SIREN BLARES
JOHN THOMSON: This is Police Interceptors.
Get on the ground!
Police interceptors? A real-life one?
I'm gonna tell my kids about this.
And you're riding with the pride of Northamptonshire...
Speed 1-2-0.
..ace pursuit drivers...
Contact, contact, contact. 'NPAS 5-1.'
..with air support...
Got two out, standby.
DOG BARKING Come out!
..and a crack dog unit.
If you move, you will get bit.
MAN: Argh!
They bring down the bad guys... Police!
I believe you are wanted, mate.
Police with a dog, stand still! ..keep the streets safe...
Put your arms behind your back. I am!
Get on the floor! ..and battle 24/7...
Get down on the floor. ..in the war on crime.
TYRES SCREECH 'Crash, crash.'
On the floor now!
Is what it is, innit? We find them, we lock them up.
Coming up,
one of the fastest pursuits in Interceptor history...
Yeah, yeah, dealing, they're dealing. We're going.
..a 5K footrace...
IC1 towards Harrowden Road.
Based on our calculations, about £5,000 worth of heroin.
..and...
They've slashed him in the face with a knife,
which has caused a significant facial injury.
..disorder at the border.
Stay where you are, stay where you are.
You're under arrest on suspicion of GBH.
Northamptonshire's patch borders six other forces.
And the interceptors are always ready to lend the neighbours a hand.
Yeah, happy for Leicestershire to run it,
unless it comes anywhere near Northampton.
It's gone 2am, and Rob Harfleet is on the hurry-up to lend support
to Leicestershire cops, who are tailing a Range Rover along the M1.
It's a clone.
The Clone Ranger has four cop cars behind him.
POLICE RADIO:
That'll be their pursuit commander, and they'll be in the stick already.
And a few miles from Rob...
..the Leicestershire TPAC team prepares to move on the target.
The plan is to box in the Range Rover...
..and bring it to a safe stop.
POLICE RADIO: 'Tuck it up.' But the best laid plans...
..often go udders-up.
The two-and-a-half-tonne runaway has broken free,
and it's game on now.
Leicestershire's stick is doing 130 in pursuit.
15, that's now coming towards us at 15.
And they're heading straight for the spot where Rob's plotted up.
Here it comes.
There goes the lead car.
There they are. POLICE SIREN BLARES
There goes the rest of the stick...
..and here goes Rob.
Even in a Beamer 340i, he's struggling to make up ground,
but he needs to provide rear cover.
So it's foot-to-the-floor time.
At maximum warp, Rob's closing in on the streak of blue light.
And at the sharp end of proceedings...
..the Range Rover is also doing silly speeds.
Motorway traffic is flashing past like it's stationary.
The front cars have hit 160 to put traffic between them and the target.
Now they slow things down, lowering their speed
and bringing traffic to a crawl in a rolling roadblock.
But as everything else on the M1 slows,
the runaway blasts past on the inside.
Seen from a cop car behind the roadblock,
the runaway spots brake lights ahead
and smashes onto the verge to swerve round the traffic jam.
They need to stop this car,
and the space cleared ahead of the roadblock is their best chance.
This is their second shot at a box, at more than 110 miles an hour.
He's slipped the net again.
At speeds like this, the slightest mistake could be fatal,
and at 150 miles an hour, the runaway Range Rover...
BANG ..has a blow out.
POLICE SIRENS BLARE Here it comes.
Interceptors are involved in the super fast pursuit
of a runaway Range Rover that's crossed the border from Leicester.
The driver has already broken out of an attempted box...
..not once, but twice.
He's gunned the two-and-a-half-tonne four-by-four to insane speeds...
..and had a dangerous blow out.
But he's still doing over 90
as Leicestershire units move into their third attempt at a TPAC.
The driver's on the verge, in every sense.
Boxed in tight on the inside lane, the target has nowhere to go,
but he puts his foot down and rams his way through an X5.
