24 Hours in Police Custody: Ch4

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anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Tam_Mullen said:
Imagine the ‘oh st’ moment when he’s told he’s doing surveillance on the crime he’s committing
Yup. On one hand it meant they were on to him, whilst on the other it also meant he'd never, ever see the money.

Gameface

16,565 posts

77 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Good programme.

What a silly sod.

I wonder if the cameras being there had a bearing on them asking for an increase of sentence?

Hardly the sort of case they wanted while the film crew were with them!!

hungry_hog

2,242 posts

188 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Was that an episode of Line of Duty? All for a grand?

Long Drax

744 posts

170 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Laurel Green said:
Bet they got the idea from that massage parlour programme on TV a while back when they decided to expand the 'product' by going on the road with the passion wagon. biggrin
Fred West put a mattress in the back of his van, so Rose could entertain menfolk in the back when they pulled-up by the side of the Queen's highway.



Gameface

16,565 posts

77 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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How much was she paying them?

CS Garth

2,860 posts

105 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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Crossflow Kid said:
Yup. On one hand it meant they were on to him, whilst on the other it also meant he'd never, ever see the money.
On the plus side the surveillance exercise until the point he got arrested was a piece of piss

Long Drax

744 posts

170 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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What was the driver Ian(?) getting as his cut of her income. Couldn't/wouldn't he be prosecuted for Living Off Immoral Earnings?

PurpleTurtle

6,994 posts

144 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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He really was rather dim or too cocky. Pitching his ‘price point’ at a grand he probably thought a bloke with a Range Rover would view it as an occupational hazard, collect, rinse and repeat. What a total f*** up of his life.

The old adage of ‘coppers have it tough inside’, I often wonder how true that is? Can someone like him just try to blah it? Say he’s an accountant done for fraud or something? Or does everyone inside get to know everyone else’s true back story? They’ll know it tonight, that’s for sure. I bet he ends up swallowing more jizz in his food than that 30 notes a trick hooker does in her entire career, even when paying PAYE (which made me laugh).

e30m3Mark

16,205 posts

173 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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PurpleTurtle said:
He really was rather dim or too cocky. Pitching his ‘price point’ at a grand he probably thought a bloke with a Range Rover would view it as an occupational hazard, collect, rinse and repeat. What a total f*** up of his life.

The old adage of ‘coppers have it tough inside’, I often wonder how true that is? Can someone like him just try to blah it? Say he’s an accountant done for fraud or something? Or does everyone inside get to know everyone else’s true back story? They’ll know it tonight, that’s for sure. I bet he ends up swallowing more jizz in his food than that 30 notes a trick hooker does in her entire career, even when paying PAYE (which made me laugh).
Chances are he'd get sent to an open jail where inmates are less likely to throw any privileges away by giving him a thump. His occupation will always come out eventually, often via trustees who work in reception etc and you can be sure there will be loads of prisoners tuned into this series.

Given his experience I was surprised at the amount of schoolboy errors but actually getting your hands on the cash is always going to be hugely risky I imagine?

All that for the sake of a £1000 though! He'd have been better off with a payday loan!

Bluedot

3,592 posts

107 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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Cracking episode, best telly I've seen for a while.
As others have said, the amount of errors the guy made was just errr criminal smile
Risking your family life, job, future prospects etc. just makes no sense, I'd imagine he's sat there now thinking the same.
The reason for getting the grand (to help a drug addict) really didn't stack up either, I'm guessing he had become almost addicted to the site and wanted the grand to spend on his 'leisure activities'.

waynecyclist

8,809 posts

114 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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Excellent episode, madness what he threw away for £1000

Plus being a copper you did hope he would or should have done a better job

anonymous-user

54 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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They commented during the program that he was on a payment plan. I assumed from that that he had debt issues, although it was never revealed how they came about.

anonymous-user

54 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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When they searched the house it looked like there was a WPCs dress hat amongst the personal effects suggesting Mrs Blackmail was a copper too.
Any guessing they "aren't together" any more?

jcremonini

2,100 posts

167 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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A lot of commenting question why he did it for just £1000 but it wasn't.

His thinking was that no-one who,. he thought (I believe the victim owned a Cayenne) , could easily afford £1000 would go to the Police and they'd just pay up. So if he did it 20 times then he'd have £20,000 easy money. 1 x risky 20k or 20x easy 1ks was a no-brainer to him.

What I thought was good work by the police was checking the search records on the PNC for the victim. They wouldn't have done that as routine and I guess they realised that the person who took the photos of the victim going back and getting into his car could not possibly have then followed him home so, therefore, could only have found his home address through the registration number.


e30m3Mark

16,205 posts

173 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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You don't think they would have checked to see how many other vehicle enquiries he had made, with a view to asking owners if they'd be subjected to blackmail?

wjwren

4,484 posts

135 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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I think if you do a PNC you have to give a reason to the operator and this is then logged on the police computer for future reference.

On a tangent, through work, I met a lady that was having family issues. She had a heart to heart with me and said her son in law, a copper, had been caught in Pets at home and Home Bargains with his willy wonka hanging out. He had done this while in plain clothes and was caught by cctv and members of the public. He also flashed his bits at female colleagues while in uniform. It broke the family up and he also had, excuse the pun, a cocky attitude that he could do what he wanted as he was a police officer. It had gone to his head, the whole uniform thing. He got dismissed and it went to court, his defence was that it slipped out and he was unaware that it was on display. It happened on several occasions so best get the zip sorted out on the trousers!

anonymous-user

54 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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That was a good example of how the police mostly deal with corruption.

PurpleTurtle said:
The old adage of ‘coppers have it tough inside’, I often wonder how true that is? Can someone like him just try to blah it? Say he’s an accountant done for fraud or something? Or does everyone inside get to know everyone else’s true back story? They’ll know it tonight, that’s for sure. I bet he ends up swallowing more jizz in his food than that 30 notes a trick hooker does in her entire career, even when paying PAYE (which made me laugh).
I've known of serving police officers go to prison and be fine.

I imagine they can be separated from the types who'd do them harm etc.

wjwren said:
I think if you do a PNC you have to give a reason to the operator and this is then logged on the police computer for future reference.
Yes, ID and reason are always recorded.

There are also random checks where an officer will be emailed asking why they made X check.

anonymous-user

54 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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jcremonini said:
the person who took the photos of the victim going back and getting into his car could not possibly have then followed him home
Why ever not?

Laurel Green

30,780 posts

232 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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Crossflow Kid said:
When they searched the house it looked like there was a WPCs dress hat amongst the personal effects suggesting Mrs Blackmail was a copper too.
Any guessing they "aren't together" any more?
I'd say conjugal visits are off for the foreseeable future. hehe

ape x

958 posts

77 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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He was treated with kid gloves at the start, one of the few police shows where the person hasn't had his front door smashed off its hinges. And a copper sat in cell with him, pathetic man. Weeping like a little girl.

His excuse should of been because he had such a strong moral compass he wanted to make a cheater suffer, so the 1k was secondary to the actual reason of making a cheat suffer.
The drug thing was stupid but anyway he got found out for being a hooker user and cheat also...Muppet.
At least the force saw to get his stay in jail longer although had the camera's not been around i wonder if that would of been the case....

"It's tough investigation one of your own..." WHY?? He is a criminal and a prick, fk him.