Armed police. Come to the door. You'll come to no harm.
GUNSHOT Shots fired.
Crime never sleeps.
Oi.
But neither...
...do the cops.
Police with a dog!
Battling on the front line.
He's in the back garden.
Are Nottinghamshire's finest.
Highly trained pursuit drivers.
Contact.
Oh, God.
Specialists in entry...
Police!
...and search.
There's your firearm.
Rapid response firearms officers.
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...
Oi. Calm.
...they'll never back down. Calm down!
Because cometh the hour...
Get down on the floor.
...cometh the interceptors.
It's a good day at the office.
Coming UP---
Get out the car, get out the car!
...a £1.7 million stash.
Wow. Looks like class A.
Mansfield Street, it's a crash, crash.
A pursuit is over in a flash.
Stop there!
And...
Running...
...a decamp and dash.
Police officer with a Taser!
Stay where you are!
Across the UK there's thought to be over 4,400 organised crime gangs,
or OCGs, in operation.
Yeah, received, just which bit of the A1 is it, please?
But the interceptors are fighting back.
I'm assuming it's on blues?
Er, yeah.
Following an investigation into cross border
transportation of illegal drugs...
...interceptors Lisa DeSantis and Bruce Arnold have been called in
to stop a van.
Information received, a white combo van is currently heading up
the A1 from south, with drugs onboard.
Intelligence suggests it's part of an OCG
this responsible for distribution of class-A drugs.
The van, which could be ferrying a large stash of drugs,
will soon pass onto their patch.
Yeah, it's quite a way off, we should be there in time.
To get the stash wagon stopped,
multiple units are heading to Newark to box it in -
what's known in the trade as a TPAC.
It'll definitely come through our county. Yeah. Without a doubt.
Lisa puts her foot down.
Travelling 20 miles east.
To join the convoy.
Sometimes these vehicles try to push their way out
but it's got three X5s to try and fight with.
So, hopefully, we should win that battle.
Spotter cars plot up along the van's predicted route.
Meanwhile, the team lie in wait at the on slip to the A1.
Let me have a look at the road layout ahead of us.
The target van was last sighted 40 minutes ago.
As the minutes tick on you can feel it building up, your adrenaline.
You've just got to deal with it.
Advanced driver Lisa is a fitness fanatic,
who can cook up a mean Italian chicken,
as well as a tantalising TPAC.
Which is just as well.
Do you want to turn it up, Bruce?
ON RADIO:
So the dog car's sighted it a bit further down.
Because the stash wagon is heading straight for them.
All eyes are on the carriageway.
So it's passing the entry slip.
The van should appear any second...
...now. There it is.
That's it.
With the target in their sights, it's all systems go.
Yes, yes, stick together. Car three.
All they need now is the perfect time to strike.
You're OK nearside.
With a clear stretch of road ahead...
...it's box o'clock.
Get out the car, get out the car!
Following intel about an organised crime gang ferrying class-A drugs
through Nottinghamshire...
We should be there in time.
...the interceptors assembled and the plan of attack is a TPAC.
There it is. That's it.
After sighting the target on the A1...
...the team are in position.
You're OK nearside.
And ready to make their move.
Get round, get around.
Get out the car, get out the car!
Get your belt off!
Belts off, out of the car, on the floor, on the floor!
Around the back, around the back.
Textbook.
Back here.
Just stand there.
Within seconds, the two men are in cuffs.
Have you got anything on you that's going to harm yourself or anybody else?
SUSPECT: Right, did you hear that you're detained...?
Oh, sorry, mate, you got it?
So it's just rear pockets, just swing them out for me.
Just money, is it?
There's no obvious signs of a large stash of drugs.
Put him in this one. Are we OK to put him back of yours?
But both the suspects and the van are off for a search.
That's received from two-eight,
we're just putting the driver in the back of the other car.
It went really well, they stopped, they didn't cause us any issues,
the element of surprise was there, you could see
on their faces they were totally shocked.
Good result. No injury, no damage to anything,
so, just a broken window on their car -
can live with that.
Nice one. Yeah.
Textbook, really. Yeah, nice.
Very nice.
Got to see what we find now.
See what it's all about.
A few miles down the road...
