Pat & Carl (with a little help from Conrad and Dave) arrest the world’s noisiest car thief. Who’s on a push-bike. Seriously! Derek’s account of a stolen car being driven by a 15 year old lad who broke his leg (Derek’s leg not the boy's) Pat & Carl’s snowbound arrest with champers and roast. Oh and Pat trying not to slip over. Pete & Grant respond to an urgent call in Oxford to a burglary in progress that turns out to be workmen. If only plumbers came that quickly....... An uncredited appearance by Carl in a pre-TV32 motorway chase and arrest. Derek & Grant stop a lad in Slough who just can’t tear himself away from his phone – much to Grant’s annoyance. Pat & Carl arrive to take the driver away while Grant goes to see his dad (the lad’s dad that is….) Grant talks us through a chase in heavy rain towards London on the M4 and gives the viewer a chance to see what these guys can REALLY do in a car. Superb. Derek & Grant on the Slough Trading Estate chasing a car without lights, with quite possibly the world’s dimmest teenager at the wheel: “Am I in trouble? Why am I in trouble?” D’oh! Silly girl. Pete & Tony and the taxi fight. Just another Friday night in Slough eh lads? Nice.
Parts proves himself monumentally unfit while Pat & Carl and Robb & Tony collectively scare the pants off a disqualified driver in Reading. Derek & Grant along with Pat & Carl chasing a stolen beamer in Slough. Pat & Carl chase the occupants once they’ve decamped, Derek discovers what appalling music taste the driver has, and Grant finds a stuck-on number plate with the real one underneath. Naughty naughty... Derek & Grant check up on a disqualified driver who is still driving. Silly girl. Upon returning to the station with her, Grant’s tracker is activated. It’s time to go a-hunting.... Pat & Carl are tracking with tracker (not the chewy cereal bar!) and strike gold with a brand new VW golf. A Very Nice Car (as Pat said) Pat & Carl playing the "Subaru Tag Game" in Slough and frustratingly not catching the original driver. Curses. Derek responds to an urgent "officer in need of assistance" in Slough High Street, and quickly takes control of an aggressive drunk who’s trying to resist arrest. Nice one Delboy!
Pat & Carl on the Britwell Estate deal with two silly boys in hoodies and errr....marigold gloves. Steve the camera man proves his worth by sitting on an escapee. Derek & Grant chase the druggie in the red track suit in Slough. Pat & Carl back on the Britwell with the bad man who wears too many clothes, is confused about his diary and who he is. Weird! Pat & Carl in Windsor; with the case of the screaming toddler. Pat’s face says it all. Derek & Grant stop the car with four lads, one spliff, no lights and the driver who’s only been driving for four days. (sounds like the makings of a joke if you ask me…!) You couldn’t make it up. A classic clip and Derek dealing out the riot act. Superb!
Tony & Robb arrest one of the most obnoxious criminals ever seen on RW and apparently is one of the few people who objects to being on TV, 'coz he kicks the camera man. What a charming fellow. Derek & Grant attend an accident in Stoke Poges in one of the most baffling wedged car scenarios ever! A case of you couldn’t do that if you tried! Tony & Robb are in Reading where Robb is indulging in his favourite past-time: door smashing. Grant in an uncredited appearance in a Subaru chase in Burnham and the Britwell. The chase ends in a traveller’s camp and the driver disappears into thin air...or a caravan. TVP grab the car and make a tactical retreat. Wise move chaps! Pat & Carl are on the trail of the mobile phone thieves, which forces Carl to investigate the mankiest oven ever seen on UK television! (Carl, you’re a brave man mate 'coz I wouldn’t have touched it hehe) Tony & Robb in Reading with the UK’s most liberal mother…..who has no tax, no insurance, oh and guess what? No licence either! D’oh!
Pat & Carl are assisted by Murphy the dog who finds a bloke in the garden. The bloke is terrified by Murphy. Serves him right. Pat & Carl in Chalvey: with the idiot who nicked the bedding and his even stupider mate. Tony arrives and he doesn’t believe them either. Pat & Carl back in Chalvey, hunting for a stolen car. And look - it’s the idiot from the bedding-nicking incident. Pete & Carl in Slough High Street (surrounded by what looks like half the inhabitants of Slough!), arresting the stupider mate who shoves his drugs in an unmentionable place (eewwww) and indulges in a spot of Pete-biting. Poor Pete! Pat & Carl come across the first car thief ever to be caught red handed on the telly. He fails of course, but then what do you expect with our intrepid heroes on his heels? Pat & Carl in Slough with the mini-cab driver who doesn’t seem to understand the phrase "change the tyre"........ Grant in an uncredited appearance with Jamie Gilson (his pre-Derek partner) in Bracknell chasing the chap who prefers to drive on the pavement rather than the road. Grant & Jamie in another uncredited appearance chasing a drunk driver in reading with a smoking finish…. Pete & Chris meet the "Prince" who objects to having to buy a tax disc. Or talk to the police. Incidentally, this was Chris' first day on the unit!
Pat & Carl chase a stolen car that reeks of cannabis and Carl finds an icky nappy. (eeeeewww) Pat & Carl in the grounds of a Milton Keynes hospital, chasing a lad who’s causing mayhem that ends with the death of a wall. Can he be charged with “brick-icide” as well as his other offences ?! Derek & Grant in Chalvey. Errrr.. except it’s not Derek!! An unknown officer is paired with Grant as they pull someone with a worse case of Tourette’s than Chris….. Tony & Robb are in Reading where the people don’t seem to hear the sirens whilst sat in traffic, and tackle a whining shoplifter. Grant in an uncredited chase on the A4 in Colnbrook, with a 17 year old who has no idea as to what the phrase ‘speed limit’ actually means. Pat & Carl in Chalvey, stop the bloke with over 70-odd needles in his boot. Wow, that’s some habit. Derek & Grant and the chap with 7 points on his licence, and a mate who has a seriously bad attitude.....how Derek kept his cool is remarkable (but that's what the training is for eh?) Pat & Carl and the drunk Emos in Slough, with the mother who was not very happy! Carl's closing remark was a classic (but very true!)
Pat and Carl are in a car chase when pat destroys the clutch and give the car a good old kicking (Basil Fawlty style) but pat makes up for it while the chase is on for a man who smashed a window with a frying pan.
Andy & Chris in Slough with the guy who appears much confused as to where to stop, and finally stops in a parking space in the local supermarket. Mark & Jim chase a Honda through Reading after it pretends to stop. When the driver finally decamps, among the numerous passengers in the car is a baby. What a muppet to drive like that with a kid in the car.
Pat & Carl in Kiddlington where this driver pretends he’s a branch of a boots. Andy & Chris in Chalvey. The chaps arrest a teenager who has attacked a pensioner and in danger of being pulled apart by local residents. Mark & Jim in an appearance in a spectacular chase through Taplow, Burnham and the Britwell.
Carl & Dave in Slough and the strange UDO (Unidentified Driving object) – much to the amusement of Carl. Chris & Andy in Slough chasing two odd bods: Carol Decker and Barry McGuigan look-alikes who you just know are going to turn up again, just like a bad smell
Andy & Chris in Reading again, chasing a stolen car and stop the pursuit in spectacular style.Mark & Jim, Berry Hill in Taplow, chasing idiots who ignore ROAD CLOSED signs. But the equipment fails to back them up so he gets away with it
Chris & Pats in Reading. The chaps play the hero and stop a woman from jumping off a bridge.Chris & Andy get lost in the maze of the Britwell Estate in Slough. When arriving at the incident, they are greeted with a woman with a mouth worse than a sewer and Derek & Tony are also called to assist and get stuck in on the arrest.
Simon and Chris tackle a car thief in the snow – who comes very close to turning Chris into a pancake with his car. Charlie and Chris out doing some Drug Dealer Falconry find some shady characters lurking in the bushes. Back at the nick, their arrestee’s drug stash is found in his nether regions, and someone in the custody suite fancies an attempt to swipe the takings! And, is that Grant behind the counter? Charlie and Chris head back out for some more Falconry and a demonstration of their Crim Radars Charlie and Ruffy tackle a sensitive situation with a garden spade. Chris and Simon demonstrate the Jedi-like powers of the Proactive team by tracking down a car thief to a wheelie bin! Yorkie and Dixie get down to a spot of Car Washing before heading out to track down disqualified drivers in bushes.
Chris and Simon step into the breach in a nasty car chase and save the day with a baton strike or two. Chris and Simon interrupt a healthy lunch to tackle a really angry bloke showing off a rather big sword. And he’s much taller than either of them! Chris, Simon, Ronnie, Roma, Charlie and Ruffy, in association with Conrad – now a motorbike cop – chase a nasty piece of work on the M1 with another sword – and this time the bloke’s not afraid to use it. Scary stuff. Not to mention Ronnie’s now famous prang with the marked car. Charlie and Ruffy head out to arrest a bail defaulter – and find a man with a head wound. By the time they finally get to the flat they were looking for, everyone ends up in trouble! Yorkie and Dixie chase down some panic-stricken teenagers in a Peugeot and give their own car a flat in the process. One of them, when caught, wants her mum. Understandable, given that Dixie is kneeling on her. Yorkie and Dixie are back out and about – and find a drunken teenager passed out on the pavement. Needless to say, they don’t take her home in their car.
Charlie and Ruffy track down an ANPR hit, whose driver ends up falling through a garage roof trying to get away. Simon and Chris catch up with a previous stop from ep one – but this time it’s his passenger who’s got the drugs. Chris, Simon and Ronnie do a drugs stop and deal with a guy who goes a bit, well, berserk in the back of their car. Just as well there’s three of them. Yorkie and Dixie sort out a minor fracas in a supermarket carpark involving a bit of stolen golf gear, a flying beer can and a guy with wings on his heels. Charlie and Ruffy hit the streets with tracker and come up trumps with some high value vehicles. And Charlie makes his first track!
Carrying out a drugs stop, Charlie, Chris and Simon make a right mess of a Renault Megane while Ruffy batters ineffectually at the passenger window; is it made of Transparent Aluminium or something? And Grant’s waiting for them back in the Custody Suite… Chris and Simon help to nab a pair of distraction burglars at a set of traffic lights Yorkie and Dixie collar a burglar that’s just left the scene using their Crim Radars. The chap is, naturally, not pleased at being stopped – but, hey; what’re those credit cards in different names doing in his pocket and how come a nearby tree has grown a pair of socks? And, as for the stolen goods in the wheelie bin… Chris and Andy give an unfortunate, burgled household a rude awakening at three in the morning. Yorkie and Dixie lose the stolen car they were chasing, but find an occupant legging it across a golf course. But is it the passenger or the driver they’ve caught? And does it matter anyway, given that the owner changed their mind over whether or not it was nicked? Chris and Simon carry out an ANPR stop and Chris has to climb in through the back window – fortunately replaced by lots and lots of cling film – to open up the car. Chris and Simon are back on the ANPR routine and find another uninsured driver – who (surprise, surprise) only bought the vehicle two days ago, can’t remember who he’s insured with (because he isn’t) and just happens not to have a full license, either!
Chris’s Crim Radar spikes again, leading him and Simon to stop a car with a passenger who makes a run for it, leaving Simon on the floor with a knee injury as he attempts to give chase. Chris ends up sorting out a binbag full of cannabis and a raft of paperwork showing just exactly who’s been making money from it, and his mobile phone, so they can call him at home if they want! Charlie and Ruffy carry out surveillance to grab a wanted man with a habit of running away and snatch him at a fast food counter! Simon and Chris, Ruffy and Charlie indulge in some more Falconry and the op they’re on reveals a drugs haul to make the eyes explode, not to mention more than a few brain cells if they had ended up on the street… Chris and Simon stop the unluckiest man in the world – it was just a stop for no tax until it turns out he’s uninsured too – and as for the bag of weed falling out of his pocket… Charlie, Ruffy, Lloydy and Jim pursue a kid who’s nicked a people carrier, and Tango Victor 36 ends up diving into a ditch… Charlie and Ruffy out on Seatbelt and Phone patrol. Charlie and Ruffy deal with another phone-bound driver who doesn’t even notice when they try to pull him over!
Yorkie and Lloydy interrupt Chris and Simon’s lunch with a scary car chase which ends halfway up an embankment on the M1 – leading to a nice walk in the country for half the force. Charlie and Ruffy try to stop someone who fits a description. It’s not the guy they’re after, but he gets aggressive over the whole thing when all he needed to do was give his details and be on his way in less than 30 seconds. Fortunately, Roma arrives and calms it all down again. Charlie and Ruffy do an ANPR stop over an out of date tax disc and, the driver also only has a provisional license – but no L plates. And his ‘supervisor’ has had his license revoked. Charlie’s kindly attempt to drive the chap home is then stalled by the small stash drugs in the car. Courtesy of the supervisor who isn’t – to accompany his nasty little lock knife. Roma and Ronnie out doing a spot of Falconry spot a vehicle on their wanted list – but lose sight of him, so Charlie and Ruffy stop the chap. Wow! A small dusting of weed in the glove compartment! Trouble is he’s dead nervous so it’s time for the strip search – though the weed he dropped on the back seat of the cop car doesn’t exactly go unnoticed by Roma. Shame they couldn’t prove it was his. Yorkie and Dixie disrupt the work of the dealers on an estate with their magnificent presence alone – and love every second of it! Sneaky… Roma and Ronnie chase down a suspected flasher. Despite his getting on a train, they manage to catch up with him further down the line. Unfortunately, he’s from Eastern Europe with minimal English, so straightening it out takes a bit longer than usual – which is a shame because all that happened was someone spotted him having an innocent whizz in some bushes. Yorkie and Dixie meet a friendly gentleman sitting on a bench by the side of the road – wearing a negligee. Nice make-up, though. Fortunately they don’t break into hysterical laughter until they get back to the ca
Yorkie and Dixie tackle a pair of wanted men found by CCTV and crush their golden pushbike to stop them getting away; or at least one of them, anyway. Shame the guy they’ve got isn’t the guy they were after! Charlie and Chris demonstrate the Piggott Crim Radar once again and nab a chap on a bike who resembles a persistent thief. Though the green plant material in his pockets is an unexpected bonus. Simon and Chris are in Bracknell doing more Falconry and investigate odd teenage behaviour in a multi-storey carpark. Ronnie and Roma pitch in to help when the tantrums begin and spittle flies. Nearby another youth (on various illicit substances, needless to say) is collared for breach of bail conditions and throws a diva-wobbly of hilarious proportions. Unfortunately, the CS Chris uses to subdue the youth rebounds in his own face! It might say ‘Chris and Charlie’, but it’s actually Chris and Simon and they stop an uninsured driver whose passenger is armed…with a toothbrush. Then they search the car. Ooh – is that a crack-pipe in your jacket pocket, sir? Surprise, surprise; he’s wanted! Shame the allegations were withdrawn… Chris and Simon are back in Bracknell where they meet a couple of people they’ve stopped before and make a sharp discovery in a sports bag followed by a wrap of heroin in the footwell. We also discover Chris’s method of gauging someone’s height. He stands next to them! Charlie and Ruffy bring an impromptu solo Blues Session to an end. Spoilsports.
