of them,
22:12which isn't easy at times.
22:21Today obviously we'll be wearing our personal protective equipment
22:23stab vests or ballistic vests, pepper spray and battens,
22:26handcuffs, and then a number of us carry firearms
22:30and of course the armed support unit then have more options
22:33of lethal and less lethal capabilities.
22:35And the majority of the premises will be cleared first
22:38due to threat levels, of course.
22:40This is kind of what you join the guards for.
22:42This is the real exciting part of the job.
22:47It's a quite dangerous job at times,
22:49particularly in Limerick City you have some ongoing feuds at the moment.
22:52It's quite high-end, dangerous work that we're doing,
22:56but I believe the positives outweigh the negatives.
23:05Open the door, it's going in! Open the door!
23:09Open the door!
23:14I'm Gary D, search for it!
23:16I'm Gary D, search for it!
23:17I'm Gary D!
23:20I'm Gary D!
23:21I'm Gary D, search for it!
23:22Open up!
23:23Okay.
23:24I'm Gary D!
23:27When did you charge your number?
23:28Just two.
23:29I'm Gary D!
23:30I'm Gary D!
23:31I'm Gary D!
23:31We try and come at it from all angles.
23:33We want to deprive these criminals,
23:35so when we enter premises to search,
23:37where we may be going in for mobile phones
23:39for intelligent purposes,
23:40or we're aware that certain people
23:43are holding large quantities of cash,
23:45we want to deprive them of these wells.
23:48Any weapons in the house?
23:49No.
23:50No.
23:51Apartments.
23:55Zanax in the press.
23:56Okay.
23:56Any warrants for your arrest?
23:57No, it's not.
23:59Okay.
23:59Look.
24:00Look.
24:00We'll camera down now, alright?
24:02How are you doing?
24:03How's it going?
24:06What room's in?
24:07What room?
24:08Up there.
24:08What room is it?
24:09Up there.
24:10What's going out the window?
24:12What's going out the window?
24:13It's open door then.
24:15A few more stuff.
24:16A few more stuff here.
24:17A few more stuff here.
24:18Uh, nothing.
24:19I don't know what everybody's doing.
24:21And I mean that.
24:23We have all day.
24:23Yeah.
24:24We're until 5 o'clock.
24:25We're going fucking nowhere.
24:28Right, this place.
24:28This place is really busy here.
24:31Yeah, lad.
24:32What's going on?
24:32You're fairly on the old tablets.
24:34What?
24:35You're fairly on the old tablets.
24:36I'm fairly on the old tablets.
24:37Yeah, yeah.
24:40Bit of...
24:40A little bit of cocaine, you know, is it?
24:42Lads.
24:44Oh, ****.
24:45Why are we here?
24:45Why are we here?
24:47I don't know, lad.
24:50Why are we here?
24:51I swear to God.
24:52I am genuinely not saying fucking fuck.
24:57Well, let's see.
24:59Get out the rest of it now.
25:00Don't fucking waste our time.
25:01That's it.
25:01Get the rest of it.
25:03If we don't find it, the dog will find it.
25:05Get the rest of it.
25:06But I'm telling you.
25:08We're here for the whole day, kid.
25:09Alright?
25:10Can you throw that out?
25:11Anything else?
25:12Did you see him?
25:13And you saw him?
25:16Or did that window there?
25:17Perfect.
25:19With quantities of drugs and cash discovered in several of the properties,
25:24suspects are detained and brought back to Henry Street Garda Station for questioning.
25:31The drugs unit's attention switches to a nearby waste ground,
25:35where they suspect drugs are being stored and prepared for distribution.
25:53For the drug problem in Limerick, it's chronic and it's a very saturated problem in certain areas.
25:59I believe it has a serious knock-on effect to the decent working members of the community.
26:06I suppose there's an awful lot of decent, hard-working people who live in this housing estate.
26:09It's a horrible set-up, to be told.
26:13So we'll have to locate in this bag here.
26:16Wrapped.
26:17And I'd say by the feel of it now, it's cannabis.
26:20I'd be quite confident.
26:22Yeah, you can smell it.
26:24It's cannabis, yeah.
26:24So we'll have to bag and tag that when we get back.
26:28We'll weigh it and find out enough value.
26:31The dog from Snoop, from the Southern Regional Dog Unit, located that.
26:39Well, the focus was two-fold, really.
26:41It was obviously to target the people that they have involved in the sale and supply of drugs
26:45at what we call maybe street level or just above street level.
26:49We wanted to get drugs.
