Armed police. Come to the door, you'll come to no harm.
HE SHOOTS Shots fired.
Crime never sleeps... Oi!
...but neither...do the cops.
Battling on the front line...
He's in the back garden.
...are Nottinghamshire's finest.
Move!
Highly-trained pursuit drivers... 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.
...of the dog unit.
Stop struggling! DOG BARKS
Wherever the battle takes them... Oi! Calm.
...they'll never back down... Get off me. Calm down!
...because cometh the hour... Get down on the floor.
...cometh the interceptors. Oi. You can get off.
GLASS SMASH ES
Coming UP---
...tearing down the house of horrors for a man on the run.
Has someone got a Taser in there? Yeah.
...taking down a fail to stop after an epic 45-mile pursuit.
And staring down the barrel of a deadly weapon.
Yeah, that's a revolver.
Oscar foxtrot zulu five. Am I right that you've got
this...wanted lad from the Volvo with an address?
We'll start coming towards you.
A suspected drugs dealer who's been on the run for two years
has been spotted by local cops in north Nottingham.
Firearms officers Sergeant Ian "Big E" Coleman
and Rob Eley are racing to the scene.
So we're just going to assist.
I think the last information we had was that they're talking to him
through the window.
He's got marks for violence and firearms.
Fortunately, Big E's used to dealing with dangerous situations.
He's the operational firearms commander and was recently commended
for his bravery when a suspect threatened his officers with a gun.
Local cops are struggling to get in,
and it appears the bloke's trying to dispose of evidence.
Yeah, we've certainly got an enforcer.
It sounds like he's...flushing drugs as we speak,
so we need to get in there as fast as we can.
They arrive on scene and prepare to make an entrance.
Should have some gauntlets, shouldn't we? Yeah, hang on.
The gloves are off and Big E's got the big red key.
He's a rugby player who knows how to hit.
Which one is it? This one.
But he may have met his match.
It's a good door.
With the suspect flushing drugs down the pan, every second counts,
so local cops try a cruder method of entry.
HE GRUNTS IN EXERTION
I think cops are going through the window, mate, to be fair.
They're not fighting with him, are they?
It's all kicking off.
Response cops have braved the broken glass
and met with a violent suspect on the other side...
Come on.
...who they PAVA spray...
...as the cavalry gathers.
Has someone got a Taser in there? Come on.
Rob's going in. Someone give me a boost with my foot.
One of you go and open the front door.
OFFICER COUGHS .The spray..
...but the PAVA'd bad boy is in bracelets.
We've got cuffs on, are we all right? Yeah, I think so.
Someone's sprayed?
The suspect's lived up to his violence marker,
but after two years on the run, he's finally in cuffs.
Stop that, no messing about now, mate, all right? The game's over.
Yeah?
And he's left a mess in the bathroom.
Right.
So the reason we've had to get in so quick...
DOG BARKS IN BACKGROUND
...he's been flushing drugs down the toilet -
you can see all the empty containers on the floor.
They'll need to conduct a thorough search of the property
but there's a problem.
A 20-kilo canine gatekeeper with serious teeth.
Fortunately, the interceptors are prepared for all eventualities -
dog-handler Coops arrives on scene...
Close the door behind you.
Do you want to walk past me?
Are you all right? You all right with dogs, yeah? just walk past...
DOG BARKS
...along with this specialist kit...
IN HIGH-PITCH: Who's this good lad? Yeah, who is he?
Look what you got? What you got?
...but the gatekeeper won't play ball.
I know, it wouldn't be funny, would it? If you come through there.
Nothing's going to stop us at the end of the day searching this house.
No matter how nasty or big the dogs are,
we'll be here to sort it out, and we will get what's in this
property, so, yeah, let's hope his bark's worse than his bite.
DOG BARKS
With Coops dog sitting, the search team sets to work.
It doesn't take long to see why this guy didn't come quietly.
There's bags of weed, suspected heroin and MDMA.
And there's a nasty surprise for the tooth fairy.
What was under his pillow? Was it that, there?
Lovely knife, there, look, which is not required for anything else
but for protection.
If he'd had time to arm himself, then the ruck in the living room
could have ended very differently indeed.
