Sky1 filled the gap left by Brit Cops by swapping the badge and keeping the format: ten hour-long episodes trailing Cambridgeshire Police through drug raids, rural burglaries and Friday-night pub fights. Shot between spring and early summer 2011, crews rode with response teams in Peterborough market towns and the Fens, capturing arrests, briefings and the paperwork that followed. The access agreement let cameras into custody suites and incident rooms, producing footage that was edited within days of transmission to keep the schedule tight.
Viewers watched a force stretched by budget cuts: officers debated whether to charge a teenager for cannabis possession, negotiated with a man threatening to jump from a multi-storey car park, and chased a disqualified driver across bean fields. Production company Raw Cut stitched the sequences into self-contained stories, each built around a shift pattern rather than a case, and Sky promoted the run with the tagline “Every call could be their last.” Ratings hovered around 400,000, respectable for the channel but below Brit Cops peaks, and no second series was commissioned.
The show disappeared from schedules after August 2011 and has never been repeated or commercially released; episodes circulate only as off-air recordings among British policing-documentary collectors.
Production Details
Sky One / 1 Season / 10 Episodes / 2011
Main Cast
