999: What's Your Emergency?

Every year more than 150 million accidents occur in the UK. Over 40% of them occur in our homes, which are statistically the most dangerous place to be. Meanwhile, A&E departments have seen a 14% rise in sports injuries. And, on average, Britons will be involved in two road traffic collisions in their lifetime, with roads the place where you're most likely to die in an accident. An ambulance crew are despatched to a rural area where a man has chopped through his foot with an axe while cutting firewood. The patient, John, is an amputee because of a biking accident, but says 'I think I'll still do things that are dangerous, it hasn't changed me at all.' Another crew respond to a Saturday afternoon call-out to help the victim of an injury incurred while playing rugby.

In the last five years, Wiltshire's police have seen a 63% increase in offences committed by women, with this female crime wave challenging traditional perceptions of differences between men and women. In this episode, the police face extraordinary levels of violence and aggression as they try to help victims who have been the targets of young women operating alone or in gangs. PC Nia Tregunna is called to sheltered housing where two girls aged 17 and 13 have been terrorising staff and vandalising property. PC Tom Gregory investigates an early evening report of a group of women attacking a single girl. PC Jon Simpson visits the male victim of an opportunist robbery by a woman at his home. A 12-year-old girl who has endured years of bullying gives a statement to police about the teen girl gang who attacked her and set fire to her hair.

This episode focuses on the people who answer our cries for help, as well as the people who make these calls, and vastly differing interpretations of what constitutes an emergency

This episode explores the link between poverty and rising crime. A 14-year-old girl reports a break-in at her home. A shoplifter admits he's been driven to extreme measures to survive.