Designed to look like cinéma verité, but cleverly written by Jimmy Gardner, Robert Jones and Anita Pandolfo, e.g. in episode where about-to-be married cop attends a domestic situation and it makes him reconsider.
These are real people - memorable opening where cop at party doing coke, then realises she's late for work - and the events are sometimes bizarrely funny. They are:
L to R. Paulette P Williams (so this is actually from season 2 publicity), Steve Jackson, Clare McGlinn, Danny Seward, Parvez Quadir, Rob Dixon, Caty Kavanagh, Steve Garti, John Henshaw. And, not pictured, Jack Marsden.
Margaret Blakemore is the flirty desk sergeant, Sue Cleaver the more no-nonsense one. Plus , David Prosho, Mark Chatterton (PC Inspector), Stuart Goodwin and David Crellin (I think) as the horrible detective - cast strangely difficult to track down.
Eight hard-hitting stories. Jackson getting dumped, assaulting his girlfriend, but his eye is off the ball and a mentally unhinged woman kills her child. Kavanagh trying to help 14 year old on the game, backfires. Memorable end credits - no music, just police radios. Memorable ending - savage assault in the rain.
Tony Garnett is an executive producer.
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