Dan and Daz start their shift in Reading with a drugs raid. With a bit of hasty tooling up, they head to the house, enforcer at the ready, and – seven knocks later – they’re in. The house is clearly a place where drugs are used, though apparently in better nick than the Chaps were expecting, as they commence the incredibly thorough search that will be required. Dixie is upstairs with new colleague Tom French, where they find clear evidence of major drugs use, the floor behind the bed littered with needles and the walls spattered with little flecks of blood. Gross it may be, but the one thing they needed to find – drugs – weren’t in evidence that day.

Dave Jones is responding to a disturbance at a petrol station in Reading, where it is reported a group of youths are beating up an elderly gentleman. Things don’t look quite as described when he gets there, however, as the youths are standing some distance away, and the elderly gentleman is brandishing a broom, and has a fire extinguisher at his side. He’s also sozzled, and appears to have pinched a bottle of wine. More to come…

Back with Dave at the Petrol Station, where the man is claiming to have been attacked with by a group of youths, while a security guard is claiming he’s actually nicked a bottle of wine. Things are not improved when the man starts hurling racial insults at the youths, who are, it seems, merely standing watching the ‘show’. Dave is deeply unimpressed and cuffs the man under section 5 of the Public Order Act, though the language doesn’t improve, and instead gets worse, so Dave puts him on the floor and demands that he shut up. Things are quite volatile as there is a risk of the youths being provoked – primarily because the guy just won’t stop wibbling, and continues to spout abuse even when back up arrives, and is only stopped by the door of the van being shut.

Mish and Flipper are in Slough, and are getting vibes from a battered vehicle with three young people in it. The driver, who smells of alcohol, has a bit of a loose tongue, but no license – so now they have to work out who actually owns the car before they can go any further. The passenger proves to be monumentally uncooperative, first saying he owns the car, then that he doesn’t. None of them are the registered keeper, they won’t say whether they’re allowed to have the car, and thus face arrest en masse on suspicion of TWOC. Waller and Kev arrive to assist and also make an attempt to get some worthwhile information from the passengers, who just won’t oblige. One of them apparently doesn’t even recognise the driver! Flipper then makes a breakthrough of sorts, when he’s told that the driver nicked the car. The owner, however, agrees when contacted that they did take the car with permission, so they can go – though, as it was being driven without insurance, it’s being seized. The driver, however, can’t go anywhere but the nick as she’s also failed a breath test. Which sends her into an almighty tantrum, as she’s not even allowed to smoke. She doesn’t provide any specimens for evidential purposes, however, replacing these with a series of delightfully lame excuses. So she’s charged with failing to supply instead.

Simon and Conrad are in Slough on patrol when they spot a car whose driver seems a bit young for it. Checks reveal that it has a bit of a history of disorder, so they follow it. Suddenly, Simon spots something hurtling out of the driver’s window, so they hastily stop the car before it gets too far away. The reason for the unfeasible youthfulness of the driver for the car he’s in is revealed – it’s his Dad’s car. While Conrad goes through the motions, Simon heads back to the roundabout to see what he can find, and comes back to immediately arrest the youth, as he’s found the unidentified flying object and it’s got suspicious substances in it. A search ensues, revealing two phones and a spot of cash. Conrad finds rizla papers in the car, but Simon has hiked back to the roundabout to find – cannabis. They offer a street caution, which the youth is willing to accept, but he turns out to be under 18, so it’s a trip to the nick instead.

A nice spot of ‘in car’ footage of a high-octane stop involving a whole gaggle of proactives versus a sporty mazda.

Dan and Daz, in Reading, are called in by CCTV operators to investigate a couple who have left a pub and driven a red van – on the grounds that they think the driver may be drunk. They lie in wait, hoping to catch the man driving. He clambers into the van – drives it a few feet, then stops and gets out again before transferring to a taxi. As he has been seen driving, this is enough cause to stop them, so they are guided in by the operators to stop the taxi and extract the driver – despite vociferous claims by the driver’s partner that she was driving, not him – distinctive red and white striped top notwithstanding. With CCTV evidence proving they’re lying, they get the driver out and cuff him – the partner still insisting they’ve arrested the wrong person – where he proves to be two and a half times over the limit.

Dave is out and about on patrol in Reading, and is called to a road accident where an off-duty officer has called for assistance as a car has been rammed from behind. Fortunately, the innocent family who have been shunted are not seriously hurt. The driver, on the other hand, has nothing much to say, but clearly smells of booze, and is unsteady on his feet. Apparently he’s just ‘had the one’, but Dave can arrest him for Drink Drive as it’s so obvious that he’s thoroughly bladdered that they might as well go straight to the intoximeter at the nick.