Cars are coming off the truck,
its happening around a lot of the dealerships around South Africa,
these guys are hi-jacking the cars straight off the truck.
When we approached them you could see they were in a panic,
the fire got out of control...
...and they needed some more manpower to get this fire out.
Hey, Zaine, the fire's right here.
There were homeless guys underneath the bridge,
they said to us that the guys who are actually stealing the bikes,
robbing the people are also part of a drug trade.
Today, we went out to go see a client.
He told us to meet us out by his house in Hartebeespoort dam.
Hartebeespoort dam is about 20 minutes from our office,
so Zaine and I left and on the way to Haarties we saw a field fire,
so normally people do fire breaks this time of year...
...because the grass is all dry from the winter.
We just thought it's just a normal fire break,
so as we drove closer and closer to the fire,
we could see that this fire was actually out of control.
We decided let's just go onto the property to see if they needed our help.
Doesn't look like it's too big, Zaine.
-This thing has died down already. -Go check it out.
Zaine!
Bring the fire extinguisher.
Zaine! Come!
Let me get in there.
What's happening?
It's too big.
We approached them,
you could see they were in a panic the fire got out of control...
...and they needed some more man power to get this fire out.
Hey, Zaine, the fire's right here.
Step back, step back.
Step back.
Zaine just sprayed as much as he could...
...and he ran across the fire...
...to save the one guy who was trapped in the middle of the fire.
Are you okay? Are you okay?
You're lucky, you're lucky.
Thank you very much.
Are you okay, Zaine?
You okay, bro?
How did the fire start?
No we were just having a braai...
...and then it enlarged and we didn't know where it was coming from?
So the first guy I met told us there were people inside the fire...
...and told us how the fire got out of hand.
He went back inside to try and put the fire out,
so we just had to find them quickly.
Zaine!
Zaine's got a lot of experience in putting out fires...
...and doing fire breaks where the fires meet and everything,
but I think this fire was also, it was big for him as well.
He was a bit scared he didn't want me to get in a situation...
...because he knows what fires can do.
Okay, guys, I think Trevor went, he went on that beep side,
the fires burning there.
Trevor!
Where the... is this guy, Trev?
Trevor I found him he's out here, he's out here.
The way this fire was going it was completely out of control.
There's no way that you could put it out with a fire extinguisher...
or sticks with leaves on or anything like that or water.
It just had to burn itself out.
So we got that guy we got him out of there,
we got everyone to a safe zone...
...and at least we knew everyone was out of harm's way.
We're burning a fire break towards the fire now,
just to make sure this things burns out,
they can get ugly,
these fires can start running for Ks...
...and they just consume everything in its path.
So beep it's so important that we get this thing out...
...because when I got on scene.
These guys were fighting the fire.
And what they don't realise is once the fire...
The fire actually surrounds them...
...and they don't realise but they just start fighting from every angle...
...and a lot of the time they get out of breath...
...and they collapse and they pass out and the fire burns them to death.
Now all we got to do is sit and wait and let this thing burn itself out.
What race are you racing today, babe?
It's our baby sale race today, so I've got two baby sale birds.
Where they coming from?
-They coming from Smithsfield... -Yeah?
...and if I win, I win 26 grand.
-So it pays for my pigeon racing. -Hallelujah.
Do you want some?
Please, you're going fishing I can go shopping.
See, pigeons will pay for something,
so start doing the pigeon dance to get them home.
How does the pigeon dance go?
I don't know, just start dancing.
Yeah, me and Zaine are a team, we're together,
the pigeons are at Zaines house I don't live there,
so, yeah, its quite difficult for me...
...to get there all the time and train the pigeons...
...but when I get involved and train the pigeons and Zaines away,
I hit the wins.
I'm Dom, I'm Zaine's cousin,
and I help out with the pigeons sometimes.
We're sitting here waiting for the pigeons to come home,
so hopefully we'll win, let's get back to it.
Check, it's the baby sale.
It's 00301.
We've got about 180 pigeons when we start off the season,
we train them I mean its intense training,
it's a lot of hard work,
I mean you've got to give 24 hours,
its a full time job trying to get involved in the pigeons.
Babe, so do you only sit and support pigeons with me...
...when you are going to get something out of it?
-Is that how we roll? -Yeah, that's how we roll.
-Is that how this family works? -Yeah.
I sat with you last week.
You actually did.
I did, there's another pigeon, babe.
That's my black one.
It's my black pigeon, look it's pitch black.
-There are only two of them, hey? -Three.
We've only actually won one race this year...
...but we've won a money race the last two years,
we've ended up fourth in the race and the race pays out until third.
