Traffic Cops
Traffic Cops: Season 16

Air Date

March 20, 2017

Episodes

21 episodes

Traffic Cops

Season 16

Episodes

1. Episode 1

March 20, 2017
60 min

The criminal underworld come to life at nighttime, as a high-speed pursuit in Bradford shows. Can the cops stop a riot from breaking out? An apparent routine stop ends up requiring specialist firearms support.

2. Episode 2

March 27, 2017
60 min

In Bradford there's a high-octane chase through a housing estate, a cocky petrol thief tries every trick in the book to wiggle free and Yorkshire's back roads have their peace disturbed by two cars carrying gun-toting drug dealers.

3. Episode 3

April 3, 2017
60 min

A driver nearly causes carnage to make sure his takeaway stays hot, a large cannabis stash is found at the scene of a crash, and a drunk driver gets caught short.

4. Episode 4

April 10, 2017
60 min

Some criminals drag a generator with just one wheel across Yorkshire, a van crashes through a level crossing and a van full of contraband is stopped in Bradford.

5. Episode 5

April 17, 2017
60 min

A speeding murder suspect is pursued through downtown Bradford, a speeding car thief picks a fight with a tree, and cops intervene as a young drink driver is attacked.

6. Episode 6

April 24, 2017
60 min

A young speeder writes his car off in a spectacular fireball, and cops pursue a car obeying all the rules of the road except for one. In the car is a familiar face...

7. Episode 7

July 3, 2017
60 min

Cops from North and West Yorkshire are cracking down on uninsured drivers whose recklessness is a cost to us all, raising everyone's insurance premiums and killing other road users.

8. Episode 8

July 10, 2017
60 min

The cops are on the heels of drug dealers, drug users and drugged-up drivers, including one dealer who tries to flush away the evidence.

9. Episode 9

July 17, 2017
60 min

The cops deal with a suicidal man with mental health problems, an Eritrean woman dumped out of a lorry by people traffickers, and a lass who's had a barney with her boyfriend.

10. Carjacked Special

July 24, 2017
60 min

The cops are cracking down on car thieves. Two reckless high performance car thieves lead them on the longest pursuit in the history of the force.

11. Episode 11

July 31, 2017
60 min

The cops have their hands full with night time drink driving incidents. Four police cars are needed to stop a car with a motorbike hanging out of the boot.

12. Episode 12

August 7, 2017
60 min

Officers deal with a four-car collision outside a primary school. They make sure all those injured or hurt are accounted for, and also set about finding out who was to blame. A speeding driver is desperate to escape from police and smashes into traffic at a junction, causing carnage before escaping on foot. He has left his passengers behind, but will they help the cops or hinder the course of the investigation?

13. Episode 13

August 14, 2017
60 min

The cops are called to a fatal accident near a theme park, where they suspect the driver responsible for the crash has been using drugs.

14. Episode 14

August 21, 2017
60 min

In this edition focusing on the hunt for disqualified, unlicensed and uninsured drivers. In Bradford, officers from the West Yorkshire Safer Roads team pursue a desperate and disqualified driver through the city streets, while a member of the public is forced into making a citizen's arrest when another banned motorist attempts to flee the scene of a crash. In York, a pensioner is knocked down in a hit-and-run incident and an urgent search for the culprit gets under way.

15. Episode 15

August 28, 2017
60 min

The police have their hands full with the machinations of forgers, fakers and takers. Forgers are turning out Scottish banknotes. A man is using multiple fake plates, and the traffic cops go after criminals in a high-speed pursuit.

16. Episode 16

September 4, 2017
60 min

After a pensioner gets knocked down, the traffic cops lead an urgent city wide search for a suspected hit and run driver.

17. Episode 17

October 23, 2017
60 min

North Yorkshire's road crime team chase a gang using 4x4s on nightly thefts from industrial estates. In Leeds, a teen crosses a busy road, and soon needs the emergency services.

18. Episode 18

October 30, 2017
60 min

North Yorkshire is considered a soft touch by criminals using the country's back roads. The traffic cops hunt down burglars, drug dealers, petrol bikers and thieves.

19. Episode 19

November 6, 2017
60 min

York's traffic cops need all their professionalism to deal with a distressing incident in which a pregnant woman has been knocked off her bike.

20. Episode 20

November 13, 2017
60 min

A gang of burglars who have been targeting pensioners are spotted in Halifax. The road crime team are tracking a team of burglars who operate in a convoy of cars.

21. Christmas Special

December 7, 2017
60 min

The traffic cops have their hands full as drunks end up getting behind the wheel. The stresses of surviving Yuletide lead to late night argy-bargy and screaming matches.