Traffic Cops

Traffic Cops is a BBC programme that is often found shown on the Dave channel, Sky channel 111, and lasts for half an hour each time. Narrated by Jamie Theakston, it follows road traffic officers (traffic cops) as they go around trying to make our roads safer by 'educating' people, avoiding prosecution where possible but not shirking away when it is necessary. It is really interesting to get the police's viewpoints on the offences people commit on the roads and the way that they deal with them, and how they actually go about preventing accidents on the roads. Quite often, they are more than aware that their advertised and conspicuous presence means that ...  Read the complete review

Traffic Cops is the BBC One programmes that follows the traffic division of a police force for a period of time. Although the programme does not focus solely on one police force, as different forces are shown in different series. In the last series the police force that was followed was the police force where I live, South Wales Police, where as in previous series the forces followed were Cheshire, Hampshire and South Yorkshire police among others. The series follows in the mode of the traditional police show, in that it follows the activities of the traffic division of the police force, although the show does not show any footage of police forces from around ...  Read the complete review