Neighbourhood Blues Season 8
Documentary series following the work of groundbreaking police teams as they confront the problems of troubled communities.
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Neighbourhood Blues
2011Documentary series following the work of groundbreaking police teams as they confront the problems of troubled communities.
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Neighbourhood Blues Season 8 Full Episode Guide
A strange late-night break-in turns from being a manhunt into a search and rescue for the neighbourhood team, after it quickly becomes apparent the young suspect is lost and confused in freezing mid-winter conditions.
A young man is viciously assaulted in broad daylight in Weston-super-Mare. Luckily for the neighbourhood police, the motiveless attack is caught on CCTV, showing an unusual getaway car, which helps them track down the suspected offender.
The number of illegal immigrants working in the UK is very difficult to put a figure on. In Bath, the neighbourhood team are clamping down on people abusing immigration laws and have called in Immigration Enforcement to investigate two restaurants under suspicion of using illegal workers.
Neighbourhood officer Dom Bryant gets an anonymous tip-off that some cannabis is being grown at a house in the small village of Burnham-on-Sea. Dom goes to investigate but soon finds out that all is not what it seems.
In Bath, Rob McIvor gets called in to investigate an extraordinary case. Art galleries have been inundated with Nazi themed hate mail posted through their letterboxes. Rob quickly determines that they are the work of a disgruntled local artist who has an axe to grind with the art establishment.
Cracking down on heroin users and dealers is a priority for the neighbourhood police. In this episode, an operation to reel in a suspected heroin dealer uncovers a house of squalor.
The neighbourhood police in Weston-super-Mare make a shocking discovery. A late-night raid on a house, where drug dealing was suspected, uncovers a stash of lethal weapons, including prohibited stun guns.
After a couple of overnight house burglaries, the police are hot on the trail of a suspect. CCTV cameras in Weston-super-Mare are tracking the lad while the cops rush to intercept him. But suddenly he disappears, only to reappear moments later high up on a shop roof. It is a tense situation as officers try to talk the young man down.
A young man is stabbed in broad daylight in Weston-super-Mare. Police race to find the two suspects, but despite the help of the force helicopter, they have bafflingly disappeared.
In Weston-super-Mare, neighbourhood police are organising a series of raids as part of a huge crackdown on serious crime in the area. Teams are hitting six different properties, hunting for drug dealers who have recently been flooding into the town from across the country. It is not long before thousands of pounds' worth of cocaine and heroin is discovered.