Description
Season 1: 4 x 60' Season 2: 4 x 60'
Shine North for Channel 5
Last year, they carried out more than 16,000 operations across England & Wales, that’s one every 30 minutes. Every day they face the unknown, whether it’s violent organised crime, marauding fugitives, tense hostage situations or the ever increasing threat of terror.
But what is it like to be an armed officer? How do they make the life-changing, sometimes life-ending decision on when to pull the trigger? And how do they deal with the consequences? This series asks these questions and many more of some of the UK’s most experienced armed officers.
Together they’ve been involved in thousands of operations, and dozens of shootings. But for the first time they speak openly about the operations they remember most, and the decisions they made.
Using real footage from these missions and news coverage of the aftermath we examine some high profile armed operations, and learn how the officers felt before, during and after they pulled the trigger.
Armed And Deadly: Gang Wars
We reveal what life was really like for people in organised criminal groups. With episodes themed on different UK locations, we go under the skin of the criminal fraternity and shine a light into the dark corners of that world.
The series meets former criminals and hears first hand accounts of their crimes, their regrets, and their lives after the criminality ended.