About this season
The landmark documentary series that captures real life drama at its most intense, following police detectives around the clock as they investigate major crimes.
Episodes (5)
1. Bad Blood
7.0Aired 27 July 2015 • 45 min
The return of the documentary in which more than 60 cameras are used to follow the work of Bedfordshire Police, from the cells at stations to the operational heart of major investigations. A small town near Luton has been plagued with an outbreak of teen criminality, and DS Emma James and DC Cathie Layton pull a 22-hour shift to find the evidence against a young man accused of robbery and assault. He denies everything and paints himself as the victim. Will they uncover enough to charge, or will he be released?
2. Guilty Little Secrets
Aired 3 August 2015 • 45 min
Bedfordshire Police must decide whether to charge two men arrested as part of a nationwide operation against people possessing and, in some cases, distributing indecent images of children online.
3. Partners In Crime
8.0Aired 10 August 2015 • 45 min
DS Simon Hancock and DC Cathie Layton have 24 hours to interview two men who they suspect are behind a string of knife-point robberies. And neither man knows what the other's saying...
4. Mother's Day
7.0Aired 17 August 2015 • 45 min
The police release a young man who's been accused of a vicious assault when he gives his mother as an alibi. But when she fails to support his story they have to try to find him again...
5. A Sixth Sense
8.0Aired 24 August 2015 • 45 min
DC Cathie Layton investigates the case of a man who is alleged to have assaulted a taxi driver and stolen his keys. But her instinct tells her that all is not what it seems...