Armed police. Come to the door.
You'll come to no harm. GUNSHOT
Shots fired.
Crime never sleeps...
Oi! Why are you touching me?
..but neither do the cops.
Police with a dog! DOG BARKS
Battling on the front line...
He's in the back garden.
..are Nottinghamshire's finest. Move!
SIREN WAILS
Highly trained pursuit drivers...
Oh, contact. Oh, God.
Vehicle failing to stop.
..specialists in entry...
Police!
..and search.
There's your firearm.
Rapid response firearms officers...
Do not move! Police with a dog. Get down on the floor.
..and the crime stopping force...
Get him off me. Get him off me. ..of the dog unit.
Stop struggling!
Wherever the battle takes them... Calm!
..they'll never back down. Calm down!
Because cometh the hour...
Get down on the floor.
SIRENS WAIL
..cometh the interceptors. Oi. You can get off.
It's a good day at the office.
Coming up -
weeding out a cool half million of green.
This is one of the biggest cannabis growers I've dealt with.
Gate crashing hide and seek in the garden.
If you're in there, you show yourself now.
DOG BARKS
And...
Crash, crash, here close to me.
..pure pandemonium on the pavement.
Oh, my days!
In Nottinghamshire, the police tackle nearly
1,000 incidents every single day.
Been asked to swap over for a job.
But night-time's where the real action is.
Jen Ellse and police dog Quantum...
NH down to 22, what's he done, please?
..are travelling on blues and twos to a high-risk job
in the south of the county.
It's a male that's wanted for a Non-Molestation Order,
so he's gone round to his ex-partner's address, I think.
I'm just waiting for details. He's trying to break in.
We've got cops there at the minute, but he's quite known to police.
ON RADIO: Wanted the postcode.
The suspect has a history of assaulting the police
and could be dangerous.
Just let cops know I'm on my way. I'm six miles away,
I'll be as quick as I can.
Cops at the scene urgently need Jen and Quantum's help,
so Jen puts the Skoda vRS into overdrive.
ENGINE ROARS
The allegedly volatile suspect is also on the move.
And, as Jen lands at the address,
he's disappeared inside the property and dropped off the radar.
Here we go.
Which one is it there?
They believe the victim's taking refuge at a friend's house.
We won't be able to get in the front door,
we think she's not in there, I've been told. Yeah.
He's in the kitchen. Yeah. He's had a big wooden broom handle. Yeah.
But I don't know how we're going to get into the...
So he knows he's not supposed to be in there, yeah? Oh, yeah,
there's a non-mol order in place. He's been nicked for it before.
But I think, um...
..he assaults cops, doesn't he? Yeah.
Crime-busting duo Jen and Quantum
have won numerous bravery awards
for taking down armed and violent offenders.
Dog to 22, NH, I'm outside the front with the dog.
And they'll need to be wary of a suspect
with a track record of assaulting coppers.
He's here, he's moving the blinds.
Moving the blinds then, wasn't he?
Come to the door.
DOG BARKS
Is the suspect watching them from the front window?
Speak, Quant, speak. HE BARKS
Good boy.
Good boy. Speak. HE BARKS
Good boy.
Local cops have the house surrounded.
I've just heard banging around.
QUANTUM BARKS
As there's no answer at the front door, it's down to Jen
and Quantum to search the back garden...
Police with a dog.
..where reports suggest the man is armed with a broom handle.
Police officer with a dog!
The garden is clear...
..but the trail hasn't gone cold.
There's a chair here, actually.
Wait.
Can you get down that alleyway?
Watch.
Jen thinks the allegedly armed man is hiding in the dark alleyways
between the gardens.
Wait.
Threats could be lurking behind any door or around any corner.
WHISPERS: Wait, wait.
Wait.
Say that again.
New intel suggests the hideaway is still in the garden...
David, if you're in there, I need you to come out.
..on the other side of this fence, holed up in the shed.
I've got a police dog, and I need you to come out and show yourself.
You show yourself, you'll come to no harm.
A primed Quantum is the only sound.
Are they in at this house here, I think you're standing in front of?
ON RADIO: I don't see anyone.
If you're in there, I need you to show yourself.
I've not seen any persons.
DOG BARKS
With a potentially armed and dangerous suspect on the loose...
..Jen's not going to let a six foot fence stand in her way.