Yorkie and Dixie are on a stakeout in Whitley. Roma and Ronnie are with them while they work their way through a range of magazines and do semaphore between the cars before doing a Most Haunted audition once darkness falls. And it takes them two nights of that before they get the chance to successfully spring the trap. Interestingly – even Lee whispers! The magnificent Mr Samuels makes his last ever appearance on Road Wars, stopping a chap who takes great exception to being nicked for the cannabis in his pocket. Apparently his name is ‘Noneofyourbusiness’ – though he doesn’t reveal whether it’s his first or last name. He’s not very impressed at being put in a cell, either. Chris and Simon pop down to the river near Windsor and fish up some characters who seem to be sharing a spliff. Interestingly, one of them thinks he can intimidate Chris with the threat of a complaint. They find themselves on the receiving end of a Stern Lecture from Simon. Charlie and Ruffy pick up an ANPR hit in Slough and get into a scrap with a nervous chap who doesn’t like the Police and who hasn’t got a full license – or L plates. But he does have a knife on his back seat and a bit of an aversion to handcuffs. Ronnie and Roma find the guys who were by the river with Chris and Simon. Same car, same problem. This time they’ve got even more weed – and knives. Looks like Simon’s lecture clearly wasn’t Stern enough! Charlie and Ruffy are in Bracknell, and go to the rescue of a security guard attacked while trying to fill a cashpoint. Bizarrely, there is no problem with Charlie parking in a disabled bay to deal with the matter – the guy they’ve nicked only has one leg. Charlie and Ruffy deal with tiny motorbikes, no insurance, no tax and no idea that they weren’t supposed to be riding on the road.
New members of the Team, Darren 'Daz' Staley and Rosie Vosser, accompanied by Dixie, chase down people who burgle houses just for the car keys. Rosie demonstrates her command of the Proactive Crim Radar and her hunch nets the thieves, while Daz breaks the car. A bit. Ronnie Walsh (unseen) chases a stolen van through Slough whose driver seems to be allergic to driving on the correct side of the road. Despite being stung, he’s not giving up – or at least not until he runs out of road. Oops. Chris (check out the facial hair!) and Simon participate in yet more Falconry to nab a major drug dealer. Simon arrests a guy who is much bigger than he is while the rest of the team take down the door. They hit paydirt though – with a six-figure stash lurking in the house. Off to Bletchley to look into shoplifting – Chris and Simon chew boot leather masquerading as meat while their Crim Radars find a suitably shifty looking character. A quarter of an hour later (a man, in Next, for 15 minutes??) they pounce – and find him very adept at shedding his coat, until they arrest him in a heap of bushes. Charlie and Ruffy take over at Bletchley – dealing with an assault victim who just happens to be selling huge numbers of pirated DVDs catering to all tastes…ick. And the claimed assailants aren’t exactly squeaky clean themselves – if the 4x4 wheels in the back of their van are anything to go by. Charlie and Ruffy are in High Wycombe doing a bit more Falconry. They pull a red Subaru (why is it always a Subaru?) with a delightfully uncooperative passenger and a driver who claims (don’t they all?) to be insured and doesn’t like being filmed. It’s the old ‘take out a policy, then cancel it but keep the certificate’ trick. So – they seize the car! Rosie and Daz are in Reading and come across someone they think has been run over – except she’s been bulldozed by something far simpler; booze! They get her safely home – though the offer of a kiss
Chris and Simon are in Aylesbury keeping tabs on a suspicious car which their crim radars are peaking over. The pull, needless to say, results in a making off. The driving is crazy – but the heavy traffic frustrates the chase. Charlie and Ruffy head off to track down icky distraction burglars in Chesham. They spot a likely looking vehicle and speak to the owner who, while not being a burglar, has (guess what) only just bought it and can’t remember who he’s insured it with. Interestingly, he is quite happy to give up his car despite the recent purchase! This may be because he never reapplied for his license after being disqualified and thus hasn’t got one… Chris and Simon are in Milton Keynes to execute a warrant, until Chris’s amazing sense of smell leads them to something far more astonishing – an entire cannabis factory in a nearby house! All hail The Nose! Still in Milton Keynes, Chris and Simon bust up a spliff smoking session in a parked car. Time to see if it’s just for personal use. And then to work out who the weed actually belongs to. No, boys – it’s not legal, and no, you can’t have it back. Charlie and Ruffy are in Bracknell, and team up with Chris and Simon to pull a car that pings Charlie’s Crim radar. Good call. The chaps in the car are ATM fraudsters. And they catch them with all the evidence of how they do their naughtiness. Well done Charlie! Roma and Ronnie head off to disrupt a burglary in progress in Sunningdale. It’s not a regular haunt so they’re not sure where they’re going. However, the burglars are now hiding in woodland so it’s up to the dogs to find them. Which they do! Chris and Simon are back in Milton Keynes pulling a car full (literally!) of youths with no tax on it. Not just that – he’s got no license or insurance either. Surprise, surprise. There is a tax disc, but not for that car.
Simon and Chris are in High Wycombe to help clamp down on smash and grabs from cars. They aren’t in time to nab them on site, so they head off and help to box it in with a bit of help from Charlie and Lloydy. Not surprisingly, the thefts (of portable sat navs) are funding a drug habit. Chris and Simon, in Milton Keynes respond to a 999 call about blokes hanging around a car suspiciously. Simon recognises them, and Chris spots their ‘conveniently found’ screwdrivers. Guess what they’re doing, then? Even though the car they’re hanging around is abandoned, it’s still a bit on the suspicious – and one of them really, really doesn’t want to be arrested without realising that it’s all part of the Street Caution process. His behaviour leads to a full arrest, and Chris nearly has his arm bitten off by the car door! Rosie and Daz are in Reading and come across a madly speeding transit which they turn and head after. It seems to be lost, but Rosie’s not going to let it go, and her persistence pays off with an ANPR ding. One car chase, some hurled debris (with accompanying bad language) and a cross-country run later, Daz nabs one of the occupants while the other dives into the woods. When they get back to the van – there’s still someone in it! Charlie and Ruffy are in Oxford behind a badly driven white van with an out of date tax disc. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, though – the van is borderline dangerous with so many defects that Ruffy seizes it. Though the bottle of ‘juice’ lurking in the back is perhaps not something he would like to have found… Chris and Simon’s ANPR takes a dislike to a mega posh merc in Milton Keynes because it’s untaxed. The driver is shown as wanted for non-payment of fines and for having no licence – and he has his kid in the car!!!! The car is uninsured and not taxed, so Simon seizes it, and gets the chance to drive it! Iestyn and Boris (left in the van. Shame!) are on duty in Windsor looking
Rosie and Daz are in Reading to nab a pair of suspected armed robbers, but still have time to indulge in a spot of ‘I spy’ with some of the local boys. The first is nabbed easily enough, while the other needs a bit of persuasion to open the front door of his flat – though he can’t see who’s out there because Daz has covered the spy hole with his fingertip. Quite why the guy has two sets of body armour in the flat is not clear… Charlie and Ruffy are in Oxford helping out a couple of PCSOs who are getting grief from a driver at the scene of a crash. One of them really doesn’t like their interest in the slightest. Quite why he feels like this is a mystery as he’s perfectly legitimate and has nothing to worry about! Though swearing at Charlie as he walks off probably isn’t the nicest thing to do. Chris and Simon lead a falconry raid in Aylesbury, tackling a suspected dealer with a history of assaulting police. Particularly satisfying for Lester as he’s one of those police! The search reveals ridiculously large amounts of porn mags, twenty pound notes scattered like tissues after a bad cold and two dead blackbirds; but no drugs. Chris isn’t letting it go, and is rewarded with the stash of coke which is lurking inside a bedstead! Chris and Simon, still on Falcon duty, are in Milton Keynes where they pull a car that takes an ominously long time to come to a halt, pulls off when Simon gets out, then stops as soon as he gets back in the car! It’s the ‘hide the evidence’ routine, but the lads aren’t quick enough to prevent the driver swallowing his. Back in Reading with Daz and Rosie, who pull over someone who is not as ‘old enough’ to drive as he wants to be. Though the choice of stopping location wouldn’t make them particularly popular as it’s right in the middle of a main road and no one can pass them! Once moved (to double yellows! Bad Daz!) time to sort out who he is. Or rather isn’t. Given that Rosie’s met him before,
In Milton Keynes again, Simon and Chris are taking part in a crackdown on drugs – but are called in to help Mark and Huey (TV-34) chase down a fleeing car. They use the warren of streets on an estate to try to cut off the car – only for the occupants to decamp. They spot someone, lose him, nearly run down some colleagues(!) before Simon heads out on foot before they finally nab their suspect in a garden hiding behind a hedge! Charlie and Ruffy, nearing the end of their shift, wait hopefully outside a Milton Keynes takeaway in hopes of grabbing some cheap nosh at closing time. They’re then foiled by a call for assistance to find some lads suspected of nicking beer from an offy earlier in the evening. One of them claims he couldn’t have nicked the beer because he’s a Muslim! In which case, what is all that beer doing in the car, then… Rosie and Daz use their ‘Batmobile’ in foggy Reading to track down car-key burglars. They’ve abandoned their stolen car and are trying to use a taxi to escape. Until they spot the police presence and attempt to hide in gardens. Though they can’t hide from the Bat Crew. Welcoming back a familiar face, Pat returns to Slough to pay a visit to a man who’s been performing a ‘pay your speeding fine for you’ service. For a steep fee, naturally. That’s not all – the guy’s suspected of Identity fraud and people trafficking, too. Chris, Yorkie and Dixie are elsewhere visiting all his properties – and find one or two trafficked people – one of whom only arrived the day before. Sharp eyed viewers may spot Conrad lurking in the background during the raid. Chris and Simon are back in Milton Keynes to execute a warrant to search for illicit subject – Keep those truckers rollin’ Lester! No one’s home, but there’s plenty of speed lurking in the most disgusting kitchen appliance since that oven Carl encountered in series two. Watch out for the musical interlude… Simon and Chris are out again and i
Chris and Simon are on another falconry job in Aylesbury to nab a dealer who hides his stash down a country lane. They stop the car abruptly and it takes three of them to get cuffs on the passenger! They’re carrying a rather startling amount of money, and they eventually find the stash (of weed) in the bushes. Now in Milton Keynes, Chris and Simon step in to disrupt what looks like a drugs deal between two youngsters. One of them just happens to be a passer by, while the other is very good natured at first – until they find the bag of a white substance which he claims is ‘milkshake powder’. Trouble is, even if the ‘milk powder’ is innocuous, he was intending to sell it as ‘drugs’ and could end up being done for deception! Back on Falconry duty in Aylesbury, Chris and Simon are at the forefront of another raid on a dealer. Charlie and Ruffy are also in tow to assist with the search, which reveals all the paraphernalia of a dealer – except drugs. Despite this, the appalling arsenal of weapons upstairs is a jackpot in itself – especially the taser… Charlie, Ruffy, Chris and Simon are out in Aylesbury again to find the dealer who wasn’t at the house they raided earlier. They disrupt a deal and quickly prevent their captive from swallowing a his potentially lethal purchase. Elsewhere, colleagues spring on the dealer as soon as they know that our guys have found the drugs. Charlie is out on duty with Roma on an ANPR job and find a guy on a moped which shows no keeper, or tax. He doesn’t have insurance either – using the ‘it’s in the pipeline’ excuse on both counts. He is also intent on fibbing spectacularly about who he is, and whether he’s even got a license at all. Quite how it was possible for him to confuse himself with his own brother is another interesting question. Highly frustrating, especially as Charlie and Roma end up missing out on a high octane chase! Off to Bracknell now, rejoining Rosie and Daz as they try to
Rosie and Daz are in Reading following a squeak on their on-board ANPR over a high-performance Audi with a dodgy numberplate. It flees – demonstrating just how high-performance it is; which is, very. Despite this, he can’t outrun them on wheels and ditches the car. Time to call in the chopper – but to no avail. While the search goes on, Rosie has a great time trying to load a car onto a recovery lorry with one of its tyres off. Charlie and Ruffy (in-car video only) are racing after a crazily speeding biker on the M1 who has no idea that they’re behind him, despite their lights and siren. Once he spots them, he indicates he’ll stop by waving his hand – and he’s still going at over 100! Chris and Simon are in Milton Keynes on a mission to disrupt drug deals. They park up behind a promising vehicle. The driver claims to have no license on him – but he has; shame it’s forged! Searches of the passengers reveal nothing on one of them, but the other has attempted to hide his stash of crack down the back of the seat. Simon is with new face Mark Thornley and out and about in Milton Keynes. Their in-car ANPR squeaks over an uninsured driver. Why do these people claim to be insured when the coppers can just ring the insurers up and ask? They are happy to go to his house to see the certificate; calling the guy’s bluff. He produces his insurance documents, which look legit until Simon calls the company again – finding that the guy’s taken out a policy that’s been cancelled because he’s not paid for it. The car was seized – then crushed. Charlie and Ruffy are in Aylesbury where they stop a dangerous young driver who is, amazingly, driving with his mates back from a funeral of three other mates who were killed in a car crash a matter of days previously. He’s only had his license 8 months, and he’s already had a crash himself! Chris and Simon are also in Aylesbury looking for a biker who’s been tearing around an estate. When they sto
Chris and Simon are in Milton Keynes, keeping an eye on some shady characters around a phone booth. A quick check reveals that they are following a known pattern of congregating at the booth, before heading off to another location, which (coincidentally) has a drug problem. Someone drives up to the shady characters, hands something over, then screeches off like the proverbial bat out of hell when Chris appears on the horizon. Though quite why he looks so mystified at being dragged out of a car following a high octane pursuit is the biggest question. Possibly because he’s trying to swallow the evidence…who’s the lucky devil who’s going to have to pick up a sim card covered in spit, then? Still in Milton Keynes, still with Chris and Simon, following up on a report of driver with no license, insurance or anything. Driving is clearly not the man’s strong point, stalling twice in quick succession before slamming into a kerb as he’s stopped. Not surprisingly, he only has a provisional license. Car seizure time! Roma and Dixie are in Reading following up a report of a crashed car on slippy, wet roads. It’s a ‘keys burgled’ nicked car, and the occupants have fled. They’ve actually gone home – a fact discovered by a dog. They are in bed – but not in pyjamas! They’re also a bit too damp to be believable; and, as for the electronics lurking under the mattress… Charlie and Ruffy pull over a car that they consider to be uninsured and untaxed. Not surprisingly it’s another car that’s ‘just been bought’. He also claims to be from Banbury – in Somerset. How unfortunate it is that Ruffy lived in Somerset for 18 years! Then he tries Barnstaple…which is, of course, in Devon. Despite insisting he has tax and insurance, he never did come back when dispatched to his mate’s house to pick up the certificate. Chris and Simon are back in Slough, extolling the virtues of being in an unmarked car – and each other’s talents – until Chr
