24 Hours in Police Custody

Observational documentary. This episode opens with the dawn arrest of a man on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. Detectives have 24 hours to gather enough evidence to charge or release him.

PC Cheryldeen Liversidge and PC Kat Alison investigate two strongly contrasting stories about harassment and domestic abuse.

This episode follows the team of four detectives working fulltime on child abuse cases in the dedicated Safeguarding Investigation Unit.

A man accidentally drops a large quantity of cocaine outside a petrol station and is caught on CCTV. Another man, arrested on suspicion of theft, turns out to be a heroin addict.

It's Saturday night and Bedfordshire Police are dealing with drunken domestic disputes and a booze-fuelled fight.

A devout Muslim has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting his daughter with an iron, after she married a man he does not approve of.

Three sex workers are arrested during a raid on a local brothel. Are the women victims, possibly trafficked to the UK from Eastern Europe, or are they running the business and exploiting others?

Detectives from Luton CID are called to an ordinary terraced home in the town where they find a extraordinarily disturbing crime scene.

Two teenage girls are arrested after a fight in a night club and a 61 year old man is arrested to end an argument with his flatmate. None of these people have ever spent a night in the cells.

The police arrest a man and a woman from Hungary on suspicion of human trafficking.

This episode follows cases where alcohol and relationship tensions combine to make a dangerous cocktail. It's a hangover that the Bedfordshire Police all too often have to deal with.

This episode follows cases where police have to deal with offences against the elderly.

This episode follows the stories of prolific offenders, those who defend them and the officers who investigate them. The question is, who will win the game of police cat and mouse?

A small town near Luton has been plagued with an outbreak of teen criminality.

Intelligence has led Bedfordshire police to two separate cases against people possessing and in some cases distributing, indecent images of children via the internet.

A string of knifepoint robberies have led the Luton Robbery Squad to two men who they suspect are behind the crimes.

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.

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.

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.

A trio of men, all with a turbulent relationship with alcohol and each with a story to tell, end up in custody, protesting their innocence. Officers work into the night to try and get to the bottom of their stories.