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.
A man is shot during an armed robbery at a DIY warehouse - but why is Kim Reid so keen to hand the investigation over to Burnside?
PC Quinnan is the subject of a civil complaint. PCs Stamp and Stringer follow up a fire at a home for ex-psychiatric patients, but find little care in the community.
DC Lines is enjoying an off-duty pint in his local pub and becomes involved in a bar-brawl.
DC Lines Investigates when a cellar full of illegal immigrants is discovered. He enlists the help of Sgt Boyden, who takes a fancy to one of the females.
PC Quinnan investigates the illegal sale of steroids. PC Garfield is put on the spot when his old sparring partner is arrested.
Burnside is furious when provided with false information about an armed robbery, while Reid meets some of her friends in high places.
Sun Hill is terrorised by teenage joyriders, but what can be done to stop them?
A student nurse is sexually assaulted in a nurses' quarters building. DI Burnside arrests the obvious suspect from a nearby gypsy encampment, but does he have the right man?
Cryer is finding being non-operational tedious. He goes undercover as a punter in a brothel, but his presence on the operation antagonises Peters.
Greig recruits Ackland and Dashwood for an undercover operation at Victoria Station as they attempt to bust an operation running rent boys.
Stringer tries to stop some children playing 'chicken' on the railway line, but one of them is run down by a train.
D.C.I. Reid prepares to move on from Sun Hill, while D.S. Greig tries to cultivate an informant.
Investigating an apparent accident in which a man's hand is crushed in a car-breaker's yard, Sgt Maitland uncovers years of animosity, neglect and revenge.
A homeless man is attacked, leading the police into a web of crime.
Thinking of leaving the force , DC Dashwood is tempted by a lucrative business opportunity with a firm of security consultants.
A man convicted of strangling his wife has been released, but the probation service fails to notify Sun Hill. His presence comes to light when his son causes a disturbance.
Sgt. Cryer's first day back in uniform is an eventful one. P.C. Smollett is excited about the new Community Police Office. The area car is stolen from PC Loxton and WPC Datta.
Burnside leads the investigation into the fire at the new Community Police Office.
Carver and Martella are shadowing a car thief, but all three get more than they bargained for when they stumble across an apparent IRA arms cache.
The Anti-Terrorist Squad believe they will have a quick result, but Roach has his doubts.
A small boy known for lying claims to have been the subject of an attempted abduction in an adventure playground.
A routine trip to a magistrate for a warrant turns into a nightmare for DC Dashwood when he is taken prisoner by two hooded burglars.
DCI Jack Meadows arrives to take charge of Sun Hill CID. He becomes involved with a father suspected of murdering his drug addict son.
A woman who collapsed at an airport is found to be a drugs mule. DI Burnside gets WPC French to take the courier's place to place in attempt to uncover the dealer.
PC Smollett tries to offer a follow-up service to victims of crime. A woman whose husband is in prison and who runs a guest house, keeps reporting an intruder on the premises.
DS Greig arrests a suspect for an armed robbery, but is proved wrong.
A lorry overturns and sheds its load outside a school, burying a boy and girl and putting PC Loxton to the test.
WDC Martella celebrates her birthday. DI Burnside and DS Roach go to a party attended by a crooked businessman, who makes Burnside an offer he can't refuse.
WPC Marshall becomes a vital witness in a murder trial, and soon realises that someone is trying to intimidate her.
A road accident draws attention to a local taxi company, which is the source of a local crime wave.
DCI Meadows tries to find the link between three arson attacks. DS Roach and DC Dashwood track down an escaped prisoner, but Roach seems more interested in his beautiful wife.
PC Quinnan and WPC Datta arrest a girl using stolen credit cards and uncover a major racket.
A armed robber who put an innocent bystander in a wheelchair has his house firebombed by the victim's son. DI Burnside is determined to see justice done.
PCs Loxton and Stringer follow up on a mugging but their case is nearly ruined when it collides with an investigation by DS Greig and DCI Meadows. Can WPC Ackland crack the case?