26:49We also wanted a bit of intelligence while we were going in there as well.
26:53There was certain seizures done in, I think, two to three of the houses.
26:58Again, intelligence building from that day and people arrested and charged before the courts.
27:03As a result of this operation, 6,000 euros worth of cannabis and 7,000 euros in cash was seized.
27:09A number of electronic devices were also confiscated as they continued to build intelligence
27:14on the organised crime gang that were targeted in this raid.
27:18It's an ongoing targeting of all groupings within the limited division.
27:22It just doesn't stop because we do a day of searching on one particular group.
27:26We just don't stop, then it moves on.
27:44With a population of 60,000 people, policing Waterford City brings its challenges.
27:49While drugs activity isn't as much of a strain in comparison to some of Ireland's other cities,
27:55public order, mental health incidents and domestic violence take up a lot of time for the regular units on the
28:00ground.
28:02These challenges have created a camaraderie and strong support network amongst the Gardaí on the beat.
28:09I'd say when they see me and Conor coming, they're laughing their heads off.
28:12Sure, I'm about four foot and Conor's about nine foot, so there's a huge contrast.
28:17I suppose there's balance with us, though, because Conor is as soft as water.
28:21He might not look at her, he might not think it, but I suppose that's the balance between me and
28:26him.
28:27I'd say they look at me and they're like, Jesus, your one's about 12.
28:31Like, you know, I get that all the time.
28:33I think it's great, like, so long may it last.
28:38Ciara's gas, like, she'll make light of situations that will help you get over the situation, you know?
28:45We work well in the sense that we're polar opposites.
28:48I'm six foot nine, bald old fella, and she's a woman that's starting out in her adult life.
28:55So I would take advice from her in situations, she'd take advice from me.
29:06It's late on Tuesday night, and Gardie, Ciara and Conor have been called to a public order incident in a
29:12local housing estate.
29:19Go ahead.
29:39Roger, I think this might be the same woman as last week.
29:42All teens, like, young teens, 13, 14, 15.
29:46It's a very difficult one because we know we're dealing with juveniles.
29:50We can't chase kids, like, we're not going to run out into ditches chasing kids.
29:54If something happens to them, it falls back on us.
29:59Look at them all running.
30:00There we are, yeah.
30:03Fuck's sake.
30:04Sit around at the shops there.
30:13Tough situation for us to be in where no one identified.
30:16You have no indication of who it was.
30:17You can't just stop a young person on the street and start questioning him.
30:20And he might have nothing to do.
30:21He might just be standing there watching what's going on.
30:24Is that her?
30:25Yeah.
30:32It was all about you.
30:35Was it yourself that rang it in?
30:36Yeah it was when you rang it in.
30:38I rang it in three nights ago.
30:39I got the same fucking shit out of my house.
30:41All of them running up there all over the place.
30:43How do you follow you my mother, please?
30:47Fucking sick of it.
30:48look we really do understand where you're coming from i just need to explain something to you
30:54these youths are definitely under the age of 18 if we chase them in a vehicle and they run out
31:00in
31:00front of a car we're in serious trouble all they want is a chase they want you to come chase
31:06them
31:06the lady in question she was she was severely upset i suppose she's she'd been dealing with
31:12this for the last number of days before we even dealt with it just when i went back and looked
31:17on our system like it had been logged
31:24don't go out to them
31:29that's what i'm saying to you i completely understand it
31:36all i'm saying is i take me window smashed every day over a banger going off in front of one
31:42of you
31:42and papa damaging you but it's not right i know it's not right like i said look we're on for
31:47the night we'll be up here all night very frustrating put yourself in that in that woman's
31:51shoes you're trying to sleep your kids are at home trying to sleep and you've you've young
31:56lads terrorizing you it's it's very frustrating thanks i'm gonna just get out and talk to these
32:02for a minute and just say lads come on like it's not fair if you come out and act in
32:08any way aggressive
32:09you're just getting their backup your interaction with someone that could be their first interaction
32:14with the guards and i could paint a picture for them of our organization for the future for them
32:18so it's always better to come in hands in your pockets politely as you can and then try and get
32:26information out of them by killing them with kindness basically lads yes i just talk to you
32:32there for two seconds all right you literally watch me walk okay okay listen will you stop tormenting
32:38people around here you listen now and have some manners please people are trying to sleep there's
32:45kids in houses lads be mindful all right we're going to be around here anyway so you you need to
32:53be careful
32:54and just please stop tormenting people there's kids in houses as well
33:07did you hear that i like your teeth where'd you get them done there's just no talking to them like
