Police Interceptors

This high-octane episode begins with an epic battle to put the brakes on a dangerous disqualified driver who leads Northamptonshire's Interceptors on a gruelling 20-minute pursuit.

Rob and Charlie track down a Mitsubishi reportedly being driven dangerously, but within seconds the driver hits the accelerator and speeds through villages at 80mph, eventually taking the pursuit down a treacherous country track. Callum faces a race against time to help an off-duty colleague who has been headbutted and punched while grappling to detain a violent suspected shoplifter in a supermarket.

Officers are called to a busy town centre bar where a man who had been thrown out by bouncers has been putting his boot into the windows and shattered four of them. Harrison is rammed twice by a 4x4 at a fast-food drive-through, with the driver running off across a busy dual carriageway, risking his life to avoid capture.

When a cloned car being tracked by officers stops, a gang of masked men get out. Some are armed with saws, and intel suggests they're in town to rob a cannabis factory. With no available support from the Firearms squad, a pair from Roads Police approach with extreme caution. Out on the roads, a van driver flees the scene of a crash and hides in the dark. A little detective work and a thermal imaging sweep later and the cops have two men in cuffs. The question is, can they prove if either was driving at the time of the accident? Another suspect is reined in the old-fashioned way, when police dog Blue sniffs out a driver who gave traffic cops the slip.

The firearms squad responds to reports of a gang armed with machetes trying to break into a house and one officer ends up on the roof as the officers try to locate the suspects. On the roads, the pursuit of a stolen motorbike reaches an unsatisfactory conclusion when the rider nips down an alleyway to freedom, but when Callum uses a tracker to locate a second stolen bike, it's parked right next to the one that got away.

Officers take part in a high-speed pursuit of a suspected drink driver who tries to ram the interceptors off the road. With the chase hurtling towards Northampton town centre, packed with late-night revellers, the runaway takes one risk too many, jumps a red light, crashes and comes to a halt. Callum and Chris chase after a gang from London suspected to have raided a rival's cannabis farm, while Harrison and Tanya catch a repeat disqualified motorist up to his old tricks again, resulting in him being sent back to prison.

Officers pursue a car on the M1 that is veering across lanes, flashing other motorists and pushing the speed to 115 mph, with advanced driver Scott getting rammed twice by the reckless fugitive. Meanwhile, three dogs are put through their paces in training, with cocker spaniel Socks and handler Lucy putting their training to use in a real-life operation when a man accused of selling drugs to students is stopped and his car searched

Reports of a break-in spark a pursuit of a vehicle, ending in a dramatic dog-led search as police canine Peggy quickly tracks down the driver, who fails a cocaine drug wipe. Elsewhere, burglars strike in the worst possible place, stolen vehicles are chased across counties in snow and storms, and officers deal with everything from cargo thefts to a fallen tree blocking the road.

An accident on the A43 turns into a far bigger accident waiting to happen when a lorry driver makes a wrong turn onto the other carriageway, motoring straight towards oncoming traffic as cops tend to the wounded. Elsewhere, officers pursue a Mini reported stolen that failed to stop for blue lights and following a multi-car pursuit, they finally get their hands on the occupants, who turn out to be a 15-year-old driver and 13-year-old passenger.

In Kettering town centre, CCTV team observe a man on the street drinking alcohol with his friends before driving off. When the suspect floors it, a high-speed cross-county pursuit ensues, led by advanced driver Sandra in the Volvo XC60. Lucy and police dog Bryn are called to track down some men suspected of stealing goods from lorry curtain-sides, and the canine's super-sensitive nose quickly tracks them across a dual carriageway into a field of nettles.

Officer from roads policing, firearms and the dog section unite to stop a high-performance getaway car reportedly being used by a burglary gang. Locating their target on the M6, the undercover team strikes from the shadows with a tactic known as the 'crucifix box'. In Rothwell, Harrison and Lloyd have a baffling encounter with a man who seems to have many names, while Tony rolls his sleeves up to push a seized motor off the road.

Dog Handler Lucy and the Firearms Team investigate the burglary of an allegedly empty house by a machete-wielding masked gang, and discover the property is hiding a colossal three-storey cannabis farm. In Upton, while patrolling in an unmarked car, a speeding driver nearly crashes into Rachael and Chris, leading to a pursuit.

Dog handler Lucy and the firearms team investigate the burglary of an allegedly empty house by a machete-wielding masked gang, and discover the property is hiding a colossal three-storey cannabis farm. In Upton, while patrolling in an unmarked car, a speeding driver nearly crashes into Rachael and Chris, leading to a pursuit.

A driver hurls cans of oil at pursuing officers, leaving one unit temporarily disabled, but he resists arrest when he is eventually stopped and is Tasered and pepper sprayed. Lucy and her dog Bryn embark on an epic tracking of a lad suspected of being armed and eventually find him cowering in a bush, while Charlie and Michael deal with a man so keen to avoid a drug test that he does a runner.

Scott is in pursuit of a cloned car, but the driver manages to give Scott the slip by heading the wrong way down a dual carriageway, while 21st-century tech comes up trumps in the hunt for a stolen motorbike. Northants and Leicester cops team up to take out the tyres of an HGV, which turn out to be full of stolen clothes dryers.

Officers pursue a 15-year-old suspected of stealing his grandparents' car, while a man causing disturbances in Kettering threatens to spit at a sergeant and is eventually wrestled to the ground by Lucy Sculthorpe, with a little help from seven other cops. Rob and Scott pull over a motorist with a dodgy headlight and some even dodgier white powder hidden in his left sock.

A machete-wielding man on an e-bike causes mayhem on the streets of Northamptonshire and after a chase he eventually escapes the officers on foot - but it doesn't take long for police dog Ebby to sniff him out. Paul and Sam locate a vehicle bearing cloned plates on the M1, while Lloyd and Harrison pull over a motorist who's known to persistently drive without a licence. But this time, they have more reason to be suspicious of his behaviour.

The driver of a hatchback being pursued causes mayhem when he crashes into a bollard, exposing live wires and shorting out the power at the local boating lake. In Wellingborough, a familiar face in a balaclava arouses the suspicions of Alex and Lewis and a search reveals a quantity of weed in his pocket and a samurai sword in his waistband. Plus, officers bring a driver's date to an abrupt conclusion in the least romantic fashion, arresting him for driving while under the influence of cocaine.

A speeding driver tries all sorts of tricks to lose pursuing officer, from last-minute swerves at junctions and running red lights to accelerating and then suddenly braking. In Corby, a teenage drug driver briefly fails to stop for Harrison before ditching four passengers - including his mum - and making a run for it across town, while police dog Peggy is tasked with finding a man who could be seriously injured after wandering away from a crashed van.