Police: Night Shift 999 - Season 4

Return of the documentary following Gloucestershire Constabulary police officers keeping the peace during the night shift. PC Foxall is on patrol with Special Constable Webber when a call comes in from a pub where a man is alleged to have assaulted a woman with a baseball bat, while roads policing officer PC Merchant is called to a driver alleged to have taken a car without the owner's consent,and a roadside test comes up positive for drugs.

The night shift has just started when a call comes through for all roads policing officers to attend what they fear might be a potentially fatal RTC on the M5. As Sgt Gladwin rushes towards the scene on the blues and twos he is presented with a more immediate problem, a truck on fire at the side of the carriageway. The smoke from the fire is spreading across the road onto the traffic coming from the opposite direction making driving hazardous for all. With no choice Sgt Gladwin needs to stop all traffic on the motorway until the fire can be put out. The driver and passengers have managed to get out of the truck, but as they wait for the fire brigade to arrive the car starts to explode, putting more lives at risk. As the fire brigade get the flames under control Sgt Gladwin turns his attention to the truck driver and checking his documents. Unfortunately, the insurance the driver had has run out and has not been renewed, meaning he will be left to pay for all the damage including replacing the truck.

PC Webber and his colleague are heading back to the station for a break when they are stopped by a member of the public who is concerned that he is being targeted by an online scam. Unsure of what to do he approaches the officers for help. They explain that it probably is a scam and advise the man to change his passwords for his banking.

Elsewhere in Gloucestershire a shopkeeper has asked for police to attend when a woman who appears drunk has taken a bottle of wine from the shelf and is imbibing it without paying. After a long negotiation with the woman, who they arrest because she says she has no money, PC Tom Spiers persuades her to let him try her bank card and the payment goes through. With the woman ‘de-arrested' the shop can close and the staff can go home.

PC Webb, known as Bear, is out on patrol when he spots a car speeding with heavily tinted windows and an illegal number plate, but after words of warning he lets him go. Later, Bear on solo patrol, pulls over a van driver on a busy carriageway to let him know that his back lights are out. He suspects that the driver has been drinking and as he tries to test him the man becomes aggressive. Bear attempts to handcuff the man, but he spits liquid out at him and pushes him into the path of the lorries who are thundering by on the road. Concerned for his life he presses his State Zero button to get other units there as quickly as possible. Luckily for Bear they are only a few miles away. The man is arrested for drink driving and assaulting a police officer.

Roads policing officer PC Dudfield is called to stop a car with a drugs marker that is travelling on the M5 by boxing him in, but it doesn't go to plan when first there are traffic works in the way and then a lorry. Eventually the car is stopped and searched but there are no drugs, only a large sum of cash so the man is free to go.

On tonight's show, reports come in about a man in a residential street with a hammer and a knife. As the firearms unit rush to the scene, PC Smith and his specially trained dog, Arnie, are also on their way, in case the man tries to make a run for it. Also rushing to the incident is roads policing officer Sgt Gladwin; his job will be to ensure that no members of the public get in harm's way, and to close the roads. When they arrive, they find that the man with weapons is no longer in the street and has gone into a house, putting another man who is in the property in danger. As the firearms team gain entrance to the house, they arrest one man who turns out to be innocent, only to discover that the suspect has tried to make a run for it out of the back of the house in a bid to get away. The police are stationed at the back of the property but must break down the back door to get to him. Even when surrounded by armed police, the man is still not about to give up and threatens the officers. After warnings to drop his weapons, the only way they can get near enough to arrested him is by tasering him.

In Cheltenham, PC Raath and PC Davis are looking for two 15-year-old two girls who have absconded from a care home. One girl has run away many times before but as they are young and vulnerable, the police need to find them to keep them safe. They know all the usual haunts where they hang out, so are driving around the area, hoping to catch sight of them.

Meanwhile, a Grade One call comes in about a fight in a block of flats - a man is drunk, and is accused of assaulting his neighbour. The neighbour has hit back, and there is blood on his face. After talking to the other neighbours, the officers arrest the drunk man, as he was the one making the initial threats. With the man on his way to custody the officers go back to looking for the missing teenage girls, but they haven't been found by the time their shift ends, and so they hand over to the next team.

In the town centre, the mounted unit are patrolling the main street where all the clubs have just closed. After some banter with the crowds, the officers spot trouble brewing as reports come through of a woman slapping a man in the face. The man wants to make a complaint but as the officer stalk to the woman, they discover that the man had been trying to chat up the girl's friend, who was not interested, and he would not back off. The officers persuade all concerned to drop any complaints and make their way home.