Have you got a decent torch? Yeah, I've just gone and got one here.
...the team, led by Sergeant Lenny Bennett,
get to work searching the van.
The van's cargo is class-A free.
But the interceptors have their suspicions.
See they've got all tools, haven't they?
Screwdrivers and drills,
how do we know they haven't drilled something off and stuck it back on?
Based on the intel that there's drugs worth big money onboard,
the team have got the green light to go through the van
with a fine-tooth comb.
And some power tools.
It's got to be under here.
Cops think the OCG could have modified the van to create a hide.
So they take up the flooring...
Look at that.
...unscrew the interior walls...
No.
But the stash wagon is unwilling to reveal its secrets.
Yeah, and they're looking.
In the front of the van...
They've obviously been playing with this. ls there a void?
Hang about, let's have a look. That scratch up there mate.
...they're on to something.
And that's scratched, can you get a screwdriver
to do that from the other side?
There's signs of tampering on the bulkhead.
The partition between the driver's seat and the cargo cabin.
Mark, I'm just going to poke through these vents, mate.
There's something in between this though.
No, I'm not coming through.
There is something springing behind it.
It looks like something is stashed inside.
In between?
Yeah, there's a membrane in here.
Did you say there's plastics?
Going to be a goer. ls that another phone?
We can see something behind this panel here,
so we're just trying to get into it, the rivets have been taken off.
But we can see some sort of plastic bags.
Whether it's just a membrane or drugs, we don't know yet.
There's something there.
This calls for a little help from...
Rip saw.
Bruce, do you want that?
So, just cut the metal I think so we can get in, it's going to be easier.
Might want to cover your ears, Mark. I think it's over this way.
Paul is going in.
SAW WHIRRING
Ooh, that looks big, that does look big.
They've forced open a concealed compartment.
Ooh, hello. Wonder what that is.
What do we have here?
One.
And discover not just one.
This one's heavier.
Struck gold.
Two.
The other one in the corner.
One in that corner. Pass them out.
Just hold on.
But three massive sacks.
Ooh. OFFICER LAUGHS
Where are you putting it Bruce? Here for now,
but there's a good lump in that.
The question is, what were the suspects trying to hide?
Oh, deary me.
So you've got one - ooh.
We're talking...
...three...
...four...
...five...
...six.
Yeah.
Exported straight from source,
the packaging still has markers from the drug cartel.
Yeah.
It's one of the biggest drug hauls the team have ever intercepted.
So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
17.
17 blocks of something...
...that's going to upset somebody.
The stash wagon finally revealed its true cargo,
and the team uncovered an enormous 17 kilos of cocaine,
worth more than £1.7 million.
Right fella, you're under arrest, OK,
on suspicion of possession with controlled drugs with the intent
to supply. OK, you don't have to say anything...
Both suspects are off to custody.
You got one?
The colossal cocaine haul will be taken to a secure lockup.
And the van, or what's left of it, is seized.
This is high-end drugs job, there's various different kinds of jobs
but to get a drugs job like this, it's good,
you never know what you're going to get, and this one's,
you know, the big fish.
So, yeah, you go home with a smile on your face.
Yeah.
Just got to get it back now.
Following this £1.7 million drug stop,
the van driver was convicted of possession with intent to supply
class-A drugs and sentenced to four years and nine months in prison.
The prosecution offered no evidence against the passenger
and he was found not guilty at court.
The interceptors have a whole host of tricks up their sleeve
to stop suspects on the road.
Could get it here? In the dark round here.
From the stealthy stinger.
Vehicle stung, vehicle stung.
Yes, put it on.
To the trusty TPAC.
Box on, box on.
Turn your engine off now mate.
But sometimes it's impossible to prevent a pursuit.
Those pursuits are inheritably dangerous by definition really.
When we're engaged in a pursuit, we have to think about the risk
to ourselves, the risk to members of the public,
and the risk of the people that are in the car that's failing to stop
for us, and if it becomes too dangerous, it gets called off.
Whereas our car thieves don't have the same headache.
All they're bothered about is getting away.
It's a busy Saturday evening in Sherwood
and interceptors Justin and Nicky...
HORN HONKS, SIREN BLARES
...are closing in on a black Ford
with markers saying it's being driven by a lad without a licence.
