The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
Season 10 episodes
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Steve radios in details about a missing juvenile. The mother is more worried than the father. The boy was supposed to be at a friend's house. The missing boy and his friend are into computers. Steve has to look through the pedophile register to see if they can find a man matching the description given by the boy's friend. It turns out to be the man complaining about Tony. Although he denies knowing the boy, objectionable material is found on his computer. Before he is let go, he gives Monroe a name that does fit the man who was last seen with the missing boy. Tony and June take a call about children causing a disturbance playing football in the street. The man who complained keeps the ball and wants Tony's number so he can complain about his attitude.
Jim is moaning about a tom(prostitute). Tosh and Jim are told to keep on the case. they go to a shop where they climb on the roof to observe the tom. While on observation they notice she has 2 visitors - 1 a biker, the other a known drug dealer. They bring in the tom and when he goes upstairs, Jim discovers the biker is wanted for the robbery everyone else was working on. The new D.I. walks up the stairs with Conway. as she arrives in the office she takes a phone call telling her there is a robbery in progress at a pub with the robbers still on premises. CID head down there leaving Tosh and Jim to deal with the tom. Steve and Polly arrive to find an injured man outside. George and Tony arrive in the area car as two men take off on a motor bike. Crofts has noticed a pattern emerging in the money snatches.
Sgt Boyden and Polly are on patrol and discuss Reg's plans for a parachute jump. Polly takes a visit to a tower block where a domestic has been reported. There doesn't appear to be anyone in although the tv is still on. A body is noticed under the balcony and on checking they discover she jumped with her baby. Inspector Monroe comes down and talks to the man who reported the disturbance. Meadows and Carver also come down. Boyden finds a man sitting by the side of the road, who turns out to be the baby's father. When interviewed he has problems answering the questions. He came down from Scotland to try to be a family.
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Guest stars Douglas Henshall, Sophie Okonedo, David Quilter
George tapes off an area around a house where a body has been found. AMIT turns up. There is a way through the attic into the empty house next door. The murdered man is supposed to have no money and is not very popular. There is a local tom's wallet in the next door house. George is asked about the dead man by a lad who has been primed by a man in a van which takes off when he sees George approaching. The new owners of the house arrive as the body is removed.
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Directed by Douglas MackinnonGuest stars Lorraine Ashbourne
Pearce and Steele are looking for a stolen car that has a tracking system installed. The car is not there. The rep from the tracking company is very enthusiastic about the system. Pearce and Steele find a range rover in a lockup that is stolen along with the missing car. They think the garage could be a good spot for an observation. Monroe is not too happy but Cato is all for it. Tony and June are part of the surveillance team. A car drives into the yard and June recognises one of the men that Pearce then follows.
A tom is in family court on trial to work out whether her daughter should stay with her althought she was charged with possession. Jim and Suzy talk to some of the tom's friends to be able to help her. They are told that the tom's boyfriend is trying to put her daughter on the game and she doesn't know. Meadows organises teams to lead raids on 4 different targets.
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Directed by Charles BeesonGuest stars Helen Schlesinger, Wendy Nottingham
June and Adam go to a nurse's home where a nurse was attacked. They discover a door wedged open. A nurse told June the man had called earlier to see another nurse. June calls Adam a narrow minded bigot in the canteen. The nurse who had the male visitor the night before is attacked and turns out to be moonlighting as a tom. Tony and Mike are told to go to a hotel where a woman was assaulted. Boyden talks to the injured woman before her pimp appears. He talks to Monroe about a pattern appearing of toms being beaten as soon as they get into a room.
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Guest stars Orla Brady, Helen Martin, David Battley, Joanne Campbell
Quinnan brings in a shoplifter. A woman talks to Jim and Suzy about being mugged. Jim thinks he knows who the mugger is. They go to talk to the suspect. The duty solicitor is not happy about how Jim conducted the interview. On checking an acquaintance of the suspect, they find designer jackets in his lock-up. He is brought in under suspicion of receiving stolen goods. June and Tony talk to a service station owner who had a car drive off without paying for the petrol she had put into the car. Her husband is the duty solicitor. Driving off is not an arrestable offense. June is concerned that this is not the first offense the suspect has committed.
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Guest stars Morag Siller, David Horovitch, Jeremy Gilley
Tony and Reg are called to a stabbing in canley fields. Sgt. Cryer and June arrive to help. the victim is DOA at the hospital. The doctor thinks he was attacked 3 hours previously. D.S. Morgan goes to see the victim's mother and discovers she is blind. When the mother checks the body, she discovers it is not her son. Alan talks to a shopkeeper who saw a group of men chasing another one. tosh talks to the party thrower and finds a leather jacket similar ro the one on the body. The wallet inside belongs to the owner of an incorrectly parked mini who never came home the night before.
