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Police Scotland's Highlands and Islands division

is Britain's biggest beat.

The geographical scope of where we police is phenomenal.

12,000 square miles of glens, islands,

deep lochs and towering mountains.

We do have some of the most dangerous terrain.

Where the hell is he? Where is he?

Even if you were a very good swimmer,

you're not coming out of there.

Patrolling this vast, wild landscape...

There are some vehicles out there,

but I don't think they're going to be...

..and answering emergency calls in the wilderness...

..the Highland cops go above and beyond to combat crime...

Clearly quite a bit of blood.

Suspicious death, same as you would get anywhere else.

..and keep people safe.

Leave me alone!

We will attend to everybody's worst day.

We need to try and make sure you're OK.

Here, traditional rural policing...

We've had a report of a satellite-tagged golden eagle

that's gone offline.

It shouts out to me that it's been killed.

..meets state-of-the-art crime-fighting.

Top drawer, there's a lot of rocks, a lot of cash.

This is cocaine, right?

If it turns blue, then it is cocaine there.

This series goes inside the UK's most unique police force...

One minute you're dealing with an avalanche... Come on!

And the next, you've got a lively Lab.

..to find out what it takes to patrol the beat...

It is a family. You are working with your brothers and sisters.

..and keep the peace... Police!

..in some of the most beautiful and challenging places in Britain.

At the heart of the Highlands, the land rises towards

one of Britain's highest mountain ranges -

the vast Cairngorms National Park,

a place that brings its own challenges for the police.

The mountains of Scotland and the Highlands

are unforgiving places.

They are absolutely beautiful, jaw-droppingly at times.

But the weather can turn in a heartbeat.

Winds can easily reach well in excess of 100 miles an hour.

That poses great risks.

I'm a member of the mountain rescue team that's based in Inverness,

and we're ready at a moment's notice

to be deployed anywhere across the Highlands,

where there's a need to try and find people

who are either injured or lost,

or to provide a sort of policing response

in an area that can't be accessed by ordinary beat cops.

Today, Cailean's team have received a call about someone

who has gone missing in the Cairngorms.

LINE RINGS

This young missing person with special needs is vulnerable.

He was last seen 18 hours ago.

So this morning, Cal's team are launching a major search operation.

This is us almost arriving at the outdoor centre

where the young man's missing from.

Last mile or two, I've been keeping my eye out.

Is he actually walking through here, or has he popped up anywhere?

The forest, some of it's quite dense, but it's leading right out

onto the hill that I can see out in front of me.

There is a bit of rain, but the search conditions are good.

Now the real hard work starts.

Boots on, and get out and actually start

the big game of hide and seek, finding the missing person.

Joining Cal is PC Katie Johnstone.

There's been quite a concern, given the extra needs that he has

and the fact that he's gone away overnight.

So there was no indication that he'd made any preparations for this,

which makes the concern even more. And given the weather,

probably looking about five degrees last night,

and that's without the wind and the rain,

so it's a big concern to have him found and as soon as possible.

When somebody has vulnerabilities and they're missing,

it sort of ratchets the whole thing up.

If they've got learning difficulties

or if they're not aware of their surroundings,

it's an additional risk.

Time is of the essence to find them and keep them safe.

With every passing hour,

the risk that the man is injured or hypothermic increases.

But the search area is huge -

a national park of almost 2,000 square miles.

So if the police are to find him quickly,

they will need all the help they can get.

We've got a large number of Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team.

We've got a police dog handler out as well.

So it's the beginnings of a very large-scale search.

Air support hasn't been confirmed yet,

but we've got a vast area from as far as the eye can see,

three or four miles up into the Cairngorms,

running through the forest, the hills

and then stretching all the way down to Aviemore.

It's a needle in a haystack, but that's what we're here to do.

Is it Ian, by the way? Yeah, yeah.

Cailean. Nice to meet you.

The police mountain rescue team works closely

with the volunteer teams.

They are the experts.

Where do you want us? Throw us in.

Just put us wherever you want.

That local knowledge and tapping into it is crucial

for police inquiries and for missing person searches.

The first place to look are the woods near where the man was staying.

We are covering a massive area,

and if somebody's got a head start on us,

that area has just not become big, it's become absolutely mammoth.

Sparsely populated regions like the Cairngorms

make up much of N Division's beat,

but at its heart is a busy city - Inverness.

On duty today are traffic cops Elaine Madison and Donnie Stephenson.

An urgent call has just come in.

Yeah, that's all received. I'll keep you updated with how we get on.

There's been somebody struck by a vehicle.

They believe it was deliberately.

But the vehicle has since made off.

When a call comes in and there's been a suggestion

a vehicle has been used to deliberately drive at someone...

Turn around here.

..first thing you're thinking is to try and identify

the vehicle involved in the collision.

What happened exactly?

Did you get a look at the driver or anything like that?

No?

Any idea who's done it, or...?