Mm-hm.
To top it off, the Ford doesn't belong to him,
but he's been spotted behind the wheel only a few streets away.
Coming down Mansfield Road, we'll hold on the side road.
Just right.
No sooner had the duo parked up...
Hurry up mate, quickly, quickly.
There it is.
...the Ford flies past.
And they're off again.
Four up, at least two in the back, saw only adults.
We're turning stick.
The driver is collecting cop cars at a rate of knots.
They've all looked at us, haven't they?
And clocked he's got company.
I think he's going to go.
D0 you?
There could be a pursuit on the cards.
Oh, no.
As an unwitting driver slips in between the cops and their target,
the dodgy driver seizes his opportunity.
Yeah, he is.
And boots it.
Yeah.
Take one-three Chippo.
But before Nicky gets a chance to call in the pursuit...
Mansfield street. Oh, it's crashed.
It is a crash, crash.
...the dangerous driver blows a junction,
ploughing into a passing red Corsa, and sends it spinning.
It's collided with a member of the public.
Get out the car NOW!
The reckless driver has also gone head on with a blue Honda.
We've got two possibly unconscious in the back.
SUSPECT: Stay where you are.
A crash like this could be fatal.
Get in.
You say sorry to that bloke.
As well as hitting two members of the public,
the driver took off with three passengers in tow.
Why has he gone for that? Why he's done that for?
WOMAN CRYING
You all right sweetheart?
Can we just get locals to us pronto please?
How are your hands?
Can you wiggle your toes? All right.
Talking to the member of the public, the air bag has gone off.
Going to need a couple of ambulances I think.
Just stay put, all right, until we get an ambulance.
You all right there, darling?
Is she - where's this lady come from?
There's actually another vehicle involved as well, NH.
One of the innocent drivers has managed to escape the wreckage
and is lying on the pavement.
Are you injured? She's not sure.
WOMAN WEEPING Can you wiggle your toes for me?
We're getting her a blanket.
We're going to need another ambulance NH, please.
You need to tell me where your pain is?
OK, it's cos the airbag's gone off.
Whilst Nicky looks after the crash victims... All right.
The fact that you're moving and you're talking is really good.
"Justin's with the three passengers in the suspect's car.
It was his fault. It was.
He drove like that and hit somebody, didn't he? So it is his fault.
And one has caught the sarge's attention.
He reckons you were goading him on.
He said it's all your fault, you told him to do it.
He's wanted.
Yes, mate, got that, thank you. Right.
Got a pair of cuffs mate? I've already used mine.
Stick your hands up. I can't get out.
You're up on arrest for a recall to prison that was issued yesterday.
Breached your conditions apparently.
Well, probation I presume.
Come round here. Come here so you can speak...
Come, no, don't start being silly. Don't start being silly.
We're trying to help you, all right?
Trying to help you.
He'll make a pit stop at hospital before going back behind bars.
Keep going, keep going, keep blowing.
Thank you, that's fine.
As for the driver...
You have passed but you have blown 14,
so you've had drink, haven't you?
He's not over the drink-drive limit,
but he is under arrest for driving without a licence or insurance,
failing to stop, and dangerous driving.
What were you thinking? You just stop.
There's a lady there being put on a stretcher.
You should look.
You know why you should look? Because it might make you
think twice next time,
when you're tempted to do something stupid.
Look at that, look at what you've caused, and remember how that feels.
It's a Saturday early evening, it's a residential street, there is
a high street directly behind us, which you just turned off.
With bars, restaurants, loads of pedestrians about.
He hasn't cared about anybody else's safety
and has crashed into two vehicles.
It was the shortest pursuit ever, he could have just stopped,
and what he would have faced would have been far less significant
than what he's looking at now.
Before the driver is also taken to A&E,
there's one more matter to deal with -
the fact the car he's trashed doesn't even belong to him.
Obviously you shouldn't have the car now, it should have been returned.
I've got to arrest you for an aggravated TWOC.
Yeah, do you know what I mean, lucky, aren't you?
Go on, then, mate, in you go.
The driver faced quite the list of car crimes
and was convicted of aggravated vehicle taking, dangerous driving,
failing to stop, and driving without a licence or insurance.