That's one out of the hunt.
While the TPAC team regroups, the runaway changes lane...
TYRES SCREECH
..clips another cop car and takes off.
Meanwhile, not far behind...
Er, damaged.
Passing the fallen X5, Rob and an unmarked Volvo tighten up.
They may arrive in time for the end game...
Oh, what's going on there, what's going on there,
what's going on there?
..because thick smoke masks bits of Range Rover
strewn across the middle lane...
Oh!
Up ahead, the four-by-four is dying a noisy death,
but its driver won't quit.
Another major impact, and the target car is disintegrating fast.
But the runaway moves for another ram...
SMASH, TYRES SCREECH
And it's a move too far.
POLICE RADIO: 'Crash, crash, crash.'
SMASH One last kamikaze manoeuvre...
..and the Ranger rams the front car.
The impact causes the driver to lose control
and plough into the central reservation.
'Full stop, full stop. Crash, crash, crash.'
POLICE SIRENS BLARE
The driver won't get out, so they take out his window.
But they can't get in, so it's over to the passenger side...
Get on the ground! Get down! Get down!
..to drag the driver out, unharmed and under arrest.
Stand up. Stand up. You're under arrest.
Stand on your feet!
After ramming multiple cop cars and doing insane speeds...
Come in here...
..he's getting no sympathy from the welcoming committee.
I am really pissed at you.
The driver is off to the nick...
..and is lucky to be alive.
These airbags probably saved his life.
Meanwhile, it'll take quite the body shop
to save the lives of some of Leicestershire's TPAC mobiles.
'Several cars that are damaged.'
A Range Rover is a very large vehicle, and I've had the...
the pleasure, shall we say, of being hit by one of them before,
and it's not pleasant.
Three of our marked cars will be off the road for repairs
for a number of weeks, I would think,
which means there's three less cars for us
to be able to protect the public of Leicester.
Thanks to cross-border cooperation
between North Hants and their neighbours,
the serial rammer who stacked into the central res
is currently under investigation for dangerous driving, fail to stop,
criminal damage and driving without a licence or insurance.
He's also under investigation for theft of a motor vehicle,
as the car he destroyed was stolen.
He saw to it that this was the last ride of an 80K Ranger.
LAUGHS
POLICE SIREN BLARES
Police.
The interceptors wage a constant war on drug traffickers...
Got three bedrooms full of cannabis grows.
Go, go, go.
He's running back down towards you.
..as they battle to break the line.
A drug line will be a group of people...
..who literally look to sell drugs,
so you've normally got someone at the top who organises.
He'll also be in charge of moving the drugs around,
so actually getting the supply of drugs.
He'll have the runners, the ones actually selling the drugs.
These will usually be 12 to 17 years of age.
It's estimated 27,000 young people
are involved in county lines dealing.
Taking runners off the streets and protecting vulnerable teens
go hand in hand.
Look at those.
Go left, go left, go left.
And Connor and Brad are in an unmarked Astra,
trying to read the runes of teenage behaviour.
Find another user and follow him...
..cos when they're all stood there on their phones,
I think they're trying to work out who's working and who's not.
They're hoping local users will lead them to a dealer...
Yeah, they're users.
You take the first right. Yeah, yeah.
..so they duck into a leafy side street...
See what I mean?
It's too nice for crackheads around here.
..to monitor possible customers from a distance.
Is there someone on the right? Yes.
Is it not the same people? Ah, there you go.
A newcomer has approached their users.
What do you wanna do, see who it is, or hold fast?
Oh, ideally we get them with a Class A.
Drug dealers are Connor's favourite prey,
but he doesn't want to spook a potential collar.
So he opts to creep forward in the unmarked Astra
for a closer look at the new arrival.
Did he go down this way?
And they spy the newcomer serving up.
Yeah, he's dealing, dealing some now.
He's just dealt, he's just dealt, he's just dealt.
