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DEVON AND CORNWALL COPS

STV, 8pm CARAVAN carnage, royal visitors, an unexploded hand grenade and the mystery of a sheep killer – it’s all going on in Devon and Cornwall.

Police work is a little bit different here to anywhere else in Britain.

With 4000 square miles of vast landscape, the force are spread out across the bustling villages, towns, beaches and countryside.

And while you might think crime here extends little beyond the odd seagull thief or beach ball crisis, once 11million tourists descend in summer, enforcing the law is anything but a holiday for these cops.

However, it’s not exactly a hotbed of criminal activity on the Scilly Isles, where four officers make up the entire local force.

It’s the sort of place where traffic gets held up because ducks are crossing the road.

But there are other challenges as the team, headed up by Sergeant Colin Taylor, keep an eye on just over 2000 locals.

“I’m policing my next door neighbours – I’ll be arresting someone one minute, then queuing up next to them in the Co-op the next,” says Colin, known locally as The Scilly Sergeant. Colin is famed for his hilarious Twitter feed, and has even written a book, The Life Of A Scilly Sergeant.

It is up to him to keep the sleepy Scillys safe as they prepare for the highest profile visitors in their history – The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate.

Elsewhere, there’s more drama as response patrols hit the blues and twos to attend to madness on the roads, and a caravan overturns on a dual carriageway.

An unexploded World War II hand grenade causes a bang and, over on Exmoor, an officer formulates a plan to catch the mysterious sheep killer red-handed.