The One with the Dangerous Liaison
Simon and Conrad are near Slough, and head off to assist a bus driver under attack nearby, with a robbery in progress. They arrive with superb timing and manage to snaffle the thief as he attempts to flee, all without disturbing Mr Hills’s shades! The suspect complains that he hasn’t done anything wrong – though the shaken bus driver says otherwise. The bus has a wide range of smashed windows and mirrors but, fortunately, no one has been hurt. Though the suspect doesn’t take at all kindly to being taken to the nick…
Helen is in Maidenhead and is called to the scene of a road crash in case Bonnie is needed to chase down any fleeing drivers. There is no need, however, as the driver – drunk, of course, has trapped herself in her car by slamming it between two traffic signs. Astonishingly, despite being trapped in a totalled car with the possibility of petrol vapour all around, the woman actually attempts to light a cigarette – and protests furiously when they prevent her as she’s ‘in shock’. After wresting several lighters away from her, Helen withdraws to allow her to be cut out of her wrecked car. Obviously assuming that refusing to provide any specimen for testing will get her out of a drink drive charge – she is, happily, proved wrong as refusal carries exactly the same penalty!
In Gerrards Cross – a bunch of Proactives, led by JK, are helping a range of officers to bust a whopper outdoor cannabis farm and factory. In they go – nicking one suspect as he attempts to leave the site, but another flees, so a search begins across the plantation. There is no doubt whatsoever what is being grown on the site, though it’s very well hidden, despite being in such a crowded area of the country. It’s the biggest such plantation JK has ever seen!
Anna McShane and Tony ‘Griff’ Griffiths are in Aylesbury, where the dealer from the previous drugs bust is being held in temporary accommodation – except he’s escaped from the portakabin and now they have to go find him. Fortunately he hasn’t got far, with two local officers keeping him in their car – but his determination to get away is such that Anna and Griff are also required to keep him from attempting it. Though they can’t stop him complaining – or attempting to scream for Britain as he waits, with leg restraints required to keep him from fighting, until a van arrives to take him back to the nick again.
Simon and Conrad are out and about on patrol in Slough, and spot a couple of likely lads who might well be dealing drugs. Their arrival seems to prompt one of the chaps to drop something hastily, so Simon searches him – and finds a substantial heap of cash stuffed down one of his socks, so Conrad goes to have another look for anything that might have been discarded, and finds a small stash of something illicit that has fallen a bit more deeply into the bushes than a cursory look would have revealed. Conrad assumes it’s cannabis, but it turns out to be crack.
Andy ‘Flipper’ Burden and Waller are out and about in Wokingham looking for a burglar in a stolen Audi – but instead spot a group of lads who feel like being a nuisance. As they’re nowhere near their normal stamping grounds, have been drinking (being legally able to do so) and there’s a large firework lurking in a nearby phone box, it’s clear that they’ve been planning some explosive behaviour as far away from their own neighbours as possible, though only one of them has the guts to actually own up instead of childishly showing off to their mates by being lippy. Infuriatingly, the stolen Audi Waller and Flipper were after zips by as they deal with the timewasters.
Simon and Conrad are in Aylesbury again and head into a car park where they discover a spot of amorous behaviour going on in a parked vehicle – outside a school during school hours – and the bloke accuses Conrad of being indecent!
