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00:00Increasing theft is taking up more and more time for Britain's police forces.
00:08In Yorkshire, for the traffic cops, with thieves getting younger and younger,
00:12it's a never-ending battle.
00:15We're basically targeting people using vehicles to commit crimes,
00:18so your drug dealers, your burglars, your thieves.
00:21North Yorkshire Road Crime Team officers Paul Stamp and Mick Roth are patrolling the border
00:40of North and South Yorkshire looking for thieves.
00:44North Yorkshire is quite different to other forces,
00:47where the criminals really come from outside the counter inwards,
00:50so I like to sit down by the border, look for what's coming across,
00:54look for what's coming out of South Yorkshire,
00:56and see if I can get a bad lad locked up.
00:59His window was a bit down, it was just steamed up.
01:03Mick has spotted a suspicious car.
01:06This vehicle in front, we suspect it's got no insurance, which in itself is a problem,
01:09but the fact that it's running around at small hours at morning might mean it's something else.
01:13The yellow jacket on.
01:14On his way, on from the way.
01:16Yeah.
01:19Hey up mate, alright?
01:20Yeah.
01:21The car has come up as no insurance.
01:23It is mate, yeah.
01:24But it's this driver's lucky day.
01:26I could hear a kind of a metallic rattling, getting louder coming towards us.
01:34Oh my God.
01:36Turned my head to see a 4x photo in a blooming generator of all things.
01:44Yeah, cancel that off after somewhere else.
01:51Go on mate, just go.
01:54The 4x4 is already being chased by Mick's colleagues up ahead.
01:59Yeah, the vehicle fell in to stop Sutton Road at Asken.
02:03It's towing a piece of plant.
02:06It's just literally strapped on by a rope.
02:08I've never seen anything like this before.
02:10There were sparks flying off it and bits of it were flying off all over and that was crazy.
02:17Can we get in traffic of FSU units to Whitley?
02:22Towing some form of generator.
02:26A wheel came off it and instead of the guy stopping because the wheel had come off,
02:31he just continued dragging it along the floor which let up this huge kind of Christmas tree of sparks coming out the back of it.
02:37It was unreal.
02:38It was like something out of a film.
02:40Sorry, can you just come over there, could you?
02:43I'm scramming 560.
02:45Yeah, it's a Mitsubishi L200 or the like.
02:48I'll give you the VRM in a second.
02:50It's right, right, right at Norton Common Road onto an un-main road.
02:55Have you got units like in a Moss area or any district units?
02:58It's going to be going across that way towards Moss I think.
03:01So we turned onto the Norton Common Lane.
03:04They always take us down there because they know they can get away and we won't always follow.
03:09If you want to interrupt one, can you go Moss Village please, into Moss Village?
03:13And as we got down there, it got bumpier and bumpier and it was just that sickening feeling of we're going to lose them here.
03:21It might get better as a group of it, Stampey.
03:26Stampey's trying his best to keep going and then all of a sudden I saw the generator on my side.
03:33It'd obviously come off the rope or whatever, they'd attached it to the 4x4 where they'd snapped.
03:38I think it's gone lights out.
03:40Have you got any district units at all?
03:42North Yorkshire on 6th Roblob, I think it's patched at 3 at this time.
03:45There should be some marks.
03:47Go on, go towards. Go towards.
03:48Yeah, yeah, well.
03:52The chase could be coming to an end.
03:54It's gone lights out.
03:55Up ahead, the barriers on a railway level crossing are down, with a train due any minute.
04:03No mate, I don't like this. Look at this.
04:18This vehicle has just driven through closed barriers on a railway crossing just ahead of us.
04:24Just taking them straight out and I was shocked.
04:28I've never had that happen to me in all my years as a police officer.
04:32And I'll be surprised if it happens again.
04:35Coming up, closing in on the suspected generator thieves.
04:39Have you got a dog at all?
04:41And a high speed pursuit down the motorway takes a dramatic turn towards disaster.
04:48It's a Mitsubishi L200 or the like.
04:58It's gone 1am in Doncaster.
05:00Romeo, Charlie 9, 1 you're receiving.
05:03North Yorkshire's road crime team are after a pick-up dragging a stolen generator which has crossed into South Yorkshire.
05:10It's right, right, right, Norton Common Road onto an un-main road.
05:17Is there any pass available?
05:19It's like a show at Vegas or something. It was unbelievable.
05:24The suspected machinery thieves have crashed through the closed barriers of a railway crossing with potentially disastrous consequences.
05:34There's a 99% chance that there's a train coming through at a very fast speed.
05:38And to not stop the car, I was absolutely just shocked.
05:459-1, we're back behind this vehicle now.
05:49It hit it.
05:51It's left, left.
05:53See you. See you now. Go left.
05:56Right, boys. Side back.
05:59Mick and Paul followed the pick-up into a cul-de-sac.
