999: What's Your Emergency? - Episode Guide

Blackpool's emergency services are tackling the fallout from the dizzying array of 'party drugs' that are on the rise in towns across the UK.

This episode focuses on kids, who are taking up more and more of the emergency services' time, whether it's prank calls, bad behaviour or poor parenting

This programme focuses on relationships. When things go wrong, more of us than ever are dialling 999, asking the emergency services to pick up the pieces and protect us from those we used to trust.

There is one night when everyone's up for a party: payday. For the call operators at Blackpool's emergency control centres hearing about our payday excesses is a weekly occurrence

The police are called out to a Halloween party that's turned into a street fight, and when a body is found outside a block of flats all three emergency services are called.

This programme focuses on how women in our society are changing. Female emergency service workers reveal their motivations for doing the work that they do and the challenges they face.

This programme looks at problems associated with excessive drinking, including anti-social behaviour and the fallout from alcohol dependency.

This episode focuses on life savers and time wasters, featuring calls to the emergency services about a range of non-emergencies, from culinary injuries to broken light bulbs, both bizarre and diverse.

This episode follows how the emergency services of Britain's most popular seaside resort, Blackpool, deal with incidents involving people from outside the town.

With more and more social problems falling to them, emergency workers frequently question how much of their work is made up of actual emergencies.

The first film explores the struggles of becoming an adult in Britain, including a man in Southend who's been stabbed and an 18-year-old who got very drunk on his first night out in London.

The series that reveals modern Britain through the eyes of our ambulance staff explores the effects of alcohol, from middle-class professionals to young drinkers and long-term alcoholics.

This episode follows paramedics as they do their best to help patients with mental health problems.

This episode focuses on call-outs to patients fighting for life, and the medical, ethical and emotional challenges their care creates, for the paramedics, friends and family who may be left behind.

This episode focuses on the older generation, who now account for two thirds of ambulance calls. With 11 million people in Britain over the age of 65, the NHS is feeling a greater strain than ever..

This episode focusses on babies - from births to over-protective parents and from very poorly children to those facing neglect and abuse.

This episode visits the control centre. Cheshire's ambulance service gets 50% more calls than 10 years ago. Some are life-threatening, some heart-warming. Others are less urgent, like sore eyelashes.

Majority of calls to 999 consist of drug related emergencies and complaints.This episode follows police and paramedics dealing with the effects of so-called legal highs - from a regular user coughing up blood in a bus stop, to a grandad chewing his own nerves after reacted badly to the legal highs he purchase online.

This episode meets the police officers dealing with growing numbers of problems between neighbours, from noise, feuds and burnt-out cars to reports of a man acting suspiciously and scaring children.

The new series of 999: What's Your Emergency? focuses on the work of police and paramedics in Cheshire. The series follows incidents from the moment when a 999 call is made to the arrival of the frontline police and paramedics: the hard-working men and women who protect us from ourselves and each other while seeing us as we really are. They talk with honesty and wit about the ever-increasing challenges of modern Britain.

This episode explores the colourful, complex and often troubled lives of the small but significant minority of people in Britain who are regular callers of 999 and repeat users of the emergency services. PC Billy Elliott visits a familiar address following complaints from neighbours about yet another disturbance. Shayne, who's 44, regularly ends up in custody and even requests his favourite cell on arrival.

At a time when immigration to the UK is at an all-time high and the issue is at the centre of political debate, this episode explores the lives of legal and illegal immigrants living here. It's increasingly falling to the emergency services to bridge cultural divides and keep a lid on bubbling racial tensions that threaten to erupt. In Crewe, PC Greg Greaves finds himself at a heated arrest after reports of shoplifting from a supermarket. He has to call for backup as the two suspects shout claims of abuse and racism at him. In Warrington, paramedic Becki arrives at the home of Marika, a Latvian woman who has been mugged in the street and left with a black eye.

The brand new series following the work of police and paramedics in Cheshire continues. As the divide between rich and poor continues to grow in the UK, this programme looks at how both the haves and the have-nots are being affected by crime. In Crewe, PC Matt Ambrose is called to the home of an elderly woman who has had nearly £10,000 of her life savings stolen from her bank account. This is the victim's first encounter with the police and she's devastated by the crime. PC Ambrose is determined to find the perpetrator and get her money back. In Warrington, PCs Ross Dryden and Lyndsey Whitehurst are on the lookout for a repeat offender suspected of theft and assault. PC Sarah Brockley is called to a smallholding in the middle of the Cheshire countryside to investigate whether foul play is involved in the disappearance of 13 ducks, but owner Christopher is more bothered by the sentimental than the financial value of the birds.

