How crime affects the haves and the have nots

WARRINGTON again figures prominently in tonight’s episode of Channel 4 documentary “999: What’s Your Emergency?”
The programme looks at how both the haves and the have nots are being affected by crime.
PC Ross Dryden says: “Money is certainly not the root of all crime, but it’s one of the biggest contributing factors to crime. People want more money and they’ll go to desperate lengths to get it.”
In Warrington PCs Ross Dryden and Lyndsey Whitehurst are on the lookout for a repeat offender suspected of theft and assault. They spot a familiar figure and a heated arrest results in the recovery of the stolen goods.
“You’ll find that you go to jobs and the same names are always popping up, “says PC Whitehurst.
In Crewe, PC Matt Ambrose is called to the home of an elderly woman who has had nearly £10,000 of her life savings stolen from her bank account. This is the victim’s first encounter with the police and she’s devastated by the crime.
PC Ambrose is determined to find the perpetrator and get her money back. “She’s like your nanna,” he says. “How would I feel if it was my nanna or my granddad that these people had taken that amount of money from?”
Meanwhile PC Sarah Brockley is called to a smallholding in the middle of the Cheshire countryside to investigate whether foul play is involved in the disappearance 13 ducks. But the owner is more bothered by the sentimental rather than the financial value of the ducks.
The series follows incidents from the moment a 999 call is made to the arrival of the frontline police and paramedics – the hard-working men and women who protect us from ourselves and each other, while seeing us as we really are.
Tonight’s programme is broadcast at 9pm.