OK. No, that's fine. Thank you.

The cyclist has only minor injuries and doesn't need hospital treatment,

so Donny and Elaine can start looking for evidence

that can identify the culprit.

That camera facing down there looks like a good shout.

Yeah. That one there.

I'm going to see if we can get something off that.

The camera is a private one on a house overlooking the scene.

It may have captured the moment of the crash.

At the scene of a road traffic collision,

we will always look for dashcam or CCTV opportunities.

Having CCTV footage is best evidence.

Witnesses may have seen something on the road,

sometimes folks' memories are confused.

However, CCTV, dashcam doesn't lie.

The camera was recording at the time of the collision.

The owner of the house agrees to let Donnie and Elaine view the footage.

What time do you think it was?

Um... 07:06.

Here we go, here we go. It's playing now. It's playing now.

What do you reckon? Reckon about there?

No, back.

There. There. Go for that. Yeah.

Oh, there we go.

The van's followed him up that street.

Mm-hm.

Ouch.

Male driver anyway.

The footage is clear...

..and it seems to back up the cyclist's claim

that the driver hit him on purpose.

Using a vehicle as a weapon

doesn't often happen in the Highlands and Islands.

That is very violent behaviour.

Especially in these circumstances

where someone's been struck deliberately, you start thinking,

is this person going to do it again to someone else?

It's very important for us

that we identify the offenders involved and apprehend them.

Based on the CCTV footage,

this is now a case of attempted murder.

Whoever did it is still at large.

They urgently need to be caught before anyone else is hurt.

Across the city at police HQ,

detectives from CID are now taking charge of the investigation,

led by DS Chris MacLeod.

We heard the call that somebody has been knocked off their bike,

which is not an uncommon call because road traffic collisions

can happen and sometimes accidents can happen.

But then once we've reviewed the CCTV footage,

the manner of driving is so shocking

and then the actual assault on the victim...

..could have been catastrophic.

CID are responsible for dealing with serious crimes,

anything from murder, all the way down to

dealing with serious assaults.

But because of that, I guess you see the darker side of Inverness.

When we're looking at this, we're looking at their intent,

so whether or not they've just assaulted him with the vehicle.

Are they trying to give him a fright,

or are they actually trying to cause significant and genuine harm to him?

And they followed him across a junction,

causing other vehicles to stop abruptly in the road.

So there's a white Mini that we see.

It has to emergency stop as they cross in front of it.

They basically chase the victim down and then wipe them out.

The act is very clear and deliberate from the CCTV footage,

and it presented a real risk of serious and significant harm

to the victim, possibly of his life.

With the video showing intent to injure or kill,

the police now have an urgent manhunt on their hands.

With the help of witness statements,

a local man, Ross Grant, and a young woman

have been identified as suspects.

Both are known to the police, but they haven't been located,

and it's starting to look like they're on a crime spree.

During today's investigation,

information was brought to our attention that

the suspects have also got themselves involved in

an altercation on Grant Street

and there was potentially a knife involved.

My officers are currently taking witness statements

and trying to identify further witnesses who can speak to that,

to give us enough evidence for a criminal conviction

for carrying offensive weapons as well.

That's not all.

The same pair are also suspected of stealing the van

used in the collision and stealing and torching another vehicle.

It's now a race against time to put them behind bars

before they strike again.

In the Cairngorms,

PCs Cal MacLeod and Katie Johnstone are continuing to search

for a vulnerable young man who is missing.

He would normally only venture outside with a carer,

but he has now not been seen for almost 24 hours.

Ready.

I search for a living.

I look for things.

That is my job.

So when I search, I want to find something.

Be it the bag of drugs, be it the missing child,

be it the knife that's been used in a crime.

So whilst in the mountain rescue team,

I'm not out there in a sort of criminal aspect,

I'm bringing that same mindset and diligence

to make sure that I find whatever it is I'm looking for.

An initial sweep has come up blank...

OK. Are we good?

..so the team regroups and extends the search

to an area behind the holiday house.

When I'm searching through heavy areas of shrubbery, gorse,

forested, wet, marshy areas,

it's not pleasant,

but you have to stick your head in and look.

It's dirty, uncomfortable work,

but it needs to be done right in order to find somebody.

And as the team combs the thick vegetation,

they spot something.

That's a find.

Find! Find!

Hello?

Are you OK, man? Are you with me?

Could you...? Yeah, just get to the doctor.

Very shallow breathing.

Hello? Can you hear me?

Yeah, we've got a bit of movement.

Control, control. Sierra Romeo three one.

Sierra Romeo three one. Go ahead.

Yeah, can I organise an ambulance urgently?

Missing person has been found partially responsive, hypothermic.

Can we get an urgent ambulance, please?

Gents, if we can just batter this stuff down

and make a nice clear access for it.

To find somebody who was still breathing

and had a pulse is fantastic.

