Police - Episode 2 Detective Constables
Police - Episode 2 Detective Constables
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00:44Morning.
00:45Morning.
00:46Not that one.
00:47Yeah, that.
00:48Who took the actual form the other day, though, regarding this driving licence?
00:53What?
00:54Come up here a minute, please.
00:55Can we take a statement from you tonight?
00:57That's amazing.
01:00Give us the statement for a moment.
01:04Do you know what we're talking about?
01:05Yeah.
01:06A chap coming with a driving licence.
01:07Yeah.
01:08The name of?
01:09Er, Washington.
01:11Yeah.
01:13Just clear the decks.
01:14Here you are.
01:15Put that over there.
01:16Right, this was on the 22nd, is that right?
01:24When should he have brought the car back?
01:26Well, it was supposed to be back on Monday, but it's the 25th.
01:29The 25th, so that's three days.
01:33How would you describe him?
01:35Well, he wasn't... I was a bit suspicious anyway about him because he didn't look that respectable in the sports.
01:42And, er, well, I'm not sure about the licence.
01:45I did check the signatures and I don't know whether he found it unsigned and then signed it or something.
01:50Yeah.
01:51But, er, he completed all of the forms.
01:54That's his handwriting?
01:56Yeah.
01:57The trouble is, these references, I think, in future should be phoned up when he's present.
02:02Yeah.
02:03So he gave that...
02:04Yeah.
02:05...that telephone number.
02:06When he was gone, you then made an inquiry there?
02:08They phoned up, they didn't know him, and that's when I started to get worried.
02:12And I got hold of this, er, Mr Washington's number.
02:15Yeah, the real Mr Washington.
02:17Yeah, that's it, and, er, he said, oh, yes, er, he'd had his licence stolen from his car about a year ago.
02:25How long ago?
02:26A year, he reckons.
02:27As long ago as that?
02:28Yeah.
02:29Oh, gosh.
02:30Hmm.
02:31Anyway, he came down and he said, well, I think I know who it is because he lives local.
02:36Well, I've seen him around anyway, this guy.
02:38The guy that did it?
02:39Mm.
02:40Oh, you've seen him before?
02:41That, the genuine...
02:42I've seen him, I don't know him, I've seen him, you know, it's a passing...
02:45Do you live in...
02:46Yeah, I live around, I live in Leading, I've lived here for some time, so you sort of get to know people, don't you?
02:51They're definitely not one and the same.
02:53Oh, no, no.
02:54Well, that's the obvious question.
02:56Earring, you said?
02:57Yeah.
02:58Was it a stud or an earring?
02:59Erm, well, it was one like this, without the...
03:04Just a plain earring, which ear?
03:06Yeah.
03:09His left ear, I think.
03:14So, 12 photographs.
03:16Take your time, have a good look.
03:18And if you think you recognise him, give me a number.
03:21Right, no rush.
03:23Yeah, well, I can see it already, so...
03:28Six.
03:29Number?
03:30Six.
03:31Right.
03:32So, 11.40, I showed her an album containing 12 photographs.
03:3611.40 a.m. on Thursday.
03:4428th.
03:45Yeah, 28th of August.
03:49Deafnet?
03:50Yes.
03:51Any difference between that photograph and the one you saw him...
03:54Well, I don't think he's got the side bits all in the stash.
03:58In other words, he's clean-shaven?
04:00Lovely.
04:02I could be checking you out for a drink later on,
04:04because of where you're going.
04:05That's fantastic.
04:06It's fine. Right.
04:11That was easy, wasn't it?
04:12Yeah.
04:13Eh?
04:14Yeah, I suppose it was.
04:19Building my fingernails, Charles.
04:21I know they're bitten.
04:23Where do I sign it?
04:25Oh, I see.
04:26I thought we'd sign it.
04:27Right.
04:28Let's start with this one, shall we?
04:30You won't...
04:31You know what I said about I don't remember the licence?
04:34Uh-uh.
04:35I don't, but I'd be interested to see it.
04:37Oh, yeah.
04:38To see if it is, you know, if you've signed it.
04:40Well, if you've signed it, we'll show it to you.
04:42We'll do that.
04:43Right.
04:44Can I have a signature?
04:46He nicks a driving licence, holds on to it for a year,
04:48and has done nothing with it.
04:50I can't see that.
04:52Well, I expect he obtained it from one of the other of them,
04:55wouldn't he?
04:56There's plenty of them around now, isn't there?
04:58We'll see what he's got to say.
05:02All right, so we can get him for dishonest handling of the driving licence.
05:06Yeah.
05:12Something about this bloke didn't report that he'd driving licence nicked or something.
05:16Well, no.
05:17Allegedly, once his car had been screwed,
05:18he didn't see the point of telling us.
05:19He didn't think there was a lot we could do about it.
05:21So he's never done anything about it.