06:02Mate, that's not it.
06:04You're joking.
06:05Different reg off here.
06:06But it seems to have disappeared into thin air.
06:09That's not it, that there. No, no.
06:13Is it not on here then?
06:15Mate, it's a different reg. I'll jump over and feel if it's warm, Mike.
06:20Mate, it's further round.
06:21You're joking.
06:23Mate, that's not that reg down there, no.
06:27I don't think it could have got them gates open, mate.
06:29It's got a padlock on it.
06:30No, I don't think it could.
06:32But then, as we turned in, it was smoking initially.
06:35So...
06:37We thought it may have come on here.
06:38It still may be on here somewhere,
06:39but it looks at the moment like they've disappeared out into the ether,
06:42which is a real shame.
06:43It's bitterly disappointing.
06:46Absolutely devastated, really.
06:49You work very hard for Summit, and they get away.
06:53We know that it's going to be in here somewhere.
06:54It's just a case of finding it.
06:56They could have parked it in the middle of a field,
06:57turned the lights off, and we'd never see it.
07:00And that's the frustration.
07:01You know because we've been a distance behind it,
07:04we're now going to really struggle to find it,
07:06especially on there.
07:09We haven't even got this motor that's failed to stop,
07:12so we've got no to a minute, Pallant.
07:14There's no damage rope?
07:15No, we're in order, Jonesy Tar.
07:17There's no damage rope like that.
07:19Just a bit of dented pride.
07:21They'll come again, mate, I'm sure.
07:24They do.
07:25Good luck.
07:26Stay safe out there.
07:28Cheers, pal, aren't you?
07:30We'll go back that way now.
07:31That's all we can do now, innit?
07:35We'll go back and find that better plant kit.
07:38It's a real reality check.
07:40There's a lot of pressure on us.
07:41When the dust has settled,
07:42and the vehicle's gone,
07:44and we've got no prisoners,
07:45and we drive back to the level cross-up.
07:48I know full well that,
07:51had that vehicle been taken out by a train,
07:54people would just be straight onto the questions of,
07:56well, why have you chased this four-by-four?
07:58All it's done is nick a generator
08:00that's at the side of the road, probably.
08:02How's it impacted on anyone?
08:05All four barriers are smashed off,
08:07which means the barriers have been down.
08:09The alarm's sounding,
08:11and the red lights are flashing.
08:12That's because there's a train coming.
08:14Not because it's safe to cross,
08:16but they're quite prepared to risk their life,
08:18and I just never understand that.
08:20They don't care who they hurt,
08:21they don't care what damage they cause,
08:23and they don't care about the ramifications
08:25of what they're doing.
08:27Stolen machinery can earn criminals thousands.
08:31And in the UK,
08:32an estimated £70 million worth of construction equipment
08:35is nicked every year.
08:39To transport it,
08:40thieves are increasingly using transit vans.
08:43Criminals are realising this.
08:45Stick stuff in the back of a van,
08:46it's hidden away from police sites,
08:48put the van on clone plates,
08:50and then run it.
08:52Whether it has been involved in plant theft,
08:54stealing diggers, road rollers from the side of the road,
08:57or whether it's involved in quad thefts at farmland,
09:00at the moment, van thefts are going through the roof.
09:04In West Yorkshire, van thefts are on the increase.
09:07Earlier today in Leeds,
09:09yet another one was stolen.
09:14We're getting a report of a stolen vehicle.
09:16PC's Paul Feather and Darren Wood,
09:18from the Bradford Safer Roads team,
09:20are trying to track it down.
09:22A member of the public who'd had his van stolen,
09:33he'd had a tracker fitted himself,
09:35and an alert had come up on his phone
09:37to say that the van was moving.
09:39It's a white van with like a orange or red band
09:49all the way around the van.
09:50Yeah, that should be fairly distinctive to see that,
09:52especially at that time of the night,
09:53you wouldn't expect to have many company vans on the road.
09:58Good evening, sir.
09:59Hello there.
10:00So we spoke to him on the phone,
10:02so I could get up to the second report of where it was.
10:05Huddersfield Road.
10:07Huddersfield Road 862, Batley.
10:09Right, well, that's roughly where we are now.
10:11Everything today coming out of the branch has not been delivered.
10:14You know, it's just all for someone's school class sod.
10:18It was probably finishing to make an exhaust off it.
10:21There is one there.
10:22We could have got to have a look at it, I guess, couldn't we?
10:25It might have been repainted, that's all I'm thinking.
10:27We did see a couple of vans, but they didn't match the description,
10:38they didn't have the same registration,
10:40they certainly didn't have the sign writing on them.
10:47We had a trawl round, we looked in all the back of the car parks,
10:50we looked in all the side streets.
10:52It's not, it's not in there.
10:58But before they can investigate further,
11:00Daz and Paul are called off the search
11:02and dispatched to a collision in Bradford.