Police officer with a dog, you show yourself now if you're in there.
Show yourself now! Quantum heads straight for the shed.
HE BARKS
David, if you're in there, you show yourself now.
And Jen's treading carefully.
Wait.
Right, you need to come out.
The handle's stuck.
If you're in there, I need you to come out
and show your hands, now.
But is it locked?
I don't know whether that's him inside.
Just get some other cops in this back garden with me, please.
QUANTUM BARKS Don't know whether that's locked.
Or is the door being held from the inside?
That makes sense.
Feel it. Yeah.
In south Nottinghamshire, dog handler Jen Ellse
and canine cop Quantum are searching for a man suspected of breaching
his Non-Molestation Order by going to his ex-partner's address.
He's here, he's moving the blinds.
Come to the door. QUANTUM BARKS
The suspect is allegedly armed with a broom handle...
Police officer with a dog.
..and has previous for assaulting the police.
Jen and Quantum muscled their way into a garden...
If you're in there, I need you to show yourself now.
..where they think the suspect lies in wait inside a shed.
Right, you need to come out. DOG BARKS
I don't know whether that's him inside.
Can I just get some other cops in this back garden with me, please?
Jen's called in the cavalry.
Don't know whether that's locked or not or whether he's holding it,
if that makes sense. Feel it. Yeah.
And this is it, stand by.
Show your hands! QUANTUM BARKS
They've got their man.
Get out now! Get out!
Now! Get on the floor!
Get down!
Get down on the floor!
You're under arrest.
QUANTUM BARKS
Good boy.
Wait. Good boy.
It takes four cops to pin the suspect down.
We've got, just hang on, NH, we've got him.
You're under arrest for breach of Non-Molestation Order.
Just give us a sec, just getting him under control.
Go on, go for it. I'll be round in the morning.
A waste of time.
Watch him. Good boy.
Even with the cuffs on, he's not leaving without a fight.
I'm allowed to come here. I haven't been next door.
So what's your problem? Eh?
Is it cos it's Dave?
You don't like Dave, do you?
Why you push that?
That's what you don't like, do you? Yeah?
That's what you don't like.
Get on the floor!
We need restraints.
Good boy. Come next to me.
With over 500 cops assaulted on the front line in Nottinghamshire
last year, the interceptors aren't taking any chances.
Got a spit hood or anything? MAN SCREAMS
Something on him? ARGH!
To bring him under control, the team use leg restraints...
Get off me!
Get off me now! Done nothing wrong to you.
..as well as a spit hood.
I'm not spitting at you. Why are you putting it on?
Right, are we happy? I won't spit at ya.
Good lad, good lad.
What have I done wrong?
Nothing.
I've not done nowt to you.
I've done nothing. Eh?
What have I done to you?
Right, just calm down and sit in the van.
And...breathe.
Woo! You all right?
Where's my torch? Someone picked them up.
My torch has gone flying. Yeah.
Everyone all right?
Are we all good? I think so. SHE LAUGHS
Has anyone got my glasses? Yeah, volatile's not the word, is it?
He was struggling, he was making threats, he was fighting,
he was violent, swearing. So, we just need to get him
under control as quick as possible so that no cops get injured,
no members of the public are out here on the street, they don't
get injured, and really so he doesn't get injured either.
We've got hold of him, that's the main thing.
Get him some chicken for sticking up for me again.
I've only got crumbs, mate, you've had the others.
Is that nice?
With the suspect off to custody, Jen wants to mend a few fences
before she gets back on the road.
Don't think I've caused any damage,
but it's just out of courtesy to let them know
I've broke through their fence,
like Lara Croft, and just to let them know sorry,
and ring me if they want me to do anything, fix it or whatever.
I think the bars have just come out, the padlocks are still on.
I was quite impressed with that, actually.
Job done.
Since this incident, the suspect has been arrested again
for breaching a Non-Molestation Order.
The case continues.
Organised crime blights communities.
But Nottinghamshire Police are taking back control
with Operation Reacher.
Police officers!
Local policing which listens to the people...
..and gets word out to criminals there's nowhere left to hide.
Stop fighting! Calm down. Get your arms behind your back.
After mounting reports of drug dealing in the city suburbs,
Team Reacher's going knocking.