Yeah, he's got a lot to answer for.
It's been a great team effort by local cops, the dog unit,
and the firearms team.
Another wanted lad off the streets. Cracking result.
Frustrating that he's got rid of a load of drugs before we've managed
to get in and detain him and quite clearly a substantial
amount of what I reckon is probably Class A has gone down the toilet.
But what can you do?
There's still a significant stash that he didn't have time to flush,
due to the sharp entrance, so the boys
head for a bite to eat to celebrate.
But Control has other ideas.
Yeah, no problem. We'll go back and clear it.
They're heading back to the property,
where there's been a shocking find.
He's got markers for violence and firearms.
The interceptors are after a wanted man who's
been on the run for two years.
He's holed up in a house with an indestructible front door.
GLASS SMASH ES
But local cops have done the window and pounced.
The suspect's kicked off, got a face full of PAVA and been nicked.
DOG BARKS
And they now know why he's put up such a fight.
Plenty of Class A and Class B drugs.
Firearms officers Rob Eley and Sergeant Ian Coleman have left
the scene, but there's an urgent request to return.
Control room's just got hold of me, and said that after we've left,
the officers that have stayed at the address have obviously
naturally done a search and they've found what they suspect to be
a firearm, so we've been asked to go back to go and have a look at it,
see what we think, whether it's viable or not,
and then we'll go from there.
It seems the house full of drugs was a well-armed fortress.
Not very often we come across conventional, viable handguns,
but you never know. Let's see what, let's go and see what we've got.
Hello. Ey up.
After another warm welcome...
DOG BARKS Bloody dogs!
...the boys inspect the firearms.
Oh, dear.
They must be careful not to disturb any vital fingerprints.
Forensic recovery, this, isn't it? Are you confident it's a firearm?
Yeah.
It looks like the real deal.
Yeah, that's a revolver.
Yeah, definitely.
There are three potential handguns.
The telltale sign is that they're wrapped up in socks
and they're wrapped in other bags.
So if we were talking about just, like, a BB gun or an air pistol,
we find loads of them, they're not normally covered up like that.
So if they've gone to that sort of trouble,
it leads me to think that they might be proper, viable pistols.
So we don't want to miss any forensic opportunities by rushing in
and trying to pull it apart now. It's better for us to get SOCO
out in the morning, do a properjob and recover them then in daylight.
And there's another shocker in the room.
Where's the Taser?
Excellent, OK.
What a naughty boy. Yeah.
A knife, a Taser, guns and a guard dog.
The full house of horrors waiting for uninvited guests.
Just goes to show the dangers as well that the response cops
put themselves under, you know.
These guys, they're unarmed, they've come in looking,
you know, thinking they're just coming for a wanted male,
and they've gone into an address with potentially two firearms.
This situation could have gone a lot differently, had that guy got
himself in a position to arm himself with these.
Not only will he potentially go to prison for his, what he was
wanted for, he's now got another, a whole host of offences
which he's going to be arrested for and this guy's in trouble,
probably going to be going away for a long time, hopefully.
The three guns turned out to be viable revolvers.
After an arrest two years in the making, the suspect pleaded
guilty to three counts of possession of a firearm, possession with intent
to supply class A drugs, possession of ammunition and a Taser.
He was sentenced to 12 and a half years at Her Majesty's pleasure.
A black Lexus thought to be involved in a cigarette theft
in Skegness is being pursued by cops across the border in Lincolnshire.
RADIO:
Officers Lewis Marshall and Lisa Desantis are racing to intercept.
It's believed to be a cloned vehicle heading from Skegness towards
the Nottinghamshire border, so we're liaising with Lincs officers,
because I think some of them have actually been behind the vehicle
but they've not been in a position to be able to deal with it.
Notts' friendly neighbourhood interceptors are very much
in a position to deal with it.
Chalky and Paul Charlesworth are already bound for the border,
aiming to stick a bed of nails in the path of the Lexus.
Hopefully, if we sting it, that's going to be able to control it,
slow it for us to be able to deal with it.
Lisa's TPAC, Taser and firearms trained,
but it's her advanced driving skills being put to the test tonight.