It's nearly the end of the night shift when a member of the public calls in to report that they have seen a group of three men trying to break into cars. PC Gorton and PC Williamson rush to the scene as there is a chance that the men are still there, and they can catch them in the act.

As they arrive on scene, they spot one of the suspects and give chase, but he scales a fence and into the back of gardens. PC Gorton is on his trail, and he doubles round the back to try and catch him. As he jumps down, the suspect is threatened by tasers, but PC Shaw captures the man before they are needed. With the man in handcuffs, a check of his bag reveals not only three bank cards in female names, but also a lock knife. The officers phone the original caller who agrees to come down to the station to give a witness statement.

Local policing officer PC Bailey and her partner PC Evans are called when a homeowner has confronted a drunk man who she says urinated against her wall. The man denies the claim and his wife backs him up, but the woman who owns the house wants them gone from the area as she is frightened they will come back to get revenge. The man is refusing to move on, but he starts to turn nasty to the police when they try to get him to leave. After warning the man that he is in danger of getting arrested, PC Bailey eventually persuades the wife to get the man to leave.

On patrol in the rural outskirts of the town PC Merchant is on the lookout for a car that has been flagged as being involved in some robberies in the area, but he can't find it. He is suspicious when another car makes an abrupt turn to avoid him in a petrol station. PC Merchant catches up with the car and the young driver admits to having drugs in his system which is why he turned away from the garage. A further search of the car leads PC Merchant to another seven bags of drugs which the driver did not declare and he is arrested.

In the town centre, PCs Bailey and Griffiths are patrolling as the clubs are closing and people are spilling out onto the streets to go home. Clubbers alert the officers to two females and a male who are very drunk and are struggling to walk. One young woman is on the ground covered in sick and can't stand up and the other two are trying to help her but with little success. As PC Bailey tries to help, one of the women becomes abusive. The officers decide to take the three to the nearest taxi rank so they can go home safely.

On the M5 a man is flagged over for his bad driving. He stops on the hard shoulder and not the slip road he should have, putting himself and PC Hammond in danger and earning a stern talking to by the road traffic officer.
 

This week, officers are called out to an incident where a member of the public has been assaulted after he asked a man to stop vandalising a park. The victim is on the pavement bleeding when officers Dring and Williamson arrive. Several witnesses have stayed with the injured man and explain that they have even managed to get some footage of the alleged attacker on their phone. Control room cameras in the town centre also have the man in sight and can provide a good description to the officers on the ground. Other officers join in the chase to find the attacker and the man is eventually stopped by PC Smith from the dog unit and arrested.

Elsewhere, the roads policing unit lead by PC Webb are looking for a driver who has failed to stop for officers. When they catch up with the car the driver has abandoned it and taken off on foot. Hoping to find out where he has gone, they call in PC Wong and his dog Senna to pick up a scent. After a promising start, Senna gets thwarted by the number of other people in the area; just as they are about to give up, details come through of a possible nearby address where he may have gone, and PC Webb pays him a visit. The suspect denies having driven that evening but after questioning the man further, the police arrest him.

In the early hours of the morning in Cheltenham village, PC's Durrant and Bower have stopped a female driver for driving erratically. As they approach, information comes through that the car has been involved in the supply of drugs, which means it's much more than a traffic offence. After questioning the female driver, they decide to search both herself and the vehicle for drugs. They request a female officer to search the woman who has nothing on her, so they turn their attention to the car putting drug detection dog Marshall to work. Once again, the search comes back with no result leaving the woman free to go.

PC Foxall and Special constable Webber spot a car that is driving very slowly. They run checks on the registration plate, and it is insured, but instinct is telling PC Foxall that something is wrong. As the officers approach the car to make further checks, the driver speeds off, but the car is being driven by a male when it is registered and insured to a female. With no pursuit capability, PC Foxall can't give chase and think they may be long gone but moments later, another unit reports in that the car is parked on a driveway in the area. At the house, a female answers the door and as they check inside, they find the man upstairs in bed pretending to be asleep. After arresting him for failure to stop, checks come through which reveal that he doesn't have a driving licence.

When shop staff see three men stealing a piece of garden furniture, they contact the police. But once apprehended, one of the men will not give in easily and becomes increasingly volatile. And when he starts spitting, the police have no choice but to place a spit hood on him, and it takes six officers to get him into the custody van. PC Bailey and PC Evans are driving the custody van, a job that means a busy shift picking up those arrested for various offences and transporting them to custody to be booked in. Many of them are arrested for being drunk and disorderly - and tonight is no different. And roads policing officers respond to a grade one call coming in about a man threatening a female with a hammer.