The Bill

- Season 14

(1998)

When a raid on a known drug-addict goes awry, DS Boulton is spiked by the desperate criminal's needle, leaving Sun Hill's tough guy frightened and angry, and in need of an HIV test.

Sgt. Ackland and PC Quinnan investigate when a family are strangely silent about the death of their landlord.

DS Beech and DC Carver go in search of a haul of £30,000 in banknotes, missing from a a six-year-old robbery.

When an old man loses his life saving in a mugging, Sgt Boyden and PC Stamp suspect it was something more than coincidence.

Sgt Boyden deals with a frail old man brought into custody accused of attempted murder.

Sgt Boyden and PC Stamp attempt to contain a father who wants revenge for his murdered son.

When a young girl has to carry a knife to defend herself at school, PC Stamp and WPC Keane know it is time to step in.

PC Stamp is clinical when he feels a woman with a sob story may be playing games, but PC Ashton is taken in by her charms.

PC Ashton, enthusiastic and single-handed solves a mystery break-in despite scepticism from PC Stamp and WPC Page.

It's a life or death situation for DC Skase and DC Proctor when an assassin comes looking for his money. But can they work together to defuse the situation?

Quinnan and Stamp decide to play a prank on PC Jarvis.

New PC Eddie Santini, tall, dark and handsome with a dubious past, causes a stir when he arrives to join the team at Sun Hill.

WDC Rawton and DC Skase assist a woman receiving anonymous threats.

PC Ashton goes missing from the scene of an accident.

A car belonging to a rival Chief Superintendent's wife is stolen right from under PC Santini and PC Quinnan's noses.

Proctor and Skase investigate the stalking of Proctor's ex-girlfriend.

A series of muggings on a local estate lead DC Carver and DC Proctor to the house of a rather unusual couple.

DCI Meadows and DC Skase discover a modern-day Robin Hood robbing the rich in Sun Hill.

PC Santini is irritation at being paired with PC Hollis on a cold, wet night in Canley.

While in a rush to catch a crook, PC Ashton trips and falls foul of the law.

Sgt Ackland sets out to trap a man who wants to take the law into his own hands.

WDC Croft is puzzled by a couple who want their daughter arrested.

Sgt Ackland and PC Quinnan are on the case when a man falls from his bedroom window . But was it an accident or something more?

DC Carver is let down by an unreliable snout, and needs DS Beech to get him out of a tricky situation.

WDC Rawton and DC Skase realise they may be onto a serial sex attacker.

WPC Page and PC McCann investigate what appears to be a straightforward case of attempted child abduction.

A clever lawyer runs rings around DS Beech in court in a case involving a notorious robber.

The tit-for-tat violence escalates rival gangs in Sun Hill

DS Beech involvement with rival racketeers becomes more complicated.

Can PC Garfield's word on the identity of a suspect be trusted?

DCI Meadows and DS Daly get a tip-off about a gang of young muggers, but their information comes from an unlikely source.

PC Garfield and WPC Keane try to discover the cause of the death of a woman found dead in a church hall.

When a girl goes missing by a river, DI Deakin sees an opportunity to nail an old adversary.

PC McCann is sent in search of a valuable exotic bird.

DS Daly and WDC Rawton investigate an assault on a resident of an old people's home.

Ch Insp Conway is the target of a blackmail attempt following a drunken night.

DS Boulton is after a villain known to have an eye for the ladies.

PC Quinnan and WPC Blake search for a missing French au pair who has been moonlighting as a stripper.

Sgt Cryer tries to save the life of a girl found dying on the common, and gets a complaint filed against him

Sgt Boyden uncovers an illicit pornograghic video operation.

PC Ashton tries to help a reformed teenage joyrider.

PC Ashton's sense of compassion is crucial in solving a cruel assault case.

PC Quinnan and Sgt Ackland pursue a dangerous driver.

DI Deakin and DC Carver investigate a case of male rape.

A speeding Pontiac and three ageing James Deans give PC Stamp and PC McCann a headache.

DS Boulton and DC Carver head for the river, chasing a particularly slippery customer.

