The WORST episodes of 999: What's Your Emergency?
Every episode of 999: What's Your Emergency? ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of 999: What's Your Emergency?!
999: What's Your Emergency? follows members of emergency services throughout Britain as they work together to tackle crime and disorder, providing insight through the eyes of the police, fire, and ambulance services using a mixture of fly-on-the-wall footage taken at incidents and retrospective interviews with the people and staff featured. With rig technology inside the emergency vehicles to call centres to multiple crews on the ground 24/7, the series captures in a unique way the issues that face Britain today, from the emergence of new drugs and the despair of domestic violence to the way we parent our children and those who slip through society's safety net.
#1 - Episode 3
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/7/2018
The documentary focuses on the demands placed on the women and men who answer people's cries for help. As an ambulance crew answers a call to a heart attack, call handlers guide the victim's daughter through administering CPR. A nine-year-old boy is coached through a terrifying situation when his mother suffers a diabetic emergency while driving, and a father-to-be is instructed how to deliver his baby over the phone.
#2 - Episode 5
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/1/2019
Wiltshire Police launch a murder investigation when two people are stabbed by a stranger. But all may not be as it seems, in a case that raises difficult questions about why people carry knives.
#3 - Knife Crime
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/24/2019
This edition focuses on knife crime, with police in Northamptonshire having seen an almost 70 per cent increase in such incidents over the past five years. After a man is threatened with a knife in Aldi, PC Brett McKenna and a Taser team go to arrest the perpetrator and search his flat, while PC Steve Cheatham attends the scene of a reported stabbing on a a residential estate in Corby.
#4 - Officer Safety
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/17/2019
This edition focuses on the growing lack of respect officers face on the street, with a mass confrontation between teenagers in Northampton having worrying implications for PC Allan Whenmouth. A 15-year-old is arrested for assaulting a police officer in Corby town centre, while rookie PC Wioletta Britten reveals she experienced her first assault after working on response for only a few months.
#5 - Increased Demand
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/10/2019
The work of police in Northamptonshire, where, with resources stretched to breaking point, officers are struggling to meet the increased demand on their services.
#6 - Relationships & Domestic Abuse
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/3/2019
The series returns to follow the overstretched Northamptonshire police force. This episode covers relationships and the part that austerity plays in incidents of domestic violence.
#7 - Criminal Families
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/4/2018
Cameras focus on the five per cent of the UK's families who are collectively responsible for a staggering amount of the nation's crime – 50 per cent of criminal arrests. Police are dispatched to apprehend a drunk young man outside a nightclub. Some members of his family have amassed 193 arrests and 111 convictions between them.
#8 - Learning Disabilities & Crime
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/27/2018
The police are called to assist a mother whose autistic son is attacking her. A man with Asperger's is brought in on suspicion of making hoax calls.
#9 - Violent Crime
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/20/2018
Cameras focus on the work carried out by Wiltshire's police, paramedic and fire services. Unarmed police officers are called to a Sunday league football match where a disgruntled player is brandishing an axe. In the early hours of Sunday morning, all available units are scrambled to assist an injured officer at a mass pub brawl.
#10 - Episode 4
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/14/2018
Exploring the link between poverty and rising crime when a 14 year old reports a break-in at her home where jewellery and watches have been stolen. Also, a shoplifter admits he has been driven to extreme measures in order to survive.
#11 - Roads Policing
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/20/2020
In Northamptonshire, police are called out after a vicious attack on students. And two constables need back-up when attacked with a pool cue by a man who refuses to leave a pub.
#12 - Episode 2
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/31/2018
In the last five years, Wiltshire has experienced a 63 percent increase in offences committed by women. The police face extraordinary levels of violence as they deal with this female crime wave, including an attack on a single girl by a gang.
#13 - Episode 1
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/24/2018
Joining the emergency services as they respond to accidents from car crashes to sports injuries and an ambulance crew are despatched to a rural area where a man has chopped through his foot with an axe while cutting firewood.
#14 - Episode 4
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/10/2018
Cameras go behind the scenes with Wilshire's emergency services to explore the rising use of strong cannabis, related crime and the impact of suspected cannabis psychosis.
#15 - Episode 3
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/3/2018
The number of people living alone in the UK has doubled in 40 years to a greater number than at any time in our history. With no one else to talk to, people are relying more and more on 999.
#16 - Episode 2
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/26/2018
This episode explores the impact of loneliness, as the emergency services deal with everyone from elderly people who need someone to talk to, to teenagers struggling with the pressures of social media
#17 - Episode 1
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/19/2018
This episode joins Wiltshire's police officers as they deal with young men driving dangerously and tackle the resurgence of joyriding - with some drivers as young as 14
#18 - Episode 7
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/11/2017
In Wiltshire more and more young people are challenging the police's authority. With over 88,000 under-18s arrested in the UK in 2016, are young people being given too many chances or not enough?
#19 - Episode 6
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/4/2017
From zero-hours contracts to long working hours, this episode explores how the emergency services deal with issues arising from rising levels of stress and anxiety in the workplace.
#20 - Episode 5
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/27/2017
The edition focuses on the rapidly growing number of 999 calls connected to the over-75s. In Warminster, the emergency services are called to a crash involving three cars, which has left one person with life-changing injuries and was caused by a 75-year-old man who suffered a suspected heart attack at the wheel. PC Phil Bridge is searching Trowbridge to find a 73-year-old woman who is in the latter stages of dementia and has disappeared while out shopping with her son.
#21 - Coronavirus
Season 12 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/1/2021
Early 2020, the start of COVID-19, and South Yorkshire Police face a surge in anxious calls and crimes, from folk fighting over loo rolls to domestic violence and substance abuse.
#22 - Custody
Season 14 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/2022
In Northamptonshire, police custody cells are stretched to breaking point as they have just 62 cells to cater for a population of 700,000. A 67-year-old lady is brought in for drink-driving, and a female detainee decides to strip naked.
#23 - Drunk Women
Season 14 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/24/2022
Cases of alcohol-related call-outs involving excessive drinking by women. Officers are alerted by a taxi driver to someone who has been drunk and asleep in a gutter, while PCs Brad Phillips and Mike Doggett attend the scene of a mid-evening car crash. Elsewhere, a disturbance in a pub spills out onto the streets, resulting in an arrest for assault and an entire family of young children being forced to go into custody by their mother.
#24 - The Night Shift
Season 14 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/2022
South Yorkshire Police work the long nightshift – breaking up fights, rescuing a colleague, nabbing a fuel thief, and attending a possible suicide on a bridge outside Doncaster.