Conway is at a meeting when he sees a girl kicking a car and then tells Conway about the murder of a crack dealer. The girl is scared of her parents. Meadows and Conway are arguing over the girl's info. Tony and Reg are in an electrical store dealing with a shoplifter who gave her name as Elizabeth Barrett. She has a passbook in her possession belonging to the girl connected with the dead crack dealer. She turns out to be the girl who was being raped by the dealer when he was killed.
Norika and Steve are patroling 9 beat and later will be taking Ch. Insp. Cato out. They put out signs and caution kerb crawlers. They nick the tom when she is brought back and caution the punter who turns out to be a supplier of drugs. She is later found beaten in an alley. Dave and Mike are also patrolling 9 beat and removing cards from phone boxes. They talk to one of the toms. Driving around Dave spots a man wanted for jumping bail and lose him in the market.
Jim and Tosh are in a transit van when they hear shouting. Jim goes to investigate and finds a man being beaten up by D.C Boulton from Barton St. Jim is not prepared to lie for D.C. Boulton about the arrest. The suspect makes a complaint against Boulton. Boulton is not happy Jim won't back him up as a witness to the arrest. Monroe is pressurising Jim into turning Boulton in and Pearce is pressurising him to back up Boulton. The suspect is also pressurising Jim. Jim and Tosh catch a girl breaking into a car and talk to Conway about her. Jiom gets a place in a house for the girl via Conway. She gives the name of the man who told her to get the BMW.
Greig and Crofts call on a boy, who had been nicked previously as a pick pocket, because they want to talk to him about burglaries. When they arrive, the boy calls them in because his mother has been assaulted by his father. The boy sold a stolen brooch to a man so he could use the money for his mother. Donna comes up with a link with the burlaries to an alarm firm - 3 of the houses only had dummy boxes. Greig and Crofts visit the security firm manager who mentions a lad in the firm also plays with the boy with the brooch. Lines talks to the mother as he is now handling the assault case. The victim couldn't give a reason for the attack but previous attacks have been over very little. Her son was also hit.
D.C.s Skase, Lines and D.I.Johnson along with Morgan, Pearce and Woods watch a man get into a vasn to do a deal to buy wine that had been hi-jacked. DCI Meadows thinks this arrest of the men in the van has stopped some hi-jacks. Steve is not happy he was left out after feeding Pearce the information. Steve goes and complains to the man who gave him the info. Pearce also gets into trouble because he had got the info from a man he had never seen. Meadows talks to the man watched in the morning who has a license in a false name but he is not prepared to grass on the man they believe was behind the hi-jacks. Monroe argues with Johnson about holding the prisoners. Their mother comes to check on them. Johnson talks to Loxton about running a snout and she apologises. They then go to talk to the snout and find out he had told the other men held about the deal.
A boy has been assaulted and Donna comes up with a possible suspect. Another boy has been reported missing and his mother is concerned because of the attacks. The boy was last seen near to where the suspect lives. Morgaqn and Carver talk to the suspect who denies doing anything. Carver then goes to talk to a counsellor at the sunhill Men's Group. Morgan talks to some boys who saw the missing boy go off with a man. The man turns out to be his dad. The suspect admits to assaulting two boys but denies abducting the missing child. He was very upset about visits with his children.
Carver and Lines are on the way to speak to witnesses when they see a man wrestling with a woman who is known to the police. She has some info about shoplifters which she gives to Boyden. Cathy and Dave deqal with a break-in which turns out to be a boy gaining entry to his own home because his mum isn't home. Polly arrested her for shoplifting. Norika and Cathy talk to a complaintive who is being intimidated by her husband into dropping the case. Her husband is released on bail and later stabbed.
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Guest stars Perry Fenwick, Marion Bailey, Eddie O'Connell
Marshall deals with a teenaged runaway found sleeping rough and showing signs of a beating. Ackland and Quinnan are called to a disturbance at the home of the girl's mother. Pearce and Carver make an embarrassing mistake.
Greig is confident of securing the conviction of a violent burglar, until a witness arrives in court and alleges that Ackland did not record her complete statement.
Boyden, Garfield, Datta and Hollis respond to a noise nuisance complaint and find two known villains in a room littered with thousands of pounds in banknotes.
Conway arranges a party and plans to sound out the Deputy Assistant Commissioner about changes to the senior ranks, but Meadows, and Brownlow take the opportunity to do the same. While the top brass play politics, Johnson sets about trapping an escaped prisoner.
