Coming up on this episode of Night Guard.
When you driving someone of importance around,
it's imperative that you keep the convoy very tight.
Moolie and the police official, she was pretty fast,
they jumped into the car straight away, they chased that guy down.
When they guy pushed me, I fell down back onto my bonnet
and he followed with a right punch
and it connected with me, now I have to drive back home to Melissa,
I have to show her exactly what happened with my eye.
When we entered the bathroom,
the other suspect was flushing something in the bathroom.
Who the... are you oaks?
-How was it? -Number one, man.
We have a good working relationship with the police,
so when it comes time for routine operations
such as roadblocks, we help them.
Lets just search these guys.
How are you guys? Can you just jump out for me, please.
Thank you.
Where you guys headed to?
Oh, post office.
We helping the police today with a roadblock.
We just checking for anyone breaking the law
in any kind of way.
Small stuff as well as big stuff.
They've got the booking forms for seatbelts,
no seatbelts, cellphones and all those kind of things,
but I'm not interested in that ...,
I'm more interested in guns and drugs and stolen property.
So, we'll see what we come up with today.
Okay, can I just search the car here. Can you watch me please?
I just wanna have a look here. Can you pull the seat for me?
Thanks, buddy.
Yeah, it's just...
Okay, I'll explain this. What you guys doing? Gardening Service?
We got a good relationship with the police.
We know we can always give them a call, they can give us a call.
We always here to help each other.
'Cause at the end of the day, we all here for each other,
to help make South Africa a crime free area.
Hey, mate, taxi rank and license disk.
This guy doesn't have his license disk displayed,
it's in his cubbyhole.
That's fine.
It's a lot better for there to be a lot more manpower
and a lot more force at a roadblock, than less.
Please step out of the vehicle.
Police official pulled over the white car
and I went up to him and I was just like, "Sir, can I please see your license?"
Just to like try speed up the thing.
So this guy actually tuned me and said, "Why? You can't see my license."
And I said, "Why" And he's like, "Because you're not a police official."
So I was just like, "Oh, okay, cool."
So I just thought this guy is being a bit arrogant,
he's hiding something,
so I just called over the police official,
'cause I'm pretty useless.
So, I just basically stood there and watched.
I got a little bit angry inside, I was like, "... that, bro."
Cops weren't here, I would've been out on the floor.
It was a it boring until the one guy driving an Amarok, he...
The police slowed it down, they waved him down to stop.
He just sped up.
Moolie and the police official, she was pretty fast,
they jumped into the car straight away, they chased that guy down.
During a standard routine roadblock,
it's not uncommon for someone to try speed through it.
In this case, the guy sped through the roadblock,
pretended he didn't even see us.
They followed him, he actually ran a few red lights.
He turned left.
Eventually when they pulled him over he said
that he didn't even see the roadblock so he's in a bit of trouble.
Can I ask you why you running the roadblock?
-Nobody stopped me. -We did.
They were pulling you over and you ran straight through the roadblock.
We stopped you, we flagged you down, you went straight through.
And why you running the roadblock?
Nobody stopped me.
We had a vehicle come through,
try to pull it over the first time, he just started laughing and sped off.
He went through three red roadblocks, so we actually managed to get him.
Come watch me here.
Your wallet sir, you want to take your wallet quick.
Take your wallet please. No, please take it.
Take your wallet please, 'cause I don't want you to say afterwards
that the wallet's been stolen.
We searched his vehicle,
couldn't find anything so we didn't know why he actually jumped the roadblock
but we've subpoenaed him to court for running a roadblock
and running three red lights.
No, problem, you can do what you like, Sir.
You ran the roadblock
we're just trying to do our jobs at the end of the day.
Perfect.
He didn't have anything in the car with him,
he didn't have any contraband,
any weapons, anything illegal.
So I just don't understand
what the purpose of trying to run a roadblock.
You know, it could end up in tears, you could get yourself hurt,
so in this case, he will have to go to court.
Everyone hates a roadblock,
you know, it's one of those pain in the... that no one needs.