Ronnie and Roma, out on patrol in Slough, when they pass a car whose occupant hastily hides something. He claims he’s had nothing to drink, despite having booze breath and a can sitting provocatively in the passenger footwell. The car may not be moving, but the keys are in the ignition so, in legal terms, he’s in charge of the car. Once back at the nick, however, the reading on the intoximeter causes jaws to drop in astonishment! Incredibly, they stopped him again the following week, and he was almost as bad again… Ronnie and Roma are back in Slough again, and have spotted a suspicious car. They pull it, and find the Polish driver also has ‘booze breath’. He fails a breath test, once it’s established that he should be blowing through the tube, not sucking. Once back at the nick, however, through the assistance of an interpreter on the other end of a telephone, the intoximeter clears him as he’s only blown 34. But all is not as it seems – as he’s giving a false name, ‘cos he’s wanted for other offences anyway! Charlie and Ruffy are in Bicester, and are stopped by supermarket staff, who tell them that someone’s just fled with a load of CDs. Pausing only to allow Ruffy to put his hi-vis anorak on and swap seats with Charlie (I know, I know – it’s a continuity error!), they give chase. When stopped, the man seems quite astonished at the charge while Charlie’s cuffing him, though there’s not a lot he can say about the ridiculously large numbers of security boxes in the back of his car. Or the rigged bag that can block the signal from alarm tags, or the fact that he’s not actually legal to drive – or the huge haul of nicked stuff he’s got hidden in the boot! Yorkie and Dixie are in Reading looking for a car being driven by a man who has just completed a disqualification – but hasn’t actually got around to sorting his license out. Ironically, it was their work that got him the ban in the first place! He has managed to get in
Lloydy and Jim are out in the country hunting down a suspected burglar. Their attempt to block him fails and the driver is off down the pavement like a weasel on speed – only to come face to face with another unit around the corner. Much shock and awe ensues. Fortunately they’ve got the right man – given the damage to his car! Chris and Simon are in Newport Pagnell, also looking for a pair of opportunistic ‘walk in’ thieves. They call in Mark and Huey to cover the back of the lucky bungalow (with a green door, no less – cue another vocal rendition from The Nose!) before walking over – all decked out with the enforcer! Rosie and Daz are in Mortimer to take part in a raid on a guy who has one or two bladed weapons. What a shame there’s no one in – though they really should have tidied up before they left. All those blades, drugs and potentially stolen goods… Chris and Simon are in Aylesbury and see some odd goings on in a car park. It would appear that two youngsters are in the midst of puffing a spliff or two on the quiet. Shame about the rest of the skunk in the cannabis grinder that they didn’t declare! Charlie and Ruffy are also in Aylesbury pick up an ANPR ding stating no tax. Apparently the driver is ‘working on it’. Unfortunately the shifty looking behaviour of the passenger piques Charlie’s interest as there some drugs ‘paraphernalia’ in the car leading to a trip to the nick for a strip search. Back with the driver, and there’s issues over insurance (surprise, surprise) leading to seizure of the car. Rosie and Daz are in Reading and find a car in a known red light district occupied by a couple with the light on. Bizarrely, the woman has a screwdriver and a knife in her handbag, but she most definitely doesn’t want any closer searches – which is odd given that she’s not carrying anything. But her reluctance becomes clear when it turns out she’s wanted for breach of a suspended sentence
Rosie and Daz are in Reading for Operation Fanta (seriously!) looking for burglars who steal car keys to get at the increasingly hard-to-nick cars. Called in to help with a chase, they head off after a 4X4 which is able to get over the sump breaker in the road, when they can’t. Ouch! Back in Slough – Simon and Chris are looking for people pinching stuff out of parked cars. After an easy stop, a suspicious vehicle (fortuitously borrowed off a Mr John Thomas). It squeaks on databases, but the passenger doesn’t, so a visit to the nick is required for identification (mainly because he’s a convicted burglar who’s escaped from prison!). There’s also a nice little assortment of tools in the boot, not to mention broken glass in the footwell. As for the improvised balaclavas… Chris and Simon are now in Bicester following up an ANPR ding for no insurance. The driver claims he’s covered on his dad’s insurance, though he can’t remember which company it is. But then, given that he’s given a false name, it’s a moot point. Unfortunately, the passengers are forced to walk home – including three little kiddies. We return to Reading to rejoin Rosie and Daz, who have to deal with a guy who’s been threatening a pub landlord with an axe. Apparently he’s very drunk – but fed up with loud music from the pub due to noisy lock-ins. The fact that there haven’t actually been any lock-ins probably doesn’t really help his case. Simon and Chris are being very mobile tonight! They’re now in Bletchley and have spotted a stolen car with their ANPR. Proving the virtues of unmarked patrol cars, they stop the car in a car park without the driver having noticed them there. Amazingly, the thief owns up immediately without as much as a squeak. Everything seems to be going swimmingly, until the thief develops a sudden attack of severe pain and requires an ambulance. Amazingly, it took a week to not find anything wrong with him… Jeez – they’re busy!
Charlie and Ruffy are off to catch a thief in Bracknell – someone who’s pinched some alloy wheels and thrown them into the back of a stolen convertible. Using much vaunted ‘local knowledge’ they find the car. The wheels have been left lying around, but they spot the suspect and head after him – Charlie on foot and Ruffy in the car, which is why, when he takes to his heels too, he’s able to go tearing past his winded colleague and catch the suspect. Cheat. Ever generous, Charlie even finds some suitable reading material for the prisoner while he waits in the cell – though whether he really wanted to read about botched boob jobs is debatable… Iestyn and Boris are in Windsor at stupid o’clock looking for a man reportedly trying to break into a car. Boris stays put as the suspect – shirtless and almost as hairy as Boris – is questioned. He’s immensely pie-eyed, and apparently thinks the car is his, though he doesn’t seem to know where he is. Things take a strange turn when he demands to be arrested, but makes no sense. Matters are resolved when his worried spouse reports him missing – having run off from a relative’s home for reasons best left to his own boozy confusion… Charlie and Ruffy are still in Bracknell, looking into the matter of a man acting suspiciously near some parked cars. Charlie opts for a drugs search as the area is a known dealing spot, while Ruffy homes in on the ‘looking into the parked cars’ thingy. A search reveals a screwdriver secreted in his layers of clothing. One change of name later, they discover he’s known for nicking from cars. His compliance lasts right up to his arrival in custody and starts claiming he’s got needles in his clothing, which just leads to a full on search in a cell. Back in Slough, Charlie and Ruffy come across a passenger not wearing his seatbelt, so they pull up behind the car as it, coincidentally, draws up at the owner’s home. For some reason, the driver takes immense of
Simon and JK are in Amersham to assist with a raid on a suspected drug dealer. They’re going in mob handed – with two other Tango Victor teams and the drug squad. The suspect is, not surprisingly, displeased at their arrival, but is hastily arrested while his flat is raided. Cue the usual, in depth searches, which turn up some digital scales and some cocaine. In Reading with Rosie and Daz, coming to the end of their shift, are called in to assist with a driver who is both banned and not supposed to be in Reading. He’s fled on foot and is now lurking somewhere in alleyways. He’s found, but manages to get away while they’re trying to get the cuffs on and disappears into the night. Daz thinks he’s found the guy, so they head back into the back yards and, one horrifying outside toilet later, discover him hiding behind a shed which he climbs over to get away. In her eagerness to stop him, Rosie throws her torch at him! Fortunately, Jet the dog tracks him down to a different outside toilet. Charlie and Ruffy are near Maidenhead behind a bloke yakking on his mobile phone who was so busy with his conversation that he didn’t notice he’d barged past them. One ‘Follow me’ sign later, he is pulled to the side of the road and offers the excuse that his ‘handheld’ equipment broke yesterday. Ruffy offers him the choice of fixed penalty or a Magistrate. He chooses the former. Had it been a few months later, it would’ve been £60 and points. Bah. Lloydy and Jim are in Slough on patrol and find themselves behind a car which dings their ANPR over PNC markers. Intriguingly, the driver is able to hand over his passport as identification. Since he’s a known user, he is searched – but clean, so Lloydy goes through the car and find a wrap lurking down the back of the passenger seat, much to her distress when she’s arrested for possession of it. Not being able to prove one way or the other, they nick the driver too – and find a second wrap. The girl
Ruffy and Charlie are in Aylesbury on the look out for a female drug dealer. Charlie catches up with her and an apparent customer, and they’re both detained for a drugs search, much of Charlie’s explanation being given with a pen between his teeth. Back at the nick, the lady is found to have hidden her stash in the plastic case used to contain a Kinder Surprise Egg toy. The bloke also has some, but the explanation about where she had her stash leads to much embarrassment and giggling during the piece to camera… Charlie and Ruffy are now in Bracknell and find themselves behind a van with a very odd looking number plate. The tax is out of date, but the number plate is also interesting as it’s got bits of tape all over it to change it – which resembles a legal vehicle in Sunderland; but is actually the numberplate of an untaxed van…there’s no insurance either so it’s getting seized! The botch job might have passed muster with an ANPR van, but there’s no fooling Charles and Rufus. Iestyn is patrolling Windsor and, sans Boris, assists with a call to some boy racers messing about in a Multi-storey car park. The lads are not impressed with the uniformed gatecrashers, and remonstrate in the noisiest, most ‘young-idiot-out-to-look-big-in-front-of-his-mates’ way possible. The result is a pointless ruck on the floor followed by a trip to the nick. Then arrested guy’s brother turns up and seems to be even more of a young-idiot-out-to-look-big-in-front-of-his-mates. In the end, three of them got section fived. Morons. Charlie and Ruffy are on the M4 when a bloke on a motorbike zips by on the inside and cheerfully continues to race along on the inside lane. He’s on a conspicuous, bright blue Harley, but our doughty heroes can’t get past anyone even with their siren and lights on, so they lose him. Fortunately, they’ve warned colleagues further ahead on the Motorway, and they pull the bloke, so Ruffy’s able to deal with him after all. Iest
Lloydy and Jim are in Slough on Falconry duty. A pusher’s been disturbed and fled on a bike, and they’re soon on his trail. Lloydy manages to stop the pedalled flight by crashing into him and bowling the pair of them over! A quick search reveals no drugs, so Jim heads off with a local beat officer to see if he can find any hiding places along the escape route. This also proves fruitless, unlike the strip search back at the nick where his mixture of wraps wrapped in a hanky falls out of his underpants. Rosie and Daz are on tour in Slough, and pull a car that their ANPR suggests has no tax. No one in the car has a full license either, so there’s no insurance. So the car’s going to be seized (leaving the occupants with a six mile walk home) – but it turns out that the car is implicated in a string of thefts of wheels from cars parked in a local hospital. Interestingly the car has three jacks in it, though the lads are telling the truth (for once) when they explain that they’ve only just bought it. Watch out for Rosie’s one-woman impersonation of the Road Wars theme at the end of the sequence! Yorkie and Dixie are patrolling in Reading and end up behind two kids on a motorbike, neither of whom are wearing helmets. They are cheeky beggars who offer nothing more than obscene gestures when Yorkie attempts a stop, but the chase has to be aborted rather than risk the two pillocks being injured in a crash. The same thing happens the next day, but the day after, they come across them by chance – but this time on pushbikes. Amazingly, one of them has previously sought Yorkie’s help after being beaten up! There’s gratitude for you. Rosie and Daz are in Reading and spot a woman wanted on recall to prison for not attending parole meetings. She has fled with her boyfriend, but a helpful witness advises that she will be in said boyfriend’s flat – in the kitchen. A search does indeed reveal that’s exactly where she is – hiding under the sink. Chr
Yorkie and Dixie are in Reading on a Burglary exercise when they’re called to a break-in. They hear that the suspects have made off in a blue Saxo and commence the hunt. A local unit spots them lurking, which leads to a spot of shock and awe. There’s some stolen property in the vehicle from the property that they’d just fled from – good call. Still in Reading, a bunch of young men make the foolish mistake of racing past Yorkie and Dixie while hurling abuse. They are brusquely stopped and expected to account for themselves. The passengers are gobby and trying to out-impress each other. It appears that this is normal, as the car is flagged for antisocial behaviour, the driver being too chicken to stop his passengers from being idiots. Worse still – it’s his mum’s car, and she’s going to keep on being stopped now because the car is flagged! Simon and JK are patrolling in Aylesbury when Simon notices a car with a whopper crack in the windscreen. While they’re dealing with that in a multi-storey, a car park attendant asks JK to investigate what he thinks might be dealing going on in one of the toilets. They stop the two suspects and carry out a drugs search. One is carrying a wrap of heroin; the other isn’t, but admits being a user, so he was able to go; unlike the other. Yorkie and Dixie are listening in on a chase through Reading with commentary by Rosie. A bloke has nicked a bike and is trundling sedately across a playing field with Rosie in tow on foot. What he doesn’t know is that Dixie has stationed their car at the proposed exit, so Yorkie is waiting for him by the gate. Rosie is dead impressed, and does a nice little dance to celebrate not having to do all the paperwork. Lloydy and Jim are travelling on the A40 in Oxford and get a hit on their ANPR – as usual there’s no insurance. The guy’s just bought it a few days ago and is ‘in the process of changing it over’ from his previous vehicle. Which is never going to happen a
Out in Reading with Rosie and Daz on patrol, when she spots a car with a broken window. The driver seems to be taking an endless amount of time to stop, and a pursuit ensues, briefly. For some reason, the driver seems amazed at being stopped, and it appears that his befuddlement is booze-related. He’s known to Rosie, who’s previously stopped him for no insurance. With Lloydy and Jim alongside, Daz breathalyses the driver, who claims that Daz is the guy who blew in the tube! There’s also the concern that the car’s nicked, given that the window’s broken, and the driver seems eager to shout something across to his passenger, while insisting he’s only recently bought it. The car hasn’t been reported stolen despite the smashed window and ignition; but the driver’s failed the breath test and still hasn’t got insurance. Plus he’s out of prison on license. He fails the breath test, and the car was nicked. And they did it so quickly that the owner hadn’t even discovered his loss! In Windsor with Iestyn, Boris still in the van, taking a spot of time to assist with public order issues on a busy night. He’s quickly employed in helping to subdue a reveller who decided it would be a clever thing to try to deck a local officer. With reinforcements arriving, the inevitable section 5 follows. Rosie and Daz are now in Bracknell, following a van driving ‘erratically’ after emerging from a pub carpark. The computer also reports no tax. The van stops without incident (other than hitting the kerb) but the guy reeks of booze, so out comes the breathalyser. He’s familiar with the machine, because he’s still on a ban for drink drive! One failure later, he’s off to the nick for an evidential test. Being only a little over, he’s allowed to offer a sample of urine for testing, which backs up the failure, and his ban is extended even longer. Dixie and Yorkie are patrolling in Reading, and pull over a car to request that the occupants pick up the litter
