Series synopsis
999: What's Your Emergency? is a British documentary television series that premiered on Channel 4 on September 10, 2012.
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 ...
Premise
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.
Episodes
This series spans 15 seasons with 79 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 1 | April 24, 2023 | April 24, 2023 |
| Season 1 | 10 | September 10, 2012 | November 19, 2012 |
| Season 2 | 6 | October 7, 2013 | November 11, 2013 |
| Season 3 | 14 | July 4, 2016 | February 27, 2017 |
| Season 4 | 6 | July 24, 2017 | September 4, 2017 |
| Season 5 | 7 | October 30, 2017 | December 11, 2017 |
| Season 6 | 4 | April 19, 2018 | May 10, 2018 |
| Season 7 | 4 | July 24, 2018 | August 14, 2018 |
| Season 8 | 4 | November 20, 2018 | December 11, 2018 |
| Season 9 | 4 | June 3, 2019 | June 24, 2019 |
| Season 10 | 4 | January 20, 2020 | February 10, 2020 |
| Season 11 | 3 | October 5, 2020 | October 19, 2020 |
| Season 12 | 4 | January 11, 2021 | February 1, 2021 |
| Season 13 | 5 | June 8, 2021 | July 13, 2021 |
| Season 14 | 3 | January 17, 2022 | January 31, 2022 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Special 1 One-off special following South Yorkshire Police investigating reports of bullying, from playground brawls and racism in schools to coercive domestic abuse. Cases featured include a 14-year-old boy hospitalised by a gang in the street, a single vulnerable woman being systematically targeted by local teens in her own home, and a distraught mother watching her 27-year-old son attempting suicide after being bullied at work. |
April 24, 2023 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Drugs A look at how Britain is changing through the eyes of the police, fire and ambulance services, starting with 'party drugs' in Blackpool. |
September 10, 2012 |
| 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 are called out after tourists spot a woman performing sexual acts on teenagers under the Blackpool pier. |
September 17, 2012 |
| 3 |
Relationships & Domestic Abuse An episode looks at cases of domestic abuse, as well as two paramedics on the verge of marriage. |
September 24, 2012 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transition to Adulthood | October 7, 2013 |
| 2 | Alcohol | October 14, 2013 |
| 3 | Mental Health | October 21, 2013 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 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 the frontline police and paramedics. In this episode, a 20-year-old girl has returned home after a night out, collapsed in front of her parents and stopped breathing, while one man calls the emergency services to say that a naked stranger his mother met at a punk gig has fallen down their stairs |
July 4, 2016 |
| 2 | Legal Highs | July 11, 2016 |
| 3 | Neighbours | July 21, 2016 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 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 while out playing. It's the first time that Taleah has ever heard the N-word. |
July 24, 2017 |
| 2 |
Young Men Over the last decade, incidents of violence perpetrated by young men have risen by 22%. This episode meets the police officers and paramedics in Wiltshire dealing with the consequences. |
July 31, 2017 |
| 3 |
Drugs Following criminalisation of once legal highs, crack and heroin are on the up and users and dealers are getting younger as organised gangs flood small local communities with drugs. |
August 7, 2017 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sex Offences | October 30, 2017 |
| 2 | Squaddies | November 6, 2017 |
| 3 | Homelessness | November 13, 2017 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Dangerous Driving This episode joins Wiltshire's police officers as they deal with young men driving dangerously and tackle the resurgence of joyriding, with some drivers as young as 14. |
April 19, 2018 |
| 2 |
Mother & Son Relationships This episode explores the impact of loneliness, as the emergency services deal with everyone from elderly people who need someone to talk to, to teenagers struggling with the pressures of social media. |
April 26, 2018 |
| 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. With no one else to talk to, people are relying more and more on 999. |
May 3, 2018 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Accidents & Injuries Joining the emergency services as they respond to accidents from car crashes to sports injuries and an ambulance crew are despatched to a rural area where a man has chopped through his foot with an axe while cutting firewood. |
July 24, 2018 |
| 2 |
Ambulance Response Times In the last five years, Wiltshire has experienced a 63 percent increase in offences committed by women. The police face extraordinary levels of violence as they deal with this female crime wave, including an attack on a single girl by a gang. |
July 31, 2018 |
| 3 | Emergency & Non-emergency Calls | August 7, 2018 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Violent Crime Cameras 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. |
November 20, 2018 |