Aye, we'll just scoop him under.

But the young man is really needing medical attention

in order to prevent them from dying.

Probably kind of a minute into it,

he has then started to come round very slowly again,

starting with the eyes and a bit of movement then,

and then he started speaking to us.

INDISTINCT REPLY

If we get him in the vehicle, we could probably get into

the reception area bit and get him in the building right there.

That's probably the best bit, warmest bit. See how we go. Yeah.

Everyone ready? Yep.

The man is now responding,

but after being out all night, he is hypothermic.

He needs immediate medical attention.

That's his shoes, yeah.

He'll be needing them.

So he needs some proper medical care.

One of the doctors is in the Cairngorm mountain team,

so he's looking after him at the minute,

and then an ambulance will take him to Raigmore Hospital.

But it's a top little find, just in a very tucked-away spot.

It's taken a while for him to kind of provide some lucid answers,

having been unconscious for a while,

but he has slowly come through more and more

and told us when he went missing last night,

and even now, he's sitting up and having something to drink.

So it's a really positive result for him and his family

and obviously us as well.

It's why we do this job, is to help people,

to protect people and to find people.

So to find somebody alive is a great result for the team.

But more importantly, it's a great result for that young man

and also for his family and for the community at large.

If the young man had died, it would have been reported as

another person who succumbed to their injuries

in the outdoors in the Highlands,

which is all too common an occurrence.

In Inverness, all available units are scouring the city

for the suspects in the hit-and-run case.

They're also wanted for other offences

and seem to be on a crime spree.

But something has been found that can help to narrow the search.

This in here.

Thanks for the callback. It's Elaine in Tango two three November.

Just looking to get a vehicle recovered, if possible.

The stolen van used to run into the cyclist

has been abandoned not far from the scene.

It's immediately seized to be searched for forensic evidence.

For DS Chris MacLeod, this could prove key to the case.

The way we look at it is every contact can leave a trace.

So they've used this vehicle to hit him off the bike

and if we can sort of evidence that

this is the vehicle that was used to do that,

you know, then that helps prove the case.

These suspects have criminal records,

they're known drug users

and have recently been seen carrying weapons.

In charge of searching for evidence

is forensic scene examiner Ian Anderson.

Some mention of them threatening people with a wrench.

Yeah, or a knife, aye.

There's a wrench in the footwell.

Oh, yeah.

Is that a screwdriver as well? Mm-hm.

Couple of crack pipes there too.

Just in the wee centre console. Oh, yeah.

So we've got witnesses that have said that they were in the vehicle,

but witnesses can sometimes disengage with the court process.

So you want to have other lines of inquiry or opportunities

to evidence them having been in the vehicle.

Contents of the van could be vital in proving what happened.

They'll be sent to the lab for testing.

But meanwhile, the two suspects are still on the run.

They need to be found and arrested before anyone else gets hurt.

We'll put every available unit that we have

to look for the couple that are involved.

Go back over addresses that we've already been to.

We'll continue to speak to people who are known to them

and see if we can get updated information,

but at the minute, we don't know where they are.

So as night falls, Detective Michael Cosh

and a colleague head out to knock on some doors.

So there's a couple of addresses which would be of interest to us.

So we're away now just to see if we can get a reply at that doors

and make some enquiry to see if the persons we're looking for

are either there or have been there.

For us, it is a case of generating a bit of unrest amongst locals.

People will start to become disgruntled that the police

are coming back and forth to their door.

What we want to do is also make it hostile for suspects,

so we don't want people to be taking them in to hide them.

So if we're attending at these people's addresses,

the chances are that they'll be less likely to take them in

and it limits where they can go

and gives us a better opportunity of capturing them.

There was some information that they may have been here

at some point in the day.

It's just a case of making some inquiries to see

what we can glean from that.

Hi, it's the police. Can I help you?

Who's that?

I'd like to speak to BLEEP. Is he in?

Who am I speaking to, then?

I'm looking to speak to BLEEP.

What's your name, pal?

He's just told me to BLEEP off.

He's not going to let us in.

So it's a potential that the person we're looking for is either

in there or certainly has been there,

but obviously, there's no reply to the door and we were...

..kind of not very politely told to go.

Undeterred, the officers continue asking questions

at other addresses known to them in the area.

Do you know where he is just now, then? No.

KNOCKING ON DOOR

DOOR OPENS

We're just doing door-to-door inquiries.

And as they speak to more people, they finally get a tip-off.

We actually have received a little bit of information.

A knife, maybe underneath a bin,

which is not too far from where we're looking at just now.

We'll just go and see if we can locate that

and either remove it or seize it as part of our ongoing investigation,

should it become of interest to us sort of later on.

OK, yeah.

Oh!

Looks like we've found what we've been told about, so...

..take it, go get some stuff out of the car for it.

Got any gloves? Stand by it just now

and I'll go get some stuff out of the car. Yeah.