05:23I presume that SWAN have rung him up and said,
05:25this car that you've hired, and he's said, do what?
05:28And the only instance he can think of where his driving licence is gone
05:31is the car being screwed.
05:5229.
05:57Regarding a stolen driving licence that's been used.
06:00Can we come in?
06:01We've got some people with us.
06:03When did you last actually see your driving licence?
06:05When was the last time you actually saw it?
06:13Well, for all this, it got pinched, the original one.
06:15Yeah.
06:17About three months ago, yeah?
06:18Sorry.
06:20Approximately, I can't...
06:21Yeah, so we say it was pinched approximately three months ago.
06:23Well, let's put it this way.
06:24Your birthday was July the 4th.
06:26Yeah.
06:27You had a camera bought you for your birthday with your sister, correct?
06:30Yeah.
06:32And the camera was stolen as well at the same time.
06:34That's right.
06:35So it should have been sometime in July.
06:37July...
06:39This year?
06:40This year, yeah.
06:41And it was stolen while the car was where?
06:43In top rank.
06:45When did you return and find it broken into?
06:49How long afterwards?
06:50Two o'clock.
06:52How late did you get into it?
06:53A.M.
06:54With keys, the door was open.
06:56Duplicate key had been used?
06:57Mm-hm, yeah.
06:59And what was stolen?
07:01Hang on, slow down.
07:03All right, tell me, I'll tell him.
07:05Driving licence.
07:06It was in your wallet, wasn't it?
07:07Well, it was a wallet.
07:08They obviously thought money was in there.
07:10Yeah.
07:11But all that was in there was my licence.
07:12Yeah.
07:13And a few other bits and pieces, just a bit of paper.
07:15Yeah.
07:16The M.N.T. and insurance was in the glove compartment
07:18where it was tucked away.
07:19They didn't get that?
07:20They didn't get that.
07:21So we've got a wallet containing your driving licence,
07:23a few bits and pieces.
07:24Camera, photographs.
07:25Camera and a load of photographs,
07:26holiday photographs and all that.
07:27We took them.
07:28A load of photographs, holiday photographs.
07:30Cassettes, was there any cassettes?
07:32Um, yeah, we've got them.
07:34How many?
07:3524 cassettes, a box full.
07:37All right, 24 cassettes.
07:38Cut in a case, yeah.
07:40Cut in a case, yeah.
07:42Yeah.
07:43Go about them.
07:46That hurt as well.
07:49Yeah, recordings from years ago and all that.
07:51Mm.
07:52Value, say, two pounds apiece, 48, 50 pounds.
07:55Yeah.
07:56Yeah.
07:57Quick, isn't he?
07:58That's why he's writing.
07:59I can't write, you see.
08:01Had you signed your driving licence, the other one?
08:04Yeah.
08:05Oh, you had signed it, yeah.
08:07That's just to make sure that Matey...
08:10We haven't recovered the other driving licence, you see,
08:12but if Matey had got hold of it unsigned,
08:15he could have popped his NECS Washington on there,
08:18SC Washington on there and...
08:20It would have been the same, wouldn't it?
08:21It would have been all right.
08:22Now, do you know who's responsible for this?
08:25He's got a good idea.
08:26He's got a good idea, yeah.
08:27How have you got a good idea?
08:29Going back to last, to Sunday last,
08:33somebody come up to me in Biggles Nightclub...
08:35Yeah.
08:36..and said to me, I don't know who he was,
08:37he said, is your name Stephen Washington?
08:39I said, yeah.
08:40Did you have your car broken into not too long ago?
08:42I said, I did, yeah.
08:43And apparently the guy who told me didn't like this certain bloke,
08:48and he said, well, his name's Colin Tyler, you know.
08:51Do you know Colin Tyler?
08:52Yeah, I do, yeah.
08:53Do you know what he looks like, do you?
08:54Yeah.
08:55No point in messing about with that one.
08:58You know, we can...
09:00That can come up later.
09:02Well, yeah, we can...
09:04No, we've got a few things on...
09:06Yeah, I know it's him.
09:08I asked the description of the...
09:09Well, I said, what did he look like?
09:11And he says he's got short hair with an earring.
09:13Well, you know, that's good enough for me.
09:15Where does the Colin hang out, any idea?
09:18Yeah, he hangs about in town.
09:20Yeah.
09:21In Cooper's Wine Bar.
09:22That's the last time I seen him, about three weeks ago.
09:24Right.
09:25Well, it looks like he's in Exeter
09:26or wherever he made the phone call from.
09:28Leave it with us.
09:29Was he like, we'll get something back for you?
09:31He may well have sold it in a pub, you know.
09:33Well, I think the only thing we're going to get back
09:34is a driver's license, actually.
09:36But leave it with us.
09:37No, Pep, Colin and Swan are more interested in their car.
09:40Yes.