He was sentenced to four months in prison,
suspended for 18 months, ordered to carry out 180 hours of unpaid work,
pay £200 costs and was disqualified from driving for 12 months.
No-one involved in the crash received any serious injuries.
Coming UP---
Yeah, box on, box on, box on.
...a boxed in burglar.
Contact made, he's trying to drive away.
Stay where you are!
And a dash for some stash.
They've sorted it, they've stopped it.
What's that a badger?
It is a badger.
Oh, it's just gone scrambling down that hill. Wow!
It's not just badgers on the prowl tonight.
Rob Eley and Jim Camping are on a night shift, hoping for a tasty job.
Ooh, let's get up there.
A burglar has crept into a family's home, snatched nearly £1,000
in cash and stolen the Mercedes SUV for his getaway car.
ON RADIO:
Foxtrot 5-210-6...
ON RADIO: We're coming from Carrington, Mansfield Road.
The whole team are flooding the area.
Why don't we head down Woodborough Road,
and then knock about there?
Because then we've got access back up.
Good shout.
And there's a fresh lead as the stolen Merc has hit an ANPR camera.
Do a left, get us back to that main road.
Jim and Rob start making their way.
So now we're left mate. Yeah.
When there's a shout over the radio.
So we've you a unit now behind that car that's just been stolen.
NH can you just make division aware,
get them on 11-99 please for possible stinger sites?
Rob puts his boot down.
I think he's straight down, Jim.
Yeah?
Keeping obs on the stolen Merc until backup arrives...
Just approaching the Volvo garage to the near side.
...are Ben, and behind the wheel Dan, in an unmarked Volvo.
It's in lane two of two.
Vehicle looks to be stopping at the red ATS.
Dan hangs back.
Received, ATS still on red, can't get a few of any occupants.
Appears to be just the driver.
But the driver seems twitchy.
He is moving his near side wing mirror now,
I think to get a view of us.
ATS through to green.
Slow to move off, I think he's aware of our presence now.
Fresh from the scene of a house burglary, in around 30 grand's worth
of nicked motor, there's every chance the driver could make off.
Again, little slow moving off,
I think he's looking in at that near side mirror again.
But for now, it seems the suspect's trying to keep a low profile.
Speed is 35 in a 40, still driving highway code and complying.
A few miles away, Rob and Jim get into position for a stinger,
or a box.
So, it's doing kamikaze now. Go through town.
So how about doing a left?
Yeah, that's what I'm doing.
That's strange, isn't it?
Yeah, very strange, I thought he'd be off by now.
We're city centre, Corner House. Ben, carry on with your comms, mate.
Back with the lead car.
Speed is 15, DRA would be low.
Catching criminals is exactly what interceptor Dan signed up for.
He's an advanced driver with skills in TPAC and evasive driving.
Yeah, it's done a right, right, right, Amersham Rise.
And he thinks it's only a matter of time until the suspect floors it.
Will be well aware of our presence now,
been following it for some time.
As the Merc's moving off the main roads, now's time to strike.
Allendale Avenue, he's done a left, left, left, Allendale Avenue.
I don't know where this one comes out, if someone can come
the other direction, there's a lot of parked cars, we could box it in.
They're going for a two-car box.
Can you see a headlight? Yeah.
Another unit is travelling head on.
Stand by.
Yeah, box on, box on, box on.
Pinned in between two cop cars...
Contact made, he's trying to drive away.
...the burglar tries to break out of the box.
Stay there. Stay there!
Stay there. Down now!
Get down!
But it's the end of the road for this car thief.
MUFFLED SHOUTING, DOG BARKING
One detained.
Rob and Jim arrive moments later.
Yeah, know the face.
Nice, who, is it?
I recognise his face mate.
Got behind me and has tried to force his way out and he's been involved
in a bit of a fire arms sandwich between the X5 and our Volvo.
And, yeah, he's been extracted from the vehicle
and got a night on us at the B&B at the Bridewell.
So, all good.
Just 20 minutes after the call came in, the interceptors have retrieved
the stolen Mercedes and have a car thief in cuffs...
Yes, you can. You're talking.
One more opportunity.
Right you're under arrest...
Come on please.
...who's refused the breath test and is now kicking off.