11:11Hello there, it's PC Wood from West Yorch Police again.
11:13For now, all the owner can do is keep an eye on his tracker
11:17and hope the van moves again.
11:19Obviously, if we come across it, I'll give you a ring straight back and let you know.
11:22Yeah mate, give a ring and if there's somebody in it,
11:24arrest him and then fetch him down here to me.
11:26And I'm like six foot tall and seventeen stone and I'll smash his face in front.
11:3113 miles east, on the border of West Yorkshire,
11:37road crime team officers Mick Roth and Paul Stamp are on the M1 in an unmarked car.
11:43There's no registration on the back of the trailer.
11:46They've spotted a suspicious looking transit van trailing another piece of industrial machinery.
11:52We're behind a high-top Ford Transit van.
11:57It's got a trailer on it that's got a mini-dig on it.
12:00Run the vehicle through and it's coming back as having a keeper but no insurance on it.
12:06Which is obviously raising suspicions.
12:08Half ten at night, trailing on the M1 southbound.
12:10It needs stopping because it may well be that this is stolen.
12:13Plant equipment doesn't move at night.
12:15It moves in business hours. It's used by builders and the like.
12:19So anything moving late at night warrants a check off us.
12:25It's clocked us.
12:26Yeah, it's a way of our presence at the moment.
12:29Oh.
12:30It's slowed down here so I can't get between him at wagon, mate.
12:35He pulled in front of a lorry and slowed right down.
12:37So much so that I couldn't get in.
12:39It's kind of all the hallmarks of I know you're following me.
12:42I'm going to try and stop you doing it.
12:44And I'm going to leave the motorway at the last second,
12:47which can sometimes catch you out.
12:49Also, for me, it's a big factor in that he's going to fail to stop.
12:55It's past junction 46 southbound for Colton.
12:59I'll go on to where's it in to ops.
13:01You and me.
13:02With another car from the North Yorkshire Road crime team joining the pursuit,
13:05they can now attempt to stop the suspect.
13:09Ben, close up.
13:10We'll go up and stop here.
13:11The beauty of working as a team is that we can do something called a keep on,
13:16which is we try and prevent people leaving the motorway.
13:20Ben, close up.
13:22We'll go up and stop here.
13:24Keep him on, Ben.
13:25Try and quarter him on.
13:26Oh, I'll try and quarter him.
13:27You take lead, Ben.
13:28Ben, drop back and take lead pursuit.
13:31Keep him on, Ben.
13:32Might try and box with a third vehicle.
13:34We'll see how we feel.
13:36Snaking a bit.
13:39He's moved across into lane three.
13:41He's up to speed.
13:42The van drives towards Ben.
13:44It's losing control, which is worrying again,
13:46because you don't want it to jackknife and to flip over the van.
13:50Just approaching the slip for Junction 45.
13:54We do have a third vehicle from North Yorkshire.
13:57Just trying to get ahead of the vehicle now to deploy the motorway Stinger.
14:00I know that if we can sting this vehicle,
14:03we can take all the speed out of it and it'll probably just roll to a stop.
14:06But until that time, really, it's a rolling disaster waiting to happen.
14:17Back in Bradford.
14:19So we've got vehicle positions and so on.
14:22West Yorkshire traffic cops Daz and Paul's search for a stolen van
14:26has been put on hold by a nasty smash.
14:30We're at an RTC on Canal Road.
14:33This vehicle waiting to turn right into the junction
14:36where it's collided with the Volvo.
14:40With no casualties, it's now just a matter of some clearing up.
14:44I'd help myself, but we've only got one brush.
14:47So I'll just supervise him brushing.
14:50When he's done that, he can come round and done my kitchen floor.
14:56But the sweeping up may have to wait.
15:01While we were just wrapping up at the collision,
15:02my phone goes and it's the gentleman that owns the van telling me that his van's on the move again.
15:09Which way is it travelling? East or west?
15:12Now we're tied up in Bradford with a collision so I can't really do anything about it.
15:16But I knew there were some other officers that were nearby in Leeds.
15:20Just turned onto the Moortown ring road.
15:22I've got the caller speaking to me directly on the mobile
15:25and I've got the other units on the channel on the radio.
15:28And it's travelling west so I'm guessing towards Seacroft.
15:31We're coming out.
15:33Among them are colleagues PC's Shane Kenny and Dave Robson.
15:38Well we talked the units into a really specific area.
15:44There is a sprinter here but it doesn't have any markings and it's a different registration.
15:49As we pulled into the car park, the engine's still running.
15:55Very suspicious.
15:56In the time it's been taken, in less than a day,
16:03they've managed to remove all the markings from the van and change the registration.
16:07We suspected this vehicle to be on false plates
16:10but one that they can't get rid of is the one in the computer programmes in the engine itself.
