SIREN WAILS
JOHN THOMSON: This is Police Interceptors.
Get on the ground! Police interceptors? Real-life one?
I'm gonna tell my kids about this.
And you're riding with the pride of Northamptonshire.
THUDDING, TYRES SCREECH
Come on! Ace pursuit drivers...
Contact, contact, contact. NPAS 5-1.
..with air support... Got two out. Standby.
DOG BARKS ..and the crack dog unit.
If you move, you will get bit.
Argh!
They bring down the bad guys... Police!
I believe you're wanted, mate. Police with a dog! Stand still!
..keep the streets safe...
Put your arms behind your back. Argh!
Get on the floor! ..and battle 24/7...
MOTORBIKE ENGINE REVS
Get down on the floor. ..in the war on crime.
Crash, crash.
On the floor now!
Is what it is, innit? We find them, we lock them up.
Coming up... Get a box on, get a box on.
..a dangerous driver refuses to play ball...
Why...?
Get on the floor. On the ground now.
Armed police. Open the building, show yourself.
..Horts Northampton is concealing a big secret...
..and... Decamp.
..hide and seek with suspected car thieves.
Come on, mate, what are you running for?
Just have a chat.
SIREN WAILS
Dog handler Lucy Sculthorpe is responding to a call
reporting a burglary at an allegedly empty house.
Caller's reported that he thinks he's seen four people
dressed all in black with faces covered coming out of the address,
so we're just gonna go and see if there has been a burglary
and see if we can potentially use Bryn to track.
DOG BARKS
On scene, Lucy gets the lowdown.
The side gate is open. Yeah.
There's a window... ground-floor window open. OK.
Go and have a look if you wanna... wanted to take the dog up there.
Do we know which way they've supposedly gone off?
No, no idea.
The burglary gang have left a few clues behind.
There's a massive machete holder there.
An empty machete case ditched next to a pool of blood.
It's definitely been burgled.
If the masked machete gang fled on foot...
DOG BARKS
..Lucy's hoping German shepherd super tracker Bryn
will be able to sniff them out.
Come on. Bryn, track on.
One-seven. We have tracked left out of the property,
down to the crossroads.
I'm just trying to pick it up at the crossroads, see where it goes.
Lucy says the best advice she's ever received
during her 16 years in the job
is to always trust your dog,
and it's no wonder.
Equipped with a sense of smell
up to 100,000 times more refined than a human's...
One-seven. We're still tracking quite strongly.
..Bryn's locked on to a lingering scent trail.
Yeah.
Tracking along street...
..after street...
..straight up to a block of flats.
Dog says they went in there.
Due to the threat of lethal weapons like machetes,
the firearms team are arriving to check out Bryn's lead.
Armed police. Come to the door.
Two people answer.
The dog's tracked here. They follow the most recent bit of human scent.
WOMAN:
The residents have returned from a night out
and were not involved in the burglary.
Potentially what's happened is, if the actual offenders...
if they've jumped into a vehicle and driven off,
then the only human scent available to Bryn
would have been these people that were walking back.
So he's absolutely done his job,
and he's tracked a considerable distance,
straight to this address, and he's completely right,
but we don't think they're involved in the actual offence tonight.
Yes.
But a spot on track means Bryn still reaps the rewards.
You good boy.
Are you a good boy? Yeah.
SHE LAUGHS
Back at the crime scene...
..the firearms team are preparing to search
the large, reportedly empty house.
It's an armed enquiry, but we do it a like a deliberate.
Just nice and steady, nice and slow. Yeah.
Just look up and look down. Whenever you're ready.
The team can't take any chances.
If the gang are still inside, they could be wielding a machete.
Armed police. Open the building, show yourself.
No response.
Armed police!
Open the building. Come to the door with nothing in your hands.
Cool.
The team are going in...
..armed with rifles, pistols and taser.
Large, like, living room.
One room is piled high with rubbish.
Just be careful. There's a wire going into it.
There's rewired electrics and a fortified kitchen door.
Just for the team lead.
One of the internal doors straight from the kitchen
into the rest of the property is wedged shut.
Rather than a random burglary of an empty property,
it looks like something else is going on here.
