Plot Synopsis

CHOPPER COPS is a half-hour docuseries that follows Marion County Sheriff's Department's state-of-the-art helicopters manned by elite police pilots. Known as Air One, these chopper cops, who operate 24 hours a day and seven days a week, are equipped with high-tech infrared cameras and augmented-reality mapping capabilities that allow police on the ground to see in the dark and locate the bad guys. As Sheriff Billy Woods' "eye in the sky," they detect where perpetrators are running and hiding and whether they're armed; they essentially guide the SWAT team with vital, instantaneous information that could separate life from death. They're just north of Disney World, but the 1,600 square-mile area they patrol is no fantasy. Marion County's highways, forests and suburban neighborhoods are crime scenes to more than 7,000 felonies a year. But with a jurisdiction larger than the state of Rhode Island, ground units find it impossible to have eyes everywhere. All 10 episodes of CHOPPER COPS dropped on Tuesday, June 18, 2024 on Paramount+.