What are the most widely used illegal drugs? And what quantities are in circulation? We first asked the police and prosecution service, then extended our investigation to drug dealers! To our surprise, some of them were willing to tell us how they organized their business, how much they sold, and to whom. We followed a number of police operations and went into flats where we saw impressive quantities of the stuff.
When a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog. Who will be bumbling Bill's undoing - the gangsters, the cops, or his suspicious mother-in-law?
This series follows Avon and Somerset’s Neighbourhood Policing Teams as they tackle the crimes that annoy ordinary people on a daily basis. We highlight the tools at their disposal, and the methods they use, to keep their communities safe.
In this episode, an officer’s hunch helps them catch a wanted man, in Weston the team respond to a report of mini motos causing a nuisance, and an officer in Bridgwater chases a bus hoping to catch a criminal who smashed up an arcade.
In this episode, the team get an unexpected surprise when they attend a fire at a rural house and uncover a cannabis farm, a recently released convict decides that he misses prison life and books himself a return ticket behind bars by assaulting a cameraman, and a wheelchair-bound street-drinker gives the Neighbourhood Team an ear-bashing they’ll never forget when they try to arrest him.
In this episode, the team blue-light to a neighbourhood dispute that has escalated into a violent break-in, an unruly twelve year old is taught a shocking lesson in an attempt to make him learn the error of his ways, and the police help coordinate a search and rescue mission when a rambler becomes stuck in Weston-super-Mare’s treacherous mud flats.
In this episode, officers in Weston-Super-Mare are out in force to raid an address associated with drug use, in Bath the Neighbourhood Team hunt a prolific shoplifter who’s caught red-handed on CCTV, and an officer revisits a mother who’s left heartbroken by her son’s drug addiction and criminal behaviour only to get a nasty surprise.
In this episode, the team leap into action when an intruder is reported to be charging through people’s homes, an officer uses sign language to help a deaf couple that are being bullied, and police in Weston-super-Mare prepare themselves for the busiest day of the year when pop super-group McBusted come to town.
In this episode, the hunt is on to catch an armed robber who is running rampage through the shops of Bath, an officer hears the tragic story of an elderly couple conned out of £25,000, and the team has to use extreme measures when their colleagues are locked inside a house with a prisoner!
In this episode, there’s a foot chase in Weston-Super-Mare as officers try to collar a runaway suspect, the team have their work cut out searching a sprawling estate and all its outbuildings and in Bridgwater it threatens to kick off when the officers help evict a particularly disruptive household.
A Lancashire farmer is fleeced after shearing 3,000 sheep and then not paid for his work. Sheriff Pete pays the debtor a visit to try and get him to pay up. Lawrence and Kev visit an aeronautical giant to get money back for a man whose factory job ruined his hearing, and the Sheriffs go into bat for a couple who had their property damaged by a removal company.
A Norfolk electrician carried out work for a builder but was never paid. Sheriffs Lawrence and Kev face a total lock-out when they go in search of his money. Darryl visits a letting agent, and when negotiations fail, he's forced to find another way into the premises. Sheriffs Marc and Tony visit a car garage on behalf of a builder who paid £3,000 for a car with a load of problems.
A Blackpool couple paid £3,600 for their dream kitchen but got anything but. A builder paid £9,000 for a car but ended up having to take the garage to court. Can the Sheriffs get them their money back? Sheriffs Lawrence and Kev pay a visit to a dentist, who borrowed thousands from an elderly lady and hasn't paid her back. And Sheriffs attempt to remove their biggest asset yet: an aircraft.
In this episode, we discover the full extent of the Neighbourhood Team’s battle with ‘legal highs’, powerful psychoactive drugs that can be legally bought from high street stores, officers respond to a man who has been stabbed in mysterious circumstances, and a pair of boozy day-trippers are sent packing by Bath’s city centre team after one of the pair is caught short in the bus station.
In this episode, officers respond to reports of squatters desecrating a graveyard, a trail of text messages lead an officer to a sophisticated and incriminating set-up in a suspect’s garage and in Weston the team are immediately suspicious when they spot two men carrying a TV through a park, but have to wait for it to be reported stolen before they can act.
Sheriffs Craig and Tom get a rude awakening when they go to collect a debt from a wedding photographer on behalf of a disgruntled Bride and Groom. Lawrence and Kev pay a visit to a builder who left a South Coast woman's house half-finished. A motorcycle racer wants her money back from the garage she bought her bike from, and an electrician wants his money from a loft conversions company.
When a Yorkshire beauty therapist paid to have a tattoo removed by a local salon, she ended up with third-degree burns. The Sheriffs get the man that carried out the disastrous removal to pay up. Then the Sheriffs get a Bristol BMW garage to pay up, get money back for a woman in dispute with a roofing company, and convince the owner of a demolition company that he has a debt to pay.
A central London guitar school sold a customer's classic guitar and then kept her money. Can the Sheriffs change their tune? A ski instructor wasn't paid over £600 of wages by the holiday company he worked for, and a trainee electrician bought a car that turned out to have seriously faulty locks. Can the Sheriffs recover their money?
A marketing consultant wasn't paid for thousands of pounds of work she carried out for a North London college. The Sheriffs are forced to pay two visits when they go in search of her money. A pensioner who was promised a new driveway was left with a pile of bricks, and a man spends his life savings on a tooth whitening franchise that goes badly wrong. Can the Sheriffs recover their money?
A Filipino student paid £2450 for a healthcare qualification from a London college but gets nothing for her money and is kicked out of the country. It's up to Sheriffs to get her life back on track. A Yorkshire jeweller sells the wrong engagement ring. Pete shows them why diamonds are a Sheriff's best friend. Lawrence and Kev chase up a debt owed to a World War 2 veteran.
We meet the man who took a parking company to court after he felt his car was unfairly clamped and towed. Can the Sheriffs get the clampers to pay up what they owe? A dispute with a cafe owner turns a village on its head. It's a storm in a teacup for the Sheriffs. And Pete and Dave go in search of a top of the range, Lamborghini. Unsurprisingly, the owner's not keen to part with it.
