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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    24 Hours in Police Custody Season 1 Episode 1 - The Conspiracy to Murder
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    #1 - The Conspiracy to Murder

    S1:E1

    This extraordinary episode opens with the dawn arrest of a man on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. The film documents the work of the lead detectives as they investigate and interview the suspect about his involvement in a plot to shoot a man. While driving to work, the victim was hit from behind by another vehicle. When he stepped out to inspect the damage he was shot in his leg by a close range sawn-off shotgun, sustaining life-threatening injuries. The police believe the case arises from a potential love triangle that has spiralled out of control. Detectives have 24 hours to gather enough evidence to charge or release him.

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  2. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 1 Episode 3 - The Confession Of A Paedophile
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    #2 - The Confession Of A Paedophile

    S1:E3

    News spreads across the county about a suspected paedophile trying to abduct young children on their way home from school. Local press coverage has led to hundreds of calls from panicked parents to the police. With the culprit at large, cameras follow the Major Crime Unit as they lead the operation to arrest a third suspect following a nine-year-old girl's statement and an e-fit description. After two previous suspects have been released without charge, have they now got the right man? In the public protection unit, DC Annie Fowler and DC Selena Humphreys believe they have finally gathered enough evidence, including thousands of images and hundreds of videos of extreme child abuse, to ensure the suspect is remanded in prison pending a trial. Following his second arrest, he makes a frank and shocking confession. The detectives take this new information to the Crown Prosecution Service in the hope of preventing him from committing any more offences.

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  3. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 1 Episode 7 - The Crime Of The Century
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    #3 - The Crime Of The Century

    S1:E7

    Drunken abuse, the theft of 98p's worth of fizzy drinks and the joyriding of a 45-seater bus are all in a day's work for acting sergeant Wil Taylor. Some can seem like a waste of police time, while others quickly become serious - such as the case of three sex workers who have been arrested during a raid on a local brothel. Are the women victims, possibly trafficked to the UK from Eastern Europe, or are they running the business and exploiting others? Last in the series

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  4. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 2 Episode 2 - A Short Sharp Shock
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    #4 - A Short Sharp Shock

    S2:E2

    Two teenage girls are arrested after a fight broke out in a nightclub. And the police also arrest a 61-year-old man who's never spent a night in the cells before.

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  5. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 2 Episode 4 - Punchdrunk Love
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    #5 - Punchdrunk Love

    S2:E4

    This episode follows cases where alcohol and relationship tensions mix in a dangerous cocktail. Investigating Officer Lisa Hutchinson says nine out of ten cases can be of domestic violence.

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  6. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 2 Episode 5 - Age Concern
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    #6 - Age Concern

    S2:E5

    Several elderly people have been sexually assaulted in a graveyard. The police have a sample of an attacker's DNA from a previous crime scene, and arrest a young man. Will his DNA match?

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  7. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 3 Episode 2 - Guilty Little Secrets
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    #7 - Guilty Little Secrets

    S3:E2

    Bedfordshire Police must decide whether to charge two men arrested as part of a nationwide operation against people possessing and, in some cases, distributing indecent images of children online.

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  8. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 4 Episode 2 - To Catch A Paedophile
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    #8 - To Catch A Paedophile

    S4:E2

    The police have a complex case to deal with when a man comes to them admitting that he tried to set up a meeting for sex with a 12-year-old girl that turned out to be a sting operation carried out by online vigilantes.

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  9. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 6 Episode 2 - Car Attack
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    #9 - Car Attack

    S6:E2

    Bedfordshire Police are called to Dunstable Town Centre, where a man has driven a car into a group of revellers outside a kebab shop before fleeing on foot. With a suspect on the loose, cameras follow every twist and turn of the investigation.

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  10. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 6 Episode 3 - Left For Dead
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    #10 - Left For Dead

    S6:E3

    A man lies dead in a Peterborough park. The position of his body raises intense suspicions but rigor mortis has set in and the trail of evidence is going cold. Detectives are called in to investigate.

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  11. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 7 Episode 5 - Fifty Shades Of Abuse
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    #11 - Fifty Shades Of Abuse

    S7:E5

    A teenager disappears from hospital after being brought in with serious injuries that suggest she's been tied up and assaulted. Bedfordshire Police investigate.