I mean, it might not mean anything,

but someone's felt the need to alert the police to it.

The person who is said to have put it there is a person involved

in the incident we're dealing with today.

So we have it, we can secure it and keep it.

And if it becomes relevant in due course,

then we'll be able to use that.

And if not, then that's fine.

At least no-one else can get access to it.

The knife can be added to the evidence against the suspects.

Since the hit-and-run, they are classed as highly dangerous

and need to be in custody.

But the police still haven't found them.

And now, hours after the incident, they could be miles away.

Keeping the communities of the Highlands safe

isn't just about fighting crime or finding missing people.

The division has 7,000 miles of roads,

many of which need to be approached with care.

The Highland area is really unique.

It covers such a large geographical area.

We don't have motorways, but we do have high-speed roads,

and we've got country roads that are bendy, that are twisty.

And when you introduce adverse weather into that,

that can provide an additional challenge.

But equally, it's a beautiful part of the country

and it's a wonderful area to police.

Road deaths in the Highland Division are the highest in Scotland,

but recently the numbers have been coming down.

In 2023, 16 people lost their lives,

20 fewer than the previous year.

Today, traffic cops Scott McLay and Mark Campbell

are out on patrol at the western edge of the division -

the Isle of Lewis.

Scott and I both used to work over here,

so we know our way about a little bit.

We'll probably go and do some speed checks somewhere

and just see where we end up, basically.

I think it's really important that we obviously support

not just our colleagues that are working in the island areas,

but the communities that we serve.

And just because they're living

in a more remote part of the divisional area,

they shouldn't receive any less of a service for that.

We've taken the unmarked car, maybe catch offences

that you wouldn't otherwise catch in a marked car,

but got a text from somebody over here that

the car had been seen in the queue for the ferry this morning,

and it's obviously done the rounds.

So a few people will be aware that we're here.

Tucked in off the road,

Scott and Mark are on the lookout for speeders...

MACHINE BEEPS

42.

..and also checking for other kinds of dangerous driving.

And he's not wearing his belt. Not wearing his belt.

I've booked him for his belt before.

This is a small community,

so it's hardly surprising that Mark recognises the driver.

If you can typically see the load,

like, this guy's got, like, gravel or grit above the sides like that,

there's a fair chance he's close to being over weight.

And for the van driver, Innes, Mark is also a familiar face.

Oh, I will believe it.

What?

Uh huh.

Yeah.

And guess who was in that vehicle?

Me!

How much have you got on? Do you know?

But you're still a sparky, aye?

We'll take you to get weighed, I think.

I think there's a fair chance you'll be pretty close.

You can go up and turn somewhere. We'll turn here.

Yeah, well, you can follow us, like.

For Innes to be charged,

the weight of his van will need to be confirmed,

which means a trip back to the ferry terminal to use the weighbridge.

The rear springs give us an indication

of whether the vehicle's potentially overweight.

And he's certainly shown a fair bit of weight -

nearly on the bump stops there.

This vehicle is permitted to be 3.5 tonnes.

So he's probably maybe, I don't know...

Maybe I'll eat my words, but I think he's probably about

3.8, something along those lines.

Every vehicle will have a plated weight

so if that safe weight is being exceeded,

it will affect the braking, the steering.

And when you introduce country roads or rural roads into that,

it increases the risk, then, of that vehicle coming to grief.

You count as well, so you need to either sit in it or stand on it.

Just stay still.

So it's 3,940 kilograms, so whatever that is.

440 kilos over, so we'll deal with it.

Innes, you're 3,940.

Yeah.

The officers can't let Innes leave

until his van is under the permitted weight.

I can't leave here till I get some of it unloaded.

So I'm phoning everybody I know.

Oh, here we go.

Uh huh.

Perfect. Thank you.

Cheers, cheers. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

That's one I owe my old boss.

With help on the way, the officers leave Innes with two charges.

We do find sometimes in the rural communities, there can be an element

of complacency, given the remoteness of where they live

and also maybe the more limited interaction

that they might have with the police.

But today, one rural biker who's pushing his luck

is about to have an interaction with the traffic cops.

SPEED DETECTOR BEEPING

64.

In a 30.

Yep.

SIREN WAILS

Passed in front of us. You know, what is he playing at?

He's still carrying on.

As the bike shows no signs of slowing down,

Mark holds his speed to keep it in sight.

Give us the reg if you get it.

HONKS HORN

I want him to pull in somewhere.

It's you.

We're needing you to pull in for us.

We're needing you to stop for us.

Bikers are always a little bit hard to stop

because they've got their helmets on,

they maybe can't see behind them quite as much. You know what I mean?

Motorcyclists are vulnerable road users.

Thankfully, last year we saw a reduction in the number

of motorcyclists that were killed on our roads in the Highland area.

However, we still had four road deaths.

So four is four too many.

Yeah, I was going fast. You were going very fast.

That's a 30.