The team is in Maidenhead on ANPR duty, Lloydy and Jim follow behind a car that’s pinged the system, and manage to get to him in time to notice he’s been ‘fiddling with something’ in the car. Suspecting drugs, and possibly even dealing, the search begins. Jim suspects that a stash has gone down the guy’s trousers, so they go back to the nick for some privacy. One stash of ‘e’ later, they’re off to the custody suite to process him for dealing as it’s a sufficient quantity to be dealt. This is the second time he’s been done for dealing the stuff, and his eagerness to call his girlfriend raises further suspicions to the point that a house search follows – of the guy’s parents’ home. They are absolutely innocent, but the son most certainly is not as they find even more drugs, money and a set of scales in his bedroom. Simon is patrolling solo in Milton Keynes and spots a car whose occupants are acting oddly. Seeing the camera in the car, the guy gives the cameraman ‘the finger’, but Simon is more concerned about his lack of insurance than his gestures. Out come all the standard excuses, one by one. Just bought the car (check), not got his documents but can produce them (check), insured on a trade policy (check). There’s also the fact that he’s trying to pretend he’s his brother, and he’s only got a provisional license – next excuse is ‘in dispute over said license as he should have a full one’. It does him no good; Simon is seizing that car. Out in Reading with Yorkie and Dixie. A car catches their eye, and they pull it – when asked if the occupants have cannabis, they say not, until Dixie finds a joint; at which point the lads see the light and advise of the veritable shop-stock of cannabis the passenger is carrying, along with deal bags and a grinder. The guy has already been in trouble for drugs, and was handed a suspended sentence only the day before! The pair are arrested, and the cannabis carrier reacts gruesomely b
Rosie and Daz are out in Reading looking for burglars, and head to a BT exchange where a van is being broken into live on CCTV. Pretty much every unit nearby is converging on it – though the Bat Car has local knowledge on its side so our duo get there first. There’s an alarm going, and ladders leaning against a wall, but the suspect has vanished. The chopper’s been called in, but there’s a van parked a few streets away which has a history of burglary attached to it. En route, eagle-eyed Rosie spots a different van with someone lying under it! He claims he’s sleeping under the van as he’s been chucked out by his missus; but, interestingly, his keys open up the van they were looking for; which happens to be stuffed with cables nicked from BT! Now in Slough with Lloydy and Roma, out and about to disrupt drug activity. Their interest is piqued by a group of young men lurking behind a parade of shops, particularly as the lads are able to pull into an alcove more or less out of sight. There is perhaps no surprise that a few of them are carrying some cannabis, and the possibility of getting a street caution rather than a trip to the nick leads to some startling honesty as stashes are disclosed. Apart from the ones they’ve forgotten about, of course. One of them manages to embarrass himself briefly as his trousers drop, but the worse outcome is that he’s too young for a street caution and will have to be dealt with down the nick instead. Whoops. Back in Reading, and Lloydy is back with Jim again, just coming to the end of their shift, until Jim spots a kid being carried on a moped who has decided not to bother with a helmet. The ‘driver’ claims he thought that passengers didn’t need insurance! But the other concern is his Section 59 warning, in that he’s used his moped ‘antisocially’. There are issues over whether or not it’s expired, but he doesn’t seem to be aware whether or not he’s got points on his provisional license. Whether he h
Rosie and Daz are out in Reading on a joint operation targeting burglars. They’re called in to chase up a car that’s been nicked from outside a house; the driver of which has crashed it into some bollards. They’ve attempted to move it, given up and fled. With immensely limited descriptions, the team don’t hold out much hope of finding them, but hole up in hopes of catching them out. The tactic pays off as they spot a possible suspect, who they leave with a dog handler and chase after another who vanishes into the night; so they do swapsies with the dog handler and process their first find, who turns out to be the car owner’s son! Lloydy and Jim are in Windsor on the lookout for thieves, but instead encounter a poorly driven car and a motorbike apparently using a car park as a drag strip. Not only that, the car has a Section 59 warning on it – so it’s been driven antisocially in the past. The driver doesn’t seem to have accepted that another one could lead to his car being impounded. Incredibly, while he has a full license, he’s only had it for three months and already managed to get a warning. As he was on private land, they can’t issue another warning, so he’s a lucky lad – he was at risk of six points had he been on a public road, and that would have meant the loss of the car. Lloydy is in Slough with Roma, patrolling an estate. They’re flagged down by a woman who tells them that kids are firing a BB gun out of an upstairs window of a nearby house, so they head in to investigate. The ‘gun’ looks a bit like a ‘raygun’, but the fun element stops there, as the kids are causing real annoyance to the neighbours. They should be at school, but one of them ‘has got a day off’ and the other ‘didn’t want to go’. It’s not an airgun, so they are allowed to keep it – but a flea is firmly applied to the ears. Lloydy is now back with Jim again, and they’re chasing after a driver that’s racing down a dual carriageway outs
Charlie and new partner Mish Ryan are out in Slough and are alerted by their ANPR to a parked up Volvo with a bit of a criminal history, so they park up and wait for someone to return to it, as they suspect that the driver may well not be properly documented. The planned stop doesn’t, however, go according to plan as the driver decides he doesn’t want a word – but, being in a cul de sac, he’s had to flee down a footpath and gets a bit of a headstart, leaving Charlie to guess where he’s gone. By chance they catch up head to head, and the Volvo reverses away from them at speed, barging backwards past anything in the way. This is followed by a u-turn over a central reservation, before nearly hitting the driver of a car he’s only just banged into! The chase moves onto the Britwell at which point things go totally unaccording to plan when Charlie reverses into a parked car. Brian and Jake are in Tilehurst looking for someone apparently on the loose with a samurai sword. Astonishingly, at the scene, he finds officers dealing with a youngster who, overeager to hurl missiles from an upstairs window of his home, has accidentally managed to throw himself out, too – requiring the assistance of paramedics. The apparent swordsman is still inside the house, requiring careful planning for the next move. The door goes in, and shielded officers storm the house. All plans turn out to be unnecessary as the bloke is flat out in a drunken sleep upstairs. Dutch courage rules… Lloydy and Jason Evans are in Reading following a car going up a one way street the wrong way. Out comes the breathalyser – but before they can use it they have to listen to an astonishing saga about a robbery. Not that it makes any difference as he blows red anyway. Despite a long wait at custody to get on the evidential breathalyser, he still blew nearly twice the limit, so Lord alone knows what he was when they stopped him. Lloydy is back with Jim in Slough looking for a stolen BMW spotte
Simon and Conrad are near Slough, and head off to assist a bus driver under attack nearby, with a robbery in progress. They arrive with superb timing and manage to snaffle the thief as he attempts to flee, all without disturbing Mr Hills’s shades! The suspect complains that he hasn’t done anything wrong – though the shaken bus driver says otherwise. The bus has a wide range of smashed windows and mirrors but, fortunately, no one has been hurt. Though the suspect doesn’t take at all kindly to being taken to the nick… Helen is in Maidenhead and is called to the scene of a road crash in case Bonnie is needed to chase down any fleeing drivers. There is no need, however, as the driver – drunk, of course, has trapped herself in her car by slamming it between two traffic signs. Astonishingly, despite being trapped in a totalled car with the possibility of petrol vapour all around, the woman actually attempts to light a cigarette – and protests furiously when they prevent her as she’s ‘in shock’. After wresting several lighters away from her, Helen withdraws to allow her to be cut out of her wrecked car. Obviously assuming that refusing to provide any specimen for testing will get her out of a drink drive charge – she is, happily, proved wrong as refusal carries exactly the same penalty! In Gerrards Cross – a bunch of Proactives, led by JK, are helping a range of officers to bust a whopper outdoor cannabis farm and factory. In they go – nicking one suspect as he attempts to leave the site, but another flees, so a search begins across the plantation. There is no doubt whatsoever what is being grown on the site, though it’s very well hidden, despite being in such a crowded area of the country. It’s the biggest such plantation JK has ever seen! Anna McShane and Tony ‘Griff’ Griffiths are in Aylesbury, where the dealer from the previous drugs bust is being held in temporary accommodation – except he’s escaped from the portakabin and
Simon and Conrad are out and about in Slough when they recognise the driver of a car they’ve been advised as being wanted for drugs offences (though apparently looking like Boris Becker is not a crime), so they turn around and head off after him, with Charlie and Mish heading in for backup. They lose the car briefly, but CCTV find it parked up, so they settle down to wait for him to come back to it and drive off again. The stop itself is – initially – pretty uneventful, as the driver gives himself up at once. His two female passengers, on the other hand, make things extremely eventful, when they loudly object to being filmed and decide to have a go at Simon as he won’t let them drive the car away – primarily because they’re uninsured to do so. Fortunately Charlie, Mish, Lloydy and Jim are all on hand to assist. Waller and Flipper are in Reading coming to the end of their shift – but come to the assistance of an Inspector who has pulled over a car whose driver has no license or insurance, and is suspected of not being totally honest with his details. It’s all very funny to the lad, until he gets nicked, of course – at which point he starts fighting. Waller and Flipper are, however, ready for this and swiftly have him on the ground in cuffs. Flipper is rewarded for his swiftness of mind with the chance to drive the total shed of a car back to the nick… Brian and Jake are out and about in Reading, and are called in to track down a man who’s fled from a pub after being spotted by officers investigating him for breaking into his own girlfriend’s house. The chase heads into a local bus garage, where they corner the guy – who proceeds to jump over a fence with a 10 ft drop the other side! Brian is then held up as Jake has taken it upon himself to try and find another way round independently. Fortunately, the bloke doesn’t get away – he’s busted his ankle… Still in Reading, Brian is helping to deal with the fallout of a wake that’s
Charlie and Mish are in Bracknell and head in to assist with a drugs raid – along with anyone else in the team who is available. Except for the point where they run out of petrol and have to go and fill up, and then get stuck in traffic despite the sirens. Finally, everyone gets together – but it’s too late as the suspects have already driven off. Teaming up with Roma and new boy Kev Murphy with Flipper lurking on the sidelines, they move in, but have to wait again, as the suspects are now out and about on foot. As the suspected dealer has been known to attempt to swallow her stash, they want to get in quickly and hard – and boy, do they! The car has quite an impressive collection of needles, but not much in the way of actual drugs. But then, the driver doesn’t have much in the way of driving documents, either. Anna and Griff are in Aylesbury and are immediately called in to assist Conrad and Mark who are involved in a drugs search of a couple of likely lads. All goes smoothly, including the discovery of some cannabis on the suspect, but things then go a bit wonky when he is asked to remove his shoes – which he won’t do because he’s ‘got rights’ – which apparently state they can’t take his shoes off in a public place. No probs – they’ll just do it in the station instead. Unlike his mate, who is more co-operative, despite accusing Conrad of tickling him. Waller and Flipper are in Reading and get called to an incident which is claimed to involve a knife. Paramedics waiting, they go in first to assess the situation as the ARV aren’t on scene yet. Being under strict instructions not to get too close, they attempt to check the likely suspect from the car, and thus ensues a dance between suspect and vehicle which must look astonishingly odd on CCTV. They can’t tell whether the guy has a knife or not – despite his constantly putting his hands in and out of his pockets – and behaving generally like he has. Eventually, he obeys Flipper
Conrad and Simon are in Slough, and head off to assist a youth who has been violently assaulted to force him to relinquish his bike. The report has come in from a good samaritan with whom the victim has sought refuge and so they head there first. It looks like he’s had a pretty nasty blow to the face, and a possible broken nose. He is able to give a description of the bike, along with some money and a mobile. Armed with descriptions, they head off in search of the ‘oiks’, and it doesn’t take too long to find some likely suspects. The lads know they’ve been spotted, so they flee – but not before hastily hiding the bike in a stairwell. One of the suspects, however, is still lurking, and mines the usual depths of bad language and clichéd insults when Simon arrests him. The others might have escaped TV31, but not a local unit called in to assist with the search. Nice. Lloydy and Jim are in Burnham are out to execute a warrant to arrest a man wanted for armed robbery, which requires kitting up to use the enforcer. Lloydy is the lucky man in pads tonight. The front door gives easily, and people pile in – straight into another door which is much tougher to get through. In the end they resort to smashing the glass panes. – only to find that there’s no one in. There is no such thing as giving up, however, so Charlie and Mish are called in to assist with the arrest of the suspect, who is at a local doctor’s surgery. Not only that – Waller and Flipper are also lurking to help; but the local units get there first. Astonishingly, for bloke with a lot of form for violent robbery, the suspect takes one look at all the coppers and gives up without so much as a squeak. Everyone is on the lookout for a fast Golf V6 whose occupants have been spending the day razzing around stealing from other motorcars; and have managed, so far, to evade the law. That is, until Mish and Charlie spot them on Langley High Street outside a takeaway. Charlie is just a squeak too
Conrad and Simon are in Taplow, but heading post haste towards Reading in search of a ‘vamoose’ car (i.e. stolen using keys burgled from the owner’s house) which has been left parked there. They pair up with Roma and Kev to await the return of the thieves in order to capture them before recovering the vehicle. Fortunately, they don’t have to wait long, and pile in to nab all but one of the thieves, who vaults over a high fence while Dave Jones helps his dog over to find any possible trail, despite the heavy rain. Needless to say, the humour flies in thick and fast about the high fence, as we all recall the last time Simon tried to vault one! Waller and Flipper head to Reading to help deal with a bloke who has threatened his ex-girlfriend with a knife. The threat of the knife is real, so an ARV is deployed – taser on hand – to ensure he doesn’t use it on anyone. The threat of 50,000 volts is enough to persuade the ex-boyfriend to capitulate immediately. Though he brings his bad attitude to the fore again when he spots the camera. Apparently he thinks that it’s there to film him. Tristan is out with Bella, who is happy to demonstrate her love of public order work for the camera. Showing off over, they head out to Slough to look for a happily blatant shoplifter and it doesn’t take long to find him. Charlie and Mish head in to assist, which is just as well, as the bloke has a pile of drunk mates with him who are eager to intervene on their colleague’s behalf. This is, naturally, bread and butter for Bella – but assistance is probably more important. Once everyone arrives, things settle down again. It turns out that the shoplifter has eaten the evidence – a packet of crisps. Though the drunken pals are still loitering while Tristan has a search, which gives Bella yet more opportunity to have a jolly good bark. Charlie and Mish respond to a call in Slough to pick up someone who has a similar name to the Crisp Shoplifter from a few days back.
