A man is shot during an armed robbery at a DIY warehouse - but why is Kim Reid so keen to hand the investigation over to Burnside?

PC Quinnan is the subject of a civil complaint. PCs Stamp and Stringer follow up a fire at a home for ex-psychiatric patients, but find little care in the community.

When a teenage mugger is stabbed by his would-be victim on the Jasmine Allen, it looks like a genine case of self-defence. Tosh Lines isn't so sure though, and decides to dig a little deeper into the life of the man who was mugged.

DC Lines is enjoying an off-duty pint in his local pub and becomes involved in a bar-brawl.

DC Lines Investigates when a cellar full of illegal immigrants is discovered. He enlists the help of Sgt Boyden, who takes a fancy to one of the females. Lines warns him off.

PC Quinnan investigates the illegal sale of steroids. PC Garfield is put on the spot when his old sparring partner is arrested.

Burnside is furious when provided with false information about an armed robbery, while Reid meets some of her friends in high places.

Sun Hill is terrorised by teenage joyriders, but what can be done to stop them?

A student nurse is sexually assaulted in a nurses' quarters building. DI Burnside arrests the obvious suspect from a nearby gypsy encampment, but does he have the right man?

Following investigations into the disappearance of a thirteen-year-old boy, Greig recruits Ackland and Dashwood for an undercover operation at Victoria Station as they attempt to bust an operation running rent boys.

Stringer tries to stop some children playing 'chicken' on the railway line, but one of them is run down by a train. Sgt Peters transfers upstairs to the post of Duty Sergeant - swapping roles with Bob Cryer, who returns to the relief.

D.C.I. Reid prepares to move on from Sun Hill, while D.S. Greig tries to cultivate an informant.

Investigating an apparent accident in which a man's hand is crushed in a car-breaker's yard, Sgt Maitland uncovers years of animosity, neglect and revenge.

A tramp is attacked, leading the police into a web of crime.

Thinking of leaving the force , DC Dashwood is tempted by a lucrative business opportunity with a firm of security consultants.

A man convicted of strangling his wife has been released on licence, but the probation service fails to notify Sun Hill. His presence comes to light when his son causes a disturbance.

Sgt. Cryer's first day back in uniform is an eventful one. P.C. Smollett is excited about the new Community Police Office. The area car is stolen from PC Loxton and WPC Datta.

Burnside leads the investigation into the fire at the new Community Police Office.

Carver and Martella are shadowing a car thief, but all three get more than they bargained for when they stumble across an apparent IRA arms cache.

The Anti-Terrorist Squad believe they will have a quick result, but Roach has his doubts.

A small boy known for lying claims to have been the subject of an attempted abduction in an adventure playground.

A routine trip to a magistrate for a warrant turns into a nightmare for DC Dashwood when he is taken prisoner by two hooded burglars.

DCI Meadows arrives to take charge of Sun Hill CID. He becomes involved with a father suspected of murdering his drug addict son.

A woman who collapsed at an airport is found to be a mule, smuggling drugs in the stomach. DI Burnside, with only limited time to mount an operation, gets WPC French to take the courier's place to place in attempt to uncover the dealer.

The station has received multiple calls from a guest house owner, claiming to have seen potential intruders. While most think she's a time waster, Ray believes in a more reassuring method of policing - but is he too personally involved?

DS Greig arrests a suspect for an armed robbery, but is proved wrong.

A lorry overturns and sheds its load outside a school, burying a boy and girl and putting PC Loxton to the test.

WDC Martella celebrates her birthday. DI Burnside and DS Roach go to a party attended by a crooked businessman, who makes Burnside an offer he can't refuse.

WPC Marshall becomes a vital witness in a murder trial, and soon realises that someone is trying to intimidate her..

A road accident draws attention to a local taxi company, which is the source of a local crime wave.

DCI Meadows tries to find the link between three arson attacks. DS Roach and DC Dashwood track down an escaped prisoner, but Roach seems more interested in his beautiful wife.

PC Quinnan and WPC Datta arrest a girl using stolen credit cards and uncover a major racket.

A armed robber who put an innocent bystander in a wheelchair has his house firebombed by the victim's son. DI Burnside is determined to see justice done.

PCs Loxton and Stringer follow up on a mugging but their case is nearly ruined when it collides with an investigation by DS Greig and DCI Meadows. Can WPC Ackland crack the case?

It's Saturday night, but CID are at work trailing a known criminal believed to be responsible for a series of artifice burglaries involving pensioners.