We've detected you on the laser here doing 64mph.

We've then come out after you with the blue lights on and everything,

you're still absolutely flying along the road there, yeah?

I'm sure they're clear,

but you're passing people's houses and it's a built-up area.

It's a 30mph zone.

Right. In excess of twice the speed limit is not acceptable.

This traffic offender is also known to the officers.

What's your nickname again?

Dennis. That's it. I knew it, I couldn't remember.

I thought I recognised you as well, like.

It's not been long since Dennis's last traffic offence.

What's your pending for dangerous driving?

5th September. What was that for?

Where about?

How fast were you going down Goathill Road?

67. OK.

See before you start thinking about worst-case scenario,

you'll be riding away from here in a couple of minutes' time, yeah?

Nothing changes immediately right now, apart from us giving you

a waggy finger and charging you with...

We'll explain that in a second.

But we're going to charge you with dangerous driving, OK?

Do you understand that?

In Inverness, it's 24 hours since detectives started hunting

for a man and a woman wanted for attempted murder

and a crime spree involving vehicle theft and weapons.

They are still at large,

but overnight, there's been a development.

Police have received information on where they could be hiding out.

Just go in and if anybody is getting lairy, just get control.

They can both be arrested Section 1 for attempt murder

based on CCTV evidence and other witness evidence.

Happy with that?

Good.

Right, we'll just go. We'll just head up there.

We rely heavily on information, whether that's from intelligence,

whether that's through witness information,

whether that's through private space CCTV.

All the information that we can gather generally tends

to be in the hands of the public

and a police force is only as good as the public allows them to be.

Yes, yes, we've got a number of units who are just going to head up

to see if we can capture them within the address.

At the minute, there's probably not grounds to force entry

to the property, even if they're in there,

because there's not any warrants in place, but the urgency comes

from the fact that they've caused a risk to several members

of the public, caused damage to various people's properties,

and so we're trying to nullify a continuation of that behaviour.

They're catching folk off-guard.

Nobody's expected or seen this coming.

So when people are behaving unpredictably, it's not, um...

Folk don't feel safe around that, you know?

It's thought the suspects could be armed and dangerous,

so Chris and his team approach with caution.

This one.

DOG BARKS

Got a dog.

It's the police. How are you getting on?

Is Ross Grant staying here just now?

Do you mind if we have a look?

Eh?

You know we're looking for him, aye?

No warrant. Police. We're just looking for him.

We're not looking to search the house or that.

We're just looking to speak to...

Don't close the door on me, please.

See if you're in there, can you just come out?

Oh, she's downstairs?

The officers access the house without using force.

Their information was correct.

Both suspects are here.

OK, aye, but I need to say it anyway. All right, man?

If you don't understand anything, we can go over it again.

Are you listening? No, I'm not BLEEP listening.

DOG BARKS Calm down. Shut your mouth.

Chill. BLEEP

Just calm down.

What? Shut your BLEEP...

Right, listen, I'm arresting you in terms of Section 1

of the Criminal Justice Scotland Act 2016

on suspicion of attempted murder, OK?

Attempt murder?! Attempt murder, OK?

Aye, right. BLEEP.

The reason for your arrest is so that we can bring you before a court

of law or otherwise deal with you in accordance with the law, OK?

You're not obliged to say anything at this time.

Anything you do say can be written down and used in evidence.

Do you understand?

Press. Get the BLEEP away. I'll come and find you, you little BLEEP.

Anything to say just now?

No, I just need to get my bag.

INDISTINCT BLEEP.

Shut the BLEEP up, man.

Yeah. Good job, everybody.

Great.

So that's where we rely on the public to...

..you know, for information and intelligence and stuff like that.

And when it's credible like that, we action it straight away.

And there you go, there's a result.

That's two folk who've been causing a nightmare

for citizens in Inverness arrested

and can be dealt with in respect to this incident now.

So it's ideal.

As the Highlands' only city, Inverness is the north of Scotland's

nightlife capital - never livelier than on a Saturday night.

Go ahead, mate.

Keeping an eye on things are PCs Laurie Cuthbertson

and Aidan MacDonald.

I've lived in Inverness pretty much my whole life.

You know, I see people I know every day in this job,

and every person I know probably knows I'm a police officer.

For me, it's not a big issue.

As long as I kind of conduct myself when I'm out in a proper manner,

then that's fine.

Whenever I do go out - I don't go out much!

Were you on that night shift

where the whole of the city centre blacked out?

Oh, I was away that weekend. Oh, so you were.

Honestly, that might have been the scariest experience of my life.

LAURIE LAUGHS

We were going to some, like, sketchy calls,

and it was, like, pitch-black.

I was just like...

I was like, "Um, I think I'll stay in the van, do you know that?"

As the pubs call final orders,

Laurie and Aidan receive a call that a man has punched a taxi

parked at a rank, smashing its window, and then running off.