Right, we'll be tort group four, two round the back. Yeah.
Martin Swinskow is briefing the team for a morning raid.
We're going to do both doors,
simultaneously as much as we can.
So we're going to get an enforcer from their van.
So, Patsy, still stick with the front door
and if... Are you all right to do the, erm...
Grant, if you do the, bosh the other door.
Intel states the target house is being used to grow weed,
so it's time to bosh the door in.
The crew get kitted up...
Is everybody happy with what they're doing?
..and roll out in an early morning convoy.
We're going to pull up on the gable end.
So, as we get out, we'll be going forward
and to the right will be our address.
This next block, isn't it?
Securing suspects and evidence is top priority.
Stick it here mate, stick it here.
This will do.
Let's go.
The house in question has two front doors,
but the team have everything they need for the perfect entry.
A stealthy approach...
..two big red keys...
Straight in, straight in.
..and a synchronised strike.
Police officers! Stay where you are!
Police officers!
Stay where you are. Police, stay where you are.
All right, then. Stay where you are, buddy.
They suspect that a few people are using the property.
We'll sit him downstairs.
Yeah.
If you're happy we'll, we'll control the search.
Yeah, the garage is clear, there's no-one in it.
But the only one home is an elderly man.
We're looking for controlled drugs
and associated paraphernalia or documentation for producing
or cultivating and supplying such controlled drugs.
Cool. Right.
Fingertip search of the whole house.
And the greenery in the bedroom...
Sunny.
Right, ultimately we're going to have to get you some clothes on.
..suggests their intel was bang on.
James Patterson weighs up the harvest.
Looks approximately - I believe it's about 18 plants in here,
probably in the infancy at the moment,
so they've still got a few weeks to grow, but you can certainly
see it takes a little bit of setting up these grows and it's, it's
not something that they certainly weren't unaware of in the property.
Warrants like this aren't just about seizing drugs.
Small amount of cannabis there.
They can help to build the bigger intel picture.
Here we seem to have some disposable white aprons, some overshoes,
got disposable gloves.
The only thing that's drawing my attention now is
if we look in this bin, just what looks like a white residue as
if something's been mixed in the past.
Whether it has or hasn't or it's just me being suspicious.
I reckon that whatever white powder has been mixed in there,
it's been in that, it's extremely sweet.
Yeah.
It's like a citrusy ampheti-type smell, isn't it?
Mm.
But see if there's anything else here.
An interceptor's dirty work even means going through the bins.
So there's plenty of - loads of freezer bags, hold on.
Eagle-eyed James...
Is that cannabis?
..isn't going to fall for one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Something else in here.
There's a cannabis bud in there.
What he's done is just put a bit of rubbish on the top to
disguise what was in the plastic bags underneath.
This is stuff to sell, in my opinion.
As well as the bin full of bud,
James finds more telltale signs of drug dealing.
Inside the box is a number of sealable bags that would
indicate to me this is what he's selling the cannabis in,
he's calling it Cereal Cake.
See, here's the cannabis logo on the corner, sell it in 28g at a time.
This person's gimmick for selling cannabis.
So, so far we've got the quantity of cannabis, the grow next door,
and now we're down to the individual bags that they'll pop
the cannabis into to go out
and sell it on the streets, or to sell a decent-size bulk at a time.
The suspected drugs, what looks like a burner phone,
and a set of scales, will be seized, while the botanical bedroom
is being dismantled, nipping this nursery in the bud.
The big wins that we've had today to actually depriving the
occupant of the resources to grow this stuff, because it does cost
them, it does take their time to set it up and does send the message
out there that we are on top of this and we will be dismantling other
people's grows should we find them with them, as well, in the future.
Cannabis isn't all home-grown in suburbia,
organised crime gangs farm weed on an industrial scale.
This is one of the biggest cannabis grows I've dealt with.
Interceptors have discovered a colossal cannabis
factory in a disused warehouse.
There's tall plants, the maturer plants, and then there's
almost what we'd call a nursery, so the smaller plants as well.
Sergeant Brian Blackmore is investigating.
You can see, it's a big, big set-up, we've got our cannabis
dismantling team and, and CSIs are going through the process trying
to gain what evidence we can to try and identify the persons involved.
The monster grow is worth around half a million pounds.