I just phoned one of the other guys in the race,
his babies were late on the baby sale race,
so it's looking good for first and second,
we in the money,
so let's phone and find out from the last guy.
We're on our way to my pigeon club.
I've got to take my clock, Dom you've got the clock?
We've got to take the clock,
the clock gets registered into the system,
it downloads all the times that my pigeons came home...
...then what they do is,
in my club you can only score with the first 30 pigeons...
...that come home out of all the guys that raced,
so they'll download all my times and they'll see where we finished,
but I know I won the baby sale race, so we won 20 grand, good day.
Yeah, I was bummed when Zaine won the money...
...because I mean we've been putting time and effort into it...
...to get the win for this specific race...
...and I mean I wasn't there, I was overseas...
...and Zaine hits a hell of a win...
...and he went and he celebrated without me.
Hey, here's the guy that took all the money.
Well done, Zaine, it's about time.
There's quite an awesome vibe there,
we bring the age down by like 50 years, so its quite an old club.
The Robin by Ackton Plankert,
as I woke this morn when all sweet things surround,
a robin poached upon my sill to hail the happy door.
But there's new young blood coming up,
its always a jol, it's a terrible venue...
...but when we get in there it's always brandys flying around,
guys are excited for the race to come it's actually an awesome vibe.
Where's the money?
We won 21 grand and I'm still sad.
Why?
Where's your money?
-Where's the money? -You want your money?
No, you want your money now, hey?
I want to go shopping.
We've got a call from one of the garages there,
they are one of our clients so we are going there,
there is some disorder there,
the taxi drivers are causing a lot of traffic around there by the garage...
so we are going here, this is the place.
Dave and Moolie went to go sort out a situation...
...when we got a call from the shopping center...
that the taxis were blocking the entrance to the petrol station,
they went through there...
...and obviously Dave's one of the best guys to take with...
...and all that you know he speaks their language...
...and he's got a very calming demeanour about him.
Because where we are going right now we expect,
As everyone knows Jo'burg taxis are the craziest drivers on the road...
...and for some reason these days it's getting out of hand you know,
they've actually upped the level of bad driving...
...and unfortunately it doesn't matter where you go in Jo'burg,
you have the same situation everywhere.
Okay, let's park further down.
Basically outside one of our shopping centers,
there's a informal taxi rank...
...and we deal with this situation basically on a weekly basis...
...where the taxis are taking up the parking space...
...inside the shopping center...
...and they're blocking the road, they're blocking the entrances,
there's always always something going on with them there.
When they got there, you know,
there's always a worry that the guys are going to get aggressive,
the taxi drivers you know a lot of them carry guns...
...and that kind of a thing,
so it's always kind of a dangerous situation to go into...
...but luckily this time everything was pretty calm...
...and they spoke nicely to the taxi drivers.
You know, they managed to sort out what was going on there.
These two they can stay here this is fine.
If you could just keep it on the outside.
You can stay here, you can stay there. That's fine. Just the entrance.
Okay.
Luckily this time everything was pretty calm...
...and you know they spoke nicely to the taxi drivers...
...and they were more than willing to sort this situation out and move the taxis.
I received a call from JP...
...that one of our dealerships has got a truck delivering vehicles,
crime has been rough in the area,
we've had a dealership that's been hit already as they deliver the vehicles,
the guys steal the vehicles straight off the truck,
so what we're doing is we're setting up a little operations,
we got information that these guys are coming...
...and we've got a vehicles that normally follows the truck,
meets the truck on the road,
follows the truck to the dealership and offloads the vehicles.
Yeah, unfortunately when a vehicle gets stolen...
...and it's been booked into the dealership,
it's not yet insured and its problematic...
...because the dealer is liable for all that money.
This is the dealership in question that we are protecting.
Its quite a big dealership.
I'm making contact with Romeo one.
In this particular instance,
we're quite lucky that there's a high vantage point...
...right at the entrance of the dealership,
so effectively one of my response officers can stand there...
...where he is at a height advantage...
...and any high-jacker would be at a total disadvantage...
...from a fire power point of view.
Any suspicious behaviour here?
Did you see anybody?
Yeah, but now they have left,
there was just a car with four guys but they drove off.
Okay.
Which direction did they go?
They go that side, that side of the shopping center.
I took the high vantage point at the top of the center...
...where I could see what was happening from a bird's eye view...
...and Zaine followed in from the rear entrance.
Cars are coming off the truck,
that's the manager of the dealership...
...who is just making sure the cars are coming off the truck,
we just backing him up, so no one gets gun pointed...
