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00:00Welcome to Bermuda,
00:03a small island paradise in the middle of the Atlantic.
00:07Seeing the turquoise waters, it does lift my mood.
00:10We'll go along the coast, OK? See you up there.
00:13A dedicated police service...
00:17Somebody's going to need to open this door up really quickly.
00:19..is keeping this British Overseas Territory safe.
00:25I think he wears the uniform very well.
00:27You want the $20 now?
00:29Officers, including Brits, doing their duty...
00:32It's tough, and it's really humid today.
00:37The reality is that there are challenges.
00:40..crime-busting in a place where anything can happen.
00:44I didn't really expect the cows to run out the gate.
00:46Uh-oh.
00:49..going to great lengths to catch criminals.
00:54Oh, she's gone, gone. She's gone.
00:56Cannot make this up.
00:59With summer tourists arriving in droves...
01:01Whoo!
01:03..this is peak season for the police.
01:06Listen, mate.
01:08Calm down.
01:08I love policing.
01:10It's in my DNA.
01:11Coming up, British bobbies on the beat in Bermuda.
01:22The heat definitely can get to you in the summer here.
01:24That's why it's nice to have AC in the cars.
01:27On the water...
01:28Can I tell you where you can slow down a bit?
01:30It's going to be five blocks, that's all.
01:32..at the airport...
01:34You're being arrested for the invitation of a control driver.
01:37Missiles!
01:38Missiles!
01:39..and doing whatever it takes to fight crime.
01:42I really don't like bees.
01:43I don't want to make these guys angry.
01:45That's probably the most scary thing I've experienced so far.
01:49Bermuda is policed by almost 400 officers with around 30 being Brits.
01:59Being here is something they've warmed to.
02:02I used to hate the British weather.
02:03I used to hate it.
02:04I would have about five layers on when I was patrolling.
02:06And here, it's just like seeing the turquoise waters.
02:09It does lift my mood.
02:11We all have to do the laundry and all that,
02:13but then you walk out your front door
02:15and you're looking onto a pink sand beach.
02:18You do have to pinch yourself sometimes.
02:20The beaches are by far some of the best in the world.
02:24The ocean here is phenomenal.
02:25At 100 metres of horizontal visibility,
02:28it's like swimming in gin, it's beautiful.
02:30It's like a little bit of hot water.
02:32It's like a bit of home as well.
02:34We have a waitrose.
02:35So it's a bit of home, but in paradise.
02:40For Hugo Benzinga, life in Bermuda is a world away
02:44from his previous job in the Met and Kent Police.
02:47If I had to describe Bermuda to somebody,
02:49it would be, it's beautiful, very friendly.
02:53You can have a real kind of millionaire's lifestyle
02:57without being a millionaire.
02:58You still work really hard,
02:59but you're just not stuck in the M25.
03:02His job is to police the water alongside the Coast Guard.
03:07We'll go along the coast, OK?
03:09See you up there.
03:10Yep.
03:11There are six jet skis.
03:12Getting on the jet ski is brilliant.
03:14And if the captain says that I can get on the jet ski all the time,
03:17I'd be made up.
03:19There's some crime on the water, some boats that are stolen.
03:22There's some boats that are broken into and have things taken from them.
03:26Let's take it five blocks as close as possible, thank you.
03:28But his day-to-day is ticketing boaters for speeding,
03:32no matter how impressive the vessel.
03:35Because you get a lot of weight on the other side of the boaters.
03:38The nearest landmass to Bermuda is the US,
03:43making the island a favourite destination for the seafaring super rich.
03:48$5,000, $6,000 to fill her up.
03:51$5,000, $6,000 to fill her up.
03:55You can slow down a bit.
03:57It's going to be five blocks, that's all.
03:59It's going to be five blocks.
04:01It's getting tagged.
04:02Thanks.
04:04Thank you very much, guys.
