24 Hours in Police Custody

The inside story of the investigation into the disappearance of a 15-year-old boy. A mum calls Bedfordshire 999 reporting that her 15-year-old son has gone missing, again. DC Lee Primonato from the dedicated Guns & Gangs unit immediately suspects that yet another child has been drawn into serious drug dealing and that the boy will, eventually, be found in a drug den. Recruiting children to hold a phone where drugs are ordered by customers has become an essential part of gangs' business model; because it makes it harder for the police. Cameras follow detectives as they make a breakthrough. Every twist and turn of the investigation is on camera as a raid is planned on a property where the police hope to find the controller of the drug line but the detectives are in for an unpleasant surprise.

Serial sexual predator Craig France is in custody, and officers from Cambridgeshire Police Rape Investigation team wait for the CPS to approve charges for rape and voyeurism. However, the satisfaction of getting a charge is short-lived, as they're only just beginning to understand the darkest depths of France's criminality.

The first of a two-part documentary featuring unprecedented access behind the scenes of a crime investigation into a serial rapist who Cambridgeshire Police believe preyed on dozens of women. The suspect, Craig France, has a reputation across Peterborough's nightclub scene and for the notorious hot-tub afterparties he has hosted at his house. A search of France's house reveals an obsession with hidden recording devices. As officers download the data from the cameras, what they find shocks them.

Detectives from the Major Crime Unit at Bedfordshire Police have a suspect in custody who admits to the crime - but the confession is only the beginning of a case that will bring a series of deeply disturbing twists and turns in a tale that shocks and surprises the experienced police team. Cameras follow as the police continue to probe the suspect and the interview becomes more and more chilling.

How the new routes behind large scale cannabis importation are leading police to some very different suspects, far from the gangs who traditionally ran the drugs trade. Detectives in Luton CID take on a case after UK Border Force intercept multiple packages of cannabis addressed to properties across Bedfordshire, whole DC Adam Geary is handed what will become the biggest investigation of his career.

Cameras follow the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit during a major operation that leads to the seizure of drugs worth over £1.5million. After finding drugs hidden in secret compartments in equipment being shipped into the UK, detectives realise they may be able to break an international South American cartel by exploiting their discovery.

An account of the key events in an escape attempt from the Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire. Cameras follow from inside a police manhunt to return to custody a large group of detainees who have successfully scaled a perimeter before fleeing across the UK. As the operation turns its focus on who the criminals on the run are and who on the outside might have assisted the escape, police raid a number of properties linked to Albanian organised crime groups.

A woman calls the police at 4am. She's in deep trouble and many miles from home. Soon she's in a coma. Can detectives solve the mystery of how she got this way?

Two men have been brutally murdered and a third has been left with multiple stab wounds. A number of suspects have been arrested but the man who police believe is responsible for stabbing all three victims is on the run. The detectives from the Major Crime Unit at Bedfordshire Police still can't comprehend the level of brutality they have witnessed. As the manhunt intensifies, cameras follow live a fresh twist in the investigation when police discover a believed confession written by the fugitive suspect.

Part one of a two-part special revealing the story behind a brutal double murder, when one man is found dead in the road outside a pub while another has multiple stab wounds. Despite both men being pronounced dead at the scene, no one in the close-knit community of Houghton Regis has so far come forward to reveal who is responsible.

Feature-length special about an investigation into a case of possible male rape involving a man who arranges to meet multiple men a week for sex using Grindr. Bedfordshire Police's Rape & Serious Sexual Offences team try to work out whether there is enough evidence to charge a suspect who claims the sex is consensual. The programme examines fraught questions of consent and the reasons why police investigations into male rape are so rare and difficult to prosecute.

DC Shona Birkby from Bedfordshire Police's Rap and Serious Sexual Offences team analyses a video of a couple having sex without knowing they are being filmed. As she forensically examines her suspect, she explains how she believes he is regularly prowling the streets filming women in compromising positions without their consent to get sexual thrills. The case takes a sinister turn when, within weeks of the video being taken, police receive a call from a nightclub where door staff believe a woman has been attacked.

When a man is found dead and completely naked after bleeding out from a stab wound to his thigh, Bedfordshire's Major Crime unit charge two women who they believe enticed the man into meeting them with the promise of sex, but instead had the intention of robbing him. CCTV reveals the women were accompanied by two men on the night of the murder. Now with four suspects in custody, investigators need to work out who is behind the `honey trap" plot and which of their suspects is responsible for the murder.

Following the case of a naked man found stabbed to death in Luton, which leads police to discover this may be one of a series of murders in which men are lured with the promise of sex, so that they can be robbed. DI Dale Mepstead turns her attention to two men who are seen on CCTV accompanying the suspects into a flat. Will either of the women being held in custody reveal their identity?