Yeah, yeah, dealing, they're dealing, we're going.
They're both after him, with Connor out of the blocks first
and Brad bringing up the rear.
One running, all in black.
But the suspected dealer has a head start.
IC1 towards Harrowden Road.
Down here? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A member of the public points Brad down an alley,
and he peels off to investigate.
Dead end.
It's a loss, loss at the minute. He's potentially garden hopping.
No. That's it.
Lost him, but they do have a description...
Grey joggers, black jumper, hood up, IC1.
..which almost fits the guy who's just ridden past Connor...
And he's just gone past me again on a bike.
..who follows the bike that's now heading straight for Brad.
Connor, is this our lad here?
Is it him? They're unsure if this is their man.
There's a chance to nab him.
Brad, grab him.
But it's too late.
Hatton Park Road, going to round... Sorry, Harrowden Road.
There's a guy on a bike...
..black jump... black North Face coat,
grey joggers, heading towards Broad Green.
Other cops are looking for the cyclist,
as word comes over the radio
he's just ditched his wheels round the corner and run for it.
He's running towards Broad Green.
It's back to the car to try and cut him off.
Roger.
SIREN BLARES
What's the quickest way, left or forward?
Go straight over.
He's so dumb if he hasn't ditched the drugs by now.
The entire team is looking for the runaway.
This is where numbers matter.
But despite their resources, there's no sign of the target...
He was literally right in front of me.
Don't like losing. CHUCKLING: Yeah.
..though it's not all bad news.
Where this male has ditched his bike, er,
they've been back to seize the bike,
and they've gone and found a big rock of Class A.
Having recovered the bike
and potentially thousands of pounds' worth...
Is it white or dark? Oh, yeah, it'll be white.
..of suspected heroin, they really want the guy who dumped it...
Has it rang? Yeah, it pinged twice.
..who also dumped a mobile phone in the greenery.
DETECTOR BEEPS
The phone's rang somewhere around here,
so now we've got a metal detector
to try and work out where it is in these bushes.
Ideally, you have the phone to show a history of drug dealing,
drugs to show he's got them, and then normally, money or something
to prove that he's got the benefits of drug dealing.
You need all three, ideally.
Good news, everyone.
Is that it?
There we go. You've only gone and found it.
iPhone? Yeah, yeah.
Mate, this is one AP intel, I'm telling you right now.
Obviously, he's thrown it for a reason.
I can see he's got loads of taxi bookings on this.
So we'll be able to track his movements from this,
go through the phone.
CONNOR LAUGHS
Yeah, he's even got the addresses on the taxi bookings.
It's valuable intel,
and they've also managed to identify the cyclist who dumped it here
and trace him to his known address.
We're gonna go get him in tomorrow.
We know what cars he's using,
who's Snapchatting him, who's calling him.
A lot of these phones, they'll have messages coming through from users,
sometimes, if you're lucky, messages coming through from the suppliers
or the top, the upper echelons in the drug line.
Erm, yeah, this is a big find.
The following day,
Brad and Connor are up early doors
for a house call on their suspect cyclist.
We're going in nice and early today to try and get him
before he gets up and gets out of bed
because he knows he's wanted now cos we've recognised him.
They've got two reasons for getting the suspect off the street
as soon as possible.
Based on our calculations and the large quantity that we've got, he's,
he's lost about £5,000 worth of heroin,
so he is gonna be in a lot of trouble,
both with us and presumably to people that he works for.
Which is a major concern because the suspect is only 15.
Mum's obviously unaware of what's happened yesterday,
so we've gone in, and he's now been arrested.
He's vulnerable due to his age
and the fact that there might be some sort of grooming involved,
erm, so it's, it's a safeguarding for him,
although he probably won't see it, like, as that,
but there's a chance of...
Cos of what happened yesterday and the loss of the drugs,
there might be repercussions.
So the safest place for him is in custody.
