1 (DOOR SLAMS) (DOG BARKS) All right, get out! Get out! Protecting us from crime nationwide. You can go. (MAN GROANS) (BLEEP) (INDISTINCT RT CHATTER) This way! For the more than 1700 female police officers,... We'll be here all day. ...every day brings them face-to-face with danger. (MAN SHOUTS) Can you just show some respect, please? These streets are tough,... Don't tell people you're gonna kill 'em, then. ...so they need to be tougher. RT: People running for their lives. (BLEEP)! Police dog handler. Come out now! They reckon there might be kids in there. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) RT: He's on the other side of the road, but he's in the right lane. Do we have permission to spike? Yup. I did take pictures of myself, Mum. Put your hands behind your back. Yup, you can go. (MAN STRUGGLES) (ROCK MUSIC) Copyright Able 2017. # Mm-hm. # (FUNKY UPBEAT MUSIC) It's Friday night in downtown Auckland, and Constable Bridget Suckling is doing her usual rounds with the Alcohol Harm Prevention Unit. He's drinking. (FUNKY UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES) (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) (MUSIC CONTINUES) Have you got some ID on you? What about it? Yeah, well, I need it cos you're drinking alcohol in the city. Oh, what about it? So is everybody else. Yeah, well, it's a breach of the liquor ban area. Oh, well, what else? Come on, over here. Off the footpath. Over here. Nah, don't even touch me. Off the footpath. That's assault. No. Well, you're arrest, then. No, it's not. Yes, it is. You're breaching the liquor ban. (SCOFFS) Eh? Have you got any ID or not? Yeah. 'You know that when someone's got alcohol on board, their mind is not in a learning state.' What they say to you doesn't really carry much weight. You know, 'I pay for y` I pay for your wages.' Um, 'Go find some real criminals.' You know, all of the normal lines you get ` um, pfft! Water off a duck's back. I won't even respond to it. What I'm interested in is the evidence and facts before me. Check out and make sure you're all good. Stop touching me. You've gotta calm down for a moment. When people perform at their absolute worst, then, you know, as police, we have to perform at our best. OK? Just keep calm, all right? (HOICKS) No, that's not keeping calm. Hoicking up a loogie doesn't appear in Bridget's Guide to Calm, and she's quickly running out of patience for this drunken window washer. We'll have a chat and it's all good, eh? Where is it? It's just down here, beside you. You can pass me your little window-washer thing too. Oh, you little (BLEEP). That's enough. Put your hands behind your back. Yup. You can go. Whatever. 'There's a certain level of abuse that, once it gets unacceptable, 'I'll look at different ways to how I'm gonna arrest them.' You're under arrest for breaching the liquor ban. 'If they're doing that to a police officer, what are they gonna do 'to the next person that annoys them on the street? So it's about prevention as well.' We'll take them in until they are in a safe and sober state to get home. You just have to` ...myself with my (BLEEP)ing (BLEEP). Well, I don't quite trust you at this moment. Especially when you're doing the spit-roll thing. If we leave them on the street, conditioning has told us, over the years, we'll be returning there not half an hour later, and someone's got, you know, a broken nose, and someone else has got a black eye, and there's been a fight. In Avondale, Auckland, police have a fleeing driver on their hands. All available units, including Constable Telisha Kumar, are called to assist. There's a priority on the radio. Eagle called over saying that they were watching the car that just had been involved in a robbery. Um, one of the males had taken a handbag off, uh, one of the victims. (TENSE MUSIC) RT: We're right on Edmonton, so there's no traffic around here. You know, we're driving not too fast, but fast, but, you know, it's quite hard, cos it's close to 12.30, lunchtime. Everyone's out on the road having lunch. It's just too busy and too dangerous, so we are actually not allowed to be in pursuit of a vehicle. We had to set up cordons so we could kind of block the car in. RT: Coming into The Drive, nearly has a sideswipe crash with another vehicle. Took a right on to The Drive, through a stop sign. Vehicle was going through stop signs, red lights. Just luckily, we had Eagle, and Eagle was above, you know, keeping track of where the vehicle was going. RT: So, just a heads-up ` we've, uh, got 10 minutes on-scene gas at the moment. I think they only had 10 minutes of gas left, so if we didn't catch them within those 10 minutes, Eagle would've left, and we would've been... Yeah, we would've been lost, really. RT: And we've northbound towards Gillies Ave. We're gonna have to bail out soon, I think. Just before Eagle has to pull out, the fleeing driver makes a costly mistake ` swerving down a dead-end street. Comms, Eagle on the radio. There were two that decamped out of the vehicle. They're running into the