Someone's gone to a lot of trouble to keep both cops and robbers out.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Hit with 16kg of hardened steel,
the rock-solid door is barely budging.
Go again.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Cracking it slightly ajar, they spot something.
Yeah, it's got a bolt across the top, I think.
It's bolted at the top and bottom.
Good job they packed the ripsaw.
SAW BUZZES
Slicing through the double-bolted barricade...
..finally, they're in.
Question is, what's hidden inside Northampton's answer to Fort Knox?
JOHN THOMSON: On a suburban street in Northampton...
Armed police. Open the building.
Come to the door with nothing in your hands.
..the firearms team are searching a large house
which has been targeted by a masked, machete-wielding burglary gang.
Inside, it's clear this isn't your average home.
Just be careful. There's a wire going into there. Yeah.
And after ripping through the kitchen's fortress-like defences...
..they're ready to see who or what lies beyond.
You all right to hold that?
Here.
Yeah, confirmed. Grow, yeah? Yeah.
It's a huge cannabis grow.
Yeah, room clear.
Big operations like this usually have live-in gardeners,
who can be armed to protect the plants.
So the team strategically sweep the house...
..searching each room one by one.
There's multiple rooms with cannabis on level two.
Interceptors have busted a highly secure,
three-storey cannabis jungle.
The suspects and gardeners have fled.
Room clear. Out.
Yeah, room clear. Can I get out? Because it stinks.
Outside, Lucy's got a theory on the night's events.
What's likely to have happened is that a group of people have come
with the intention of burgling the cannabis grow
and stealing the cannabis from within it.
Hence why there was a machete sheath that's been dropped.
So it all kind of fits together now that that's what's happened.
As the house is confirmed all clear...
..Lucy gives the grand tour.
They're really mature plants, by the looks of it.
They're pretty big,
and they look about ready to be harvested, I would say.
So, that's all rubbish.
Might be associated with the cannabis factory, I guess.
I don't think we need a torch up here.
It's, like, brighter than the sun.
On the first floor,
there's another three large rooms packed with plants.
You can see from the size of the plants
and how sophisticated it is as a set-up,
it's... it's really valuable.
And on the top floor, a vast cannabis nursery.
Goes all round the corner as well.
From what I remember,
the £1,000 a plant is roughly what it's worth in terms of street value,
once it's been harvested.
£200,000 worth of plants here, potentially.
But it's not just one house that's been converted into a cannabis farm.
Is that next door? Yeah. Yeah. Still...
The interceptors have discovered a makeshift hatch
leading into the house next door.
I'd imagine there's a pre-planned escape route,
in case anyone comes into this one or that one,
then they can get out into the other one...
..which might be what's happened during the burglary.
Unbelievably, it looks like the criminals
were doubling their money...
That's a massive room.
..with a second multi-floor cannabis factory next door.
They're all pretty mature plants, apart from those ones.
They're babies.
In total, approximately 600 cannabis plants,
with a potential street value of around £600,000, are seized.
It is a nice area here,
and it is actually surprisingly common
that these sort of houses are used for cannabis grows,
because if you have a cannabis grow in a tiny flat,
you're not really gonna get very much profit of it,
so they tend to use bigger houses.
And they've become quite clever at concealing them.
You know, they make it look from the front
like a respectable property.
They keep the grass cut, and things like that,
so that people aren't necessarily suspicious of it.
This is, like, serious organised crime.
Hopefully, find some forensic evidence along the way
and link it back to people and get people arrested for it.
Fingerprints identified a suspect in relation to the burglary,
who is now a wanted man.
After a police investigation into the cannabis cultivation,
no further action was taken.
When Northamptonshire's interceptors want to operate in stealth mode,
they've got a fleet of unmarked cars at the ready...
..including armed response's solid Volvo XC90s
and the pokey BMW 340i.
The unmarked cars are really good for us.
Quite simply, because it's unmarked, people don't see us,
so we're able to patrol under the radar, if that makes sense.
We're just able to catch people a lot more.
Although patrolling incognito doesn't always go according to plan.
Under the guise of an unmarked BMW...
He's gone left again.
