In The Media
Wiltshire Police officers are often featured on the Bravo police-reality programmes 'Brit Cops: Zero Tolerance' and 'Brit Cops: Frontline Crime', the show usually follows officers in Salisbury or Swindon. The show is often repeated on Virgin 1. Wiltshire Police officers based at Salisbury station are featured in Nights Cops, a shadowing documentary following officers who work nights shifts in city centres. The Motorcycle Policing unit was featured on Channel 5's Emergency Bikers in Series 2 where they escorted a Hercules from Wootton Bassett towards Somerset.
Wiltshire Police is also often featured in the counties newspapers, the Gazette and Herald, Wiltshire Times, The Swindon Advertiser, The Swindon Star and The Star. And less frequently on the local news programmes: BBC's Points West and ITV's The West Country Tonight.
Wiltshire Police headquarters was used as a police building for an opening shot in the 1992 version of Agatha Christies The ABC Murders. For which all cars and signs were removed.
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