33:12they have absolutely no regard for us whatsoever like you can go and talk to them and tell them to
33:18stop and you can talk to them till the cows come home they will not stop a lot of them
33:22have a long time
33:23to go like they're only like 11 12 if even
33:30she's after coming out of there it's a crack of coke today what we're doing is we're planning to
33:37extremely destruct and deter the sale and supply of drugs
33:53in limerick gardie lorna and brendan are just starting their night shift an important element
33:59of their job is knowing the people that frequent the city streets and on a quiet night like this
34:05it affords them the time to check in with them so during the day drug users or people like that
34:10don't
34:11want to speak to the gardie but then at night time it's a little bit more quieter and stuff like
34:14that
34:15so when you're driving around the city center especially and you see the homeless people
34:19sleeping out rough at night and everything i tend to build a bit of rapport with those people
34:23just to make sure that they're okay oh look let's see what they're doing is someone on the ground there
34:34well how are we what are you up to well you have to work tomorrow tuesday
34:43don't declare you've been looking well lately i hope you're not dabbling
34:51oh you're not backing the stuff yeah
34:56how long are you going out now
35:01he'd want to get the knee wobbly wouldn't he he'd want to get that knee dirty he'd want to put
35:05a ring
35:06on it no right we leave you at it right mind yourselves they had an apartment then they
35:16left the drug dealers into the house and they were dealing drugs from the house cutting up cocaine
35:23and everything like that and then they stopped them from using it then the windows were all put
35:29into their homeless them there's numerous of people there they could name here that there'd be nothing
35:36better in the morning to turn around and see that person in six weeks time have their own apartment
35:41going down to the shop buying their own groceries and stuff rather than seeing them just with a cup
35:45in front of them freezing trying to get by like literally make that 20 euros just to get their drugs
35:50it is tough like it is it's sad to see their regular patrols bring them to familiar locations
35:58throughout their shifts how often they patrol these areas generally depends on the needs and
36:03pressures the city is experiencing suspect the drug dealer's house there
36:10she put cones out of the rest to stop us driving down there
36:14there's one's outside now i think there's one she's after coming out of there
36:32there's someone driving that car i don't know there's not a thing on it
36:42how are you who owns the car right what's the story tax insurance and everything
37:05i'd actually had a previous dealing with her i wouldn't say too long before that
37:10i was kind of taken aback because i spoke to her and she was saying she was going to get
37:14clean and she
37:15was going to get help and from my previous interactions i had spoken to her family but
37:22she just wanted crack that night she was paying the money for it seriously perfect thank you
37:28i know it's paddy's day
37:32have you have you off the stuff yet no
37:38what am i doing to empty out your pockets there you've no sharps or anything on you no i'm all
37:45on
37:47have you anything in the pockets no
37:49i don't know anton in the car sit out here what was in there who was taking coke
38:01it's a crack or coke did you smoke it
38:10in there she knew i was you know trying to help her as best i could you know and getting
38:16her family
38:16involved but she said to me the drugs are her life and unfortunately until she you know accepts it
38:25that she has an issue and wants the help it's very hard like you know i i'd love to be
38:30able to help more
38:31but unfortunately i can't you have the insurance will you get your tax article i'll be keeping an eye
38:38out for the car myself they're your keys aren't they yeah it's all your stuff stop hanging around the
38:46house get yourself into trouble trouble around here
38:59less than two kilometers from henry street station lies saint mary's park estate on king's island
39:05for several years this area has been under siege from a number of organized crime groups
39:10that use the estate for the sale and supply of drugs this morning henry street garda station are
39:16conducting a large-scale operation to thwart the ongoing issues here good morning thanks a million
39:21for those making yourself available for today as you're aware this we're experiencing issues down
39:26around the area we're going searching this morning two locations as you know causing a lot of harm
39:30destruction down that community lads uh it's been a couple of decades of hard exposure to drugs and
39:36drug-related activity down there crack cocaine causing a lot of hassle uptown in terms of retail crime and a
39:42lot of recidivist stuff so we just want to go down there and give something back in terms of the
39:46community down there who are having some you know difficult times the last couple of weeks in
39:50particular also if and mic if you just make sure we have some beats in around the access areas coming
39:55in as well we'd expect sadly some of those maybe going to try and purchase some drugs later on in
40:01the morning are going to be coming down and on footfall it's been a bad morning so far clearing up