God, this rain, it's awful!
As the locals might say, it's "siling it down",
and it's slow progress for Lisa and Lewis.
Middle of the road job, this is. And I have to put it...? Pull up.
Jesus!
He can't help, but Paul might.
He's at the border bridge with a loaded stinger
as Chalky, on lookout, spots the Lexus heading this way.
Welcome to Nottinghamshire.
Stung it. He's been stung.
The baton passes to Notts' Sarge, Lenny Bennett,
who's on the stung Lexus like wasps on jam.
The tyres will slowly deflate, along with any chance of escape.
It's now just a matter of time.
There's four occupants in the car,
and if they're thinking of running, they'll get a nasty surprise.
Lincolnshire still has a dog in this fight.
It's TPAC time.
Chalky and Paul have caught up with the pursuit
and moved to the front, forcing the Lexus to stop.
Box on, box on.
While Lisa and Lewis missed the party by a heartbeat.
LISA GROANS
After a brief tango with team TPAC,
the occupants are face down on the dance floor.
Ah, the South Yorkshire charmers!
Barnsley!
The driver claims to own the car.
However, he's not insured, and disqualified from driving.
The Lincolnshire cops also suspected the car of being
involved in a cigarette theft.
But there's no sign of any smokes.
It's not here, is it?
There's just crisps and pop.
What do you mean? What you on about?
You just failed to stop for the police like a plank, ain't ya?
Why, why, why?
Well, you've just done what you've done, haven't you, right,
so we ain't got nothing? Don't tell me what we haven't got, OK?
There might be no evidence of cigarette theft,
but he's driven dangerously and failed to stop in two counties...
...and why, why, why are there number plates in the boot?
Just run some plates through, please, in the boot of this vehicle.
The reg comes back to the Lexus, meaning it's also on false plates.
And that's why you're all nicked.
Where's the transport coming from? Lincs?
SkeggY-
The Lincs van to transport them is about an hour away.
Time enough to get to know each other.
I pay my taxes, me.
So do I, so do I.
Yeah, and I pay t0 pay YOU-
Thank you. So why are you arresting me? Thank you.
When I pay your... When I pay you, really. Thanks. I pay your wages.
A classic hit from the cliche album.
You piggy bastards! THEY SNIGGER
That's original, that is. Really original.
Sergeant Lenny joins the waiting party.
You're going to Lincoln nick.
Probably back that way.
Phil Mitchell?
It's him! It's him! THEY LAUGH
I think they don't think owt will come of it. They just don't care.
They're playing up to the cameras and the circumstances,
but not remotely fazed by having their car stung,
being pursued across... I think it's probably 45 miles from Skegness
to where we are now, into Nottinghamshire, across
Lincolnshire, and they're from South Yorkshire.
Um, not bothered, don't care, think it's brilliant, don't they?
You're more than welcome to tell me
what happened.
Mother's pride also boasts he could outrun the dog.
Good luck.
THEY CHUCKLE
Says the guy in handcuffs, after outrunning no-one.
Just time to make sure the cuffs are a snug fit.
With the Yorkshire puddings off to the nick, there's just time
for a quick post-match banter analysis.
We hear some bad banter at work sometimes.
Yeah. But that was, that was a lot worse. That was low level.
I mean, if I had a pound for every time someone says
they pay my wages, I wouldn't need to work.
Um...it's just so boring.
The driver of the pants bants gang was convicted of driving
whilst disqualified, failed to stop, no insurance
and fraudulent use of registration plates.
He lost his licence for three and a half years
and got 14 months inside.
Enough time to hone his banter.
No further action was taken against the passengers
and the investigation of the cigarette theft continues.
Still to come...
Yeah, he's gone right, right, away from the group.
...the knife crime team bust a suspected dealer...
...with a big bag of drugs.
Joe plucks a massive blade from the grass.
Large knife in the garden.
And Phil weeds out the truth.
It's recorded a positive result for cannabis.
It's estimated that Nottinghamshire has the highest
amount of crack cocaine and opiate users in the East Midlands.
CHAINSAW BUZZES
Police! Police officers!
And disrupting the supply lines...
We're in business.
...is a top priority for the interceptors.