Auckland College of Education. We had just heard on the radio that they were chasing them, so I got out of the car. There was three of them, and I thought one of them had gone out here, just around here, but, um, they actually went straight from the car, just through, uh, the alleyway over there. Just luckily, the cops, uh, that were here before us got a hold of them on the other side, on the other side of the road, so that was good. All three were in custody, and, yeah, we've got the car, and now the victim will be able to get her things back. Oh, he's only a young guy. Yeah. Did he just spit? Yeah. To be honest, in all the pursuits that I've been in, we've actually been too late, so that kind of sucked cos it just like` it was only a couple` like, maybe a minute. Like, you know, if we'd just turned left, we probably would've seen them getting out of the car and probably would've been able to catch them, so that was quite annoying cos it's just... You know, it's so good to, like, get them, you know? Damn it! We were so close! I'm so frustrated, eh. (SIGHS) With one fleeing driver off the road, it's not long before Telisha has another one on her hands. Three Kings. Shall we go to that? Just after 1am in Ponsonby, Auckland, Telisha gets the call to assist. RT: There's a couple of cars on the other side of the road, but he's in the right lane. Um, and his driving's still good. (SIREN BLARES) Turning into Kitchener St. Still driving about 60 K's, Comms. Just passing Duncan Ave. Continuing straight on Kitchener St. It's quite exciting, eh? I feel... Yeah, like, when it's on the radio, you just wanna get involved. Do we have permission to spike? Yup. Shall we get our spikes out? Yeah. RT: He's driving on the northern lane on Sainsbury Rd, Comms. We're going about 100 K's down Sainsbury Rd. As Telisha and her partner jump out to prep the spikes, the fleeing driver suddenly swerves down a side street in the opposite direction. This will be the end of our night, guys. (LAUGHS) Do you wanna let them know? I'll go speak to him. With other units taking over the chase, Telisha and her partner speak to a taxi driver and passengers who are caught up in the carnage. These are my passengers. Are you guys all right? Yeah. We're good. That was crazy. Yeah! All good? Yeah, yeah. (LAUGHS) They were, like, at the speed of, like... Yeah, yeah. No, it's not your fault. It's not your fault. Passengers were fine, so that's OK, and he's OK. It's just the little part of the front part of the taxi damaged. And did you get a good look at any of the people in the car? No. Just on the driver, but not that much that I can remember. The driver? Yeah, that's OK. Um, what can you remember about the driver? Coming here to the crash scene, it's not as exciting as trying to find who this guy is, but it's still` You know, you're still clearing up the mess and making sure everyone's OK, so, at the end of the day, that's what we're supposed to be doing anyway. At least it's not too much of damage to your car. RT: 2-5, if that was you... We've helped out in the process of getting this person that's done whatever they've done, it's definitely still a good feeling. Thank you very much for having me here today. This is the third time I've come and spoken to you guys. My daughter Chloe was at this school three years ago, and she really loved her two years at school, so I'm back here to talk to you guys, and I'm gonna talk to you about cyber safety. Child exploitation on the internet, I think, is a huge problem, and I know that the majority of it goes by undetected. Like, it happens, and the kids don't say anything, and kids are affected. Detective-Sergeant Kate Smith is talking to 11-year-olds and 12-year-olds about keeping themselves safe on the net. Um, don't put your details or any photos on the internet unless you've spoken to your parents. It's an important issue for Kate. Before taking up her current role at the CIB, her primary focus was cyber crime. Having worked in that area for about 2.5 years, 3 years in child exploitation, more education needs to be done, and I think that young kids need to be spoken to very early on. If I say, 'Keep your details safe on the internet,' what do you think I mean by details? Anyone? Like, where you live and stuff. Yeah, where you live and stuff. Very good. The last thing you want is somebody turning up at your address, trying to have a relationship with you or trying to be our boyfriend or your girlfriend, and they're an adult. Cos that's yuck, OK? And that's against the law. In Manurewa, Kate is currently speaking to a mother afraid that her daughter has been sexually abused online. Is there anything on her Facebook, (BLEEP), on your Facebook, that shows what school you go to? Or where you live? Is there anything on there? Is it, babe? Um, I only said that I used to go to (BLEEP). OK. But she had told me` Yeah. ...all in that` Yeah. Like, 'Mum, it's happened like this. 'I went on this (BLEEP) website, (BLEEP).' 'I did take pictures of myself, Mum. 