40:04now
40:05so that probably means more of a late arrival for people there any questions for the on the floor are
40:09we all right okay thanks a million again we'll chat to you later on all right there has been a
40:14number of
40:15targeted operations there over the last maybe five or six years since i've been involved in drugs
40:19dedicated armed patrols dedicated uniform patrols down their checkpoints which had a great effect
40:24in the area again it's like anything staffing resources i was also play a problem with that
40:31they're going to have security they're going to have cameras they're going to have tvs with their
40:34cameras linked up to them they'll see us coming they'll have spotters they'll have watchers
40:38they have plenty of security measures john not his real name is the lead guard from the limerick
40:43drugs unit that will be overseeing the searches today operations are a regular occurrence here
40:48due to the high volume of drug activity in the area today what we're doing is we're planning to
40:53extremely destruct and uh deter the sale and supply of drugs gather intelligence seize any drugs
41:00seize any cash that is the proceeds of crime arrest suspect offenders with the view then of
41:05bringing them before the courts with charge shoots today if all goes well
41:09at the moment crack cocaine is is a considerable issue in limerick city yeah so this particular
41:14area we're going into now it's a hard area to police there's only one way in and one way out
41:18these properties it's it's not a house it's a location that's designed uh replicated and it's
41:23controlled for the purpose of illegal sale and supply of crack cocaine in the city it's the sole
41:27function effectively it's a job then this area has a number of lovely residents living here
41:32members of the public who are just trying to go about their lives these addresses they cause how i can
41:36wreck
41:41what do i need to get back to the door
42:07So at the moment the airmen are gaining entry, they're going to secure the premises, make
42:12sure it's safe for us to go in and conduct a search. Once this has been safe, then we
42:15will enter afterwards. As you can see now, there's reinforced doors here.
42:19All clear?
42:20So we're cleared, OK.
42:23With the premises confirmed safe and secure, John and his team enter to conduct an extensive
42:29search.
42:38We gained entry, and I suppose there was what I could describe as a set-up of a drugs
42:43operation inside. Oh, my God, man, there's drugs everywhere. Like, there's drugs all over
42:48the TV.
42:49Yeah, I know, I'd have a look there in the attic, all right?
42:50Mantle piece, that's some sort of weapon. There was crack cocaine and heroin. There
42:58was a fire burning. There was a number of tools that are needed for the same supply
43:03on drugs. How they were sorting the drugs, how they were bagging it, weighing it, disperuting
43:09it. There was also a number of weapons were in the house. And I have no fucking idea what
43:15that is. Any idea? I don't know.
43:19Well, I'd say it's a makeshift and a shanker, I'd say. It looks like they're crushing pregnancy
43:24tablets up and going in with the heroin, I'd say. Same colour.
43:27Where's the smell of weed we're getting there, Chris?
43:31So it's very bleak, very dirty, very derelict. It's just a machine, a cog. They want to
43:37just keep that wheel turning and burning and selling as much drugs as they can throughout
43:41the day. It's disgusting, to be honest. It's a horrible set-up. There's a ladder against
43:47that wall. Jump there. You can see the tracks, look, they came along here. There was a number
43:54of individual deals of both crack cocaine and heroin. They were located and that would
44:00have been enough to conduct a day's trading, as well as a large quantity of cash was seized.
44:07In the past, these houses, within a number of hours, they're back up. The door is reinstalled.
44:13They put the belt back on the machine and they just start selling again. This is the problem,
44:18I suppose. If we had enough resources, we would be going in as much as we can, but the show
44:22goes on. Following the raid, the Gardaí broadened the search to the surrounding area. It's here
44:28they discover a vehicle linked to the targets of today's operation.
44:32There was a number of individuals in the property and they had fled. We carried out some investigations
44:37and we had managed to link a car to one of them. These operations, we get so far and it
44:42opens
44:43up another door and then we go further into it and it's constant battle and pushing to try
44:48and go up the next level of these gangs.
44:50It's linked to somebody whom we want to question with, but it's also committed a number of
44:54offences under the Road Traffic Act. As a result of that, it's going to be seized under
44:58section 41 of the Road Traffic Act and we will speak to the owner when he makes himself
45:03known to us.
45:16I suspect clean as a whistle, do you?
45:19Smell the weed, lad. Stinks the weed, lad.
45:23Sometimes it's about rattling the cages. As we lawfully seized that car for traffic offences,
45:30we were able to draw out and we were able to add and marry up a few things.
45:40Well, thank you, thank you.
45:41Oi, who are you?
45:42I own the car.
45:43Do you?
45:44Yeah.
45:44Go on, do you have a driver's licence and proof that you own the car?