...and the cars don't get high-jacked,
it's happening at a lot of the dealerships around South Africa,
these guys are just high jacking the car straight off the truck.
Thankfully it hasn't turned ugly at any of the scenes yet,
they just get away with the vehicle...
...but, yeah, we just don't want to lose any of these cars at this dealership,
we haven't yet...
...but sooner or later these guys are going to start using more fire power...
...to get these vehicles.
I think we're good here,
but let's just let them finish and offload this top section quickly...
...and we go hit a gym work out.
Okay, is it, they don't have cars coming off the top, do they?
Are they not offloading the top ramp?
Oh, no beep that's the wrong brand, bro.
Should we go speak to our contact at the dealership,
just let him know they've offloaded and we're going to roll.
Okay, let's go.
-How are you, bud? -Yeah, what's happening, brother?
We've got some gloves for the kids, keep their hands warm.
Surprise to all the ladies.
We try to give to a number of townships,
so now we actually do a lot of charity work because these townships...
...know that we do a lot.
So as soon as these guy,
nowadays they see these night guard trucks,
they already know they're gonna get something,
so they start running,
they start lining up, they start pushing each other.
So we're here at one of the informal townships,
just giving back to the community for Nelson Mandela's birthday,
we doing 60 minutes of just giving back and helping out the community.
What we do is we save up some cash,
once we've got enough I go to my suppliers,
I try and needle them for price...
...and you know often they donate stuff as well.
So, once I've got a big collection of stuff,
we go out to the various communities...
...and we hand out, like in winter...
...we do a lot of drives where we handed out a lot of beanies,
neck-warmers, gloves for the kids and that kind of stuff.
Guys, listen,
if we don't have one line we're going home, so let's get one line.
Guys, please make a line there's enough for everyone.
Yeah so, it gets pretty hectic at the back of the bakkie...
...where people are pushing and trying to get there first,
so our method of crowd control is kicking a soccer balls,
everyone, all the people love a soccer ball,
so once we kicked the soccer ball,
everyone runs to go and try get that soccer ball,
so it creates a bit of a calm situation for us...
...and then when everyone comes back they get into line again,
so its a way of us controlling the situation.
There's nothing better than going out on a Saturday...
...and seeing the smiles on kids faces,
when you give them a little soccer ball or gloves or a beanie,
you know, something so small can make such a big difference.
So, what we're doing is we're just driving around doing some site inspections...
just seeing our guards and making sure that everyone is doing their proper job.
We do these inspections quite often...
its just to show the guards that are in the area...
...that they must just keep alert and everything like that.
There's always different crimes' happening,
so we always go through it...
...and tell our guards what's happening,
different crimes methods and everything like that.
Yeah, you see, people taking to the gate...
and put the gate inside, so I'm taking it and putting it there.
Okay, shup shup.
I tell one of the guards that they must spread out,
they were standing too close together,
so we needed to cover a larger part of the complex...
...and I went down to the bottom of the complex...
...and a guard ran up to me.
Yeah.
There is a lady who is having a remote jam there that side there by KFC.
Really? What did they take?
The handbag and some of the stuff, I don't know what the stuff is?
Did you see anyone?
No, we can go there and check.
-Okay, sweet. -Okay.
In the shopping centers at the moment,
there is a huge problem with guys using jamming devices...
...and they use multiple ways of doing it,
there's commercially available jamming devices,
they illegally import it into the country...
...but you can buy them...
...or they just use other remotes...
...to block the remote signal from your key to lock your car...
...and basically what they do is they push the button to jam your remote...
...when you walk away from your car...
...and you lock the car, it doesn't actually lock.
So the guards at the top informed me that a lady got broken into down here,
so I asked the guard and he pointed and said he started running to this gate,
so we're going to need to make our way there...
...and see if we can see this guy on foot he's obviously carrying a handbag.
The traffic was pretty bad...
...because it was about 5:00,
I told Klaus to phone Romeo at 3...
...because he's normally in the area,
so we can probably get him to get the suspect...
...or narrow it down to where the suspect is.
I've just got a report of a remote jamming that happened...
...at the shopping center here,
please get hold of the complex down at park,
we believe the suspect has ran down there,
Please ask Romeo 3 to come up and come through to beep park around the back.
Tell them too, that the guy's carrying a handbag...
...because the guard told us that he stole a handbag,
so the guy must be carrying a handbag.
We don't have a description of the guy but we think he's carrying a handbag.
Thanks.
Hello, my buddy, you haven't seen anyone walking down here with a handbag?
Nothing?
Thanks so much.
I don't know how far he could of gotten, man!
Someone must of picked him up.