04:15Policing in Bermuda for the Brits is not all riding jet skis
04:20through turquoise waters.
04:22There are challenges.
04:24Brit officer Jen Suter is midway through a 12-hour shift
04:28with her colleague Sergeant Caleb in the 35-degree heat.
04:33It's just the summons I have to serve.
04:36If you don't show up, they're going to issue a warrant.
04:38Yeah, I'll be there.
04:39All right, boss. Thank you.
04:40All the best.
04:41I ended up in Bermuda because my parents moved out here.
04:44I wanted a new challenge.
04:47Part of which involves working in sometimes scorching temperatures.
04:52It's boiling.
04:53Is it?
04:53I'm sweating.
04:55No, sorry.
04:56I'm glistening, not sweat.
04:58The heat definitely can get to you in the summer here.
05:00That's why it's nice to have AC in the cars.
05:03The feeling of getting in the shower after a 12-hour day,
05:05especially if you've spent a lot of time outside,
05:08is probably the best feeling of the day.
05:11Officer Jen's shift is about to get even hotter.
05:14She and Sergeant Caleb are responding to a report about a fire on a nearby farm.
05:22It was called in as a controlled burn, meaning they would have gotten permission from the fire
05:28service to do it, but the call is saying that there is no one in the area.
05:33Clearly, the area residents who called believe they've been affected by the toxins from the smoke.
05:39Just last week, Sergeant Caleb went to a similar unattended farm fire.
05:44So he heads straight back to the same farm.
05:55Actually, watch out for your friends here.
05:57I know.
05:57Oh, hello.
05:58Just don't poop.
06:00Don't poop right now.
06:02Where was it last time around here?
06:03I'm going to put this up there.
06:11This is the burn pit.
06:13At the moment, we can't see any smoke and no signs of controlled burn.
06:17So we're just going to try and make contact with the person that owns the property.
06:21We got a call regarding a fire at the farm and some person's complained about smoke,
06:25but we just pulled up.
06:26We're not seeing any sign of anything.
06:27Were you burning something earlier?
06:31So it's definitely not here, right?
06:32All right.
06:32Respect.
06:33Thanks.
06:34So they didn't have a fire here?
06:36Sergeant Caleb calls into base to check out where the farm with the fire might actually be.
06:42Here, 10-4.
06:44Yeah, we had the same farm we went to the last time.
06:49I got you, farm.
06:50My bad.
06:53I just heard the farm bit.
06:54So this is the wrong location.
06:57It turns out the correct farm is seven miles away.
07:01Thankfully, the fire service already has it covered.
07:05So we drove across where that original scene should have been.
07:10There may not be any fire here, but it seems they'll be getting hot under the collar, capturing
07:16some unusual escapees.
07:19Oh, the cows are about to...
07:20No, no, no.
07:21The pack...
07:22Stop.
07:23I can get out of the car, Jen.
07:25Sorry.
07:25I didn't really expect the cows to, like, run out the gate, but they did.
07:30I was driving, so I'm going to say that my sergeant forgot to close it.
07:33No, we forgot to close it.
07:36Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
07:38We let them out, so we had to get them back in.
07:40Let's shift it.
07:48Let's get down there.
07:49Get in there.
07:50Get dressed.
07:51Let's go.
07:52Choppity chop chop.
07:54Feeling the heat is former Brit nurse Holly Levine Smith.
07:58She's in the thick of training to be a new police recruit.
08:02It's going to be a hot, sweaty day.
08:04If you feel like you are going to collapse, yeah, please lay down on the floor first.
08:11You're in full jumpsuit.
08:13You've got your vest on.
08:14You've got the public order boots, and so running around in that outfit whilst holding a shield
08:21is a whole other level of heat.
08:24Shields down, face the centre, visors up.
08:27Welcome to public order training.
08:30Here's your one.
08:31Forward, go!
08:32Holly's lived in Bermuda for more than three years.
08:36My husband got an opportunity to work in Bermuda.
