-Hey bru. -What you doing?
What the fuck bru?
We don't know if this guy was a little bit,
you know, had mental issues or a little bit mentally handicapped.
Sitting here doing drugs in a neighbourhood....
...where people just murder you or rape you...
...or something and you're not even worried.
Ya, look you know,
they're upset that somebody has told them off, it happens.
Fuck man!
I went through the door first...
...and the suspect was sitting on the couch when he saw me,
he broke out the front of the shack the chase then ensued.
Ah gees, how is it guys?
Last night was rough.
Okay just wait for me,
I just need to get rid of this chick quickly.
Okay cheers.
Drive safe.
I'm late I need to go on the run.
We're on the way to pick up our informer.
He's going to jump in,
he's going to show us where our suspect is.
I'm sitting in the backseat so I can keep him covered,
we've built up quite a good rapport...
...and quite a good relationship with him,
I don't trust any of these fuckers,
so he's going to sit in the front so I've got him covered.
A few weeks ago we met an informer.
How you?
Let's call the informer Joe,
the relationship has actually turned into something that's mutually beneficial...
...whereby the information he's giving us is valuable information.
Here's our guy here, here's our guy.
What's happening brother?
Hello brother.
We're looking for a cat burglar,
his speciality is slithering through electric fences...
...and climbing to the second, third story of apartment blocks,
where he gets inside and gets away with various items...
...mainly laptops, cellphones, wallets.
The problem is this guy can do between 5 and 10 apartments in a single night.
Listen man,
Those house break-in guys?
When we got information from the informer...
...that this guy is a very good climber,
and he knows how to work an electric fence,
we knew it was our guy.
Sure. Sure.
Give me a shout if everything is okay?
You need anything just let me know 10-4.
It's quite risky going into the squatter camps,
because you don't actually know.
You don't know if the lead is real,
you don't exactly know what,
and the worst thing is when you're walking through...
...you've got a lot of people that follow you,
so you've got to always keep your hand on your gun,
you've got to always be alert because you don't know
if someone will come out the shack, stab you with a knife,
throw a rock at you because at the end of the day,
they all live together and actually stick together these guys,
so it's very risky for us going in here.
Having an informant in your car is dangerous,
because you can get bullets through your car,
you don't know if the informant,
if somebody's tipped off the people...
...that there's an informant in the vehicle,
and you just don't want bullets flying at your car.
In circumstances such as this,
you need eyes and ears on the ground,
you need people in the informal settlements,
squatter camps to give you the information on these shack numbers,
direct you to the shacks because when you get into these townships,
you're never going to find your way to anywhere,
they can direct you where to go,
but you'll never find yourself it's a maze.
Are we expecting any guns?
So what's our real danger here, is somebody going to get stabbed?
Thembisa is a notorious township.
There are hardened criminals that live in and around Thembisa,
even the residents of Thembisa themselves live in fear.
The camera crew, what we want is,
you guys stay close to us, don't drift from us,
and there'll be somebody covering you from behind...
...so just watch yourselves.
Let's put the squad on,
so once we get the suspect, we can get out of here.
When you roll into Thembisa...
...and you look at it from the top,
it just looks like a honeycomb of informal dwellings and shacks...
...and it just kind of gives you that dangerous ominous vibe.
You know that things go down there and something could happen to you there.
When running through the maze,
you don't know who's waiting around the next shack...
...with a knife or rock in their hand or perhaps a gun.
So you know, you really are risking it all...
...by running in there to bring somebody out of there.
Let's move!
I was in close contact with Zaine on the radio,
he told me when we were pulling in there,
that we must just get out of our vehicles and just push straight in...
...before the news spreads through that we actually coming after this shack.
When running into a township like Thembisa,
you got to always be on top of your game.
You've got to always check your surroundings.
You've got to have each other's backs,
because that community pulls so fast together.
These criminals not only affect the surrounding complexes,
but they affect the locals in the township as well.
So what I think happened here is the guys got word...
...as we were moving through the township.
You know, bush telegraph travels quite quickly.
So when we started moving and the shack was pointed to us,
the mob started gathering.
So this guy, this suspect that we were after...
...not only were we going to arrest him,
but his life was in danger so we might have to protect him.
We arrived at the location,
the shack that the said suspect was living in.
Joe pointed out the shack and he manned the back...
...so no one would break through the back of the shack.
Move, move, move!
Me and JP went in through the front.
I went through the door first, the suspect was sitting on the couch...
...when he saw me he broke out the front of the shack,
a chase then ensued.
Go, go!
We were hot on his tail, I mean JP was on him,
Zaine was on him and it actually had a train effect.