Following an argument with a drunken pub customer, a young barman is hit by a car outside, and left in a coma. PCs Quinnan and Stringer have their suspicions about the customer. Could it be manslaughter?

DI Burnside and DS Roach look favourably on an ex-villian with a loan-shark problem, but they expect favours in return.

An armed robber admits to DC Lines that redundancy and the repossession of his house made him take to crime to solve his problems.

PCs Stringer and Loxton attend to the theft at an old people's home and begin to suspect that the ex-policeman who runs the home is ill-treating residents,

WDC Martella arrests a woman for drug dealing. DI Burnside suspects that she is using teenage girls as couriers by offering them free holidays in Spain, but she is being exploited by a bigger dealer.

PC Stringer wins the election for the post of Federation Rep, beating the incumbent PC Hollis by fifty-eight votes to two. Ch Supt Brownlow decides to eat in the canteen with the other ranks, much to their discomfort.

DS Roach investigates the beating of a teenage girl, and tries to establish if his suspect is also responsible for a murder being investigated by AMIP.

A young model claims that she was sexually assaulted during a photographic session. WDC Martella discovers that every picture tells a story.

PC Stringer gets involved with a bizarre household, and discovers a horrifying case parental cruelty in the attic. WPC Marshall goes on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit at Stafford Row.

Sgt. Boyden has anything but a quiet night on duty in the custody suite.

WPC Marshall on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit at Stafford Row, makes an error of judgment and is attacked by a woman's husband.

PC Stringer is mugged by a gang and determines to get his own back. WPC Marshall follows a cheque card fraudster.

PC Stamp is ambushed by a gang of youths on a local estate. In trying to assist him,. WPC Ackland crashes the Area car, much to PC Loxton's delight.

A woman lies critically injured in hospital, beaten up by her husband. DS Greig and DCI Meadows interview the husband. WPC Marshall decides to quit the Domestic Violence Unit.

PC Hollis arrests a woman for being drunk in charge of a baby, and finds himself drawn into complicated family set-up.

P.C. Garfield is assaulted while in pursuit of a suspect, but where was Sgt. Boyden?

DC Dashwood is to be transferred to the Arts and Antiques Squad. DS Roach hands him a burglary at an infants school as a wind-up, but it develops into a case that allows Dashwood to show the others a thing or two.

It's PC Garfield's first day back after the attack. The relief place bets on the likelihood of Garfield punching Sgt Boyden, but Garfield eventually takes his reverse.

Sgt Cryer gets the relief to put the Garfield-Boyden conflict behind them and get back to work - to sort out the takeover of genuine beggars' pitches by violent professional thieves.

Ch Insp Conway decides he needs to get back on the beat , and arrests a drunk for criminal damage.

PC Garfield brings in a teenaged girl arrested at a drugs party, and she accuses him of sexually assaulting her. Det Supt Kim Reid comes back to question him.

A ram-raid ends in tragedy when a boy is killed. But what was his part in the affair?

A middle-aged couple arrive at the front desk and report their neighbour missing, but WPC Ackland isn't sure that they are telling the whole truth.

DS Roach is put under pressure when a suspect retracts a confession and accuses the police of oppression.

A bumbling minicab driver is pulled over, but claims to know nothing about the blood stains in the boot.

The night shift is saddled with a feud between two men who come to the front desk with allegations of GBH against each other.

Someone is stabbed on a stag night, but the likely suspect can't remember a thing about it.

A prisoner is brought down from Manchester for an identity parade after a new witness comes forward. Could she be too good to be true?

PC Smollett discovers that a local villain is driving people out of their flats and reletting them to squatters. At Sun Hill a civilian typist is discovered to be having an affair with a known villian,

Two con men are preying on women through the small ads in the local paper. Lack of personnel for DS Roach's operation places WDC Martella in danger.

A loan shark has been assaulted, and Lesley Anderson is the only witness to the crime. But can D.S. Greig make any conviction when the witness not only seems erratic, but keeps constantly disappearing?

Acting on information from a snout, DI Burnside mounts a dawn raid on neighboring crack-houses. When details of the raid appear to have been leaked, DCI Meadows challenges Burnside over the trustworthiness of his team.

A complaint over loud music quickly escalates into an armed siege, as a man waves a gun at PCs Stamp and Quinnan.

PC Hollis is playing with a train set before going out - he is looking for a place to live, as he is moving out of the section house. Meanwhile, DS Greig's 'cold' murder case suddenly becomes a bit warmer - could he be on the right track?

WDC Viv Martella helps WPC Donna Harris dress up for a reconstruction of a murder case.

