Brothers in arms
"We ready then?" said Gina, counting heads in the van "Mine are all loaded"
She said "Yours Smithy?"
"No" he said, irritated "Where's PC Till?"
"She was in the lockers Ma'am," said Sheelagh from the second van "Shall I go?"
"Well, if you wouldn't mind!" said Gina with her usual sarcasm, just as the young PC Karen Till ran down the ramp, pulling on her fluorescent coat "Come on!" said Gina "Not disturbing anything?" she demanded
Karen wilted under Gina's glare, blushing scarlet as she slid past Smithy taking the only available seat next to Steve.
"We'll meet you there" said Gina "Lets roll!" she added to PC French who was at the wheel.
Smithy jumped in the second van beside Tony, who was driving, and they rolled out of the yard.
Juliet and Yvonne in one car and Phil and Gary in another car were already waiting outside The Globe, a local hotspot for underage drinkers, Superintendent Okaro had decided that they were to raid the place on Friday night, Ramani, Ken and Samantha were inside, sizing up likely targets.
"Sierra Oscar one to DS Roan, all units in position, over" Gina gave the conformation that they were all ready to go, Phil sighed and shifted in his seat, knowing that Juliet was texting the DI with the information and on receiving her orders, it would be Juliet giving the order to go.
"What's up Phil?" asked Gary
"Nothing, and it's Sarge" he replied
"Sorry!" said Gary "Was only concerned, if you ask me the DI should of given you this job, not Juliet, you've got more experience"
"Juliet put it together," said Phil
"But still...." Said Gary
"Just drop it!" growled Phil, Gary shut up; he'd obviously touched a raw nerve.
"DS Roan to all units, stand by" the order came over the PR, Gina and Smithy ushered their groups out of the vans, waiting.
Yvonne, Juliet, Gary and Phil, all got out of their cars, waiting...
Juliet stared at her phone, waiting for the DI to send the order, the phone lit up and bleeped, Juliet opened the message and held the PR to her mouth "DS Roan to all units GO! GO! GO!" She said, running with Yvonne towards the rear door of the pub.
Uniformed officers stormed the front and side doors, Phil grabbed a kid of about 15 as he tried to get past him "Don't think so sunshine!" he said, shoving him towards Andrea who held him. Juliet, Yvonne, Gina, Tony and a few others waited by the rear door for the fall out of people trying to escape from the officers flooding the bar, they didn't have to wait long as the door flew open, Gina stepped in front of the door way "Going somewhere?" she asked as the group of teenagers stopped short
"Go on!" said Juliet "Back inside, and you'd better get your ID ready or we'll be taking you home to mummy"
Inside the pub was a mêlée of people, three of the bar staff were being read their rights by uniformed officers for serving under age drinkers, having been clocked by Sam, and Sam was having a heated discussion with the landlord. Everyone was having their ID checked and those who weren't old enough to be in the pub were clubbed together in a corner being watched over by Smithy, Steve, Andrea and Ramani, the group was getting larger by the second.
Juliet noticed a kid cowering under a table "Come on!" she ordered "Out!", the kid came out slowly head bowed "Got any ID?" she asked the kid shook his head "Name?" she demanded
"Darren" he said
"Darren what?"
"Smith"
Juliet wrote it down "This way" she said, and then gasping as the kid tried to make a run for it "OI!" she shouted, grabbing the kid by the arm, and marching him over to the bunch of kids already caught "Darren Smith" she said to Steve as she pushed the kid into a seat
"Oh, I know who he is alright!" said Smithy "He's my brother!"
Juliet and Steve gaped at him; "Sit down!" ordered Smithy
"Look, Dale, if Dad finds out I've been nicked you know what will happen. Please!" said Darren, Juliet looked at the kid closely and saw Smithy's green eyes and frown looking back at her.
"Well you should of thought of that before you decided to drink here, you're 15 for Gods sake" Smithy was almost whispering but Juliet could hear him "Now I said sit down!" he pushed Darren towards a seat but he missed and sprawled on the floor
"Easy!" warned Juliet putting her hand on Smithy's arm, Smithy looked at her "Leave it" he said, "I'll sort it" and walked away
"You OK?" Juliet asked Darren
"Yeah, I guess he's more like Dad than I thought," said Darren sadly
Juliet was about to ask him what he meant when Sam called her over "Juliet, I thought you'd like this arrest!" she said proudly indicating the landlord
"Thanks Ma'am!" said Juliet, turning towards the landlord "You are?"
"David Wilde and look what my bar staff do is ..." he whimpered
"Your responsibility" finished Juliet "David Wilde I am arresting on suspicion of being in contradiction with the alcohol licensing laws, namely allowing alcohol to be knowingly served to persons under 18, You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned, something that you later rely on in court" she looked round grabbing Sgt. Manson "Neil, can you cuff him and take him back to the nick please, I think he'll keep until the morning" she said as Neil led him away.
Smithy sat at his desk, head in his hands. He didn't look up as Juliet walked in and closed the door "You OK?" she asked
"No" he said
"Wanna tell me what's going on?"
He groaned, "You nicked my little brother for under age boozing, and now he wants me to get him off"
"I know that bit, what I didn't know was that you even had a brother, you've never wanted to talk about your family, and I've respected that but after that little performance in the pub I think you owe me some sort of explanation."
"He lives with my Dad, and who ever Dad is knocking off at the moment, Darren has always been in some sort of trouble, but I haven't seen him my mum's funeral, I wasn't welcome" he said looking at the floor
"So?"
"Well, Dad was always hard on us, I guess he still is on Darren, but Darren's made his bed, he can lie in it" he said standing up he put his arms round her and buried his head in her hair "Love you" he mumbled.
"Stop trying to distract me!" she said
"Can't we drop it for now?" he begged "Darren's in here for the night anyway, I'll talk to him tomorrow"
"You do realise that I can't be involved in this now?" she said "I have to pass him on to Phil to charge, Both sets of lawyers would pounce on this straight away, you being his brother and our relationship"
"I know, it wouldn't be fair on you," he said, "Come on let's go, you staying tonight?" he smiled, his mind already on something else
"Yeah" she said taking his hand as they left the office.