The more team members we have...
...it's a lot easier for us to apprehend the suspect...
...if only it's easier for the camera crew to keep up with us, because we seeing...
...because these guys a bit behind lagging a bit.
We can see what corners to turn.
We can see the dust,
so they guys know exactly where to go.
We out ran the camera guy he ended up getting lost.
He took a wrong left or whatever it was right...
...and we lost him also.
As we were running,
I could kind of see more or less...
...that he was heading towards the main road.
So I made a decision to branch off just quickly on my own,
although it can be dangerous I could run into trouble of my own.
You know we've gotta catch the guy as quickly as possible...
...and it just wasn't happening.
Up, up.
Ya, our adrenaline was pumping, we grabbed this guy,
we finally got this guy, we pushed him into the vehicle,
we closed the doors and we just wanting to get out of there...
...before the crowd surround us...
...then JP came flying up to me and Zaine.
Having a camera crew following you around all the time...
...is eventually they become invisible.
You don't want to... with me.
Don't... with me you stupid.
What the... is wrong with you soldier?
Come on.
Go go.
Go go, stupid fucking cameraman, what the...?
What's up with your boy?
I think Joe showed his true colours today.
You know it's not his duty to have our back...
...or any of the camera crew's back,
but I'm really starting to warm up to this guy.
If it wasn't for him...
...pulling the camera guy out of the township there,
who knows what would have happened.
No, I'm only buying two suckers.
Once we had loaded the suspect and JP had found the camera man,
you know, there were a lot of kids around there,
the community members watching, seeing what's going on.
So you know I went to one of the local vendors,
asked him to give me 100 packet chips and some suckers.
We left as hero's there,
they kind of got the feeling...
...that we're the good guys and they could trust us,
perhaps the next time we go in there,
we won't be seen as outsiders or strangers,
we'd be seen as hero's in the community that help coming to clean up the place.
Thembisa is a very dangerous place,
and you know by seeing the smiles on the kids faces...
...and the joy that a little gift can bring them,
you know it gives us a little bit of hope...
...that maybe the youth of tomorrow has got a future.
Okay, so we've gotten reports of youngsters skateboarders...
...being unruly in the park...
...possibly smoking some marijuana.
The youth in South Africa are just like anywhere else in the world,
they like to have a good time, they hang out with their mates,
you know, cause a little bit of trouble.
These kids you know are doing a little bit of skateboarding,
they get together with their friends,
you know, want to show off so they get a little bit loud,
they get rude, that kind of thing.
So we're just going to sort them out.
Yeah we received a complaint from one of the lady's...
...that was walking in the park,
that the kids were swearing at her,
and that they were playing loud music.
So this is the park we got the report from,
We're just going to stop here and go check it out.
Once we got there we could actually hear the music pumping,
and we took a walk in.
Guys, guys stop skating, stop.
What?
Come come.
Hey, what's going on man?
Nah man, please bro.
Hey dawg we're just trying to skate dude.
So its a bit of a catch 22 situation,
You know you want the kids to be able to have a place...
...where they can come and relax and do a bit of skateboarding...
...and that kind of a thing instead of being on the streets.
As we started talking they started running their mouths,
You know, obviously, trying to be big around their mates...
...and all that kind of stuff.
I don't want this here.
I mean you guys are just skating here its fine.
Who are you?
You can't do this.
-You're just a random guy. -Hey don't touch here.
Hey man, fuck you!
I'm just looking man.
Yeah, well at one stage one of the guys got up into my face,
You know...
...mouthing off at me...
...I had my hand on my mace,
so I wasn't too hugely concerned about that guy.
Okay turn the music off.
I don't know why you need to play the music so loud.
This is my jam.
This is my jam...
What are you going to do?
This is my track.
There's no one here even.
-Nah, look it's chilled... -It's like me telling you...
...to turn down your music in your car.
We're not in your car buddy.
But definitely I was worried about the guys with the skateboards,
you know, being hit over the head with a skateboard is not a fun experience.
Are you a tough guy with your little thing?
Relax, relax.
You don't need to use force.
-You're coming here relax. -You're coming at me bro,
I wouldn't use force bro.
You got this guy? You got this guy?
At one point the main antagonist turned around and looked at his friend...
...and said you got this.
You know as if to say it's time to make your move.
Don't touch our stuff!
You don't know, you just a random cop in our space.
-Listen, bro. -Am I in your space?
-Yeah, you're in my space. -Do you feel nervous?
What!
It's amazing when there's a camera around...
...these kids turn into monkeys.
So what?
Are you telling us to go or what?