Charlie and Mish are in Slough in conjunction with Lloydy and Jim to help stop a pursuit. Charlie’s a bit lost, but this is less of a problem as the driver has abandoned the car and is now on foot – therefore being much slower. Anna is able to help them catch up with things once they finally make it to the scene, while Jim and Lloydy work on searching for the guy who is now, reportedly on the tracks of the main London-West Wales line, while everyone else, on the other side of the railway checks gardens. Much racing back and forth ensues as the suspect hops from one side of the line to the other, despite there being a high speed train due. As they are forbidden to join him on the tracks, Lloydy keeps watch from up a tree to see where the guy will emerge, sending off to a likely spot – but turns out to be perfectly placed to make the arrest himself – and viewers get the chance to play ‘count the bleeps’. Answers on a postcard, please. Charlie is now with Conrad, and they’re in Chalvey where they spot a roughly dressed couple walking along, one of whom is carrying a load of copper piping under her arm. As scrap metal is commanding high prices, this looks rather suspicious, so they stop the pair. There is something of a language barrier to cross over, as the couple are Russian, though Conrad is able to elicit that they claim they found the copper in a pile of rubbish. As there is no reason to doubt this, they are allowed on their way, though it is likely that Charlie would have preferred it if the couple had had some mints in their rucksack rather than cider. We join another new face – long standing dog handler Andy Burke. He and his new dog, Hawk, are out and about. Hawk is inexperienced, but enthusiastic and capable and they’re now in Maidenhead to track a suspected assailant following a punch-up. Hawk catches someone – but it’s an innocent person who has crossed the suspect’s trail. Fortunately, this isn’t a problem as the guy has spotte
Simon and Conrad are in Slough – their patrol is interrupted by a sudden chase of a wanted bilker in a silver Vectra which heads over pavements and the wrong sides of roads as the fleeing driver attempts to get away, coming within an ace of hitting vehicles in all direction. Sooner or later he’s going to come a cropper, and eventually does – fleeing into the night and leaving a nasty prang behind him. The search involves a chopper and Mark who, as the search falters, ends up being called in to help with a totally different wanted man who’s been spotted by a local team also taking part in the search! Not that it mattered in the end as they got the original guy a few days later… Still in Slough, still with Simon and Conrad, an ANPR ding pulls up a rather ancient car which shouldn’t be on the road as it’s got no MOT – it’s also meant to be in Kent, but isn’t. Given the lack of an MOT, it’s likely that it hasn’t got anything else either so they stop it. While Simon does the questioning, Conrad spots the driver hastily dropping something, and the stop turns into a search which turns up some cannabis and something unidentified in a foil pack in the boot. They never did find out what the white stuff was, but apparently the puff was seriously rubbish quality; so not only has he lost his stash – he was ripped off when he bought it, too. Back to Slough again, this time with Tristan and Bella heading off on patrol together. The first call of the night is to a bunch of youths apparently lurking suspiciously around a moped at the back of some shops. A bunch of likely lads claim to have done nothing wrong – but they fit the description and the report makes it clear they’ve been trying to start the moped, so they have to stay. Given that there’s three lads – plus friends – and only one Tristan, the odds are awkward if they want to make trouble, and even with back up, the boys in blue are still outnumbered. While they wait for the van to arri
Daz and Dan are in Reading, and fall in behind a Corsa which pulls an illicit U-turn, causing Dan to pull out a tidy cliché before they try to pull the Corsa. The Corsa driver, however, has other plans and a pursuit ensues. Simon and JK are also in the area, and head in to assist. The fleeing driver doesn’t give a stuff about anything other than getting away, and Dan suspects the vehicle has been stolen. Attempts to lay a stop stick fail as the driver goes a different way, so Dan requests permission to carry out a TPAC once they’re on a suitable road. This turns out not to be necessary as the car flies down a dead end, and the driver flees on foot – hurtling through fences, rather than over them. The passengers, however, weren’t quick enough and have been captured. One of them is only fourteen. The driver, however, has disappeared into the night. Not surprising given that the car is a vamoose. It’s lunchtime in High Wycombe, and Simon and Conrad’s break is interrupted by the appearance of a wanted car which pootles past them. They attempt to remain anonymous in the queue of traffic, but this proves impossible when the car pops into a petrol station, and they have to follow, scaring the driver away. Griff and Anna are ready at a roundabout to pull in front of it – but the driver backs into Simon and Conrad before zipping away at speed and triggering a pursuit before dumping the car and fleeing. This is not a problem for the dog patrol, and the occupants – who turn out to be suspected thieves – are soon collared. Simon and Conrad are back in Slough, working as part of Operation Caveat, looking to catch burglars. A car spikes their ANPR as having no insurance so they head off after it, as it comes back as having been used for a burglary, so they get behind it as it pulls into a drive. The occupants are Romanian, which makes questioning them a challenging affair, and have an interesting heap of bling in the footwell of their car. With Charlie and
Waller and Kev are in Slough on patrol, and are behind a car whose driving leaves a lot to be desired, possibly because he’s been distracted by his girlfriend, who he’s been snogging at the temporary traffic lights. The car pongs of booze, so a breath test is in order – though the passenger locks herself in; apparently she’s scared. Once they get both occupants out, questioning starts, but the girl seems to be getting mega upset, and somehow convinces herself (wrongly) that Kev has agreed to let her go if she talks to him. There are suggestions that the guy deals Crystal Meth, and it’s possible that one or the other of them has hidden some drugs somewhere, but the girl gets so hysterical that it becomes impossible to deal with her. Help arrives in the form of an old friend, as Derek Ingram makes a long awaited return to our screens. As a search needs to be done, female assistance is needed and arrives in the form of Mish, which is just as well, as the girl is now in such a state that she has to be put on the floor. Not even Mish is able to subdue this fit of screaming, and in the end leg restraints are also required to get her into the van. Even now, the fit carries on, and Flipper has no choice but to ride in the van with her just to stop her attempting to hurt herself. It’s only after the search has been completed back at the nick, that things finally calm down – but no one knows what happened, as no one had any drugs at all. Simon and Conrad are out and about in Slough looking for a drug dealer. His car has been spotted by local teams, so they’re in the right place; until their crim radars are spiked by another car – and the computer concurs with their view that its driver is dodgy in the drugs department. Things are further compounded when the driver, who is female, flees. She eventually pulls over, and her car just screeches ‘user’, with foil and clingfilm all over the place; but her attempts to hide her current (quite large) stash in her
Midnight in Reading. Daz and Dan are out on patrol and are called to a possible burglary, as a man as seen people crawling over the roof of a building. A chopper is en route, and the fire brigade are coming in with ladders. The use of the Night Sun reveals all, but we don’t see it as the Lads are called away to deal with some vamoose burglars currently being pursued. Dan recognises the driver of the fleeing car as the kid in the Corsa from Episode 9, and they’re driving along the exact same route as that chase so the stakes are upped as that driver got away. This time, however, the use of a stop stick has unexpected benefits as the driver’s attempt to get round it sends him into a fence right between two metal barriers which means they can’t open the doors and are nabbed by the large gaggle of cops, which includes Dave Jones the Dog Man and old face Jim Lovell. It’s all the same crew again – only this time they’ve got the driver – and he’s only 14! Simon and Conrad are in Windsor, looking out for a blue van which has, quite literally, just been seen at a burglary. They are stopped as they pull into a rather swish drive, and the driver is promptly arrested. He is quickly separated from his passenger to ensure they can’t come up with a hasty story; while the passenger is very excited to discover he’s being filmed on Road Wars, which he watches – apparently for tips! He recognises Simon, but doesn’t do much for brownie points when he likens them to Pat and Carl. Despite everything, the driver still attempts to explain himself in as loud a voice as possible so that his colleague can hear, until Simon promises to march him half a mile up the road if need be. Conrad is the lucky man who has to get the suspect van back to the nick, only to find that it’s almost out of fuel; not that he’s impressed with the quality of the vehicle. That said, it’s full of evidence that connects it, and possibly its occupants, to the burglary. Charlie and M
Tristan is on patrol with Bella – and is called to an incident of criminal damage, in which young man has smashed the window of a young offenders’ rehab centre. Having found the youth concerned, Tristan discovers that the situation is far more serious as the lad has a piece of broken glass in one hand, and knife in the other – and he’s been slicing at himself with the glass. The youth refuses to be placated, and threatens to keep on cutting at himself, before taking exception at the presence of the camera and running at the cameraman. Tristan intervenes immediately, and is forced to use pepper spray – but with the wind blowing in the wrong direction, gets an eyeful himself. As there are weapons being used, he can’t get Bella involved, so she stays in the van while Tristan gives chase on foot. The two meet up again a few streets away, puffed-out cameraman in tow, but the youth is so wound up that he continues to cut himself and demand that the camera be turned off, and Tristan immediately backs off and asks for the filming to stop, so the Cameraman backs off to a safe distance to film at a wide angle out of view as reinforcements arrive and bring matters to a safe conclusion – apart from a bleary-eyed Tristan accidentally attempting to subdue a plain clothes officer in the midst of the ruck. Conrad is on patrol with Dixie in Slough and their antennae are piqued by two youths who are loitering somewhat on a street corner. As they stop the two guys, one of them pops something in his mouth – so they hastily step in to try to prevent whatever has gone in from going any further. Thanks to Conrad’s quick reflexes, two small pieces of wrapped crack are spat out onto the pavement. Further searches reveal huge amounts of paraphernalia, and three more bits of crack in his jacket pocket. The other guy is clean, and allowed on his way, while the drug carrier turns out to be wanted for breaching a drugs order as well. Simon and Conrad are out and about (not
Dan and Daz start their shift in Reading with a drugs raid. With a bit of hasty tooling up, they head to the house, enforcer at the ready, and – seven knocks later – they’re in. The house is clearly a place where drugs are used, though apparently in better nick than the Chaps were expecting, as they commence the incredibly thorough search that will be required. Dixie is upstairs with new colleague Tom French, where they find clear evidence of major drugs use, the floor behind the bed littered with needles and the walls spattered with little flecks of blood. Gross it may be, but the one thing they needed to find – drugs – weren’t in evidence that day. Dave Jones is responding to a disturbance at a petrol station in Reading, where it is reported a group of youths are beating up an elderly gentleman. Things don’t look quite as described when he gets there, however, as the youths are standing some distance away, and the elderly gentleman is brandishing a broom, and has a fire extinguisher at his side. He’s also sozzled, and appears to have pinched a bottle of wine. More to come… Back with Dave at the Petrol Station, where the man is claiming to have been attacked with by a group of youths, while a security guard is claiming he’s actually nicked a bottle of wine. Things are not improved when the man starts hurling racial insults at the youths, who are, it seems, merely standing watching the ‘show’. Dave is deeply unimpressed and cuffs the man under section 5 of the Public Order Act, though the language doesn’t improve, and instead gets worse, so Dave puts him on the floor and demands that he shut up. Things are quite volatile as there is a risk of the youths being provoked – primarily because the guy just won’t stop wibbling, and continues to spout abuse even when back up arrives, and is only stopped by the door of the van being shut. Mish and Flipper are in Slough, and are getting vibes from a battered vehicle with three young peop
Lloydy and Jim are in Slough are heading in to assist Charlie in nicking two guys involved in a drug deal. One of them has, apparently, gone into a cul de sac so they head in that general description armed with a description from Charlie, and start searching gardens. Lots and lots of gardens. As more coppers arrive, Kev spots the suspect and, delicately, attempts to climb over the wall – whereas Huey, being far more direct, hurtles straight through the gate and collars the guy amid a veritable forest of satellite dishes. The suspect has far less gear than they would have expected for a dealer, and claims he was the buyer; so quick checks ensue to be sure he hasn’t ditched anything – which indeed he hasn’t. Back with Kev, now with Waller in Windsor out on patrol patrolling. Waller spots a guy sitting in a car park alone, who Kev recognises as a drug user, so they pay him a quick visit as the hour is late and there is no real reason for him to be there. The guy claims to have no drugs – but does have a knife, which they quickly secure. He’s terribly edgy, though, so Waller searches the car. When they decide to take him back to the nick, at which point he flees – with the handcuffs still on! Needless to say, he doesn’t get far, and a further search reveals several wraps of drugs about his person. Conrad is patrolling in Slough with Dixie, when an ANPR ding alerts them to a car in front of them. The car’s driver has apparently had his license revoked having accrued six points within two years of passing his test. As this relates to the car rather than the individual at the wheel, they pull it over to find out who’s driving it. The driver claims to be legitimate and pulls out a heap of papers to back this up – but this doesn’t include insurance. While waiting for Conrad to check this out, the driver fills time by asking Dixie’s advice on how to switch off his fog lights. Maintenance queries completed, Conrad reveals that the insurance policy
Dan and Daz are out and about in Slough, responding to a call from a local resident who is concerned at what appears to be drug dealing in a local park. Daz takes the cartoony approach, and they sneak up to a fence in true comedy style, with Dan peeking over the top of the fence, and Daz crouching to look through a knot hole. Spotting the suspects, they consider a suitable way of ambushing the group – and watch a deal take place from their hiding place. Rather than attempt to nab the guys in the park, they instead decide to speak to the customers, who are now heading away – Dan on foot, Daz in the car. Speed is essential, as they don’t want the customers to swallow their merchandise – but they quite blatantly do so as the car pulls up, and despite desperate efforts to prevent the purchases heading stomachwards, they don’t manage it. They freely admit to swallowing drugs (heroin, in one case) – but without the evidence, it’s not possible to charge them with possession, so they’re free to go. Dave Jones is patrolling in Reading, when he’s called to an assault on security staff at a club – by a girl. He spots her as soon as he gets to the scene, but she spots him and performs a perfect sidestep, fleeing down the street. Fortunately, to save Dave’s embarrassment at being outrun by a girl, she runs straight into another copper. It’s ANPR time again – and Simon and Conrad are on the streets of Slough picking up suspect vehicles spotted by the van. Dixie and Tom are also busy, dealing with an untaxed moped being seized from someone who just can’t seem to accept that he’s losing it and refuses point blank to hand over the keys. With Simon and Conrad nearby sorting out some illegally tinted windows, and are freely able to help as the youth is so determined not to cooperate that things get ridiculously out of hand, and he has to be arrested. The guy with the tinted windows, on the other hand, is much more cooperative, and is quickly on his wa