The one that got away, but not for long,
was arrested for possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.
The investigation is ongoing.
SIREN BLARES
Vehicle's failing to stop. It's a stolen VW Golf.
Northamptonshire's roads police team are advanced drivers
with high spec cars,
using intelligence-led patrols to keep the roads safe.
It's made contact with another vehicle.
But though their natural habitat is the motorway...
Vehicle's going through traffic cones.
..a typical shift can take roads police anywhere.
Never know what's gonna come in.
It might not even be roads policing-related,
but next thing you know, you could be going to a stabbing,
next thing you know you could be looking for a high risk MISPER.
You never know what's gonna come next.
Never know what's next...
..nor sometimes...
"Kidworth"? Not a clue where that is.
..where they're actually going.
Kibworth? Erm, but yeah.
Road officers Tania and Harrison
are pooling their cross-border knowledge
to plot a road to Kibworth.
Yeah, tell him to stand by there.
And they can't hang about,
because they're responding to a serious assault.
A young lad, juvenile's, been at the front of an address,
and two lads have got out of a vehicle, one with a knife,
and have stabbed him multiple times.
They've also slashed him in the face with the knife,
which has caused a significant facial injury,
which is gonna require plastic surgery.
They've cut him from his lip to his ear.
He's gone to Walsgrave Hospital, and then they've left in a vehicle.
A blue Twingo. Some scratches.
They're tiny, aren't they, Twingos?
Yeah, the little, tiny Renault thing.
The Renault Twingo, in which two suspects fled,
has been pinging ANPR cameras all over the border.
It is slightly out of county,
but given that it's a stabbing that's just happened,
we will look into try and get them in as soon as possible, really.
Especially if they've gone off with a knife,
then we'll... we'll obviously offer taser support.
Trained in taser, stinger and public order,
Harrison's skills stretch to much more than advanced pursuit driving.
We've found an address for him, which is where we're heading to.
And he may need them, because they've tracked the target car
to a house nearby.
We'll get straight there now,
put some formal containment on
and look to get two suspects for it.
But before they reach the address, intel comes in.
The Twingo's on the move
along the road Harrison and Tania just left.
SIREN BLARES
They said it's gone back towards Kettering,
and we're on the road back now.
But after ten minutes of high-speed driving, there's no sign of it.
If he's headed home, then he'll probably come...
He'll have to come this way. He'll have to come this way.
The guys are beginning to doubt their intel...
Is there any other way out of this county?
If he's gone Leicestershire, it'll be miles away.
..because they should have caught up with the car by now.
Just check it's not gone there for any reason.
Never know.
I often get hungry after a big stabbing (!)
On a hunch, they hang a left into a McDonalds.
No Renault at the drive-through,
but on the forecourt...
1-2-9, it's at a petrol station.
..Twingo bingo.
Stay where you are. Put your hands out for me.
You're under arrest on suspicion of GBH.
SHE READS RIGHTS Put your arms behind your back.
Yeah, one under arrest. ..may be given in evidence.
We've got one detained at the minute.
Just got to look for the second one.
SUSPECT:
Suspected GBH which may interfere with your snack (!)
Take a seat in there. SUSPECT: No problem, mate.
OK. No worries.
We got the Twingo at the minute. Swing your legs in.
Intel confirms two men were involved in the attack.
Didn't see anyone run. Where's your friend?
But the driver's not giving up his mate's whereabouts
and is playing dumb.
You're under arrest on suspicion of GBH.
Got anything sharp on you that you shouldn't have?
Just my keys.
Just keys? I'll take them off you, thank you.
Can we get recovery rolling, please, on this vehicle for use in crime?
With one secure, Tania checks in with the staff about the other.
The blue Twingo just there, did he arrive with anyone, do you know?
STAFF: No, it was just a guy. Just one guy?
Literally just... just him. Just him?
I'm gonna give you a search, Section 32.