No one needs to be stopped in the middle of the day
while you rushing off to work,
but don't be an A-hole, don't try run away from a roadblock.
You gonna kill somebody, or you gonna get yourself killed.
Get a helmet kid.
Okay, behave, off you go.
Two years ago, I moved into our new house with my beautiful fiancée Melissa.
It's actually awesome living with her.
She does a hell of a lot around the house,
she looks after me, she pampers me.
I mean, it's awesome, it's just plain old great.
Melis, you want breaky?
Want some Weet-bix?
Okay, cool.
Actually so sick of bloody Weet-bix.
When are you gonna wake up and make me bacon and eggs?
I'm an early bird, I wake up, my time clicks 4:00 every morning,
I'm up bright and early,
and it's also mine and her time in the morning,
we sit down and have like an half an hour catch up in the morning
because at night, we don't usually see each other,
'cause I've got meetings, she's got meetings.
Yeah?
Every second of the day that Melissa gets with me,
she likes to bring up the wedding.
I've given her full reigns to do what she wants with the wedding,
'cause I just don't have time, I mean it's not nice,
I just don't have time to go look at different color flowers,
it's so difficult, to keep with clients, doing your raids, doing everything...
And then you have to go see wedding stuff,
it's very tough.
-Nice. Happy. -What do you think?
Different. Very Lekker.
At the end of the day guys don't really give a...
about the color of the flowers, the color of the tables.
They just there to rock up and give their wife a beautiful life.
Have you guys decided about the bachelor's party yet?
No, it's a big secret, babes.
You know, I don't actually know much about it,
but you know what's gonna happen there knowing my brothers.
Knowing your brothers.
I'm the last one in the family to get married,
so you know what's gonna happen.
Last bachelor.
In our family, bachelor parties are huge parties for us.
My dad had a huge bachelors,
my brothers, have had crazy bachelor parties.
Now, I'm the last one in our family to get married,
so you can believe, its gonna be actually off the hook.
So, Melissa tries to challenge me every day
to see if I know exactly what's going on with the bachelors party.
But I don't know.
What you up to today?
We're escorting a client that owns...
-Where you escorting him to? -To the airport.
'Cause you know of the airport robberies,
where the guys come back and they hit them for dollars.
Before they get to the airport.
It's all airport, casino's, it's all the same circle.
It's a Rolex gang.
It's quite risky but what's quite nice
is we will be rolling in three different cars,
and they won't know where the people are, so they don't know which car to target.
Yeah, but that's good.
So, it's bloody risky.
I'm gonna have to put my suit on.
I haven't worn that thing for a while.
We like to do it because if you see the people's faces with us
three brothers jumping out the car,
they don't know who the hell we transporting.
You see the cars stopping,
they think it's someone very important, a movie star or some...
They actually have no idea, it's actually quite,
it's actually a laugh.
Bye my baby, I'll never leave without giving you a kiss.
Oh, and please tell Pauline
that someone's gonna come and view the property today
and they bringing two different people.
-I'll see you later. -I'll see you later, bye.
Jesus it's cold.
One of the other specialized services we offer
is bodyguarding.
Some of our high profile clients,
when they going to places such as the airport,
or to a place where there's lots of people,
they require us to shadow them, give them a ride,
make sure they aren't gonna be bothered by anybody
or their family is not gonna be in any danger.
We keep it tight, okay, watch the car behind you,
stick with the leadman, I think I'm gonna be the leadman.
Some of our high profile clients,
due to their special circumstances will require one of us
to shadow them on a holiday trip or on a business trip.
Sometimes we find ourselves becoming friends with the clients
and which makes working for them and protecting them an absolute pleasure.
It's like protecting your own family.
Keep it tight, quick, professional.
There's people out there.
Look at your surroundings,
there's gonna be a lot of people around there,
we don't know who they are, everyone's a potential threat,
We weren't really expecting any trouble,
but you have to act professional and be ready for it at all times.
When you driving someone of importance around,
it's imperative that you keep the convoy very tight.
