Doncaster crimes set to feature on TV's 999: What's Your Emergency? tonight

Crimes in Doncaster are set to feature in the latest episode of TV police documentary 999: What’s Your Emergency? tonight.
By Darren Burke
Published 15th Jun 2021, 09:41 BST
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The second episode, which goes behind the scenes at South Yorkshire Police, will be broadcast on Channel 4 from 9pm.

Tonight’s show will focus on how police deal with non-emergency incidents.

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A programme summary said: “On the frontline with the South Yorkshire Police as they deal with an increasing numbers of non-emergency cases.

999: What's Your Emergency is on Channel 4 tonight. (Photo: Channel 4).999: What's Your Emergency is on Channel 4 tonight. (Photo: Channel 4).
999: What's Your Emergency is on Channel 4 tonight. (Photo: Channel 4).

"A man reports an assault in progress, but when police arrive they find him in a drunk and drugged state and hoping for a lift home.

"What surprises them most, however, is when he asks them to go pick up his cannabis stash first.

"In Sheffield city centre, officers help a confused elderly woman suffering from dementia who cannot find her way home.”

Last week’s episode featured an assault at a Kirk Sandall supermarket, two men being mown down in Hexthorpe and a man threatining to kill his own dad in Intake.