You're under arrest on suspicion of GBH.
I'll be looking for anything sharp before you go in the police vehicle.
Have you got any knives on you at the minute?
Anything that's gonna hurt me?
No? Stand up for me, please.
Just turn and face the police car, please.
Thank you.
If this guy did have a knife on him, he's since got rid of it,
and though a search of his car
suggests he previously had company...
There's two jumpers in the back, so there's two phones in there.
We'll have them as well. ..his mate is not on board.
We'll pick the other chap up, it's just as and when we can...
as and when we locate him.
There's just time for the driver's last supper,
assuming he likes flax bread.
COP: These have been ran over by a car, by the looks of it.
You want me to bin them?
Yeah?
He's on his way to WWJC now.
And he's off.
One out of two is not bad and the car back's a bonus as well
for forensics, so yeah, it's a good job, happy with that.
The driver who lost his lunch on the forecourt
and the elusive second suspect
were investigated by the police for grievous bodily harm.
However, the victim chose not to make a statement,
and no further action was taken.
Coming up...
BARKS ..Dan's best friend...
At the moment he's not happy. LAUGHS
..no sympathy for drink drivers...
You can't do that.
Why? Cos you're under arrest.
..and the world's worst disguise.
So, he's not insured.
Yeah, but you're not your wife, are you?
Yes, but... No, you're not, no.
OK, so, you've blown 91.
OK? 35's the legal limit.
Deaths from drink-drive crashes on Britain's roads
recently hit a 12-year high.
He's a very lucky person because he's took out two posts,
which could have easily have gone through the windscreen.
And Interceptors have no time for anyone risking lives
by driving over the limit.
They don't think it's gonna happen to them,
where they have a crash and hurt themselves or hurt someone else.
We see the implications that come with it,
so we'll deal with drink drivers all the time.
It's late evening.
Bomber and Rob are en route to the scene of an RTC.
A member of the public has called us.
Their car has been hit by another,
and the member of the public calling us
believes that the person that's hit them is over the drink-drive limit.
The accident happened in a residential street...
If it's this one...
..where the couple whose car was hit are waiting for them.
Hello. Hello. You all right?
Yeah, fine, thank you.
With the woman allegedly responsible.
Do you want to come round here with me?
And then just pop yourself in there for the time being.
Once she's safely inside...
We're not going anywhere.
Just so I can have a private discussion with you, all right?
..they get brought up to speed.
I came out, and she was just reversing into a car parking space.
She's got out of her car. I says, "Hang on a minute,
"I think you've just hit her car."
There's marks all over her car. OK.
I walked her down here, and she's pissed as a fart.
If he's right and the driver has been drinking,
then Rob's breathalyser will tell all.
Cool. These guys here have explained
that you've potentially been involved in a collision, all right?
A road traffic collision, OK?
So, cos you've been involved in the collision,
what I'm gonna request from you
is just to provide me a specimen of breath, OK?
When was the last time, if you've had any,
you've consumed any alcohol?
About an hour ago? OK, fine.
Drink drivers are Rob's pet peeve.
He knows they can cause a whole lot more damage
than a bump in the street.
Ever done one of these before? No.
No? OK, that's fine. How old are you?
Okey dokey.
OK, make a nice tight steal around the end of the tube
and blow until I tell you to stop.
Keep going, keep going, keep going. No, no, no.
Until I tell you to stop.
OK. OK?
If you don't provide me with a specimen,
you're gonna end up arrested for not providing a specimen,
and then we're still gonna request specimens from you in custody.
Take two.
Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow. Keep...
No, no, no. Oh, you just about caught it.
Statistically, the over-60s are the least likely licenced drivers
to be involved in a drink-drive collision.
BREATHALYSER BEEPS
OK, so that's come back with a reading of 102.
You're currently under arrest on suspicion of driving a motor vehicle
whilst over the prescribed limit of alcohol.