Cato wants to find out who is behind the printing of racist leaflets. A campaign to rid the streets of illegally parked vehicles uncovers the distributor.
Page is assaulted during a domestic. Cato is furious that Sgt. Steele has included some off-the-record remarks in the minutes of a meeting. Carver acts on information received to catch a villain.
Meadows investigates when a man who appears to have fallen to his death from a block of flats is found to have a knife wound in his back. Investigations lead to a second body.
A murderer is released from prison on licence. Cryer deals with the victim's parents, who are unable to accept that their other daughter befriended him while he was in prison.
Quinnan chances his arm in order to get an arrest. Carver realises that one of his informants has set up a suspect to clear the way for an affair with his wife.
Meadows is annoyed when a lorry carrying cigarettes is hi-jacked. Stamp and Ackland intervene in a fight in a pub car park between two thieves who have fallen out over the landlady.
McCann finds Tony Wright sleeping rough on a bench, yet learns that he owns a house just around the corner. His curiosity leads to an investigation by Pearce of the Irish roofer, Samuel O'Rourke, who has targetted Tony, depressed and alone, for large weekly payments for roofing work he never carried out.
When a teacher seems reluctant to bring a charge of indecent assault against a pupil, Woods has to question her motives. Is Stephanie telling the truth or is she being used to get at the boy?
A couple of kids in a stolen Jaguar are causing all sorts of trouble and accidents throughout Sun Hill. PC Tony Stamp and PC Reg Hollis pursue in the Area Car, but all police efforts to stop the car fail. The kids seem to always be one step ahead of the police, until Stamp realises they must have a police radio or scanner. Changing frequencies, they force the Jag into an abandoned bottling plant, where the driver, Rob Orme, has vowed to 'teach the police a lesson' after his father has been sentenced to twelve years in prison. Climbing to the roof of the building, Rob taunts Stamp and Ch. Insp. Derek Conway as they try to talk him down, but accidentally slips and falls to his death.
Investigating a sawn-off shotgun found in a house fire, Lines is led to Lee Ruddick, a crack dealer. When Lines and Johnson team up to raid him, Ruddick eats the evidence, with fatal consequences.
When Lee Ruddick dies at St Hugh's, CIB is called in and DI Johnson is accused on manslaughter. Claudia Morris, the complainant and chief witness, later withdraws her allegation, but just as Johnson seems to be in the clear, Ruddick's family serves her with a private prosecution for manslaughter.
Ackland and Datta are drawn into the past when a couple are pestered by a young woman claiming to be a long-lost daughter. Meanwhile, a death message to an old lady reveals a relative she had forgotten she had.
A man holds a woman hostage in a flat. Jarvis is faced with the task of talking him out. As Jarvis builds a rapport with him, the investigation led by Monroe constructs a worrying picture of the hostage-taker. Can he be talked out or will force be necessary?
When Meadows arrests notorious robber Kenny Stone in a drugs-for-money exchange, Stone isn't in possession of the drugs. Meadows fails to detain Stone long enough to charge him, but he dies in his cell as he is about to be released.
Johnson's seeking vital information concerning a gang of payphone thieves. She comes into conflict with Custody Sergeant Boyden when she asks to speak to a prisoner with a history of mental illness.
Sun Hill are at the Coroner's Court for the inquest on Stone, who died in custody. Did the Great Bullion Robber die of natural causes or are Sun Hill officers in some way to blame for his death?
Pearce and Croft investigate a burglary at a block of flats for the elderly, and she becomes suspicious of a woman who claims to be from a befriending charity called Here to Help.
An unexploded German WW2 bomb is discovered on the riverside right in then middle of CID's surveillance operation. As the evacuation gets underway, a bunch of squatters refuse to leave thinking it's an attempt to evict them. After Monroe assures the bomb threat is geniune they leave but Carver and Pierce then sneak into the squatter's house and discover hidden drugs. They then arrest the squatter.
Chief Superintendent Charles Brownlow is transfered to Area. while is he is there Chief Inspectors Derek Conway, Phillip Cato and DCI Jack Meadows all vie for the promotion to Acting Superintendent in charge of opperations at Sun Hill. Conway is succesful and is promoted
Conway has a hectic first day in his new job as he deals with the aftermath of a senior officers' night out, absentee inspectors and burglars that need babysitting.
Ch. Insp. Cato's anti-vagrancy initiative draws WPC Page's attention to the plight of a young mother, who along with other hostel residents are being threatened by a short-tempered loan shark with violent tendancies.
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Guest stars Jennifer Black, John Abineri, Rupert Holliday-Evans
