Northumbria Police receive a call from a man whose 70-year-old neighbour has been robbed at knife point by masked attackers in his own home in the suburbs of Sunderland. The attackers have made off with £15k of savings hidden under the floorboards.

Detectives from Northumbria Police are investigating the fatal stabbing of Joan Hoggett, a 62-year-old grandmother. A call comes in about 19-year-old Ethan Mountain, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, and is claiming to have stabbed someone.

When a body is discovered, murder detectives start a manhunt for suspects; rural officers intensify efforts to prevent poaching in rural areas and detectives investigate.

Northumbria Police tackle evolving modern crimes in an ever-changing world, including child trafficking and the downloading of indecent images of children, and the effect investigating these cases has on the officers themselves.

Following the work of forensic investigators, response officers, neighbourhood teams and detectives in an array of crimes, from armed robbery and distraction burglaries to arson, all connected in some way by one thing: drugs.