These plants are probably six-foot tall, you can
see they're having to actually be held by string to support
the actual plant growth and obviously you can
see in terms of the buds themselves, they're quite mature buds.
This wouldn't be far off being a cropped room.
It's overwhelming, the smell,
you wouldn't want to be working in here for too long.
There's room after room of Class B greenery.
Coming through to what we'd call probably more like a nursery
room, in excess of probably 200 plants in here.
They're gardeners, the people who look after them are gardeners,
that's what they're employed as by these,
I would say an organised crime group.
Cultivating over 1,000 plants at once,
every room in the derelict building has been modified.
Obviously you've got the air vents, you've got fans up on the wall,
and obviously all your electricity cabling
and obviously the transformers, converting the electricity.
You can see, even made a board with all the switches as well.
This isn't like your house, growing cannabis in your own home,
this is on an industrial level, industrial scale,
so there's a lot of money being put into it,
there's a lot of revenue coming out at the other end of it as well.
To tend to their criminal crop,
green-fingered villains have been living in the factory.
Got a table set up, heating set up, they've got fridges,
they've got a washing machine, and there's even a shower cubicle.
Basically, people get paid, not a lot of money, by an organised
crime group and they will probably live and breathe here.
This is their home.
When you dwell in chez cannabis you run the risks of rival gangs
robbing your crop.
Got a bedroom set up.
There's the fear factor that people will try and break in,
so they obviously look, will look after themselves,
they're obviously leaving knives around for their own protection.
Living under constant threat, the workers even have an escape route.
Through here they've put up a ladder, ladder that sets up,
that goes on to a roof and then on to the roof and you'll be
able to escape across the top of the roof area, to get away.
The discovery means half-a-million-pounds' worth of
drugs won't reach the streets or line kingpin criminals' pockets.
All of the growing equipment will be destroyed,
but not everything will go to waste.
There's items there that, the bags of compost, we're putting,
through our PCSOs and through their contacts,
we're looking to try and basically move that on
and redistribute it to people who can use it in the community.
I would think that the persons who oversee this cannabis
grow won't be happy.
Ultimately, it's disruptive
behaviour and it's costing them money.
In the last year, Nottinghamshire Police have seized more
than £4 million worth of cannabis plants.
The investigation into the half-a-million-pound cannabis
factory is ongoing.
Following Op Reacher's early morning wake-up call,
one man was cautioned for possession of cannabis,
the elderly man was released with no further action.
Coming up, it's the attack of the clones.
Box on, box on.
Suspected false plates, no licence and a baby on board.
Listen. Think you are, bro?
Got a badge, bro?
Think I'm a dickhead bro?
And...
Get down on the floor. Down on the floor.
..cloned van carnage.
So dangerous.
Had somebody been walking down that pavement there,
then they would have stood no chance.
Drivers of cars that fail to stop for the police,
don't care about anything other than themselves.
All they think about is getting away from the police.
They don't think about, you know,
people who are out with their kids shopping, walking over the road.
They're selfish, they, you know, all they're thinking about is
the fact that they're probably going to, you know, if
they get apprehended maybe get arrested for whatever they've
got onboard the car or for whatever driving offences they've committed.
You know a car is as dangerous as a loaded firearm.
Interceptors train to handle cars and loaded firearms,
but it's just skills behind the wheel that's called for tonight.
They've spotted a van on false plates, which may be linked to
a recent theft.
The driver's still inside,
but as cops try to have a word he fires up the van, and floors it.
He's carving through village streets.
And breaking 50 in a 30 limit.
Van man's chucking it around corners,
and into the face of oncoming traffic.
He needs taking off the road, sharpish.
Cue the cavalry.
We're in the area for this van on false plates,
can we just confirm the VRM please?
The knife-crime team have joined the hunt, with Joe Riley riding
shotgun while Gav Hall races to intercept.
So is it Ruddington-bound?
RADIO: Onto Ashworth avenue.
Pre-empt is authorised on it, isn't it?
All available units are making their way to the area to
box in the cloned van.
I think it's at the roundabout left, innit?
Yeah, I think it will be.
Joe and Gav are just a few streets away.
While the lead cop car clings to an increasingly reckless runaway.
After a close shave with a double-decker bus, not even the
most-seasoned interceptor could predict the driver's next wild move.
Crash, crash...
Careering onto the pavement not just once...
