999: What's Your Emergency?

999: What's Your Emergency?
Series 1 titlecard
GenreDocumentary
Narrated by
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series13
No. of episodes71
Production
Executive producers
  • Ed Coulthard (2012–13)
  • Simon Ford (2012–13)
  • Guy Davies (2013)
Producers
  • Daniel Fromm (2012)
  • Mark Jones (2012)
  • Ally Roberts (2013)
Running time60 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production companyBlast!
Original release
NetworkChannel 4
Release10 September 2012 (2012-09-10) 
present

999: What's Your Emergency? is a British television documentary. Broadcast on Channel 4, the show provides insight into modern Britain through the eyes of the emergency services, using a mixture of fly-on-the-wall footage taken at incidents and retrospective interviews with the people and staff featured. The show is narrated by Hugo Speer, with the exception of Series 2 which was narrated by Julian Barratt.

Series 1 followed police officers, paramedics, firefighters, and call handlers in Blackpool, Lancashire. Series 2 followed paramedics throughout the UK. Series 3 followed police officers, paramedics, and call handlers in Cheshire. From Series 4 to Series 11, the show followed police officers, paramedics, call handlers, and occasionally firefighters in Wiltshire and Northamptonshire. Series 12 onwards has followed police officers and call handlers in South Yorkshire and Northamptonshire police.