16:16And through my computer device I checked the engine VIN number
16:20and it shows up exactly what the VIN number should be
16:24and identifies it as the stolen vehicle from the one earlier on today.
16:29The suspected thieves may have vanished but they have left something behind.
16:34A dumper truck, worth thousands of pounds, stolen only hours earlier.
16:42We're lucky that the owner had a tracking device on this
16:45and he's managed to find it so quickly
16:47and we've had enough units in the area to come and get it sharpish.
16:51The van will be searched for forensic evidence
16:53before the owner gets it back again.
16:56Finally, Daz can give him some good news.
16:59We've had a good result then, haven't we, kid?
17:00Yeah.
17:01To be honest.
17:02We have, yeah.
17:03We've had a rain result.
17:04We've got my van back.
17:05The poor sod has had its dig and Nick T's going to get that back.
17:08So happy there's.
17:09That level of service to the point where they're actually on the phone
17:11when we find the van breaks.
17:13You know, it's a really good ending for us.
17:15It's really nice to give some of the good news.
17:17Thank you for your hard work and your dedication.
17:20Oh, no problem.
17:21I can't have done you enough, fellas.
17:22You've got a cracking pocket.
17:23Given his description of himself to me on the phone,
17:25I dread to think what he would have actually done to these lads
17:28if he'd have got a hold of himself.
17:29Coming up, a driver's actions have terrible consequences.
17:36He said, I had a pint eight hours ago and I'm thinking,
17:39that's absolute rubbish because you stink unless you're bathing in it
17:42or you've got aftershave is medical in.
17:45You have provided a positive roadside sample of breath to you,
17:48therefore under arrest.
17:50And the suspected digger thief continues to put lives at risk
17:55with his reckless driving.
17:57You can see that the van's swerving around in the lane.
18:00He clearly wants to get Ben out of the way,
18:02try and frighten him out of the way so he can get off the motorway.
18:04You know, it's going to try and do a wrong way on the M1.
18:07Across Yorkshire, there's a vehicle crime epidemic,
18:14with transit vans being stolen
18:19and used to transport industrial machinery on a regular basis.
18:26On the M1 motorway near Leeds,
18:28North Yorkshire's road crime officers Mick Roth and Paul Stamp
18:32are chasing a speeding van and trailer.
18:34Keep him on Ben.
18:35Might try and box with a third vehicle,
18:38we'll see how it feels.
18:39Keep it on the M1 southbound.
18:41Snaking a bit.
18:42Just approaching the slip for junction 45.
18:45The intention is to try and keep it M1 southbound.
18:49With the van and its generator hurtling down
18:52one of the UK's busiest motorways at 70 miles an hour.
18:55M1 southbound.
18:56Mick and Paul fear the driver may be about to do something reckless.
19:00All unmarked BMW cars.
19:01We were just approaching the slip here,
19:02and I was going to try and do a wrong way on the M1,
19:03so we've got it in for a stop.
19:07I'd say there's a large bang, you get thrown to the side,
19:18and I was thinking my wind is going to come through,
19:20thinking what on earth is going to happen,
19:22there could be vehicles coming up behind.
19:24Absolutely.
19:25From the position I was in,
19:26I'm very limited in what I can see.
19:29I'll move.
19:30The force of the impact has trapped Paul in the car.
19:33The only way he can make the arrest
19:35is by squeezing through the passenger window.
19:37You could have f***ed someone there, mate.
19:40I can't believe you just tried to go the wrong way on the M1, mate.
19:43I said, can you come out this way?
19:46How are you?
19:47I'm alright.
19:48Are you alright?
19:49Come on then.
19:50Silly boy.
19:51Very silly.
19:54Looks particularly excessive,
19:56but he were about to take that,
19:58and that trailer that way against traffic
20:02is going to kill somebody,
20:04so it looks excessive, but it needs to be done.
20:07The trailer was stolen.
20:08The digger was stolen.
20:09On speaking to the lad driving the van,
20:11it's clear that he's driving it for some other person.
20:15There's often an organised crime gang behind Theft of Plant.
20:20It's never the people driving the vans.
20:22They're just working for payment, very little payment.
20:25This young lad is now looking at a hefty sentence,
20:29and the other guys are away scot-free.
20:328, oh, till November.
20:34When he started slowing down,
20:35I couldn't believe he was even contemplating it.
20:37I've seen people do it the wrong way down the slip road,
20:39but I've never seen anyone try and go the wrong way on the M1
20:41in a massive van with a trailer with a bobcat on the back of it.
20:45It's absolutely stupid.
20:47He could have killed us, himself, or other people.
20:50So he's been locked up for a lot of offences.
20:53He's dangerous driving, failed to stop,
20:54theft of the digger, theft of the van,
20:56so we're going to take him to custody and get him booked in.