09:41Yes, it's just a little bit...
09:43Don't make a disturbance.
09:45Thank you very much.
09:46Bye-bye.
09:47Bye-bye.
09:48Cheers.
09:49All right.
09:50OK.
09:51So what pub have I seen him in?
09:54I don't know.
09:55It's probably one with me somewhere.
09:57Yeah.
09:58Which?
09:59Don't go to that many pubs.
10:02Ah, Clifton Arms.
10:07What are you doing, mate?
10:10He got into Clifton Arms, didn't he?
10:12Zoom out to the pub, because it's only, oh,
10:14five miles down the road.
10:16See John and Jill, the landlord and landlady.
10:19Show them the picture.
10:21Yeah.
10:22And I'm sure it's him.
10:23Now, if he goes miss for a few days,
10:25at least we've got one of his local pubs
10:27that can give us a bell or anything
10:28and we'll get him that way.
10:29Oh, yeah.
10:30He'll play cricket on Sunday and after he'll walk in.
10:34Without the moustache.
10:38Hello.
10:39Hi.
10:40Who's seen him in here?
10:42That's the reason I've come all the way out here.
10:44I'm positive I've seen him in here drinking.
10:46Name rings a bell.
10:47Yeah.
10:51Never mind.
10:52Just look for him.
10:53Yeah.
10:54Look, take away the sideburns, take away the moustache.
10:56Very short-haired.
10:57I'm sure that's the one I seen here on a Sunday.
11:01He does look familiar.
11:06It's just that I'm after him, you see.
11:08And I thought, where have I seen him?
11:10Where have I seen him?
11:11And it suddenly clicked in here on a Sunday after cricket.
11:15Oh, no.
11:16Brendan.
11:17Yeah.
11:18Yes, clean-shaven.
11:20Yeah.
11:21Clean-shaven.
11:22And skin-headish.
11:25The eyes, actually.
11:27And the earring.
11:28Yeah.
11:30He's got very piercing, light eyes.
11:33That's fine.
11:34He's been in the lounge bar.
11:36Excellent.
11:37Yes, he looks very familiar.
11:39That's all I'm after.
11:40Lovely stuff.
11:41Good.
11:42Do you want a drink?
11:43Yeah.
11:45Good.
11:46What do you want?
11:47Half a lager.
11:48Half a lager.
11:49Half a lager, yeah.
11:50Cheers.
11:51Another pint of shandy, please.
11:54Bitter.
11:55With a handle.
11:56With a handle.
11:57Bitter.
11:58The main thing is, if you don't...
12:00What we're after is air.
12:02Mm.
12:03Yes, of course.
12:04Half a bitter...
12:05No, a pint of bitter shandy, please.
12:07In a handle.
12:08Yes.
12:09Cheers.
12:10What's his name?
12:11What's his name?
12:12William.
12:13No, will they...
12:14Will they decide?
12:15Yes.
12:16Right.
12:17Yes.
12:18You see, the only reason I'm saying that is I feel I've seen him in here.
12:21Yeah, he had been in here.
12:22I'm sure it's him.
12:23He'd been here this morning.
12:24Clean-shaven, though, eh?
12:25Yeah, clean-shaven.
12:26I think you'll find his hair's what they call, um...
12:29Well, he's more like a...
12:31Skinhead.
12:32He's tall, yeah.
12:33He's tall, yeah.
12:34Do you know his name?
12:35If I said a name, would you know it?
12:37Yes, say a name, please.
12:38Colin Tyrer.
12:39Tyler.
12:40No.
12:41No.
12:42Must be a double, then.
12:44Must be a double.
12:45It could be that.
12:46It could be.
12:47There is a guy that comes in here who's so like that, it's not true.
12:50PHONE RINGS
12:57DOORBELL RINGS
13:01Nothing.
13:04Some of the old lads have left with a ping.
13:06DOG BARKING
13:10DOORBELL RINGS
13:23Nothing, sir.
13:27Eh?
13:28Absolutely nothing.
13:29See the paintwork?
13:30Yeah, it's very gringy.
13:33I'll just have a try.
13:36Ah!
13:39You live in there?
13:4036.
13:41Yeah, yeah.
13:42I'm from Reading CID.
13:43Yeah.
13:44You're from Woodley, aren't you?
13:47Yeah, used to be. Come in, sit.
13:49Good girl.
13:50Ask Colin, any idea where he is?
13:52Er...
13:53Brighton, last I heard.
13:54Brighton?
13:55Brighton?
13:56Exeter, last we heard.
13:57Well, maybe, I don't know.
14:00Let's see.
14:01When's he due back?
14:02He ain't, he don't live here no more.
14:03Where's he moved to?
14:04Dunno.
14:06Who's his girlfriend, anyway?
14:08Only know her first name, don't know her last name.
14:10What's her first name?
14:12I don't know, Karen, Collette, something like that.