Waller and Kev are in Bracknell, on their way to assist with breaking up a whopper fight as there’s no one else available. When they arrive, there’s only a guy with a mop and bucket, who redirects them, and they find a lone officer attempting to break up an ongoing argument. They’ve all been drinking, which has clearly exacerbated matters, and one of them is happy to fight with anyone going – though they’re happy to let him on his way if he just shuts up. Though he won’t, and is at risk of being nicked. Indeed, he is so mouthy that Waller has the pepper spray ready in case the almost inevitable arrest turns nasty. It doesn’t however, but the bloke still won’t shut up and happily insults everyone around him. Things aren’t improved when the arrestee’s brother refuses to submit to a drugs search and is also put in the van, thus transferring the noise from the streets to the nick. Kev and Waller are now out and about near Windsor and get behind someone whose driving is rather erratic. Being the time of night that it is, it’s likely that she’s had a few too many – but she takes an astonishingly long time to stop as she seems intent on getting her car into her drive, and they end up stopping her mere metres from her house. She takes a few attempts at the breathalyser before finally getting the idea and providing a positive sample, and is arrested. She is insistent on getting her car into her drive, but they won’t allow her to do it as she’s now officially unfit, so Kev kindly does the honours. Once back at the nick, however, she’s discovered to be double the limit and will have to spend the rest of the night in a cell. Simon and Conrad are on patrol in Slough and spot a guy driving while on his mobile. Being otherwise occupied, he is not paying much attention to the road and cuts someone up on a roundabout, and is still on the phone as Simon pulls him. The driver is quite convinced that he hasn’t done anything dangerous while on the p
Dan and Daz are in Reading on their way to a pub where a fight has broken out. Details are very sketchy, so they’re not sure what to expect – and find a woman with blood all over her face and a very, very active mouth. Donning gloves, Dan immediately requests an ambulance while he and Dan try very hard to work out how on earth she has got into such a mess. It turns out that her alleged attacker is still in the pub, and she wants him arrested for assault, so Daz heads inside. Meanwhile the paramedics arrive and attempt to deal with the woman, who is still describing what happened, accompanied by a range of descriptive gestures. Things get even more complicated when the victim’s parents turn up and want her taken away! Being overwrought and not a little well-lit, she then lashes out at one of the paramedics and has to be arrested and cuffed. Things don’t improve down at the nick, where the girl and her boyfriend spend the night in widely separated cells, before sobering up in the morning and dropping all the charges. Still in Reading, Dan and Daz are called to the scene of a robbery, with eight youths setting upon one, and start the hunt for possible suspects in an area to which they have fled and split up. Dan can hear people working their way through undergrowth, who have transferred to a railway track. He then hears footsteps crossing a bridge and heading towards another where some ARV officers are expected to be waiting. They are then startled by footsteps on a footbridge above them, and race over it, only to find that they’ve chased down the ARV officers. Oddly, there’s a couple of youths lurking in undergrowth on the wrong side of a fence who, on being bluffed that there are more officers coming up behind them, work their way through brambles and nettles to the fence only to claim, unprompted, to be absolutely innocent of anything. Much fun ensues as they help the lads scramble over the fence, before they’re arrested and take a nice stroll all the
There’s been a spate of vamoose burglaries in Reading, and Dan and Daz are on the case. They’ve just been overtaken by a sprightly Ford Focus, and their speed is such that blues and twos go on so that the Guys can follow more safely – and the chase is on. Eventually the driver mucks up a handbrake turn and stalls, before fleeing with Dan in hot pursuit which he has to break off when the guy decides to head onto a main railway line. Unfortunately, in backing up Dan, Daz has been forced to leave the Focus unattended, so the passengers have scarpered as well. Dan it thoroughly disappointed as he was almost within grabbing distance – but the car, at least, has been recovered. While sorting this out, Dan then spots a couple of girls who might well have been in the vehicle – but their drunken bolshiness is such that it’s nearly impossible to deal with them. Dave arrives – presumably with his dog – to assist, and another youth arrives in a car to pick up some girls. Dan attempts to question her to clarify that she wasn’t in the car – but this is made extremely difficult by one of the original girls who is determined to interfere and finally talks herself into a section 5 arrest. Her mouth keeps going even after she’s in the car and the only way to shut up the noise is to shut the car door. On revisiting the stolen vehicle, it turns out that the car is on false plates as it’s got a tax disc with a different number on it; and at least the original owner is left happy at the end of it all! Kev and Waller are alerted by a CCTV operator in Slough to a suspected drug deal that’s just been spotted on a camera. One of the people spotted is well known, so they head in to find him, and catch him alongside a car whose occupants they proceed to search, along with the assistance of Derek. The passenger is spotted dropping something into the footwell, which turns out to be a wrap of something, and is arrested – but he insists that it’s not his, so they tur
Kev and Waller are lurking around Slough on patrol, and are almost immediately called to apprehend a gang who have been spotted by an off-duty officer removing a card copying device from a cashpoint machine. Three of them are grouped around a car, so the opportunity to catch them ‘in the act’ is too good to miss and the Boys don’t want to mess it up. They execute a perfect strike, despite there only being two of them, Kev having to rugby tackle one of them to the ground, while Waller has managed to detain the other two alongside the car before they had a chance to flee. Depositing his prisoner with Waller, Kev dashes off to fetch back the other two gang members and brings them back – and all this before the reinforcements arrive! The following day, Kev and Waller are parked up in Sandhurst on an operation to net a female drug dealer who is wanted on a warrant. Mish and Flipper are also involved and spot the vehicle, which is heading towards Waller, but then goes off in another direction as Flipper and Mish have attempted to pull it, causing the driver to flee. Eventually the car is stopped and everyone piles in, Mish taking on the bewigged woman driver, while Waller, Kev and Mark deal with the passenger. The driver insists that the passenger has no drugs and is not involved at all, but given that he’s travelling in a known dealer’s car, both are taken back to the nick to be searched – along with the passenger’s dog, who doesn’t remotely fancy waiting for his owner in the Nick’s kennels! Dan and Daz are patrolling the streets of Reading, and get an ANPR ding from a car which hastily razzes off. The car has been flagged for bilking, and also no insurance, so off they go to hunt it down. When they catch up with it, the driver’s popped off somewhere, but the passengers are awaiting his return – and are passing the time skinning up, an activity in which they are caught red handed. They are now able to occupy their time being searched. Finally,
Waller and Kev are in Slough – heading to intercept a nicked car. Apparently the car is now parked up while the driver does some shopping, so they head off to find it and wait for his return. There’s also an ARV at the other end of the road who can deploy a stop stick if necessary. It isn’t – as they manage to shock and awe the occupants enough to prevent them driving off. The stop has resulted in a few injuries, the driver getting a grazed face, and Kev a busted finger. Waller, however, is ready to run down anyone who flees – being able to run like a gazelle. He says. Seeking the advice of a paramedic, it turns out that Kev has actually managed to damage a tendon in his finger – necessitating two whole weeks off work to recover! Conrad, now partnered with Anna, are in Aylesbury with Lloydy and Millsy on a drugs operation to intercept dealing. Unfortunately, the suspect they’re after spots the undercover officers trailing him and flees, so the Proactives have to pile in. The lad’s been nabbed, so Conrad and Anna take over to arrest him, while Lloydy searches him. Everyone’s positive that the lad has purchased drugs, but initial searches reveal nothing, requiring a more ‘intimate’ search down at the nick. While this is being done, Conrad and Anna commence a search of the area in case he’s discarded it into nearby undergrowth. After finding nothing, they manage to get hold of a drugs dog have a good sniff – but instead it’s another officer who finds the suspected package, which has about £1,000 worth of drugs in it! Conrad and Anna are in Slough where they spot a moped driver taking a swig from a can of Stella. As he drives off, they follow to have a quick chat about it. It seems that he just likes to have a can at lunchtime. He needs, however, to give a sample of breath now – which means they’ve got to hang around for twenty minutes to avoid an instant, and unfair, fail. This annoys the driver, who is supposed to be back at work,
Proceedings begin on the M5 just outside Exeter with Chris Davidson and his crewmate Mike Brown out on patrol. An ANPR ding alerts them to a car on the motorway with drugs history, and the driver, at first, seems ready to stop – but doesn’t. Burning off flat out, the pursuit begins with chilled commentary from Mike. The roads get narrower and narrower, but the speeds don’t drop; until, eventually, the inevitable happens and the bandit car loses it on a bend and – a Road Wars first – rolls. Despite best efforts with batons, the windows prove remarkably resistant to their attempts to get the guy out of the damaged vehicle. Amazingly, despite rolling a car, having to be dragged out, and barfing all over the road, the driver still attempts to do a runner and has to be largely sat on to be cuffed. It doesn’t take long to find out why he’s so eager to get away: lots and lots of wraps – and we’re not talking the edible kind. And it’s only the first week of filming! Still in Exeter, we join Darryl Drew and Murphy the dog out on patrol and heading to a crashed car from which three youths have fled. Witnesses send them after the lads, and Murphy quickly picks up a trail, which he sticks to –er– doggedly (sorry). Half a kilometre away, his nose comes good and he corners one of the lads on a pavement. There are no more trails to be found, but the youth that’s been captured hands over a few names, so the driver is nabbed in the end. Unlike the Proactives, the RCU doesn’t do rapid entry, so we hand door-smashing duties over to the Tactical Aid Group – or TAG – who specialise in this sort of thing. And so, we head off to the Coastal town of Dawlish where the unit, with narration by Simon Boobyer, are about to carry out a drugs raid using a truly fearsome two-handed enforcer to take out the door. The journey to the target house is one that would probably startle any dog walker as a bunch of coppers in full riot-gear saunter down a leafy alle
Steve Cruwys is on patrol in Exeter with Razor and is called to a house where a young man, suspected of beating up a Big Issue seller in town, has taken exception to being questioned, to the point of retreating into a house and issuing loud threats about knives. Steve arrives to a scene of minor mayhem, where the suspect is still shouting furiously in a back yard. Flying on a combination of rage and adrenaline, he’s not calming down, so the next step is a blast of Captor spray (the third spray he’s had!) which finally does the trick and floors the bloke – having assaulted pretty much everyone who’s got near him in the last half hour. Out on the M5, Taff and Chris are out looking for a wanted car – which is thought to be carrying a spot of class A. They park up on a junction bridge and wait for it to come by, and it does – coming off at their junction. For some reason, the driver seems unwilling to stop immediately, and the passenger is acting oddly, so haste is required when they finally get the vehicle to pull over. Being outside, it’s a return to the nick to undertake all the searches, where the passenger admits to having stashed a spot of illegal stuff in her undies. No wonder she was wriggling. It’s TAG time, and Tony Willis takes his team out to Plymouth in search of a drug dealer who could be hiding at one of two addresses. He’s not at the first address, so they detain the woman who is before heading off to try door number two. There are three people here – including the suspect – and they’re all comfortably ensconced in the lounge. Halfway through the search, a visitor arrives and is rather startled to find the door answered by Tony. As they deal with her, all the phones in the flat start ringing, one by one in turn. Given that the team at the other flat have just left, it’s a fair bet that the woman there is trying to get a warning out. Nice try. Out on the M5 again, just outside Exeter. Taff is mooching over the barrier of
Exeter is clearly a ‘happening’ place to be. Darryl is on his way to a punch up in a local drinking establishment – and it’s a Sunday night! It’s reported that someone’s been glassed, and Darryl is likely to be the first to arrive. Murphy won’t be much help in this situation, so Darryl heads in on his own and nearly finds himself going face first into a flying fist. Fortunately, he only needs his glasses to drive, and they’ve been left on the dash in his van. Whatever fisticuffing has been happening seems to be over, bar the shouting of the detainee on the floor who seems eager to advise the camera that he is a trophy-winning athlete, though he doesn’t seem immediately intent of offering Darryl his name. The actual victim of the glassing emerges and advises that the bloke wasn’t involved – but having attempted to punch Darryl he’s in custody for that so the point is moot. Out and about with the RCU, on the hunt for a suspected drugs dealer expected to visit Exeter to do some dealing. Mark, with Becky Jones, is waiting on a junction, while Giles is lurking on a nearby A-road keeping lookout. Jim is running the operation, and Roger’s waiting with Jon nearby. It takes forty minutes before the car comes by, and it’s shifting pretty fast, so everyone gets going. The suspect vehicle speeds until the traffic builds to the point that he can’t anymore, at which point the pack catch up with him and co-ordinate like a well oiled machine to pull off a perfect stop. Mike and Chris are in Plymouth behind a car which is twitching their crim radars. The driver is clearly keen to avoid them, and a stop is therefore pretty inevitable. He has no front numberplate, and was apparently ‘stopped for that’ yesterday. His junior passengers are not properly secured; and Mike, being a top notch traffic cop, is not remotely impressed by this. They are even less impressed to discover that the driver has no license. Neither does his passenger, so he’s go