20:59Whether it be organised criminals or opportunists,
21:03theft and burglary are a constant concern throughout the Yorkshire region.
21:08What's your location?
21:11On the hunt for thieves in Bramley, Leeds,
21:14traffic cops Shane Kenny and Dave Robson are on a ten-hour night shift.
21:19Waterloo Lane in Leeds.
21:22Call is reported.
21:23You can see torch lights on the wasteland at the side of farm food.
21:28On a night time,
21:30when a majority of your regular road users have finished work
21:34and they've gone home and they're having their tea,
21:36that's the time we like to go out and play and look for burglars.
21:39Target theft.
21:41Just had a call, a member of public saying they've seen some people acting suspiciously.
21:52What did they say?
21:55Farm food.
21:56Smart face.
21:57Is that up here somewhere, wasn't it?
21:59We had a call nearby, suspicious activity.
22:02Somebody thought somebody was breaking into a car.
22:04So these males, I suppose, did look like they were breaking into it,
22:08but they were changing the wheel.
22:10Romeo 6-3, code 6.
22:15Local police are already at the scene.
22:18Which car is this?
22:20It's a hire car.
22:21It's a hire car?
22:22It's a bummer, isn't it?
22:24Shane spots something on the back seat of the car.
22:29Where are all these from?
22:30Leeds.
22:31From Leeds?
22:32No, where are all these?
22:33Are they fags?
22:34This?
22:35Yeah.
22:36Where are all the fags from?
22:37That's a lot of cigs, isn't it?
22:39You see that road?
22:40Yeah.
22:41I'll show you on there.
22:42You see where's the police car?
22:44One down there.
22:45Yeah.
22:46Yeah.
22:47No.
22:48We come from there.
22:49That was just on the road.
22:50That was what?
22:51That was on the road.
22:52Well, you found them.
22:53Yep.
22:54Just on the road.
22:55Like you did.
22:56Yep.
22:57Where have they come from?
22:58I found them.
22:59And I thought, ka-ching.
23:00Right, excellent.
23:01If he'd have said, I've just bought them.
23:03We bought them at Cash and Carry.
23:04We'd have been in less of a position to take them from him.
23:07Because as soon as he said, I've found them,
23:09then he's admitted to us that they don't belong to him.
23:12Yeah.
23:13A few hundred fags there, aren't there?
23:15Yeah.
23:16There's a lot of manure.
23:17What?
23:18Yeah.
23:27Another one in the boot.
23:30Where have you been tonight?
23:32We live in Norway.
23:33We just come back from Bradford, front house.
23:35And we just drive down here.
23:37We just see that thing.
23:39Never in a month of Sundays has he found them at the bottom of the road.
23:45There's about seven, eight hundred packets a box.
23:48We could be about 18 grand worth of cigarettes.
23:52The cigarettes are a valuable find, which could lead to a jail sentence.
24:00If you come across something in the street of any value and you find it,
24:05and if you keep it, then there's the offence of theft by finding.
24:08So it's still a theft defence.
24:11Which one of you guys called us?
24:13Called?
24:14Yeah, who phoned us?
24:15We didn't call.
24:16No?
24:17No.
24:18Why didn't you phone us?
24:19You've just found a load of fags.
24:20You should call us and tell us that you've found a load of fags down there.
24:23Rather than just wang them in your car and take them.
24:25Yeah.
24:26Should have rung us.
24:27It's just a cigarette.
24:28I know we're here now though, aren't we?
24:29It's just a cigarette.
24:30It's just a cigarette.
24:31It's just a cigarette.
24:32How fortunate is that, that we turned up?
24:34It's just a cigarette.
24:37These are going to the police station.
24:39That's fine.
24:40That's not mine.
24:41I'm sure those two parts, whatever.
24:42Nothing's going to be happening, my friend.
24:44That's a reward.
24:45I need a cig.
24:46I need a cig, man.
24:47I'm not saying it will, but should there be any CCTV or all like that, we're not locking
24:51you up now because there's no evidence to suggest that they have and you're saying that you've
24:54found them and aren't going to prove otherwise this evening.
24:56If you give me one.
24:57And I'm quite happy that I've identified you through your scars and everything else and
25:00your driver's license.
25:01Yeah.
25:02So we know, I know you are.
25:03Yeah.
25:04And where to come to find you.
25:05So there's no need to lock you up at this moment in time.
25:06Yeah.
25:07But should anything else come to light from these that we've just saved you a journey
25:11to the police station to give in, then.
25:15Appreciate it.
25:17You can't have one of them, no.
25:20They're not yours, are they?
25:21You found them.
25:22Why were you changing the wheel?
25:24Because the tire is a puncture.
25:25Oh, you're a puncture?
25:26Right.
25:27You might have got it avoiding all cigarettes in the road, might you?
25:30No, definitely not.
25:32Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:34You're good to do.
25:35We'll do what you like, yeah.
