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It's not always the police cars or ambulances that get to incidents first; it's the men - and women - on motorbikes.
Meet the frontline heroes of Britain's emergency services as we follow West Midland's Ambulance Service biker paramedics and Essex police biker cops, and enter the world of those who daily risk their lives to save ours.
For the first time cameras reveal the world of the Emergency Biker, telling the stories of those who daily risk their lives on two wheels to save ours.
The emergency bikers risk their own lives as they race to save and protect others. In Birmingham the biker paramedics are on the frontline as they deal with the aftermath of football violence. Mark Hayes has to take drastic action to free a girl from her car and Barry Rudge is called to a body on the towpath.
An unidentified leak seals off Birmingham city centre and biker paramedic Steve Harris finds himself under attack when he goes to the rescue of a teenager in a fight. PC Lucy Watson is gunning to be the first woman on Essex police biker cop squad but she's got to get through blues and twos training and her final assessment.
Biker paramedic Mark Hayes is called to a shooting while PC Roy Keyes is fishing a bike out of a pond after a rider lost control. Chest pains turn into something more serious for a Birmingham head master and two girls are hit on a pedestrian crossing yards from their home.
Trained to deal with anything, the biker paramedics find themselves dealing with a suspected stroke when a fishmonger collapses at market, a man's hit crossing the road, a pensioner's taken a tumble on a station escalator and it could be a case of hypothermia for a rough sleeper
There's a report of a stabbing for Birmingham's biker paramedics. In Essex, a driver tries to sweet talk his way out of trouble. And Merseyside Fire and Rescue unveil the UK's very first fire-fighting bike.