We actually we're pretty rude on the road,
if you wanna get in front of us, we don't let you in,
we cut you off, we block you off.
You don't get in between our convoy.
It's just sometimes the modus operandi that are used by the criminals
is to try separate the pack and get the vehicle
that's carrying the delegate or the high profile person by themselves,
then they can possibly do what they want with that person.
If you see a badass convoy of black muscle cars,
best stay clear,
anybody trying to cut in front of us, we'll consider it an act of aggression.
When we arrived at the airport we checked the surroundings,
our team moved through the airport, we made sure it was clear.
I'm on my way to the storm drain again, to meet Klaus.
We got a report from a police meeting that they having break in again.
We went to a storm drain,
one of the guys there... the complex was getting hit quite hard.
What they doing is they standing on that
and looking inside your complex.
Okay so we're giving them perfect steps,
so we're giving them stepping space to watch you to...
These need to be cut off as soon as possible.
They watch how many times you patrol, they say,
"Okay, these guys gone on patrol now"
"so we got another 40 minutes or another 20 minutes"
"before he does his next patrol."
Run in, go through an open window,
steal a laptop, out in 10 minutes,
hide the laptop in the tunnel over there.
Carry on walking in the streets, the cops pick them up,
they don't have anything on them, they've done nothing wrong,
they come tomorrow morning, pick up the laptop
and take it to the pawn shop.
So, I'm meeting Klaus there now,
so we gonna have a walk through and see what we can find.
Hopefully we can find these guys that are breaking in to the place.
So, we went, Klaus and myself,
we went on site and we had a quick look at the complex,
see where they breaking in and stuff like that,
seen the fastest route.
So, we basically acted as a criminal or put ourselves in a criminal's shoes
and basically saw where they would run,
what they would do and stuff,
and we came up with quite a good getaway route
if you can say that.
See, here's a classic example,
you see, they got newspapers,
they got newspapers all along here,
so the guys have been sleeping in here.
Okay, so it's not the best thing to find but it's a DVD player,
so they obviously stole it 'cause there's no TV.
This is... Keep going and have a look here.
This is probably what they use to break the windows and all that...
Here we found something, we found something.
I don't think I'm Sherlock Holmes but it's good to find something,
'cause you don't always find something,
so when you do you actually feel proud of yourself,
I was smiling for quite a bit I was like, "Yeah, I found that..."
There we go, that's the money.
The price tag was still on the necklace.
So, I saw it wasn't a cheap necklace.
I saw it was 289 rand if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, it's just a couple of hundred bucks worth of stuff...
...that they probably shoplifted,
but more importantly, this is what they guys use to pull up the fences,
and break windows and stuff like that.
So now we know we got a couple of perpetrators sitting here at night.
So next time we know there's a robbery up the road,
this would be the first place we'll come and look.
So we gonna go across there again?
Yeah.
We got to the top
and we could actually see roots going down the bank,
so it looks like either people
are walking down there on a regular basis
or the cars are actually dropping people off there,
and they're going down through the tunnel.
We were here about a week ago and it wasn't too bad,
but now we can see that they've taken some main cables
and a whole lot of other smaller cables.
Their main jobs, or their main crimes are cable theft
and then they picking up a bit of extra cash
from robbing the houses in the complex.
What I basically thought in my head is someone's coming back for this,
they left it here they gonna be back later tonight,
so I had a security guard with me,
so what my whole strategy was,
I thought I should just leave the security guard there,
leave him with a walky talky straight through to the control room
and straight to my walky talky as well,
and leave him with a torch.
I told him not to be a hero or anything.
I told him if he just see things, don't make yourself visible,
just call us directly, we will come with force.
And we'll try to arrest these guys.
Okay, I've just received a call from Trevor,
the storm drains we raided a while ago,
he went back there and he found some stolen goods and that,
so I'm actually responding on my way back there now.
I've got a bit of back up with me.
Let's see, hopefully we can catch the suspect.
The reason why they leave the stuff this quick,
is a quick getaway route.