25:37So, what did you do with the cigarettes then?
25:41Smoked them all.
25:44No, they were all seized and they were booked into the police stores.
25:48And that was still pending anybody coming forward and claiming them legitimately.
25:53It may well have been that they had bought them from somebody who just bought them through
25:56customs or something and they thought, oh, we can't say that because we'll get in trouble.
26:00And either way, we've still got the cigarettes anyway.
26:02If you find any more cigarettes, ring us up and we'll come and collect them for you.
26:06All right, cheers.
26:07On the other side of town, four miles away, there's been a report of a burglary.
26:20PC's Adie Fickling and Vanessa Stead are on their way to join the hunt for suspects
26:30who have escaped in a car.
26:32This car is so slow, it's ridiculous.
26:37I've known Adie for a long time and we were both based at the same police station, but
26:42we were actually brought up in the same village as well, so we've got quite a lot of things
26:46in common.
26:47I had my foot buried to the carpet down there and it's just, we're not even doing 70 miles
26:52an hour.
26:53A bad workman only blames his tools.
26:56Generally sometimes I have a closer relationship with people you work with and maybe some of
26:59your family because you're in that confined space and there's always healthy banter going
27:05on.
27:06Vehicles had a failed to stop on Scott Hall Road in Leeds.
27:14Burglars have no understanding of the impact that they have on other people's lives.
27:21There's a psychological factor that we're never going to solve.
27:26We're never going to be able to make that person feel as safe as they did the day before they
27:33got burgled.
27:34Have we got a description of the occupants of this vehicle, how many of them were there?
27:39They've abandoned the vehicle, there were two of them, we think we know where one is.
27:47We made our way into the area to get back at Pursuit but just as we've got there, he's abandoned
27:53the vehicle and made off on foot.
27:54Dog's here.
27:55Just to let everyone know, dog's here.
27:56Yeah, I think.
27:57You can all just keep back until the dog's gone.
28:04It sounds like the dog's tracked to an address.
28:07I think the unit that's present at the address, it looks like there's a possibility that they
28:13might be going to put the door in.
28:20The silver focus, it's been abandoned just down road here and then the member of the public
28:27has indicated that a male's come running up here and gone into that address, occupant
28:31inside the address.
28:33Initially when he saw officers, he ducked down and refused to answer the door.
28:39Eventually, a young lad appears in his box of shorts, telling us that he's been in bed.
28:45And it's quite clear that he hasn't been in bed.
28:48He's been up to not good.
28:51Is there anybody else in the house?
28:52He said he didn't have a key for house and they were ringing his mum who was somewhere
28:56down road to come and let him out, which is a load of rubbish.
29:01Where's your mum fella?
29:06So officers had just gone down to get a key from his mother at another address.
29:12But in the meantime, we'll drag him out at Winder.
29:16Unfortunately for him, he had embarrassment of being dragged out at Winder.
29:21And then put him back at Van for Elk Street to see.
29:24That's some luck, innit?
29:27He's been arrested on suspicion of the burglary at the moment.
29:31I'll go down to the station in the process.
29:34No doubt the car will be recovering forensics in the car to link him to the car at burglaries.
29:39I believe the car was a pooled car, which is not particularly owned by anybody and it's
29:44used by a number of criminals to get around.
29:46It had done a burglary in Gledau the night before and I think it had done two burglaries
29:50that day.
29:51Because it's a pooled vehicle, you can't trace it back to an individual.
29:54So if it goes through a speed camera or somebody runs it through, it doesn't come back to anybody
29:59who actually is using the vehicle.
30:01So that's why we call them pooled car, they're just passed around by criminals and they go
30:06out driving them without insurance, without a licence to commit offences.
30:10And now it's dinner time for us.
30:18Despite nights being a busy time for burglars, once the pubs have thrown out, it can also
30:23be a busy time for drink drivers.
30:35So it looks like Vanessa and Aidy's dinner will have to wait.
30:38So we're going to an RTC.
30:42It looks like there's two vehicles involved and there's a report of two females injured.
30:48Oh, interesting.
30:53Aidy and Vanessa must now assess exactly what has happened.
30:57Hiya, what have we got?
30:59Hiya.
31:00So, here's, you can tell from damage that's it, back of that one and spun round.
31:06Hiya young man, are you the owner of this car?
31:09Yeah.
31:10Right, okay.
31:11First priority at every accident is to check all occupants are safe and well.
31:17So, there's a male occupant driver of the Fiesta, a Polish lad.
31:24It's okay.
31:25It's okay.
31:26It's okay.
31:27Don't worry.
31:28Alright?
31:29Just have a sit down.
31:30Come on.
31:31Have a sit down.
31:32Listen, listen.
31:33You look after him.
31:34Yes.
31:35The first person that I spoke to was the driver of the black Fiesta.