08:40At first I said, where's Bermuda?
08:45But obviously it doesn't take long to think, oh, that might be quite a nice place to live.
08:50I've always dreamed of being in the police and never thought it was for me because I know,
08:55I guess I'm quite, I don't know, feminine.
08:58The hard work in the heat may be a lot for Holly, but she's determined to stick with it.
09:04Let's get ready to rumble again.
09:06Even if training's now going up to the next level.
09:10You've got a lot of pressure on you and I put a lot of pressure on myself to not only complete the course,
09:16but to do it to a high standard. I want to do this job really well.
09:21First two up here. Bizers down. Get your whole body behind the shield.
09:28Arms diced and flexed. It's coming. It's coming.
09:30Arms diced and flexed.
09:37Link them together.
09:43My biggest fear during training was that my dream was going to come to an end very abruptly
09:48and that I'd have to walk away from something that I'd wanted for my whole life.
10:03The Bermuda Police Service fights crime all over the country, including at the International Airport.
10:11Good to see you. Welcome back.
10:13Brit Paul Watson qualified as an officer over 30 years ago.
10:17I'm going to be down at G&H.
10:20He hails originally from the North East, hence his nickname, Geordie.
10:25I was 24 when I came out here. Just something for a young lad, somewhere different.
10:29An adventure in and of itself. Its beauty to me is unparalleled.
10:34Officer Geordie patrols at the airport in a classic Bermudan style.
10:39Squeeze in tight. I'm an old traditionalist. I love the shorts.
10:43I like the long socks. The part of the tradition with my bobby helmet on.
10:48The tourists at the airport absolutely adore it.
10:52Have a good weekend. Bye.
10:54Bye. Don't do anything I wouldn't do.
10:55No. Bye, Geordie. Take care. Bye.
10:57Bye. I think he wears the uniform very well, actually.
11:01He's got some nice legs going on there, you know.
11:03Hang on. You want the $20 now?
11:10Officer Geordie's job is to keep the 800,000 annual arrivals into the airport
11:16safe from crime and help keep illegal drugs out.
11:20The common drug is cannabis. The importation of drug here is a problem because the drug is expensive
11:27when it's here. A thousand pounds worth of drugs in the UK is probably worth $50,000 or $60,000 here.
11:35Officer Geordie gets a call from customs that they've stopped a couple from the US.
11:39Afternoon, folks. How are you doing?
11:47Just have to ask first and foremost, guys, does the cannabis belong to just you, sir?
11:52And the young lady, it's not hers at all?
11:54Okay. So just listen to what I have to say. Just to comply with the law, I'm going to tell you that
11:58it's an offence to import a controlled drug. I'll tell you that you're not obliged to say anything,
12:02but anything you do say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence.
12:06Is there anything you want to say in response to that? Okay. So right now,
12:10I'm going to tell you that you're being arrested for importation of a controlled drug.
12:14This suspect is saying that the drugs are his, but he did not know any better.
12:19I got stopped at the airport with a little bit of weed on me.
12:22I thought it was decriminalized, actually.
12:25Nonetheless, rather than sunning himself on a beach in Bermuda, he's facing time in custody.
12:36One of the perks of being a Brit officer in Bermuda is being able to enjoy its beaches
12:49and bays on days off. Officer Jonathan Wood, known as Woody, originally from Derbyshire,
12:55has fully embraced the island's watery way of life.
12:58The best views are from the water, so it's my favorite thing to do, is to come off the island
13:05and get on the boat. Everywhere around the entire island, you just never stop looking at it really,
13:09whenever you're traveling around, and I still even get that now. And it also just makes the island so
13:13much bigger when you can use the sea as well. Today, he's with his Peruvian girlfriend,
13:19Daniela, and it's a chance for her to work on his pronunciation.
13:23Bermuda on the water is something that Officer Woody will never grow tired of.