The new series of 999: What's Your Emergency? focuses on the work of police and paramedics in Cheshire. It follows incidents from the moment when a 999 call is made, to the arrival of the frontline police and paramedics: the hard-working men and women who protect us from ourselves and each other while seeing us as we really are. They talk with honesty and wit about the increasing challenges of modern Britain. With alcohol-related incidents in the UK costing the emergency services nearly £3 billion a year, this episode features people who risk ruining their own - and other people's - lives for the sake of a night out.

The new series of 999: What's Your Emergency? focuses on the work of police and paramedics in Cheshire. The series follows incidents from the moment the 999 call is made to the arrival of the frontline police and paramedics: the hard-working men and women who protect us from ourselves and each other while seeing us as we really are. They talk with honesty and wit about the ever-increasing challenges of modern Britain. This episode explores the trials and tribulations of coming of age in Britain in 2016, and the challenges the emergency services face in dealing with people in the legal and social hinterland between childhood and adulthood. In Warrington, PC Ruth Stott is called to attend a group of teenagers after 999 calls from intimidated local homeowners.

Series focusing on the work of police and paramedics in Cheshire, from the moment the 999 call is made to the arrival of the frontline police and paramedics - the hard-working men and women who protect us from ourselves and each other while seeing us as we really are. This brand new episode explores the rise in violent crime across the UK and the alarming increase in attacks on our police forces. At a time when the number of front line officers is being cut to the bone and respect for the emergency services is at an all-time low, are we reaching the point where the emergency services are losing control?

The new series of 999: What's Your Emergency?, which focuses on the work of police and paramedics in Cheshire, continues. The series follows incidents from the moment when a 999 call is made to the arrival of the frontline police and paramedics: the hard-working men and women who protect us from ourselves and each other while seeing us as we really are. They talk with honesty and wit about the ever-increasing challenges of modern Britain. This episode explores the growing challenges that the emergency services face on Britain's roads, at a time when there are more vehicles than ever before. In spite of decades of safety campaigns and technological improvements, our roads are still the place where we're most likely to be killed.

PCs Bryony Hancock and Charlotte Wilson are called to a Saturday night lovers' tiff in Crewe before heading to help a young woman who's been assaulted in her home by her partner. After arresting the woman's boyfriend, PC Hancock's next challenge is to get a statement from the shaken victim.

999: What's Your Emergency? meets the police and paramedics in Cheshire, following incidents from the moment when a 999 call is made to the arrival of the hard-working men and women who protect us from ourselves and each other, while seeing us as we really are. They talk with honesty and wit about the ever-increasing challenges of modern Britain. This episode explores the challenges that inevitably come with the end of life, and how the emergency services have to learn to cope when dealing with death on a daily basis. In Warrington paramedics arrive at the home of a man having a suspected cardiac arrest. With CPR already in action and a defibrillator at close hand he is given the best possible chance of survival.

This episode meets Cheshire's police custody staff, who deal with everyone from people accused of terrible crimes to others who see the cells as a welcome break from other challenges

999: What's Your Emergency? returns for a new series focusing on the work of the police, paramedics and fire service in Wiltshire. A once traditional county, Wiltshire is changing fast, as residents and emergency services encounter many of biggest problems that modern Britain faces. Never before have Wiltshire's emergency services been so needed and yet so stretched. The county's front line emergency workers talk with honesty and wit about the increasing challenges of working in a changing Britain, while victims, patients and criminals reveal the personal stories that have driven them to be at the centre of a 999 call-out. During the two weeks after the Brexit referendum there was a 500% rise in race hate crimes across the UK. This episode examines the rise in racially aggravated hate crimes in Wiltshire. Age, it sadly seems, is no barrier to the abuse.

The new series continues, focusing on the work of the police, paramedics and fire service in Wiltshire. Over the last decade, incidents of violence perpetrated by young men have risen by 22%. This episode examines the stories behind the calls and crimes, exploring why so many young men now seem to be struggling with a crisis of masculinity. In Swindon, officers Emily Grigor and Simon Sanghera are called to arrest a man in his early twenties who has ripped off his top in a drunken rage before putting his fist through a wall and his foot through a window in a bar. Drunk and allegedly high, he says he believes it's his right to do what he wants. It's an all too regular call for PC Sanghera, who says 'they've never been taught how to be a man.' Meanwhile, Wiltshire's emergency services now receive 35 calls a day from men saying they are unable to cope. Paramedics are called to help Danny who, dressed in a Superman onesie, has attempted suicide.

