Highway Patrol is an Australian factual television series screened on the Seven Network that premiered on 21 September 2009. The show entered its fifth season in 2013.
Highway Patrol follows members of the Victoria Police Highway Patrol as they intercept traffic and other criminal offenders on major highways in Victoria, Australia. The show depicts the police involved in high-speed police chases, attending major road accidents, confronting out-of-control drunk drivers as well as issuing lesser penalty notices to drivers. Each episode follows the progress of a select few incidents involving various Highway Patrol officers, from the first encounter by the officers through to the officers leaving the scene, with the exception that occasionally the officers will escort a driver back to a police station for the purpose of a breath or blood sample. Fines, court convictions and demerit points issued in relation to each incident are shown in a voiced-over addendum at the end.
Highway Patrol is produced by Greenstone TV, makers of New Zealand’s Motorway Patrol with the co-operation of Victoria Police.
Episode 11 : Smash And Dash
November. 18,2013
A man ends up leaving the scene of a crash and after police officers manage to find him, it becomes obvious why he wanted to get away. The police manage to spot a car with stolen plates on it.
Episode 10 : Car Crash Carnage
November. 11,2013
Officers attend to a car crash with a heavily pregnant victim. Then, Police catch two speedsters simultaneously and the cars they're driving have to be seen to be believed.
Episode 9 : Drunk And Angry
November. 04,2013
Officers are on the end of a drunken man's anger and police are left to deal with a tempestuous two-year-old who is refusing to obey the law.
Episode 8 : Dicing With Death
July. 15,2013
Senior Constable Dean Pickering has seen a lot of young men die on the roads so he's enraged when he spots three carloads of teenagers racing each other and even worse, half climbing out of their vehicles at speed. Our best police officers rely on their gut instincts and Leading Senior Constable Mustafa Emin does just that when he spies a suspicious looking vehicle.
Episode 7 : Unrestrained Rage
July. 08,2013
A traffic stop goes horribly wrong after a furious driver tries to attack the police.
Episode 6 : Australia's Angriest Man
June. 16,2013
A traffic cop is given a hard time but after Senior Constable Russell Warner stops a driver, he gets a reaction like none other he's seen before. Senior Constable Jerome Murnane stops a car with a couple of stoned occupants inside.
Episode 5 : Blackout in Bendigo
June. 02,2013
When a sergeant stops a car, his partner notices a weapon in the car. Two senior constables attempt to deal with a speeding car with bald tyres and a toddler sitting in the passenger footwell.
Episode 4 : Street Revolt
May. 26,2013
Alcohol and testosterone can be an explosive combination and sure enough, things get well out of hand when a group of men gather to mourn their dead mate. Two young men flaunt their illegally modified muscle car.
Episode 3 : Knife Attack
May. 12,2013
A member of the public is attacked by a man with a knife, while returning home from work. The offender leads officers on a frantic foot chase through the streets of Maribyrnong.
Episode 2 : Spiked Pursuit
May. 08,2013
The police are desperately trying to apprehend a female drink driver who has crashed a booze bus site. The speeding motorist just won't stop and with pursuing police unable to stop her, they decide to throw down stop sticks which should puncture all the offenders' car tyres. But it's a difficult and dangerous task on a dark, wet busy motorway.
Episode 1 : Inches from Death
May. 01,2013
Senior Constable Dean Pickering attempts to help at the scene of a serious crash where two kids have stolen a car and later wrapped the car around a tree. A driver is stopped in Epping for driving an unregistered car.