So, they steal from the complex or they steal from the shops
and they go hide it somewhere
and then they walk off and they come back to fetch it later.
The reason for this being is so they don't get caught
with anything on them, so the police have nothing to arrest them for.
This individual does not know that we've got the items,
so our idea is to trap him inside the tunnel.
So, team A will come from the right hand side.
And team B and team C,
we will move together through the bush this way,
just in case he tries to run towards us.
Got it.
Zulu, Zulu, come in for mad Mool.
Okay, I'm in position, I'm in position.
Okay, cut the light for us, cut the lights.
Hit the lights, hit the lights.
We caught the suspect tonight,
he's not leaving in cuffs and we didn't book anyone,
but it's a step in the right direction.
I can guarantee you that he's told every other person
that he's ever operated with, not to come here and... with us.
Gentleman, today's mission
is not to harass or give anyone a hard time,
today's mission is to purely gather Intel,
who's involved in the crime,
who's gonna be a problem in the future.
We went to one of our site and then JP gave us a brief
on what the operation was.
So, the operation was to warn the people that live by the rivers
that it's unsafe.
Also, another part of our mission today is we gonna warn these squatters
that when September time comes and the heavy rains start,
they gonna drown,
the floods are gonna come and people are gonna drown.
They don't know this,
they probably just came from across the boarder now
or they don't know what happens when the rainy season comes,
so we have to give them a warning so we don't have any casualty's.
'Cause at the end of the day, we want to look after people as well,
so we're just worried, when the summer comes,
the rains gonna come, it's gonna flood the river.
Okay, well where we're going, we had a brief by JP,
we going to an open area where there are basically squatters.
We know those guys whenever we gonna get there...
...they always gonna say no they can't move from that place.
Cause it is the issue that everyday...
...when you go there they wanna claim the place,
that it is their territory,
their place to stay, they don't have anywhere to go,
but for the safety measures,
so we have to help them
and then move them away from the danger of the river.
Clearing those guys from the river, we got two benefits from that.
First one is crime,
and then the second one,
it's best for them because it's dangerous to say along the river
because the rainy season is approaching,
so it's gonna be good for everyone.
As we cross the river,
and then we saw a lot of rubbish in the river
and then it was piling up,
so we had a sense that these guys,
there are some people staying up along the river
so that's where we went there and then to check what's happening there.
So, half of you guys wanna check this side,
I'll come through here.
I don't think they'll be here.
So, we'll check this side and cross over.
Okay.
You oaks wanna go that way?
It's fine. You take the three guys with you.
How was it? What you doing here?
What you doing?
What you doing here?
No problem.
I'm just asking you, what's going on.
This is scrap metal, where did you find it?
You just found it?
So, the first guy that we stopped,
he was carrying all scrap metal and all that stuff.
So he said, David approached him
and he said he was going through to the scrap yard
to go sell the metals.
Where do you stay?
By Sophia...
I know where Phomolong is.
He is coming from Tembisa, that side of Phomolong.
Where's the scrapyard?
Yeah, by this bridge.
I made contact with one of the guy when we get there.
Some of them, they will tell you the truth,
you can see they are trying to make an honest living there.
But you can see just looking on their eyes,
some of them, they are lying, they don't tell the truth about it.
There is something they are doing, which is not okay there.
All the way from Tembisa,
coming here to only collect scrap here to go and sell over there.
-To go and sell over there. -Yeah.
Okay, we'll pay the scrapyard a visit
to make sure that they are not taking any stolen items.
Things like that don't add up,
because the amount of metals he had on him,
or the amount of material
that he had on him was worth like 20 bucks.
So to come from Tembisa to Midrand,
it's like 11 rand a taxi,
and to go back, it's like 22 rand to go there and back to go home.
So it doesn't make any sense to come all the way
to collect 20 rand worth of scrap metal.
-No trouble, you understand? -Thank you.
Have a good day.
During the operation we were in,
the first part of the operation we saw about 15 shacks
and it's just not good to see that
it's like it's very sad to know that people live in those circumstances.
