Police Custody USA (Real PD: Kansas City)

Police Custody USA - Channel 4, UK Version - TX Weekly from 28th March 2022

Real PD: Kansas City - Discovery + / ID, US Version - TX Weekly from 9th November 2021 & 27th December 2022

Episodes – 7 x 42 mins

Executive Producer – Liz Collier & Emma Tutty

Series Producer – Nick Betts

Production Executives – Georgie Emary & Sophie Campbell

Line Producer – Gemma Thomas

Kansas City, Kansas: a small city with a big violent crime problem, where the murder rate has nearly doubled in the last five years. 

From a shocking homicide in a local deli, to a dramatic effort to take-down a local narcotics kingpin, a string of violent armed robberies and a fatal shooting in a trailer park, Real PD: Kansas City is a far cry from the Kansas of Dorothy and Toto. 

Filmed over a year with Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, each episode goes deep into one investigation, from the moment the 911 call is made. 

Based on the award winning series 24 Hours in Police Custody and filmed using filming techniques that mix fixed rig cameras alongside single cameras, bodycam and go-pros, shooting round the clock 24/7 - the series explores its cases from all angles - from behind-the-scenes, on-the-shoulder access with the police, to the frank accounts of the suspects and the heart-breaking stories of the victims’ families.

Real PD: Kansas City follows full-scale manhunts, captures dramatic arrests and tracks guns from crime to crime, to offer a fresh, revelatory perspective on what lies behind headline-making crimes in heartland America.