DS Boulton and DC Carver continue their investigation into illegal immigration and find the case complicated by an attractive woman.

While football fever grips Sun Hill, DI Deakin hopes to get his man by following a tip-off. With PC Hollis to help him, how can he fail?

WPC Page tries to trace the mother of an abandoned baby, while DS Boulton and WDC Rawton investigate an apparently racially-motivated attack

DC Skase finds himself the object of the affections of a fourteen-year-old girl who leads him to some unusual drug dealers.

PC Ashton, on his first solo outing, is distracted by a decoy while a nearby shop is burgled.

WPC Vicky Hagen arrives at Sun Hill to rumours that she had grassed on a colleague at her previous station.

PC Jarvis and WPC Hagen are put in the area car together, and almost come to blows.

Sgt Boyden gets friendly with PC Ashton's mother.

DS Beech wangles an expensives-paid trip to Brighton with DC Skase, but his night does not go to plan.

DC Skase persuades Brighton C.I.D. to help track down a missing DS Beech.

PC Stamp and WPC Hagen have different ideas about what makes a good area car driver.

DS Daly and DC Carver try to get evidence against a young drug addict suspected of the brutal assault of a police officer.

DC Carver and DC Proctor respond to a tip-off about the theft of some fish.

DS Boulton is less than thrilled to be placed on an interviewing course with PC Hollis, but gets the chance to exact revenge on an ex-colleague.

The charismatic leader of a cult is investigated for his dealings with young girls.

A policeman is accused of indecent exposure.

An obbo is disturbed by the new tenants!

The officers investigate an assault at a multi-storey car park.

DI Deakin and WDC Rawton investigate the mysterious disappearance of a woman who has been campaigning to free her husband from jail.

DC Lines and Sgt Ackland Investigate the death of an old acquainted in the apartment of his mistress.

P.C. Harker uses his CS spray on a suspect, and has to deal with the consequences.

Reg arrests a famous cat burglar.

PC Hollis is due to collect his commendation, but his colleagues know he doesn't deserve one.

WPC Page is shocked by a man who arrives at the station saying that he has shot a man and left him to die.

Sgt Cryer re-opens an unsolved case in response to an attempted suicide.

DS Boulton suspects that PC Hollis is involved in a series of burglaries.

PC Garfield teams up with an attractive young journalist when the wreakage of a World War 2 Spitfire is discovered in Sun Hill.

An Asian woman is found beaten and claims that her husband assaulted her. But when her mother-in-law speaks with her she decides to drop the charge. What has she got to hide? WPC Datta and PC Quinnan investigate.

Two men are brought into the station in the early hours of the morning on suspicion of burglary. While being booked in at the custody desk, the older man produces a gun and holds Boyden, Keane and Harker hostage.

A minicab driver is found beaten and unconscious outside a nightclub. A fight had been broken up between him and another minicab driver the previous night after he was accused of stealing a fare, but was the assault work-related or personal?

A sudden death investigation is re-opened when it is discovered that the man may have died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Is the landlord trying to kill his tenants off in order to make the property more valuable?

DS Beech and DC Carver investigate the theft of a grandfather clock.

WPC Page has fallen for a new boyfriend, but he has no idea she is a police officer.

DS Boulton asks WPC Page to spy on her own boyfriend.

Feeling she has wrecked DS Boulton's operation, how can WPC Page continue her relationship with Danny?

DS Greig's "tenure" comes up, meaning he has to leave Sun Hill.

PC Garfield and PC Quinnan fear for the safety of a boxer who has disappeared, abandoning his own son.

PC Hollis suggests using an old caravan as a mobile police station.

WPC Hagen and PC Harker have to contend with an unreliable witness.

PC McCann and PC Santini fall out over a vicious assault on a black youth.

DS Boulton is kidnapped by an aggrieved ex-con.

DS Daly and DC Skase investigate an assault outside a gay club, but a key witness is reluctant to come forward.

New W.P.C. Rosie Fox joins the team, but finds that life can be just as hazardous in the bosom of you colleagues as out on the mean streets.