13:38When you're on your days off, it does feel like you're on holiday, especially in the summer,
13:42which is one of the reasons why I came here in the first place. I started looking into the place
13:46itself and what was here, the weather, the beaches, and then when I got here, it actually was even better
13:52than it looked on the pictures. It was amazing. Occasionally, you just look around and it's just
13:56still brilliant, even after seven years. There's usually fish around it. We can probably feed them
14:02with this bag of crisps, so that'll be about five dollars worth. There's tons of fish here. Oh my god!
14:14Because they know when they see the boats that they're probably going to get some food.
14:22It's been a romantic day off on the water for Officer Woody with Daniela.
14:28I'm just going to drop an anchor here, yeah. And finally, it's time for a cool down.
14:43Former nurse Holly Levine Smith has finally qualified to become a police officer in Bermuda
14:48after five months of training. It is honestly the best job in the world and I just wanted to do it
14:56so badly. When I found out I'd passed, it was honestly one of the best feelings I've ever felt.
15:04Today, Britt Holly is on her first proper shift as a police constable.
15:09Oh, we could go get you some tickets or something.
15:12Under the wing of experienced officer Moya Ogilvy-Millwood.
15:19I feel like I am a bit worried because looking at what you do, I can't ever imagine being in that
15:26place, so I feel like that brings me quite a lot. And it should because...
15:31Trust me, you're going to get there. At some point, you get to that stage where you're going
15:35to be so good. You're going to be into the constable. You may even be my sergeant.
15:41Their first call is to a house where a police incident occurred the night before.
15:47Do you know what actually happened? I believe it was just a suspicious person who may have
15:53ran from police and left some property behind. So I will possibly assist us in getting DNA or whatever
16:00we can to help identify the people that were seeing last night.
16:07That's a dog.
16:10But if the officers are to collect the evidence they've come for,
16:14the dog is the least of their worries. The homeowner is a beekeeper.
16:19I was not planning on getting stung. I got stung once and I do not want to get stung again.
16:24It appears that the person who may have ran away from police may have came through this yard
16:34and have dropped this helmet and that bandana right there. And so it's just an assumption
16:41that these persons would have ran through here. Thankfully, there wasn't any rain last night,
16:46so hopefully we could get something that we could use, maybe DNA, something that we could use to assist
16:51in identifying who the person was. As the senior officer on the ground, Moya decides to step up.
16:58Right now they're bees, so I'm trying not to get stung.
17:05I really don't like bees and in your training they tell you all about all the dangers that you're
17:11going to come across and they never mention bees, so that's, this is not fun. I don't want to make
17:16these guys angry. She's new, she's kind of timid and I'm, I would not want to see her get stung.
17:26Thank you sir, have a good Sunday.
17:31It would have been good to know that there were bees on the property and we needed to be careful.
17:35Maybe I needed a hazmat suit.
17:37Yeah, that's probably the most scary thing I've experienced so far and it was bees, but yeah,
17:43I'm not going to want to go back there any time soon.
17:48When have you ever done Office of Safety and they tell you about bees?
17:53Have you got any other fears that you like, that you worry you'll come into contact with?
17:59Um, cool. My irrational fear, it's um, like animals, like especially like, I don't know,
18:07like monkeys or birds in human clothes.
18:11Wait, hold on, hold on, I'm going to have to stop this car.
18:31The weirdest fear ever there is. It was absolutely funny.
18:41When policing in Bermuda, expect the unexpected. Back on the farm where Brit officer Jen and Sergeant
18:49Caleb mistakenly thought there was a fire, there are some unusual escapees to catch.
18:55All right, let's go back in. Let's go back in guys. All right, let's go back in.
18:59Uh oh. Hey bruh, I think I might have let your cows off by accident. I'm just going to get them to go back in though.
19:05They're still around. I didn't know how compliant cows would be, so I was like, you know,
19:10would they, could I use the car to try and get them? I don't know. I don't know what was going
19:13through my head at the time, but my sergeant obviously has dealt with cows before, not that I knew.
