The Bill

Steve radios in details about a missing juvenile. The mother is more worried than the father. The boy was supposed to be at a friend's house. The missing boy and his friend are into computers. Steve has to look through the pedophile register to see if they can find a man matching the description given by the boy's friend. It turns out to be the man complaining about Tony. Although he denies knowing the boy, objectionable material is found on his computer. Before he is let go, he gives Monroe a name that does fit the man who was last seen with the missing boy. Tony and June take a call about children causing a disturbance playing football in the street. The man who complained keeps the ball and wants Tony's number so he can complain about his attitude.

Jim is moaning about a tom(prostitute). Tosh and Jim are told to keep on the case. they go to a shop where they climb on the roof to observe the tom. While on observation they notice she has 2 visitors - 1 a biker, the other a known drug dealer. They bring in the tom and when he goes upstairs, Jim discovers the biker is wanted for the robbery everyone else was working on. The new D.I. walks up the stairs with Conway. as she arrives in the office she takes a phone call telling her there is a robbery in progress at a pub with the robbers still on premises. CID head down there leaving Tosh and Jim to deal with the tom. Steve and Polly arrive to find an injured man outside. George and Tony arrive in the area car as two men take off on a motor bike. Crofts has noticed a pattern emerging in the money snatches.

Sgt Boyden and Polly are on patrol and discuss Reg's plans for a parachute jump. Polly takes a visit to a tower block where a domestic has been reported. There doesn't appear to be anyone in although the tv is still on. A body is noticed under the balcony and on checking they discover she jumped with her baby. Inspector Monroe comes down and talks to the man who reported the disturbance. Meadows and Carver also come down. Boyden finds a man sitting by the side of the road, who turns out to be the baby's father. When interviewed he has problems answering the questions. He came down from Scotland to try to be a family.

George tapes off an area around a house where a body has been found. AMIT turns up. There is a way through the attic into the empty house next door. The murdered man is supposed to have no money and is not very popular. There is a local tom's wallet in the next door house. George is asked about the dead man by a lad who has been primed by a man in a van which takes off when he sees George approaching. The new owners of the house arrive as the body is removed.

Pearce and Steele are looking for a stolen car that has a tracking system installed. The car is not there. The rep from the tracking company is very enthusiastic about the system. Pearce and Steele find a range rover in a lockup that is stolen along with the missing car. They think the garage could be a good spot for an observation. Monroe is not too happy but Cato is all for it. Tony and June are part of the surveillance team. A car drives into the yard and June recognises one of the men that Pearce then follows.

A tom is in family court on trial to work out whether her daughter should stay with her althought she was charged with possession. Jim and Suzy talk to some of the tom's friends to be able to help her. They are told that the tom's boyfriend is trying to put her daughter on the game and she doesn't know. Meadows organises teams to lead raids on 4 different targets.

June and Adam go to a nurse's home where a nurse was attacked. They discover a door wedged open. A nurse told June the man had called earlier to see another nurse. June calls Adam a narrow minded bigot in the canteen. The nurse who had the male visitor the night before is attacked and turns out to be moonlighting as a tom. Tony and Mike are told to go to a hotel where a woman was assaulted. Boyden talks to the injured woman before her pimp appears. He talks to Monroe about a pattern appearing of toms being beaten as soon as they get into a room.

Quinnan brings in a shoplifter. A woman talks to Jim and Suzy about being mugged. Jim thinks he knows who the mugger is. They go to talk to the suspect. The duty solicitor is not happy about how Jim conducted the interview. On checking an acquaintance of the suspect, they find designer jackets in his lock-up. He is brought in under suspicion of receiving stolen goods. June and Tony talk to a service station owner who had a car drive off without paying for the petrol she had put into the car. Her husband is the duty solicitor. Driving off is not an arrestable offense. June is concerned that this is not the first offense the suspect has committed.

Tony and Reg are called to a stabbing in canley fields. Sgt. Cryer and June arrive to help. the victim is DOA at the hospital. The doctor thinks he was attacked 3 hours previously. D.S. Morgan goes to see the victim's mother and discovers she is blind. When the mother checks the body, she discovers it is not her son. Alan talks to a shopkeeper who saw a group of men chasing another one. tosh talks to the party thrower and finds a leather jacket similar ro the one on the body. The wallet inside belongs to the owner of an incorrectly parked mini who never came home the night before.

Conway is at a meeting when he sees a girl kicking a car and then tells Conway about the murder of a crack dealer. The girl is scared of her parents. Meadows and Conway are arguing over the girl's info. Tony and Reg are in an electrical store dealing with a shoplifter who gave her name as Elizabeth Barrett. She has a passbook in her possession belonging to the girl connected with the dead crack dealer. She turns out to be the girl who was being raped by the dealer when he was killed.