Santini tries to make light of what happened, but when Rosie isn't having it he begins to drip-feed the poison, and the whole relief close ranks believing that he is the good guy.

A team-building exercise of paint-balling turns out to be anything but when Santini uses it as another excuse to target Rosie. So she turns to her only colleague wise enough to detect what is really happening, Liz Rawton.

WPC Fox makes an official complaint against PC Santini.

Whilst chasing a suspect in the patrol car, P.C. Stamp reverses and knocks a man down.

Stamp's problems continue as he is overtaken by guilt from the accident, and end up putting his big foot in it with the family. Can he reconcile with himself and them?

It's time for Tony's trial, but can he rely on the colleagues he thinks are friends, or will their loyalties be divided?

Stamp waits to see what disciplinary action will be afoot. Beech meets a lady with interests in affairs internal.

Stamp is allowed back in the area car, but will he more likely drive his colleagues mad?

New arrival WDC Kerry Holmes is partnered with DS Boulton , and fails to prevent a pair of villians making a getaway.

Investigating an attempted abduction and protection racket, D.C. Carver and D.S. Boulton head to Manchester where they encounter a former officer of Sun Hill, Frank Burnside.

As Frank Burnside arrives at Sun Hill in handcuffs, D.C.I. Meadows later discovers that he's been working undercover, and decides that they must work together to get a result.

PC Santini is first on the scene of a serious car accident, and becomes a bit of a local hero when he bravely dives into the river to secure the car. Before the driver dies, he begs Santini to take care of a present for his mistress.

DC Skase calls in Sick so he can moonlight as a bodyguard, but one of his teenage charges does a runner.

When DCI Meadows and Ch Insp Conway are both up for promotion against each other, there are both some comic and life-threatening repercussions.

WDC Holmes investigates a case of domestic violence and inadvertently jeopardises a surveillance operation on a major drugs dealer.

PC Santini mishandles the stabbing of a prostitute.

An outraged Rawton is determined to find out how a video of a child giving evidence ended up in a sex club.

DS Beech is offered £3.000 by an old flame to reveal details of an investigation into her current boyfriend by DS Daly.

Ch Supt Brownlow attempts to solve an old jewellery robbery with the help of a criminal on his deathbed and DCI Meadows, although Ch Insp Conway doesn't prove much assistance.

PC Quinnan and WDC Holmes try to track down a mysterious opera singer connected with a shady criminal.

Insp Monroe heads an investigation into an abduction which leads him into conflict within the Chinese community as well as drugs, vice and violence.

Duncan Lennox is still walking round as if he owns the place, trying to dodge a course to work on a case. But Tom Proctor takes over the investigation into the assault on a nurse, so a disjointed Lennox warns him things could get worse.

DS Boulton and WDC Holmes investigate the latest in a long line of arson attacks.

DS Boulton and WDC Holmes deal with the abduction of a baby from a hospital bed.

DCI Burnside uses a convicted pedophile to help find a missing boy.

The officers at Sun Hill search for a batch of volatile home-made bombs.

WDC Rawton goes undercover as a lonely heart to find a possible serial killer.

DS Beech is approached by gangster Jimmy Smith for a favour, but DCI Burnside is on the case.

DS Daly and WDC Rawton work undercover in a pub while investigating a protection racket.

DS Boulton and PC Quinnan try to track down a young hippy who has crossed some drug dealers, while PC Hollis organises an inter-station pub quiz.

Santini and Page investigates when a young girl is knocked down in a hit-and-run incident. Santini manages to trace the owner of the car, but he denies all knowledge of the incident. Santini isn't convinced and decides to arrest him anyway. With the young girl recovering in hospital, Santini discovers she is a big fan of Arsenal FC, and in particular, Emmanuel Petit. Santini has a contact in the sports promotion industry and boasts that he can make a dream come true for the young girl by getting Petit to visit, but Page isn't sure he can deliver. Meanwhile, Stamp has ...

The relief return to work after the Christmas break, and find themselves with little to do. Meanwhile, Boyden receives a welcome visitor in the form of Mrs. Bourne, who has cooked a batch of her locally famous mince pies.