The delicate operation monitoring Frank Tully’s release from prison unravels instantly when Tully spots the surveillance team, revealing that his accomplice had already informed him of their presence. Deakin confronts Richard Hackett, deman…

Boyden tasked an SO10 officer with infiltrating an illegal poker ring operating from a Turkish café. The initial raid, however, went awry, and the officer vanished. As Meadows assumed command of the investigation, he recalled a Turkish nati…

Daly and Rawton are assigned to a women's prison overseen by an acquaintance of Brownlow's following a brutal assault on an inmate, an attack that doctors pronounce fatal. Holmes, believing a drug smuggling operation lies at the heart of th…

Meadows is incandescent when a collaborative operation with Area Drugs to apprehend local dealer Danny Rickman unravels. He and Quinnan find themselves at a library where the attendant has discovered an emailed suicide note. The IP address …

Garfield and Hagen agree to act as protectors for a jockey who intends to testify against a dishonest bookmaker. The reward is a weekend at the races and accommodation in an elegant country hotel. Garfield spends his time admiring the local…

Boyden, Ashton, and Santini spent an evening at a nightclub, where Boyden wagered with his colleagues that he could seduce any woman present. He focused on an attractive young blonde and ended up taking her back to his apartment. The next m…

Meadows assigns Quinnan and Rawton to receive Ray Ballantyne, a notorious sex offender, from another division. But the DCI’s efforts to conceal Ballantyne’s identity are swiftly undermined by a press leak. As a protest erupts outside the sa…

When a decapitated body is recovered from the Thames, Garfield offers assistance to the River Police. While tidying the scene, he recognizes Carrie Winkler, a journalist from the local press, as a colleague from a recent investigation, *Dee…

Burnside is assigned to Sun Hill to pursue a pair of serial rapists preying on the area. While Burnside questions a known sex offender about his movements, a report of another attack interrupts his line of inquiry. Consulting with the victi…

A station cleaner approaches Deakin with a startling claim: he’s discovered five thousand pounds in worn notes beneath Proctor's desk. Proctor denies any knowledge of the money, but the timing is disastrous; he is scheduled to testify in a …

Boulton and Rawton arrived at the fire-scarred house, where the chief officer immediately identified it as a brothel. He gestured to evidence suggesting the women had been held captive by the owner. Meanwhile, Hollis and Page were called to…

Skase and Lennox seek out Burnside's assistance in a string of thefts plaguing local business conventions. Reluctant to divulge the reason, Burnside identifies their suspect based on a tattoo described by a victim: a former prostitute known…

Detective Sergeant John Boulton is resolved to apprehend a pair of vicious thieves, and he is convinced that local criminal Mick Glover is among them. Dismissing objections from Uniform, who were already monitoring Glover, Boulton orchestra…

Following PC Quinnan’s critical condition at St Hugh's Hospital, police converge on the Jasmine Allen estate, resolved to apprehend those responsible. PC Garfield successfully identifies the majority of the gang involved, and a young boy, K…

The simmering conflict between DS Boulton and PC Garfield regarding Dave Quinnan's stabbing reached a breaking point during a briefing with PC Hollis. Garfield, overwhelmed, lashed out, headbutting Boulton with enough force to nearly fractu…

Following a disconnected 999 call, Hagen and Santini discover a woman in distress at her residence. Holmes takes charge of the investigation when the victim reports being terrorized by a prowler who had audaciously threatened her with rape …

Burnside’s omission of a Crime OCCU stakeout at a local museum proves disastrous, causing Page and Harker to compromise their cover. The team apprehends three of the four robbers, though one requires hospitalization after attempting to inge…

Conway’s temper flared when Meadows requested he cover for Brownlow during a flu outbreak. He was already chafing at the prospect, determined to reach Stamford Bridge for the Chelsea-West Ham match, when he was summoned to provide a sample …

Ashton intervened when two masked men attempted to set a house ablaze. Burnside was assigned from the Crime Occupancy unit to investigate; a similar arson had occurred on Stafford Row, falling within their jurisdiction. Simultaneously, Holm…

Brownlow has granted access to a documentary crew, allowing them to film within the station. The crew quickly focuses their attention on Boulton and Carver, capturing their preparations for a raid on a drug dealer Boulton has long been watc…

Quinnan’s return to duty following the stabbing brought a ripple of doubt. Concerns about his fitness for service were voiced, and when he reacted physically to a suspect, Stamp began to fear a fundamental shift in him. Yet, his behavior sw…

As PC Page helps Ruth Watts prepare assault charges against her husband, Ken Watts, Luke Ashton navigates a complicated romance with Ruth's daughter, sixteen-year-old Abby Watts. Cornered by the girl, she reveals a pregnancy and declares hi…