14:15Karen, Collette, something like that.
14:17Yeah.
14:18Don't see her a lot.
14:19No.
14:21Penny, sit down.
14:22He's moved on from here, when was he last here, then?
14:24Last week.
14:26I mean, he's moved out cos he wants to,
14:27you haven't had a sort of barney, anything like that?
14:29No, he's just gone.
14:30Moves around a bit, does he?
14:31I dunno.
14:33Dunno, not well.
14:34Cos I don't want him coming back here every other day, looking for him.
14:37Well, you'll have to find him here.
14:40Who do you live here with, then?
14:41My missus.
14:42So that's you and your wife live there, and he was sort of lodging with you?
14:45Yeah.
14:48And you are, Mr...?
14:49Wood.
14:50Mr Wood.
14:51How long was, erm...
14:53How long did he sort of stay here?
14:55I dunno, a couple of months.
14:57Couple of months, with his missus, with his girlfriend?
14:59Sometimes.
15:00Sometimes?
15:01Yeah.
15:02And it seems unusual that you don't know her name properly, you know.
15:06Well, there she comes, she went.
15:09Yeah.
15:12How's your brother getting on?
15:13I dunno, you should know, you lot put him away.
15:15No, I didn't put him away.
15:17We put him away?
15:18Yeah.
15:19Did he break the law?
15:20Might have done.
15:21It's not our fault for putting him away, then, is it?
15:24Charlie's.
15:25That's Charlie, isn't it, your brother?
15:26Yeah.
15:27Yeah.
15:28He's getting on well with old Charlie.
15:30He's all right, is he?
15:31Yeah, he's probably all right.
15:32We put him away.
15:33He couldn't break the law.
15:34He'd go down, then, would he?
15:35Well, what you're asking me is, they'll put somebody else away, innit?
15:38Go on, Doug.
15:39Well, he shouldn't break the law, should he?
15:41Well, whatever he's done, nothing to do with me, is it?
15:43You want anything?
15:44I said it was.
15:45Yeah, we'll find him.
15:46Thanks very much for your help.
15:47Very kind of you.
15:48Cheers, mate.
15:51Cheers.
16:09Charlie to Control, are you coming to DC Curve, over?
16:12Yes, I am.
16:13Is he there, over?
16:14Yeah.
16:15Can you pass me a message, over?
16:16Yes, two things.
16:17First thing, it's from his office.
16:18Mr Webb wants to see him urgently, apparently.
16:20And secondly, could he phone BBC on 385, over?
16:26Yeah, will do.
16:27Stay in line.
16:28Stay in line.
16:30Phone BBC on 385?
16:31Well, we'll go in.
16:32Mr Webb wants to see me.
16:33Well, the BBC's here.
16:35Give me a lift.
16:37OK, lift.
16:39And what Mr Webb wants.
16:40I know what it's about.
16:42Those tapes.
16:48So our man is on the trot?
16:51Yes.
16:54Circulation required.
17:00Before we can do a complete trot,
17:01can you do the door for me, please?
17:03Charlie, imagine a door, over.
17:11I'm coming home.
17:18It's like going into the black hole of Calcutta, isn't it?
17:23Place of no return.
17:26Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
17:37Those are perfectly all right, but when you carry them,
17:39the photographs jump out all over the place.
17:41And as I opened up and laid it in front of her,
17:43there was one or two jumbled, and I just moved them,
17:45and I think I moved number six.
17:47And she said, oh, I can see it immediately.
17:48I said, well, take a long, hard look.
17:50Just, I can see it, number six.
17:52And I thought, oh, I don't know.
17:54Well, I'm sure I moved it, you see,
17:55and I don't want to be thought that I was influenced.
18:00I put this big red line round it.
18:01It said there's 12 photographs.
18:02Choose the one you want.
18:04Deep, deep.
18:05Here, you can borrow my felt tip.
18:08Have you been in my trot?
18:09Yeah.
18:12What does John Webb want?
18:13I don't know.
18:16It's the...
18:17It's the hour of the reckoning.
18:19It's the cassette.
18:20Yeah, I think so.
18:21It's nice that you're here, cos you started it all.
18:24And if it goes really awful,
18:27I expect to cry on your shoulder
18:29and for you to buy me a pint tonight.
18:33I hope not.
18:34Eh?
18:35I hope it doesn't go awful.
18:36No, I think he's just going to say, you know,
18:38you ought to know better.
18:39It's true, really.
18:40Totally my fault.
18:41Totally my fault.
18:43OK.
18:48Those biscuits were recovered yesterday.
18:50Those what?
18:51Yeah, the biscuits were recovered yesterday.
18:53Where did you get them?
18:54Erm...
18:55At the betting shop.
18:56Oh!
18:57Erm...
18:58Ian Upton's job.
