Traffic Cops

Traffic Cops is a British documentary series on BBC One which follows Road Policing Units (traffic officers) from various UK police forces. The current series follows Officers from the Roads Policing Group and Road Crime Team from North Yorkshire Police. Previous series have followed the Yorkshire & The Humber Regional Roads Crime Team, West Yorkshire Police, Cheshire Constabulary, Hampshire Constabulary, Humberside Police, South Wales Police, South Yorkshire Police, Sussex Police, Bedfordshire Police and Hertfordshire Constabulary. There is a separate spin-off series, billed Traffic Cops Specials, entitled Motorway Cops, because the main focus is on police patrolling Britain's Motorways. Traffic Cops has consistently been one of the most watched factual series on UK television. Due to its prime time BBC1 slot, Traffic Cops' viewing figures generally are many times larger than other UK police TV programmes. Both series are made by Folio Productions, a subsidiary of Mentorn Media, who also made a separate BBC One series called Car Wars, which followed police teams who dealt exclusively with car crime rather than traffic offences. In 2016 a new series of Traffic Cops began and for the first time in the shows history it was first aired on BBC Three and not on BBC One.