Colombia has been at war with itself for a generation, and violence has been the country's single biggest killer. Plagued by guerrilla conflict, kidnapping and drug cartels worth billions of pounds, on an average day in Colombia someone is murdered every 30 minutes and four people are kidnapped. With a population of 45 million, Colombia is one of the largest countries in Latin America. Bang in the middle sits the infamous capital, Bogota, home to seven million people.
Vinnie Jones introduces this series which follows police at work in some of the world's most dangerous locations. In El Salvador, arms left over from 12 years of a civil war that claimed the lives of 75,000 people are now in the hands of gangs who are waging new battles on the streets.
Vinnie Jones introduces this series which follows police at work in some of the world's most dangerous locations. For 43 years, South Africa was a nation divided by the rules of apartheid, but when freedom finally came in 1991, the suffering continued with more than 300 murders and violent attacks taking place every day.
Although Kosovo is one of the smallest regions in the Balkans, Kosovo has been turned into a virtual war-zone by criminal gangs who have flooded the country with drugs and guns, while one of the world's newest police forces is battling to control the chaos. Cameras follow the Department for Organised Crime as they bust a major heroin deal, and the Regional Support Operations Unit as they police a political demonstration in a region where ethnic tension runs high.
Papual New Guinea's capital Port Moresby is overrun by deadly gangs who terrorise the city with violent crime. Cameras follow cops as they bring in the country's most wanted man and his gang, and travel into the lawless bush lands - highlighting how policing a country of 800 different tribes is one of the toughest jobs in the world.
Murder, political unrest, armed robbery, drugs and terrorism - just part of everyday life in the Philippines. At the heart of the country lies Manila, a teeming metropolis of crime. Cameras follow the front line officers who police the dangerous slums of the city, and SWAT cops tell how they hunted down and killed the country's most wanted terrorist. Also, Manila's homicide unit hunts the killers of two of their team.
