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Inside the Arrest

2025
Documentary
Crime
GB

Inside the Arrest captures the moment of arrest, conducted more than two thousand times a day by British police, in order to investigate or prevent a crime. The arrest is the start point for every story, a high-stakes moment that can be met with anything from violence to defiance, confession to incredulity. Each episode features two cases using police bodycam footage to analyse some notorious and high-profile arrests from recent years.

Production

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Seasons

8 Episodes • Premiered 2025

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1. A Deadly Secret

It's only when 35-year-old Virginia McCullough is arrested at her home for the murder of her parents that officers discover her gruesome secret.

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2. Protecting Holly

A plot to kidnap TV presenter Holly Willoughby is discovered when an undercover cop in the US spots something suspicious in an online chat room.

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3. Episode 3

A plot to kidnap TV presenter Holly Willoughby is discovered when an undercover cop in the US spots something suspicious in an online chat room.

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4. Episode 4

The discovery of a murdered schoolgirl leads to an international manhunt, and the dramatic arrest of her father and stepmother on an airport runway.

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5. Episode 5

After the murders of three schoolgirls, riots break out across Britain. Police are outnumbered but then use cameras to hunt down and arrest rioters.

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6. Episode 6

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7. Episode 7

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8. Episode 8

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