A woman is found beaten unconscious near a brothel.

Norika and Steve are patroling 9 beat and later will be taking Ch. Insp. Cato out. They put out signs and caution kerb crawlers. They nick the tom when she is brought back and caution the punter who turns out to be a supplier of drugs. She is later found beaten in an alley. Dave and Mike are also patrolling 9 beat and removing cards from phone boxes. They talk to one of the toms. Driving around Dave spots a man wanted for jumping bail and lose him in the market.

Jim and Tosh are in a transit van when they hear shouting. Jim goes to investigate and finds a man being beaten up by D.C Boulton from Barton St. Jim is not prepared to lie for D.C. Boulton about the arrest. The suspect makes a complaint against Boulton. Boulton is not happy Jim won't back him up as a witness to the arrest. Monroe is pressurising Jim into turning Boulton in and Pearce is pressurising him to back up Boulton. The suspect is also pressurising Jim. Jim and Tosh catch a girl breaking into a car and talk to Conway about her. Jiom gets a place in a house for the girl via Conway. She gives the name of the man who told her to get the BMW.

Greig and Crofts call on a boy, who had been nicked previously as a pick pocket, because they want to talk to him about burglaries. When they arrive, the boy calls them in because his mother has been assaulted by his father. The boy sold a stolen brooch to a man so he could use the money for his mother. Donna comes up with a link with the burlaries to an alarm firm - 3 of the houses only had dummy boxes. Greig and Crofts visit the security firm manager who mentions a lad in the firm also plays with the boy with the brooch. Lines talks to the mother as he is now handling the assault case. The victim couldn't give a reason for the attack but previous attacks have been over very little. Her son was also hit.

D.C.s Skase, Lines and D.I.Johnson along with Morgan, Pearce and Woods watch a man get into a vasn to do a deal to buy wine that had been hi-jacked. DCI Meadows thinks this arrest of the men in the van has stopped some hi-jacks. Steve is not happy he was left out after feeding Pearce the information. Steve goes and complains to the man who gave him the info. Pearce also gets into trouble because he had got the info from a man he had never seen. Meadows talks to the man watched in the morning who has a license in a false name but he is not prepared to grass on the man they believe was behind the hi-jacks. Monroe argues with Johnson about holding the prisoners. Their mother comes to check on them. Johnson talks to Loxton about running a snout and she apologises. They then go to talk to the snout and find out he had told the other men held about the deal.

A boy has been assaulted and Donna comes up with a possible suspect. Another boy has been reported missing and his mother is concerned because of the attacks. The boy was last seen near to where the suspect lives. Morgaqn and Carver talk to the suspect who denies doing anything. Carver then goes to talk to a counsellor at the sunhill Men's Group. Morgan talks to some boys who saw the missing boy go off with a man. The man turns out to be his dad. The suspect admits to assaulting two boys but denies abducting the missing child. He was very upset about visits with his children.

Carver and Lines are on the way to speak to witnesses when they see a man wrestling with a woman who is known to the police. She has some info about shoplifters which she gives to Boyden. Cathy and Dave deqal with a break-in which turns out to be a boy gaining entry to his own home because his mum isn't home. Polly arrested her for shoplifting. Norika and Cathy talk to a complaintive who is being intimidated by her husband into dropping the case. Her husband is released on bail and later stabbed.

Bevis accuses Keegan of sexual harassment.

Pressured by Boyden's questions, Linton reveals he is serving a community sentence for sexual offences.

A 17-year-old boy is caught riding a stolen motorcycle.

McCann is beaten up by two men after being called to a warehouse burglary with Jarvis.

Meadows and Johnson investigate couriers smuggling in heroin.

Monroe and Cryer investigate a man who is taking driving tests for dead men.

Monroe and his officers are called to a rent party where the organiser has been seriously assaulted.

Stamp and Garfield are called to an incident between an ex-copper and a teenager.

A clothing store gets broken into.

Johnson and Woods investigate the scene of an arson attack.

A man reported missing by his wife, is found shot dead the next day.

Greig and Croft visit Sally Firth who has been burgled.

A pirate radio station interferes with police radio transmission.

A father beats up his son for being gay.

As CID resign themselves to losing Grieve, Bannon's daughter calls to report that two men have abducted her father.

A boat is reported drifting down the Thames, and a body is found in the river.

Morgan and Woods arrive at a burnt-out house and are told that the fire may have been started deliberately.

A mother suffering from a rare spinal tumour takes an overdose.

