999: What's Your Emergency?

This episode visits a control centre. Cheshire's ambulance service gets 50% more calls than 10 years ago. Some are life-threatening, some heart-warming. Others are less urgent, like sore eyelashes.

This episode follows police and paramedics dealing with the effects of legal highs, from a regular user coughing up blood in a bus stop to a granddad who has reacted badly to the legal highs he bought online.

This episode meets the police officers dealing with growing numbers of problems between neighbours, from noise, feuds and burnt-out cars to reports of a man acting suspiciously and scaring children.

This episode explores the police and ambulance staff's increasing role in dealing with issues arising from mental health problems, including evaluating whether people who are behaving unusually are okay.

This episode explores the lives of people who the police and paramedics regularly meet, from persistent shoplifters who no longer see prison as a deterrent to people who struggle with alcoholism.

Focusing on issues around immigration in Cheshire, this episode features a heated arrest at a supermarket and the rise in racially-aggravated incidents during weekends.

Cases in this episode include an elderly woman who's had her life savings stolen, a repeat offender suspected of assault and the disappearance of thirteen ducks.

This episode explores alcohol-related incidents, from a professional footballer driving erratically the morning after a night out to men and women getting naked and/or aggressive.

This episode explores the challenges the emergency services face with teenagers, from online bullying and children attacking their parents to teenagers who have to care for ill parents.

This episode explores the rise in violent crime across the UK and the increase in attacks on the police forces. Cheshire PC Claire Heatley is assaulted by a suspect.

This episode explores the challenges and dangers our emergency services face on our roads, from drivers under the influence of drink, drugs and even old age.

This episode explores the emergency services' role when matters of the heart clash with matters of the law, from domestic assaults to abusive graffiti.

"In a cardiac arrest, the opportunity is there to save someone's life," says emergency medical technician John Almond. "They're never easy, but it's straightforward: the sooner someone gets bouncing on that chest, the greater their chance of survival!"

DC Ben Hilton is called to deal with a case of a woman who has been arrested after stabbing her partner in the leg with a kitchen knife. Crimes of this nature are no longer the rarity they once were, but when the woman is interviewed this case proves to be far more complex than it first appeared. "There's always more to it" says Sergeant Line "Whenever anybody comes in, there's always more to it"