Bedfordshire Police race to rescue a missing 15-year-old girl after receiving intelligence that a 20-year old man is holding her captive at his flat in Luton. She isn't his only victim, the suspect has targeted a large number of other underage girls.

Bedfordshire Police investigate a possible break-in and a devastating high-speed car chase, navigating the rights and wrongs of people taking the law into their own hands.

Features police investigations into one of the most disturbing and hard-to-prove crimes, baby-shaking cases, and examines parents' often-divided loyalties. Detectives probe the stories of the parents, as they piece together what really happened

On a quiet Sunday lunchtime in a Cambridgeshire suburb, a man lies bleeding to death on the doorstep. A major manhunt is triggered, where the strength of family blood ties is brutally exposed.

In the gripping conclusion to this two-part special, the victims of historic child sex abuse come forward to try and finally get justice, and prevent the suspect from walking free for the ninth time.

A lone detective is on the trail of a Luton man who sexually abused scores of young people, in what becomes a very complex and disturbing pursuit.

Detectives investigate the sudden death of a 48-year-old woman in Cambridgeshire, and the hunt for clues takes the investigation right across Europe as cameras follow every twist and turn in the investigation.

The cameras follow an engrossing and surprising real-life investigation into a reported burglary of antiques worth a quarter of a million pounds from a country estate.

Cameras follow every twist and turn of a real-life police investigation as detectives attempt to catch a suspected drug trafficker before he can escape on a flight to Spain

Detectives race to the scene of a stabbing in broad daylight. Cameras follow every twist and turn of the investigation, revealing the real-life stories behind the familiar headlines about knife crime.

Bedfordshire Police have to confront the issues thrown up by a surge in the number of crimes related to the sexual exploitation and grooming of children by paedophiles. A man is lured to what he believes is a meeting with a 13-year-old girl, but is caught in a sting operation by so-called 'paedophile hunters'. A few days later, the case takes a surprising twist when police are called to a roadside where a pensioner is found badly beaten and suffering a bleed on the brain.

Bedfordshire Police confront issues thrown up by the mass movement of people across Europe. A man travelling with a young woman on a one-way ticket from Bulgaria is stopped at Luton Airport. Officers from the National Crime Agency believe that he - and another man who has come to the arrivals gate to meet them - may be bringing the woman into the country unlawfully. The story takes a surprising twist when one of the men they have arrested claims he is her father. Cameras follow every twist and turn of the case, as detectives try to discover the truth when so much is obscured by different languages and culture.

A man phones police to claim that there are body parts buried in the garden of a house on an estate in Luton and a search team is dispatched, but faces a wall of silence at the scene. Detectives suspect that it is a fantasy but, more worryingly, they may be being deliberately drawn into a long-running and brutal tit-for-tat gang war. Cameras follow every twist and turn of the case as it escalates further when the mother of the original complainant is stabbed in the chest.

A teenager disappears from hospital after being brought in with serious injuries that suggest she's been tied up and assaulted. Bedfordshire Police investigate.

A woman has reported to Bedfordshire police that she is living in fear because she believes a man who she once regarded as a friend has begun to stalk her, and officers are sent to arrest him. Cameras follow the complainant and the prime suspect as they argue over whether he has crossed a line and what was once friendship has now turned into an unhealthy obsession.

The police search for a couple who they believe have exploited a young, vulnerable woman by taking over her flat to use it as a drugs base.

Police search in a Luton garden for the body of a woman who disappeared in 2003, as they turn up the heat on suspects in a case that's puzzled them for years.

A man lies dead in a Peterborough park. The position of his body raises intense suspicions but rigor mortis has set in and the trail of evidence is going cold. Detectives are called in to investigate.

Bedfordshire Police are particularly busy. A care worker denies stealing a gold bracelet, a man denies being involved in a stabbing, and a suspect is questioned about an assault.

A man has been attacked and left unconscious on the floor of a crowded pub for over 30 minutes. Detectives face a wall of silence as they search for evidence.

Amanda comes to Luton Police station claiming that his life's in danger and that he's just escaped from a slave owning gang. Over 200 officers launch a dawn raid on the suspects.

A distressed woman arrives at Luton Police station, where officers have to tell her that her 76-year-old husband is under arrest following allegations of historic child sex abuse.

When a young woman reports that she has been raped by a man she met in a bar, Bedfordshire Police bring the man in for questioning and try to unpick the two very different accounts of events.

During Luton's annual carnival a man seizes the opportunity to enter a house and sexually assault two young children. Bedfordshire Police scan thousands of hours of CCTV footage in the hunt for him.