Darryl is out and about with Murphy in Exeter and is called to help with the apprehension of a car thief who nicked a vehicle in Torquay, rammed a police car with it, and is now hightailing it towards Exeter. By the time the chopper’s on scene, the car’s been abandoned and a suspect has been spotted on the run. It’s time for Murphy to show what he’s made of, and they head out across fields to where they can see the chopper hovering. Unfortunately, it’s the wrong fields, and Darryl can’t contact the crew. By this time, the suspect is largely knackered, so the team of officers, and dog, are now on the hunt. Things are not improved by the possibility that the suspect is carrying a knife, so it’s just as well the pack now contains a few armed guys as they converge on some fishing pools to pick up whatever trail they can. They head out on foot again, past bemused anglers, and finally converge on their suspect with drawn tasers, much shouting and – from Murphy – much barking. Once sorted, all that Darryl has to do is see if Murph can find the knife – and show off his blistered fingers. Taff and Jim are chasing a suspected drugs dealer, and we get a birds’ eye view of it from the Force chopper, to watch the suspect massively overcook a turn at a junction and send his car merrily into an unsuspecting tree. Apparently uninjured, his flight is short lived – and he is returned to the scene where the Lads have uncovered the reason for the mad chase: a kilo of amphetamine in the boot. One short spot of car porn later, we’re now with the RCU in Saltash. Giles is lurking in an ST on watch, while Mike and Jon are waiting out of sight in one of the beemers. It’s a ‘crim radar’ kind of thing, with Giles looking out for suspicious vehicles and calling in his colleagues to help when he gets in behind them. He gets behind a dodgy looking Merc, but Mike and Jon are going in the opposite direction so a hasty about turn is required to get in touch agai
Chris and Mike are in Exeter in a marked Beemer and are called to have a word with a couple of youths lurking with a pushbike. It takes a bit longer than expected, but they finally spot a likely looking character – who spots them and nips off down an alleyway. Mike knows where the youth will emerge and they are soon behind them, even though he runs a red to try to get away. Amazingly, even when they’re right behind him, he still pedals furiously and they just can’t quite get alongside to grab him. He then zaps into a park, and Chris heads off on foot; to find the bike abandoned. This seems like too good an opportunity to miss – until he discovers that it’s been abandoned because it’s knackered. After yet more running, so is Chris. The chase has gone cold by a small shopping centre, so the Lads regroup. This turns out to be the right thing to do as the youth, having made a woeful attempt at a disguise – taking his jacket off – is indeed still around; and they nab him for making off and running the red light. The greatest irony of all is that the bike wasn’t actually stolen… Roger and Giles are parked up alongside the M5 and have received a tip-off that a car with drugs likely to be in it is heading their way. As it passes, they head off behind it and call in colleagues to carry out one of their top-notch tactical stops. The element of surprise is in front of the suspect vehicle as it’s the black ST, and they pull off a textbook stop on the viaduct over the Exminster marshes. Everyone repairs to Heavitree nick where Giles and Jim get started on the vehicle search – and finds a little stash of something white and powdery lurking in a wellington boot. Off to Tiverton to meet a new dog handler, Lee Crampton, and his dog Sharp. Both are new to the Dog Unit, so Lee is taking every opportunity to give Sharp a chance to have a jolly good bark: this time at arrested youths making a fuss about being arrested. The action then transfers to Exeter, whe
Giles and Roger are patrolling the M5 in one of the STs and find themselves playing catchup with a car which has slammed past them at over a ton. Blues and twos have no effect, so they call in assistance. Some way behind, Mike and Chris are playing catch-up, also with a camera crew in the car. The bandit car exits the motorway onto a dual carriageway, but still doesn’t get any slower. Fortunately local traffic units also haven’t got any slower and there are enough available to pull off a tactical stop. The driver, once apprehended, is eager to make a phone call, but instead has to make do with being sat in a police car in handcuffs. His excuse for his speed is that he was rushing to get home – which is quite remarkable given he was heading West but apparently lives in Kent. Mike and Chris have caught up by this time and take over from the other units, with Chris and Giles escorting him to the nick. Implausible though his reason for his driving is, it turns out that it’s the only one they’re going to get. We rejoin Gareth and Finn, who give us a rather nice piece to camera. Finn is an experienced dog, having been on the job for two years. Introductions over, Gareth is called in to apprehend two guys who are apparently somewhat sozzled, but also – more worryingly – armed with weapons, including an axe. This is too dangerous for Finn to be involved with, so Gareth’s on his own when he spots two possible suspects, one of whom has dropped something. One drops when ordered to, but the other doesn’t, and a movement towards his back pocket looks menacing enough to prompt Gareth to use his captor spray. Gareth has also orange buttoned the call, so help arrives pretty quickly. A search of the area quickly reveals a knife handle in a bin, with the blade nearby, not to mention a small hatchet. Being fired up on vodka, the unco-operative suspect continues not to co-operate back at the nick, requiring five officers to calm things down. Party time in Exmouth,
Steve's in Exeter with Razor, on the way to find a vandal who's been spotted on CCTV smashing car windows. When Steve, and a couple of local officers arrive, they find three youngsters lurking nearby. It's not certain that these are responsible, but they're definitely not cooperative. Being as there's CCTV available, a quick call is made back to CCTV Central to view footage, while it becomes fairly clear that one of the three is very drunk – and that proves his undoing when one of the others, tongue also loosened by alcohol, drops him right in it as they all show off for the camera. He really doesn't take at all kindly to being arrested, as only someone with a high blood alcohol content can, and the arrest reaches much the same proportion of aggro as that arrest of the drunk boy in series three, until they have to go one stage further and use CS. Out and about with Mike and Chris, still in Exeter, waiting for a silver car thought to be involved with the drugs trade. They sit up and wait, along with Jim and Giles, for nearly an hour before the car finally moves. Following Giles's commentary, they wend their way through the streets to catch up with the Black ST and step in to undertake the stop. They extract three bemused looking occupants from Birmingham who are, apparently, on holiday. Interestingly, one of them paid £1,000 into a bank that very morning, which seems an odd thing to do on holiday. Further searching reveals a list of figures and various other bits and bobs which screech 'drug dealing' almost as loud as someone with a megaphone. One strip search later, a bag of heroin cut into deals is found. Presumably it was a working holiday, then. Darryl and Murphy are in Crediton preparing to look for a missing dog-walker – where his radio won't pick up a signal. The guy is walking the dog for someone else, and neither have been seen for five hours. Finding them may be entertaining, as the dog apparently 'doesn't like' other male dogs and is almost certai
Out with Lee and Sharp, at an Exmouth Kebab Shop, where a trainee Marine is really determined to advise everyone that, despite being incredibly drunk and aggressive, he's 'protecting our country' – which apparently entails swearing very loudly and abusively at a dog handler. At least the bleep machine's getting a workout. Word is that the trainiee, and his forces colleagues, have been hurling fists about, but the victim, sporting a damaged face, doesn't want to take it any further. Though the drunk trainee will probably have to put up with a major telling off to go with his hangover in the morning. Oh, and a fine. Thursday, Torquay, and the TAG are kitting up to execute another drugs warrant on a suspected dealer. There's a possibility that their arrival might be resisted, so the tasers are broken out as a precaution. After creeping up, they bust in without much difficulty and check throughout for occupants, finding someone sitting in the lounge and firmly close-mouthed – primarily because he was attempting to swallow something. Which, one imagines, was why he didn't reach for the toy gun that was beside him. A search reveals a startlingly large stock of methadone, another toy gun and a nasty looking hammer. Gareth is also in Exmouth. He, and Finn, have been called in to assist with the aftermath of a nasty domestic assault – primarily finding the assailant, who has fled. Initial searches fail to find him, but neither dog nor handler will give up so easily and they potter here, there and everywhere in search of a track. It takes a bit of time, but Finn picks up on a scent so they stop someone who has the same surname, but a different first name. A local officer advises that this is the assailant's nephew; but, tongue tied by family connections, he isn't forthcoming on the whereabouts of his uncle. Rather than wait and see if he will admit knowing where the assailant is, Gareth and Finn head off again to the one spot he hasn't tried yet. It turns out to be
The TAG are on their way to Torquay to execute a drugs warrant, and Gary decides that it's just too boring being stuck in the van – taking the opportunity to serenade his colleagues with a hoedown – dance moves and all. Suitably entertained, they head off to the house, where cannabis is presumed to be held. Dave and Gary are on door-smashing duty, and all move in haste to avoid losing the element of surprise. On this occasion, however, the surprise is on them, as the door is plastic and refuses point blank to give way. It takes ages to get the door open, but they're finally in and detain a suspect who clearly knows why they're there. But then, given that it took them twenty two attempts with the double ram to get through the door (even more than Robb's best efforts!) he can't possibly have missed the fact that they were trying to get in. There's a fairly extensive amount of cannabis in the house, and the girlfriend’s handbag, but things are largely congenial, and everyone sits down to watch a DVD recording of the suspect's appearance on the Jeremy Kyle Show. We welcome another new dog handler, Colin Harper, who is stepping in to assist local teams with an emergency call. It's reported that a security guard has had the window of his car smashed in by a youth who, with his mates, has fled. A man matching the CCTV footage is crumpled in a nearby bush, totally out of breath, and claiming that he's had a knife pulled on him in order to nick his iPod – which the CCTV can palpably prove to be a lie. The puffed out guy is clearly shown quite literally punching in the window of the guard's car, and the guard is able to identify him. Despite this, the youth still insists that he is being nicked for being a crime victim. But then, he is drunk – which is probably why he is convinced that it is his human right to stand up, and why he also believes that Colin can't search him without giving his shoulder number first. He then has to be forcibly shoved into the car, whic
Gareth's in Exeter, heading out to investigate reports of a group of youths in a lane behind a pub who've had a lot of alcohol, and a bit of a barney. One of them, it seems, has picked up a metal bar, so Finn has to stay put. He encounters a local officer who's stopped a cyclist, who isn't carrying a metal bar, but he is carrying a knife. He admits to this without hesitation, apparently under the impression that there's nothing wrong with going about in public armed with a six inch steak knife. Upon being informed otherwise, he decides to threaten to start spitting, and is immediately plonked on the ground. He then makes things a little worse by claiming to be HIV positive, which would make his saliva slightly more than just unpleasantly messy. Matters are not improved by the arrival of a friend of the detainee, who may also have a weapon. By this time, however, the cavalry have arrived, which makes life a lot easier, but it takes a little longer to get things fully under control with the armed cyclist, who has been drinking most of the day and now claiming that he didn't actually know he had the knife at all. The drunken friend pushes things too far and gets nicked for his drunkenness and appalling language, joining his pal in the back of a van. TAG time, and we join C section in Torquay to execute a drugs warrant. They've got another plastic door to get through, but decide to resort to a spot of subterfuge to avoid a repeat of last week's shenanigans. John and Mark set off ahead of the pack in their uniforms, pretending to conduct house to house enquiries, while everyone else, in protective gear, lurks behind. Their efforts prove sadly in vain, as the house appears empty, and the ram is deployed. Instead of busting the door itself, it takes out on the bottom panel, creating a small hole which can be crawled through without difficulty. Once inside, they discover the familiar woody fragrance of weed – and find themselves in the midst of a small scale cannabis far
Roger and Giles are coming to the end of a late shift in Collumpton which has, so far, been rather on the quiet side. Before knocking off, they're asked to check out a vehicle heading their way on the Motorway – a vehicle which makes Giles very pleased to undertake the stop. A Porsche 911 Carrera 4 Convertible – or, as he puts it, one of the best cars ever made. It's got some insurance issues, hence their being asked to go get it. Once on the motorway, it passes them almost immediately and, if Giles can stop drooling for long enough, they prepare to stop it. Roger checks the ANPR and, sure enough, it's marked for insurance problems. Trouble is, it's also a heck of a lot faster than their Beemer, so they're seriously hoping the driver won't flee when they fire up the roof. Fortunately, he doesn't and they stop him without incident. The driver claims never to have been stopped, and have had no problems – though he does have to be asked to refrain from phoning a friend, which forces him to admit that he's not the owner of the car. Crim radar spiking, Giles piles in with more questions, which leaves the driver getting more and more high pitched as he fumbles his answers into the commercial break. Part two of the Porsche stop. Things have now moved on to the point where Giles wants to search the driver, who is still desperate to make his phone call. It then turns out that he has two mobiles, not to mention the pocketfuls of dosh. There is only one word in Giles's mind – SUSPICIOUS. The car search then reveals something even more monumental – binbags full of stinky stuff which looks white and compressed into large cakes. And a new word enters the lexicon – JACKPOT. Roger makes a hasty arrest while Giles hazards a guess over the variety of drug being transported. He then makes it absolutely clear that Mark, who has stopped to assist, is most definitely NOT driving the vehicle back to the nick. Incredibly, it turns out that the guy was quite literally minutes a
It's a busy Friday afternoon in Exmouth, involving both the RCU and the TAG working together to raid a house whose occupants are suspected of dealing drugs. This means evidence is required, so the RCU are lurking in side roads on all routes away from the house ready to stop any potential customers leaving with their purchases. One of tonight's suspected customers is pulled over by Chris, Mark and Jim, who discover a spot of weed, on one of the occupants, and a bong on another, so they're taken to the nick for a spot of questioning. Meanwhile, the TAG are parked up waiting for confirmation that it's time to go – and, as night falls, they're off. They're also in collective disguise (a white van), and the element of surprise is most definitely with them as they're into the suspect house in seconds, though the family dog has to be subdued with a squirt of CO2 from the fire extinguisher (so that's what it's for). Things are peaceful downstairs, but upstairs a hasty ruck ensues as a youth has been seen attempting to swallow drugs. The young man insists that it's only a small spot of cannabis, but even this can be risky. It's only after all this that Tony realises that he's gone barging into a raid without his riot helmet on. Steve and Razor are on patrol in Tiverton at midnight, and are called to an attempted burglary near to their position. On the way, however, Steve spots a familiar face and pulls over to catch up with a local 'character' well known to the police and a very likely suspect. Leaving the individual with some local officers, Steve continues on to the address so that Razor can hunt out a track which might – possibly – lead them back to where they've just come from. Razor's quickly on the hunt, and finds a track almost at once, pulling Steve along in his wake and, indeed, finds his way back to the spot where they stopped the familiar bloke. Furthermore, Razor then finds a dumped handbag almost right next to the spot where the man had been. It's not fro