Lennox and Rawton journey to Salisbury to bring in George Riordian, a man known for his deceptive practices, for questioning. However, he proves elusive from the outset, slipping away at a roadside service station. Later, he vanishes comple…

Proctor and Lennox encounter a novel challenge in a burglary investigation: the perpetrator has left behind an unusual trace – an 'earprint.' Simultaneously, Proctor receives a call from a woman claiming to possess information regarding a s…

Monroe informs the uniform division of a private investigation team observing the Drake family, a local criminal enterprise already drawing complaints from their new neighbours. Harker attends to the direct neighbour, who reports a robbery …

Boulton and Skase receive a significant breakthrough from an informant regarding Anthony Payne, a local armed robber who has remained elusive for years. Boulton is resolute in his determination to apprehend Payne, but his colleagues in CID …

Detective Inspector Boulton is preparing for an inquest into the death of notorious armed robber Anthony Payne, which occurred while he was in police custody. Payne’s brother, Stephen, continues to provoke the press with pronouncements of i…

Boyden assigns Garfield and Ashton the task of establishing surveillance on a row of shops where a group of young dealers have been operating. Their attention is drawn when they observe a youth retrieving a package left behind by one of the…

The rejection of Carver's final transfer appeal extinguished his hopes of remaining in district command and postponing the inevitable prospect of tenure. The news that the entire system was slated for dismantling only compounded his frustra…

Jim Carver’s return to duty is greeted with affectionate teasing from his new colleagues. Assigned to the Canley Arms Hotel with PC Luke Ashton, they are summoned to a scene of violence: the landlord has been severely assaulted and robbed. …

A blend of suspense, humor, and unfortunate incidents accompanies Brownlow, Meadows, and Conway as they embark on an orientation course in the Yorkshire Moors alongside the senior officers from Barton Street. The atmosphere thickens when Co…

In a city street, young Emma Finney is assaulted, and Detective Constable Kerry Holmes finds herself troubled by the possibility of a racially motivated attack. Emma and her family, a Romani community living on a nearby scrap of land, prove…

PC Eddie Santini attempts to persuade his lover, Jess Orton, to connect him with drug dealers. He yearns to leave Sun Hill, and DS Timpney, a contact in Area Drugs, has offered him a position within the squad in exchange for evidence agains…

While investigating a burglar alarm with PC Quinnan, PC Eddie Santini observes Jessica Orton meeting in secret with Ferguson. Feigning a need, Santini borrows the police panda car and speeds to the Ortons' club, confronting Jessica there. A…

Jessica Orton was brought in for questioning and subsequently released without charge. Upon returning home, she found PC Santini waiting. He was desperate to know if she had reported him. A struggle ensued, and Santini struck Jessica, sendi…

Vicki Hagen discovers Eddie Santini’s tickets to Amsterdam and questions him, but he deflects her inquiries. DCI Pallister removes DS Fox from the Jessica Orton case following her accusations against Santini, yet she resolves to conduct her…

The man suspected of armed robbery died when his car crashed during a police pursuit. He was identified as Alain Savoie, a French national, and the body of an English woman was discovered in the trunk of his stolen vehicle. The woman was Ca…

During a police raid, a firearm was recovered, and Detective Sergeant Beech suspects it may have been used in a recent shooting. Newly assigned Police Constable Cass Rickman is tasked with transporting the weapon to the forensic lab for ana…

Detective Chief Inspector Derek Conway orchestrates a charity 'lock-up' within the Sun Hill cells. The night's inmates include Conway himself, Inspector Monroe, renowned boxer Dion Barrie, and his manager, Max Weir, alongside Paul Lake, the…

Worrell and Harker participate in a carefully orchestrated hit-and-run. Quinnan and Garfield are assigned to locate the driver, Oliver Beaumann, who is suspected of having run over his wife. During the transfer to the police station, Beauma…

Sergeant Matt Boyden orchestrates a straightforward stakeout to intercept a gang attempting to steal an excavator from a construction site. The situation rapidly deteriorates when a rival group arrives armed, resulting in a shooting and the…

Chief Superintendent Brownlow now faces two further complications alongside the escalating crime within the council estates: a zealous security detail patrolling the Copthorne Estate and a makeshift community liaison unit – PC Reg Hollis’s …

Skase regarded the informant’s tip with doubt: a minor dealer linked to a South American operation seemed improbable. Yet, the mention of a high-level contact rekindled his anticipation, and he urged Deakin to authorize a raid. The initial …

Police Constable Luke Ashton and Police Constable Dale Smith pursued a stabbing suspect onto the estate, only to become separated. Ashton, paralyzed by fear, found himself confronted by the youth wielding the knife. From that moment forward…

