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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?
15:26No, no, no, no.
15:32No, no.
15:35There's something in thellenble up there.
15:47Yeah, wonderful.
15:49No.
15:49Garda-Chycona's Rhodes Policing Service.
15:54Texting, texting, texting, texting, texting.
15:57That's the one you want.
15:59Can't deny it.
16:01I'm looking at you.
16:02You're looking at me.
16:05Definitely a phone.
16:07Oh, 100%.
16:10How are you doing?
16:11Your driving license on you, please.
16:14And there I could see
16:15this person texting on the roundabout.
16:18If somebody runs out in front of you,
16:20you know, that split second.
16:22You're sitting on your phone.
16:24You're not going to see it.
16:25You know why I stopped you?
16:27You're holding the mobile phone while driving.
16:29I don't.
16:29I'm just looking for what I'm at.
16:32The fence is holding the mobile phone while driving.
16:34Okay.
16:38All the mod cons are in the car now.
16:39All the Bluetooth, everything.
16:41And still, they have to have it in their hand.
16:42They just can't put it down.
16:44The penalty is three penalty points
16:45and 120 euro filing, all right?
16:48Good man.
16:51Just be careful going out there now.
16:57You're not impressed, is it?
17:00He really didn't care what we were doing.
17:04You know, he kind of was kind of looking at us and like,
17:06what's the big deal?
17:09Well, that never happens.
17:10You never get somebody just coming along like that there
17:12and 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.
17:17You see it.
17:19Well, he didn't.
17:21Based in Carrick Macross in Monaghan,
17:23Gardie, Bernie and Samantha are part of the Monaghan Cabin Rhodes Policing Unit
17:27and have been working together just over a year.
17:31They launched Operation Guide last July.
17:34They wanted a real focus on Rose Policing in Carrick Macross
17:38and they decided to team myself and Bernie up together.
17:41I think I spend more time with Samantha than I would at home, really,
17:43because we're six days on and we'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, you haven't got sick of me.
17:57So, yes.
17:58Yes.
18:06While out on routine patrol,
18:08their attention is drawn to a car following a notification
18:11from their car's ANPR system.
18:13Did you see that car burning?
18:15Yeah, no tax.
18:17Oh, shit.
18:18I wonder if he's gone on here.
18:26ANPR, or Automatic Number Plate Recognition,
18:29is a technology that automatically scans vehicle registrations
18:33and notifies the Gardie 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, how 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.
19:07Have you got your driving license on you, please?
19:09I do.
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.
19:34Just 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 drug 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.
20:09Cannabis has come up here on the stick for me.
20:10Yeah, look.
20:11All right.
20:12Yeah.
20:12No, no, dead on.
20:14Look, I'm just going to arrest you now, all right, on the section.
20:16We'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, and maybe given evidence.
20:22All right?
20:23He was arrested, cautioned, and taken to Carrivencross, Scarra 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,
20:42but 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,
20:52but at the end of the day, you have a job to do, and that's...
20:55you have to do it to the best of your ability.
21:07With the suspect for the machete robbery still at large,
21:11Waterford City's crime unit are in the process of obtaining as much evidence as possible from the scene.
21:17One of the city's most senior detectives seeks out all relevant CCTV
21:21in the hope of identifying the person behind this shocking incident.
21:26From the experience that I have, I would know what cameras...
21:29Say, for example, the shopping centre.
21:31Well, there's three entrances and exits into the shopping centre,
21:34so he has to pass one of them to get to the shop.
21:41You piece as many pieces as you can together in the hope that you get a picture.
21:48We looked at entrances in and out, and then basically what you do then,
21:52you analyse it, if 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.
22:03I suppose roughly a kilometre in circular fashion.
22:08And then you just keep moving out and keep moving out until you get him.
22:13I joined the Guards in December 1986.
22:16I 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
22:38looking at CCTV footage in relation to that incident.
22:42And as a result of the experience I got with that,
22:45and then when looking at CCTV footage, I'm very patient.
22:49I can stare at a screen for a long time.
22:52Then when you get involved in all the major incidents
22:54that are in Waterford,
22:57you get to know where the CCTV cameras are,
22:59you know where the good ones are, you know where the bad ones are.
23:02Under the present rules of evidence, it's very important.
23:05It's nearly as important as forensics now at this stage.