We commence proceedings with Steve and Razor in Hemyock chasing after a four wheel drive which made off from local units. While they've found the vehicle, they're missing the driver, so Razor's nose is needed. The engine is warm, and parked alongside a shack-type building which is warm, but empty. Matters are not helped by the fact that the ground is wet, which makes it tough for Razor to find a track. They still don't know why he fled, but suspect that he might have been drinking. Without a track, it's down to the helicopter to do the business, and sure enough the heat seeking camera finds something. Thanks to this, Razor finally gets something, and happily drags Steve off towards a leaf covered individual who appears to have been hiding under a heap of soggy leaf litter. Despite having a barking individual lurking in the four by four, he claims to be scared of dogs – probably because Razor is barking his head off and looking cheerfully threatening. Amidst the noise of a hovering chopper, the guy objects to having cuffs on, and refuses a breath test on the grounds that he wasn't driving. As there's no one else who could have driven the vehicle, this is a pointless exercise and he turned out to be over the limit. There's a surprise. Out and about with Mike and Chris in Exeter - watching Mike failing to blow bubbles with his chewing gum. They're looking for a car being driven by a suspected burglar, which promptly drives right past them. Roger and Giles are already at the scene awaiting their arrival and the four group outside. The first attempt to keep them out is the 'you don't have a warrant' ploy – which they don't need – and the search begins. There are a four people in the house; add the four coppers and there's no room for the cameraman, leaving the microphones to do the talking. Of which there is a lot. Eventually, Giles finds the suspected burglar doing a very bad job of looking innocent – as he's hiding in the loft. Much profanity later, they final
The TAG doesn't always use large metal things to get through doors. Sometimes they use sneakiness. Today is one of those days, and Simon is wearing an entirely different uniform – pretending to be a postie. Moving quietly and surreptitiously – in full riot gear – they set themselves up while Simon knocks the door and claims that he's got something for the occupant to sign. The moment the door is open, someone in riot gear calmly walks up and goes in without any problem at all other than mild protesting from the homeowner. There's a spot of squabbling over the cuffs (when isn't there?). He claims he's growing his cannabis because he's got kids and doesn't want street dealers around them. It turns out that he's got a rather extensive hydroponics setup which John is now in the process of dismantling. This isn't as easy as it looks, as their tools are a bit rubbish, and one of their claw hammers loses a fight with a stubborn tack. It's a heck of a haul, and probably a costly one too – particularly as they're going to destroy the lot of it. Darryl is out in Exeter looking for a motorist who's bashed up a lamppost and a parked car before driving off. Unsure as to whether he has abandoned his vehicle, Murphy is on hand, but turns out not to be needed after all as witnesses managed to grab the number, and now they have an owner's address to check out. Sure enough, a bashed up car is parked outside – and the challenge now is to find out who was driving, and whether they were bevvied up when they were doing it. A knock on the door reveals a young man who, confused at the arrivals, says at first that he has been out, and then claims that he's been in all night. It soon becomes clear that he is the only person that could have driven the car, as he matches the description – and the car has clearly been driven recently. Unfortunately, while he picked up the bumper of the car he hit, he managed to leave his own rear bumper behind. And yes, he was over the limit. We
Proceedings begin with Darryl in Exmouth, on his way to assist fellow officers who've been called in to deal with a young man who's threatened his family with a knife. The person concerned has holed up in a friend's house, and all descend, not entirely sure what they will find. Matters are quite tense, and the suspect appears to have scarpered according to the gentleman they speak to when they arrive. Matters soon deteriorate as the suspect's attempt at subterfuge falls to bits under questioning, and he attempts to leave as soon as it becomes clear that he's not got away with his pretence – a move which leads to a bit of a ruck in the back yard. It turns out that he hasn't got a knife – but the damage is done and he's going in. Out on the road with the RCU, Roger is sitting up on a bridge over the M5 near Tiverton with Mark waiting for a vehicle they've been alerted to which may be involved in the supply of drugs. He's sitting up nice and warm in the Beemer, while Mark is freezing his nuts off watching for the car from the bridge rail, and Giles is out on the motorway in another car actively hunting. He's found it, so Roger and Mark charge down to join him. It's a textbook stop, and the driver is quickly out. While he's being dealt with, Giles spots the female passenger fidgeting around her bust, and bolts out of his car to stop her. She claims not to know the driver, and is not at all happy at being handcuffed – standard procedure for a drugs search. Back at the nick, it's strip search time, and the passenger's wrap of heroin is discovered in her bra. In the car, however, Roger's sure there's more drugs – but he can't find them, so in goes a hugely enthusiastic spaniel called Oscar who has a much better nose than Roger does. Success! Out comes a brown sock stuffed with a whopper bag full of what looks like heroin – and there's a lot of it – which now won't be hitting the streets. No wonder Roger's grinning. Back in Exmouth, now with Gareth and Finn.
We open with the TAG – and Tony's CV. They're in Torquay today to raid a property which is claimed to have both drugs and stolen property within, so they've got the warrant and are prepping up to see what they can find. Plans are made in the van, and they head in with the Enforcer. As there's a dog, they've also got the fire extinguisher just in case. As they arrive, someone checks the door, and finds that they won't need the enforcer after all – and the TAG simply walks in. The dog, it turns out, is very pleased to see them, being a friendly little chap, and has to be carried through to the kitchen to make sure no one trips over him, a move which doesn't go down at all well with the suspect. The house is full of evidence of drug use – including the baby's nursery, which also contains a small hydroponics setup. More drugs are lurking in a small safe – cannabis resin – in extravagant quantities, and yet more plants turn up in a cupboard, while stalks and dried leaves are lurking in boxes and jars. All of it's seized, along with a heap of money in the kitchen. Once it's all sorted out, everything that's legit goes back – but the drugs are on their way to the bonfire. Chris and Luggy are parked on a bridge over the M5 near Tiverton. Jim has let them know that a vehicle on a marker for Class A drugs is heading their way, so Luggy's out on the bridge looking for it, while Giles is – again – parked on the on-slip waiting for it to come by. Luggy isn't entirely sure he's seen it, but he has – and Roger and Giles are soon behind it and pull it. The three occupants turn out to be four, so all four officers arrive and make their introductions. Chris's suspect doesn't take at all kindly to the camera, and has to be pulled from the car to be cuffed. The chap is claimed to have epilepsy, though being arrested isn't likely to trigger a fit. All it's done has made Chris suspicious that it was a distraction tactic. Elsewhere, the questioning has begun, and a full
Colin is out and about in Exeter with his dog Raven, and has been called in to assist some local officers with the dispersal of a bunch of people who've just left a pub. It is, as usual, alcohol fuelled, and there have been three callouts already thanks to the activities in the streets. Raven, muzzled so they can get right in amongst the crowds without the risk of anything more than flecks of drool on their clothes, is deployed and they head in to get people to move on. Needless to say, there is a hard core of obnoxious types – largely made so by drink – who have no intention of doing as bid, so there is no option other than to start making arrests. One of them attempts to flee, but is quickly apprehended and taken in, while another, who has been problematic for much of the night, just can't do what he's told and is still lurking. One arrest therefore is about to become two – or at least that's what Colin's planning until someone else comes along and distracts him. Taking the opportunity, the mouthy one flees – but doesnt get far as he is, in turn, distracted by an arriving police car and runs straight into a bollard. Off with the TAG to raid yet another cannabis factory in Newton Abbott one of the growing number responsible for the about-turn of cannabis growing which means that now 90% of the stuff is home grown rather than imported. As the suspect is potentially armed, the tasers are broken out, just to be on the safe side. Maintaining the element of surprise, they park up some distance away and come in on foot, before tiptoeing up a metal staircase and slamming in another TAG flap. The suspect is asleep – tucked up on a sofabed. Fortunately there's no weapon, but there are hydroponics tents – two of them. The only problem they have now is which of the plants they need to seize for evidence amongst the veritable forest of weed before disposing of the rest once a yield has been calculated. Then they have to get all the rest of the equipment out –
Steve is in Exeter, heading out to help with the hunt for a man behind the wheel of a reportedly stolen car being driven by a man also suspected of stealing numberplates. The car is, as feared, abandoned – on the edge of a country park, so it's going to be down to Razor now. The doughty hound immediately picks up a track, and pulls Steve on a merry cross country chase through bushes until they catch up with someone out in the middle of nowhere. The man refuses to get on the ground, but when finally floored, he starts hurling threats of complaints around because his bluetooth headset's fallen off. While Razor enjoys a good drink for his efforts, the collected officers go to search the car, only to find that the keys are missing. Out comes Razor again. He has a reputation within the dog section for being able to find proverbial needles in haystacks – and that's exactly what he does. One set of keys comin' up! Out in Plymouth with Roger and Mike on the hunt for illegal drug activity. Jim, out on the road with Mark, has pulled a car with four people in it, suspicious that there might be drugs on board, so he needs some back up. All four occupants corralled, they head back to the nick for the requisite searches. Things are reasonably congenial at first, and people seem happy enough – particularly as nothing's been found. Yet. Jim does find some coke – but as it's the fizzy rather than sniffy kind, that's not much use to them. A search of the female passenger uncovers a small portion of white powder in her handbag which is thought to be amphetamine, and the mood changes amongst the others as more information about them becomes available, particularly as one of them appears to be wanted for abandoning a taxi without paying – and not bothering to answer for it at court. Not to mention a teensy-weensy bit of ketamine which is – nonetheless – enough to have its owner hauled into the custody suite. Only one of the four turns out to have nothing hidden or outstan
Steve and Razor are in Exeter, heading out to assist with a report of a fight that leaves Razor with not a lot more to do than bark in the back. They reach the scene to find a single individual who is wearing a messy moustache of claret and an air of high dudgeon. He claims to have been attacked by a group of youths, and emphasises his anger at the situation with wild gesticulations that send splats of blood in all directions. He refuses to calm down, and ends up having to be section fived after lunging at Steve and the local officers who've also had to wade in. Matters are further muddied by some passers by who claim that, far from being set upon, he's actually been deliberately picking fights with anyone in striking distance, and one of them has the wounds to prove it. Things don't improve once the cuffs are on, as it takes three of them to get the man into the back of a van.
Exeter in the dead of the night. Darryl and Murphy are on their way to deal with a couple of youths who are in the process of scaring the hell out of people at a petrol station. By the time the cops arrive, the antagonists have gone, but the damage they've left is pretty clear. A local unit has stopped two likely suspects who are loud, obnoxious and bladdered. One of them finds it highly amusing that Darryl is being filmed, though this dissolves once he discovers that his friend is being arrested under section 5 of the Public Order Act. From the ensuing argument, it's not long before the officers have a matched set, though putting the pair into the back of the van is almost as challenging as having to critique their dancing. The TAG are getting ready for yet another raid, this one in Paignton. They need to act fast, to ensure that any drugs in the property are still there once they're in. Fortunately they don't repeat their epic entry from Episode nine and are swiftly inside. The occupants settled down and cuffed, the search begins. It doesn't take long to find a hydroponics unit, a small stash of heroin and a tasty little wodge of cash. There's no evidence that there's enough to deal, but there won't be any for personal use either now. Back in Exeter, now with Lee. Paramedics have asked for Police assistance at a railway station after they approached a man who pulled a knife on them. Mindful of both his safety and his dog's, Lee keeps Sharp on a tight lead and effectively straddles him to keep him from getting too far ahead. A tentative peek onto the platform leads them round into a shelter where a man is lurking. He stil has the reported knife, which he quickly relinquishes, and states that he only wants to get home. Sharp settles down to one side while Lee searches the man, who is not in the best of emotional health following a pretty rotten day, and cuffs him before sympathetically leading him away to a waiting van. It's a busy night for Lee. He's off t
Dog handler Steve deals with a troublesome group of lads; the Road Crime Unit make a surprise discovery; and Darryl is the first on the scene of a serious accident
The Dog Squad's Colin controls troublesome kids with the help of his German Shepherd; the Tactical Aid Group carry out a drugs raid in Newton Abbot where cannabis is being grown, while Roger and Giles of the Road Crime Unit pull over a driver who has hidden some drugs in a rather cheeky place
The Road Crime Unit make a surprise discovery after pulling over a car, and dog handler Steve and his faithful friend pursue a suspect. Meanwhile, the Tactical Aid Group raid a flat
Dog handler Steve deals with an aggressive assailant; the Road Crime Unit pull over a BMW loaded with drugs; and the Tactical Aid Group kit up and prepare for a raid in Torquay
Finale. Road Crime Unit officers are flagged down to help a member of the public, and dog handler Lee is called in to deal with two incidents involving men armed with knives
Thames Valley Police provide more remarkable footage of vehicle theft, high-speed chases and dangerous driving in this seasonal special.