The new series continues, focusing on the work of the police, paramedics and fire service in Wiltshire. Following the criminalisation of formerly legal highs, crack and heroin is on the up - and some of the users seem to be getting younger. A routine stop and search uncovers a bag of crack cocaine in the possession of a boy still in his teens. Arrests of teenagers for possession of crack by Wiltshire police have trebled in the past year. Having policed the streets of Swindon for over 10 years, PC Joe Tomkinson has witnessed this rise first hand: 'I think the general public, in truth, are oblivious to what is going on, and the face of drug use is changing. We've got people out there dealing drugs in their young teens that are riding push bikes because they aren't old enough to drive.' Joe says he's no longer shocked by what he sees: 'It's easy to look at someone who's a teenager, who's just starting to go off the rails and predict what path they are going to go down.'.

In Swindon one burglar is caught red handed, stealing frozen food from someone's freezer. Food bank use in Wiltshire has tripled over the last two years; is increasing poverty driving an escalation in burglary? At the other end of the spectrum, professional thieves seem to be targeting wealthy individuals in well-planned raids. Acting Sergeant Emily Grigor says 'I think it's just all about greed. About wanting everything. There's people that don't want to put the work in but they'll want what other people have.

Domestic burglaries in Wiltshire have risen by over 20% in the past year. This episode explores what lies behind this troubling statistic, and looks at the Police's struggle to support victims and try to catch the people who are committing this hurtful crime. In Swindon one burglar is caught red handed, stealing frozen food from someone's freezer. Food bank use in Wiltshire has tripled over the last two years; is increasing poverty driving an escalation in burglary? At the other end of the spectrum, professional thieves seem to be targeting wealthy individuals in well-planned raids. Acting Sergeant Emily Grigor says 'I think it's just all about greed. About wanting everything. There's people that don't want to put the work in but they'll want what other people have.

This episode explores what it's like for parents bringing up children in Wiltshire in 2017 and the difficulties in deciding just how much freedom is safe to give young people in the modern world. Police are dispatched when a member of the public finds a four-year-old boy wandering alone in the street. A mother, who is letting her eight-year-old son get his first taste of freedom, is horrified when he's bought home by police who have found him building a camp in an area of woodland littered with hypodermic syringes and human excrement left behind by local drug users. For the police officers, many of whom are yet to become parents themselves, there are difficult judgement calls to be made. How do you apply something as black and white as the law to something as individual and nuanced as parenting? PC Geoff Biddall says: 'I don't like telling a parent how to raise their child.

This episode reveals how, in Wiltshire, crimes driven by sex and sexual desire remain stubbornly high, with women being targeted by predatory males - Wiltshire police receive three times as many reports of voyeurism and men exposing themselves as any other force in the UK.

Wiltshire is home to 15,000 military personnel, meaning Wiltshire's emergency services face a battle dealing with incidents related to the large military population. Fights between squaddies and civilians are common, but with an 80% rise in mental health issues over the past eight years, increasingly the emergency services are dealing with problems caused to soldiers, as well as by them. In Swindon, a 24-year-old solider in basic training is arrested and brought into custody on suspicion of carrying out a totally unprovoked attack on a 76-year-old widower.

The number of people sleeping rough in the UK has doubled in the last six years. This episode explores the impact of homelessness on Wiltshire Police.

Over 60,000 people in Wiltshire have mental health issues but with mental health support services across the UK being cut it's falling to the emergency services to pick up the pieces. With calls to 999 now at record levels, Wiltshire Police and South West Ambulance call handlers regularly find themselves counselling people with severe mental health episodes rather than dealing with emergencies. Wiltshire Police call handler Amanda Southey and her colleagues are bombarded with 999 calls every three seconds from a man claiming he is the archangel Michael. Despite their attempts to help, eventually all they can do is send an officer to arrest him to keep the lines free for life and death emergencies.

Average life expectancy in the UK has risen to 81, and the proportion of people who are elderly is growing faster in Wiltshire than almost anywhere else in the country, with a rapidly growing number of calls to 999 coming from over-75s. In Warminster, the emergency services are called to a crash involving three cars, which has left one victim with life-changing injuries. The 75-year-old man responsible for the accident suffered a suspected heart attack at the wheel. It is his second heart attack in seven months but all the police can do is advise him to give up driving. PC Phil Bridge says 'There's got to be thousands of elderly people who shouldn't be driving on the streets, that shouldn't have a license.

From zero-hours contracts to long working hours, this episode explores how the emergency services deal with issues arising from rising levels of stress and anxiety in the workplace.