Hi, Bilal. This is Aidan from the police in Inverness.

How are you doing?

Mm-hm. Where are you just now, Bilal?

Are you at the taxi rank still or...?

The taxi driver, Bilal, has made his way to a nearby petrol station.

Which window is it? The other side.

Other side, yeah? Let's have a look.

Mm-hm.

Yeah.

What, just with his fist?

Just punched it? You don't have any cameras in your vehicle at all? No?

And where did it happen?

On the taxi rank. On the taxi rank? OK.

This is actually the second attack

Bilal has been subjected to this week.

A few days ago, he suffered a vicious verbal assault

which went viral.

You had a passenger recently, is that right...?

Yeah. Oh, is it yourself?

I don't recognise you with the hat. That's why.

You're not having much luck. You're not having the best luck, eh? No.

Go ahead.

This taxi driver had had a previous call to the police

where he'd been racially abused quite...quite severely in his taxi,

and he'd put a video on social media about it.

A foreign BLEEP.

Ah. OK. Probably a bomber!

Oh, righty-oh.

You shouldn't even BLEEP be in our country.

You're not even Scottish! Mm-hm.

Why don't you go back to your foreign BLEEP land?

Ah, OK.

Parasite. Mm-hm.

Anything else you want to tell me?

Stinking BLEEP parasite. That's what you are.

Anything else you want to say?

I seen the video of Bilal on Facebook.

It was quite widespread throughout Inverness.

It was a horrible video.

I was really uncomfortable watching it.

Bilal is... He's just doing his job

and no-one should go to their job and get abused like that.

When you deal with racism, there has to be a zero-tolerance approach.

As a police officer, I have seen a lot of these incidents.

I have no idea why anyone would want to be racist.

When I was growing up in Inverness, I didn't see it as a problem.

But since I've joined the police,

I've realised that there is a problem with it,

which can be difficult to deal with.

Obviously I'm very sorry that happened to you. I thought...

I thought the way you handled it was brilliant. Seriously.

You know, I wouldn't have been calm in that situation,

so I thought you did amazing.

No, of course. Yeah, I can totally imagine.

THEY CHUCKLE

Exactly. We were just in the station when we heard it,

and we were just, "Why would you?"

You know, just... It just baffles me.

We've got it on CCTV, so we'll go and have a review of that

and see if we can figure out who it is. And by the time we've done

all that, you might be back home and I'll phone you.

That's great, Bilal. We'll be in touch, OK?

Thank you. Cheers for that.

Someone's just basically been unhappy

cos they've not been able to pay card and smashed his window.

Like, what?

How has that happened?

So taxi drivers deal with similar customers we deal with

at similar states of intoxication.

The rough end of people's behaviours

and, you know, the final straws of their nights.

So we do feel sympathy for them

because we have to deal with the same kind of issues.

The next step for Laurie and Aidan is to check

if the man who smashed Bilal's window had been captured on CCTV.

Here's the taxi here. Yeah.

So we know from what taxi driver said

that he was a bit rude to him here. Yeah.

And he's told him he was going to smash the window.

So that's why he starts pulling away there a wee bit, doesn't he?

There you go. There he is.

Just punches the window. Everyone just jumps away, don't they?

I mean, I'm not sure how easy it is to punch a window,

but it seems pretty hard, you know?

He seems quite a big guy as well, though, doesn't he, you know?

As you can see, all the members of the public...

Oh, they all turn round, don't they? Yeah.

And they're all really not doing anything, just standing there.

No. It's a bit of a shame, isn't it? I know.

So he's now realised that he's in trouble... Yeah.

..so he starts walking away. And I think from...

Yeah, there he goes, starts running. Yeah.

As they spool through the footage, Aidan and Laurie spot a lead.

The suspect seems to have been picked up by another taxi later on

at a nearby hotel.

I phoned all the taxi companies and they don't have any pick-ups,

but there's a fair load of private taxis that drive about Inverness

and don't log into anything or that, they just pick up where they want,

so we're going to go up to Premier Inn and check their CCTV,

see if I can get a reg for that taxi driver

and take it from there.

100 miles west of Inverness, the Isle of Skye feels like a world away

from the lights and hassles of the city.

10,000 people live here,

spread across almost 650 square miles.

So the police rely on locals to report anything suspicious.

Tonight, PCs Cameron Hopkins and Darren Reid are on their way

to investigate something that seems not quite right.

Had a bit of a strange call coming in about a rucksack sitting

at an edge of a road on an unsecured property,

and a dog walker noticed it yesterday,

so she's just a bit concerned

that there might be somebody needing help.

Did she describe the bag at all? A rucksack.

She states this is a wooden cabin-type property, down the track

near the old, disused Broadford Hospital.

The door of the property was laying open and there was no lights on.

She knocked the door a few times and got no answer.

She was walking past there again, same house was still in the same way

with the wide door open and no lights on.

