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Officers from the Central Motorway Police Group target cable thieves, a crime that is costing the country more than £1 billion each year and causing chaos to Britain's transport system.

The Motorway Cops catch up with the drivers who try to cheat the system, taking chances even though that may mean putting other people's lives at risk - and they find that the drivers who do this are often those they come across time and time again.

Amid icy conditions, the Motorway Cops are forced to close the motorway.

At night, a lorry jack-knifes on an unlit section of the M6, and two cars have ploughed full-speed into the underside of its trailer. The roofs of both cars have been taken off in the impact, and one man is dead. But, miraculously, three others have survived. It's up to PCs Elliot, Bullard and Shail to find out if this was simply the hand of fate or if someone is to blame.

Britain's motorways are getting busier and with fewer officers on the road the motorway cops often need the public to tip them off about illegal cars and drivers

The Motorway Cops are after runaway drivers including a stolen high performance car with a determined thief at the wheel. The thief is so determined that he risks a head-on crash as he drives the wrong way down the motorway, leaving the cops to launch a city-wide search for him.

The motorway cops are faced with organised criminal gangs from overseas who use Britain's motorways to travel up and down the country, from city to city, stealing to order. The problem is that, when the police stop them, the criminals claim not to understand a word of English, making the investigation tougher than ever.

Despite the array of sophisticated equipment and computer data available to the Motorway Cops, it is often experience and a 'sixth sense' which allows them to sniff out those motorists who have something to hide - and when they do, the police often uncover much more than they expect.