23:08With hours of footage to draw through,
23:11Joe begins the painstaking work
23:12of trying to find a clear visual of the suspect.
23:15Basically what you're looking at here is
23:17three entrances into the shopping centre.
23:22That's the jeweller's shop there.
23:24So we know he came from this side.
23:31That's him arriving.
23:32You can see the green bike.
23:41So there you have to see that.
23:43I did ask to come up there.
23:45And he heads in the door.
23:52Now he comes in here now.
23:55So straight away you know
23:57he's come from that direction.
24:00As you can see, fairly intimidating.
24:16You think there that he'd be a big, strong individual thinking thing.
24:20He could be wearing two or three jackets to make himself look big.
24:23He's wearing a baseball hat.
24:25He's wearing a hood underneath it.
24:27The possibility that he'd discards the baseball hat.
24:31He had hoped that he would.
24:34So he goes left.
24:44So straight away from that,
24:46you can see he went out that entrance.
24:56This is him leaving the robbery, coming down.
25:00The laneway, that's on the laneway.
25:02So he goes in there.
25:03As soon as he left, somebody ran after him.
25:05So what we can see on the footage is
25:07your man is coming running after him.
25:09He stops at the end of the alleyway.
25:11So 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,
25:25find a camera there to show us
25:29which way he went.
25:36See?
25:38That's the alleyway.
25:41OK.
25:42Now, as you can see,
25:43he's changed.
25:44Jacket's no longer blue.
25:46So he's got rid of the baseball hat.
25:49But you still have the trousers
25:50with the distinctive mark.
25:53You still have the runners on
25:54with 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
26:05that has 98 cameras.
26:07Do you know?
26:08So, I mean, if you don't catch him on that,
26:09you're at 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.
26:34And he's across the street.
26:44The next camera.
26:45Let's go.
26:58Oh,
27:16Because I'm probably at it so long now, you're going, right, I've got this bit, now where
27:22am 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
27:47right.
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 solve that one
28:02now.
28:03What about this one?
28:04And what about this one?
28:05And 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
28:20normally run down.
28:22And I suppose, look, we were lucky.
28:24We 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
29:11with this job, you get to know what way the public would be.
29:18Do you know what he's just thinking, s***?
29:20I haven't seen you in ages.
29:22No, I haven't.
29:22What?
29:23That's right.
29:24I'm keeping well.
29:25Did you get a new car?
29:26Oh, jeez.
29:27Jesus 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?
29:34But...
29:34Hot water, what?
29:35Is right.
29:35F***ing look after yourself.
29:37Take 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...
29:55Well, you've re-stopped now.
29:57I know, so listen, you want to get out of here before the guards stop you.
30:01Take care.
30:01Bye bye.
30:11While conducting the checkpoint, they get a call reporting a potential drunk driver
30:15seen driving 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?
31:00What's the matter?
31:00Are you well?
31:02What's the crack?
31:03I'm pretty good.
31:04Yeah?
31:05Why do you think I stopped you, a good man?
31:09I don't know.
31:10Straight away, as soon as I started speaking to him, you could get the smell of alcohol on his breast.
31:16May I ask you a question? Have you had one or two wee drinks, have you?
31:19I had a couple there, yeah.
31:20Listen, I'm just going to caution you at the moment, all right?
31:23You're not obliged to say unless you wish to do so.
31:25Whatever you do say will be taken down, right?
31:26Maybe given evidence, all right?
31:28Okay?
31:29Just switch off the ignition if you can.
31:31Please.
31:32I've formed the opinion that you've committed an offence.
31:34I think you've been drink driving, okay?
31:37No, no, I disagree with you.
31:38You disagree with me?
31:39Okay, right, 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 it,
31:50take a chance again.
31:51I don't know how it is.
31:52It's hard to describe it.
31:54It's unfortunate.
31:57Just step out of the vehicle, okay?
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, okay?
32:09Under suspicion of drink driving, the suspect is arrested
32:12and brought back to the station to undergo tests
32:14to determine the alcohol level in their system.
32:17But there's always going to be somebody that will chance it.
32:21Do you know what I mean?
32:22And we have to, we're on the roads trying to find them people
32:24that are willing to take the risk.
32:27Not only they're risking their own lives,
32:29they're risking everybody else's life that's on the road.
