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The Worst Episodes of 24 Hours in Police Custody

Every episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of 24 Hours in Police Custody!

The landmark documentary series that captures real life drama at its most intense, following police detectives around the clock as they investigate major crimes.
Genres:DocumentaryCrimeReality
Network:Channel 4

Worst Episodes Summary

"A Crime Of Passion" is the worst rated episode of "24 Hours in Police Custody". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/6/2015. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "A Short Sharp Shock".

  • A Crime Of Passion
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    #1 - A Crime Of Passion

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2015

    Hardened detectives DS Hutton and DC Brecknock are shocked by an extraordinarily disturbing case of attempted murder in an ordinary terraced home

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  • A Short Sharp Shock
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    #2 - A Short Sharp Shock

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2015

    Two teenage girls are arrested after a fight broke out in a nightclub. And the police also arrest a 61-year-old man who's never spent a night in the cells before.

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  • Human Traffic
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    #3 - Human Traffic

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2015

    This episode follows an investigation into suspected human trafficking. DC Tom Stean says 'Human trafficking is getting worse and worse. I think Luton is a magnet.'

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  • Punchdrunk Love
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    #4 - Punchdrunk Love

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/2015

    This episode follows cases where alcohol and relationship tensions mix in a dangerous cocktail. Investigating Officer Lisa Hutchinson says nine out of ten cases can be of domestic violence.

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  • Age Concern
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    #5 - Age Concern

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/2015

    Several elderly people have been sexually assaulted in a graveyard. The police have a sample of an attacker's DNA from a previous crime scene, and arrest a young man. Will his DNA match?

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  • Frequent Flyers
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    #6 - Frequent Flyers

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/10/2015

    Cathie Layton and Brett Jones used to work together in the police, but now Brett's a legal rep, representing one of Luton's prolific burglars, with DC Layton on the other side of the table.

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  • Murder on the Doorstep
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    #7 - Murder on the Doorstep

    Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2021

    On a quiet Sunday lunchtime in a Cambridgeshire suburb, a man lies bleeding to death on the doorstep. A major manhunt is triggered, where the strength of family blood ties is brutally exposed.

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  • Holding the Baby
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    #8 - Holding the Baby

    Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2021

    Features police investigations into one of the most disturbing and hard-to-prove crimes, baby-shaking cases, and examines parents' often-divided loyalties. Detectives probe the stories of the parents, as they piece together what really happened

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  • Bad Blood
    6.3/1012 votes
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    #9 - Bad Blood

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 7/27/2015

    The return of the documentary in which more than 60 cameras are used to follow the work of Bedfordshire Police, from the cells at stations to the operational heart of major investigations. A small town near Luton has been plagued with an outbreak of teen criminality, and DS Emma James and DC Cathie Layton pull a 22-hour shift to find the evidence against a young man accused of robbery and assault. He denies everything and paints himself as the victim. Will they uncover enough to charge, or will he be released?

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  • A Sixth Sense
    6.3/1011 votes
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    #10 - A Sixth Sense

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 8/24/2015

    DC Cathie Layton investigates the case of a man who is alleged to have assaulted a taxi driver and stolen his keys. But her instinct tells her that all is not what it seems...

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  • Lost In Translation
    6.4/1017 votes
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    #11 - Lost In Translation

    Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 7/2/2018

    Bedfordshire Police confront issues thrown up by the mass movement of people across Europe. A man travelling with a young woman on a one-way ticket from Bulgaria is stopped at Luton Airport. Officers from the National Crime Agency believe that he - and another man who has come to the arrivals gate to meet them - may be bringing the woman into the country unlawfully. The story takes a surprising twist when one of the men they have arrested claims he is her father. Cameras follow every twist and turn of the case, as detectives try to discover the truth when so much is obscured by different languages and culture.

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  • Fifty Shades Of Abuse
    6.5/1019 votes
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    #12 - Fifty Shades Of Abuse

    Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 6/18/2018

    A teenager disappears from hospital after being brought in with serious injuries that suggest she's been tied up and assaulted. Bedfordshire Police investigate.

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  • Mother's Day
    6.6/1014 votes
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    #13 - Mother's Day

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 8/17/2015

    The police release a young man who's been accused of a vicious assault when he gives his mother as an alibi. But when she fails to support his story they have to try to find him again...

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  • A Complaint Of Rape
    6.6/1021 votes
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    #14 - A Complaint Of Rape

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 6/15/2016

    When a young woman reports that she has been raped by a man she met in a bar, Bedfordshire Police bring the man in for questioning and try to unpick the two very different accounts of events.

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  • Home Truths
    6.7/1017 votes
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    #15 - Home Truths

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 5/26/2016

    The number of domestic abuse incidents reported to Bedfordshire Police has soared to over 200 a week in recent years. Two such incidents show the difficulties officers have investigating these cases.