31:39He was a Polish gentleman and he was terribly upset, terribly upset.
31:45And I remember him starting to try and explain to me what had happened and then he just broke
31:50down and he couldn't speak to me anymore.
31:53Vanessa must now find the other driver involved in the accident.
31:57The black on and the red jacket on the wall are the two ladies that were in the blue Corsa.
32:01Right, okay.
32:02And it seems to be fine.
32:03Everyone's walked out.
32:04There's nobody else involved.
32:05They were parked here.
32:06Heard the brakes at first and then bomb.
32:09The Corsa wasn't moving at all.
32:11They'd just got into the vehicle.
32:14She was pretty lucky that she'd got into the car.
32:16A few seconds earlier that lady was stood by her daughter getting into her car.
32:21If that vehicle would have hit at that point, then we would have been dealing with a completely
32:28different scene.
32:29Aidy needs to question the Polish driver.
32:33Look at this way.
32:38Are you alive?
32:39Exactly.
32:40That can be replaced.
32:41That can be replaced.
32:42Yeah, but I...
32:43Nobody's injured.
32:44Nobody's hurt.
32:45I need a car for work.
32:47You know what I'm saying?
32:48Well, yeah, but...
32:49It's my car, yeah?
32:50Yeah, it's your car.
32:51Yeah.
32:52But that can be replaced, can't it?
32:53This is...
32:54Come and have a sit in my warm car.
32:55Two minutes and I'll have a chat with you.
32:57You're not in any trouble, so don't worry.
32:59This side.
33:00This side.
33:01It's nice and warm.
33:03Just relax.
33:05To help with translating, the driver's wife, who still feels very upset, also gets in the
33:10car.
33:11Tell him to stop drinking water, please.
33:13Okay.
33:14How long ago is it since you had a drink of alcohol?
33:16Eight.
33:17Eight hours.
33:18Eight.
33:19Eight hours.
33:20Eight hours?
33:21Yeah.
33:22Right, okay.
33:23One beer.
33:24One beer eight hours ago?
33:25Yeah.
33:26No.
33:27All right.
33:28I just want you to lean forward, put your lips around it and blow till I tell you to stop.
33:32Don't take hold up machine.
33:33Don't touch machine.
33:34Keep going.
33:35That's it.
33:36Keep going.
33:37Keep going.
33:38Keep going.
33:39That's it.
33:40Stop.
33:42You've provided a positive roadside sample of breath.
33:45You blew 93, legal limit's 35, which means you've been drinking and that's why I can smell
33:51it on you.
33:52You are under arrest for driving whilst over a prescribed limit.
33:56Come with us down to the police station where we've put on another machine to get a more
34:00accurate reading.
34:01I don't drink.
34:02Whether you've been drinking or whether you've drunk eight hours ago or not, you have provided
34:07a positive roadside sample of breath so you were therefore under arrest.
34:11They said I had a pint eight hours ago and I'm thinking that's absolutely rubbish because
34:15you stink unless you're bathing in it or you've got aftershave is medical in.
34:20You know, you stink of alcohol.
34:23Right.
34:24We're going.
34:25This is my friend.
34:26Right.
34:27Well, you can't speak to him, we're going now.
34:31Coming up, a suspected van thief shocks the traffic cops.
34:35He's going off the road.
34:36The driver's out.
34:37He's took his life in his own hands to cross over six lanes at motorway and two slip roads
34:44to get away.
34:45White transit.
34:46It's on a U-turn on it.
34:47Yeah, it's there.
34:48In Gildesom Leeds, Paul Feather is back out on patrol with colleague Matt Leahy on West
35:03Yorkshire's Operation Viper, an ongoing campaign targeting car crime and burglary.
35:08Yeah, we're just a white transit that's doing rounds.
35:09It's gildesom sperm.
35:10How can we go in, actually?
35:11With the recent spike in van theft, Paul's keeping a particular eye out for transits.
35:24I'm drawn to this white Ford transit.
35:26I've looked across.
35:27There's one male in it.
35:29There was just something about him I didn't like and I thought, I'll just have a spin round
35:33and see what he does.
35:38He's shown all the tell-tale signs that there's something wrong.
35:41He's turned off straight away.
35:43Yeah, we've got it stopped here.
35:56He probably thought he could get away then realise, oh, God, it's an industrial estate
36:01and it's a compound.
36:02And he's panicking at this point, thinking where am I going to go from here.
36:06Yeah, gildesom sperm.
36:18Then he's come hurtling towards us, like he wants to get away.
36:22It's failed to stop.
36:24Going towards 650.
36:27Yeah.
36:30Indy 1-2, actually.
36:32Yeah, Indy 1-2.
36:33We've got a vehicle for it.
36:34Just stop.
36:35Wait for the road.
36:36Understand?
36:37It's going off the road.
36:38You're not going to get away from the car in the van.
