Traffic Cops Season 16, Episode 5: Episode 5

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Episode 1

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.

60 min

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Episode 2

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.

60 min

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Episode 3

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.

60 min

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Episode 4

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.

60 min

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Episode 5

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.

60 min

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Episode 6

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...

60 min

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Episode 7

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.

60 min

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Episode 8

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.

60 min

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Episode 9

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.

60 min

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Carjacked Special

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.

60 min

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Episode 11

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.

60 min

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Episode 12

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?

60 min

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Episode 13

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.

60 min

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Episode 14

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.

60 min

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Episode 15

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.

60 min

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Episode 16

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

60 min

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Episode 17

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.

60 min

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Episode 18

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.

60 min

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Episode 19

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.

60 min

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Episode 20

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.

60 min

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Christmas Special

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.

60 min