| 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 suspicion of making hoax calls. |
November 27, 2018 |
| 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 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. |
December 4, 2018 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Relationships & Domestic Abuse With the country increasingly politically and financially divided, a focus on the battle faced by Britain's most overstretched emergency service: the police. |
June 3, 2019 |
| 2 |
Increased Demand The work of police in Northamptonshire, where, with resources stretched to breaking point, officers are struggling to meet the increased demand on their services. |
June 10, 2019 |
| 3 | Officer Safety | June 17, 2019 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Roads Policing In Northamptonshire, police are called out after a vicious attack on students. And two constables need back-up when attacked with a pool cue by a man who refuses to leave a pub. |
January 20, 2020 |
| 2 |
Fathers & Young Men With more and more boys growing up with negative or absent father figures, Northamptonshire police see young men stuck in cycles of violence or coerced into organised crime. |
January 27, 2020 |
| 3 |
Hate Crime There is a surge in the number of calls to Northampton police reporting verbal abuse on race, religion, sex or sexuality. The police are experiencing a surge in homophobic and transphobic abuse. |
February 3, 2020 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
High Streets & Nighttime Economy The return of the documentary following the work of emergency services, with this edition focusing on the rising incidence of theft in Northamptonshire. PC Imogen Robinson chases a prolific shoplifter who has stolen a box of chocolate bars from a shop, while PC Ben Norris is dispatched to apprehend a suspected burglar who then carries out a rooftop protest. |
October 5, 2020 |
| 2 |
Burglary & Theft Northamptonshire police officers have their hands full tackling a prolific shoplifter, a burglar making a rooftop protest, a telephone scam, and what looks like a cyber break-in. |
October 12, 2020 |
| 3 |
Violent Crime & Youth Crime With resources stretched to breaking point for the police in Northamptonshire, a look at the increasingly violent behaviour of teenage boys, from acid attacks to stabbings. |
October 19, 2020 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Fear of Crime On the front line with South Yorkshire Police as Covid begins. Officers assist two victims of domestic abuse and an elderly man home alone and under siege. |
January 11, 2021 |
| 2 |
Sex Offences South Yorkshire Police attend a suspected sexual assault outside a nightclub and a case of indecent exposure on the street. A man is arrested on suspicion of domestic rape. |
January 18, 2021 |
| 3 |
Violent Crime & Youth Crime A look at how young males can lead each other into criminality. |
January 25, 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Revenge & Vigilante Justice South Yorkshire Police reveal what happens when people seek revenge by street justice, from a supermarket brawl to taking a hammer on the rampage, as well as a hit-and-run as payback. |
June 8, 2021 |
| 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, including a confused lady who can't find her way home. |
June 15, 2021 |
| 3 |
Alcohol & House Parties Revealing the realities of policing home drinking. A family gathering spills into the street and gets out of control and elsewhere, an ambulance crew are in danger at a house party. |
June 22, 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Night Shift Emergency services in South Yorkshire face a difficult night, beginning with an aggressive drunk in Doncaster town centre who is assaulting a police officer. In Sheffield, PCs Bernice Gott and Rachel Brightmore are monitoring pub and club-goers from a public order van. But as the night wears on, the focus shifts from crimes committed on a whim to premeditated acts. |
January 17, 2022 |
| 2 |
Drunk Women Cases involving alcohol-related call-outs involving excessive drinking by women. Officers are alerted by a taxi driver to someone who has been drunk and asleep in a gutter, while PCs Brad Phillips and Mike Doggett attend the scene of a mid-evening car crash. Elsewhere, a disturbance in a pub spills out onto the streets, resulting in an arrest for assault and an entire family of young children being forced to go into custody by their mother. |
January 24, 2022 |
| 3 |
Custody Situations in Northamptonshire when people are taken into police custody. The rising number of first-time offenders in custody often leaving resources are stretched to breaking point, given that there are only 62 custody cells to cater for a population of 700,000 people. A 60-year-old drunk driver is brought in for her first offence, and detention officer Perry Chaplin has to deal with a detainee who has stripped naked. |
January 31, 2022 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Channel 4 |
|---|---|
| First aired | September 10, 2012 |
| Last aired | January 31, 2022 |
| Runtime | 45 minutes |
| Status | continue |
| Schedule | Tuesday at 21:00:00 |