Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders follows Northumbria Police as they patrol the roads in the North East of England. Serving a population of over 1.5 million people in a 2,000 square mile radius, Northumbria Police cover one of the most geographically diverse patches in the UK. Bringing law and order to the cities of Newcastle and Sunderland and tackling rural crime across acres of beautiful countryside. Northumbria’s police officers travel over 21,000 miles a day, from the stunning Northumberland coastline, up to Hadrian’s Wall and across to the border with Cumbria. Whether it’s a Friday night crackdown on illegal taxi drivers, catching up with stolen cars in the early hours of Saturday or Sunday tourists on speeding motorbikes, for Northumbria Police’s Motorway Cops, no two days are the same.