Sky Coppers

TV Show · Documentary · Crime

A police investigation series following the increasingly important work of the West Midlands Police Drone Unit. Drone tech is a specialist ultra-modern tool that has the capacity to help officers as they conduct investigatations and attempt to track criminals. The Unit pursues suspected wrongdoers as they try to hide up in the trees, discard drugs, or run away from the scene of a crime. The Sky Coppers make it a point to watch from above because, as they know from experience, criminals always forget to look up.

2023 · 46m

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Behind the scenes with the West Midlands Police Drone Unit, who work on the ground, but hunt criminals from the sky. The team uncover giant illicit cannabis grows and are attacked by a smoke bomb fired from a stolen car.

46 min
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

The Drone Unit head the hunt for a man who assaulted an officer. And in the dead of night, a motorbike thief is hiding somewhere in a wood - can the drone flush him out?

42 min
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Can the Drone Unit's heat-seeking tech catch a wrongdoer hiding up a tree? And the team join the search for a woman who left a suicide note before vanishing into the night.

45 min
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

The Unit is once again hunting from the air, following reports of a group of kids trying to set a shed on fire in an allotment. And a burglar's been tracked breaking into a rival drug gang's house looking for a suspected cannabis farm.

46 min
EPISODE 5

Episode 5

The West Midlands Police Drone Unit search for a passenger fleeing a hit-and-run. Rival football fans cause panic on the streets of Wolverhampton. And a call comes in reporting that a group of people are trying to bury a body in a park.

46 min
EPISODE 6

Episode 6

The Drone Unit hook up with the helicopter team and the canine squad to chase a car thief. An officer is sent to hunt for a burglar who's trying to break down the door of a property. And a reckless robber makes a rookie error in broad daylight.

46 min

James Woodroffe

Producer
Steve Gowans

Producer
Christopher Hardy

Producer

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Sky Coppers

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A police investigation series following the increasingly important work of the West Midlands Police Drone Unit. Drone tech is a specialist ultra-modern tool that has the capacity to help officers as they conduct investigatations and attempt to track criminals. The Unit pursues suspected wrongdoers as they try to hide up in the trees, discard drugs, or run away from the scene of a crime. The Sky Coppers make it a point to watch from above because, as they know from experience, criminals always forget to look up.

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