The Lock Up
Season 22011
An observational documentary series following Humberside Police's custody suite, which hosts Hull's young offenders.
An observational documentary series following Humberside Police's custody suite, which hosts Hull's young offenders.
8 Episodes
Sgt Rich West deals with a drunken teenage graffiti artist who has run riot through his mother's house, a man who has given himself a headache by hitting the cell door, and a regular visitor to the station whose breathalyser reading is five times over the limit.
February 11, 2011Sgt Dave Beer comes across two regular offenders - an 11-year-old girl arrested for assault and a 12-year-old who threatened to set fire to her care worker. Officers deal with a newcomer to the custody suite who is too small to reach the desk to sign his name, and a teenager charged with burgling a pensioner, while a mother begs her son to give up alcohol for the sake of his family.
February 18, 2011It's a round of medical emergencies and digestive dilemmas for Sgt Peter Swann, famed in Humberside Police for his everlasting appetite. The sergeant finds himself face to face with a cheese thief who steals to feed his drugs habit; a burglar who won't eat or drink because he has swallowed his loot and refuses to go through the evidential 'motions'; and the teenage boozer who wants to be a copper and is so drunk she can't keep anything down.
February 25, 2011After running a red light with the cops in tow, a drunk and strangely-garbed student faces a career in tatters. It's a long expensive road back to Vietnam for the illegal cannabis grower who has paid a gang 6,000 euros to get him to the UK.
March 4, 2011A copper by name and a copper by nature, stand-in sergeant Stu Constable faces a prisoner's ultimate weapon, bodily fluids, in a dirty protest at the suite. When an old soldier collapses with a suspected stroke, the sergeant has to contend with the hospital medics who send the veteran back to the Lock Up.
March 11, 2011