'I was doing things`' Yeah. '...that you're going to really, really get upset about.' I just looked at her. I said, 'Please tell Mum.' I said, 'I'm not going to hurt you. 'You just tell Mummy. Tell Mummy so I can help you.' Yeah. Mum was really wound up, um, and absolutely livid, seething with anger about what had happened. And what they described to me was a type of grooming online. So where somehow this guy has got hold of this kid online ` she's 14 ` has spoken to her and has developed, not necessarily a relationship as we would think, but a form of relationship with her online, and then has made her do sexual things to herself and then sent images to him. So he's then, with those images, has threatened to show her family, or to disclose those images to her family members, um, from her profile on Facebook, if she doesn't keep doing that for him. Yeah, I'm just taking screenshots of the Skype conversation that's been typed, um, including his` his image. The other thing that's interesting is that in his Skype profile, he's got a photo there of him with a cap on, and when the daughter was Skyping him, when his face came up, she recognised it as that same photo, which is actually really interesting for us, because a lot of the time, of course, these guys make face` false names, false photos, everything, but he's` he's put his own image on his Skype profile, and we've got a picture of that image now. So, first of all you met him on (BLEEP)? Yeah. Yeah. And how do you do that, then? Can you explain to me how that happens? Oh yeah. I was just on` I was on (BLEEP), and then I went on the chat and (BLEEP) talk with strangers. OK. Oh, look at that. Did you hear that? OK, yeah. Yeah, I know (BLEEP). Shocker. Although there are warning signs and age restrictions plastered over chat sites like this one, some children believe that talking to strangers in a virtual space won't cross over into their everyday lives. We go online thinking, 'Oh, we're gonna meet some lovely people online.' Or, 'We're gonna befriend people and we're gonna chat to people online' ` all with good stuff in our heads, and then we've got these ratbags, who go online and exploit that, you know? This happens a lot, unfortunately, and that's why spreading the message of keeping kids safe on the internet is just so, so important. So, I think we've got everything that we need. Yeah. OK. Um, and it'll just be a matter of see if they've seen this guy in any chat rooms. What happens now from here is I'll put a referral through to Child, Youth and Family and to our multi-agency centre. And, if anything, what we'll do is we'll get some help for that kid, and we'll get some counselling for her, and then I'll send all that information down to OCEANZ, which is our online child exploitation group, and they are the ones who are the gurus when it comes to being online. I'm really proud, and I'm really proud that you're here. Yeah. I'm really stoked that she said something to you, cos it's a big thing to talk to Mum about. Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. I'm really proud of you for coming to me. You see, because if you hadn't come to me, my goodness! What the heck? What's really important for this case is that we've got a mother who's been involved with the police, but on the wrong side, if you like, and her daughter has been groomed by this creep on the internet, and Mum has had to put all of her thoughts about police behind her. She has to bring herself into the police station and present at the counter and say, 'This has happened to my child. I generally don't like you guys, but I want you to help me.' You know? And, for her, that's massive. And I just said to Mum this morning, I said, 'I've gotta go to the police.' Yeah. 'I've got to go to the police.' I said, 'I have to. I can't let this lie.' No. Because this fella's not only doing it to (BLEEP); he's doing it to others. Yeah. He's doing it to others. And were not gonna` We're gonna stop this. Yeah. For this mum to fly into action, that's massive for her. So, yeah, both of them, incredibly brave people. Thanks, buddy. Cool, man. Nice meeting you, and good on you for coming in. And I'll be in touch with you guys. So I'll give you a ring, and we'll get somebody to come and look after (BLEEP). Yeah. And so I, kind of, hope from her experience with me that she now just sees a different side of police, you know? And I hope that her child has seen a different side of police ` that we're not just out there to lock people up; we're actually out there to help people, and hopefully, she goes and passes the word on to her friends, you know? That actually police aren't all bad; they're pretty neat. 1 (BIRDS CHIRP) After a busy night with the Auckland Alcohol Harm Prevention Unit, Constable Bridget Suckling has been called out to a different type of job, with Police Search and Rescue. So, we have a, um` a car that crashed, um, on to this, um` came off this bridge last night, and one, um, deceased person's been recovered from that car, and we've got one person outstanding. So we're just going