32:33This is Garda Amy Cowell.
32:35Amy Cowell, this is Garda Amy Cowell.
32:37She is the member in charge of this station.
32:39Have you ingested taking 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
33:02for 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
33:15fatal traffic accidents or serious incidents.
33:18They don't take into consideration the lesser ones
33:23where somebody may have gotten seriously badly hurt.
33:26They don't make the news,
33:28but they are a lot more frequent, a lot more often
33:31than people may think or understand.
33:35Looks like you're getting a large specimen.
33:40Yep.
33:41If you're going to hand that to the nurse now,
33:43she will be able to do the rest of the process, OK?
33:45They take a turn or a bend in the road,
33:48a foot over the line,
33:49and they meet an oncoming car,
33:51and then it's not nice what you see,
33:53not nice what you have to deal with.
34:04143.
34:06142.
34:09As high as today, isn't it?
34:11Yep.
34:13Some drivers are mortified to be stopped.
34:15Other ones just don't care.
34:18Checked 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,
34:32Gardie, Bernie and Samantha have witnessed all that the job entails.
34:37I suppose every day we go out, there's challenges.
34:40You could be taking cows off the road in the morning,
34:43and by the time you finish your shift, you've dealt with maybe a fatal traffic collision.
34:51Growing up in a small town, there would have been a lot of car accidents and fatalities, you know,
34:55with people around my age, then as a teenager.
34:59You see the absolute heartache and just...
35:03It's horrendous.
35:05So even if you can just stop one person from...
35:09You've done your job.
35:10Yeah.
35:10Yeah.
35:10Yeah.
35:11Yeah.
35:11You know, look.
35:14It 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
35:27and collisions that cause serious injury on that road,
35:29because it's such 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.
35:58Like, their lives are devastated and they'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?
36:18Serious reason, like, yeah.
36:22143.
36:25142.
36:25Get in!
36:30A van, too.
36:34A van, too.
36:48That's highs today, isn't it?
36:49Yeah.
37:05Look, what we're doing there was a speed checkpoint, OK? So, detective vehicle travelling at a speed of 142. If
37:10you want to look in there, you can see it.
37:13You just didn't seem to understand what was the problem. They're on the road and they're doing that speed. And
37:19it's crazy to think that that doesn't bother them.
37:22OK.
37:22There's my licence back. All right. Look, I'll be using a ticket relating to the speed, all right? And the
37:26ticket will come in the post to that address on your driver's licence.
37:28OK.
37:28All right. OK. Good luck.
37:30All right.
37:31That's it. Yeah, thanks. Good luck.
37:40Is that it?
37:41That's it.
37:43What more? What more do you want from me?
37:49The difference in having a road traffic collision at 142 kilometres per hour to having a collision at a reduced
37:56speed is massive.
38:00Some drivers are mortified to be stopped. Other ones just don't care. And they'll just always remain the same. You'll
38:08never change them.
38:10Go to the driver's licence, please.
38:12Sorry.
38:12Driver's licence, please.
38:14Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:16It's never an accident. It's always somebody's mistake. Somebody's done something wrong. Somebody's distracted. Someone's had an intoxicant in their
38:23body.
38:24They're just not paying attention. It's an error on someone's behalf. And that's our job, is to try and change
38:30their behaviours.
38:35It's never just an accident.
38:45We do want to check off road. Up by Turnock on the Mile Hill Road.
38:50Yeah? Yeah.
38:51Yeah. We'll go do that. And we'll do that for a bit of crack. See who's about.
39:02Oh.
39:05Well, there's an ambulance and a fire brigade, isn't it?
39:07Fire brigade, yeah.
39:09Jesus fucking Christ.
39:14I'll get out and we'll see if we can be of assistance or something.
39:16Let's see what the story is.
39:18Amy, I'm just going to move this up. Yeah.
39:20It was a quiet enough midweek night. And as we were heading back in towards Casablania, we observed the flashy
39:25blue lights of an ambulance and fire brigade.
39:29It's just common courtesy just to stop and say, do you need a hand? It's nice to offer help, even
39:35if it's not needed.
39:36How are you? How are you?
39:37Is everything all right? We just...
39:39See you then. How do you rest?
39:41Unresponsive.
39:58At any one time, you have to be ready to deal with these life-changing, life-altering, horrific situations.
