The WORST episodes of 24 Hours in Police Custody
Every episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of 24 Hours in Police Custody!
The landmark documentary series that captures real life drama at its most intense, following police detectives around the clock as they investigate major crimes
#1 - Lost in Translation
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/2/2018
Bedfordshire Police confront issues thrown up by the mass movement of people across Europe. A man travelling with a young woman on a one-way ticket from Bulgaria is stopped at Luton Airport. Officers from the National Crime Agency believe that he - and another man who has come to the arrivals gate to meet them - may be bringing the woman into the country unlawfully. The story takes a surprising twist when one of the men they have arrested claims he is her father. Cameras follow every twist and turn of the case, as detectives try to discover the truth when so much is obscured by different languages and culture.
#2 - Invisible Chains
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/19/2017
'TB' comes to Luton Police station claiming that his life's in danger and that he's just escaped from a slave owning gang. Over 200 officers launch a dawn raid on the suspects.
#3 - Code of Silence
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/26/2017
A man has been attacked and left unconscious on the floor of a crowded pub for over 30 minutes. Detectives face a wall of silence as they search for evidence.
#4 - The Golden Bracelet
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/3/2017
Bedfordshire Police are particularly busy. A care worker denies stealing a gold bracelet, a man denies being involved in a stabbing, and a suspect is questioned about an assault.
#5 - Sex and Corruption
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/19/2018
Cameras follow all the twists and turns of the major investigation into an allegation of police corruption, as detectives track down, arrest and then charge a fellow officer.
#6 - Car Attack
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/26/2018
Bedfordshire Police are called to Dunstable Town Centre, where a man has driven a car into a group of revellers outside a kebab shop before fleeing on foot. With a suspect on the loose, cameras follow every twist and turn of the investigation.
#7 - Left for Dead
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/5/2018
A man lies dead in a park in Peterborough and the positioning of his body raises intense suspicions, but rigor mortis has already set in and the trail of evidence is going cold. Who is the victim and how did he come to be dumped overnight in open ground? Cameras follow as detectives are called in to investigate as the case becomes the priority for Bedfordshire Police's Major Crime Unit.
#8 - Shallow Grave
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/12/2018
Police dig in the back garden of a house in Luton searching for the body of a woman who disappeared in 2003, believing a painstaking fingertip search might reveal vital clues in a suspected murder enquiry. Natalia Wilkanowska's disappearance left detectives from the Major Crime Unit puzzled and frustrated with the lack of answers to their questions, and cameras follow every twist and turn of an investigation in which detectives have decided it's time to solve the case by turning up the heat on their suspects.
#9 - Frequent Flyers
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/2018
The police search for a couple who they believe have exploited a young, vulnerable woman by taking over her flat to use it as a drugs base.
#10 - Too Close For Comfort
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/26/2018
A woman has reported to Bedfordshire police that she is living in fear because she believes a man who she once regarded as a friend has begun to stalk her, and officers are sent to arrest him. Cameras follow the complainant and the prime suspect as they argue over whether he has crossed a line and what was once friendship has now turned into an unhealthy obsession.
#11 - Body in the Grass
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/21/2018
A woman's body is found in overgrown grassland. When detectives inform her partner of her death, his behaviour marks him out as a chief suspect.
#12 - The Kane Line
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/28/2018
The programme follows major surveillance operation run by the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit against an organised crime gang behind a drugs supply line. Ten simultaneous armed raids are launched at dawn and the suspects are taken into custody, with the cases against the gang members being documented as the officers put their evidence to them in interviews.
#13 - A Second Chance
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/11/2018
A woman calls the police to a block of flats in Luton and as they carefully advance down the corridor, a bloody handprint is clearly visible on the wall. The flat appears to be empty, but police suspect a man who has previously been in trouble with them has fled the scene. Cameras follow Bedfordshire Police's enquiry into a disturbing case that ends with a twist.
#14 - Fifty Shades of Abuse
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/18/2018
A teenager disappears from hospital after being brought in with serious injuries that suggest she's been tied up and assaulted. Bedfordshire Police investigate.
#15 - What Lies Beneath
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/25/2018
A man phones police to claim that there are body parts buried in the garden of a house on an estate in Luton and a search team is dispatched, but faces a wall of silence at the scene. Detectives suspect that it is a fantasy but, more worryingly, they may be being deliberately drawn into a long-running and brutal tit-for-tat gang war. Cameras follow every twist and turn of the case as it escalates further when the mother of the original complainant is stabbed in the chest.
#16 - Their Time Will Come
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/12/2017
A distressed woman arrives at Luton Police station, where officers have to tell her that her 76-year-old husband is under arrest following allegations of historic child sex abuse.
#17 - Predators
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/11/2019
Detectives hunt for two rapists. They race to stop a recent offender from striking again. And can new cutting-edge forensic techniques help them catch a rapist who has evaded justice for 10 years?
#18 - Family Secrets
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/18/2019
Cameras follow the work of Bedfordshire Police's Internet Child Abuse Investigation Team, which deals with more than 200 cases a year. Nikki Owen is experienced in dealing with some of the most troubling crimes, but this investigation takes her into an area of criminal behaviour that is beyond what she has tackled before.
#19 - Knifed
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/25/2019
Detectives race to the scene of a stabbing in broad daylight. Cameras follow every twist and turn of the investigation, revealing the real-life stories behind the familiar headlines about knife crime.
#20 - Smuggled
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/1/2019
Cameras follow every twist and turn of a real-life police investigation as detectives attempt to catch a suspected drug trafficker before he can escape on a flight to Spain
#21 - The Detective and the Surgeon
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/8/2019
The cameras follow an engrossing and surprising real-life investigation into a reported burglary of antiques worth a quarter of a million pounds from a country estate.
#22 - Sudden Death: Think Murder
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/15/2019
Detectives investigate the sudden death of a 48-year-old woman in Cambridgeshire, and the hunt for clues takes the investigation right across Europe as cameras follow every twist and turn in the investigation.
#23 - Wanted
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2021
In the leafy suburbs of Luton, a man's caught on CCTV launching a brutal assault on three women. Soon he's all over Facebook as officers race against time before the suspect goes to ground.
#24 - Chicken Shop Wars
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2021
A violent daytime brawl with knives erupts on the streets of Luton as a chicken shop war heats up. But the case takes an even more disturbing twist when a police raid lands a huge cache of drugs.
#25 - The Horror House (1)
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2021
In the first part of a two-part special, a lone detective is on the trail of a Luton man who sexually abused scores of young people, in what becomes a complex, disturbing pursuit.