Of course, there are exceptions.
We'll get you down to custody
and onto what's called an evidential breathalyser machine.
She's provided a specimen of breath which has given a reading of 102,
the legal limit being 35.
Just shy, by a couple, of three times the limit.
So I'm surprised that she could stand when we got here.
I'd certainly be struggling. If not, I'd be asleep.
Well, it should be a wake-up call for the suspect,
but she seems more intent on her phone.
You can't do that. Why?
Because you're under arrest.
I must be allowed to contact somebody. You are.
You're allowed to have someone told that you're in custody.
Right.
And custody beckons.
So I can't go to my house? No, unfortunately not. No.
Next stop for the suspect will be the nick,
where she'll struggle to deny hitting the neighbour's Mini,
because the whole thing was caught on CCTV.
Here's her red Astra reversing straight into the parked MINI
before slowly but surely driving away.
And here's her car,
parked 50 yards away, with damage to the rear end.
The CCTV is pretty damning, to be fair,
so I think the likelihood is that she'll be charged
when she's fit to do so, which will be in the morning now,
and she'll go to Court.
In the meantime...
Go through this door in here, all right?
..there's the little matter of the driver's blow
on the evidential breath machine.
OK, we're gonna ask you to provide two breath samples on this machine.
It'll give us two readings.
Whichever the lowest one is, it's the one that we use.
When you're ready.
Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
Keep going. Stop.
That's one.
Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. Stop.
That's two.
You've given two samples there - 80 and 73.
73 is the one we're gonna use.
That's the end of your driving licence.
He won't help you.
After a night in the cells,
the driver who should have been old enough to know better
pleaded guilty to drink-driving.
She was ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £763
and lost her licence for 17 months.
All in all, it was a pretty costly car journey.
She's just said to me that she's gonna lose her job
because she does sales all over the country,
so it's gonna be...
It's gonna have a big impact on her life.
Interceptors don't have much in common with Shakespeare,
but they do agree on one thing.
Vehicle has been lent to an acquaintance
who's failed to return it.
When it comes to cars, neither a borrower nor a lender be.
It's a Mercedes Sprinter van in blue.
Stewart and Callum are en route to intercept a van
which appears to have been borrowed permanently.
Ker-ching.
And they're plotted up on a motorway bridge to look out for it.
Is this it?
What's that in the middle lane? That's the one.
Six-one, contact, contact with that vehicle. M1 southbound.
We'll go 15 because all the roadworks are down.
Stewart's last company car was a bit slower than today's Beemer 330,
because he used to be a funeral director.
We'll try and do a follow-me onto Newport Pagnell services.
It doesn't take long to catch up with the suspected stolen van...
Is he going into the ERA bay? I think so.
..which suddenly pulls into the emergency layby.
Not gonna run, is he?
Six-one. He's just stopped in an ERA bay.
The passenger is out, but the driver hasn't decamped.
HORN BEEPS
Hello. Hello.
Any reason why you've...? Just turn your keys off for me.
And something is amiss.
Why have you just swapped seats?
So why was he driving?
So, they've swapped seats because his hand was broken.
Rubbish.
But he's been driving a long enough distance. Yeah, yeah.
Can you jump out and come this side for me?
And you jump out... In fact, you stay there.
Have you got a licence? I'll pop...
So, it's him that's moved, isn't it?
He was in the driver's seat, wasn't he? OK.
They've basically done a Derby dive into the ERA bay and switched seats.
We've seen it happen.
The musical chairs, too, are originally from Albania.
Are you insured on the vehicle?
You're not insured?
Sorry? His wife is.
His wife is. But are you?
So, is he insured?
OK. It's his car, yeah?
Right, OK.
So, whose van is this? Your van? Yes.
Are you the registered keeper? Sorry?
So you're the registered keeper of the van?
OK. Why did you stop here?
Right, you can't stop on a motorway for the toilet,
so that's an offence, OK?