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  12. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 7 Episode 8 - Living Amongst Us
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    #12 - Living Amongst Us

    S7:E8

    Bedfordshire Police have to confront the issues thrown up by a surge in the number of crimes related to the sexual exploitation and grooming of children by paedophiles. A man is lured to what he believes is a meeting with a 13-year-old girl, but is caught in a sting operation by so-called 'paedophile hunters'. A few days later, the case takes a surprising twist when police are called to a roadside where a pensioner is found badly beaten and suffering a bleed on the brain.

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  13. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 8 Episode 1 - Predators
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    #13 - Predators

    S8:E1

    Detectives hunt for two rapists. They race to stop a recent offender from striking again. And can new cutting-edge forensic techniques help them catch a rapist who has evaded justice for 10 years?

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  14. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 8 Episode 2 - Family Secrets
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    #14 - Family Secrets

    S8:E2

    An experienced officer from the Bedfordshire Police Internet Child Abuse Investigation Team investigates an area of criminal behaviour beyond anything she has tackled before

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  15. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 8 Episode 3 - Knifed
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    #15 - Knifed

    S8:E3

    Detectives race to the scene of a stabbing in broad daylight. Cameras follow every twist and turn of the investigation, revealing the real-life stories behind the familiar headlines about knife crime.

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  16. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 8 Episode 4 - Smuggled
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    #16 - Smuggled

    S8:E4

    Cameras follow every twist and turn of a real-life police investigation as detectives attempt to catch a suspected drug trafficker before he can escape on a flight to Spain

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  17. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 8 Episode 5 - The Detective & The Surgeon
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    #17 - The Detective & The Surgeon

    S8:E5

    The cameras follow an engrossing and surprising real-life investigation into a reported burglary of antiques worth a quarter of a million pounds from a country estate.

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  18. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 8 Episode 6 - Sudden Death: Think Murder
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    #18 - Sudden Death: Think Murder

    S8:E6

    Detectives investigate the sudden death of a 48-year-old woman in Cambridgeshire, and the hunt for clues takes the investigation right across Europe as cameras follow every twist and turn in the investigation.

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  19. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 9 Episode 1 - Wanted
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    #19 - Wanted

    S9:E1

    Police officers search for a man in Luton who disguises himself as a delivery driver to force his way into people's homes and commit brutal assaults. However, when the police investigation fails to make headway, the family of one of the victims launch a campaign for information on social media - which increases the likelihood of the criminal seeing he is at risk of discovery and going to ground.

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  20. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 9 Episode 2 - Chicken Shop Wars
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    #20 - Chicken Shop Wars

    S9:E2

    A violent daytime brawl with knives erupts on the streets of Luton as chicken hop war heats up. The case then takes a disturbing twist when a police raid lands a huge cache of drugs.

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  21. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 9 Episode 3 - The Horror House (Part One)
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    #21 - The Horror House (Part One)

    S9:E3

    A lone detective is on the trail of a Luton man who sexually abused scores of young people, in what becomes a very complex and disturbing pursuit.

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  22. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 9 Episode 4 - The Horror House (Part Two)
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    #22 - The Horror House (Part Two)

    S9:E4

    In the gripping conclusion to this two-part special, the victims of historic child sex abuse come forward to try and finally get justice, and prevent the suspect from walking free for the ninth time.

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  23. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 9 Episode 5 - Murder on the Doorstep
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    #23 - Murder on the Doorstep

    S9:E5

    On a quiet Sunday lunchtime in a Cambridgeshire suburb, a man lies bleeding to death on the doorstep. A major manhunt is triggered, where the strength of family blood ties is brutally exposed.

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  24. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 9 Episode 6 - Holding the Baby
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    #24 - Holding the Baby

    S9:E6

    Features police investigations into one of the most disturbing and hard-to-prove crimes, baby-shaking cases, and examines parents' often-divided loyalties. Detectives probe the stories of the parents, as they piece together what really happened

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  25. 24 Hours in Police Custody Season 10 Episode 2 - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
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    #25 - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

    S10:E2

    Bedfordshire Police race to rescue a missing 15-year-old girl after receiving intelligence that a 20-year old man is holding her captive at his flat in Luton. She isn't his only victim, the suspect has targeted a large number of other underage girls.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Conspiracy to Murder" is the worst rated episode of "24 Hours in Police Custody". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/29/2014. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Confession Of A Paedophile".