999: What's Your Emergency?

The divorce rate in the UK is at its lowest for forty-five years, but last year there were more than 13,000 domestic violence incidents in Northamptonshire.

Across the UK, 76% of police work now has nothing to do with catching criminals and this episode focuses on the increased demands on front line officers.

Tonight's episode focuses on the growing lack of respect officers face on the streets.

In Northamptonshire and right across the UK, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number of crimes involving knives. As the country debates the root causes of this 'epidemic', police are expected to deal with the consequences, whilst facing ever increasing threats to their own safety.

This episode meets police officers dealing with a huge range of traffic issues - from the routine to the surreal - alongside a spike in crime and to a background of funding cuts.

With more and more young boys in the UK growing up with negative or entirely absent father figures, this episode explores the importance of the father-son relationship and the potential consequences and difficulties when this relationship isn't a positive one.

Over the last five years calls to Northampton Police's 999 Emergency control room about Hate Crime have risen by 62%. This episode focuses on hate speech.

With 16 more shops closing across the UK every day it's clear our high streets are dying. As a result, many town centres are now at risk of becoming no-go zones - hotbeds of antisocial behaviour, crime and violence.

Reports of shoplifting have almost doubled in Northamptonshire in the past ten years. But the number of convictions has fallen by a quarter. PC Imogen Robinson chases a prolific shoplifter who has stolen a box of chocolate bars from a shop.

Tonight's episode focuses on the behaviour of teenage boys. In Northamptonshire, and right across the country, frontline staff say teenagers are becoming more and more violent.

Northamptonshire has just 62 custody cells to cater for a population of 700,000 people and with the number of detainees leaping by nearly a third in recent years, they're now struggling to cope with the demand.

This episode focuses on the fallout from a hidden housing crisis. From house shares to hostels, the police are having to deal with the consequences of more 999 calls about people living in shared accommodation.