You will hurt yourself. There you go.
Listen and I'll explain.
Listen, there is...
There is a van coming...
Take him out. For his own safety, cops move the mouthy Merc burglar
onto the street whilst they wait for a van to transport him to custody.
Can you stop shouting...
Well, stop shouting then. Stop shouting.
Calm yourself down. Stop shouting.
Right. though.
I know it's all been an exciting night for you, yeah, but...
Just have a little bit of a calm down.
Well, you're under arrest. Grab hold.
Right, right.
Right if you carry on.
You'll have to go back on the floor, aren't you?
Because you're kicking off and shouting.
Right, sit down. Sit down.
MAN SHRIEKING
His antics are drawing an audience.
RESUMES SHRIEKING Are you recording this?
Squeezing.
I've got hold of his jumper!
Listen.
Listen bro.
The burglar soon changed his tune.
At court he pleaded guilty to this burglary as well as a second
burglary, and an attempted burglary a week earlier.
On top of that, he was convicted of car theft, driving without
a licence and failure to provide a sample of breath for analysis.
He was sentenced to two years and nine months behind bars
and will be disqualified from driving for 29 months.
Ah, but a scratch, Sarge, but a scratch!
That'll keep going.
He's just lost a few teeth. Yeah.
Yeah, there's nowt wrong with that!
Hey, chaps you all right? Ey up.
Nottinghamshire's knife crime team have many strings to their bow.
Stop and you can find out, don't you?
SIREN BLARES
Not only are they cracking down on weapons...
I'm going to ask you now if you've got a bit, anything on you?
Got nothing on me, nothing.
...they're coming down hard on suspected drug dealing.
Stay where you are, stay where you are.
Police officer with a Taser. Police officer with a Taser.
Go to my colleague, go to my colleague.
40 or 50 deals of cannabis.
If somebody gets arrested for possession with intent
to supply, let's say, so it does often happen that, yeah,
you'll stop them once and a week later, you could stop them again
and they're still doing the same thing,
because they're trying to recoup all the money that they've lost.
It's good that we take the drugs off the street, but it won't actually
stop the dealer, you know, stop them carrying on dealing basically.
To get the job done, the knife crime team hunt in packs.
Dan Mottishaw and co-pilot Matt Hempsall
are in one of four knife crime cars patrolling in Radford today.
That Astra's just hit east bound again.
They know all the usual faces and have units in all the right places.
It's around Forest Road, where I sighted him the other day.
Nearby, another unit has spotted a motor which could be linked
to drug dealing.
We've had him a couple of occasions, the driver, quite recently,
the last few months,
both times possession with intent to supply cannabis.
So, he's supplying cannabis cakes.
And he's clearly not learning his lesson.
So we're just going to get him stopped,
and if grounds allow, we'll search him.
Dan's a pursuit trained driver with 12 years on the force.
His dream set of wheels would be a top-end Audi RS6.
But to make a stop on the knife crime team...
Running on after.
...he knows sometimes, you can't beat boots on the ground.
I'm jumping out, mate.
SIREN BLARES
Passenger has legged it with a bag
from the suspected drug dealer's car.
SHOUTING: Stay where you are!
Matt hits warp speed.
Stay there, now! Police officer with a Taser!
Stay where you are!
Stay down. Stay on the floor now!
And next the runner...
Give me the bag. Give me the bag.
Stay on the floor, get on the floor.
...along with the bag.
I'll get one cuff on.
Let me get one cuff on. Yeah.
Right, don't start resisting, don't start resisting.
Stop resisting, stop resisting.
Stop resisting.
Right let's spin it round, right.
Fellow knife crime team member Gav is keen to see what's inside.
Cuffs on, you're under arrest for possession
and intent to supply cannabis.
You don't have to say anything, but it harm your defence
if you don't mentioned, when questioned...
It's a bag full of suspected cannabis.
Do you understand? We're good, stand up for me.
Right, OK, buddy. Mate you've been arrested, all right?
So I'm searching you under Section 32 of PACE, OK?
Got anything on you at all?
There, come on, bud, you can have a sit down in there can't ya?
SUSPECT:
Gav's got a theory on why the passenger ran.
Get out and run.
Bang at it.
