999: What's Your Emergency?
The dispatches of the emergency services in various parts of the UK are followed.
Genre: Documentary
Cast:Hugo Speer , Julian Barratt , Holly Goodhall , Paul Golding
S3.E1 ∙ Call Handlers
This episode visits the control centre. Cheshire's ambulance service gets 50% more calls than 10 years ago. Some are life-threatening, some heart-warming. Others are less urgent, like sore eyelashes.
S3.E2 ∙ Episode #3.2
This episode follows police and paramedics dealing with the effects of legal highs, from a regular user coughing up blood in a bus stop to a grandad who's reacted badly to legal highs he bought online.
S3.E3 ∙ Episode #3.3
This episode meets the police officers dealing with growing numbers of problems between neighbours, from noise, feuds and burnt-out cars to reports of a man acting suspiciously and scaring children.
S3.E4 ∙ Episode #3.4
This episode explores the police and ambulance staff's increasing role dealing with issues arising from mental health problems, including evaluating whether people who are behaving unusually are OK.
S3.E5 ∙ Episode #3.5
This episode explores the lives of people who the police and paramedics regularly meet, from persistent shoplifters who no longer see prison as a deterrent, to people who struggle with alcoholism.
S3.E6 ∙ Episode #3.6
Focussing on issues around immigration in Cheshire, this episode features a heated arrest at a supermarket, and the rise in racially aggravated incidents at weekends.
S3.E7 ∙ Episode #3.7
Cases in this episode include an elderly woman who's had her life savings stolen, a repeat offender suspected of assault, and the disappearance of 13 ducks.
S3.E8 ∙ Episode #3.8
This episode explores alcohol-related incidents, from a professional footballer driving erratically the morning after a night out, to men and women getting naked and/or aggressive.
S3.E9 ∙ Episode #3.9
This episode explores the challenges the emergency services face with teenagers, from online bullying and children attacking their parents, to teenagers who have to care for ill parents.
S3.E10 ∙ Episode #3.10
This episode explores the rise in violent crime across the UK and the increase in attacks on our police forces. Cheshire PC Claire Heatley is assaulted by a suspect.
S3.E11 ∙ Episode #3.11
This episode explores the challenges and dangers our emergency services face on our roads, from drivers under the influence of drink, drugs and sometimes old age.
S3.E12 ∙ Episode #3.12
This episode explores the emergency services' role when matters of the heart clash with matters of the law, from domestic assaults to abusive graffiti.
S3.E13 ∙ Episode #3.13
This episode explores the challenges that the emergency services face when people's lives hang in the balance. In Warrington paramedics arrive at the home of a man having a suspected cardiac arrest.
S3.E14 ∙ Episode #3.14
This episode meets Cheshire's police custody staff, who deal with everyone from people accused of terrible crimes to others who see the cells as a welcome break from other challenges.