-What are you trying to do? -No you guys can skate.
-Okay. -Right.
We just want more respect for everyone else here as well.
-All right. -All right there's family's here.
I know this is your place and whatever,
but it's also everyone else allowed to be as well.
-We're just skating man. -We're just skating dude.
We're having fun you know.
So the guys did a complete 180,
from the time I got there and being defensive about the situation...
...to being co-operative.
Skating is keeping you guys off the roads and all that kind of you know,
off the streets and out of the drugs and all that stuff.
Yeah for sure.
You know, we don't mind that.
We want...
We just want this place to be for everyone.
-All right. -All right, cool.
And by the time we left,
you know we were doing handshakes and getting along nicely.
Keep it cool man.
Thanks for your help, hey.
Cool, cool.
Yeah, yeah just like that.
So you know these kids need to learn their lesson,
you know, often this is where the problem starts...
...and we just got to keep them in check...
...and hopefully one day become productive citizens.
Well at the end of the day you know,
it's kids being kids and its best to just make amends,
you know, the more we push the more they going to push...
...and it's just going to escalate.
Look you know they're upset that somebody's told them off,
and you know shit happens fuck man!
What the fuck.
My attention was on the camera guys,
explaining the situation...
...when these fucking guys threw the milkshake on my car.
And as much as it pissed me off they left immediately after that,
because they knew I was pissed by that time.
When all is said and done,
it was just a milkshake...
...and kids will be kids,
and the harder we push the harder they push,
so its best to just make an amends and leave it at that.
Okay, one...
We played a firecracker prank on all the guys in the office.
Aside from it being a really good joke,
it gives me an idea of how these guys are going to act in a situation.
Just turn around quickly.
Trevor so far, he's going to be at the back of the pack,
he flutters like a fairy.
I'm looking for Klaus.
We've got something for him.
Tom thumbs.
Hello, Klaus speaking,
Hello?
You're speaking to Klaus?
How can I help you?
Sorry...
they're playing around.
Klaus, I don't know what happens to him,
but it's all as if everything switches off.
So, I don't know how useful that's going to be in the team.
Moolie, is that you?
It's hard to predict the emotion that, that guy was trying to express.
But you didn't skrik, did he skrik?
No.
He was just out of breathe on the phone to me.
David...
-Dispatch? -Yeah.
You must be on the phone.
Yeah, you must be on the phone.
Okay.
Come and sit.
David, doesn't crack under the pressure,
he handled the firecracker prank.
Well it's nice after a stressful day at work...
...to get these guys to be able to laugh at themselves...
...and laugh at each other.
The firecrackers is also a good way for me to test...
...who in the team is ready to go into the field,
so far it only looks like I can rely on David so far.
Trevor seems to flutter around like a princess...
...and Klaus seems to go blank.
So we're going to have to work on a lot more pranks...
...and a lot more stressful situations to see how these guys act under fire.
Most of the complexes are backed up with the latest technology...
...such as electric fences and motion detectors and cameras...
which are monitored off-site.
On this particular evening,
we picked up something very interesting.
There were a couple of guys adamant to get into a complex...
...and they seemed to be intoxicated.
These guys were obviously very drunk.
They obviously came from a party or something...
...and they just wanted to get inside the complex,
but they obviously had no right or permission to be there,
so the guards couldn't let them in.
These guys obviously with the amount of alcohol in their blood,
they started becoming aggressive.
The guards acted perfectly in the scope of their duty,
didn't let them in...
...and that's when these guys started to turn violent.
The guards pushed their panic button...
...and tried to subdue these guys...
...or tried to deter these guys with a bit of pepper spray.
They then retreat back to their guard hut...
...where they can get proper communication and back up,
which was already on the way because of the panic button being pressed.
The pepper spray didn't hold them back for too long.
Basically, when their eyes cleared up a little bit,
they became a little bit more aggressive.
Back-up was dispatched and we were the first car on the scene.
Myself and Zaine arrived...
...and one of the guys had a baseball bat at.
Zaine was first out of the car.
The guy with the baseball bat,
he was the first one we had to restrain.
The baseball bat is the instrument that was going to do the damage,
First of all we tried to defuse the situation,
tried to calm him down.
But we could see there was no talking to this guy,
he was seriously in a fit of rage...
...so we kind of lured him in...
...and Zaine took him down and I followed through.
Luckily, the other guy wasn't as bold and he tried to make a run for it.
The two guards immediately assisted when they saw they had the back up.
I followed the second guy into the complex.
We chased him around the complex for quite a few minutes...
...and eventually he ran out of steam and gave himself up.