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  • Partners In Crime
    6.8/1013 votes
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    #16 - Partners In Crime

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 8/10/2015

    DS Simon Hancock and DC Cathie Layton have 24 hours to interview two men who they suspect are behind a string of knife-point robberies. And neither man knows what the other's saying...

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  • The Black Balaclava
    6.8/1020 votes
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    #17 - The Black Balaclava

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 5/19/2016

    Bedfordshire Police investigate a series of armed robberies that all involve two men wearing crude balaclava's fashioned from items of clothing threatening their victims at knife-point.

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  • Their Time Will Come
    6.8/1027 votes
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    #18 - Their Time Will Come

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 6/14/2017

    A distressed woman arrives at Luton Police station, where officers have to tell her that her 76-year-old husband is under arrest following allegations of historic child sex abuse.

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  • The Drug Drop
    6.9/1029 votes
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    #19 - The Drug Drop

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2014

    This episode opens with a young man accidentally dropping a large quantity of cocaine from his jacket pocket outside a petrol station - all caught on CCTV. On the case are hard-bitten Detective Constable Colin Knight and fresh-faced Police Constable Oly Tomlinson, who joined the team three months earlier. They get off to a promising start, tracking down the owner of the vehicle the passenger was travelling in. DC Knight brings in his chief suspect for questioning and discovers that, just like the man in the CCTV footage, he has a striking tattoo on the right side of his neck, but could it be a case of mistaken identity? Also brought in to the custody suite is Darren, a man arrested on suspicion of theft of meat from Marks & Spencer. As he is booked into custody it soon becomes apparent he is a heroin addict. Sympathetic Custody Sergeant Pete Fitz-Gibbon tries his best to persuade him to stay strong and get clean. Both cases provide a stark picture about the dark world of young people caught up in a cycle of drug addiction and crime in Luton and the challenges facing the police as they tackle it.

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  • The Morning After
    6.9/1025 votes
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    #20 - The Morning After

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2014

    It's Saturday night in Luton, and Bedfordshire Police are dealing with drunken domestic disputes and a booze-fuelled fight. Police Constables Leanne Turner and Andy Parsons are sent out to investigate an alleged assault against a vulnerable and fragile 75-year-old man in a domestic dispute. The suspect is the man's private carer and has been living with him for the past seven years. When he made the 999 call, the elderly man alleged that he had been slapped in the head with an open palm. But when they arrive, PCs Leanne and Andy are confronted with a distressed victim who insists he does not want them to pursue the matter and who begs them to leave. At the police station, a Polish man arrested for a drunken row with his partner is admitted into custody. He's initially brought in for a 'breach of the peace' - to remove him from the situation and allow him to sober up and cool off - but things take an unexpectedly sinister turn when he whispers to the custody sergeant that he will kill his wife the following day.

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  • Honour Thy Father
    6.9/1020 votes
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    #21 - Honour Thy Father

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2014

    A devout Muslim has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting his daughter with an iron, after she married a man he does not approve of. Bedfordshire Police have set up a dedicated `honour-based violence' unit at Luton, but the investigation falls to DC Rachel Chandler in CID. Will she succeed in finding the evidence before time runs out?

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  • The Lethal Weapon
    6.9/1017 votes
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    #22 - The Lethal Weapon

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 6/2/2016

    Officers search for an armed and dangerous man who is on the run from Bedfordshire Police's "Operation Bosun" - a specialist unit that tackles gun crime.

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  • Human Chains
    6.9/1022 votes
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    #23 - Human Chains

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 6/19/2017

    Amanda comes to Luton Police station claiming that his life's in danger and that he's just escaped from a slave owning gang. Over 200 officers launch a dawn raid on the suspects.

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  • Love Hurts
    7.0/1026 votes
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    #24 - Love Hurts

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/2014

    Police Constable Cheryldeen Liversidge and Police Constable Kat Alison investigate two strongly contrasting stories about harassment and domestic abuse. Domestic abuse takes up to 40% of police time nationally and is now a priority for Bedfordshire Police, having had a poor record in the past. A scorned wife has dumped an ex-partner's clothes in a charity shop, while another woman complains of a series of highly threatening messages from a man with a violent past. On the surface, two very different cases, but both officers turn the cases they are investigating into something of a crusade and are determined to get to the bottom of what really went on in the private relations between their suspects and the victims.

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  • Smuggled
    7.0/1025 votes
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    #25 - Smuggled

    Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 4/1/2019

    Cameras follow every twist and turn of a real-life police investigation as detectives attempt to catch a suspected drug trafficker before he can escape on a flight to Spain

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