Sky Cops (2025)
Sky Cops is a British reality TV show revealing the work of the air police in the UK. The BBC show follows police helicopters from the South Yorkshire Air Operations Unit and the Metropolitan Police Air Support Unit. The show was narrated by Jamie Theakston and aired for six episodes in 2006, and a further eleven episodes in 2008.
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Episode 1 - New Tricks
Release Date: 2008-08-20Following the work of Britain's helicopter police. With 15 million pounds' worth of new helicopters to help them fight crime in the capital, the sky cops are casting their net wider than ever. Their targets include a crossbow-wielding man and a 14-year-old boy who is living dangerously.
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Episode 2 - Rookies
Release Date: 2008-08-27Series that follows the work of Britain's helicopter police, narrated by Jamie Theakston. As twelve wannabes compete for two vacancies in the unit, the rookies from Hendon take part in a raid on a suspected drug dealer. Also, a newly qualified cop gets an early collar when he apprehends a crook.
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Episode 3 - Under Pressure
Release Date: 2008-09-03Series that follows the work of Britain's helicopter police, narrated by Jamie Theakston. The pressure is on for five young police officers vying to fill two vacant positions with the sky cops. As the hopefuls take to the skies for the first time, the veterans in the unit decide to shake things up a bit. For PC Bearman things end in tears, and PC Brandon regrets letting slip that he hates flying.
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Episode 4 - Two Wheel Terrors
Release Date: 2008-09-10Series that follows the work of Britain's helicopter police, narrated by Jamie Theakston. The helicopter squad are called in by police in South London tackling street robbers who use scooters to get away from police cars. In a combined operation the helicopters and ground cops work together to try and trap the perpetrators. But they must also deal with another conflict, as hundreds of protestors opposed to the war in Iraq threaten to break the law by marching on Parliament.
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Episode 5 - Gone to the Dogs
Release Date: 2008-09-17The Sky Cops get help from their four-legged friends as together they catch criminals who try to hide from the police. With India 99 above using their thermal image camera and the dogs below sniffing them out, there is no cover even in the darkness. Back at the Sky Cops' base, the dogs from the Metropolitian Police specialist arms dogs unit are training with PC Pat Agnew so they can use the new helicopters to get to where they are most needed more quickly. But all is not well for one of the dogs, and his fear of flying leaves its mark on the crew.
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Episode 6 - Tooled up
Release Date: 2008-09-24Series that follows the work of Britain's helicopter police, narrated by Jamie Theakston. The team investigates a firearms-related tip-off. With no way of telling whether the guns are loaded or even real, the Sky Cops are in charge of directing Trojan units into a pitch black garden in North London while children play a few houses away. In East London the local cops have a strange case on their hands - someone has been shooting deer in a local park with a hire powered rifle.
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Episode 7 - Sparks Flying
Release Date: 2008-10-15Series that follows the work of Britain's helicopter police, narrated by Jamie Theakston. The Sky Cops deal with sparks flying, as gangs terrorise the streets with fireworks, aiming rockets at each other and causing mayhem. Also, teenage graffiti artists who risk life and limb as they paint the railway tracks of London. And, in the capital, drama at the State Opening of Parliament as the screens go blank.