It's Saturday night, but CID are at work trailing a known criminal believed to be responsible for a series of artifice burglaries involving pensioners.
Following an argument with a drunken pub customer, a young barman is hit by a car outside, and left in a coma. PCs Quinnan and Stringer have their suspicions about the customer.
DI Burnside and DS Roach look favourably on an ex-villian with a loan-shark problem, but they expect favours in return.
An armed robber admits to DC Lines that redundancy and the repossession of his house made him take to crime to solve his problems.
PCs Stringer and Loxton attend to the theft at an old people's home and begin to suspect that the ex-policeman who runs the home is ill-treating residents,
WDC Martella arrests a woman for drug dealing. DI Burnside suspects that she is using teenage girls as couriers by offering them free holidays in Spain.
PC Stringer wins the election for the post of Federation Rep, beating the incumbent PC Hollis by fifty-eight votes to two.
DS Roach investigates the beating of a teenage girl, and tries to establish if his suspect is also responsible for a murder being investigated by AMIP.
A young model claims that she was sexually assaulted during a photographic session. WDC Martella discovers that every picture tells a story.
PC Stringer gets involved with a bizarre household, and discovers a horrifying case parental cruelty in the attic. WPC Marshall goes on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit.
Sgt. Boyden has anything but a quiet night on duty in the custody suite.
WPC Marshall on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit at Stafford Row, makes an error of judgment and is attacked by a woman's husband.
PC Stringer is mugged by a gang and determines to get his own back. WPC Marshall follows a cheque card fraudster.
PC Stamp is ambushed by a gang of youths on a local estate. In trying to assist him, WPC Ackland crashes the Area car, much to PC Loxton's delight.
A woman lies critically injured in hospital, beaten up by her husband. DS Greig and DCI Meadows interview the husband. WPC Marshall decides to quit the Domestic Violence Unit.
PC Hollis arrests a woman for being drunk in charge of a baby, and finds himself drawn into complicated family set-up.
P.C. Garfield is assaulted while in pursuit of a suspect, but where was Sgt. Boyden?
DC Dashwood is to be transferred to the Arts and Antiques Squad. DS Roach hands him a burglary at an infants school as a wind-up, but the case develops to become more interesting.
It's PC Garfield's first day back at Sun Hill after the attack. The relief place bets on the likelihood of Garfield punching Sgt Boyden.
Sgt Cryer gets the relief to put the Garfield-Boyden conflict behind them and get back to work - to sort out the takeover of genuine beggars' pitches by violent thieves.
Chief Inspector Conway decides he needs to get back on the beat, and arrests a drunk for criminal damage.
PC Garfield brings in a teenage girl arrested at a drugs party, and she accuses him of sexually assaulting her. Det Supt Kim Reid comes back to question him.
A ram-raid ends in tragedy when a boy is killed. But what was his part in the affair?
A middle-aged couple arrive at the front desk and report their neighbour missing, but WPC Ackland isn't sure that they are telling the whole truth.
DS Roach is put under pressure when a suspect retracts a confession and accuses the police of oppression.
A bumbling minicab driver is pulled over, but claims to know nothing about the blood stains in the boot.
The night shift is saddled with a feud between two men who come to the front desk with allegations of GBH against each other.
Someone is stabbed on a stag night, but the likely suspect can't remember a thing about it.
A prisoner is brought down from Manchester for an identity parade after a new witness comes forward. Could she be too good to be true?
PC Smollett discovers that a local villain is driving people out of their flats and reletting them to squatters.
An elderly lady is found in her house unconscious with no visible signs of injury, but apparently having been burgled.
Two con men are preying on women through the small ads in the local paper. Lack of personnel for DS Roach's operation places WDC Martella in danger.
A loan shark is attacked. DS Greig has a vital witness, but she keeps stringing him along, and then she disappears.
Acting on information from a snout. Burnside mounts a raid on crack-houses. When details of the raid are leaked, Meadows challenges Burnside over the trustworthiness of his team.
A complaint over loud music quickly escalates into an armed siege, as a man waves a gun at PCs Stamp and Quinnan.
