Show History



Road Wars was the brainchild of Steve Warr and Bill Rudgard. Beginning in 2003, they followed the members of Thames Valley Police’s Roads Policing Proactive Unit. Unlike many other police programmes around at that time, they followed the officers around as they carried out their day to day duties, a format which has now become the norm for other similar shows such as ‘Street Wars’, ‘Traffic Cops’ and more recently ‘Police Interceptors’.

There have now been seven series of Road Wars, six with Thames Valley Police and one with Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, as well as two Christmas specials and a USA Special which saw PC Chris Piggott and PC Andy Samuels travel to Chicago to experience the differences in policing and criminal behaviour in the US. There have also been three compilation specials which were aired in 2008 as a swansong for Thames Valley Police.

From 2009, the series has moved to the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary and now follows the officers of three teams: the newly formed Road Crime Unit, the Tactical Aid Group and the Dog Section.