Cuffs is a crime drama series depicting the lives of front-line police officers within Brighton and the surrounding area of Sussex serving within the fictional South Sussex Police service.
[4] The series focuses on the personal lives of the characters, against a backdrop of typical incidents faced by modern front-line police officers and more comedic ones such as hooligans harassing naturists on a nudist beach and reports of 'dog-napping' in a middle-class neighbourhood.
[5] The eight-part series was the first police-based drama to be broadcast by the channel since the Holby City spin-off HolbyBlue was aired in 2007, and it shared the same eight o'clock slot.
[6] Internationally, the series premiered in New Zealand on TV One in January 2016.
ABC in Australia later began airing the show in February 2016.