In Wiltshire more and more young people are challenging the police's authority. With over 88,000 under-18s arrested in the UK in 2016, are young people being given too many chances or not enough?

This episode joins Wiltshire's police officers as they deal with young men driving dangerously and tackle the resurgence of joyriding - with some drivers as young as 14.

This episode explores the impact of mother-son relationships that break down.

The number of people living alone in the UK has doubled in 40 years to a greater number than at any time in our history. Feelings of loneliness and isolation are prevalent in densely-populated as well as rural areas, and a recent study suggested that loneliness can be as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Recent surveys have discovered that loneliness is an issue that's now impacting negatively on the lives of Britons of all ages. Two hundred thousand pensioners in Britain said they went for more than a month without a single conversation with friends or family. Teenagers, meanwhile, feel isolated because of social media, which it's claimed is feeding a future mental health crisis.

This episode explores the rising use of cannabis, which is now increasingly being smoked openly on Wiltshire's streets as people's attitudes to the class B drug change fast. 999 call handler Holly Goodall explains 'there is a split between society seeing cannabis as being a good thing and cannabis as being a really bad thing'. This shifting attitude is especially evident among the young. When the police catch a group of teenagers smoking joints outside, one unfazed teenage girl responds: 'I know you think it's like illegal' - and when officers tell her that really it's actually still illegal-illegal, she offers in mitigation to 'next time smoke it indoors'.and I think it's messing with people's brains.'.

Every year more than 150 million accidents occur in the UK. Over 40% of them occur in our homes, which are statistically the most dangerous place to be. Meanwhile, A&E departments have seen a 14% rise in sports injuries. And, on average, Britons will be involved in two road traffic collisions in their lifetime, with roads the place where you're most likely to die in an accident. An ambulance crew are despatched to a rural area where a man has chopped through his foot with an axe while cutting firewood. The patient, John, is an amputee because of a biking accident, but says 'I think I'll still do things that are dangerous, it hasn't changed me at all.' Another crew respond to a Saturday afternoon call-out to help the victim of an injury incurred while playing rugby.

In the last five years, Wiltshire's police have seen a 63% increase in offences committed by women, with this female crime wave challenging traditional perceptions of differences between men and women. In this episode, the police face extraordinary levels of violence and aggression as they try to help victims who have been the targets of young women operating alone or in gangs. PC Nia Tregunna is called to sheltered housing where two girls aged 17 and 13 have been terrorising staff and vandalising property. PC Tom Gregory investigates an early evening report of a group of women attacking a single girl. PC Jon Simpson visits the male victim of an opportunist robbery by a woman at his home. A 12-year-old girl who has endured years of bullying gives a statement to police about the teen girl gang who attacked her and set fire to her hair.

This episode focuses on the people who answer our cries for help, as well as the people who make these calls, and vastly differing interpretations of what constitutes an emergency

This episode explores the link between poverty and rising crime. A 14-year-old girl reports a break-in at her home. A shoplifter admits he's been driven to extreme measures to survive.

This episode focuses on the five per cent of the UK's families who are collectively responsible for a staggering amount of the nation's crime: 50 per cent of criminal arrests. In these cases the 'tradition' of crime within a family means that police see extremes of criminality across a wide age range, costing the UK £9 billion a year.

This episode focuses on the five per cent of the UK's families who are collectively responsible for a staggering amount of the nation's crime: 50 per cent of criminal arrests. In these cases the 'tradition' of crime within a family means that police see extremes of criminality across a wide age range, costing the UK £9 billion a year. What are the prospects for breaking the cycle of crime passing from one generation to the next? 'A lot of our calls are the same families, brothers and sisters, mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, and you often think to yourself 'I wonder what it is now?' says Rachel Woodbridge. 'You know that when you hear a certain name, it's not going to be good.' Police are dispatched to apprehend a drunk young man outside a nightclub. Some members of his family have amassed 193 arrests and 111 convictions between them.

In the UK the number of people with diagnoses of learning disabilities is at an all-time high, but with cuts to the care available, the police are being called on more for support. In the last decade, the number of people in the UK registered with learning disabilities has shot up by 90%, mainly driven by autism and its less extreme form, Asperger's.

Wiltshire Police launch a murder investigation when two people are stabbed by a stranger. But all may not be as it seems, in a case that raises difficult questions about why people carry knives.

With the country increasingly politically and financially divided, the acclaimed series returns for a new run, focusing on the battle faced by Britain's most overstretched emergency service: the police.