So we arrested him and dragged him back out of the complex.
We still have no idea what these two guys problem was...
...or what they were trying to achieve...
...but they going to think twice before picking on security guards again.
We got a call about a guys that's apparently running around naked...
...with his... hanging out...
...and we going to go check it out.
I'm expecting Klaus to go on his hands and knees...
...and start giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
On arrival, we didn't see nothing,
everything looked in the norm.
I don't see any...naked people here.
I'll just do a turning here and go across.
No there bro, look bro there.
Once we drove past the suspect,
we were just looking we couldn't see anyone,
and then he flashed his dick at me.
He's showing me his...
Did you see it?
Did you the...
-Are you serious? -Ya, he just showed me his...
He's not naked but he showed me his...
I think he got his... out the pants.
Then I knew what everyone was talking about,
why people were phoning me because it was pretty disgusting.
Bra, I...thought that was a prank.
He's getting a kick out of showing the traffic his...
He's... crazy Bra.
It's this guy here, check!
This guy here with the coat just watch his pants.
What you doing?
What the...bru?
What the...
Listen, listen.
Put that thing away!
Put that away! Put that away!
Put it away!
We don't know if this guy was a little bit,
you know, had mental issues or a little bit mentally handicapped.
Definitely, he smelled like booze when we got there.
He could of been both...
...which could of edged on what he was trying to do.
Listen here, listen go show somebody else bru...
Come! Go, hamba!
Go away man!
Get away from us here, go,
go stand somewhere else.
I was pretty disgusted because once I had approached the individual.
He basically tried to hit me with his...
...and it wasn't really great because I found it a bit awkward.
I even backed off a bit because I didn't feel,
people were driving past...
...and I didn't want to be associated with that,
that's how embarrassed I was.
Put that away!
Come let's go.
Trevor, tell this...to...
Trevor was a little bit embarrassed about the...
well, seemed to be a little bit embarrassed about the situation.
You know, and he laughed about it a little bit,
but it really pissed me off.
and it took a lot of self control...
...not to take this guy out or tazor him or whatever.
It's disgusting what you doing... go home!
Go home!
No one wants to see that!
Go home and sleep.
At the end of the day we got rid him,
Klaus told him to go away,
I told him to go away and eventually he got the point...
...and put his thing back in his pants,
and he crossed the road and hopefully he went home.
We watched him for a little while,
but obviously he could have always gone to another road...
...and started doing this... again.
-That's fucking disgusting bro. -Oaks are drunk and they do stupid things,
and they just don't understand.
Well you never know, you know,
if we had arrested him and out him into a cell,
you don't know what kind of criminals are there at that time.
You know he could of been raped.
It's rather a small crime when you get into a cell with guys...
...that are up for murder and rape.
And I don't think he would have made the night.
Man, that was probably one of the most disgusting...
I thought it was going to touch my leg.
These guys are obviously going to get drunk anytime,
doesn't matter day, night,
doesn't matter what day of the week.
I think maybe he had a little bit too much to drink...
...and he thought he was funny.
It's the world cup bro.
People are getting drunk,
people are getting wasted tonight.
If we find him again, we'll take further action.
I'm sure Trev would love to see him again.
JP told me I have to meet him tonight,
somewhere for dinner.
He needs to discuss something with me,
so, I'm just waiting around gees,
I don't know what's happening because the whole, this whole week,
every time I walk into a room with them and stuff,
they all keep quiet and stuff and I don't feel like comfortable there...
...and I don't feel like I'm wanted.
I'm not in a good place right now...
I don't know what to say,
like the whole week has been kind of...
like everyone is like talking but not talking to me so,
I walk into different rooms and everyone just keeps quiet...
...and they move to a different room and move to a different office and stuff,
so I feel really bad I don't know what's happening.
...here he is guys, okay keep quiet please.
Howzit JP.
-Trev? -Yeah?
Okay.
Okay sweet I'm about 5 minutes out.
Fuck he just hung up on me.
Its really weird. Normally,
he just speaks to me in the board room or something like that,
so, I don't know what to expect like,
he wants to meet me at a restaurant...
...and he doesn't sound too happy.
He's like...
I'm actually quite don't know what to,
don't know what to say.
JP was saying Night Guard's not the place for me and stuff like,
I don't take work seriously and I joke around too much,
I came to work late the one time,
so, its just the person I am so when he told me all the stuff...
...and he's like no they don't like it and stuff like that it made me sad,
it made me think okay...
...maybe I read the situation wrong or maybe I'm doing something wrong.
...JP just told me I'm fired so...
Lots of things are going through my head, I don't know where to begin.