You've got to stop here in emergencies. Yes.
The van is showing as being stolen.
That's another thing we've got to look into.
And after looking into it, the waters get even muddier.
So, it's not your van, is it? It's my van.
Whoever's van it is, the name on the insurance doesn't quite add up.
That's a "Mrs". Yeah, it's "Mrs".
The policy seems to be for his wife only to drive.
So, you're not on the insurance. So, he's not insured.
But you're not your wife, are you?
Yes, but... No you're not. No.
So, the driver of this van is the RO's partner,
but he's not insured to drive it,
so we're just trying to get to the bottom of that.
You were driving. No.
You were. No.
Let's leave it at that.
So, explain this one to me, then.
If he got out this side and ran round the front to that side... No.
..who was driving? Cos there's only two of you in the car.
OK, I am not speak with...
If you want to go and speak with my colleague in the car,
we'll get a translator on for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
MAN: I can translate for him.
So why did you then run round to the front?
Because he asked me to.
OK.
So he was driving?
Can't say.
I can. I know he was driving.
It wouldn't make a difference anyway,
cos you're not on the insurance either. Yeah, I know.
The reason why we've stopped his vehicle
is there was a stolen marker on the vehicle.
With a translator on the phone...
TRANSLATOR SPEAKS ALBANIAN OVER RADIO
..Stewart attempts to make sense of the situation.
TRANSLATOR: 'I came by car to a friend of mine.' Yep.
'To my friend.
'And he was supposed to return it back to me on the next morning.'
OK.
It turns out he reported a mate for not returning his van.
'On the same day, this person, he brought me back the car.
'I called the police yesterday
'and told them that my friend brought the car back to me.'
So the good news is the van's not stolen.
I will get this stolen marker taken off the vehicle.
The bad news is he's not insured
and he doesn't have a valid driving licence.
Is he telling me his Albanian licence is... 'It's expired.'
It's expired? OK.
SPEAKS ALBANIAN
Now in the frame for two charges, the driver has a cunning plan.
'OK, is it possible, please, to give me a favour
'that if my friend told you driving, he can drive?'
He wants to pass the charges to his friend,
along with any fines and points that go with them.
Sadly, it was only this chap that was driving the vehicle.
We've stopped it before his friend actually started to drive,
so it's only this chap that I can deal with, OK?
Driver and passenger hitch a lift to the nearest services
with the recovery truck.
Thank you.
Whether they discuss the driver's cunning plan, we'll never know.
He was actually trying to ask in the back of the car
could I not ticket his friend because he's got a family?
I said no.
Van man with a broken hand
pleaded guilty of driving without a licence or insurance
and stopping on the motorway.
He was ordered to pay a total of £930 in fines and costs
and got eight points on his licence.
No further action was taken against his mate, who didn't take the wrap.
Coming up... BARKS
..Brad and Dan...
She's just had a proper pop at me then. Has she?
..woo Riri the Rottweiler.
Hope she doesn't bite me. Good girl.
Northamptonshire boasts 20 police dogs.
We're tracking up towards a car park.
Heavyweights like German shepherd Bryn are master trackers...
This is a pick-up point. 100%.
Hold him.
..and ferocious deterrents.
MAN: Argh!
While detectives like well-read spaniel Bonnie...
Indication. Good girl! Yeah, Bonnie!
..and light-footed Socks...
Wreck-It Ralph, he's also known as.
..are trained to sniff out drugs, guns and cash.
Good boy.
And it's fair to say the whole unit are massive dog-lovers.
Good girl. What you got?
It's Monday evening...
..and cops are trying to search a red Citroen
after arresting its occupants.
There's just one problem.
BARKS
A big one. BARKS
A couple of guys have been arrested for drug-related offences.
Unfortunately, they've left the dog in the car.
It's a Rottweiler, she's a little bit lively,
so she's proving a little bit difficult and unfriendly,
which is natural, cos her owner's been taken away.