So we're looking around and it doesn't look good for us,
I think the guys already gone or jumped into a taxi...
...or something like that.
I got the call that one of the Romeo's at coin...
...that was a real sense of relief they managed to find the ladies purse...
and all her belongings on him,
he obviously ditched the handbag and we didn't manage to find that.
So, we're going to go see if the lady is still waiting here...
...or if she's already gone to the police station...
...but we're going to tell the guard that we've caught him,
so if the lady does come back to the center...
...or come to ask any questions to see if we followed up or anything,
he can tell her to go to the police station...
...to collect her stuff from the police.
Yeah, on the way to the police station with the suspect...
...so job well done. Nice, guys!
So if the lady comes back here...
...just tell her she can go to the police station.
Okay, so its fine?
The handbag is gone but they've got her purse any everything.
Okay, so they didn't take some money there?
Yeah, they've got the money and stuff, so we caught them with the stuff,
so we've taken them to the police station,
so if the lady comes,
just tell her she can go to the police station to get her stuff.
Nice job, guys.
Okay, thank you, no problem I will let her know.
Keep us posted hey.
There's a sprate runs through Bryanston,
a sprate is a river or a tributary to a river.
A lot of people use it for recreational activities...
such as bike riding along the paths,
people walk their dogs,
other people go for jogs...
...and then there's a few criminals on the sprate with ulterior motives,
they are dealing drugs,
mugging people hijacking bicycles, so it's quite a dangerous mix.
We had a novel idea of patrolling on bicycles through the river,
we haven't seen it done before...
...and the amount of crime that happens on that river...
...would justify regular bicycle patrol,
so we decided to put our gear on,
strapped our guns on and off we went on the bicycles.
We got information under beep bridge,
the guys have got the bikes they actually storing them...
...and offering to sell them to the guys walking around,
I've also got information that the guys armed,
so what we're going to do is we're going to send the vehicle unit around...
...and we're going to come through the river...
...and see if the guy tries to attack us or approach us or what the situation is.
I hope we make an arrest today,
it will be a great success for the residents of Bryanston.
Well I couldn't cycle because I had torn my hamstrings chasing that suspect,
so I was the back up from the car,
we were patrolling and meeting Zaine and JP and Klaus at specific points,
so they would go through places that a car couldn't go through...
...and I would give back up from a different angle.
We have had a few reports coming from this area,
people are cycling down the sprate and they're getting hijacked,
jacked with guns, guys are waiting pointing guns at them.
So, we've got four guys just sitting on the bridge waiting,
I don't know what they waiting for,
they waiting to see how many people they can see coming from far.
We stopping, we chatting, we not arresting the guys,
we just chatting to the guys chatting to them,
we got quite a bit of information from where the crime is coming from.
Those four guys that were on the bridge there,
there were two, two guys came across and joined them...
...when they saw us here they were talking there.
They were talking they were specifically looking at what kind of bikes we got.
I think if we had to set them up just one guy come alone we'll get someone.
Because check further down, there's more guys down there.
Okay, let's move.
I don't mind riding bikes and stuff like that...
...but I haven't ridden for a very, very long time...
...and I think the last time I rode was probably in high school at some point.
After we had ridden couple of Ks,
I decided that this bike wasn't being my mate,
the one back Tyre, every time we inflated it,
it just kept going flat again,
so its an extreme mission to pedal on the bike...
...when your Tyre keeps going flat.
Zaine's bike tyres are always flat,
so it's like trying to ride through thick sand all the time.
It's tiring hey and I think I've realised I can run further...
...than I can cycle which is quite sad.
We're patrolling down the river,
we came across a number of guys standing around doing nothing,
so we asked a lot of questions and searched a few guys.
But they're here.
When are they here?
But they don't stay here?
And they've got guns?
So if I give you my phone number you can phone me when they here?
And if we catch them we'll give you 500 bucks.
The homeless guys underneath the bridge...
...they said to us that the guys...
...that are actually stealing the bikes robbing the people...
...are also part of a drug trade.
They selling marijuana to the kids,
the kids are coming into the sprate...
...and stopping and buying marijuana from them.
We're just about to pack it up...
...and then Zaine gets a bee under his bonnet...
...and says lets go have a look at those two guys down there.
Suddenly Zaine sees that one of the guys is trying to hide something...
...so he asks him why you grabbing that packet so tight?
Zaine grabs the guy and starts to search him,
looks inside the packet and true as nuts it's a giant packet of marijuana.
I just received a call from JP and Zaine,
they were along the river, along the sprate...
...checking for suspects and they caught a guy with a whole big bag of dagga...