Like a little production factory thing, in here, isn't it?
I think it's the bane of most communities.
I'm sure if you asked most people, there'd be nothing worse than
living next door to, or on the estate with active drug dealers,
because it brings a lot of other criminal elements into the area.
I think for every drug dealer
we take off the streets, it's a massive win for us.
Tasked with taking down suspected dealers today
is the knife crime unit, including Gav Hall
and Joe Riley, who are in an area plagued by drugs.
We're in the City South area of Nottingham today, which is
The Meadows. just out on patrol, we've got a few calls out.
We've had a good briefing pack,
so we've got a few faces, a few vehicles to look out for.
There's been some groups carrying machetes
and threatening rival groups, all over drugs.
Drug dealing and weapons often go hand in hand.
It's one of those things.
The drug dealers want to protect what they've got.
Obviously, we've got rival gangs trying to take over turf,
enforcing areas. Knives, weapons are used to do that.
Joe's relatively new to the force,
and the only thing he dislikes more than vegetables are drug dealers.
And if customers looking for a fix are anything to go by,
they're close.
Someone waiting in the alleyway there.
Did you get a good look at them? No.
Just all grey, probably a user.
Ah, I'll spin it, then.
Just chat Fenin up.
There's six members of the knife crime team out and about.
Key to a successful operation is coordinating the rest of the team.
Ten-four, we've just got a user waiting in an alleyway
in The Meadows, that's all.
Where there's demand, there's usually supply,
but this suspected user is on the move.
He's there, he's come away. Yeah, he's moved off. He's moved off.
Meadows Way.
That user's moved off now. He's gone in towards Meadows Way
so we don't know if he's been served up or he's been told to move.
The Meadows is a maze of paths and alleyways,
so the odds favour the bad guys.
To level the playing field, the boys change their mode of transport.
All right, let me just dump this car here, then.
We're just on Arkwright Walk, near, erm, the Bridgeway Centre
so we'll get out on foot here and go towards the park.
A suspected dealer has been spotted by Dan Mottishaw
waiting in a nearby alleyway.
What was the lad with the bushy hair wearing?
And The Meadows morning rush hour is beginning.
Oh, mate, there's five more coming here.
There's about five more users coming in to The Meadows now.
They've clocked us. Got a red baseball cap on.
The interceptors believe these are users heading to their target.
They've potentially been dealt to by a young lad with
bushy hair,
so we're just waiting for these drug users to go into the area as well.
This suspected dealer was only arrested last week with
a 12-inch knife but no drugs.
This time, they hope to catch him in the act, as potential users
flood the area.
They're everywhere now.
General direction, towards Tushan's.
The rest of the team's in place,
with eyes on the lad with the bushy hair.
He's approaching the group now?
Bushy's on the move.
Shall I get out here, in case he runs this way?
The suspected dealer's been spotted making what looks like an exchange.
Joe and Gav race to intercept.
Get in there.
The suspect's legged it, but the team are in hot pursuit.
Yeah, he's gone right, right,
towards the... Away from the group.
It looks like he's homeward bound.
Yeah, he's gone straight, he's going back towards his home address.
Not if the knife crime team have anything to say about it.
DISTANT SHOUTING
One detained.
Get your hands off me, copper!
The lad with the bushy hair has been caught red-handed.
You say he's got a bundle?
Yeah, we've got him. A load of Class A.
The team, including Dan Mottishaw
and Ken Tinley, have wrestled the suspect to the floor
and discovered what looks like crack cocaine and heroin in his pants.
Joe arrives on scene.
Yeah, that's why I'm keeping him down.
Well, we need to find out, don't we?
We need to find that out, don't we?
He hid it in his trousers last time, yeah.
Yeah, it's not there now. Sound.
MOBILE PHONE RINGS
He's been caught before with a large knife,
so they're not taking any chances.
Roll the other side, bring your legs forward, bring your legs forward.
Bring your legs up so you can stand yourself up.
In a bid to escape, it seems he's lost his trainers.
Yeah, Tushan, just, just chill. RINGING CONTINUES
And they're not the only thing he's missing.
No mate, not at the minute.
We're staying here for a sec. Where are they?
