The television show Night Coppers is due to return for a new series within weeks, shining a light on frontline policing in Brighton and Hove when the sun goes down.
Sussex Police said: “The Channel 4 show is returning for a second series, giving a fresh raw insight into Sussex Police officers and staff as they police Brighton and Hove after dark.
“It follows response officers as they police the city’s night-time economy, alongside officers and staff in our custody and contact centres.
“Filming took place in summer, with the first episode to be broadcast on Channel 4 on Tuesday 26 March.
“Night Coppers is produced by Blast Films, the multi-award-winning documentary company behind series such as Channel 4’s 999: What’s Your Emergency and Forensics: The Real CSI.”
Chief Superintendent Rachel Carr, the divisional commander for Brighton and Hove, said: “After the success of the first series, we are delighted to welcome Blast Films back to capture the incredible work that goes in to keeping the public safe.
“Night Coppers shows the realities of frontline policing and demonstrates the determination, compassion and humanity of our officers, staff and community partners.
“We also wanted to show the side of policing that goes beyond the uniform – that our officers are human beings, with families, friends and private lives, who perform an extraordinary service to the public under challenging circumstances.”
Sarah Spencer, executive producer for Blast Films, said: “The second series of Night Coppers will continue to get into the hearts and minds of the Brighton response officers at a time when confidence in the police is at an all-time low.
“Filming with a fresh cohort of new recruits as well as some of the officers from series 1, this will also be a character-led, visually distinctive, visceral series that captures what it’s really like to be policing the streets of Brighton at night, eschewing master interviews and commentary in favour of a more immersive approach.”
Channel 4 commissioning executive Simon Cheuk Pong Lee said: “I am delighted that Night Coppers is coming back.
“It’s a brilliant mix of fascinating stories that offer a great opportunity to learn about the incredible work the Sussex Police do in this socially charged city.
“I’m really pleased to see some of the familiar faces return alongside additional new officers and that the second series is even more enthralling than the first.”
The first series aired for eight weeks starting in July 2022.
A review on the Guardian news website said that the “fly-on-the-wall show” gave viewers “an exquisite portrait of British drunkenness”.
The Mirror said that the programme showed “all the danger, tragedy and occasional comedy that make up life as an officer in modern Britain”.
And the Spectator said that the series “paints them in a light so favourable as to be almost comically sycophantic” while describing them as “pathologically liberal”.
Some of the officers in the first series were rookies, training online during the coronavirus pandemic, and trying to balance courtesy, firmness and sympathy when out on patrol.
High standards – rightly – are expected of them. And if the reviews from the first series had a lesson, it was probably that it’s easier to be a critic than a copper.
The first episode of the new series is due to be broadcast on Tuesday 26 March.
I would rather they concentrate on solving crime; I have been a victim three times in under three years and the Police failed to investigate any of them properly. If I was the chief constable I would not allow a second series as the Brighton Police looked extremely incompetent in series one.
Just as incompetent in Series 2.
The show was terrible. Half the episodes were them getting a take away and the rest were them constantly Swearing and asking questions to each other. No officer swears in the show Police Interceptors who always appear professional in front of the camera. Have some respect for yourselves and the uniform!
Not expecting they’ll air the incident which occurred in house of flats. The victim there was petrified of being followed and filmed, yet the officer still asked if they could film!! (You couldn’t make it up!) To top it all the tv crew were inside communal areas waking everyone up (in middle of the night) and they wore “Sussex Police” ID lanyards, which they promptly produced when challenged as to why they were on private property without permission ! !
Utter nonsense, who made this decision after they were made to look like utter fools in the last series. Only one person, I think he was called Jack, didn’t look like a complete idiot.
After filming 100’s of hours I’m sure they edited it just how they wanted to. I watched the previous episodes with some friends, one of who is in the police and he just cringed with embarrassment.
What absolute rubbish, no wonder there is so much crime in Brighton. THe police seem to spend all their time chatting, joking, having a bit of banter with the suspects, swearing, and in this first episode of series 2, the woman officer was more interested in telling everyone how small she was. At the end of the episode everyone they arrested was released without charge. Not exactly showing the best side of the force. How about getting them out on the streets of Brighton arresting the drug pushers, sc um armed with knives, thieves etc etc.
Are these coppers trying out for celebrity big bother, stick to stopping crimes, not TV rubbish that makes people dislike the old bill even more then they do already.
I watched the first episode of the previous series (shock and total horror at the activities of the police, even allowing for the fact that TV companies edit for effect) and thought then that it was a total joke. I did watch the rest of it, thinking that it must surely get better, but it didn’t – it was worse. Millions of viewers have presumably seen this total fiasco.
Whoever in the Sussex/B&H senior police firmament thought that a second series of this total cringeworthy disaster was a good idea needs to be sacked immediately or incarcerated in a secure facility. Or is it all to do with the PCC, who seems to believe that Sussex is all about rural bliss, not the terrible reality that is ‘policing’ in B&H.
What absolute rubbish, no wonder there is so much crime in Brighton. THe police seem to spend all their time chatting, joking, having a bit of banter with the suspects, swearing, and in this first episode of series 2, the woman officer was more interested in telling everyone how small she was. At the end of the episode everyone they arrested was released without charge. Not exactly showing the best side of the force. How about getting them out on the streets of Brighton arresting the drug pushers, sc um armed with knives, thieves etc etc.
Much the same as the last series. Drunks in West Street, trouble on the outskirts of Brighton in the notorious areas, a view of Brighton seafront, the bottom of North Streets, and London Road.