999: What's Your Emergency?

Season 8

The dispatches of the emergency services in various parts of the UK are followed.

Violent Crime
E1
Violent CrimeCameras focus on the work carried out by Wiltshire's police, paramedic, and fire services. Unarmed police officers are called to a Sunday league football match where a disgruntled player is brandishing an axe. In the early hours of Sunday morning, all available units are scrambled to assist an injured officer at a mass pub brawl.
Learning Disabilities
E2
Learning DisabilitiesThe police are called to assist a mother whose autistic son is attacking her. A man with Asperger's is brought in on suspicion of making hoax calls.
Criminal Families
E3
Criminal FamiliesCameras focus 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. 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.
Knife Crime & Murder
E4
Knife Crime & MurderWiltshire 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.