We need to find them mate, yeah, this cop's looking for them.
RINGING CONTINUES
The lad's worried about his trainers, but he should be more
concerned with the Class As, burner phone and cash they found on him.
Result.
Ah, beautiful. Beautiful. RINGING CONTINUES
Make sure there's no weapon as well.
We just had a good search, but yeah.
It's a great result and the boys think there might be more drugs
at his house. Mate, let's bring the car round here, because if he gets
anywhere near a home address, he's going to be yawping.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. RINGING CONTINUES
They're concerned the suspect might try to alert the occupants
and it seems their fears are well founded.
SHOUTS:
Mate, don't start shouting, don't start shouting.
RINGING CONTINUES
He's trying to message some... Get a message across to somebody called...
He's obviously trying to tip her off for a search.
He's already just let somebody else know.
Gav's onto the messenger...
This way, mate, this way, buddy. This way.
...while Joe moves to shut the suspect up.
You're lucky you didn't get two probes on you.
Probes, tasered.
The suspect's off to the nick and it's Class A jackpot for the cops.
There's in excess of 50 wraps. They're £10 a wrap.
£500 worth of Class A drugs off the streets.
So, yeah, he's quite a significant dealer.
We've known him for a long time.
So it's a good name.
He's obviously tried letting somebody know then that he's
been arrested, so we're trying to figure out who this female is
whose name he's been shouting, see if we can find her address.
The team need to locate the address urgently before any
evidence can be destroyed.
The messenger is tight-lipped,
but intel comes through on the address.
It makes perfect sense that he's reloading from this address
or dealing from this address just by the proximity,
you know, from where he's been seen serving them up.
The woman the suspect was apparently trying to get a message to is
also confirmed to be at the property.
Time for a knock.
Ey up. You all right?
Gav soon spots evidence of dealing.
Freezer bags here, it's probably what he's wrapping his drugs in,
doing his prep work.
There's more than just prep work in the room.
Oh, beautiful. Cash.
There's his takings from dealing drugs.
The occupants of the house are arrested...
...and heading straight downtown.
Back in the bedroom, the evidence continues to mount.
Heroin.
Just make sure you go through all the rubbish in the bins
cos there's discarded heroin deals all in the bins here.
Meanwhile, Joe's had a root around outside
and it's not gardening tools he's spotted.
Just down here, hidden away, is what we've got.
So hidden under some bags was...
"large knife in the garden.
Very dangerous weapon. It's, um,
yeah, obviously used by the drug dealers, in case they needed it.
There's no excuse for having one of these on you at all.
They're used for nothing else other than violence
and causing injury to people.
It's not something that we need walking round the streets in,
in Nottingham. So that's another one off the street.
They might not be able to link the knife to the suspected dealer,
but with the drugs found on him and the evidence in the house,
it's been a cracking effort from the team.
This has been a really, really good result
because we do struggle in The Meadows with our tactics.
Most of the drug dealing is done on foot. People come out,
the dealers come out with just a little at a time to serve up.
But today, we've taken out one of the most prominent drug dealers
in The Meadows, and he's come out with a big bundle of drugs
and we've found where he's come from and we've got more drugs here,
we've got cash, so it's been a really, really good result.
The lad with the bushy hair pleaded guilty to two counts
of possession with intent to supply a Class A drug.
He now awaits his sentence.
The two occupants of the house were released with no further action.
Historically, drug driving has been difficult to prove.
All right, there's a strong smell of weed in the car.
Is there any on you?
However, the latest annual figures in England and Wales
show over 12,000 motorists were found guilty of driving
under the influence of drugs...
I need you to move your tongue around your mouth about ten times.
That's it. You've done this one before.
...thanks largely... Thank you very much.
...to the introduction of the drugs wipe.
It's come up as positive for cannabis,
suspicion of driving this vehicle.
I would say drug driving at the moment is akin to what
perhaps drink-driving was in the early '90s.
It's been a quiet shift for Phil Broughton,
but that could be about to change as a passing Ford catches his eye.
RADIO:
Not yet, no, just, urn, just spinning on a Focus.