Think we're going to Ghostbusters with this one.

The rucksack was also there at the top of the drive.

Sounds a bit creepy.

THEY CHUCKLE

Straight. Just go straight, mate.

I think people know what's normal and then they know what's not.

I think trust your gut's quite an age-old saying, and it's very true,

you know, if it doesn't feel right, it's probably not.

The lady made a fair assumption that there could be somebody dead

behind the door or somebody had come to harm...

Slow. Slow, slow, slow, slow.

No, that's not it.

..and she just felt that something was off.

It's not that either.

Both Darren and Cameron are new to the Skye beat.

Finding their way in the dark can still be a challenge.

The thing about Skye is that there's very little street lights.

There's very little, kind of, light pollution

from neighbouring properties or anything like that.

It's pitch-black when you're going to these things and it does add

to the kind of... the eeriness of it all.

Just down by the harbour, so we've got a rough point on where this is.

There's a kind of like dirt track...

Not dirt track, but...

There can be the thought that there could be something

more serious going on or is needing our help, is needing assistance,

so it's very, very time-critical we get in there and we find out

what's going on and make sure we can provide assistance.

To help them find their way in the dark,

they've arranged to meet the woman who originally raised the alarm.

No worries. Are you heading up that way? Yeah.

No worries. Yeah, we'll head up the now and we'll probably

meet you up there, then, right? Cheers. Thank you.

Approaching the house,

Cameron and Darren first come across the child's backpack

reported by the woman.

It's a kid's jacket. It's like a school bag, innit?

It does play through your head.

You're kind of wondering if a child's maybe come to harm.

We had no reports of any child in distress that day.

It could just be something as innocent as somebody's left it

when they've got a lift, they've forgot about it.

It's better just to go and check.

There's nothing suspicious in the rucksack, so Cameron and Darren

can move on to check the house.

Is the other door shut?

We've not been round properly yet. Right...

Yesterday, when I came back, went on the walk, then it was open

when I came back an hour later.

And then today, when I've come back, it's still open.

That's why I phoned you up.

If you don't mind, just kind of hang about, and we'll go up and chap it

and make sure everything's OK. Yeah, OK.

And if we need anything else from you,

we'll give you a shout, all right? Yeah.

Still open, Cam?

Yeah, it looks like a...

It looks like it could be, like, a staffroom of some description.

There's a weird smell in here...

You got gloves on you, mate? Yeah.

I'm just going to check round the back,

see if there's any lights on or anything.

That looks as if it's been lived in.

Yeah.

It's a weird-looking... Yeah.

There's guy's shoes inside.

There doesn't appear to be any kind of jemmy marks

or any forced entry to it.

The door was snibbed on a bit of rope on the other side,

so it looks, from first glance, as if somebody's just left it open

and they've went away to work or whatever.

I mean, there's nothing sinister to it.

I might be too nosy and it's been...

But it could have been open for weeks, couldn't it, for all I know?

I just noticed it and I just thought I'd.... No, you're better...

We'll get to the bottom of it. Yeah... We'll give you a wee update

when we know what's happened,

and we get to the bottom of it. OK, thank you.

You see all these programmes where someone doesn't say anything

and there's a dead body in there or someone hurt,

and I thought, well, what's... No.

Yeah. I'd rather do that and look silly and nothing wrong

than ignore it and someone's hurt in there.

We don't really have any concern for anybody at this moment in time.

Yeah. Strange, strange.

Could have been something, it could have been worst-case scenario,

but, yeah, we're thankful that it's not.

But just to be sure, Cameron and Darren make a few more enquiries

to clarify who exactly lives here.

From the initial reporter, she knew

that the owner of the property just stayed round the corner,

so we managed to get in touch with the owner's sons,

who had a contact number for one of the employees from the local hotel

who were residing there.

We've just made contact with her and she was happy for us just to go

inside the property and make sure there were no signs of disturbance.

We've let her know and she's quite happy, and we've just stood down.

Yeah, just good intent from the reporter,

but ultimately nothing for us.

In these sort of scenarios, better to be safe than sorry.

I know, certainly, if I was to phone something in like that, I would...

..I'd sleep a lot better, rather than,

what if I didn't phone this in?

What if something had happened?

SIREN WAILS

In Inverness, PCs Laurie and Aiden are hunting for a man

who smashed the window of a taxi while the driver was inside.

Have yous had anyone, like, come here asking for taxis at all?

Yeah, past, maybe...hour?

No.

CCTV shows the suspect later getting into another cab at this hotel.

Essentially, there was someone that's got picked up in a taxi,

just, like, at the end of the car park there.

I'm trying to find out who the taxi driver was

cos I need to speak to him about the folk that got in it.

Nobody's come in?

OK. That's fine.

Thank you very much anyway. Thanks for your help. Cheers, ta.

Oh! That's it there!

Laurie and Aiden are in luck -

the taxi they're looking for has just driven past.

