Sgt Green and PC Spence have a known prolific street dealer in their sights. But the cards are stacked against them in bringing him down.

A couple united in love and a shared heroin habit. Jo and Rich live and sleep in a multi-storey car park in central Bristol. They make up to a thousand pounds a week begging, but they spend virtually all of it on feeding their voracious drug habits. The programme witnesses the council and police joining forces to crack down on begging and rough sleeping. Police officer Mark and council worker Rich are armed with the power of arrest, along with access to the council's support services. This carrot-and-stick approach means Rich and Jo must either accept their offer of rehab or face being split up by being sent to prison.

From the chaos of a burglar who steals every night to the dangers facing street sex workers, a mum in long-term recovery looking after her daughter and the user going into an assisted detox unit, the challenge of breaking free from the shackles of addiction is daunting. And for most, the stakes could not be higher - get clean or face death.

Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire, substance-misuse experts and some recreational drug takers question whether the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act is still fit for purpose.

The police have discovered that a large, drug-dealing network from London has taken over the local drugs market in Weston Super-Mare and Yeovil, and are ready to strike.

The police have dozens of properties and suspected dealers in their sights. In coordinated strikes across the region the police bring over 30 dealers into custody.

With police custody cells full, it's time for the police to start their interviews to try and get a better understanding of how these dealers are operating.

Having taken out over 30 dealers in Weston-Super-Mare, the investigation team turn their attention to Yeovil. But this time they'll be targeting out of town dealers.

With one of the out of town drug dealing networks in the cells, the investigation team turn their attention onto the Nova crew and Rafael Castillo, the man in charge.

The police take out the Nova crew and their king pin, Rafael Castillo. With Castillo in custody, the team search his property to find what the proceeds of crime have been going on.

A gritty, multi-perspective look at the impact of illegal drugs in a rural community. Rather than focusing on big city drug dealing, this film tells the story of how a gang from the city establish a ‘county line’ and muscle their way into the drug economy of rural Devon. They take control of the supply of drugs by intimidating local dealers and enforcing their authority throughout the underworld. The gang deploys extremes of violence rarely seen before on the country lanes and small town streets of rural England.