RADIO:
Although Phil's in the unmarked BMW, the driver seems to have clocked
him and floored it, but Phil's soon got him back in his sights.
Time to find out what the big hurry is about.
Ey up. ls it your vehicle?
It's all right, it's just it looked like you saw me turning around and then booted it up here.
I just wanted to make sure you weren't trying to get away from me.
Ah, no worries. Have you got your licence and everything on you?
No? ls it registered in your name?
Just take a seat in the back of our car.
No, it's just how... It just looked, when I was turning round,
you sort of then shot off up the hill, and then...
Phil's been in the game long enough to know
when a car boots it off like that, there's usually something amiss.
Is there anything in the vehicle there shouldn't be?
That all depends. Do iffy smells count?
Why am I getting a whiff of weed? Be honest with me.
All right.
That car stinks of it, so it's not just one day, is it?
Do you use it regularly?
You got any 0n you?
Any in the vehicle? Right, OK.
It's estimated smoking just one joint can leave you over
the prescribed limit for driving 12 hours later.
When was the last time you smoked cannabis?
Yesterday, and you say you smoke it regularly.
Is it like every day?
Right, what's your reason for smoking that, then?
No worries.
It might help the lad doze off,
but that's not ideal at the wheel of a car.
I'm going to run through the drink and drug drive procedure with you.
So the first things first, is I'm going to require you to provide me
a specimen of your breath.
So a deep breath in and blow.
Keep going, keep going, keeP 905F19-
Thank you very much, that's enough.
Let's analyse your breath sample now which has come back as zero.
The driver might be stone-cold sober, but is he stoned?
So the next one is, I'm going to require you to provide
a sample of saliva for a drugs test.
Lean forward for me and I want you to stick your tongue out,
and what I'm going to do, as far as you can, tongue wise,
and I'm going to take a swab of each side of your tongue.
That's it, and then I'm just going to check to make sure there's enough saliva on it.
OK.
Right, that takes about eight minutes to process.
Just enough time for a quick search.
I'm potentially going to be searching you and the vehicle.
Am I likely to find any in the vehicle?
You say probably not.
Right.
Not exactly convincing.
Ooh. What have you got in your pockets?
Survival blankets?
Oh, in Kirkby?
Just stand here for us, then. Stand there for us.
Aside from the lad's Kirkby survival kit...
No worries, take a seat back in there, then.
...he's clean, which is more than could be said for his car.
It's a proper mess, this is.
Don't attempt anything without the gloves.
Amongst the cutlery, Phil spots a container.
It doesn't look like the lad's lunchbox.
Busted.
So what I've found here is just a small box
and inside it there's some cannabis.
So what we'll do now is take it back, see who it belongs to.
If it belongs to him, then obviously we'll be dealing with that as well.
Smoking weed can affect the memory,
and Philjogs the suspect's as to his find.
That was behind the driver's seat. Who does that belong to?
That's yours, is it? And inside it is some cannabis.
Who does that belong to? That's yours, is it?
In this case, it's finders keepers, and Phil will seize the weed.
One last item on the agenda.
OK then, right, let's have a look at these... This result.
OK, right, it's gone through its cycle and it's,
it's recorded a positive result for cannabis.
So at this moment in time, I am arresting you on suspicion
of driving this motor vehicle whilst over the specified limit for
cannabis. I'm also arresting you on suspicion of possessing a controlled
drug believed to be cannabis. You don't have to say anything, but it
may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something
you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
For drug driving and possession of a Class B drug, the lad was
fined £280 and disqualified from driving for 12 months.
Still to come...
...the mystery of the man with a lot on his plates.
But obviously you're driving around, aware that you've got a number plate
that belongs to another vehicle on your car, so why have you got it on?
We'll stick this neck of the woods in case it pops up here.
It's bright and early in Mansfield,
and the sun shines on the righteous.
Lisa and Bruce are on the hunt for a suspected cloned car.
We've got a blue Vito van. It keeps pinging our ANPR cameras and it has
been doing for the last few weeks, and it's possibly on cloned plates.
The rogue Vito van needs following up.
False plates are typically used by bad guys
looking to disguise dodgy doings.
Sometimes it's because they want to avoid paying insurance
and they just want to go round on an insured vehicle.