..but twice.
He ploughs down the path like a pedestrian's
nightmare, before stacking straight into a street lamp.
Joe and Gav arrive seconds later.
Oh, my days.
The van's jammed between parked cars and terraced houses,
with two suspects trapped inside, possibly injured.
Here you are.
What was a police pursuit has quickly turned into a police rescue.
Come out.
Yeah, yeah. Nice and slow.
Boss, both occupants conscious.
Just take him from me.
I'll come out. Behind your back.
Right. Come and take the next one? Yeah?
Yeah, excuse me. Come on, out you come.
Get down on the floor.
Down on the floor.
Arms behind your back.
Incredibly, both occupants seem to have escaped unharmed...
..but in his bid to flee on false plates.
True VRM.
..the driver's left a trail of destruction in his wake.
Not getting that from there in a hurry, are we?
No.
Not only is his van a wreck...
..he's taken out two parked cars...
..demolished a lamppost,
and potentially caused structural damage to two people's homes.
Driver's thought for some reason he could possibly get that
van between those cars and the houses.
Well, this is a residential area and it's probably, what,
seven o'clock at night, plenty of people milling around.
Those front doors go out onto the pavement where that van is.
So dangerous. Had somebody been walking down that pavement
there or just walked out of the house, then they would have
stood no chance, probably been killed outright by that van.
And there's more danger in the air.
What's up? Hit a gas pipe.
Is it a gas pipe? Ohh.
Now, the Fire Service and gas board will need to secure
the scene before the van can be carefully removed.
OK, mate, the time is 18:53, you're under
arrest on suspicion of theft of that motor vehicle, OK?
So you do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence
if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be given in evidence, OK do you understand?
Final stop for this pair is the Bridewell Custody Suite.
No it doesn't surprise me any more the lengths they'll go to,
they've got no consideration for anybody else, they don't care,
they don't care how many lives they ruin etc,
they just want to get away, they don't want to get caught
and it's as simple as that, they'll take any risk they can,
and that proves tonight, with what they've done.
To make matters worse, the driver turned out to be drunk at the wheel.
For drink-driving, dangerous driving,
failing to stop for the police, and driving without due care
and attention, he was handed a six-month suspended prison sentence,
200 hours community service,
and banned from the roads for three years.
No legal action was taken against the driver
or his passenger for the alleged shop theft.
Eyes down, looking in.
Cutting through cats and dogs in the marked X5, Rob Eley
and Spencer Pugh.
I have been on TV before you know.
Yeah.
I featured on Antiques Road show.
I had my Star Wars collection.
Did you? Yeah. Did you make the telly?
Oh, aye, yeah. Did you make any money?
I sold them for 1,100 quid.
Good collectors can spot a fake, be it a duff Vader or dodgy Vauxhall.
You're famous. That's into Broxtowe, isn't it?
Yeah.
Not a long time ago, in a county not so far away,
a silver Cleo racked up multiple speeding tickets on suspected
false plates, and it's just entered the boys' orbit.
It's been sighted earlier today,
heading generally in towards the Broxtowe area,
so we're going to head that way now and do a bit of an area search.
The force is strong in Rob, when it comes to sensing the bad
guy's next move, he's basically a Jedi master.
And he's just felt a tremor in the force.
Stay sharp.
Ooh, what's this coming towards us? A Kadjar.
This isn't it, too big as well.
Last spotted 45 minutes ago, the Cleo has to be nearby.
Is that it on the near side?
Yeah.
That's the one.
It's parked up and empty.
From Foxtrot 5-three, Rob's spotted it.
Finding the car is only half the battle,
they need to know who's driving it.
We're in a marked car so we're just going to pull out of the area.
To avoid spooking the Phantom Menace...
Just need another unmarked to Birchover.
..Rob and Spencer call in two plain cars to wait at both
ends of the road and took their marked X5 out of sight, nearby.
The road's quite good really because it's, it's a
small narrow road with one way in and one way out.
Our top desk has authorised a pre-emptive tactic,
pre-emptive box and a pre-emptive stinger, so we'll see what happens
if and when it moves off, see what tactics are appropriate at the time.
Until the driver gets back on the road
they have to play the waiting game.
I always get a little bit cold when they're like, you know,
you know, a job's bubbling.
Some jobs bubble...
