CITY POLICE GROM SPECIAL FORCES PART 2
[ ALEKSANDR NOSIK PRESENTER ]Hold your horses, special forces are hunting crooks.
[ Aleksandr ]I'm Aleksandr Nosik, today I'm with GROM, the Special Forces Unit and, we're on a case
[ VO ]Here’s what we know about today’s operation:
[ Aleksandr ]Officers have received information that a thirty-five-year-old
[ Aleksandr ]Muscovite with previous convictions, lets drug-addicts into his apartment for communal drug-taking.
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[ Aleksandr ]So, roughly how long does it take...
to prep an op? A week, maybe a month?
[ Officer ]We're on all-day shifts, we don't prep...
[ Aleksandr ] You mean... you go to an address you're given… [ Officer ]We just arrest.
[ Aleksandr ]You wait for a suspect? How does it work? Is there a kind of GO signal?
[ Officer ]The detectives send us in and give us a briefing.
[ Officer ]Targets may be outside or in an apartment, they watch and we stay hidden.
[ Officer ]It's also our job to keep officers safe.
[ Officer ]If a suspect sees them, we can cover
them. They get long jail terms for drugs nowadays.
[ Officer ]They often carry knives.
[ Officer ]Stand by. Target behind your van.
[ Officer ]Roger.
[ Aleksandr ]Your target?
[ Officer ]Yes.
[ VO ]Now you get to see an arrest with your own eyes!
[ Officer ]Stop, police!
[ Officer ] Do you have a weapon on you?
[ Officer ]Head on the hood!
[ Officer ]Anything illegal?
[ Officer ]Clear!
[ Aleksandr ]Well, there it is!
[ Aleksandr ]There was no need to break in, the client showed up all by himself.
[ Officer ] It happens! - We got lucky?
[ Officer ]This time, yes. It makes the job easier!
[ VO ]We can’t tell you how long they worked on this case — that’s
classified. What matters is that the operation was a success.
[ Aleksandr ]Well, any win without a fight is a good thing.
[ Aleksandr ]No one got hurt, no one resisted arrest, nothing like it...
[ Aleksandr ]It's been a good day... So far!
[ Officer ]Stop, police!
[ Officer ]Do you have a weapon? Head on the hood.
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[ Press Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk ]A police intelligence operation on Bolshaya
Akademicheskaya Street resulted in the arrest of a 51-year-old, who was carrying a package of plant-derived substances.
[ VO ]This is video of one of the biggest police operations in
Moscow in recent years. With Grom’s support and in the south
of Moscow, Drug Squad officers seized a stash of about
four kilogrammes of marijuana and more than forty of hashish.
[ VO ]Most of it was kept in a rented garage and the estimated
street value of the haul is more than thirty-four million roubles!
[ Irina ]Investigators have filed charges concerning the offence under
articles 30, 228 and 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
[ VO ]Now we’ll search the suspect’s apartment. Who knows what we’ll find.
[ Aleksandr ]We're heading... with the officers, the police and the GROM guys
to a secret place in a flat that's said to be
a drug den. Search and seize, collect evidence.
[ Woman ] What is it?
[ Aleksandr ]Thank God, nothing happened, you can rest easy
[ Aleksandr ]Thanks to the police, everything's fine.
[ Woman ]If it's a neighbour, we want to know what's going on
[ Aleksandr ] Nothing at all, now [ Woman ] But what was it?
[ Officer ]Strangers came here?
[ Aleksandr ]Lots of them came round? Well, they won't anymore.
[ Woman ]We've heard that a few times.
[ Aleksandr ]We'll see! Now we'll see.
[ Woman ]And all your filming, I can help, because I live here.
[ Officer ] Your warrant, you have a warrant?
[ Aleksandr ]It's a documentary, so...
[ Aleksandr ]Thanks. Goodbye.
[ Woman ]There's always been this... this smell…
above my apartment Above or below, I can't tell
[ Aleksandr ] What kind of smell? [ Woman ]You know, like medicine.
[ Man ]The junkies? Yeah, I saw them. They sat around totally wasted, that's all.
[ Woman ]Isn't it scary having a crack house around here?
[ Man ]Well, kind of. My son's grown-up. He lives elsewhere, but yeah
[ Man ] Okay. Excuse me.
[ Officer ]We've already searched him and he has no sharp or bladed weapons
[ Officer ]That's why he's not cuffed, he doesn't present a threat.
[ Aleksandr ] So basically… [ Officer ] If he was a 'big fish', we'd cuff him at once.
[ Aleksandr ]By the look of it… Do you do drugs?
[ Officer ]Wait, let him finish. He's signing the charge.
[ Officer ] Name, here.