19:18Come guys. They're good, they're going back in. They're good like that.
19:22Come on. I'm just going to get them to go back in. That's fine.
19:27Yeah, I just closed the gate behind me. The cows listened really well. I was surprised.
19:32Really surprised. Never encountered that before. Fam, you know man was an old McDonald's farm, fam.
19:36I listened better than my dogs do. Cow herding in Bermuda is definitely something that I've ticked
19:42off my list of things to do in life. Definitely a story to tell.
19:46Yeah, but cows are good like that. They tend to respond to, to um, human beings. So you just direct
19:54them and they're domesticated animals. They tend to do what you tell them.
19:57I guess nothing really surprises me anymore. Every escapee rounded up,
20:05officers Jen and Caleb are having a bovine debrief.
20:08We did good then, really.
20:10We did really good.
20:11I think I'm going to resign and just become a farmer.
20:14I'm going to put on a lot of business, guys. You get me?
20:17Well, if only it was that easy to get people to comply with instructions, right?
20:20Mm-hmm.
20:21Yeah, but if a cow could do it, anybody can, right?
20:23Yeah, you'd like to think so. You'd like to think so.
20:26We're supposedly more intelligent animals.
20:28All right, so I guess let's hand back to the station then.
20:41At Bermuda's airport, an American tourist has been stopped for the possession of cannabis.
20:46You're being arrested for importation of a controlled drug.
20:50It's now down to Officer Geordie to determine the seriousness of the offence.
20:56I'll tell you that you're not obliged to say anything, but anything you do say
20:59will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence.
21:04Bermuda has decriminalised possession of marijuana up to seven grams.
21:09But the moment you smoke it, it still becomes an offence under the Misuse of Drugs Act.
21:13The importation of any controlled drug is illegal.
21:18So even if it was less than seven grams of cannabis, it's still a specific offence.
21:24And that's why we end up dealing with a lot of things with customs at the airport.
21:30So what's going to happen now, the drug's going to be seized as evidence.
21:35You will be taken to a police station and then you will be processed in the police station.
21:40And the reason you're doing that is because of the quantity of drug that you have.
21:44If it was less than seven grams, then we may be in a position to deal with it by waving an informal warning.
21:49OK, I'm like, I will say, like, I thought it was seven grams.
21:55I'm going to go and get a set of scales and I'll weigh it myself to get a better indication.
21:59So you're saying you think it's only seven grams?
22:01If Officer Geordie discovers the tourist was carrying more than seven grams of cannabis,
22:07the man could be facing a criminal conviction.
22:10We do get the innocent mistakes, but I think a lot of these innocent mistakes are just sheer stupidity.
22:16I think a lot of people, when they travel on vacation, leave their brains at home.
22:22Unfortunately, it's eight grams.
22:24So it's actually just over our threshold.
22:26So I'm not going to place you in handcuffs.
22:29I'm empathetic because I understand they've done something dumb.
22:33And I'll deal with them with a little bit of dignity and a little bit of respect they deserve when I'm dealing with them.
22:40In this spirit, Officer Geordie contacts the Director of Public Prosecutions to see if the matter can be dealt with as a formal caution, given the marginal amounts.
22:54Bear in mind that that decision is out of my hands and it's always going to be the prosecutor's.
22:58It's difficult in the fact that somebody's got to get locked up, taken to the station when he's barely above the threshold of giving him an informal warning.
23:06But I've got my job to do.
23:07And at the end of the day, there's lines in the sand.
23:10It turned out that Officer Geordie's intervention did the trick.
23:16It's not in the public interest to take somebody to court for one gram above the threshold.
23:22So at the station, he was given a formal warning and he was released from custody.
23:37Officer Holly is halfway through her first proper shift as a police constable with mentor Officer Moya.
23:45Oh, hell no.