..Interceptors Rachel McCreedy and Chris Guttridge
are watching a driver with a dodgy brake light
on his third late-night loop around the block.
What was he doing? Dunno.
Does he think he's about to get robbed or summat?
It could be a case of mistaken identity.
Shall we just pull it over?
I wonder if he thinks he's being followed.
A burst of the blues should put the driver's fears to bed.
We've lit him up, and he's stopping now.
You all right, mate? Were you worried we were someone else? Yeah.
It turns out the driver was worried he was being tailed and dialled 999.
He said to me, "Keep driving round the block,
"work out where I'm going." SHE LAUGHS
No, it's sound. No, mate, you've got a brake light out.
Just get it sorted. All right, dude, take care. Take care.
False alarm.
I thought we were game on then.
However, they only get one minute down the road
when being in the unmarked works in their favour.
Whoa!
They've clocked a speeding driver.
Well, that's gonna go... That's going.
Now it's game on.
We're left, left, left.
Upton Way, north.
The driver's ignoring the blues... and the reds.
Through red ATS, medium risk. We're left, left, left. 4-500.
General direction of junction 16.
Whipping left, the bloke is putting his foot down...
INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER
..as he rallies along residential roads.
RADIO:'What's the reason that you wanted to stop the vehicle?'
Nearly crashed into us.
He nearly crashed into us driving at excess speed.
Make sure he don't reverse round.
RADIO:'We'll get a stinger site out.'
To get the dangerous driver stopped,
there's already a firearms car at the next junction.
They're flying in front for a box.
Stand by, vehicle. SIREN WAILS
Get a box on, get a box on.
Box on, box on.
Two-car box...
INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER
..denied.
The unmarked Volvo takes a hit.
ARV one, we've been rammed by the vehicle.
As the suspect barges past them.
Into the estate, speed is three-zero.
Risk is now medium.
Rachel tucks in behind.
Keep going, keep going. Follow, follow.
You might get a box on here.
Suddenly, the driver's slowing right down.
'It's gonna be a decamp in the car park.
'We have a dog, as well, with us.'
Rather than running, he's stopping for a woman in a dressing gown.
'Location?'
Hands behind your back. Hands behind your back.
You're under arrest, mate.
Dangerous driving, failing to stop for police.
WOMAN:Get off of me. Get out the way, then.
Get off of me. Go out of the way.
And criminal damage. Brilliant.
You rammed our car, so that's definitely...
In a strange turn of events, the suspect has driven home,
and while he seems keen to chat to his lady friend...
Babe, come here, come here, come here. Yo, don't... Baby?
..he's not so forthcoming with the interceptors.
What's your name?
They're getting the silent treatment.
How old are you, chap? How old are you, please?
We require a specimen of breath from you.
It's a simply question.
RADIO:Either way, Patrol...
Do you understand if you don't provide this,
I'll arrest you for that,
and that'll be another offence you'll be charged with?
What you doing? Where you going? Getting in the car.
You're not. We're not finished. Is that a refusal? Refusal?
Get in the car. Right, I'm further arresting you
for failing to comply with a preliminary breath test.
I also wanna do a preliminary drug wipe with you
to test for saliva. Happy to give me a sample of saliva, or not?
I think we can guess the response.
If you stay in silence, I'm gonna take that as a refusal. No?
I'm further arresting you for failing to provide a drug wipe.
I've done nothing wrong. You haven't done nothing wrong?
Mm-mm.
You put your car in front of me. What did you do to me?
When you drive... You nearly crashed into us, then you took off at speed.
No. No, I didn't.
Right, OK. OK. Yep, all right.
After nine years policing the roads,
Chris knows dangerous driving when he sees it.
Although the suspect's excuse might be a new one.
Did the blue lights not give it away?
SHE LAUGHS
I've got people after me that have blue lights on their cars too.
Mate, don't give us that rubbish.
Is that the correct way of an officer speaking to me, yeah?
Mate, I'm just not having it.
The reason I have people after me, trying to kill me,
is because you... Mate...
..are after me as well. Stop messing around.
What you talking about? Why...?
Get on the floor. On the ground now.
Out of nowhere, the erratic suspect is kicking off.
