24 Hours in Police Custody
Cameras follow Bedfordshire Police over a 24 hour period as they respond to emergencies, investigate crimes, arrest suspects and battle against the clock.
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Cast:Zawe Ashton , Royce Pierreson , Attiq Malik , Brett Jones , Chris Hutton , Martin Hart , Tam Whinnet , Cathie Layton , Gill Cook-Smith , Gary Hales , Darren Turney , Colin Knight , Simon Hancock , Lisa Hutchinson , Oly Tomlinson , Andy Fielder , Kim Cresswell-Young , Claire Long
S1.E1 ∙ The Conspiracy to Murder
The series begins with police launching an early morning raid to arrest a man on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. While driving to work the victim's car was hit by another, whose driver then shot him with a sawn-off shotgun.
S1.E2 ∙ Love Hurts
PCs Cheryldeen Liversidge and Kat Alison investigate two very different domestic disputes. A woman has dumped her ex-husband's clothes at a charity shop, another is receiving threatening messages from a man with a violent past.
S1.E3 ∙ The Confession of a Paedophile
Officers question a sex offender who has breached his bail conditions by having pornographic images on his computer. Meanwhile, press reports of the attempted abduction of a schoolgirl have sent Luton into a panic.
S1.E4 ∙ The Drug Drop
CCTV cameras at a petrol station capture a large quantity of cocaine being accidentally dropped by a young man, the detectives bring in a suspect but is it the right man? Police try to help a heroin addict arrested for shoplifting.
S1.E5 ∙ The Morning After
Saturday night means domestic disputes and a drunken fight. Constables investigate an alleged assault of a 75-year-old by the man's private carer. Also, a Polish man arrested for a 'breach of the peace' vows to kill his wife the next day.
S1.E6 ∙ Honour Thy Father
A devout Muslim father is arrested on suspicion of beating his 26-year-old daughter with an iron. She married an illegal immigrant and her father tried to forcibly remove her from her husband's house.
S1.E7 ∙ The Crime of the Century
Acting sergeant, and double amputee, Wil Taylor and his team investigate the case of three sex workers. The police begin investigating if the women were illegally trafficked into Britain, but all is not what it seems.
S2.E1 ∙ A Crime of Passion
Police enter a blood splattered crime scene to find a man and wife with horrible knife wounds. Detectives have 24 hours to piece together what really happened from the half truths and intentional lies they are told by the parties involved.
S2.E2 ∙ A Short, Sharp Shock
Two teenage girls are arrested after a fight broke out in a nightclub. And the police also arrest a 61-year-old man who's never spent a night in the cells before.
S2.E3 ∙ Human Traffic
Observational documentary series set inside Luton Police Station. The police arrest a man and a woman from Hungary on suspicion of human trafficking.
S2.E4 ∙ Punchdrunk Love
Police in Luton investigate three instances of domestic abuse, still one of the one most common crimes they are called to attend to and still one that remains difficult to prosecute.
S2.E5 ∙ Age Concern
Several elderly people have been sexually assaulted in a graveyard. The police have a sample of an attacker's DNA from a previous crime and arrest a young man. Will his DNA match?
S2.E6 ∙ Frequent Flyers
Bedfordshire Police arrest two prolific criminals who are very familiar to them, one a shoplifter the other a burglar.
S2.E7 ∙ One for the Road
Luton's trouble with drink related crime is highlighted by the arrest of a man suspected of taking a car from a garage without the owner's consent and wrecking it, all while under the influence.
S3.E1 ∙ Bad Blood
An outbreak of teen criminality puts Police on a 22-hour shift to find the evidence against a young hooligan accused of robbery and assault. He denies it all and plays the victim. Will they find enough to charge him, or will he be released?
S3.E2 ∙ Guilty Little Secrets
Observational documentary. Intelligence has led Bedfordshire police to two separate cases against people possessing and in some cases distributing, indecent images of children via the internet.
S3.E3 ∙ Partners in Crime
A series of robberies at knife-point lead the robbery squad in Luton to two men who they suspect may be behind the crimes. Detectives need to link them to the crimes via the getaway car.
S3.E4 ∙ Mother's Day
Observational documentary. It's Mother's Day and a young man has been released from police custody after giving his mother as an alibi. When she arrives at the police station, she fails to support his story.
S3.E5 ∙ A Sixth Sense
Observational documentary series set inside Luton Police Station. DC Cathie Layton investigates the case of a man who is alleged to have assaulted a taxi driver. Her instinct tells her all is not what it seems.
S4.E1 ∙ Human Cargo
Banging from within a refrigerated lorry alerts Bedfordshire Police to a group of 15 illegal immigrants within. What starts out as a routine case takes a dramatic turn when the men start falling seriously ill.
S4.E2 ∙ To Catch a Paedophile
The police have a complex case to deal with when a man comes to them admitting that he tried to set up a meeting for sex with a 12-year-old girl that turned out to be a sting operation carried out by online vigilantes.