Around the corner, Joe has stopped the driver in his car.
You nicked him PWIT, yeah? No, mate.
Yeah, nick him PWITS, cannabis. SUSPECT:
It's the third time this last has been
arrested on suspicion of drug dealing in six months.
All right, OK. Take a seat in the car then, buddy.
When it comes to searching the car, many hands make light work.
See, it's cannabis cakes that we've had before, so he's had like a
cool box with the cannabis cakes in before, cannabis cookies and cakes.
So at the moment, we're just looking for our normal sort of hide
spots, where people conceal things.
Oh, but he's proper, like, happy that he ain't got anything on him.
Because he's given it to the other lad.
The suspected drug dealer's car is clear.
Think we're going to seize the car. Yeah.
But, as the team think it's been used in crime,
the motor's on its way to the station too.
It's been a good afternoon for the knife crime team,
thanks in part to Matt's fancy footwork.
Because there's cops on...in the car,
and it's flying up the road and trying to avoid them,
he's ran across the road in front of me and didn't realise I was there.
Just managed to trip him up and he's gone flying
and then we managed to get hold of him but,
yeah, good result, really.
Back at the nick, Gav,
who originally spotted the suspect's car, is going through the findings.
After his arrest, the driver was released under
investigation for possession with intent to supply cannabis.
His passenger is also under investigation on suspicion
of dealing cannabis.
Still to come...
There's no policy of insurance against that vehicle.
...an unhappy customer wants a second opinion.
I am being fair.
I am the sergeant.
SIREN BLARES
2NH Foxtrot, Zulu two.
We are not very far from that at all,
so we're going to go see if we can drop on it.
Sergeant Jim Carrington and, in the driving seat, Paul Charlesworth,
are zoning in on a motor of interest from another county.
A Land Rover Freelander has just popped up
on some of our MPR technology,
and it's got a lot of speed camera reports on it basically.
And the foreign force that it belongs to
would like to know who's driving it, and if we're lucky,
it'll be just down the ring road here.
Despite the rush-hour traffic...
What's that?
...it's their lucky night.
It's there, straight to lane one. There it is.
2NH we've got the Freelander, we've got one for cover,
it's normal road speeds. Stand by, it's randomly showing us
a quick near side indication, and we are left, left onto
Westholme Gardens, none for cover.
Try and give it a pull.
Paul knocks on the blues...
Got a near side indication, it is pulling over for us,
so stand by, One.
And Jim goes to investigate.
Hello, mate. Are you from Nottingham, mate?
Sorry? Are you from Nottingham? No.
Right, where you from?
Well, I'm from Yorkshire. Right.
Your long story short, mate, there's a load of reports on the car,
that it's pinged a few speed cameras and the police force that own the...
Yeah, the lad that we bought this off. ..that know about it, just want to know who's driving it.
The lad we bought this off, told us that there... How long you been...
It's all been changed over. Ah, right. OK, mate.
Would you mind jumping out so I can get some details off you mate, if that's all right?
The car is chocker. Seven.
We're winding you up, boy.
PASSENGERS CHUCKLES
According to the driver, he only bought the car two clays ago.
Uh, yeah, I mean, look, to be fair, mate, I'm not sure how recent
these speeding offences are, but what...all I'll have to do,
is I'll get your details, make sure we're happy with who you are...
Yeah, yeah. ..your licence and all that kind of jazz. No problem.
Then I'll send your details back to the force where speed cameras are... No problem, yeah.
...check the DVLA, when the vehicle changed hands. If you've had it two days...
You'll know I've had. job done. Yeah. Sounds simple enough.
The other issue we've got. I've noticed on here.
What insurance we running on? I'm, I'm insured.
Right.
They've hit a snag. On police systems,
there's no insurance details for the Freelander.
DRIVER:
Right.
So you've got a trade policy?
Because the problem with trade policies, as you'll know,
is vehicles have to be listed on a trade policy. Yeah, I understand.
And that's not on a policy that's on here.
Obviously I have seven days to do that, mate, I onlyjust got the..
Motor trade insurance covers those working in the car industry,
for things like collection and delivery of vehicles, or road testing.
Any car in their possession for more than 14 clays,
must be listed on a trade policy.