The accusation hung heavy: cowardice, leveled by the newcomer, Smithy, against Ashton. The team gathered for a group session to address Smithy’s provocation, but the atmosphere only grew sharper, the simmering tensions between the officers …

Police Constable Smith and Police Constable Rickman respond to a disturbance at a registry office, while Detective Constable Proctor and Detective Constable Holmes uncover a sophisticated immigration fraud. The scheme involves British indiv…

Worrell and Garfield’s pursuit of a stolen four-wheel drive ends in frustration, the latest in a string of such thefts. Fortunately, the vehicle is abandoned, allowing them to examine it. Elsewhere, Carver and Harker mediate a tense domesti…

Inside a psychiatric facility, Holmes and Proctor delve into the brutal assault of a woman. Their investigation takes a turn when they uncover a similar attack that occurred at another institution six months prior. Detective Sergeant Acton,…

Beech and Glaze are dispatched to Shadwell Prison to investigate accusations against three officers, alleged to have assaulted two inmates. With the prison under lockdown, they attempt to reach the aggrieved prisoners, but their efforts are…

Inspector Monroe regarded the call from Emma Crawford with a mixture of skepticism and careful consideration. The young woman had contacted Sun Hill, claiming her boyfriend might have concealed an explosive device within the station. At Emm…

June and Cass were summoned to the apartment of Allie, a prostitute, after tracing a series of threatening calls originating from her phone. They discovered her unconscious on the floor, the victim of a brutal assault. As they turned her ov…

Detective Chief Inspector Calder of Barton Street approaches Meadows. Calder, on the cusp of promotion to Superintendent, confesses he's deeply troubled by an armed robbery gone awry. A suspect had vanished just before the operation, and th…

Harker felt a deep sense of failure after he couldn't save a man from an overdose, and so readily accepted Conway’s offer of a position as Youth Diversions Officer. Simultaneously, Boyden was assigning Dexter King, a recently recovered addi…

PC Cass Rickman calls in sick, recovering from an evening of excessive indulgence at a barbecue. PC Harker and PC Stamp are dispatched to Sun Hill Lido, where the body of a young girl has been discovered in the water. Harker goes undercover…

Detective Inspector Deakin spearheaded a series of disastrous raids with CID and Uniform, targeting suspected fraudulent claims against the Department of Social Security. Meanwhile, PC Polly Page was assigned the tedious task of serving a c…

Sun Hill’s attempts to safeguard the community festival organizers prove futile when the convoy is ambushed. Newly assigned PC Nick Klein shares a friendship with the festival’s organizer, Anil Indrani, but the brother of Klein's girlfriend…

Blackmailed by DS Vickers over his cannabis use, Klein is now more resolute than ever in his pursuit of the corrupt officer's downfall. Brownlow requests Worrell join the investigation, but she accuses him of targeting her because of her ra…

Rawton seethed when Meadows shelved her investigation into convicted rapist David Trigg, citing budgetary constraints. She was swiftly assigned a string of robberies, then the perplexing case of a missing teenager. Driven by the proximity o…

Detective Chief Inspector Jack Meadows presents Detective Sergeant Claire Stanton to the CID team. A palpable envy ripples through the ranks when she secures an eco-terrorism case on her very first day. The premise is disturbing: someone ha…

Sergeant Matt Boyden dreaded another night shift in Custody, but a noisy prisoner requesting food proved to be the least of his concerns. Sergeant June Ackland and PC Dale Smith brought in a drunken and disorderly vagrant they christened 'O…

Deakin seethed when Carver and Rickman executed an OBBO, disrupting the arrest of a significant drug trafficker. Already weary of the relentless condescension from his former colleagues in CID, Carver resolved to make a change, accepting an…

Detectives Jim Carver and Cass Rickman ambled through the CID office, a decision made to release suspect Micky Harris. Seeking a measure of redemption, Carver reached out to Steve Raines, a former informant from his time in CID. As they beg…

PC Reg Hollis arrived late for the parade, and Sergeant Boyden, visibly displeased, reassigned him to an eviction followed by traffic duty on Malpitt Road. The subject of the eviction was Colin Boswell, a man known for his virulent racism a…

PC George Garfield is visibly agitated; his girlfriend, Jenny Delaney, has just returned from South America, and he is keen to learn if she has given his marriage proposal any thought. Unbeknownst to him, PC Dave Quinnan is also attempting …

At the section house, George Garfield confronted Dave Quinnan regarding his relationship with Jenny, and then abruptly left. Polly Page and Tony Stamp set out to find him, while Quinnan hurried off to see Jenny. Later that night, a thorough…

Hollis and Hagen's warning about a planned casino robbery, relayed by former getaway driver Jerry Mulligan after his arrest for milk float theft, was dismissed with derision by CID. The incident soon returned to plague them when a casino wa…