18:59We recovered a load of biscuits from the place
19:01and took them back today to the factory
19:03and they said,
19:04oh, one of our security blokes just rang up
19:06and a lorry driver's dropped off some biscuits
19:08at a house on Tarlow Street.
19:10So at seven o'clock tomorrow morning
19:12we can go up there
19:13and get some more biscuits back.
19:16As you're having such a good success these days,
19:18you might as well do this one as well.
19:23Yeah, just throw it all together.
19:25Throw it in a heap
19:26and let it come down in two separate files.
19:28Yeah, yeah.
19:29Now, come on, who's going out tomorrow, then?
19:31I don't know.
19:32If you want to come, you can come.
19:34I can't think of anybody better.
19:36What time?
19:37Make it at six.
19:38Jeans?
19:39No, no.
19:40Sweater?
19:41Suits.
19:42Upper neck shirt?
19:43Where is it?
19:44Ties.
19:45Can't we meet you there?
19:46He can leave home!
19:48What is it?
19:49We'll pass it off for late, then,
19:50cos we haven't got anyone to cover it.
19:51The one with the crime, or what?
19:52If you would, please, yeah.
19:53Yeah?
19:54What's happened, then?
19:55Oh, it's...
19:56Some time the day, somebody's been in there
19:57and broken in through the doors.
19:58What, euphoria?
19:59Yeah, through the...
20:00The other day I got in via cage doors and so I'd gone in...
20:02Not a strange place, is it?
20:03No, it's upstairs.
20:04Gone in through there
20:05and I'd, you know, about...
20:08..about 15 rings out of the jewellery box.
20:11And then the woman this afternoon
20:14had one of these rings brought back in to be sold back to her.
20:18Which somebody else has bought from somewhere else.
20:21She'd been round the jewellers who she normally goes to see
20:25and one of her rings is in peepers.
20:27The woman in peepers has bought one.
20:29So somebody's still running round the...
20:31Description of the lads?
20:32She hasn't seen them.
20:33All I've seen is the woman who's...
20:36..who's lost it.
20:37What's the name of the woman who lost it?
20:39Woodman.
20:40Where does she live, Chris?
20:42Over down the road.
20:45There's a cheek, isn't there?
20:46Go and nick the rings,
20:47then take them back to the place where you saw them from.
20:49Sell them back?
20:50Sell them back at the pub, isn't there?
20:52I don't know the full story of it, but it's...
20:54What's the value?
20:55She's now... Well, she's running 200, 300 quid.
20:58Good rings, then.
21:01He's probably taken them back for 100 quid each.
21:06I'll call him, anyway.
21:08Yeah, all right.
21:09Dave Snyder will be at four. Maybe you can get him to there.
21:12Can you ring Mr Webber and tell him I'm off at four
21:14unless he hurries up on going home under a white flag?
21:19OK, then.
21:20Yes, carry on.
21:24Do you want them to stay?
21:25Yes, I don't mind.
21:26As far as I'm concerned, they should see everything.
21:29Yeah, OK.
21:30All right, have a seat.
21:31Thank you very much.
21:35Right, number one, then.
21:37I want to see you in the first instance
21:39about the inquiry over the cassettes.
21:44Yes, sir.
21:45Now, you will recall that I did see you on a particular day
21:49and asked you where they were.
21:51That's right, sir, yeah.
21:52And you were unable to give a satisfactory explanation.
21:54In fact, I understand they were found in your locker.
21:56That's right, yeah. I found them in there, sir.
21:58Yeah.
21:59Anyway, that has gone to the deputy
22:01and he's very unhappy about the state of affairs, to say the least,
22:06and that he wants you to be left in no doubt
22:08that this type of conduct will not be tolerated
22:12and that you on this occasion have come very close to formal discipline
22:16and I'm telling you, Brian, that this is not the way to go on at all
22:22and if it happens again for anything like it,
22:25then you'll probably find yourself before the chief constable, OK?
22:29Yes, sir. Yeah, I understand.
22:31Now, you will fully understand that, don't you?
22:33Yes, sir, indeed.
22:34Yeah, OK.
22:35That's that part.
22:37The next part that I want to deal with
22:40is your suitability to remain as a CID officer.
22:46When you came off the regional crime squad,
22:48or the serious crime squad, I should say,
22:52there was a report put in on you
22:54on the 15th of January
22:56and following that you saw Mr Milner
23:00and when you came off, he said that when you returned to division
23:04that you were very much on trial.
23:06Yes, that's right. OK?
23:08Well, I've now received a report from your supervisors
23:12that say that...
23:15And they say, rather, that throughout that time,
23:18whilst you've been a very cheerful kind of a fellow and so forth,
23:22and on the face of it, you're enthusiastic,
23:27you appear to lack confidence since you've been back
23:30and have not really come up to expectations.
