Manhunt on 999: Police Hour of Duty as girl grabbed by masked assailant
AN anxious mother’s call to Derbyshire police after someone attempted to grab her daughter in a park was the main focus for officers in the second episode of 999: Police Hour of Duty.
The call begins a major reaction from the force with more than a dozen officers despatched to try to find the man responsible.
The Channel 5 series has returned for the third instalment, once again following members of the Derbyshire force as they react to calls and ongoing investigations happening over a single hour of a single day.
In the first episode of the series, officers were involved in a two-day manhunt with them cornering a man suspected of carrying out a series of armed robberies.
In last night’s instalment, viewers were taken right into the heart of an investigation hunting for a man suspected of trying to abduct a schoolgirl from a Derbyshire park.
The episode also focused on a distressing call from a young teenager who tells the call handler that their friends have got in trouble in a local river. The girls had swum out of their depth and were closing in on a dangerous weir. It sparked a race against time to try to get to the girls.
In another incident, a house is raided and officers find hundreds of cannabis plants, but the situation takes a turn for the worse when the suspect says it was all for his personal use, grabs his phone and makes a break for it.
Elsewhere a frightened member of the public calls in to say a man is smashing up a bus stop. When officers arrived, the man is violent but when he starts using racist language and spitting at police, the situation becomes a lot more serious. Finally, in an action-packed episode, a driver is stopped for having no insurance but when he struggles to remember his name and date of birth and officers suspect something isn’t right, it turns into a full-scale chase when the driver flees the scene.
The series is due to run for the next few weeks focusing on different investigations taken up by the Derbyshire force between the hours of 9pm and 10pm. Episodes can be also viewed on the catch-up service My5.