Put your leg out. Put your leg out.
Stop tensing up, and put your legs out.
Cops bind his legs with straps to help them gain control.
Right, roll him onto his side. We've got his legs secure.
Chris needs to get to the bottom of who the unpredictable bloke is
and finds a bank card in his pocket.
Terry Northgate-Packer? No.
Why you got his cards, then? Northgate?
I don't know who Northgate is.
You're further under arrest on suspicion of theft, then.
OFFICER READS POLICE CAUTION
Read it properly. Read it properly. Read it properly.
Read it properly! My name is Norgate, not Northgate.
A simple mistake.
The suspect is de-arrested for theft,
but that doesn't stop his anger from spiralling.
You smashed my face on the floor for no reason, bro!
BLEEP
I promise you now. Take cuffs off, I'll fight you now.
Just calm down, buddy. Calm down?!
You weren't saying that when further arresting me, bro!
I want him away. Get your sergeant here.
I want him off the case.
Safe to say he's not Chris's biggest fan.
Read the correct name, you... little scumbag.
Get these cuffs off, I'll fight you, man on man, I promise you now.
Yeah, obviously, he doesn't like me.
The best thing to do in that situation is, if you can,
like I have, just step away
and let that fizzle out and someone else take over.
And he seems to have calmed down a little bit.
Get me a cigarette out.
After the driver's violent threats,
the cops have had to call for a van to deliver him to custody.
He's not stopped for us, I suspect,
because he's under the influence of drugs.
There may well be another reason we'll get to the bottom of.
Cheers, guys. Thank you. See you down there.
The speeds he was driving through that residential space
was... dangerous. It was scary.
If anybody had been walking,
they'd have been dead if he'd crashed into them.
At the nick, the volatile driver,
who seems to have forgotten about his beef with Chris,
is given a second opportunity to clear his name.
Do you agree to provide two specimens of breath for analysis?
Erm, no.
He's sticking to his story...
I know people that have blue lights on their cars and chase people.
..and refuses the tests.
As much as you may think my driving isn't excusable, right,
if I have people trying to kill me,
your role is to protect me
as well as protecting people from me.
Everyone else you could have killed tonight with your driving. No.
Conversation's over.
And with that, he's off to the cells.
He's decided that through this entire incident,
he's now the victim, and we're the ones that are in the wrong
because we targeted him for no reason whatsoever.
What he's forgetting is he's nearly crashed into us.
And now he's got caught doing something wrong,
he's trying to wiggle his way out of it,
which... we're not having any of.
In a turn-up for the books,
the suspect later pleaded guilty to criminal damage to a police car,
dangerous driving, and failing to provide.
He was banned from driving for over three-and-a-half years
and sentenced to 18-and-a-half months behind bars.
No legal action was taken for failing to stop.
Coming up...
Six-one, you've got myself and six-four behind you.
..TPAC units assemble to stop a stolen car.
RADIO:'Vehicle is failing to stop, speed three-zero.'
...and... a cross-country race
with a suspected drug dealer.
Stay there now! Police officer with a taser!
Taser! Taser!
OFFICER:Watch yourself, watch yourself.
JOHN THOMSON: Over 61,000 cars were reported stolen in the UK last year.
It's off-road now, off-road.
As soon as the interceptors detect a nicked motor on the move...
..it's all systems go with tactics to get the car stopped.
Oh, that's tactical contact with it.
DOG BARKS And the suspect's locked up.
You're under arrest
on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle.
DOG BARKS
A Vauxhall Astra stolen a few days ago in Suffolk
is triggering ANPR cameras on the outskirts of Northampton.
TPAC-trained advanced driver Scott Kimberley
is racing to intercept.
At the moment, we're just making up to the next junction
it should come to,
and we've got other colleagues in the area as well.
There is a possibility it might fail to stop if it does clock us,
so we're trying to get all our resources there
as quickly as possible and get it stopped as safely as possible.
Scott's dream patrol car would be a Lamborghini Aventador.
At least tonight, he's in the saddle
of his top unmarked motor...
..the rapid BMW 340i.
Yeah, copy. We've just gone through Brafield-on-the-Green.