With 76% of police work now having nothing to do with catching criminals, and police numbers lower than they've been for decades, this episode focuses on the increased demands on front line officers

With a police officer assaulted every 20 minutes in England and Wales, this episode focuses on the growing lack of respect officers face on the streets.

This episode focuses on knife crime, which has increased by almost 70% in Northamptonshire in five years.

This episode meets police officers dealing with a huge range of traffic issues - from the routine to the surreal - alongside a spike in crime and to a background of funding cuts.

This edition focuses on the importance of the father-son relationship and the potential consequences and difficulties when this relationship is not a positive one. Frontline officers talk frankly about their experiences of how the breakdown of this pivotal formative experience can lead to young men perpetuating cycles of violence, lacking confidence, or struggling with mental health problems.

This edition focuses on Northamptonshire police's tackling of hate crime, following PCs Lauren El Sharkawi and Nina Crehan after they investigate a call from a family in Northampton who have been subjected to racist abuse from a neighbour. The police are also experiencing a surge in homophobic and transphobic abuse and are called to deal with one incident where the victim being targeted is just 13.

In the last five years Wiltshire has experienced a 63% increase in offences committed by women. This episode follows the police as they deal with this female crime wave.

The return of the documentary following the work of emergency services, with this edition focusing on the decline of the Great British high street and looking at how the nation's town centres are becoming hotbeds of antisocial behaviour, crime and violence. In Northamptonshire, PCs Louise O'Sullivan and Sean Whelan attend a call from a distraught homeless man, who has taken refuge in a shop after being threatened with a knife.

Northamptonshire police officers have their hands full tackling a prolific shoplifter, a burglar making a rooftop protest, a telephone scam, and what looks like a cyber break-in.

With police resources stretched to breaking point in Northamptonshire, this episode looks at the increasingly violent behaviour of teenage boys, from acid attacks to stabbings

The return of the documentary, filmed with South Yorkshire Police just as the Covid-19 pandemic began to take hold in early 2020. In the middle of the night, PCs Dani Devey and Keeley Lees rush to help a traumatised woman, alone at home, as attackers rampage in the street - smashing up houses and cars. They also respond to an elderly, unwell man whose bedsit is under siege from attackers still on the scene.

Officers attend a suspected sexual assault outside a nightclub. There's a case of indecent exposure in public; and a man's arrested on suspicion of domestic rape.

This edition focuses on how young males can lead each other into criminality, and how what may start as youthful pranks can easily progress to committing offences. Officers from South Yorkshire police investigate a report of youths breaking into a pub in broad daylight, and apprehend a group of 15-year-olds detained on suspicion of burglary.

Returning to the moment the coronavirus first hit - with everyone propelled headlong into a strange new world, struggling to keep pace with the dramatic impact on everyday life. The crisis has affected every aspect of policing, from the first point of contact in the call handling centre to the rapid adaptation of front-line protocols. In February 2020, call handlers suddenly saw a sharp influx of anxious calls, with a corresponding increase in erratic behaviour from the public.

South Yorkshire Police reveal what happens when people seek revenge by street justice, from a supermarket brawl to taking a hammer on the rampage, and a hit-and-run as payback

A look at the challenges South Yorkshire Police face with time-wasting 999 calls and also with helping vulnerable people, including a confused lady who can't find her way home

This episode reveals the realities of policing home drinking and house parties. A family gathering spills into the street and gets out of control. An ambulance crew are in danger at a party.

The South Yorkshire Police deal with complex cases of parents living in fear of their own children. In Sheffield, a mother asks for her 15-year-old to be taken into custody after he starts causing damage at their home, and for the second time in three days, the same officers are despatched to a report of a son attacking his father. Elsewhere, a distraught mother is under siege from her violent and aggressive 23-year-old son.

Northamptonshire police deal with the fallout from the hidden housing crisis of shared accommodation, from a row about unpaid rent to the suspected theft of a chicken Kiev

South Yorkshire Police work the long nightshift - breaking up fights, rescuing a colleague, nabbing a fuel thief, and attending a possible suicide on a bridge outside Doncaster

In Northamptonshire, the police custody cells are stretched to breaking point as a 67-year-old woman is brought in for drink-driving and a female detainee decides to strip

One-off special following South Yorkshire Police investigating reports of bullying, from playground brawls and racism in schools, to coercive domestic abuse. Cases featured include a 14-year-old boy hospitalised by a gang in the street, a single vulnerable woman being systematically targeted by local teens in her own home, and a distraught mother watching her 27-year-old son attempting suicide after being bullied at work.