I really loved this and can't wait for another season, people have likened it to the Bill. It is much better and more modern but I do hope we get as many episodes and it lasts many years to come.I enjoyed the characters as they developed, their relationships with each other and their family and personal lives.It was hard hitting and had it's lighter moments making you fall in love with many of the characters....You also dislike a few too but that makes for a good all round show.I also like that the show has gay characters helping reflect the diversity of the area as many shows don't or later just throw in the one trying to make it believable...It already is believable.

Like most Police services in the West today the UK Police has had more than its share of controversy. The result is a not unreasonable loss of faith and support, on the part of the public. Cuffs comes across as a clumsy attempt to restore the public's jaded opinion of its policing services. So far, this series looks a lot like a cheesy exercise in preachy political correctness, mixed with a blatantly insincere pitch at transparency. The stories are hackneyed too, with the predictable line up of stereotypical villains politicians like to lambaste, mostly to help conceal their own incompetence, greed and criminality. The standard of acting like most UK series is good but really, this fails to make up for this series conspicuous flaws. Three out of ten from me.

First 5 minutes I thought "I'm not watching this" and the next 5 minutes caught me. Absolutely. Clever-smart.This is a wonderful cross-over of (perhaps only) British black humor and the serious world of police work and its diversity, violence and opposition to violence, social and mental problems, politics of policing, and the personal. You need societal knowledge and empathy to understand all the links.The USA police, maybe the whole nation, should watch this series because the underlying message is so positive. and so negative to US policing methods today.Please. Laugh and cry, enjoy.This is extreme, but I think the best since Monty Python.As an aside, of course, I think we have a peak of British TV scripting, directing, cinematography, acting going on, and this comes out near the top.

I was looking forward to this series; yet only the BBC would focus more time and energy on diversity than a good drama.I am still not sure if this is a comedy or a drama? The characters are fluffy stereotypes with no depth as if plucked from the TRUEMAN show. There is an old adage that says "it's the imperfections that makes something perfect". Here so much effort had been made in preening the actors, hair and make up perfect that you just can't imagine them completing a 14 hour shift or relating to actual people on the streets.To many rushed plots forced into a short space of time. (Less can be more, devil is in the detail) Conversation between characters are one liners, wooden and forced. The new probationer is too cocky, weak and annoying. If only there was more edgy banter, something that relates to real life and not from a teenage novel. However the settings in Brighton are awesome and great to see.