This is a job for dog handler Dan Bradley-Brophy.
At the moment, it's not happy. LAUGHS
DBB's proudest moment was joining Dogs.
A sucker for a man's best friend, he's been called in tonight...
BARKS
..to befriend the beast from the back seat.
In our role as handler, we deal with dangerous dogs.
BARKS
A lot of the time, it's just fear, so you've just got to win them over
with a bit of time, bit of patience, bit of food.
Now, we've got tasty mini treats.
So, here you are, bubs. Good girl.
Rottweilers are known for being ferocious guard dogs,
and though Dan suspects this one's a pussycat...
BARKS I know. I know, I know.
She's a bit scared.
Just a bit of fear, so we're just gonna see if we can be friends.
He needs to tread carefully.
BARKS Here.
Ri... WOMAN: R-I-R-I.
HIGH-PITCHED: Hello, Riri.
Oh, yeah, Riri, we're gonna be friends, aren't we?
BARKS I know, you noisy sod. Riri.
Despite eating Dan's meat... BARKS
Good girl. I know, I know.
..Riri seems she'd gladly eat his two veg as well.
Oof. You frightened me there.
LAUGHS
Riri isn't playing ball, so Dan calls in reinforcements.
Hello, mate. Do you mind coming down?
This female Rott, he's not happy in the back of the van.
BARKS
Here we go. I'll give her a bit of space.
It isn't long... Hello, mate.
..before fellow dog handler Brad rolls in for round two with Riri.
She's just barky.
Riri. BARKING
She's a big dog, but she likes a treat.
What's this? BARKS
Good girl. What I'm worried about is,
because she seems really comfortable in there... Yeah, yeah.
..dragging her out of there, putting her in the van...
You have a... Say hello.
I'll get one of these little leads.
Riri isn't wearing a collar,
so they're going to try to use a slip lead to get her under control.
BARKING
So, just see if she'll put that on and get out of the car.
So it's just a case of not stressing her out.
Hands up - who wants to slip the lead around her neck?
She just had a proper pop at me then. Has she?
Looks like it's down to you, Dan.
Put a lead on?
BARKING
I'm no Doolittle, but I think that's a no.
She's just protecting the car, isn't she? So...
After a brief re-think...
Erm...
..they hatch plan B.
BARKS
The plan is evolving. We're just trying to get hold of a neighbour
and see if they'll come and collect the dog.
One of Riri's neighbours has offered to help.
She's very well-known to the dog.
She said it acts aggressive and growly, but it's fine. Yeah.
Who's a good girl? Riri.
Try as the familiar face might...
You've got to get out. You can't stay in there all night.
..this lady's not for turning.
She's not gonna get out. Give her time.
Time to hatch plan C.
Dog handlers have close links with the local vets,
and they're trained to deliver a sedative via a telescopic jab stick.
It's basically spring-loaded mechanism.
So, you just pop a syringe with the drugs in the end,
and then once you take the safety collar off,
you just... slight bit of pressure against the dog
and then it just quickly fires the drugs in.
The drugs are deemed the least stressful option for Riri.
And after Dan prepares the jab stick...
There's three drugs we use.
We've got authority from the local vet.
..he and the neighbour distract the nervy Rottweiler.
Riri. You all right, baby girl?
..while Brad takes aim.
Bullseye.
Right, we just need to let her chill out for ten minutes.
Once the sedative takes effect...
OFFICER WHISTLES She's gone, hasn't she? Yeah.
Right.
..Riri is sleeping like a baby,
albeit an eight-stone baby with massive teeth...
..who's soon sleeping off her cocktail in the dog van.
So, now the dog's there, we're just gonna take her to kennels
and just let her settle in for the night,
and then the owner can collect her once he's out of our custody.
Riri awoke unharmed from her beauty sleep
and was swiftly reunited with her owner.
WOMAN: Thank you very much.