Insp Monroe talks to Ch Insp Conway about a problem with a car chase, involving kids apprehended for joyriding. But were the youngsters actually responsible for stealing the car in the first place?

WDC Martella brings in an elderly mugging victim who helps makes an identikit picture. Sgt Boyden gets spoken to by Insp Monroe about working with the relief.

DI Burnside sets a trap for an armed robber at a building society, and is surprised to finds that the culprit is a man in his sixties.

Ch Supt Brownlow and Ch Insp Conway have a meeting with councillors about the change in the police force. Conway gives them a tour of the station.

CID investigates a break-in at a warehouse which resulted in the theft of personal CD players.

Sgt Cryer visits a friend who is the head of a neighbourhood watch, who's concerned about drug dealing at a nearby pub. Sun Hill mount an undercover operation there - but get more trouble than they bargained for.

DC Lines is asked for by a burglar whom he put inside. He gives Tosh information that there might be a bank robbery.

Quinnan is in trouble when a prisoner recognizes him from having moonlighted as an electrician. He looks to be in serious trouble - should he come clean to Monroe, or front it out?

CID are tied up with a court case - and a burglary suspect of DS Roach may have to be released while he is tied up in court giving evidence. Meanwhile, a man reports that his wife is dead at home - but how exactly did she die?

A former boxer is mistakenly arrested for possession of drugs, but ends up having his home used as the site of a surveillance operation.

Quinnan is nearly run down by a speeding Mercedes, and he and Loxton give chase. Loxton isn't too happy, as he has a score to settle elsewhere - but could it be there are bigger fish to fry...

D.I. Burnside has a promotion board, leaving D.C.I. Meadows to deal with an informant's rather dubious tip-off.

PC Garfield is following a silver car that might have been involved in a ram-raid. But, while checking in with the station, his radio goes dead... Meanwhile, Ackland is on the trail of the owner of a missing shoe, found covered in blood.

WPC Datta goes to see a man about a missing child. Meanwhile, Stringer has to tell a man his brother is dead - and doesn't quite get the reaction he'd expected.

A man arrested outside a club for being drunk and disorderly turns out to be a detective from the Drugs Squad, suspended on corruption charges. Can Meadows help to clear his name?

Sgt Maitland finds himself in the wrong when he discovers a serious procedural error meant that a dangerous and possibly psychopathic man has been arrested twice for the same offence and released.

DC Lines Investigates a fire bombing of an Asian shop. PC Quinnan and WPC Marshall investigate an Asian lady accused of shoplifting.

When sex appeal doesn't get him what he wants, Harry Osborne turns vicious and WDC Martella has to pick up the pieces. Meanwhile, new copper on the relief Gary McCann gets out on the beat - and gets involved with a house-burgling youth.

WDC Martella investigates a burglary that occurred during a funeral.

An old lady brings in a blood-stained book belonging to a missing girl in to the station. DC Lines uncovers the family's dark secrets and comes up with an unexpected result.

What's a smart girl like Sharon doing with a villian like Daniel Batt? DI Burnside thinks it's all to do with the female hormones, but WDC Martella isn't so sure.

DCI Meadows and DI Burnside want to go in force to the Tankeray estate to root out the criminal element, but Ch Supt Brownlow is committed to a softer approach.

CID receive information that leads to the arrest of a prolific handler of stolen goods.

The body of a respectable family man is found on a notorious patch of wasteland.

PC Stamp uses old-fashioned policing methods to tackle the problem of children playing with railway detonators.

A local youth with form is stabbed in the centre of a densely populated housing development. DCI Meadows investigates when no witness comes forward.

D.I. Burnside investigates when a pawnbroker is shot in the leg with a legally-acquired shotgun during a robbery at his shop.

W.P.C. Ackland intervenes when a family is being subjected to harassment from a scrap dealer.

A probation officer seems eager to assist DI Burnside over the murder of a prostitute, but how close is she to the murderer?

DC Carver finds a buried treasure and the glory should be his. DC Dashwood, now with the Arts and Antiques Squad,takes the case away and gets a result.

Mike Dashwood returns to Sun Hill looking for stolen antique dolls. Who will he plague this time - DC Carver or DC Lines?

D.I. Burnside investigates the death in mysterious circumstances of a former high-wire artist and cat burglar.

Sun Hill officers are drinking after shift when some troublemakers arrive at the pub. WPC Ackland tries to calm the situation, but PCs Loxton and Quinnan decide that she needs their protection, and provoke a fight with a violent thug.