Tristan is on patrol with Bella – and is called to an incident of criminal damage, in which young man has smashed the window of a young offenders’ rehab centre. Having found the youth concerned, Tristan discovers that the situation is far more serious as the lad has a piece of broken glass in one hand, and knife in the other – and he’s been slicing at himself with the glass. The youth refuses to be placated, and threatens to keep on cutting at himself, before taking exception at the presence of the camera and running at the cameraman. Tristan intervenes immediately, and is forced to use pepper spray – but with the wind blowing in the wrong direction, gets an eyeful himself. As there are weapons being used, he can’t get Bella involved, so she stays in the van while Tristan gives chase on foot. The two meet up again a few streets away, puffed-out cameraman in tow, but the youth is so wound up that he continues to cut himself and demand that the camera be turned off, and Tristan immediately backs off and asks for the filming to stop, so the Cameraman backs off to a safe distance to film at a wide angle out of view as reinforcements arrive and bring matters to a safe conclusion – apart from a bleary-eyed Tristan accidentally attempting to subdue a plain clothes officer in the midst of the ruck.

Conrad is on patrol with Dixie in Slough and their antennae are piqued by two youths who are loitering somewhat on a street corner. As they stop the two guys, one of them pops something in his mouth – so they hastily step in to try to prevent whatever has gone in from going any further. Thanks to Conrad’s quick reflexes, two small pieces of wrapped crack are spat out onto the pavement. Further searches reveal huge amounts of paraphernalia, and three more bits of crack in his jacket pocket. The other guy is clean, and allowed on his way, while the drug carrier turns out to be wanted for breaching a drugs order as well.

Simon and Conrad are out and about (not sure where!) and spot a couple who are lurking behind some shops for no good reason – other than hurling something small into some bushes. Simon hunts for the litter, and finds a bag of drugs which can’t have been there long as the area is wet, while the bag is dry. Starting with some puff, Simon looks again and finds a small spot of class A – possibly crack. The girl, who the Chaps reckon is probably a customer, is also nicked.

Lloydy and Jim are in Slough, taking part in a wider crackdown on drug use and scouting known drug areas. Patience comes through, when they discover a group of youths in a car who readily ‘fess up to the spliffs they’re in the process of smoking. This doesn’t prevent a full search, and, eventually, out comes a deal bag of cannabis from the glove compartment that was forgotten about.

Back in Slough again, Lloydy and Jim head to the assistance of a PCSO who has attempted to stop a woman in a car who has no insurance – and only half a tax disc. The car also has markers for drug use, so a search begins. Questioning reveals that the driver definitely doesn’t have insurance – or a license, come to that – so arrangements are made to seize the car. There’s also a significant amount of drugs paraphernalia of the dealing kind in the vehicle, which needs to be bottomed out. The owner of the car then turns up – but can’t claim the car, and then ends up being nicked himself as he’s wanted!

Simon and Conrad are in Burnham when they get an ANPR ding that alerts them to an uninsured vehicle. The driver doesn’t own the car, but claims to be insured as he is fully comp on the car he does own. If the car is not covered by any insurance, then this will invalidate the cover he would have had from his own, so some digging ensues and, during the wait, Conrad has to explain for the second time in two episodes that Pat and Carl are no longer on the team, which he does with amusing relish. Though this doesn’t prevent the seizure of the car, a £200 fine and six points; as there’s no insurance on the car, so the guy’s not covered to drive it.

It’s party time again – this time in Reading – and Brian is nearing the end of a week of night shifts. He’s been called in to assist with an escalating fight, but things seem to have calmed down by the time he arrives, apart from someone boozily describing how his mate has been beaten up. Things are going well, until another bloke, tongue loosened by drink, comes up and demands to exchange names with Brian – apparently because it’s the Law that Brian has to give his name. He’s also convinced that Brian used to be in the SAS. Things don’t improve when a mouthy fool starts posturing at the officers and gets nicked for disorderly conduct and spends a bit of time in a cell to sober up.