The Night Watch
The Night Watch
The Night Watch reveals the untold stories of the brave Australian women and men who keep us safe at night. This intense 12-part series shines a light on the dedicated police, firefighters, paramedics, doctors and nurses on the frontline when the sun goes down. It goes behind the scenes of some of Australia’s infamous and devastating incidents. Some are horrifying; others heartbreaking. They make …Social links:
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Heroism Takes its Toll
A veteran NSW Police Officer herself, Beth Docksey speaks for the first time about the loss of her husband, Glenn Stirton, a decorated NSW Police Officer who succumbed to PTSD …
43:46
The Unexpected Role
NSW Ambulance Chaplain Malcolm York attended the West Pennant Hills shootings where John Edwards shot dead his two children, Jack and Jennifer, before taking his own life …
23:45
Midnight Gangsters
Just after midnight NSW Police Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad Detective Sergeant Ryan Jeffcoat was monitoring two gang members who had just used a shotgun and rifle to gun down three rival gangsters outside Bankstown's Chokolatta Cafe ... Jeffcoat and his partner hunted the armed assailants -…
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On The Edge
In 2012, Senior NSW Fire & Rescue Firefighter Peter Cooke attended a massive apartment complex fire in Bankstown where two young women had to jump from the 5th floor to escape, killing one and gravely injuring the other. A couple of years later he would attend a very similar fire in Villawood, wher…
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Snowtown
Former South Australia & NSW detective, now AFP Commander, Jane Dickinson attended the infamous “Bodies in Barrels” murder case in Snowtown as a rookie cop. She recalls the need to wipe Vicks into her nose before opening the barrels with her own hands and dealing with the grisly discovery inside ..…
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Reluctant Icons
NSW Fire & Rescue firefighters Jasper and Ervin from Wyoming fire station became unintentionally iconic to the Australia’s bushfire crisis after footage of them being overrun in their firetruck on the frontline of the fires engulfing the NSW south coast went viral around the world, brining the plig…
23:03
Fire in the Night
NSW Fire & Rescue Station Commander Bradley Giersch recounts leading the team of firefighters first on scene at a now infamous explosion and fire in Sydney’s Rozelle that killed three people and was later revealed to be intentional ...
21:24
Shot in the ER
Popular NSW Police Sergeant Luke Warburton was shot in the line of duty while wrangling with Michael de Guzman, who was holding a doctor hostage in the emergency department of Sydney's Nepean Hospital in 2016 …
31:57
On The Road
NSW Ambulance paramedic Joe Ibrahim tells of what it was like to attend a nightmare crash where a pregnant woman, her two unborn twins, and her 17-year-old teenage relative died in Sydney’s Orchard Hills ...
26:27
Realities on the Front Line
QLD Police Constables Liv Smith and Pete Carroll recall their frontline experiences dealing with suicide and other “horrific jobs” that young officers are faced with …
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