Lines, Garfield and Bostock go undercover at a milk depot.

Woods and Carver receive a tip-off to a crack dealer's house on the Bronte Estate.

Meadows and Woods investigate a robbery. Meadows enlists the assistance of an ex-con to deal with a young villain.

A doorman is arrested for assault for an incident outside a nightclub.

Area Complaints want to speak to Jarvis after some foul play during a rugby match. Stamp and Marshall deal with a case of double identity.

Greig uncovers a crime of passion. Morgan goes after a man handling stolen car parts.

Meadows works with a brewery security guard to solve the theft of kegs of beer after another guard is assaulted by the thieves.

Marshall deals with a teenaged runaway found sleeping rough and showing signs of a beating. Ackland and Quinnan are called to a disturbance at the home of the girl's mother. Pearce and Carver make an embarrassing mistake.

A burglary suspect is positively identified by a witness but has a solid alibi. Johnson, Greig and Croft uncover an elaborate scheme of revenge.

Morgan and Lines clash with a vicious thug. Hollis and Boyden are on the trail of stolen koi carp.

Datta deals with a complex case of domestic violence. Quinnan and Greig act on a tip-off from a local jeweller.

Greig suspects a caretaker of burgling his own school, but his attempt at suicide makes the case a difficult one.

Ackland uncovers a series of muggings. Johnson is unimpressed, but Monroe, acting on Ackland's information, organises an observation on a pub.

Quinnan finds himself drawn into the problems of a man whose life is falling apart.

Greig is confident of securing the conviction of a violent burglar, until a witness arrives in court and alleges that Ackland did not record her complete statement.

Boyden, Garfield, Datta and Hollis respond to a noise nuisance complaint and find two known villains in a room littered with thousands of pounds in banknotes.

Conway arranges a party and plans to sound out the Deputy Assistant Commissioner about changes to the senior ranks, but Meadows, and Brownlow take the opportunity to do the same. While the top brass play politics, Johnson sets about trapping an escaped prisoner.

Skase betrays a misogynist attitude when he and Croft investigate a series of thefts of wedding gifts.

Cato wants to find out who is behind the printing of racist leaflets. A campaign to rid the streets of illegally parked vehicles uncovers the distributor.

An angry, young boy with a gun roams the streets. Can Cryer get to him in time?

Quinnan and Cato close in on a den of thieves, centred around an ageing hippie inciting youngsters to steal car radios.

A drugs raid on a pub is a great success until Lines finds a body. Johnson has to move fast to achieve a result.

Page is assaulted during a domestic. Cato is furious that Sgt. Steele has included some off-the-record remarks in the minutes of a meeting. Carver acts on information received to catch a villain.

The key witness to an attempted murder vanishes.

Boyden receives an anonymous tip-off but suspects that he has been set up. His suspicions are confirmed when MS15 turn up at the pick-up point.

Meadows interrogates a convicted sex offender whose father can't face the truth about his son.

A seemingly straightforward burglary becomes complicated when one of Johnson's informants is given a false alibi.

Monroe investigates a fatal road traffic accident and begins to suspect that the driver may have crashed the car on purpose.

Meadows and Cryer try to gain the trust of a small boy from Devon found wandering about in his pyjamas.

A gang of teenagers cause a nuisance on an estate, and a boy on a scrambling bike is almost decapitated.

Meadows receives a tape of a deathbed confession to murder.

Lines and Meadows uncover two counterfeiters who haven't quite been clever enough.

Loxton and Quinnan are called to a canal where a familiar tramp claims to have fished out a DSS inspector.

Stamp is called to deal with a 14-year-old car thief who has badly injured a young girl. Conway and Monroe deal with the consequences.

Skase investigates some crack dealers but bites off more than he can chew and faces a mauling from Meadows.

A young black student is accused of a savage attack on a schoolmaster, but Lines thinks that the teachers have something to hide.

Meadows investigates when a man who appears to have fallen to his death from a block of flats is found to have a knife wound in his back. Investigations lead to a second body.

Boyden investigates an assault and helps a former lover deal with her violent husband. Garfield thinks the sergeant may be up to his old tricks again.

Skase's informant needs protection, but he is compromised when he uncovers the full extent of her criminal activities.

A murderer is released from prison on licence. Cryer deals with the victim's parents, who are unable to accept that their other daughter befriended him while he was in prison.

Page finds her loyalties tested when she arrests an old school friend in a drugs raid.

Woods investigates the activities of a cowboy builder, and uncovers a customer's scheme to exact revenge.