45:47I have the logbook in the car, but my driver's licence is at home, yeah.
45:50Oh yeah, where's the keys to the car?
45:51My pocket.
45:52Right, you can give them to me so anyway, lad, because the car has been seized.
45:54Why?
45:54Why?
45:55Because there's no tax and it's parked in a public place.
45:57What's your name?
45:57I do have tax.
45:58No, no you don't.
46:00No, you're for it.
46:02I think no idea's the best.
46:02No, lad.
46:03You are being detained under section 23 for the misuse of drug sex for the purpose of a search
46:06because of the smell of cannabis off you are, right?
46:08You're saying I saw?
46:08I will search you away now, alright?
46:10Your hand's on your popsy, good lad.
46:11Do you have anything on you?
46:12No, I don't.
46:13Were you running through the bushes?
46:14Oh, was I running through the bushes?
46:15Oh, were you, I said?
46:16No.
46:17Huh?
46:18I would never run through the bushes and clean enough now, pal.
46:22Oh, wait.
46:23I have everything.
46:24You don't have tax, lad?
46:25I think surely you don't get too much.
46:26My mother paid for it.
46:27Is that on display?
46:28It's not on display, unfortunately.
46:29The car's not, lad, the car's not taxed.
46:31Who bought the car?
46:33None.
46:34Four grand.
46:34Geez, they're very good to you.
46:36Yeah.
46:38How much is your insurance?
46:39Four grand.
46:41We only ever really deal with criminals and high-end criminals and people who don't want
46:45to engage with us or interact with us.
46:48They get caught, they go to jail.
46:50They can't bring their luxuries with them into jail.
46:52And this is what they want, to live the lavish lifestyle.
46:54This morning's operation has yielded several thousand euros worth of heroin and crack cocaine.
46:59Over 3,000 euros in cash has also been seized and a drug's den dismantled.
47:05That's a great result, now, lad.
47:07Yeah?
47:07That's good.
47:08That is a great result.
47:10What is that it is with about 15?
47:12It's 140 euros for the first one and I think it's, is it 200 euros a day after that?
47:17I have no clue, I think it's only 30 hours a day or something.
47:19Yeah, yeah.
47:20You can see he's making so much money there he didn't even care.
47:22Yeah.
47:23He's laughing at us like.
47:24Absolutely.
47:24We had massive problems with drug dealing going on over here.
47:27So what they were doing is they were buying their drugs and they were coming over here
47:30to the, to the back of the, um, the creche, right?
47:33And they were, they were, they were smoking or injecting at the back of the creche.
47:39But this, this kind of road, there's, this works here is kind of destructive.
47:43Like, people have to remember, they're not the problem.
47:47Of course, they're buying it.
47:49They're not, they're not helping the situation.
47:50But these lads are force-fed fucking crack until they're addicted on it.
47:55Supply and demand, shouldn't it?
48:01There is certain properties over the years in the island have been especially adapted
48:05for the sale and supply of crack cocaine and heroin by the, the organised criminal groups.
48:10At the height, the houses were not even boarded up.
48:13Concrete blocks, pipes feeding out through doors and people selling and supplying crack
48:17cocaine and heroin out through this pipe.
48:19There's a certain type of fear there then in relation to the OCGs or the organised criminal
48:23groups operating within this area.
48:25And people have a huge fear in relation to, to not engaging with guards or not talking
48:31to guards, which is understandable.
48:33The people that are living down there, I would say that they're at their wits' end, to be honest.
48:37In relation to the, the amount of foot traffic of addicts between kids going to school,
48:43there's a creche at the entrance to it, playgrounds.
48:45Like, it has a huge effect, like, and addicts, as, as we know, all they're interested in is
48:51obviously getting their hit or getting their fix and they're not thinking about the young
48:54child that might pick up the needle or the young child that might pick up the burnt tin file.
48:58That has a huge negative effect on people living down the area.
49:05The End
49:05The End
49:40You're looking at 12, 13-year-old juveniles who were recording themselves a wholesale committing
49:45crime. You have young, young persons who have gone to the stage that they're just, they're
49:50on control of it. It's entertaining for them. They need to be taking over to society for
49:55a while.
49:57Fuck him, he's not getting a job.
49:58For a public order?
49:59Public order.
50:00Yeah.
50:00If you can't learn to do what you're told, how will these anyone employ you?
50:03But this is life lesson for you. You learn from it.
50:06It's simple.
50:34I don't know.
50:35I don't know.
50:50I don't know.
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