That's all I can say.
Bro you put me through suspense, I wanted to cry,
I was crying inside,
but thank goodness nothing was wrong.
Yeah baby!
Salesman of the quarter.
For the last four months I've been salesman of the thing.
I've beaten everyone else so they through a little party for me.
It's quite cool.
It's the way they motivate their people and stuff like that.
I didn't know about this,
so maybe I should just start working harder...
...and I can get free food more often.
I got a call from our reaction vehicle.
He told us that he passed a vehicle on his way...
...to respond to a site.
There was a female by herself in this vehicle.
We on our way out to check that she's okay and everything.
We took it upon ourselves to go check it out...
...and see what she was doing there,
obviously it was a very dangerous area.
Normally it wouldn't bother me so much to see a girl alone in a car,
but in that neighbourhood,
that's not what you want to be doing.
There is it.
Pull over on the side of the road and check it out.
So when we get out car stay quite close.
On approach, JP parked right behind her,
I parked a little bit up the road.
When I walked towards the car,
I could see something was up.
She wasn't standing out her car,
she was sitting slouched back in her driver's seat,
so it didn't look good.
Excuse me.
What are you doing here?
What's this over here?
When I opened the box,
I found some sort of powder substance.
I'm 100 percent sure what it was.
And the car...
The car had a smell... It was terrible, so, you know.
She was obviously, whatever she was doing,
she was smoking something in her car.
We're the security company that looks after this area...
...and we had a report of somebody in that car sleep by themselves.
We're just going to check it out.
It looks like you're doing something that you shouldn't be doing.
Or should we take it? Here, look what it is.
We'll just take it to the police station
and then maybe they can tell us what it is.
You have some sort of identification?
-Oh no. -Is this with it?
What's this lock?
What is it?
I don't know what that is.
Okay, we'll let's go.
What we'll do is we're gonna drive your car from here,
you don't look like you can drive.
We'll drive it just down the road to the police station.
We can ask them, like, maybe they can tell us what that is.
This young lady had dilated pupils.
She didn't know where she was.
She didn't know what she is doing.
She was clearly high as a kite...
...and lucky for her that we found her and not some rapist or murderers.
It's pulling off one of our vehicles and we'll get there...
I have to coordinate if she knows.
Ma'am, what are you doing?
You can't ride the car over.
How're you gonna escape?
We had to help you but you're making life... hard for us.
Please turn off that car, get out your car,
let us take you in.
I tell you what.
I tell you what, you got two options.
We find your parents,
I'll drive you deliberately to your house.
we'll give you to your parents,
and we can start dealing with your problem...
...or we can take you to the... cop shop or you can spend the night there.
How's that for two options.
Get your cellphone, let's find your parents.
Who's the friend? Is it a family member?
Let's find the friend. Let's see what the friend is first.
If I have to talk to them, if I'm satisfied,
then we won't take you to the police station.
We'll then start dealing with your...problem.
Because over there, as you can see,
do you think this is a safe environment?
Do you want your body to be found in... fault over there?
No, exactly.
So let's get your friend on the line.
Let's start getting you some help.
There was a lot of movement...
...while we were dealing with this girl in her vehicle.
We saw a number of suspicious characters...
...who passed by the vehicle several times.
So who knows what could have happened to this poor girl...
...and we not arrived on time.
Do you know Ashley?
She drives a silver Peugeot.
Yeah, well, she's sitting here in one of our neighborhoods...
...and she is smoking some kind of drug, I don't know what it is,
in a dangerous area in a Bushveld here.
So I need... Who are you?
You're a friend.
Okay. Well, we need one or two of your friends...
...and we need to establish that she's gonna get home safely first...
...and then second we're going to put her on some kind of program.
Otherwise, I'm gonna just take her, impound her car, take her to the cop shop,
and she's gonna be arrested and she could spend the night,
then you can start finding a lawyer.
Your friends are coming here cause they care about you.
There's lot of people that care about you.
So you need to really pull it together...
...and I mean there are these outreach programs that we involved...
...and we can get you in touch with the right people.
So, you know, there is definitely a lot of options.
Once I started speaking
to some of the things I was saying really hit home...
...and she started crying.
I could really tell that she kind of felt...
...that she needed help,
she needed someone...
...and maybe some of the words that I said to her made her realize...
...that she can find someone to help her.
A prison is not a place for a young person...
...especially someone who's possibly a bit mentally unstable.
We really got through to this girl...
...and she agreed for us to take her to a place...
...where there are more options for her.
She is currently at a rehabilitation center...
...at this point in time and she is doing well.