Witnessing a light aircraft crash near the local stadium, Daly and Holmes find themselves in the midst of an unexpected rescue. Daly recognizes the sole passenger as Janet Campion, a name that stirs a memory of his time as a Detective Serge…

Boyden is taken aback when his estranged daughter, Amy, appears at the station, offering fragmented details about her boyfriend, Phillip Cooper, claiming he witnessed two men committing a murder. With no official reports to back up her stor…

Deakin deploys an undercover operation to apprehend a group of young women who have been targeting patrons in nightclubs and casinos. He dispatches Skase to infiltrate the gang, but the assignment turns perilous when Skase is ambushed and h…

Stumbling from the pub, Jim Carver was intercepted by Alec Facer, a former Detective Inspector whom he’d known during his time in CID. Facer extended an offer: a position at Marlowe’s, a respected private investigation agency. Carver accept…

The Polish shopkeeper reported to the police that he had been attacked by three young men of Black ethnicity. Detective Constable Duncan Lennox and Detective Constable Tom Proctor subsequently arrested the primary suspect, Davy Rawlings. Fo…

Burnside assembles a team of Sun Hill officers for an undercover operation with Stanton, assuming the role of his wife to infiltrate a ring of property scammers. Carver is brought into the fold, but his tardiness draws an immediate repriman…

Stamp and Page find respite at the residence of Barton Street PC Steve Bennett, who returns home after an evening with Quinnan to discover his daughter’s room defaced. He calls upon Stanton’s assistance to unravel what Bennett’s wife descri…

DCI Meadows and DC Skase were incandescent with rage when PC Jim Carver appeared in court in a state of intoxication, his testimony proving so unreliable that the judge dismissed the case. As his colleagues began to grasp the depth of Carve…

Detective Chief Inspector Scanlon of Kent Constabulary arrived to examine the assault on the Home Office convoy. Police Constable Jim Carver paid a visit to Vernon Liggett, but Liggett denied any involvement. Scanlon and Meadows interviewed…

The romantic evening Ackland was sharing with her new boyfriend, Steve, was unexpectedly interrupted by a call from her neighbor, who had discovered a firearm in her tenant's room. Determined to establish an observation post within Ackland'…

Daly orchestrates a raid on the residence of a brutal pimp known for recruiting underage girls. Yet, the primary suspect escapes after assaulting Proctor during the operation. Holmes is momentarily diverted by a near-accident involving a ca…

Before starting his shift, Carver is attacked and robbed. Disoriented and adrift, he stumbles through the city until he encounters a group of homeless men, many of them inebriated. They direct him toward a local pub that defies closing hour…

Jim Carver awoke to a horrifying sight: he lay in bed beside the lifeless body of Clare Sullivan, an older woman who worked as a prostitute. Overwhelmed by despair and unsure of his next move, he seized JohnJo's clothes and fled the scene. …

Boyden operates a dog racing syndicate with Klein, Stamp, Rickman, and Quinnan, determined to keep his involvement a secret from his fiancée, Jenny. However, she discovers the truth and, eager to contribute to their wedding fund, joins thei…

The festivities for Dave Quinnan’s bachelor party commence with the unexpected arrival of an old friend, Steve Loxton. Meanwhile, Jim Carver, newly committed to sobriety, battles temptation and the thinly veiled mockery of his colleagues as…

On the day of his wedding, Dave Quinnan awoke with a throbbing headache and shockingly pale eyebrows. Despite his best man, Reg Hollis’s, evident ineptitude, the ceremony proceeded without major disruption. A few minor complications arose, …

Detective Constable Liz Rawton found an unsettling package on her desk: fragments of lingerie and scattered rose petals within a plain envelope. The day had been dominated by the arrest of Joseph Anderson, a man implicated in orchestrating …

DS Stanton, DC Lennox, and DC Proctor find themselves on an assignment at the Old Pumping Station, a building steeped in local legend as a place of haunting. As they wait, the trio trade ghost stories. Proctor recounts a period when he was …

Christmas Eve on the Sun Hill night shift offered a particular assortment of challenges: a young man who had fled home, awaiting his foster family; a Russian barbershop quartet locked in a perpetual, good-natured squabble; and an elf, clear…

Out with her friend Lynn, Cass Rickman encounters two men, Jamie and Ben, who offer her illicit drugs, which she declines. The following day, to her dismay, Ben is arrested by Detective Sergeant Boulton on a charge of drug possession. He de…

The year 2000 was drawing to a close, and with it, any semblance of a normal evening for the Metropolitan Police. All leave had been revoked; even the CID were back in uniform for the night. Chief Inspector Conway and Detective Chief Inspec…