23:38It is said, and let me make it very, very clear to you,
23:41because I shan't hold me punches,
23:43that it is felt that you have been dodging the work
23:47where aggravation is likely to be produced.
23:52And, in fact, it's got to the stage
23:54where some of your younger colleagues are saying about you
23:58that you are one of the old stages who are untouchable
24:02and no-one has got the courage of their convictions
24:06or the strength of character to recommend that you be moved.
24:11Well, the time has come that it is now happening today
24:16and, in view of the reports that I've received,
24:21the conversations that I've had,
24:23I'm recommending that you be returned to uniform duties
24:27as soon as possible.
24:32What do you have to say about that?
24:39I'm just absolutely and utterly speechless.
24:44My DS was telling me just how well things have gone
24:47and the jobs that I've had under my belt.
24:49I'm so pleased. I really am, sir.
24:51I've never had such a good time for basic police work
24:55as I've had in the last... I'm staggered.
25:00Absolutely and utterly.
25:04Well, all right, then, if you say that.
25:07I didn't intend to carry out your appraisal today
25:10and I still don't intend to, but let's have a look at that.
25:14You say that you're working to the proper standards, is that right?
25:19Well, I've never had any comment other than that.
25:25Are you saying that nobody's brought your shortcomings to your notice?
25:34I had all my shortcomings pointed out to me
25:36when I came off the serious crime squad
25:39and as far as I know, I've never had anybody...
25:53It's just unbelievable, sir. I mean, I've just...
25:56Would you like me to carry on?
26:01No, not really.
26:06Somebody's got to tell you.
26:10You see, it probably sounds a bit cruel,
26:12but I'm going to be honest with you.
26:14The young lads in the department think you're a bit of a bloody joke.
26:18I can't help, sir, what the young lads in the department think.
26:21No, no, I'm saying that this is what your supervisors say about you.
26:25Just a moment. This is what your supervisors say about you.
26:29The youngsters have got certain ideas about you
26:33and in general, what I'm saying to you,
26:35and in view of recent developments
26:37and the fact that you didn't make it on the serious crime squad,
26:40Brian, the time has come where it's time you got a uniform,
26:44went off and tried to do a good job of work
26:47and tried to consolidate your position.
26:53If I had come back from the serious crime squad, sir,
26:56and I'd sat on my arse and did nothing, I can understand it.
26:59When my DS, who's away in Birmingham, as you know, at the moment,
27:02has told me about the amount of work I've put in,
27:05the amount of detections I've had,
27:07and people have come up to me that I've known for years and said,
27:10while it lasts, you're really putting some effort into it.
27:12And for the last two and a half... Well, two months, I've sat
27:15and I've thought, I feel good, I'm working, things are going right.
27:18And I come up here and I've got an idea what this is about.
27:21To be thrown that, I don't believe it. I just don't believe it.
27:26As I say, if I'm like you, I'm very honest,
27:29and if I thought that I was lazy or I'd been underpass,
27:32especially since the serious crime squad,
27:34I'll be the first to say, you're right.
27:36No way do I accept that.
27:38What the youngsters say, well, I can't comment on that.
27:41But if people want to look in books and find out from my DS
27:44and my colleagues the work and the prisoners I've had,
27:46I just don't believe it.
27:48And I'm afraid, sir, I just absolutely stagger.
27:50Yeah, well, what you're basically saying is that
27:53Detective Inspector Jessett is wrong,
27:55Detective Inspector Miller is wrong,
27:58Acting Superintendent, until recently,
28:01Detective Chief Inspector Buckle is wrong,
28:03Detective Chief Inspector Warren is wrong.
28:06All these people are wrong, but, Brian, you were right.
28:09No, you know I can't take them on, sir.
28:11Well, you know, but I'm saying...
28:13No, I'm not saying that at all.
28:15I'm not saying that at all.
28:17If they're given certain facts and figures by certain members of the CID,
28:20they will make of it as they will.
28:22And I cannot comment on that, sir.
28:24Well, there you are, Brian. I've spelt it out to you.
28:26I've left you in no doubt at all how you stand.
28:29You know exactly what the recommendation's going to be, don't you?
28:41Just staggered.
28:43All that work for nothing.
28:48I can understand how you feel at this very moment.
28:51You probably think that the world's collapsed around you.
28:54But there are other things in life...
28:58..that are good things to be...
29:00..good work to be carried out in the police service.
29:03And there really is.
29:05The CID is not the be-all and end-all of police life.
29:10And if, at the moment,
29:12people are not thinking that you're working to the proper standards,
29:17well, Christ, it's not something to get all excited about, is it?
29:22Yeah, it is. Well, it's not.
29:24Well, I think it is, sir.
29:26I'm sick and tired of people going behind my back and saying things.
29:29I'm sorry about this, but...
29:31Well, that's all right. I understand it.
29:33I don't mind you getting upset.
