Mentorn Media Recommissioned For Inside The Force: 24/7

Mentorn Media has announced it has been recommissioned for a third run of Inside the Force: 24/7 for Channel 5.

The company will once again go behind the station doors and see what really goes on inside. In this 12-part series, the firm will be at a new station and follow the officers of Cleveland Police. Behind the Middlesbrough station doors, there is a team of over 500 officers who patrol the biggest town in the Teesside area. It's a region with the highest crime rate in the country, it has the highest rate of firearms offences in the country and the second highest rates for knife crime.

The series simultaneously follow the different layers of police inside the station, as in-the moment decisions are made, and reveal how the force reacts. Every incident triggers a chain of events which engages a cross section of Cleveland police. Across the series, incidents include tackling a man with a knife who seriously stabs three officers, an attempted murder with a stabbing of a teenager, and drive-by shooting through the windows of a terraced house.

This is policing as it happens, capturing what really goes on inside a station and how that spills out onto the streets.

Tayte Simpson, Executive Producer, Mentorn Media, commented: "This is a gritty and unflinching look at the realities of policing in an area with the highest crime rates in the country."