Jumping into the back of a police car with my luminous high-vis jacket on, I feel apprehensive about what the next 10 hours will involve. It's 5pm on a Friday night and I've been invited to tag along with two response officers at Avon and Somerset Police.
As we set off from the station, I share my prediction that we'll be responding to a lot of drunk and disorderly pick-ups, but PC James Stone tells me: "There is no typical Friday night, though it's always busy. A lot of domestic calls, public order and thefts."
And just like that, we're called to a shoplifting incident in Bristol city centre.
