In 2015, policing North Yorkshire's roads is all about identifying and intercepting criminals on the move. With a third of its crime committed by criminals living outside its borders, this county has many affluent rural areas where wealthy professionals - and their high-value properties - are regularly targeted by visiting criminal gangs from neighbouring areas. North Yorkshire's specialist road crime unit are determined to stop these villains in their tracks and, supported by intelligence staff monitoring the county's network of automatic number plate recognition cameras (ANPR), are able to track the movements of burglars, drug dealers and wanted criminals and bring them to justice. The team are alerted by intelligence staff to the movements of Scarborough drug dealer. Scrambling to get themselves in a position to intercept the suspect, the RCT spot him travelling from Leeds. When a simple shoplifting arrest turns nasty, RCT officers come under threat from a suspect who resents being caught by the cops. Attracting the attention of the cops by driving erratically, a nervous man is arrested for possession of Class B amphetamines after the car is searched. A wanted man who absconded from custody on his way to court for robbing an elderly lady is rearrested after a call comes in from a member of the public. ANPR Technology helps the RCT on a daily basis, and when they are not receiving information on the whereabouts of criminals, they are often alerted to criminal activities by a network of number plate reading cameras. ANPR alerts the RCT to a stolen car circulating in the York area. A short chase ensues, but the officers soon box and stop the car and arrest three suspects. Upon his arrest, the driver makes some surprising admissions...

Every year more than 250 people die on Britain's roads as a result of drink driving. In 2014, North Yorkshire Police arrested up to a thousand drivers for being above the legal alcohol limit, and with some of the highest rates of drink driving in the country, all too often North Yorkshire's traffic officers are faced with the tragic consequences of motorists driving under the influence. The traffic cops are on a mission to hunt down habitual drink drivers. When a driver loses control of his car on a rural road and dies at the scene of the accident, they have to investigate the final hours of the man's life prior to the crash to try to determine the cause. Habitual drink drivers are often reported to the police by concerned members of the public. When the police receive a tip-off, a Tadcaster traffic officer spots the suspect as he emerges from a pub. The man fails the roadside breath test, but it can't be used as evidence, and he has to be taken back to the police station to prove evidentially that he is over the limit. With delays to the process, the clock is ticking... An overloaded flat-bed transit van passes a Scarborough traffic officer on the busy A64, and a check on the driver and his load unearths a number of motoring offences. The driver is a chatty chancer but, unbeknownst to him, or so he says, his licence has been revoked for years. A disqualified driver's details are dispatched by the control room. He passes a police vehicle that attempts to pull him over, but to no avail - then, bizarrely, there is a lengthy car chase at 25mph. A driver leaving a pub spots a patrol car, and a five-minute car chase takes place repeatedly around a housing estate. When Harrogate traffic officers eventually stop the car, the driver tries to run away.

North Yorkshire is one of Britain's largest counties - with 6000 miles of road and just 60 traffic officers. The police here rely on specially trained call handlers and dispatchers in York's force control room to respond to up to 1000 emergency calls everyday. And, using a network of Automatic Number-Plate Recognition Cameras called ANPR, they help the officers track the movements of wanted criminals, and drivers who shouldn't be on the road. Controller Nia Russell is contacted by a member of the public, who has called the police to report two males acting suspiciously in his back yard. Nia dispatches the report to Harrogate Traffic Officers Paul Cording and Mark Mullins. It's a bitterly cold night and when the officers come across the males, it soon becomes apparent they are not criminals lurking in the dark, but just cold, hungry and a little lost. The men are from Eritrea, don't speak any English, and dealing with them takes the officers some considerable time. Much like the rest of the UK, North Yorkshire is covered by a network of strategically positioned Automatic Number-plate Recognition Cameras (ANPR). Supported by specially trained staff in York's force control room, North Yorkshire's dedicated Road Crime Team are able to intercept a team of shoplifters as the flee from the scene of the crime in their getaway car. Gale force winds and atrocious weather conditions challenge Scarborough traffic officers Paul Moon and Mark Gonella as they respond to a crash at a local beauty spot. A young driver with passengers overturns his car in an area renowned as an illegal racetrack for car enthusiasts. And, when a member of public brings a lost dog to the attention of Road Crime Team officers Mick Roffe and James Duffy, the officers' patience is put to the test when a poodle dog escapes their clutch. Meanwhile, in the control room the dogs' owner makes calls in to report her poodle missing. Eventually the officers manage to collar the dog and reunite it with

On the roads round one of the UK's drink driving hotspots, officers from the North Yorkshire Road Policing Group catch up with drivers who have had one too many, and all too often the traffic cops find themselves dealing with the consequences of the drunk and dangerous. Every year around 250 people die as a result of drink drive accidents on Britain's roads. In Harrogate, its closing time at the pubs and a female driver who is three times over the limit has ploughed into a parked car. Officers quickly arrest the driver but have concerns over a missing passenger who fled the scene of accident. In Selby, when a pensioner crashes into a line of parked cars, residents call the cops with concerns that the driver is too drunk to drive. In a village nestled amongst the North Yorkshire Moors the police hunt down a man who has taken a tractor on a joyride. On the A1 motorway, a young mother is caught speeding at 97 mph, her excuse is that her child needs a wee. And, when there's a bad smash on one of Yorkshire busiest roads, the A64, traffic cop John Kendall has to close the road and call in a crash investigator when it becomes clear that there are life threatening injuries.

North Yorkshire is one of the safest places in the UK, with some of the country's lowest crime rates, but still there are an average of 5,000 crimes reported across the county every month. Many involve criminals using the county's roads as an escape route. And, with 3,200 square miles to police North Yorkshire's Traffic cops face a constant battle to catch up with crooks on the move. This episode finds officers from North Yorkshire's specialist Road Crime Team 'boxing' a reported stolen car on the motorway, but it's not until they take the driver into custody that they discover what their suspect has really been up to. On the north east coast, the cops are high alert after a spate of violent bag snatches in Scarborough. And when the police are alerted to another attack, Traffic Cop Mark Gonella joins the manhunt. On the outskirts of Scarborough, a foiled attempt to steal a van leaves the police with a good description of the thief and an accomplice's car. The suspect's car is soon tracked down using Automatic Number Plate Recognition Cameras (ANPR), and Scarborough's Traffic Cops stop the suspects in his tracks. However, the man in car refuses to take responsibility for his actions, preferring to put the blame on society for turning him into a criminal. Later, Road Crime Team officers spot another suspect vehicle, this time however their suspect isn't so easy to tame and the officer's £40,000 unmarked car is rammed by the suspect's vehicle five times. And, when a rookie Traffic Cop is nearing the end of his solo night shift - a report of another theft tests his patience to the full. A stop check connects the occupants of 4x4 Jeep to the crime, but with four suspects under arrest, the driver takes his frustrations out on the rookie.