...and he knows something about the robberies of the bicycles,
so we're just headed there now.
Three guys doing something dodgey here.
Well it's basically a guy that had himself a big packet of weed...
...and he said he found it for the first time...
which is probably the story that they all tell...
...and he was trying to sell it,
so he could make himself some extra cash.
We could of got an informant out of this guy,
we could of let him feed us information...
...because he was starting to feed us information...
but you never know if these guys are talking nonsense...
...just to try get out of it...
...but I mean the amount of marijuana that he had on him,
it shows that he was a distributor of it...
...and I mean we just wanted him off the street...
...because we don't know whats going to happen...
...with the next kid coming there to buy marijuana from him...
just now the kid gets murdered for money they take his car or something,
so we just wanted to get this villain off the streets.
At the police station obviously they weighed it all...
...and we had about 360 grams of weed in the bag...
...and, yeah, the guys are obviously now behind bars.
We've got a hell of a great family,
we've got a tight knitted family, my dad brought us up all together I mean,
we were only allowed to move out of home when we got married,
so we weren't allowed out on the street causing trouble.
My dad kept us in a nice tight bond,
I mean, we all work together we live close and around each other,
we always having family dinners at least twice a week,
lunches on the weekends, I mean I see my family 24-7.
Guys, your steaks are ready. Come and choose your steaks.
We had a family braai...
...and we decided to invite the team as well...
...because they have become a part of the family.
When the boys come over,
they fit right in and play with the kids and it's just one big happy family.
Moolie, what happened to your leg?
I was walking out the kitchen...
...I went to go pour myself something to drink, I don't know,
as I was walking out Sarah asked me what's wrong with my legs?
Its from when I was chasing that guy, tore my calf and hammy, check.
Welcome to my hammy.
-Good job. -Good job.
When you do something you do it properly.
At least I got the guy.
Is that the guy that I dragged Trev that day?
Basically what we were doing is, we were doing a raid at...
Grabbing all the illegal immigrants,
the guys that are here that don't have work permits,
they don't even have their passports or anything,
so what was happening some guy grabbed his bags and hit the road,
so Trevor he chased...
...and I was watching Trev and he couldn't catch the guy,
the guy actually out ran him,
so I decided to jump in my bakkie.
I jumped in my bakkie and I waited at the robots even,
I drove casually down and the guy saw me and he started running again,
so I basically got in front of him,
I blocked off all the traffic, I jumped out,
he tried to side step me...
...he slipped and I managed to tackle him and mount him into the ground.
While we've got the whole family underneath one roof...
...and we're enjoying our lunch and having a few beers.
I look over to them...
...and I think thank you God for such a wonderful family...
...and such a great team.
To my wonderful family and my fantastic Night Guard team,
I love you, guys. You're the best.
I'm glad we could be around this table today together...
and... Well, I hope to do this...
...during the week and a lot more often.
We're like a band of brothers...
...and we work hard and we play hard and I wouldn't have it any other way.
This river is a hazard,
people are trying to do the recreational activities, ride bikes...
...and they're getting hijacked and the bikes are getting stolen...
...so we're always going back there to gig for more information...
...and to try see if we could find out anything...
...or just try and make a difference there.
The guys under the bridge are pretty much the locals that sleep under the bridge...
...not so much hardened criminals,
just some guys without a place to stay.
Pretty sure they are involved in some sort of crime...
...but they are the guys we need to speak to...
...if we're going to get any idea of who the culprits are.
When they said they didn't know anything I knew they were bullshitting...
...because there's no way that you live under that bridge...
...with a birds eye view on either side...
...and you don't know what kind of stuff is going down there,
so these guys are definitely talking... so they were no good to us.
All right, thanks, gents.
Tell the criminals that know of this river...
...that we are coming for them. Do you understand?
They must all know we're coming for them.
Okay?
Think we've got to just be careful.
I don't think that maybe those guys...
...are telling the whole truth.
I think those guys are also involved in stuff...
...because that story doesn't add up...
...and the type of shoes he's wearing...
...are the favourite kinds of shoes the guys use for housebreaks ins...
...because quite silent and they stealthy,
so we just got to watch them,
it's possible they're thief's as well,
there's no reason for them to be under the bridge there,
so we'll just keep tabs on those two guys.
The guys that camp on the side of the river there,
they're pretty harmless.
They're actually just construction workers and workers from around the area...
...and they've got nowhere else to sleep,
so they come after work, light a fire cook some food...
...and just chill with their friends.
There's been a lot of crime there...
...but tonight we didn't see anything...
...but we're definitely going to come back and do an operation.