Criminal - Bonus Episode: The Bark

Episode Date: November 30, 2018

A story about Steve Hutton, a police constable in England, who decided to do things a little differently. For a transcript of this episode, send an email to transcripts@thisiscriminal.com with the ep...isode name and number. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Please review us on Apple Podcasts! It’s an important way to help new listeners discover the show: iTunes.com/CriminalShow.  We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:13 Yeah, we do. Police officers. There's obviously other names that we get called, but that's the main ones we use. Steve Hutton is a police constable in Wiltshire, a county in southwest England. He works in the British version of highway patrol. They call it roads policing. One night in June 2016, he and his colleague heard on the radio that there was a high-speed chase underway and that the fleeing vehicle was coming their direction. It was on a night shift. I think it was around about 2 o'clock in the morning.
Starting point is 00:01:49 Myself and a colleague, we were just on patrol on the motorway in Wiltshire. They waited until the suspect's car passed them and sped after it. I think we were about 120, 130 miles an hour. Miles an hour or kilometres? That's, 130 miles an hour. Miles an hour or kilometers? That's miles, miles an hour. They were directly behind the suspect's vehicle. Steve was driving. His partner was on the radio reporting what was happening.
Starting point is 00:02:16 Police further down the road set up a stinger. A stinger is a strip with a bunch of spikes that cops lay out to force cars to stop. It shreds your tires when you drive over it, and that worked. The front tires of the fleeing vehicle actually came off the rim. The suspects had to dump the car and continue on foot.
Starting point is 00:02:38 Are you a fit guy? Reasonably. All the people in the car got out and started running in different directions. The police officers, including Steve, each chose one to chase after. And then it's a case of just trying to catch them before they get too far. Did you think you were going to catch him? There was a possibility. He had a good head start. The suspect appeared to know the area well and kept ducking into little alleyways.
Starting point is 00:03:09 Steve says he only managed to keep up for about 30 seconds. And then after that, you start to run out of breath because your adrenaline's going. And I could see that he was going to get away unless I resorted to trying something different. So what did you do? I decided to try a challenge as if I was a dog handler to see if that would prevent him getting away. And I just shouted out to him, police officer, police officer with a dog, stand still or the dog will be released. He kept going for another few seconds. And I was thinking, well, OK, maybe he's going to get away. But then I thought, well, why don't I pretend to bark like a dog
Starting point is 00:03:52 to make him a little bit more aware that I might have one. And so I did, and he decided that he would stop. The suspect stopped in his tracks and held his arms out to the side. He didn't even turn around, just stood and waited. Steve caught up to him and handcuffed him with no trouble at all. And you could see he was looking around for where the dog was and when he realized that there wasn't a dog and it was me, he was quite perturbed, a little bit annoyed in himself for giving up because if he kept, he probably would have got away. Can you demonstrate the bark?
Starting point is 00:04:32 Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. Not as good as on the night. Steve brought the suspect to the station, gave the paperwork to his colleagues on the day shift, and went home to get some sleep. What did your colleagues say when you told them? Were they impressed? They laughed.
Starting point is 00:04:51 They still laugh to this day. I get dog poop bags left in my tray at work. Sometimes if I'm talking on the radio, someone in the background will bark. There was a time where someone phoned up to report a lost dog and someone in our control room thought it would be funny to get me to go to that job. I think they thought I could probably bark and it would come running to me. This is a funny story. Are you a funny guy?
Starting point is 00:05:25 I am. I have my moments. Do you ever look at yourself in the mirror and bark? I can't say I ever have, no. So you're not trying to really perfect this anymore? No, no. I. So you're not trying to really perfect this anymore? No, no. I guess it's pretty good. Yeah, no, it's just there to use,
Starting point is 00:05:48 I think, if it ever came around again. This bonus episode of Criminal is brought to you by Radiotopia. Now is the time to go to radiotopia.fm to help support us and the network. Criminal, as always, is produced by Lauren Spohr, Nadia Wilson, and me. Audio mix by Rob Byers. I'm Phoebe Judge, and this is Criminal. Do you want to hear that bark one more time? Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. From PRX.
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