S4.E3 ∙ Love Thy Neighbour
Bedfordshire Police have a high profile case to handle when, English Defence League founder, Tommy Robinson assaults a Muslim man in Luton. They also try to help a Muslim woman seeking protection.
S4.E4 ∙ One Punch
A single punch from a man outside a nightclub leads to the victim's death. The police try to determine if the punch was an unjustified and aggressive assault or an act of self-defence.
S4.E5 ∙ The Black Balaclava
Bedfordshire Police investigate a series of armed robberies that all involve two men wearing crude balaclava's fashioned from items of clothing threatening their victims at knife-point.
S4.E6 ∙ Home Truths
The number of domestic abuse incidents reported to Bedfordshire Police has soared to over 200 a week in recent years. Two such incidents show the difficulties officers have investigating these cases.
S4.E7 ∙ The Lethal Weapon
Officers search for an armed and dangerous man who is on the run from Bedfordshire Police's "Operation Bosun" - a specialist unit that tackles gun crime.
S4.E8 ∙ In Plain Sight
During Luton's annual carnival a man seizes the opportunity to enter a house and sexually assault two young children. Bedfordshire Police scan thousands of hours of CCTV footage in the hunt for him.
S4.E9 ∙ A Complaint of Rape
When a young woman reports that she has been raped by a man she met in a bar, Bedfordshire Police bring the man in for questioning and try to unpick the two very different accounts of events.
S5.E1 ∙ A Moment of Madness
Bedfordshire Police tackle an extraordinary case. A young Latvian man walks into a hotel and asks the receptionist to call the police as he is being followed, he then bludgeons a guest with a fire extinguisher.
S5.E2 ∙ Their Time Will Come
Detectives investigate when a 76-year-old man is arrested following allegations of historic child abuse dating back to the 1970s. A young man is accused of inappropriate behaviour with young girls in his cadet unit.
S5.E3 ∙ Human Chains
A man walks into Luton police station claiming that he has escaped from a slave-owning gang at a traveller site in Bedfordshire prompting police to launch a dawn raid with over 200 officers.
S5.E4 ∙ Code of Silence
When a man is attacked in a crowded pub there should be plenty of witnesses to provide the investigating officers with information on the incident, but they seem unwilling to talk.
S5.E5 ∙ The Golden Bracelet
Officers interview a care worker who has been taken into custody despite adamantly denying any involvement in the theft of a gold bracelet from someone she was looking after.
S6.E1 ∙ Sex and Corruption
After visiting a prostitute a married man receives a blackmail note which he takes to Luton police station. Detectives at the Major Crime Unit investigate, track down, arrest then charge the suspect - a fellow police officer.
S6.E2 ∙ Car Attack
Bedfordshire Police are called to an emergency in the town centre of Dunstable where a man has driven a car into a group of late-night revellers outside a kebab shop.
S6.E3 ∙ Left for Dead
A man is found dead in a park in Peterborough. Cameras follow detectives from the Major Crime Unit as they investigate, but rigor mortis has set in and the trail of evidence is going cold.
S6.E4 ∙ Shallow Grave
Cameras follow every twist and turn as police dig up the back garden of a house in Luton searching for the body of Natalia Wilkanowska, who vanished in 2003.
S6.E5 ∙ Frequent Flyers
Police search for a couple who they believe have exploited a vulnerable, young woman by taking over her flat in order to use it as a drugs base.
S6.E6 ∙ Too Close for Comfort
Bedfordshire Police investigate when a woman reports she is living in fear because she believes that a man she once thought of as a friend is now stalking her, which he denies.
S7.E1 ∙ Body in the Grass
Feature-length edition concerning the arrest of a suspected controlling character over the murder with a bottle to the throat of his alcohol-dependent partner.
S7.E2 ∙ The Kane Line
A major covert surveillance operation against an organised crime gang behind a drugs supply line in Luton is about to come to fruition, officers launch 10 armed, dawn raids and try to get gang members to crack.
S7.E3 ∙ A Knife Through the Heart
When a man dies from a stab wound to his heart detectives begin their inquiries. They suspect a friend of the victim may be able to tell them what happened, but will he co-operate?
S7.E4 ∙ A Second Chance
Bedfordshire Police respond to a call from a woman to a block of flats in Luton. There they find a bloody hand-print on a wall and a flat that appears to be empty and a disturbing case unfolds.
S7.E5 ∙ Fifty Shades of Abuse
A teenager is rushed to hospital with injuries which suggest she's been tied up and assaulted. She says she got them during rough sex with her boyfriend, but then vanishes from the hospital.
S7.E6 ∙ What Lies Beneath
The police receive a phone call claiming that body parts are buried in the garden of a house in Luton, but are they deliberately being drawn into a brutal gang war?
S7.E7 ∙ Lost in Translation
Bedfordshire Police investigate a man who they believe has brought a young woman into Britain illegally on a one-way ticket from Bulgaria.
S7.E8 ∙ Living Among Us
A man is lured to a sting by pedophile hunters and a pensioner is found badly beaten. Cameras follow every twist and turn of an emotive and troubling police investigation.
