Police Interceptors

You might think this is all about cops racing around in a menagerie of hot Japanese rally cars. If you're looking for high octane, high pitch commentary over endlessly repeated 60 second clips forget it. This is good, measured documentary making.

The fly-on-the-wall style follows the exploits of an Essex traffic cop team, this show mixes that feel-good detail on how the police go about their business with allowing characters to come through. Segments vary from following full operations from start to finish to those random moments where the police demonstrate the better side of judgement. Everything from routine traffic stops to drugs-busts to changing helicopter engines(!)

Over the top of this is Chris Fox's measured commentary. And unlike quite a few other shows he seems to know when to let the on-screen action speak for itself.

Cringing and embarrassing. Okay there is the odd rare decent chase in between police talking to 'criminals' who's tax might have expired. As for the punishment given out, if any, is nothing short of pathetic and probably encourages people to break these little laws as you will most likely get away with it! Is there really no real crime happening in Essex that can be used for television?

I from the states but enjoy watching UK cop shows. Just watched the first episode of season 19 and it had me rolling (No pun intended). Speaking of puns, whoever is writes the puns for this show deserves a pulitzer. "grave error." Still laughing at that one. Highly recommended for both the police work as well as the puns.

I watch this show sometimes, mainly when there is nothing else on. I have to be honest I find it depressing. I've read comments here about bad policing, racism (of course) and wastes of tax payers money but the truth is people do not accept authority anymore. Our police force is under funded, under-staffed and has had its teeth pulled for fear of offending anyone. Don't get me wrong I would never support police officers who over step the mark or fit people up but Christ on a bike if I had to go into work everyday and take the shizz that they get thrown at them while they try to parent other peoples kids, attend to the mentally ill and the addicted and then solve the multitude of crimes that include everything from minor traffic offences to gangland murder and then at the end of the day see the people they deal with often let off with a slap on the wrist because trying to convict is too costly and there is no where to put them! Honestly I'd kill myself! The police are not responsible for the way society is, that is where we come into it.

A series following UK police interceptors.

Actually a pretty binge-able series, this is a procedural reality show that you could have on the background or get sucked into, depending on your mood.

I actually quite enjoy it. The narration is pretty cringe-worthy, but I like to think in a way that's pretty self aware...I hope.

What it does highlight is how hard the Police work, not only on tracking known criminals, but spotting potential criminals out of intuition. And the amount of resources sometimes required to apprehend one person. I've seen some reviewers comment about how some white people are blurred when black people are not. They clearly don't understand that in the UK you can ask to have your image obstructed after filming. They really do have to take so much abuse for just doing their jobs - imagine being sworn and spat at just for doing your desk job?? It's clearly a vocation.

The frustration is with the sentencing. Not even the sentencing itself. It clearly depends on their age, factors and previous history, but the amount of work the police put in, and the danger they put themselves in, for what is frequently a very lenient outcome, is frequently infuriating!