I had a chat with that guy
and he was explaining to me that he lost his job two weeks ago.
And then...
And so he's making... he's living here.
So...
About his safety as well,
he is concerned about the safety of this place
but I warned him
that he must not be involved in any crimes,
because people are making break ins here
and other people are getting killed in these bushes.
So, I told him he must be careful,
never ever to be involved in any kind of these kind of crimes,
But us going out there today,
not only did we do some Intel to see if the guys are robbing stuff,
we also did a little bit of a good deed
and telling them they have to move their shacks,
'cause at the end of the day, we don't want to go down there
and see dead people 'cause of the flooding,
we don't wanna someone get hurt
and families get destroyed
because they built their shacks too far down on the river bank.
On this specific occasion,
we were doing a routine inspection at one of our shopping centers,
whereby we actually move through the center,
check out our security officers.
When we were checking the center,
our security officer on duty approached us,
explained to us that there were some people
doing something in the bathroom,
he wasn't quite sure what.
When he went there, they chased him away,
that's when he pushed his panic button.
But lucky for him we were already on site.
For people that wanna come her and drink too much,
we stick to our rules, we close the gates.
Yeah.
One of our security officers on site has notified the control room
that there's two gentlemen in one of the bathrooms,
in one of our shopping centers.
And what these guys, they've seem to have lock the door
and they're not letting anyone use the toilet,
so we actually on our way there to go check what's going on.
It's like the middle of the month so they still got money,
so people behave real bad on a Thursday night.
Sorry guys, the bathroom is just occupied at the moment.
What has he got there.
Come, come, come with me.
As soon as we approached the bathroom,
this guy tried to tell us the bathroom is out of order
and when he saw, we weren't buying into it,
he quickly tried to warn his buddy inside there.
Get that camera off me.
Get that... camera out of here.
When we entered the bathroom,
the other suspect was flushing something in the bathroom.
Come here. Hands against the wall. Hands against the wall.
Get that... camera out of here.
You oaks are... blasting in my center.
What the... do you think this is?
Sorry, sorry.
This kid was in so much shock when he saw us,
I don't think he didn't plan the evening going like this.
There was a little bit of powder on the counter
and the guys you know,
they were acting all strange and they were panicking.
Come, come, go inside there.
... go inside.
Go inside there.
The suspect that flushed the substance down the toilet,
his pupils were dilated
and his behavior was quite erratic, you know,
he was all over the show.
One minute he was apologetic,
the next minute, he was trying to get aggressive.
You're not even... cops, you guys are... security.
This is a telltale sign of people that are on some sort of substance.
We already flushed the... down the toilet.
You guys are getting... clever now, you getting clever now.
I'm gonna give you some punishment.
The one guy was getting a little bit aggressive.
Why can't we just... leave?
Let us get the... out of here.
The other guy got a bit of attitude so we have to get a little bit creative.
Just hold on. No wait! You... can't just go.
It's already... gone, it's been flushed.
When these youngsters started getting aggressive
and they weren't listening,
I went outside and I got a fire hydrant, I came into the bathroom.
... these oaks.
Obviously there was no drugs left on them,
just the residue on the counter,
so we really had nothing to take them in on,
that's when Zaine got creative.
I decided to...
the guy was getting a bit clever
so I decided to give him some powder of his own.
What the...
There's some powder for you.
What the...
I think going into the station and getting repped over the knuckles,
wouldn't have been a big enough lesson for them.
So, I think a few kilos of fire extinguisher powder
up the nostrils was a much better option for these two guys,
Jesus, what the... Who the... are you oaks?
What the...?
So, by using the fire hydrant,
I kind of put a stop to what aggression
those youngsters had and it also taught them a lesson.
Nightguard is a good working relationship with the police,
we always there for each other.
We support them with backup when there's a short of vehicles.
We always putting our vehicles into respond for them
to give them a backup.
So we got a very good working relationship.
We did a joint operation with the SAPS.