to clear the creek that was near where the car crashed and make sure that there's not a person, um, in this creek. So, uh, bit of` bit of a messy, um, walk through the creek, but, um, it'd be good at the end of the day if we can turn around and say there was no one located where we searched that creek. And if it's too deep, we might have to get Dive Squad, so we're just gonna do a little, see how it is. Search and Rescue is just` it's so cool. You have a fantastic team around you that is a highly motivated people. No one's in there going, 'Oh, I don't like my work,' or, you know, 'I've had a bad day.' You know? (CHUCKLES) Look ` what's that all reddy there? It's quite` A passport. Yeah. That's interesting, eh? Yeah. You're just so focused into finding that person, so it's really goal-driven as well. Our role is to find that person and bring them out, but it's` it's the team. It's` I think with the Search and Rescue, it's the team. Such great camaraderie. Got something here. Oh yeah. Pull it up. Oh yeah. Just wood, huh? Yeah, nah. The nature of search and rescue requires the highest level of teamwork in high pressure situations ` skills Bridget had long before joining the police. A keen sailor since the age of 14, she's competed in multiple round-the-world yacht races. It was a little bit of a crossover with yachting. Like, the more extreme the weather is and the environment is, um, the more I like it. You could be out there looking for someone and it's raining and you're cold, and, you know, making those decisions in that environment when you're a bit miserable is quite good. I like that. I don't know... (CHUCKLES) why. That attracts me, yeah. She's a sucker for punishment, and her schedule leaves little room for downtime. It is really difficult, and I think, um, sometimes I get in the car on the way to work and I go,... '(EXHALES) I am just keeping my head above water.' There is that much going on with the search and rescue, with my business-as-normal job, which is the` all the alcohol harm prevention on the street, with being a mum, with looking after the house, with training up the dog... Yes! Good boy. Good boy. ...and my National Disaster Victim Identification, um, team. And if that wasn't enough to juggle, Bridget has just proved she's still not shy of a challenge. When I entered the police, I wanted to be a detective, and, um, I wanted to catch real baddies. Within my career, lots of people say, 'You know, you should go sergeant's, 'you should go sergeant's.' 10 years on Auckland City, you get to know the rough sleepers, and one of the rough sleepers, he said, 'Miss, isn't it, uh, about time you got your stripes?' And I was like,... '(GASPS) That's so embarrassing, that one of my rough sleepers has said that to me!' So I went away, and I studied up, and I just got my sergeant's exams completed. When I see him next, I'll actually tell him that, um, I went and took your advice and I, you know, did the exams, and I'll buy you a hot chocolate. (CHUCKLES) (SOMBRE MUSIC) Just south of Auckland, a car has crashed, killing the driver, and his girlfriend is yet to be found. Bridget and the Police SAR team are methodically searching the creek for her. It's not something I've done a lot of, this particular search. Um, but obviously, you're feeling with your feet and, um, also using your eyes. Um, so you're` We can't really see completely the bottom, so you're, sort of, feeling round in front with your foot as you go. Well, the good thing is that we're finding car parts. We'll find the body. Yeah. After a thorough search of the creek, news comes in confirming that the girlfriend wasn't in the car. It's good, cos we recovered a passport of the person that died, so that's nice to be able to return that to the family. And it's, uh... Yeah, and you always learn. You always learn something on the search. You know, like, just a different technique, you know ` 'OK, I'll take this half of the creek, you take that half of the creek, and we come in.' And feeling with your feet, so there's always something to learn on every search. So that's the end of it. That's today. I'll go home, and then go back to work tonight. (TENSE MUSIC) The police is` It is a great career, and for those young girls that are aspiring to be in the police, you know, the could come in, and if they want, they could make commissioner. No problem. If you want it bad enough, you know, anything's possible. You might want to do what I did, which is, um, love the camaraderie, loving rolling out with my team, um, in a specialist, um, role, which is in the Search and Rescue squad. Or you might, um, want to go down the detective role. Or you might want go down, you know, the Armed Defenders squad or the dog handlers, so, you know, there's so many different areas that you can go into. Because everyone is capable, and, um, that's really cool as well, getting to do some things that you would not normally think that you were capable of ` that's` I like that too, and you get that in the place. (TENSE MUSIC) (ALARM RINGS) (SIGHS)