The landscape is breathtaking but policing it can be brutal
Season 4: 6 x 60'
Seasons 1-3: 18 x 60'
Highland Cops follows officers working across Britain’s biggest and wildest beat: 12,000 square miles of mountains, lochs, islands, and isolated communities, where backup can be hours away.
With exclusive access to Police Scotland’s N Division, who cover the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, the series follows investigations into murder, missing people, violent crime, and county lines drug networks, alongside wildlife offences, rural theft, and emergencies involving the millions of tourists drawn to the region each year.
From major operations in Inverness to urgent call-outs across the west coast, Orkney and Shetland, officers must combine modern policing with local knowledge and close community relationships. Highland Cops reveals the teamwork, resilience, and humanity required daily to protect people across one of Britain’s most beautiful and demanding landscapes; where extreme weather, vast distances, and unforgiving terrain can turn even a routine call into a major incident.