And he's harnessing its 382 ponies to catch up with the nicked motor.
It's just left up here, so we're not too far behind it now.
ANPR hits show the target is powering west towards town.
Six-one, you've got myself and six-four behind you.
HORN BEEPS
A convoy of unmarked cars are assembling.
Their tactic of choice, a three-car box.
RADIO:'Romeo Papa, you've got the quickest car. We'll let you past.'
In case the driver boots it, a firearms unit drops back,
allowing the two high-performance roads policing cars,
including fellow interceptors Locky and Scott, to surge forward.
'Two-one. We've got contact with that vehicle.'
Ahead of them...
Just in front of. That's the one.
..a dog handler in another plain car
has got behind the stolen grey Vauxhall Astra.
'Have I got a TPAC car directly behind me?'
You've got three.
'Roger. I'll go all the way around the roundabout.
'You guys take over. It's going the second exit.
'Boughton Green Road.'
Six-four, we're the new pursuit commander.
The suspect probably has no idea he's got cops from roads,
firearms and the dog unit on his tail.
'Indication into Kelmarsh Avenue, offside.'
However, as the driver moves onto tighter roads in a housing estate...
Offside indication, Campus Drive.
..there's no opportunity to strike with a box.
This comes back straight onto Boughton Green Road.
This is a return route.
And it looks like the interceptors have been rumbled.
I think it's probably testing us.
So, it's just done a bit of a weird route,
because that's just done a loop of the estate.
Continuing the circuit of the estate,
the suspected car thief starts picking up a little speed.
'We're now right, right, right.
'Onto Brockhall Road now.
'This vehicle is failing to stop, speed three-zero.'
'Get ready for a decamp onto the end of the road.'
Everyone knows which way this is going to go.
This is a dead end. We're gonna have to decamp.
'Brace for dead end.'
Two are out... and running.
Scott sets his sights on the driver...
Police! Stay where you are!
..who's legging it across a nature reserve.
Police with taser! Stay where you are!
The passenger is hot-footing it in the other direction.
Police officer with a dog! Stay where you are!
Darting behind a block of flats, he vanishes down a country track.
Hold my position here at the last point.
Finding two hideaways in around 60 hectares of wildlife park
is like the proverbial needle in a haystack.
Unless, like Scott, you've called in a sniffer dog.
DOG BARKS
Police officer. Stay there. DOG BARKS
Stay there! Stand up! Show me your hands!
At the moment, you're under arrest.
It's the driver.
You're under arrest. Turn around and face the bush.
Do not do anything stupid, cos you'll either get tasered or bitten,
or both, all right?
Suddenly, cuffs seem like the best option.
DOG BARKS
One detained.
DOG BARKS
One down, one to go.
Cops are trawling the country track for the passenger.
Come on, mate, what you running for? Just have a chat.
Hello, buddy. Taser. Come with me.
Bingo.
Come with me now. Turn around for me.
Turn around. Do not walk closer to me.
Turn around.
That's two out of two nicked on suspicion of theft,
and a stolen car recovered undamaged.
It sounds as though the driver also didn't recognise the unmarked fleet.
Clearly knew something was up with the car cos you ran.
I'll be honest, bro. I didn't see your car.
Why did you not blue-light from early, then? Huh?
I just seen people following us. Yeah.
Why would you not blue light from earlier?
When I was screaming "police",
you still weren't stopping, were you?
You disqual? No. Just provisional?
Added to the driver's list of potential offences
is driving without a licence or insurance, plus...
All the way out.
..a drugs wipe test indicates
he could be under the influence of cannabis.
So, whilst it's only an indication at the roadside
to say there's something in his system,
there's some element of impairment there,
he's still got it in his system, it'll still affect his driving.
The fact he's doing it without a licence, without insurance
and in a stolen car, it could have been
a bit of a recipe for disaster.
Following an investigation,
both suspects were released without charge for car theft.
The driver has been charged with drug-driving,
driving without a licence and insurance.
He awaits his day in court.
It's a cracking job for our team.
Certainly having our involvement, firearms, dogs,
it just goes to show when we work together,
when we're all singing off the same hymn sheet,
we get good results in.
