Traffic Cops (2016)

The criminal underworld comes to life at nighttime, as a high-speed pursuit in Bradford shows. Can the cops stop a riot from breaking out? And, an apparently routine stop ends up requiring specialist firearms support.

In Bradford there's a high-octane chase through a housing estate, a cocky petrol thief tries every trick in the book to wriggle free and Yorkshire's back roads have their peace disturbed by two cars carrying gun-toting drug dealers.

Yorkshire's traffic cops are in hot pursuit of some criminals dragging a generator with just one wheel across the county, and a van full of contraband in Bradford.

A speeding murder suspect is pursued through downtown Bradford, and a speeding car thief picks a fight with a tree.

Young partygoers get lairy and the cops are assaulted in downtown Keighley, another young speeder writes his car off in a spectacular fireball, and cops pursue a car obeying all the rules of the road except the one requiring it to stop for the police. In the car is a familiar face...

Cops from North and West Yorkshire are cracking down on uninsured drivers whose recklessness is a cost to all of us

The cops are on the heels of drug dealers, drug users and drugged-up drivers, including one dealer who tries to flush away the evidence.

The cops seek to protect a collection of the most vulnerable members of society including a suicidal young man with mental health problems, an Eritrean woman dumped out of a lorry by people traffickers, and a local lass who's had a barney with her two-timing boyfriend.

Action-packed documentary series following Yorkshire-based law enforcers.

The cops have their hands full with night time drink driving incidents. Four police cars are needed to stop a car with a motorbike hanging out of the boot.

Illegal drivers are a menace on UK roads. The traffic cops hunt down disqualified, unlicenced and uninsured drivers.

Observational documentary series. The cops are called to a fatal accident near a theme park, where they suspect the driver responsible for the crash has been using drugs.

The police have their hands full with the machinations of forgers, fakers and takers. Forgers are turning out Scottish banknotes. A man is using multiple fake plates, and the traffic cops go after criminals in a high-speed pursuit.

Jamie Theakston presents an edition focusing on the hunt for disqualified, unlicensed and uninsured drivers. In Bradford, officers from the West Yorkshire Safer Roads team pursue a desperate and disqualified driver through the city streets, while a member of the public is forced into making a citizen's arrest when another banned motorist attempts to flee the scene of a crash. In York, a pensioner is knocked down in a hit and run incident and an urgent search for the culprit gets underway.

A gang uses 4x4s on nightly thefts from industrial estates.

North Yorkshire is considered a soft touch by criminals, who using the county's rural back roads to operate under cover of darkness. In this edition, the team's elite officers hunt down and arrest burglars, drug dealers and thieves. Jamie Theakston narrates.

In this edition officers have to deal with the consequences of cars hitting cyclists and pedestrians. In York, traffic cops need all their professionalism to deal with a distressing situation when a pregnant bike rider is knocked off her bike by a lorry, while a pedestrian in Leeds has been hit by a driver who appears to have used their car as a weapon. But does CCTV footage show the whole story? Jamie Theakston presents.

Officers are led on a chase through Bradford as they pursue a car stolen in Manchester by teenagers, while burglars who have been targeting pensioners are spotted in Halifax. Meanwhile in North Yorkshire, members of the road crime team have their hands full tracking thieves operating in a convoy of cars who steal from builders' vans in hotel and pub car parks. Jamie Theakston presents.

An insight into the working life of officers patrolling the nation's roads, using modern technology and old-fashioned methods to bring criminals to justice.