Crimewatch Live

Looking back at four decades of Crimewatch

Michelle Ackerley and Rav Wilding fold their arms in front of a police car with its emergency lights on

Crimewatch has been helping the police catch criminals for 40 years, and production staff and presenters past and present gathered at an RTS Cymru Wales event to celebrate the enduring success of this unusual partnership.

Since it began in 1984, with the idea of getting the public involved in solving crimes by staging reconstructions to jog the memories of witnesses, Crimewatch has made more than 700 programmes and 7,000 appeals on behalf of police forces around the UK.