Sunday lunchtime.
Alex Barry from the neighbourhood team
isn't planning on a day of rest.
I'm crewed with the one and only PC 586, Josh Unsworth,
the quickest man in town.
JOSH LAUGHS
It's a good shift. Good colleague if we get a foot chase as well.
I've never actually seen him lose one, so... Touch wood.
Shouldn't really say that on camera. Yeah, touch wood.
I've never seen him lose a shift. No pressure (!) No pressure, Josh.
We'll see what the shift brings.
Northamptonshire Police receive around 880 calls every day
from the public.
Alex and Josh are responding to the latest.
RADIO:'We've had a report of a potential drug deal.
'Two males. One exchanged a white bag for cash.'
A member of the public has called in a potential drug deal
on Eastfield Park,
so we're gonna check it out, see if anyone is there.
BEEPING
The boys split up, doubling their chances
of intercepting the suspected drug dealer.
Take a slight jog.
As Josh rounds a corner, he spots two men in the distance.
One is on a bike,
and the other... is on his toes.
Stay there now! Police officer with a taser!
Taser! Taser!
It's a full-pelt foot chase with the quickest man in town.
Taser!
The sprinting suspect can't shake Josh.
But as he darts across a road, a gap opens up.
Back in his school days, Josh's favourite lesson was PE.
He's always enjoyed a cross-country race,
which has stood him in good stead.
He's got a lot more in the tank than the runaway suspect.
Oh! What the...?!
Got him detained.
His flawless foot chase reputation lives on.
That was a long run.
Back-up is on hand,
and Josh's catch is detained for a stop and search.
Three, two, one. Up you get.
Right, what you got on you?
Got cannabis on me. What, just that?
Yeah.
Where's this cannabis? In my bag.
How much? I literally just smoked.
I was about to smoke another one, and you... Why did you run, then?
My legs... I can't even stand on 'em.
Can I please just lay down?
That marathon attempt seems like an awful lot of effort
for a small amount of cannabis.
Come on. Sit up.
You shouldn't run, then, should you?
So he's off to the station for a strip-search.
Can I have my joint back? You're not having your joint back.
Please. It's my last one.
Although he's got to make it back to the car first.
Yeah.
We'll get you a water at the nick, all right?
Yeah, he's tired, ran out of stamina towards the end,
which is quite common, to be honest.
Happy days for us.
The cyclist was an innocent bystander,
and the runner's strip-search was negative.
He was given a community resolution order
for possession of cannabis and a little relief for his dry mouth.
Cup of water, mate?
Does that feel better? Yeah.
Still to come...
Can you take us home, at least? No.
..seizing a car goes down remarkedly well.
All right? All right, chap? Well, I try my best.
You know what? They're not, to be fair, honestly.
JOHN THOMSON: Out on the road,
interceptors meet all sorts of characters.
I don't know which one I like the best here.
THEY LAUGH
Isn't he lovely? Talk briefly.
Whatever the reason for the encounter...
..it's always nice to be nice.
I really appreciate the fact that you didn't boot it,
cos it would have been a headache for me... And me.
And for you, when I'd have caught you.
If I can deal with someone at the roadside nice and calmly, then...
I'd much rather do that
than end up getting in a scrap with someone.
Cos I think you can catch more bees with honey than you do vinegar.
On the night shift,
Michael Hollowell has already seen a driver undertaking up ahead...
..and now...
..they're hitting the gas.
We've got 50, nearly 60mph, in a 30.
And a little bit of oversteer.
The roads are still busy.
64 in a 40.
One false move at these speeds could end in disaster.
He's not holding the road very well.
Michael's about to light up the blues
when the driver's next move makes life easier.
We'll just have a chat in the petrol station.
Switch your engine off.
So, just to explain what I saw, you went from lane two to lane one.
Undercut a car. Is that true? It's all true. My bad.
OK, you did 55 in a 30, then you did 65 in a 40.
Not good, is it? There's no excuse. OK.
A rare admission from the off.
Avid cyclist Michael joined the police at 34
and used to be on the bicycle traffic team in the Met.
Fast-forward two decades...