Have you got any proof that you bought it a couple of days ago? A v5, the slip?
The problem that we've got, mate, is that, you'll know the score,
we only need suspicion to seize a car.
Yeah, I know. So if we suspect that car's uninsured, we're going to seize it.
Word travels fast that the car could be seized...
You're not taking it.
...and the driver's mates are convinced it's covered.
You can't seize it cos I'm a trader, two of us
in the same motor, you can't seize it, because I'm a trader so.
As long as I'm sitting in that motor, or he's sitting in it, it's covered.
In an attempt to avoid seizing the car,
Jim gives the driver another chance to prove he's insured.
Did your mates talk about some camper van you might have some
insurance on? Yeah, yeah, I've got other motors.
Do you know what the number plate is? Yeah, yeah.
Go on, then, mate, what you got?
Sergeant Jim's proudest moment on the job was passing
out from police training school in front of his family.
Two decades later, it's fair to say that not much gets passed him.
The reg, can give you my recovery as well.
Yeah, I mean the problem with these, is these are vehicles coming
back with obviously some kind of fleet policy on from Yorkshire,
but they're not in your name, and there's no listed vehicles.
If at first you don't succeed, try a different number plate.
I've just sold it, like.
Mate that's privately insured to a woman from Leeds.
Sold it to some Romanian. We're struggling, aren't we?
Without any proof of insurance or documents to show
he bought the car a few clays ago, it's not looking good.
I know mate, cos you're a long way from Bradford aren't ya?
The problem that we've got is, the onus is on you to prove to us that you're insured.
If you can't do that, we have the power to seize the car,
until such a time that you can prove it's insured.
News the car IS going to be seized
doesn't go down well with the passengers.
Right, so if I prove that I'm...
But if I prove I'm covered are you going,
are you going to let us go in the car?
If you check my van and I come back as a trader, that's...
...you should know then that I'm covered to drive that.
I can drive it any time of the day, any time at night...
...for14 days and I don't need to tell them.
I'm going to show you.
Just check it out.
Because I'm on trade.
If I thought that I wasn't insured, do you think I'm even going
to tell you, mate, I can drive that car?
For you to pull me in down there and get me? What brings you all into Nottingham?
We're just up here. For?
We've come up doing a bit of rabbiting,
but now we're going back home. On a Nottingham ring road?
What? All right, to be honest with you I don't really know where
I am around here. We pulled down there.
We're trying to find our way back out to the motorway.
Bottom line is, we're seizing the car,
have you to come to a Nottingham police station, prove
ownership, documentation and we'll release the car back.
You're being awkward. no, I'm not, I'm doing myjob.
I'm covered to drive. You've got a trade policy, doesn't prove anything.
He's... We're not telling lies here.
He's got a trade policy on Archers Commercials, it proves nothing.
...l need is to say that car is definitely insured.
But it is insured.
That car has got no insurance details against it.
There's no policy of insurance against that vehicle.
I've been all over, I'm a traveller. Right.
All over the country and all hours. But like I've explained to ya.
And it's only you now that's trying to say that I'm not covered
to drive that vehicle. I have grounds to suspect that vehicle may not,
MAY not be insured, so that gives me the power to seize it.
The passenger's not having it. ..going home. Right.
You're not being fair at all.
I am being fair, I'm being more than fair. You're an officer, yeah?
I bet if you bring your sergeant here... I am the sergeant. He is
But you're a sergeant and you don't understand I CAN drive that.
You're not a proper sergeant, you haven't read the law book.
I have and that's why I'm seizing the car.
Well, you want us to walk home?
I don't want you to walk home, no, but you can if you want. Well, you must want us to walk home.
So, with the driver given the paperwork for no insurance...
That's the online form we're giving ya.
Where's that at? We've given you that already.
It's that one.
Woo-hoo.
And a few parting pleasantries from the passenger...
You know that car, stick it where the sun don't shine.
...everyone can get on their way.
Right, see you's later.
God. Blimey.
That was harder work that it needed to be, wasn't it?
The driver was reported for driving without insurance,
and despite the 30 minutes battle at the road side,
he didn't collect his car and it was sold at auction.
For this and other unrelated road offences,
he was banned from driving for 12 months.
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