PC Hollis is playing with a train set before going out. He is looking for a place to live as he is moving out of the section house.
WDC Viv Martella helps WPC Donna Harris dress up for a reconstruction of a murder case.
Inspector Monroe talks to Chief Inspector Conway about a problem with a car chase.
WDC Martella brings in an elderly mugging victim who helps makes an identikit picture. Sgt Boyden gets spoken to by Insp Monroe about working with the relief.
DI Burnside sets a trap for an armed robber at a building society, and is surprised to finds that the culprit is a man in his sixties.
Ch Supt Brownlow and Ch Insp Conway have a meeting with councillors about the change in the police force. Conway gives them a tour of the station.
CID investigates a break-in at a warehouse which resulted in the theft of personal CD players.
Sgt Cryer visits a friend who is the head of a neighbourhood watch. His son is stealing to support his drug habit.
DC Lines is asked for by a burglar whom he put inside. He gives Tosh information that there might be a bank robbery.
P.C. Quinnan is in trouble when a prisoner recognises him from having moonlighted as an electrician.
CID are tied up with a court case. A burglary suspect of DS Roach may have been be released as he is at court.
A former boxer is mistakenly arrested for possession of drugs, but ends up having his home used as the site of a surveillance operation.
P.C. Quinnan is nearly run down by a speeding Mercedes, but P.C. Loxton has a score to settle.
D.I. Burnside has a promotion board, leaving D.C.I. Meadows to deal with an informant's rather dubious tip-off.
PC Garfield is following a silver car that might have been involved in a ramraid. While checking in with the station, his radio goes dead.
WPC Datta goes to see a man about a missing child. PC Stringer has to tell a man his brother is dead.
A man arrested outside a club for being drunk and disorderly turns out to be a detective from the Drugs Squad suspended on corruption charges. Can Meadows help to clear his name?
Sgt Maitland finds himself in the wrong when he discovers a serious procedural error meant that a dangerous man has been arrested twice for the same offence and released.
DC Lines Investigates a fire bombing of an Asian shop. Meanwhile, PC Quinnan and WPC Marshall investigate an Asian lady accused of shoplifting.
When sex appeal doesn't get him what he wants, Harry Osborne turns vicious. WDC Martella has to pick up the pieces.
WDC Martella investigates a burglary that occurred during a funeral.
An old lady brings in a blood-stained book belonging to a missing girl in to the station. DC Lines uncovers the family's dark secrets and comes up with an unexpected result.
What's a smart girl like Sharon doing with a villian like Daniel Batt? DI Burnside thinks it's all to do with the female hormones, but WDC Martella isn't so sure.
DCI Meadows and DI Burnside want to go in force to the Tankeray estate to root out the criminal element, but Ch Supt Brownlow is committed to a softer approach.
CID receive information that leads to the arrest of a prolific handler of stolen goods.
The body of a respectable family man is found on a notorious patch of wasteland.
PC Stamp uses old-fashioned policing methods to tackle the problem of children playing with railway detonators.
A local youth with form is stabbed in the centre of a densely populated housing development. DCI Meadows investigates when no witness comes forward.
D.I. Burnside investigates when a pawnbroker is shot in the leg with a legally-acquired shotgun during a robbery at his shop.
W.P.C. Ackland intervenes when a family is being subjected to harassment from a scrap dealer.
A probation officer seems eager to assist DI Burnside over the murder of a prostitute, but how close is she to the murderer.
DC Carver finds a buried treasure and the glory should be his. DC Dashwood, now with the Arts and Antiques Squad, takes the case away and gets a result.
Mike Dashwood returns to Sun Hill looking for stolen antique dolls. Who will he plague this time - DC Carver or DC Lines?
D.I. Burnside investigates the death in mysterious circumstances of a former high-wire artist and cat burglar.
Sun Hill officers are drinking after shift when some troublemakers arrive at the pub. WPC Ackland tries to calm the situation, but PCs Loxton and Quinnan provoke a fight.