Just go straight ahead, I think, mate.

CCTV from 5-0 Alpha.

Yeah, go ahead.

That's it there. Yeah, that taxi driver that we're looking for,

I think he just drove or was driving down Millburn Road just now.

Hold on to your horses, we're going this way.

Just confirm, you reckon it was a silver Mercedes, is that right?

Yeah, we're going to catch up with it now.

I don't know if it's went along Millburn Road or not.

Just, if you can keep that camera, that traffic camera you've got

on Millburn Road on, see if you can see it.

Oh, that's him! That's him!

Hi, mate. Did you pick someone up at the Premier Inn

just on Millburn Road?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're trying to locate them.

Where did you drop them off? I took the turn-off for Munlochy.

Did he give you any details for them at all?

This is their name. They gave it to me.

OK, great. Where to take...

That's North Kessock. But they stopped 400 yards before this house.

OK. It is a turning for...

Is a nursery, I saw a sign for a nursery or something.

The flower place, aye. Yeah, yeah, that one.

So they've not even given the right address. Unbelievable.

So they could have been in any of these houses up here, I suppose.

Any of them, yeah. They give you any name at all?

No, no, no. I just picked up from...

And how did they pay you?

Cash. Cash.

Are you joking?

Oh, my word.

They gave me £20... I know. Never.

Well, essentially, the taxi driver is saying that

they smashed his windows because they said, "Do you take card?"

and he said, "No, it's just cash only just now,"

and then he said, "Oh, no, you must take card,"

and he's got really angry and smashed his window,

but then he's paid you cash.

The officers are closing in on the suspect,

but before they can follow up this lead,

another, more urgent call comes in.

5-0 Alpha. We'll be attending. So where are we going?

Lauders, Church Street.

One of their fellow officers has been assaulted nearby.

SIREN WAILS

HORN HONKS

We drop everything to help our colleagues.

We don't want anybody else to get injured doing our job.

We know how dangerous it can be,

we know how unpredictable people can be, so we're always going to drop

everything we're doing to kind of make sure that everyone's safe.

Jump out. Jump out.

SHOUTING

BLEEP

What the BLEEP are you doing to my girlfriend?

Right, stand back, stand back.

Right, OK.

Right, right, let's sit up, OK?

Wait a minute, four men?

Right, OK. It's hurting me!

Right, can you pull your legs up and stand up? No! No, wait a minute...

Do you want me to drag you along?! Do you want to behave like an adult?

WOMAN SHOUTS Right, have it your way, then.

I'm not doing anything wrong.

Speak to us like an adult and we'll

maybe speak to you like an adult. I am trying, but you're speaking...

BLEEP

Speak to me, then, like... Please.

You're under arrest for police assault, OK?

I'm not assaulting anybody! BLEEP

INDISTINCT SHOUTING

It affects the police from all angles, being assaulted,

whether it's personally, professionally, staffing,

you know, it has major issues in the police,

and it's very common for us.

It's just part of our job at the moment.

Take my wrist... My left wrist, please.

Two seconds. OK, that's fine, that's fine. Listen, stand up.

Flailing your legs about.

Could you please give us your details, OK?

Yeah, I'll give you anything you want. Right. OK.

Gemma, are you OK? Right. Right, she's OK.

She's calming down now, all right?

It's fine. She's completely fine.

She's completely fine.

BLEEP

Yous are... One, two, three...

Yeah, we've been through this, all right? OK?

Aye.

Having been restrained, the woman will be taken back to the station

and booked into custody.

What I gathered from the cops there, that she's arrested

for police assault, so I don't know what's happened up until the point

that she's assaulted the police, but she was arrested for police assault,

and she was kind of resisting the arrest,

and that's why they've had to take her to the floor.

Well, I mean, that's what you join the job to do,

is to help protect people, and if that's your colleagues,

you're going to do the same for them as well, so...

After the earlier assault on the taxi driver, this is the second

violent incident Laurie and Aiden have dealt with tonight.

It's something they face daily in their role

keeping communities safe for everyone.

Police assaults are on the rise.

No-one should go to their work and be assaulted,

but, unfortunately, as police officers, we're a lot more liable

to that because we're dealing with people that can be very violent.

When we're dealing with people who have kind of been the victim of

someone who's been quite threatening and abusive towards them,

I think the victim of that, they can relate to us

cos obviously we deal with that every single day

and you can relate to this person,

you know, you've gone through these sort of things,

so you can show sympathy, you can show empathy.

You can be understanding with these sorts of things.

It's just something that we put up with

and have to deal with, unfortunately.

There he is.

Next time - cops brave the elements,

searching for a missing woman in the woods...

Where the hell is she?

I am absolutely soaking to my pants.

..and a manhunt takes another team miles into the wilds...

It's a long way off from civilisation.

DOG BARKS ..and in Inverness,

an arrest warrant ends in a siege.