This police drama follows the activities in and around Sun Hill, a police station located in the fictional East London borough of Canley. The focus is not just the gritty reality of police work, however; the lives and loves of the officers who staff the precinct get equal play.
Carver and Roach investigate the murder of an informant.
An escaped prisoner takes a woman hostage.
PC Pete Ramsey is transferred to Sun Hill and immediately causes trouble.
A homeless mother's desperation leads to a horrific situation.
Roach becomes obsessed with bringing down gangster Pat Duffy.
DI Frank Burnside takes over Sun Hill and immediately takes on some football hooligans.
Burnside and Carver suspect Yorkie is taking illegal drugs.
CID step in when Yorkie is abducted.
DS Jarvis arrives in Sun Hill and works with Burnside to capture a wanted man who has moved to Sun Hill to escape the country police.
Yorkie is forced to investigate an armed robbery at an off-license.
Yorkie volunteers to do some work at a youth club, a decision he will later regret.
A traffic accident leaves many people dead and Yorkie in hospital.
When a known burglar escapes from custody, CID are convinced he will return to his old estate and begin a stake out.
After human remains are discovered in a sub-divided townhouse, CID launch a hunt for the former occupants of the flat where it was discovered.
After finding a new-born baby dumped in a skip, Ramsey tries to discover why she was dumped there.
An escaped convict arrives in Sun Hill to settle an old score with his ex-girlfriend.
An agoraphobic old lady thinks her neighbours are being burgled. CID investigate when a dead body is found in a cafe.
CID attempt to bring down known villains by leaving an open van packed with video recorders on the streets of Sun Hill.
Conway attends a council meeting where his attempts to make changes on the Jasmine Allen estate results in a riot.
When Ramsey investigates a theft at a library, CID discover the man rumoured to be behind the theft is a gangster from Manchester.
Ramsey befriends a pregnant woman who is trying to deal with her abusive husband.
Brind makes an enemy of Burnside when she gets in the way of a CID operation.
Cryer and Martella investigate an army surplus shop that seems to be stocked with stolen goods.
When a young baby is kidnapped by a mystery man, CID turn their attentions to the baby's mother who appears to have something to hide.
In the course of closing down a drugs ring, Haynes and Ramsay are involved in a car crash that injures a child.
Ackland and Edwards uncover a shed full of rotting chicken corpses.
A physical training officer finds the fitness levels at Sun Hill to be below par. A corpse disappears from the local undertakers.
Ramsey and Smith are looking after a witness in a court case, and decide to take him for a day out at the races.
Bob, Claire and Taffy investigate the report of a man carrying a cross.
Kilnair is pricked by a junkie's needle. A man arrives at Sun Hill to confess to the murder of his wife - thirty years previously.
Martella and Stamp take an American woman who has been caught shoplifting into custody. Roach is having money troubles.
The bomb squad is called to Sun Hill after a hold-all is left at the front desk.
Melvin sees a chemist being robbed. Martella investigates a truancy case.
Burnside is determined to find an abducted schoolgirl, but her father is reluctant to have the police involved.
While Melvin and Haynes are on the beat, they are nearly decoyed away from a robbery.
Tosh and Carver carry out an observation on a man who might lead them to an arms dump.
Due to a slight resemblance to a missing woman, Brind reluctantly agrees to perform a reconstruction of her disappearance for television.
Burnside visits Carver's prisoner, and interrogates him alone, against regulations.
After a burglary at her home, an old lady has a fatal heart attack in front of WPC Brind.
Haynes arrives at a house where a bailiff has been shot while trying to evict a lodger.
Edwards and Martella find the naked body of a woman who appears to have gassed herself to death.
Frazer witnesses an accident on the way to work, but is hit by the man she is trying to help. Ramsey deals with a lady who was raped.
Burnside receives a phone call from a boy who is frightened that a gang from the White Swan pub are planning to attack his father's restaurant.
An elderly man is found dead in his maisonette, but what might be the sinister secret that he has taken to his grave?
Burnside and Tosh try to catch a gang of upper-class thugs who trash restaurants.
The station is plagued by a series of bogus emergency calls.
CID investigate the discovery of human remains at a building site.
Carver and Dashwood try to put away Kevin Boswell, who they suspect is behind a spate of burglaries.