D.I. Johnson's raid on a flat goes wrong when a young boy flees and falls from the third-floor balcony. Brownlow has to pick up the pieces.

Greig realises that a house has been burgled twice. Conway helps to arrest a most unusual burglar with a very special talent.

Lines and Woods attempt to solve the mysterious disappearance of an armed robber, and eventually uncover the answer after calling on his mistress.

Johnson's methods are called into question when she removes an aggressive solicitor's clerk from an interview with a robbery suspect.

Lines helps Ackland track down a delinquent son but he should be worrying about his own.

Quinnan chances his arm in order to get an arrest. Carver realises that one of his informants has set up a suspect to clear the way for an affair with his wife.

Monroe is called to a fatal traffic accident than deals with a case of mistaken identity.

Croft and Woods interview a man suspected of abducting a girl.

A businessman seems unconcerned after one of his employees is fatally injured in a street fight over drug-dealing territories.

Johnson tries to stop a drugs war from developing after a crack addict is shot.

Conway clips the wing-mirror of a car and finds himself listening to a man's confession to an attempted armed robbery.

Morgan has to choose between heart and head when trying to track down a boy who has been abducted by his father.

Meadows investigates when a recluse is found dead in his flat. He appears to have been assaulted but may have taken an overdose.

Johnson attempts to track down a violent escaped prisoner. The arrival of Chris Deakin is delayed, as he has to give evidence in court.

Datta has a difficult case, unfriendly colleagues and Cato's support.

Deakin shares information that Johnson needs to solve her case, but on his own terms.

Ackland and Quinnan investigate a break-in at a pharmacy. Cryer unearths extortion among the young homeless.

Meadows and Deakin investigate the fatal shooting of a young windscreen washer and uncover a link to a local drug dealer.

Datta and Cryer investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl and find that her half-sister and brother-in-law have something to hide.

Morgan and Woods investigate a serious assault and are led to a case of kidnap and extortion.

Meadows and Conway fall out over the handling of an informant. Quinnan traces a vanload of stolen meat.

Meadows is annoyed when a lorry carrying cigarettes is hi-jacked. Stamp and Ackland intervene in a fight in a pub car park between two thieves who have fallen out over the landlady.

The shooting of a jeweller has Chris and Suzi investigating as an armed man is arrested by Reg and Steve.

Meadows and Morgan investigate what appears to be the violent death of an old soldier in a drugs-related burglary.

Stamp and Ackland respond to an anonymous call and find a man in a curious state of undress.

McCann finds Tony Wright sleeping rough on a bench, yet learns that he owns a house just around the corner. His curiosity leads to an investigation by Pearce of the Irish roofer, Samuel O'Rourke, who has targetted Tony, depressed and alone, for large weekly payments for roofing work he never carried out.

When a teacher seems reluctant to bring a charge of indecent assault against a pupil, Woods has to question her motives. Is Stephanie telling the truth or is she being used to get at the boy?

Aggro between the West Indian and Chinese communities threatens to escalate as Steele and McCann investigate.

A couple of kids in a stolen Jaguar are causing all sorts of trouble and accidents throughout Sun Hill. PC Tony Stamp and PC Reg Hollis pursue in the Area Car, but all police efforts to stop the car fail. The kids seem to always be one step ahead of the police, until Stamp realises they must have a police radio or scanner. Changing frequencies, they force the Jag into an abandoned bottling plant, where the driver, Rob Orme, has vowed to 'teach the police a lesson' after his father has been sentenced to twelve years in prison. Climbing to the roof of the building, Rob taunts Stamp and Ch. Insp. Derek Conway as they try to talk him down, but accidentally slips and falls to his death.

Investigating a sawn-off shotgun found in a house fire, Lines is led to Lee Ruddick, a crack dealer. When Lines and Johnson team up to raid him, Ruddick eats the evidence, with fatal consequences.

When Lee Ruddick dies at St Hugh's, CIB is called in and DI Johnson is accused on manslaughter. Claudia Morris, the complainant and chief witness, later withdraws her allegation, but just as Johnson seems to be in the clear, Ruddick's family serves her with a private prosecution for manslaughter.

Ackland and Datta are drawn into the past when a couple are pestered by a young woman claiming to be a long-lost daughter. Meanwhile, a death message to an old lady reveals a relative she had forgotten she had.

A young man is stabbed by a member of a notorious family of criminals, but no witnesses are prepared to come forward.

A man holds a woman hostage in a flat. Jarvis is faced with the task of talking him out. As Jarvis builds a rapport with him, the investigation led by Monroe constructs a worrying picture of the hostage-taker. Can he be talked out or will force be necessary?