PC Rain doesn't help either, does it?
..and bubble.
See, the good thing for us, though, that because it's tipping
it down he's unlikely to go out his house, so he's probably not
going to have been looking out, so he might not have seen us go past. No.
And if he's going to go out. He's going to drive, he's not going to be walking.
Straight in his car and go.
Sure enough...
Oh, yes. 5-four receive.
..the suspected cloned Cleo is heading straight for them.
Rob's quick off the mark.
Three in the stick.
Falling in behind an unmarked car.
A third unit is heading towards them.
Oh, yes, put it on.
And it's TPAC time.
Box on, box on.
Boom.
Boxed in safer than Spencer's Star Wars figures.
Turn the engine off.
Turn the engine off now, mate.
Stay where you are for now.
And into cuffs in a heartbeat.
Come to the back of this car, mate.
Interceptors go through around 40 hours of tactical training to
stop cars safely like this.
End of the day I was given that and I've been skagging it,
it'll come up as insurance, ask MID.
It's a good job because the suspected clone-mobile is full of passengers...
At the end of the day, buddy I haven't.
Little 'uns? Yeah, little one's fine.
Oh, is it a baby? Yeah, proper baby.
..including the guy's teenage girlfriend and child.
Whose is the car?
But it's got no insurance,
so they've perhaps done that to disguise having no insurance.
As well as no insurance,
further checks reveal this daddy driver doesn't even have a licence.
The Cleo will be seized.
NH, could you arrange a rust-proof for us, please.
We'll take it to Broxtowe.
Just so you're aware of what's happening, because obviously
you've got a little one you need to sort out, we're going to be
seizing the car, so I don't know if you've got a push chair or a
rain cover and stuff for the little one, so I don't know if you want
to arrange for somebody to come and pick you up because of the weather.
The driver will be reported for driving without a licence or
insurance, but for now he's de-arrested
and given some free words of advice.
Me, bro I've been complying, don't point to me.
I'm not lying.
Yeah, but I've just been de-arrested now you're starting something to get me arrested.
Back down, bro, move out of my face.
I don't care, bro, I've been complying with your shit, bro.
Yes, it is, and what, fam?
Don't come and start shit with me once I've been de-arrested, bro.
Who the do you think you are, bro?
You got a badge, bro. Think I'm a dickhead, bro?
Do you know what? You're not far, you're acting like an idiot.
Shut your mouth and get in your car, bro.
Whilst the driver sets off on his short walk home...
Who's got the pleasure?
..Spence has the honour of adding the Cleo to the cops'
seized car collection.
It's no Millennium Falcon but he is flying solo.
Another beauty that I get to drive back to the nick.
Suits you, mate.
Punch it, Chewie.
Back at the yard...
The service light's on, the oil light, oil warning light's on.
I've not even checked the tyres.
But, yeah, it's, it's a shed on wheels.
It's not something I'd be putting what looked like what,
a four, five-month-old baby in the back of the car.
Particularly good thing with this, this job,
was that it was done at slow speeds, in an estate, there's
nobody on the road, we used street furniture and parked cars to help
us do that TPAC, really safe, no damage caused, and no injury caused.
Particularly given the fact that there was a, an infant in the
car as well, which we didn't know about until we had the car stopped.
Had we known that, you know, the risk level would have gone,
you know, kind of through the roof.
For now, he's off the road and not a danger to himself,
the public or, or indeed that, that small baby in the back.
The driver has been reported for driving without a licence or
insurance, and for displaying the incorrect number plates.
He awaits his day in court.
Still to come...
That's a, that's a scrapper.
..weeding the stoned, cold truth from a nonstop pothead.
How often do you smoke weed?
Constantly?
Drug driving is a problem on the rise.
Weed is probably the most-commonly-used drug, I would say.
Obviously, whether you're under the influence or alcohol or drugs
that's going to affect your reactions
and your ability to drive a vehicle, unquestionably.
A drugged driver probably wasn't as much on the radar, historically.
It is now, and obviously now we've got roadside kits
and saliva swabs that can give us a result very quickly.
Once upon a time, it was quite difficult to prove,
now it's just, it's, you know, ten-minute job, at the roadside, done.
Out and about on a sunny morning shift are Paul Matthews and Phil Broughton.
