Defenders: Busting the Bad Guys

Officers go undercover to identify shops illegally selling knives to children, and they unmask a car parking scam where cars are being left in muddy fields.

Officers crack down on rogue landlords housing families in squalid conditions, and police track down a con man posing as a collector for a children’s cancer charity.

Officers go undercover to stop retailers selling acid to teenagers. They also track down crooked lettings agents who are pocketing their tenants' money.

Enforcement agents shut down a filthy takeaway infested with mice and investigate a salmonella outbreak that struck down over 50 guests at a wedding.

Officers crack down on illegal and dangerous vehicles putting our lives at risk, and they discover an illegal puppy farm putting profit ahead of care.

Officers swoop on an illegal sweatshop suspected of being a major supplier of counterfeit clothing and track down a cowboy builder who almost destroyed a family’s home.

Officers crack down on coach drivers who are driving when they are too tired. Also, the new technology being used to stop garden sheds being illegally rented out as homes.

At Felixstowe docks in Suffolk, enforcement agents are on the hunt for counterfeit and dangerous goods.

Officers bust a tenant making over £100,000 unlawfully sub-letting his council flat, and they take down a criminal gang running a multi-million-pound diesel fraud.

Officers crack down on a callous travel agent that is ripping off British holidaymakers, and they take to the streets to spot check luxury limos being driven in London.