29:35The way you want to approach it is,
29:38I'll get my uniform, I'll come out and I'll show them what a good chap I am.
29:43And that's a way.
29:46Come back bloody fighting. Let's have some grit about it.
29:49I know, Governor. Now, I've done that.
29:51I came off the Serious Crimes... Have you got a minute?
29:53I've got an hour.
29:55I came off the Serious Crimes Squad under a cloud, and do you know...
29:59..no-one has stood back and said, why?
30:01Right. Now, I cribbed about that to certain people,
30:05not of rank, just to one or two people I think I can trust in this job.
30:10Having cribbed about that, I wanted to know why.
30:14No, I don't. Thank you.
30:16All I got was three months, three months, three months.
30:19So I got three months, and Dave Giles and Mr Jesse worked.
30:23Right. I work like a Trojan. I'm very pleased about it.
30:27I've been through all this before.
30:29And this is a bombshell, because I said to Dave Giles...
30:32I had an idea what Mr Jesse's put there.
30:34I said to Dave Giles, if I'm not succeeding, if I'm an idiot, let me know.
30:38Now, no-one has said a thing.
30:40And all I'm getting now, apart from me, is what the young lads in the office say.
30:44I don't know. I've worked like a bloody Trojan.
30:46And now they still say I'm not up to standard.
30:49If I don't fit, why don't they just tell me to my face I don't fit?
30:52Because there's more to it than Brian Kirk isn't doing the job.
30:56I have done the job well.
30:58And I'm telling you, my chief superintendent, your face, I have done it well.
31:02They're saying no, right. Fair comment.
31:05If there's going to be something more to it, then maybe I'm not prepared to put up with it.
31:09It's not the ignominy of going back into uniform.
31:12That's the most important job in the police force, as far as I'm concerned.
31:15It's what's going on.
31:17The smiles and hello, and I've brought this prisoner in, am I doing anything wrong?
31:21Are you suggesting there's a bit of a conspiracy to put the skids under you?
31:24A bit of a conspiracy? Yes, they want the skids under me.
31:27Who? I don't know. Conspiracy? I can't say that, sir.
31:30Why do you think they want the skids under you?
31:32I don't know. I don't know.
31:35Various reasons. Maybe it's because I'm too leery.
31:38I can't help it if I'm rabbity.
31:41And at 31, the police force are my...
31:43Well, now you're a noisy bugger anyway.
31:45Well, yeah. I can't help that. Maybe people don't like that.
31:49But what's getting me, I was told to pull my socks up.
31:52I am not stupid and I've pulled them up and I'm very proud of myself.
31:56I mean that. Now this, I can't see it.
31:59If it was justified, believe me, sir, I'd stand here and say thank you very much and go.
32:03That is not justified.
32:05And I've got no comeback, no redress.
32:08You're going to get a top hat and just keep your mouth shut and get on with it.
32:11Well, you have got some form of redress.
32:13It's quite open to you to go and see Mr Milner, Detective Chief Superintendent.
32:17Or indeed to see the Chief Constable, if you wish, isn't it?
32:20Yeah, I don't know what happened there.
32:24Let's look at the future, shall we?
32:26Let's really look at the future.
32:29Let's just accept the fact that you're going to be put into uniform, OK?
32:33Let's just look at that for a moment.
32:36Do you think that is really the end of the world?
32:39Honestly, it's not.
32:41What's being done to me is not right.
32:44For God's sake, if this happens, why don't, as I said to you just now,
32:48go and get your uniform, come and see me.
32:51Let's talk it out. Get out there.
32:54There's a lot of work to be done out in those streets of Reading and this division.
32:58The public need experienced men to look after them.
33:03And you've got a lot of experience behind you.
33:06So if you start going out the door thinking about resignation and things like that...
33:10No, I'm... No, no, no, really, Brian.
33:12If you start thinking about that, that is very short-sighted, believe me.
33:17Now, look, you're a bit upset at the moment, to say the least.
33:21What I want you to do is to go away, just digest it a little bit, nice and quietly.
33:27Go and get yourself a cup of coffee, OK?
33:29And for goodness sake, come back and see me and we'll talk about your future.
33:34Because it's a question of where might you be best suited to carry out a uniform function?
33:42Where can you give the best service?
33:45I don't believe this.
33:46Well, you've got a lot to offer.
33:48You're not the first chap that this has happened to.
33:50No, I know that. Well, I'm not the first chap to go back in uniform.
33:54I'm quite aware of that.
33:55It happened to me many years ago.
33:58Well, you, off you go now and just think about it.
34:02And do come back and see me and discuss it, will you?
34:06Yeah, I will.
34:08I'll go off and have a think.
34:10OK, good luck. Thank you very much indeed. Bye-bye.
34:17You haven't heard yet. You surprised.
34:19I knew. I knew.
34:22How did you know?
34:23I knew.
34:24How did you know?