Morgan owes an old villain a favour, but pays a heavy price for her loyalty.

Jarvis, Loxton, Page and Cato deal with a trio of squatters and a violent landlord.

When Meadows arrests notorious robber Kenny Stone in a drugs-for-money exchange, Stone isn't in possession of the drugs. Meadows fails to detain Stone long enough to charge him, but he dies in his cell as he is about to be released.

Meadows is worried that a vicious attack was meted out in revenge for the conviction of a loan shark.

Johnson's seeking vital information concerning a gang of payphone thieves. She comes into conflict with Custody Sergeant Boyden when she asks to speak to a prisoner with a history of mental illness.

Sun Hill are at the Coroner's Court for the inquest on Stone, who died in custody. Did the Great Bullion Robber die of natural causes or are Sun Hill officers in some way to blame for his death?

Johnson investigates an apparently racially-motivated attack.

Lines retraces the steps of an alcoholic who comes out of a two-day blackout and believes that he has committed a crime.

Page deals with the sudden death of an unidentified man in the bathroom of a high class prostitute.

Carver ends up leading 'Operation Cock-up' and is determined not to look an idiot in front of Deakin.

Pearce and Croft investigate a burglary at a block of flats for the elderly, and she becomes suspicious of a woman who claims to be from a befriending charity called Here to Help.

A rape allegation sends Deakin into the murky world of pimps and prostitutes.

Johnson stands trial for manslaughter of Lee Ruddick, and allegations of a police cover-up.

An unexploded German WW2 bomb is discovered on the riverside right in then middle of CID's surveillance operation. As the evacuation gets underway, a bunch of squatters refuse to leave thinking it's an attempt to evict them. After Monroe assures the bomb threat is geniune they leave but Carver and Pierce then sneak into the squatter's house and discover hidden drugs. They then arrest the squatter.

Meadows and Cato are at loggerheads, but Conway couldn't care less it's his birthday.

Deakin and Meadows are prosecuting a teenager for assault but McCann thinks he is innocent.

Pearce and Croft fall out over the arrest of a disabled drugs dealer.

It seems that Ch. Supt. Brownlow is about to be retired, but is he ready to go?

Deakin goes undercover as a professional hitman and is asked to kill the wife of a failing businessman.

Loxton and Quinnan are drawn into a world of romance, intrigue and violent affections when called to attend an incident at a local tea dance.

Chief Superintendent Charles Brownlow is transfered to Area. while is he is there Chief Inspectors Derek Conway, Phillip Cato and DCI Jack Meadows all vie for the promotion to Acting Superintendent in charge of opperations at Sun Hill. Conway is succesful and is promoted

Cryer and Garfield are called to the scene of a suicide.

Morgan's ambition brings her into conflict with Johnson.

Conway has a hectic first day in his new job as he deals with the aftermath of a senior officers' night out, absentee inspectors and burglars that need babysitting.

Meadows blames a leak when a witness is threatened. Stamp and Boyden come under suspicion.

Monroe and Cryer investigate an old man who has been giving expensive toys to young children.

A young girl reports a rape a year after it happened. Can Johnson and Pearce dig up enough evidence to make the charge stick?

Ch. Insp. Cato's anti-vagrancy initiative draws WPC Page's attention to the plight of a young mother, who along with other hostel residents are being threatened by a short-tempered loan shark with violent tendancies.

Carver goes undercover as a mechanic to frustrate a garage owner's plans to commit a robbery.

Cato brings in a mugger with a bloody nose.

Greig and Deakin set up shop in an attempt to trap mobile phone thieves in a sting operation.

Pearce and Croft investigate when rivalry between gangs of fly-posters escalates to assault.

Boyden gets trapped in a derelict building and his only help is a kid who was chasing but the kid is reluctant to help for fear of getting arrested.

Pearce and Croft investigate an assault, but the victim's father seems reluctant to help.

Cryer suspects the worst when a young wife goes missing.

Cato organises a raid on a pub and plans to take away the landlady's licence, but Cryer is not impressed.

A Jehovah's Witness is seriously assaulted, but his mother refuses to let him have a blood transfusion.

Cato goes undercover to investigate a pimp.

Deakin bends the custody rules, leaving Boyden to carry the can.

Ackland and Loxton get caught up in violent competition between rival bailiffs.

Croft is horrified when Skase goes over the top to get a result.

Ackland and Quinnan are led on a wild goose chase by two juveniles, while Stamp thinks he's going to pull at the Sun Hill Christmas bash.

Greig investigates the theft of a series of corpses.

Hollis outsmarts C.I.D. to make two arrests.

Hollis assists a woman who is the victim of obsession.