999: What's Your Emergency?
999: What's Your Emergency?

999: What's Your Emergency?

2012 14 Seasons 78 Episodes ⭐ 8.0 Documentary

999: What's Your Emergency? follows members of emergency services throughout Britain as they work together to tackle crime and disorder, providing insight through the eyes of the police, fire, and ambulance services using a mixture of fly-on-the-wall footage taken at incidents and retrospective interviews with the people and staff featured. With rig technology inside the emergency vehicles to call centres to multiple crews on the ground 24/7, the series captures in a unique way the issues that face Britain today, from the emergence of new drugs and the despair of domestic violence to the way we parent our children and those who slip through society's safety net.

999: What's Your Emergency? follows members of emergency services throughout Britain as they work together to tackle crime and disorder, providing insight through the eyes of the police, fire, and ambulance services using a mixture of fly-on-the-wall footage taken at incidents and retrospective interviews with the people and staff featured. With rig technology inside the emergency vehicles to call centres to multiple crews on the ground 24/7, the series captures in a unique way the issues that face Britain today, from the emergence of new drugs and the despair of domestic violence to the way we parent our children and those who slip through society's safety net.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Drugs

A look at how Britain is changing through the eyes of the police, fire and ambulance services, starting with 'party drug

EP 2

Children & Youth Crime

PC Chris Hardy responds to a call from a terrified family who've had a brick thrown through their window. Later, police

EP 3

Relationships & Domestic Abuse

An episode looks at cases of domestic abuse, as well as two paramedics on the verge of marriage.

EP 4

Payday & Bonfire Night

There is one night when everyone's up for a party: payday. Whether you work a 50-hour week or depend on state benefits,

EP 5

Mental Health

PC Dave Donafee is called out to a halloween party that's turned into a street fight and he comes face-to-face with on o

EP 6

Women

Focusing on how women in our society are changing, whether it's putting themselves in harm's way as members of the emerg

EP 7

Alcohol

Alcohol is fueling problems across the UK. Britain likes to drink and Blackpool is a magnet for stag and hen parties, wi

EP 8

Life or Death & Hoax Calls

The program features calls to the emergency services about a range of non-emergencies, from culinary injuries to broken

EP 9

Visitors

Following how Blackpool's emergency services deal with incidents involving people from outside the town. With 13 millio

EP 10

Highlights & Interviews

What do the police, ambulance and fire staff really think about the jobs they do?

EP 1

Transition to Adulthood

EP 2

Alcohol

EP 3

Mental Health

EP 4

Life or Death

EP 5

The Elderly

EP 6

Babies

EP 1

Call Handlers

The work of police and paramedics in Cheshire, following incidents from the moment a 999 call is made to the arrival of

EP 2

Legal Highs

EP 3

Neighbours

EP 4

Mental Health

Exploring the complex issues surrounding the care of people with mental health problems in the UK and the increasing rol

EP 5

Regular Callers & Repeat Offenders

The documentary focuses on the small but significant minority of people who are regular users of the emergency services.

EP 6

Immigrants & The Language Barrier

PC Greg Greaves calls for back-up in Crewe after two suspects shout claims of abuse and racism at him, and in Warrington

EP 7

Money

A look at how both the haves and the have-nots are being affected by crime. In Crewe, PC Matt Ambrose is called to the h

EP 8

Alcohol

With alcohol-related incidents in the UK costing the emergency services nearly £3 billion a year, this episode features

EP 9

Teenagers & Youth Crime

Exploring the trails and tribulations of coming of age in 2016, and the challenges the emergency services face in dealin

EP 10

Violent Crime

PCs Matt Ambrose and Mike Lowe are dispatched to a house in Crewe following reports of a man threatening his ex-partner

EP 11

Roads Policing

In Nantwich, PC Vicky Howell and PC Greg Greaves pull over a 31-year-old woman suspected of driving under the influence

EP 12

Relationships & Domestic Abuse

PCs Bryony Hancock and Charlotte Wilson are called to a Saturday night lovers' tiff in Crewe before heading to help a wo

EP 13

Death

In Warrington, paramedics arrive at the home of a man having a suspected cardiac arrest. With CPR already in action and

EP 14

Custody

This episode meets Cheshire's police custody staff, who deal with everyone from people accused of terrible crimes to oth

EP 1

Immigrants & Hate Crime

The mother of nine-year-old Taleah calls 999 to report that her daughter has been racially abused by two 11-year-olds wh

EP 2

Young Men

Over the last decade, incidents of violence perpetrated by young men have risen by 22%. This episode meets the police of

EP 3

Drugs

Following criminalisation of once legal highs, crack and heroin are on the up and users and dealers are getting younger

EP 4

Vigilante Justice

This episode explores a troubling rise in domestic burglaries, from people caught stealing food to thieves targeting wea

EP 5

Burglary

In Swindon one burglar is caught red handed, stealing frozen food from someone's freezer. Food bank use in Wiltshire has

EP 6

Children & Parenting

Police are dispatched when a member of the public finds a four-year-old boy wandering alone in the street.