It could be a stolen vehicle. There it is.
Ah.
The search for the blue Vito is over.
It's just passed us on the Southall Road.
Suspects using cloned plates have a nasty habit of making off,
so other units are on their way.
Whereabouts are the other cars? just thinking about when we stop it.
Yeah, received.
Shall I speak to him? Yeah, like that.
Mate, we just need to speak to you about your van. Do you know, when we get through the lights...
...can you just take a left and just pull somewhere, pull somewhere?
Yeah, erm, yeah, go on, then. Yeah.
Van man seems on the level.
Yeah, to the other mobiles, he's just pulling into the Essar
petrol station. I think it's all going to be OK.
Lisa calls off the cavalry and comes straight to the point.
We've got reports that this vehicle might be on cloned plates.
I don't know if you've been stopped recently.
So what we just need to do is check everything is all in order.
It might... RADIO: Sierra one-two AFC. It might just be...
So what...?
Yeah.
The man claims the back plate is correct,
but he's aware his front one isn't.
Oh, right. Have you got any ID on you at all?
NA, it's just to confirm, on the front of the vehicle, you've got
Foxtrot Echo zero seven, and then on the rear...
...you've got Foxtrot Echo five seven.
Close, but no cigar. The front and rear plates differ by one number.
So why have you got two different plates on, then?
Yeah. Yeah.
But obviously you're driving around aware that you've got a number plate
that belongs to another vehicle on your car, so why have you got it on?
But you've got a false number plate on.
That's like me putting your registration numbers on my car,
and then driving around because I didn't realise it was illegal.
Lisa has his number, and she's not impressed.
You could get speeding tickets, you could be involved in stuff,
and you're using someone else...
You know, this person could get stuff through their post.
It's not rocket science.
I'm sure the person that owns the car to this number plate won't be
very pleased that you're driving around with their number plate on.
It seems he's a bit of a plonker, not an arch criminal,
and he's got an idea.
Yeah, are you understanding, though, that what you're doing, you can't go
around with another number plate belonging to another vehicle on your vehicle.
Bruce points out a convenient solution.
He can buy a new number plate over there.
But Billy Two-Plates isn't off the hook.
You've been driving it as we've stopped you.
So you know that it belongs to a Golf,
but you're still continuing to drive with it round,
so you do know, but you just choose to drive around with it, all right?
So there's offences there, isn't there?
It's an unusual situation and Lisa
and Bruce need to refer to the rule book to see the exact offence.
Just having a look, really. I've got them all here.
While Bruce wades through number plate misdemeanours...
"Failed to display front registration plate."
It is, but it's the wrong one. Yeah.
...the man gets to work on fixing the problem.
"Failed to display vehicle license in a manner..."
No, it's not that.
So we just need to make sure that you're
reported for the correct offence.
It's much easier if you'd just cloned your vehicle cos we know...
You know, so just bear with us while we look at that and then we'll let you get on your way.
Here y0l1 9°!
Bingo. They now know what they're nicking him for.
I'll get the offence code for you. Yeah.
There's a first time for everything. Take it away, Lisa.
So at this time, you will be reported for consideration
of the question of prosecuting you for the relevant offence which is
displaying the incorrect vehicle registration mark
on the front of your vehicle, all right? So you do not have to say anything but it may harm your
defence if you do not mention now something which you later rely on in Court and anything you do say may be
given in evidence, do you understand?
If you can't get that sorted now, then I'd suggest you go
straight home, all right? OK.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
The two-plate plonker was reported for failing to display
the correct registration, and awaits his clay in court.
For Lisa, it's been a waste of their resources.
When we're dealing with cloned plates on cars, it's generally for
your big-time criminals, you know, stolen vehicles, you know, big crime
that's out there. So when you deal with guys like this,
initially, we've got all our cars coming from the county,
potentially thinking that this car may fail to stop.
It might contain dangerous individuals,
it might contain criminals. So it...
It's kind of a waste of time for us,
because it's dragging all our resources to one end of the county,
when actually, it's just a guy that couldn't be bothered
to change the number plate he'd bought, knowing it was wrong.
It's just bizarre.
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