36:41We're always going to be sat there.
36:42Whether you take as many risks as you can to get away, you're not going to check the
36:48BMW with a transit unless you do something really, really stupid.
36:54Yeah, Indy 1-2.
36:56We've got a vehicle for it.
36:57Just stop.
36:58Wait for the road.
36:59Understand?
37:00It's going off the road.
37:01Jesus.
37:02The next thing, I'm met by this body falling out of this driver's side of the van.
37:07It was such a shock to actually see him there.
37:11He's right in front of me.
37:12Yeah, he's gone off the road, crashed it.
37:14He's running towards 621, white male, dark clothing.
37:18He's got a woolly hat on.
37:20He's gone in the sort of wasteland between 621 and Gilson roundabout.
37:27As Matt's gone across the field after him, he's took his life in his own hands to cross
37:33over six lanes at motorway and two slip roads to get away.
37:37He's that desperate to get away.
37:38Now, with the suspect on the run, officers are searching the area for clues.
37:48He's left us a bit of vital evidence at the scene.
37:51Due to the field being sort of unsteady, he's had a woolly hat on and these sharpie sort
37:58of twigs that are coming out of these bushes has took his hat off.
38:01So, he's going to leave us some nice DNA in there.
38:04So, we did recover the hat.
38:07So, we've seized that as evidence of, let's try and find out who it is.
38:13So, they'll go for some sort of DNA, low copy DNA on it.
38:19With the search for the suspect over, the cops will now take the van for forensic testing.
38:24The van itself, having run it through, were on false plates and it was stolen.
38:32So, there's a recovered Ford Transit.
38:35So, my instinct was right to bob his nose at the end and we've got a stolen vehicle back.
38:47Across town at Ellen Road Police Station, Vanessa and Adie are booking in the car
38:53and Adie are booking in their suspected drink driver.
39:02He can't vomit just yet.
39:05He's been vomiting at the scene, but there's some suspicion now that he might have been doing that on purpose.
39:14He's been arrested on suspicion of driving last OPL.
39:17He's blown quite a high reading at the side of the road.
39:20He's saying that it's been eight hours since he's last had a drink.
39:23If that's the case, then the amount of alcohol that he must have consumed to still be blowing such a high, high level.
39:30He must have really, really had a good night last night or this afternoon.
39:36His wife, who attended scene, has gone down to the shop and got him a bottle of water, which he was trying to drink very rapidly.
39:48So, he's obviously aware that he's had a drink.
39:51He's trying to get it out of his stomach and he's trying to get as much water down his system as he can.
39:55It doesn't mask the fact that he's had a drink and it won't affect the reading.
40:01Nice deep breath.
40:04He blew 97 at the roadside.
40:06The legal limit is 35.
40:08So, he's clearly over double limit.
40:10He's come down to the station.
40:12His lowest reading is what we use.
40:14His lowest reading is 81, which is again over double limit.
40:17That's it. Finished. Thank you.
40:19He's maintaining that he hadn't had a drink for eight hours in his own one pint.
40:24It's clearly a load of rubbish.
40:25Look at where he's dressed.
40:26He's got a nice shirt on.
40:28He's been out to a pub or he's been to a friend's house or he's been to a party.
40:32He's had quite a few beers and that's, he's just misjudged a corner because he's impaired to a drink.
40:38He's drifted.
40:39Luckily, the occupants of the vehicle had just got in the car and got strapped in before he's coming back at the car.
40:44Had they just been getting it in the car when he hit it, it could have been a different story.
40:49His choice to drive whilst he's over at drink drive limit.
40:53So, he has to take consequences that come with him.
40:55As for sympathy, he gets none from me whatsoever because he could have quite easily killed three people that night.
41:00So, I am here to be sympathetic to people like that.
41:03He deserves to get whatever he gets because his reckless and selfish act put those three people in danger.
41:10So, whatever he gets, excellent.
41:19It's the end of a long shift for the traffic cops.
41:24In North Yorkshire, the 28-year-old driver who tried to go the wrong way up the motorway is in custody.
41:29The gentleman's been arrested on sufficient dangerous driving, failed to stop theft of motor vehicle and theft of the minidigger.
41:36He was charged with handling stolen goods, dangerous driving, driving with no insurance and driving without a licence.
41:44He is now awaiting trial.
41:45For me, those kind of people absolutely need to be in a courtroom answering to a jury.
41:50It's about as serious as it gets.
41:55The 16-year-old suspect arrested in Leeds at his mum's place is currently awaiting trial for driving offences, three counts of burglary and attempted burglary.
42:04The young lad who threw himself out of the speeding van has not yet been identified, but the case is still under investigation.
42:19And the 23-year-old Polish man involved in the car crash has been charged with drink driving.
42:29Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, that's it, stop.
42:32He is currently awaiting trial.
42:33He is currently awaiting trial.
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