34:25Someone, David Giles, told me.
34:27Oh, for fuck's sake.
34:29He told me about, what, an hour and a half ago.
34:33Why?
34:34He didn't say why. He just said, do you know? I said, no, I don't.
34:37And how does he feel?
34:39I don't know. He wouldn't say.
34:42He said, just, what's happened? I said, well, you're going to see Mr Webb.
34:46Although, Colin, nothing in this job surprises me.
34:50You know, whether it's you or anyone else, it doesn't surprise me at all.
34:54You've got to think about yourself now, Brian. Forget about anyone else.
34:58I'd love to know for what reason. It certainly can't be work, can it?
35:01Yeah.
35:04Yeah, can you get David and get me a call, then? I'll ring the missus up.
35:08Well, what I'd like to do is find someone that...
35:11Well, we all know what you've been doing.
35:14Well, was it enough?
35:16Christ. You couldn't have done any more than you did, then.
35:20See, well, so why is it?
35:23Well, you're just saying... Well, no, no, you're not just saying it.
35:26I'm not just saying it. Honestly, you're not just saying it.
35:29I'm not just saying it.
35:31I'm not just saying it.
35:33I'm not just saying it.
35:35I'm not just saying it.
35:37Honestly, you know how much bloody work I do,
35:40and you know how much work the rest of the shift do.
35:43Unfortunately, I'm not under the bloody eagle eye, you see.
35:46Well, fortunately for me, I'm not under the eagle eye all the time.
35:50Yeah. I don't know what to do now.
35:59Well, other people have got over it, haven't they?
36:02I don't mind the uniform bit, Dave.
36:05Why? That's what I object to.
36:09There's no appeal, is there?
36:11Eh? There's no appeal, is there?
36:13There is. I'm thinking of appealing.
36:16Who do you appeal to? Chief Constable.
36:22How? Brown groups?
36:25No, but you can appeal to him about being moved.
36:28He moves.
36:30And if he thinks right, then...
36:32See, John Mack said,
36:34take your relocation book and all your files up,
36:36show them what you've been doing.
36:38I just don't... Dave, if they said,
36:40you've got three months to make the grade,
36:42I think I've made it and overtaken it.
36:44Yeah, definitely.
36:45He mentioned the fact that your junior members of this office
36:48think that you're an old lag and you don't do much.
36:52You know who we're talking about?
36:54Yeah. I do teach a bloody talk.
36:58Mother, got some bad news for you.
37:03Well, I've worse than that.
37:05They've put me back in uniform.
37:08Yeah.
37:11So did I. They've just called me up to the office.
37:15I don't know. Don't know.
37:17Just two or three of the governors have put reports in saying I'm unsuitable.
37:22Yeah.
37:23Yeah.
37:27Well...
37:29I'll probably spend less,
37:31but I will give serious consideration to the rest of my future on the job.
37:36Quite honestly.
37:39Yeah.
37:42Well, I... Well, it'll be up to me.
37:44I can go... John Webb says he wants to see me cos I've cut up a bit.
37:49And I presume that I can say,
37:51look, uniform patrol at Reading's a bit embarrassing.
37:53Can I go to Pangbourne and maybe patrol Tylehurst and Barfield?
37:57Like I used to.
37:58And knowing him, he'll say yes.
38:02So there's that.
38:04Back on nights, back on earlies.
38:07Spend a lot less money.
38:08I mean, I might as well start looking on the bright side.
38:12Out of the...
38:14n amount of hundreds of pounds I earn in a month,
38:17the amount I spend would be negligible.
38:19I really was working so well that I thought,
38:22if anything goes monkey, I am going to appeal.
38:27Yeah.
38:28It was all filmed at the BBC.
38:30Yeah, they've been filming me all day,
38:32so when I went in for what I thought was a telling-off,
38:35they said, can we come?
38:36And I said yes, because I feel it's all part of life, isn't it?
38:40Of course, the telling-off turned into something else,
38:43and, yeah, little handkerchief job.
38:47You think I'm joking?
38:49Oh, yeah.
38:51Well, if they'll ask me, I'll look at it,
38:54and if I decide, yeah,
38:55it'll go over in front of two or three, 20 million.
38:58Why shouldn't people see what goes on?
39:02Cheer up, let's go and get you a drink.
39:04Where are we going to get a drink?
39:06How about the money?
39:08I shouldn't worry about the money.
39:10That'd probably be the least of your worries,
39:12because I expect you'll be earning as much
39:14after the 1st of September.
39:18I expect you'll be earning as much after the 1st of September
39:22as you are now.
39:24Yeah, I will, but I won't be having the overtime, will I?
39:27Oh, there's all this expensive duties that you can't do.
39:30It's not like I know what you're up to.
39:32I'll be doing pointing duty next.
39:34Hello, Sarge.
39:36Hello, Sarge.