EP 1

Sex Offences

EP 2

Squaddies

EP 3

Homelessness

EP 4

Mental Health

EP 5

The Elderly

EP 6

Workplace Stress

EP 7

Teenagers & Youth Crime

EP 1

Dangerous Driving

This episode joins Wiltshire's police officers as they deal with young men driving dangerously and tackle the resurgence

EP 2

Mother & Son Relationships

This episode explores the impact of loneliness, as the emergency services deal with everyone from elderly people who nee

EP 3

Loneliness

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.

EP 4

Cannabis

Cameras go behind the scenes with Wilshire's emergency services to explore the rising use of strong cannabis, related cr

EP 1

Accidents & Injuries

Joining the emergency services as they respond to accidents from car crashes to sports injuries and an ambulance crew ar

EP 2

Ambulance Response Times

In the last five years, Wiltshire has experienced a 63 percent increase in offences committed by women. The police face

EP 3

Emergency & Non-emergency Calls

EP 4

Poverty

Exploring the link between poverty and rising crime when a 14 year old reports a break-in at her home where jewellery an

EP 1

Violent Crime

Cameras focus on the work carried out by Wiltshire's police, paramedic, and fire services. Unarmed police officers are c

EP 2

Learning Disabilities

The police are called to assist a mother whose autistic son is attacking her. A man with Asperger's is brought in on sus

EP 3

Criminal Families

Cameras focus on the five per cent of the UK's families who are collectively responsible for a staggering amount of the

EP 4

Knife Crime & Murder

Wiltshire Police launch a murder investigation when two people are stabbed by a stranger. But all may not be as it seems

EP 1

Relationships & Domestic Abuse

With the country increasingly politically and financially divided, a focus on the battle faced by Britain's most overstr

EP 2

Increased Demand

The work of police in Northamptonshire, where, with resources stretched to breaking point, officers are struggling to me

EP 3

Officer Safety

EP 4

Knife Crime

An inside look at how Britain is changing through the eyes of the police, fire and ambulance teams.

EP 1

Roads Policing

In Northamptonshire, police are called out after a vicious attack on students. And two constables need back-up when atta

EP 2

Fathers & Young Men

With more and more boys growing up with negative or absent father figures, Northamptonshire police see young men stuck i

EP 3

Hate Crime

There is a surge in the number of calls to Northampton police reporting verbal abuse on race, religion, sex or sexuality

EP 4

Women

In the past five years, Wiltshire has experienced a 63% increase in offences committed by women. The police try to deal

EP 1

High Streets & Nighttime Economy

The return of the documentary following the work of emergency services, with this edition focusing on the rising inciden

EP 2

Burglary & Theft

Northamptonshire police officers have their hands full tackling a prolific shoplifter, a burglar making a rooftop protes

EP 3

Violent Crime & Youth Crime

With resources stretched to breaking point for the police in Northamptonshire, a look at the increasingly violent behavi

EP 1

Fear of Crime

On the front line with South Yorkshire Police as Covid begins. Officers assist two victims of domestic abuse and an elde

EP 2

Sex Offences

South Yorkshire Police attend a suspected sexual assault outside a nightclub and a case of indecent exposure on the stre

EP 3

Violent Crime & Youth Crime

A look at how young males can lead each other into criminality.

EP 4

Episode 4

Early 2020, the start of COVID-19, and South Yorkshire Police face a surge in anxious calls and crimes, from folk fighti

EP 1

Revenge & Vigilante Justice

South Yorkshire Police reveal what happens when people seek revenge by street justice, from a supermarket brawl to takin

EP 2

Time Wasters & The Vulnerable

A look at the challenges South Yorkshire Police face with time-wasting 999 calls and also with helping vulnerable people

EP 3

Alcohol & House Parties

Revealing the realities of policing home drinking. A family gathering spills into the street and gets out of control and

EP 4

Children & Parenting

In South Yorkshire, a mother asks police to take her 15-year-old into custody as officers confront several painful cases

EP 5

Housing

Northamptonshire police deal with the fallout from the hidden housing crisis of shared accommodation, from a row about u

EP 1

The Night Shift

Emergency services in South Yorkshire face a difficult night, beginning with an aggressive drunk in Doncaster town centr

EP 2

Drunk Women

Cases involving alcohol-related call-outs involving excessive drinking by women. Officers are alerted by a taxi driver t

EP 3

Custody

Situations in Northamptonshire when people are taken into police custody. The rising number of first-time offenders in c

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