Forget the high speed car chases and high octane drugs busts; today’s modern police share a ‘warts and all’ view of life on the streets of south Wales and on the front line. An 8 hour shift in a modern police officer’s life will take many forms. From dealing with name calling on social websites, to escorting the local drunk safely home; it may not be the stuff of TV cop shows but it’s definitely not dull. Boom Cymru shared many shifts with the policemen and women keeping law and order on the streets of Swansea and captured the realities of police work for this fly-on-the-wall series for S4C.