Good thing about this weather
though, it's good for sniffing out your drug drivers.
Is it?
Especially cannabis, yeah, you'll get a whiff of it
when you're behind them.
A passing flatbed gets Phil's nose twitching.
That scrapper.
SIREN
And leaves an iffy whiff in its wake.
Ey up.
Can you just come on here, say?
The driver's quick out the cab.
You say it's your vehicle? It's all insured and everything?
Yeah. Cool.
Right, take a seat there for us.
But Phil's even quicker to sniff that unmistakable odour.
Right, I'll be straight with you,
the cab of that vehicle stinks of weed, so have you got any on you?
No, I haven't, no.
And if I search that vehicle am I going to find any?
To be honest with you, when we pulled behind it, I got a whiff,
but as soon as we spoke to him, usually a giveaway is
when they soon, get straight out of the car
because they don't want you coming anywhere near the cab.
Drugs-wise, the inside of the van's as clean as a whistle.
Right.
I take it you're the one who's got the weed on them.
Next up, the passenger.
Right, what have you got in your pockets, anything?
Lighter.
But he's in the clear too.
Cool, all right, I'll come and grab your details in a sec.
Which leaves Paul to zero in on the source of the suspect smell.
Have you smoked any cannabis today?
You have, you've had some today, have you? Right.
It's only half nine in the morning
but it seems the driver's had a spliff with his Shreddies.
OK, because I can smell it on you and I suspect you've smoking it
whilst driving, I'm going to test you, OK?
A roadside drugs wipe tests for cannabis and cocaine in saliva.
The eight-minute wait for a result means there's time to talk business.
Right, chap, I take it you're collecting scrap?
You're not going round door knocking for scrap or anything like that?
So you haven't got a scrapper's licence?
Well, you need a waste carrier's licence.
Working as a scrap metal dealer without the proper licence
can land you a £5,000 fine.
How often do you smoke weed?
Constantly?
Being caught drug driving will cost you your driving licence.
How many jackets you got?
It's cold out here, mate. It's not cold!
Cool, take a seat in there for us.
The only reason it's cold is because you keep getting in and out of
your van to knock on people's doors to see if they've got any scrap.
We ain't daft, right, we know what you're up to, all right?
My main concern is I can't have people on the road under
the influence of drink or drugs, OK?
I don't know, we're just going to have a quick check of it now,
just to make sure it's road worthy and legal.
You got keys?
Paul's an advanced driver with an eye for a nice set of wheels.
His dream motor is a Nissan Skyline, odds are he'd rather be
drooling over one of those than poking around under one of these.
It's a shed on wheels.
It's got a defective rear tyre
and then the driver's seat belt's not attached, so it doesn't work.
So it's, this is the bottom bit which should fit, fit down to the,
either back of the seat or down to the actual frame of the vehicle.
You weren't wearing your seat belt, either, were you?
You know why I know that?
It's broke, because the seat belt doesn't actually attach to
anything on the vehicle, does it? No.
So the van's not roadworthy, how about the driver?
OK, right.
This has provided a positive result for cannabis, OK,
so at this moment in time, you're under arrest on suspicion of driving
this vehicle on a road whilst over the specified limit for cannabis.
My advice to you is, if you're going to be smoking weed
regularly, which you say you are, you need to hang up your licence.
As the suspected drug driver phones home,
the severity of the situation starts to sink in.
I'm in the back of a cop car.
Because, drugs. Weed.
The van's, the seat belt's broke so they're taking the van off me. We're not taking the van off you.
We're not taking van, it's being - we'll explain it in a sec. Just park it up.
I thought you said it's not roadworthy, though.
The flatbed van is deemed too unsafe for anyone to drive
and is issued with a prohibition notice.
What that means it's prohibited from moving from this spot
until the problems are sorted,
so the only way you can move it from here is getting it recovered
and taking it to a garage and getting the things sorted. Yep.
So if you drive it with a prohibition on, then we'll be
taking it off you.
What happens now, he's going to go down to the police station,
run through the drug-drive procedure with him,
so we'll take a blood sample, that'll get sent away,
and we'll find out exactly how much cannabis he's got in his system.
I knew he looked dodgy.
It was a good, good one that.
The shed driver with no seat belt and a bald tyre was released under
investigation, awaiting the results of a blood test for drug driving.
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