Dom Littlewood looks at clever new methods that the police and the public are using to catch crooks red handed. Footage includes a terrifying armed robbery in a jewellery shop, but the brave owners have some tricks up their sleeve that confuse the crooks and a police 'capture house' operation that snares burglars in the act.

Police set up a covert operation to catch laptop thieves, plus terrifying footage of people who cheat death on level crossings and how the police catch them in the act.

Thieves break into a garage, unaware that it is a police trap, while residents in another district trap a vandal and are amazed by their identity.

A bar owner fights back against bag snatchers and pickpockets, and three completely oblivious teenagers try to burgle a house, unaware that the police are watching their every move.

The remarkable story of a police operation to smash a drugs ring and catch the dealers in the act.