The objective of the operation was to comb the bush.
We walk through a large area section of bush
where it's known that suspects spend the night there
waiting until the early hours of the morning.
While we are in our deep sleep, they break into the houses.
Basically what you having is illegal squatters
living in the areas,
obviously coming in and having criminal intent as well.
There are boundaries of complexes,
the fences are exposed.
So, when we walk through
we try to find if the guys have already tampered with the fence,
because like to usually tamper a few hours before
then they hit the complex.
They think the barbed wire is gonna help them,
but with the barb wire, what they really gonna do
they make a banker over the barb wire
and you step over the barb wire, so it makes a step on the wall.
There's no substitute for a high smooth wall.
So, we're walking through checking the complexes boundary walls
we're checking which vagrants, we found a few vagrants in the area.
Making a fire, acting like they're sleeping,
that they're homeless.
That's why we search them to try and find...
If we could find knives or tools to tamper with the electric fences.
Those are the guys that are breaking into the complexes.
Even though it was cold and I really didn't feel like being there,
I still take my job seriously,
we still went and looked at every little drain there was,
every little hiding spot just to see if we can catch someone,
'cause at the end of the day,
you want to catch, take a robber, take a criminal off the streets.
I think it was a little bit cold for the criminals to be out,
I think they were all hibernating.
... it's cold.
Suspects work exactly like us,
when it's cold we like to stay home,
when it's hot, we out an about.
So on a cold night like that, you don't find any crime.
Although there was no action,
I always have to keep these guys on their toes
so I created a little bit of action.
The only time I got a bit scared
is when JP jumped out of the bushes or behind the sign board with his ESP,
I was like, "Oh,... !" I get frights pretty easy.
Yeah, Trev got his own back
'cause he keep trying to trip Klaus,
trying to trip Klaus all the time.
So, Trev got his own back. It was... Jeez, it was great.
Thanks, guys. We appreciate it, guys.
-Thanks. -Thanks a lot, bro.
If we're not doing these special ops,
on the correct days, on the busy nights,
we're not gonna get our suspects.
Zaine runs the shopping center, so while he was away,
I ran the shopping center for him.
I got a call from one of his client's, a restaurant owner.
There was a guy and a lady fighting in the restaurant, they were arguing
then the restaurant owner had to kick them out.
When I got into the parking lot,
the guy was just pushing the girl and he was trying to hit her.
When I got on site, I saw the guy pushing the chick,
so I pulled up onto them,
I jumped out of the vehicle and I tried to defuse the situation
because I didn't want it to get more violent.
And the guy actually turned his angle onto me and started pushing me.
When the guy pushed me,
I fell back onto my bonnet and he followed with a right punch
and it connected with me.
It was the first punch that actually connected me in the eye.
He was giving me body shots
and I managed to actually tackle him and dump him into the bonnet
and then take him down on the floor.
I had him.
When I got the guy down on the ground,
I get a hit from his friend from behind.
I didn't expect him coming, I mean, I was by myself at that time.
The guy hit me, trying to get me in a headlock,
and then other guy got up, got me again,
and then one of them actually, one of my security guard
thank the Lord, was in the parking lot, he rushed over to see what was going on.
When the security guard arrived for back up,
the other guy's friend, he hit the road.
Yeah, the guard didn't manage to catch the guy,
I mean he ran through, he jumped over the gate,
he jumped over the fence,
ran around the back and he jumped into his car.
I mean, the guy thought he had backup with his mate coming there,
but when he saw a guard coming up for backup for me,
he hit the road, I mean, what kind of mate is that?
I mean it really... pissed me off,
I mean I responded there to help this lady
and while the fight was going on she actually came back into the picture,
started swearing at me and actually wanted to attack me.
You know, the one guy escaped when the guard chased him,
the other guy, I mean he's had his hands up,
he was surrendering so I just kicked him in the...
and sent him on,
I don't ever want to see them in the center ever.
I managed to get back into my vehicle, now I have to drive home back to Melissa,
I have to show her exactly what happened with my eye.