RPU: Road Policing Unit

Sgt Mick Roffe, who heads up the new unit, is out to catch suspected dealers red-handed when officers including a specialist search team raid a club in Catterick.

Dan Hughes narrowly avoids being mown down a suspected drink-driver who accelerates off through the streets of Scarborough reaching speeds of 70mph with Dan in hot pursuit.

Cops are tracking down thieves and shoplifters as they hit the roads. PC Andy Ingram boxes in a suspect vehicle while Sgt Julian Pearson is on the tail of two suspected shoplifters who crash their getaway car, causing chaos in a busy town center.

In York, PCs Chris Howarth and Steve Harvey are backed up by a police unit armed with tasers when they set out to arrest a man suspected of assaulting a pregnant woman.

As the police know all too well, when it comes to violent crimes and anti-social behavior, often the one thing they have in common is alcohol.

In this Law and Disorder Special, the Traffic Cops come up against some of the most dangerous and vicious criminals operating on their North Yorkshire patch.