23:46On the road, right in front of them, someone has ridden a bike irresponsibly.
23:51So basically, the person just disobeyed the stop sign.
23:57So we're going to speak to him about that.
24:00Good afternoon, sir.
24:08Can I have your license?
24:10Do you know you didn't stop at the stop sign back there?
24:13Not even conscious of it.
24:15Okay, so I'm going to just take your license and I'm just going to check it, okay?
24:21I'm going to have to give you a ticket.
24:24You don't have to give me a ticket.
24:26I don't.
24:27You really don't have to give me a ticket.
24:28I'm like, Sunday driving, this is not the fastest bike in Bermuda.
24:34This is one of the slowest bikes I've ever heard.
24:36And when you pulled me over, I said, me?
24:39With the rider's charm offensive in full swing, Holly now has a difficult decision.
24:45You want me to do a ticket or a man form?
24:49This is your discretion.
24:51You saw the offence?
24:52Yeah.
24:52Okay, and then what you do when you see an offence is totally on you.
24:57You also need to call in the stop.
24:59Yeah.
25:00Hotel 7 to Oscar, 10-5.
25:02I'm doing a traffic stop on Cavendish Reid Street, Delta Alpha.
25:09I'm disobeying a stop sign.
25:14I'm going to give you a warning this time.
25:16I can see that you're being cooperative with us and you understand what you've done.
25:22Yeah.
25:23And you're not going to ever do it again.
25:24Yes.
25:25Because you know the dangers of it.
25:27Yes.
25:27Be careful, I can't change my mind, sir.
25:29No, no, I will never do it again.
25:32Okay, next time...
25:34Yes, officer, I will be very conscious of it.
25:39As you can see, it's a warning on why you've been stopped.
25:41It's your behaviour when you're driving, okay?
25:43Yes, ma'am.
25:44So like I said, to keep yourself safe and everyone else, please don't do this again.
25:48Thank you, ma'am.
25:49I will be very conscious of it.
25:51Get home safely. Thank you.
25:54Officer Holly chose not to tick it.
25:57This gentleman was very nice.
25:59He's had a good attitude.
26:00He admitted to the offence.
26:02He knew exactly what he was doing.
26:03So I made the decision to give him a warning this time.
26:07At some point, she's going to learn that you can't always be nice.
26:13This job has no mercy.
26:15It has no thanks whatsoever.
26:18But she will learn to, you know, balance the niceness.
26:24It's something Holly has heard before.
26:27All the way through my training, a lot of people were saying that I was too nice.
26:32I say sorry a lot, because that's what we do in nursing.
26:36Like, we empathise, we apologise.
26:41And in actual fact, that doesn't always work in policing for obvious reasons.
26:45And I can't be arresting someone and saying sorry.
26:49Suddenly, an urgent call for help comes in from another pair of officers.
26:54Holly's tough side may now be needed.
27:00We've had a call for service.
27:03So basically, it's almost like a distress call.
27:07Another unit has asked for us to back up.
27:10So we're just going there now.
27:13We don't know the situation yet.
27:17When one of those comes in, your heart starts going.
27:20To be honest, you start fearing the worst.
27:23Seven, ten, five.
27:25We're not quite sure exactly what's happening at the location.
27:28So once they call for assistance, we need to get there as soon as possible.
27:33You just have to be prepared to deal with whatever it is you see on scene.
27:37You could call 68.
27:39Yeah, Hotel 7 is open to 60.
27:42Hotel 7 to Oscar, 1068.
27:47A suspect has become violent, but armed response officers have arrived on the scene
27:53to calm down the situation.
27:57The officers call for assistance.
27:59But by the time we got there, they had not needed enough assistance from other units.
28:03The safety of training school feels like a long, long time ago now.
28:09And yeah, it's annoying.
28:11And PC Millwood makes me feel like I am needed.
28:14So that kind of, I mean, that's scary, but it makes me feel like I can help.
28:19All right.