Officers search for an armed and dangerous man who is on the run from Bedfordshire Police's "Operation Bosun" - a specialist unit that tackles gun crime.

The number of domestic abuse incidents reported to Bedfordshire Police has soared to over 200 a week in recent years. Two such incidents show the difficulties officers have investigating these cases.

DC Cathie Layton investigates the case of a man who is alleged to have assaulted a taxi driver and stolen his keys. But her instinct tells her that all is not what it seems...

The police release a young man who's been accused of a vicious assault when he gives his mother as an alibi. But when she fails to support his story they have to try to find him again...

DS Simon Hancock and DC Cathie Layton have 24 hours to interview two men who they suspect are behind a string of knife-point robberies. And neither man knows what the other's saying...

Bedfordshire Police must decide whether to charge two men arrested as part of a nationwide operation against people possessing and, in some cases, distributing indecent images of children online.

Cathie Layton and Brett Jones used to work together in the police, but now Brett's a legal rep, representing one of Luton's prolific burglars, with DC Layton on the other side of the table.

Several elderly people have been sexually assaulted in a graveyard. The police have a sample of an attacker's DNA from a previous crime scene, and arrest a young man. Will his DNA match?

This episode follows cases where alcohol and relationship tensions mix in a dangerous cocktail. Investigating Officer Lisa Hutchinson says nine out of ten cases can be of domestic violence.

This episode follows an investigation into suspected human trafficking. DC Tom Stean says 'Human trafficking is getting worse and worse. I think Luton is a magnet.'

Drunken abuse, the theft of 98p's worth of fizzy drinks and the joyriding of a 45-seater bus are all in a day's work for acting sergeant Wil Taylor. Some can seem like a waste of police time, while others quickly become serious - such as the case of three sex workers who have been arrested during a raid on a local brothel. Are the women victims, possibly trafficked to the UK from Eastern Europe, or are they running the business and exploiting others? Last in the series

A devout Muslim has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting his daughter with an iron, after she married a man he does not approve of. Bedfordshire Police have set up a dedicated `honour-based violence' unit at Luton, but the investigation falls to DC Rachel Chandler in CID. Will she succeed in finding the evidence before time runs out?

It's Saturday night in Luton, and Bedfordshire Police are dealing with drunken domestic disputes and a booze-fuelled fight. Police Constables Leanne Turner and Andy Parsons are sent out to investigate an alleged assault against a vulnerable and fragile 75-year-old man in a domestic dispute. The suspect is the man's private carer and has been living with him for the past seven years. When he made the 999 call, the elderly man alleged that he had been slapped in the head with an open palm. But when they arrive, PCs Leanne and Andy are confronted with a distressed victim who insists he does not want them to pursue the matter and who begs them to leave. At the police station, a Polish man arrested for a drunken row with his partner is admitted into custody. He's initially brought in for a 'breach of the peace' - to remove him from the situation and allow him to sober up and cool off - but things take an unexpectedly sinister turn when he whispers to the custody sergeant that he will kill his wife the following day.

This episode opens with a young man accidentally dropping a large quantity of cocaine from his jacket pocket outside a petrol station - all caught on CCTV. On the case are hard-bitten Detective Constable Colin Knight and fresh-faced Police Constable Oly Tomlinson, who joined the team three months earlier. They get off to a promising start, tracking down the owner of the vehicle the passenger was travelling in. DC Knight brings in his chief suspect for questioning and discovers that, just like the man in the CCTV footage, he has a striking tattoo on the right side of his neck, but could it be a case of mistaken identity? Also brought in to the custody suite is Darren, a man arrested on suspicion of theft of meat from Marks & Spencer. As he is booked into custody it soon becomes apparent he is a heroin addict. Sympathetic Custody Sergeant Pete Fitz-Gibbon tries his best to persuade him to stay strong and get clean. Both cases provide a stark picture about the dark world of young people caught up in a cycle of drug addiction and crime in Luton and the challenges facing the police as they tackle it.

Forensics get a partial DNA match to a previous suspect, and officers bring him in for questioning. After 13 years of denial will he finally confess?

The case of the brutal murder of 86-year-old Una Crown in 2013 is re-opened. Police think they know the killer but will the science back them up?

The inside story of the investigation into one of the country's worst serial paedophiles, who is currently serving a life sentence for his crimes. After Carson Grimes was convicted of abusing nine children in 2021, Bedfordshire Police received a flood of new reports of his crimes - and officers soon realised the scale and extent of criminality was far greater than they had feared

A disturbing and compelling look at how weapons deliberately designed and marketed to appeal to young people were directly linked to at least 14 murders.