[ Aleksandr ]So you have to play it by ear, really… You see if they're athletic,
aggressive, or big. If they have a gun or knife, they might use it.
[ Officer ]We search them at once and seize everything.
[ Aleksandr ]He had drugs in his possession?
[ Officer ]Now they'll search the place.
[ Aleksandr ] You run a drug den in your flat? No? Really?
[ Aleksandr ]They go to your apartment to do drugs, don't they?
[ Aleksandr ]No?
[ Aleksandr ]You say, no one comes here?
[ Aleksandr ]You do drugs alone and out of the blue, you're busted?
[ Detainee ]Why do you care?
[ Aleksandr ] We need to know. [ Officer ] The others your neighbours saw...?
[ Aleksandr ]Where's the money from?
[ Detainee ]I took a job.
[ Aleksandr ]What job?
[ Detainee ] Janitor.
[ Aleksandr ]People work in offices for 20K a month and can't afford basics,
and you can afford drugs! Your bills must be at least 5 to 7 thousand a month. And you're a janitor. What do you make?
[ Detainee ]22.
[ Aleksandr ]22...
[ Aleksandr ]What's the charge?
[ Officer ]Part 1, article 232. Medium-severe, up to 4 years in prison.
[ Aleksandr ]Up to 4.
[ Officer ]They use you because you help get hold of the money for their stuff.
[ Officer ]They dragged you into this.
[ Officer ] That's why they need you, not as a friend.
[ Detainee ] Sure. If I have money, they need me. If I don't, they're gone.
[ Officer ] So you know it? [ Detainee ] Of course I know.
[ Aleksandr ]Ever wanted to change... - ...your life? - Yes
[ Officer ]To all witnesses and everyone present: Here in XXX Street, apartment
53, by order of the Moscow regional court, we will search the premises where
the citizen we have detained lives on suspicion of narcotic substance
offences, under article 232 of the Russian Federation's Criminal Code.
[ Aleksandr ]We're in, they've read him his rights
[ Aleksandr ]They'll search him and his flat and draw up the paperwork
[ Aleksandr ]You want this life, with drugs?
[ Aleksandr ]What a story. He's thrown his life right down the toilet, and I mean literally.
[ Aleksandr ]This is his heaven.
[ Aleksandr ]Come, inject, forget.
[ Aleksandr ]A shame!
[ Officer ]Wait. In the kitchen? Not there?
[ Aleksandr ]No.
[ Aleksandr ]Now, they'll do a body search.
[ Officer ] Any needles or syringes? [ Detainee ] No.
[ Officer ]Take off your jacket.
[ Officer ]Now your shirt.
[ Officer ] Do you have any tattoos?
[ Aleksandr ]You asked about tattoos, why is that?
[ Officer ] If they've been in jail, they have tattoos.
[ Aleksandr ]Which can tell you their story?
[ Officer ]Yeah, druggie, thief, I don't know, they all mean something.
[ Aleksandr ]The search! Every detail.
[ Aleksandr ]Anything could be vital in this kind of situation.
[ Aleksandr ]To be honest, I'd never guess that some
of these items are linked to drug abuse.
[ Aleksandr ]But they're professional and thorough.
[ Aleksandr ]That's why the guys check it all. Every detail. Every item.
[ Aleksandr ]Thorough, diligent, tedious, but so
important, it will all be used in court.
[ Aleksandr ]The case will be based on this evidence.
[ Aleksandr ]Look here, as an official witness...
[ Aleksandr ]Oh wow!
[ Aleksandr ]Syringes. Lots of them.
[ Aleksandr ]The search will go on for a few more hours, they'll write it all up
[ Aleksandr ]An expert has arrived to bag up all the evidence.
[ Aleksandr ]Meanwhile, on to the next scene! Duty calls!
[ VO ]This video shows another operation. With support from “Grom”, 4 suspects have been
arrested, including the criminal mastermind behind the scheme. Of the Four detained
males aged 31 to 38, only one is a Moscow resident. The outcome is that law enforcement
officers successfully took down a criminal gang involved in trafficking cocaine.
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[ Aleksandr ]Today they called us back for a real arrest.
[ Aleksandr ]We got up at night.
[ Aleksandr ]It's very early.
[ Aleksandr ]We drove many kilometres.
[ Aleksandr ]We stopped and waited. Then, on to a new site to wait.
[ Aleksandr ]Still no order to 'go', it's an ambush.
[ Aleksandr ]Wait, wait... and wait again...
[ Aleksandr ]What happens? We don't know yet.
[ Aleksandr ]Patience! Now it's dawn.
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NEXT TIME
[ Aleksandr ]Running from mounted police! It's pointless! Don't run!