Motorway Patrol
Observational documentary following the daily lives of police officers patrolling the motorways in and around Auckland, New Zealand's largest urban area.

Observational documentary following the daily lives of police officers patrolling the motorways in and around Auckland, New Zealand's largest urban area.
Two commuters brake-check and abuse each other. A whiskey induced wipeout on the bridge. Flying carpets and flipping cars.
Drowsy and drifting on a road trip from Christchurch to Auckland. A reckless rider with no safety gear speeds and evades police. 100 kilometres on a busted scooter for a romantic rendezvous.
Punches are thrown in a rush-hour road rage assault. Cutting off a truck causes carnage. A magician shows his sleight of hand, but can’t make a ticket vanish.
A wrong-way driver on the Auckland Harbour Bridge creates a head-on headache. Stolen vans and counterfeit drivers licences. Wheel woes with flat tyres in the fast lane.
Holiday makers roll their caravan. A drunk driver smashes into three vehicles at an offramp and flees the scene with a broken hand. Car-sharing mates get into a fight and fists fly.
A young driver is lasered and caught on camera hitting 213 kilometres per hour. A stolen car fishtails into a concrete barrier. Motorists phone in about toddlers riding loose inside a car.
A roadside argument turns high-risk when a knife is spotted by CCTV camera operators. A somersaulting truck driver spills the dirt and closes down the motorway in peak traffic.
A driver with a car full of empty booze cans says the crash was not his fault. A disqualified biker fails to stop for police and goes underground in the suburbs.
Freakish behaviour from a driver who may be high on drugs. A canine unit searches for a trio who fled a police stop. A suspended driver tries to lie his way out of trouble.
A feisty truckie goes from zero to one hundred on the rage-scale. A ute driver refutes causing a crash despite camera evidence. Racers are caught burning rubber at an intersection.
An unsecured load of metal pierces the window of another vehicle in a sudden stop. Driving blind with fogged windows. Police follow a dangerous driver speeding and undertaking on the emergency lane.
A dangerous rescue attempt with three u-turns on the motorway. Stolen plates and suspicious tools in the boot of an unlicenced driver.