40:09And then once it's done and dealt with, you're back in to deal with something else, something completely different.
40:15We do deal with a lot of traumatic incidents. It can be harrowing at times.
40:21Like, you can imagine going to a traffic accident where somebody's passed away. Like, that's horrific.
40:30But one of the other things that I'll always remember is, and it's always going to stick with me, is
40:35the harrowing moment of when you tell a parent that their son or daughter or their loved one has passed
40:42away by suicide.
40:45That's horrible because you hear the heart-breaking 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 and I can still
41:02hear the screaming.
41:07These things do play in your head and it's a matter of opening up and talking about them. I find
41:12that a great help.
41:18That's one thing I will credit 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 needed help, there was the service there from the gathering, inspire counselling
41:44and the support I've gotten then from,
41:48number one, first and foremost, like my wife, with, like, yeah, like it's, yeah.
42:05So we all have a vulnerable side, don't we, Aidan?
42:09Yeah.
42:09So we do.
42:12Hey, come on.
42:13Are you alright?
42:13Yeah, yeah, yeah.
42:23Oh, fuck.
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 that are dealing with a member
43:03of 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, this could very well be a medical emergency.
43:32The ambulance crew are standing by waiting for guards.
43:36The ambulance 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 is 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.
44:19Yeah.
44:19Oh, they have him in the back.
44:21Okay.
44:23Okay.
44:30How are you?
44:31Yeah.
44:32So, he's doing the usual.
44:33It's just, we're just sick of taking the problem now at this stage.
44:36We're getting verbally abusive with us again, saying that he's going to kill us and all this kind of shit
44:40and whacking his 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.
44:50And there was a frustration there.
44:52Last time I was here, I was 40 minutes late to a cardiac arrest.
44:55Yeah.
44:55Yeah.
44:56I'll have a chat with him.
44:58It's very difficult to do assessments on him when he's in the state.
45:02It's more so the day afterwards.
45:04Because you've probably never seen him so much, nor have I.
45:08Will you talk to me?
45:09Hey, I've met you here before.
45:12No, I've met you before.
45:15I've been in this situation with 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.
45:33Get the fuck with them.
45:35I'll fucking kill them all.
45:37All right.
45:38Stop, please.
45:39Stop.
45:39Stop.
45:40Stop.
45:41Stop.
45:41Stop.
45:48Stop it.
45:51There's also a behavioral element involved in this where the person was banging his head, and self-harming in that
46:01capacity in the ambulance.
46:04We're all here to help you.
46:05Do you not understand?
46:07I want to stop you.
46:09What?
46:09But there's people.
46:10I can help you.
46:12I want to speak to you tomorrow.
46:14I want to speak to you tomorrow.
46:14And I want to try.
46:15I'll speak to you tomorrow.
46:17Okay.
46:17Good.
46:20The individual agreed at that point for me and the team to come out to see what we can do
46:25for him.
46:29Okay.
46:30Okay.
46:32Okay.
46:33Sorry.
46:34Look, 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 cases.
47:01I appreciate your frustration with it.
47:03It's the same on our side.
47:04It's not even...
47:05See you later, Ciara.
47:06See you now.
47:06Thanks.
47:07We're actually concerned for him too.
47:09Yeah.
47:09He's in a bad way, and he's not getting the help he needs, so hopefully this will help.
47:13Yeah.
47:13And sure, for yourselves as well.
47:15It's going to burn you out as well.
47:17I mean, this is part of CAST to try and lessen these specific cases.
47:25Oh, it's incredibly difficult for the Ambulance Services Day.
47:30I have enormous respect for the Ambulance Services.
47:35A 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 other side of
47:50it.
47:53We may talk about the Ambulance yard shame and worse.
48:04We can try and lose.
49:13You have the impression that the suspect is a bad person.
49:17The reality is when you break it down, there was also a vulnerable person on the other side of this
49:22investigation.
49:23I don't believe that you intended to ruin someone's life, but I have to get justice for the person that
49:30has made the complaint.
50:12I don't believe that you intended to ruin someone's life, but I have to get justice for the person that
50:12has made the complaint.
50:15I don't believe that you intended to ruin someone's life, but I have to get justice for the person that
50:17has made the complaint.
50:17I don't believe that you intended to ruin someone's life, but I have to get justice for the person that
50:17has made the complaint.
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