We'll start with the vehicle. I need to see your driving licence.
..his mild-mannered approach usually gets results.
Your vehicle? Yes.
Is it? Do you have a driving licence?
I don't have it with me. OK, what do you hold?
What licence do you hold? A Romanian driving licence.
The lad's got two mates in tow,
and they were planning on celebrating.
It's my friend's birthday. It's his birthday? Yeah.
It's his birthday. We were going to buy some drinks, going home.
But another night, I think.
THEY LAUGH
The birthday bash might still be on
if the chap can prove he's got a driving licence.
If not, Michael will be seizing his car.
They're your details? Yeah? That right?
Yeah. It says there "non-licence holder".
It's not looking good. So I need a UK driving licence now?
You haven't got a UK driving licence.
You've got a Romanian one.
But we don't keep Romanian driving licences on our database,
hence the reason why you must carry it with you.
How do I know you've got a driving licence? I don't, do I?
Licence aside, Michael also needs to rule out
whether drugs have anything to do with the poor driving,
using a drug wipe test.
Stick your tongue out. Right out.
Got a bigger tongue than that. Stick it right out. That's it.
Stick it out.
Come on, brother. Don't... Come on.
It's not... Come on, mate.
Look at this. We've got tongues.
They can laugh all they like.
God, blimey. We've all got big tongues.
HE COUGHS Right.
That'll test for cocaine and cannabis,
although, out of the blue, the driver coughs to something else.
I was banned. You was banned?
Yeah, for six months.
What, in the UK? Yeah, here in UK.
For no insurance. My ban finished. OK.
It finished six months ago. Right.
But if you were banned, then they would have created
what's called a ghost licence for you, a UK ghost licence.
You can't get points on a Romanian licence,
so we will call you a ghost licence in the UK.
They took the points from me. I don't know. OK. Well, we'll see.
The driver's ghost record,
created when someone with a foreign driving licence
commits motoring offences in the UK, is about to get more substantial.
Driving a vehicle with no licence
and driving a vehicle without due care and attention.
The due care and attention is your driving... Of course.
You've admitted... You've admitted to...
If I didn't have attention, I would have a car accident.
Yeah, well, it could have happened, the way you were driving.
It's terrible. It carries points, so... I'm getting points?
Yeah, yeah. Oh!
And there's more bad news.
Can you organise a recovery for this vehicle, please?
Why, bro? Leave the car with us tonight.
I bring you driving licence tomorrow. No.
Nice try.
The BMW X5 is going to be seized, although there is one silver lining.
You'll be pleased to know there's no drugs in your system. What?
There's no drugs. It hasn't registered any drugs.
No, no drugs, I don't take no drugs. That's good.
Anyway, so this is how you get your car back, all right?
Do you want anything else, apart from the car?
Can you take us home, at least? No.
Whose birthday is it? His birthday.
Happy birthday. Thank you very much.
At least he's taking it well, and there's no hard feelings.
All right? All right, chap? Well, I try my best.
All right?
There's still another eight hours of the night shift to go.
Go and enjoy your birthday. How old? 30?
You're a young lad. 30 years old.
The birthday boys have one more request before they go.
We have a photo? Can I? Let me turn it off.
Don't... Who's taking the photo? Your mate? There you go.
Come on, jump out. Hey.
Look after yourself. Happy birthday.
All right.
Take care of yourselves. Another happy customer.
MICHAEL LAUGHS
I don't normally allow that, but the car's turned off.
He could have been quite off with me and swore at me,
but he didn't, he was quite pleasant,
so I'm happy to give him that option if he wants that option.
We've took the car off him,
and he's given me the keys straightaway, so he's...
As much as he was trying to contest the fact that he had a...
He ain't got a licence, so... I've been in the job too long.
As they get the party started in their lift home...
MICHAEL LAUGHS
..Michael wraps up things with the X5.
So, we also like to give people a nice sticker.
Just to let people know another bad driver off the road.
The bloke probably wasn't in the mood to celebrate
when he was later convicted of driving without a licence
and without due care and attention.
Northampton Magistrates' Court gifted him six penalty points
and an assortment of costs
and a fine totalling £1,014.