S8.E1 ∙ Predators
The eighth series commences with an extended edition following police as they hunt for two rapists. They race to stop a recent offender striking again. Can cutting-edge forensic techniques help catch a rapist who has evaded justice?
S8.E2 ∙ Family Secrets
An experienced officer from the Bedfordshire Police Internet Child Abuse Investigation Team investigates an area of criminal behaviour beyond anything she has tackled before.
S8.E3 ∙ Knifed
Detectives race to the scene of a stabbing in broad daylight in a busy shopping centre. Meanwhile, on a suburban street an 18-year-old man is attacked and stabbed by 4 young men.
S8.E4 ∙ Smuggled
Police track a lorry to a warehouse where they find cannabis and amphetamines with a street value of three million pounds. Intelligence reveals a suspected drug trafficker is about to flee to Spain.
S8.E5 ∙ The Detective and the Surgeon
Bedfordshire Police investigate a reported burglary in which antiques worth a quarter of a million pounds have been stolen from a country estate. But something about the case doesn't add up.
S8.E6 ∙ Sudden Death: Think Murder
Detectives investigate when a coroner asks police to look into the sudden death of a 48-year-old woman in Cambridgeshire, and the hunt for clues takes the investigation right across Europe.
S9.E1 ∙ Murder in the Woods - Part 1
The first of two episodes taking viewers behind the scenes of the police investigation into the pre-meditated and brutal murder of a young man in the middle of woodland.
S9.E2 ∙ Murder in the Woods - Part 2
In the second half of this double episode, the DCI believes that he knows who was behind the murder. Cameras follow the case as detectives decide to arrest the victim's friends.
S9.E3 ∙ The Home County Cartel - Part One: Spider Catchers
In a two part special, a covert police unit track a smuggling operation bringing huge quantities of drugs into the UK. Can they catch the ringleader?
S9.E4 ∙ The Home County Cartel - Part Two
The covert police operation tracking a major drug smuggling operation closes in on the ringleaders in a nerve-shredding conclusion.
S10.E1 ∙ Black Widow - Part One
In Cambridgeshire, police hear a recording of a woman plotting to have her ex-husband killed - the start of a gripping investigation hurling officers into a race against time
S10.E2 ∙ Black Widow - Part Two
Every twist and turn of the investigation as detectives seek compelling evidence to prove Victoria Breeden plotted to solicit the murder of her ex-husband
S11.E1 ∙ Bedfordshire's Most Wanted
In Bedfordshire, a man accused of a string of offences involving violence embarks on a frightening new crime spree. Armed officers are deployed as the suspect becomes 'Most Wanted'.
S11.E2 ∙ The Search for Justice
In Luton, a man is shot in the chest by a complete stranger. The same suspect threatens a woman. With a gunman on the loose, a frantic manhunt is launched to catch the shooter before he strikes again.
S11.E3 ∙ The No Body Murder
Cambridgeshire Police have a big problem: a murder hunt without a body. A complex search for clues takes them into the woods and across Europe, and features a mysterious post on Facebook.
S11.E4 ∙ Til Death Do Us Part
In Luton, a man who has been attacked at home dies of severe brain trauma. The investigating officer met the victim a week before and is haunted by the idea that maybe she could have saved his life.
S12.E1 ∙ Wanted
In the leafy suburbs of Luton, a man's caught on CCTV launching a brutal assault on three women. Soon he's all over Facebook as officers race against time before the suspect goes to ground.
S12.E2 ∙ Chicken Shop Wars
A violent daytime brawl with knives erupts on the streets of Luton as a chicken shop war heats up. But the case takes an even more disturbing twist when a police raid lands a huge cache of drugs.
S12.E3 ∙ The Horror House - Part 1
In the first part of a two-part special, a lone detective sets off on the trail of a Luton man who sexually abused scores of young people, in what becomes a complex, disturbing pursuit.
S12.E4 ∙ The Horror House - Part 2
In the gripping concluding part of this special edition, will the victims of alleged historic child sex abuse finally get justice? Or will the suspect walk free again?
S12.E5 ∙ Murder on the Doorstep
On a quiet Sunday lunchtime in a Cambridgeshire suburb, a man lies bleeding to death. A major manhunt is triggered, where the strength of family blood ties is brutally exposed.
S12.E6 ∙ Holding the Baby
The season concludes with the case of a baby with suspicious injuries that may have been harmed by its parents. These cases are particularly hard to investigate as there are never witnesses. If a crime has been committed, the only hope of prosecution is if the parents give themselves away - so they must be observed closely while the child is in hospital.
S13.E1 ∙ The Murder of Rikki Neave: Part 1
27 years after the devastating murder of 6-year-old Rikki Neave, Police conduct another investigation with newly found DNA evidence of Rikki's Murderer.
S13.E2 ∙ The Murder of Rikki Neave: Part 2
James Watson, who was a 13-year-old boy at the time of 6-year-old Rikki Neave's murder, was arrested under suspicion of murder after new DNA evidence was found.
