Following its successful first series last year, Beat: Life On The Street, made by Twofour and Grand Central Entertainment has been re-commissioned for a second run on ITV1 in 2008.

The new 6 x 30' fly-on-the-wall documentary series will once again follow Neighbourhood Policing Teams in Oxford and Lancashire, introducing new characters and stories as well as returning to key figures and events from the first series.

This second series of Beat: Life on the Street will look at the entire Neighbourhood Policing Team from Inspectors and Sergeants to Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) as they patrol the streets to reassure local people, build relationships with the community and deal with the low-level crime and anti-social behaviour that can blight a community.

"Beat: Life On The Street aims to find out what makes a community police officer tick. It will bring home the daily reality of officers’ dealings at street level with people. How they react to their concerns and tackle problems that impact on lives, such as low-level crime, graffiti, vandalism, yobbishness and car crime,” says executive producer Joe Houlihan.

Commissioning Editor for features Diana Howie says: “I’m very excited about being able to build on the success of series one of `Beat: Life On The Street.’ We’ll be catching up with some of the familiar characters from series one as well as meeting some very colourful new ones, as we continue to tell the stories behind the way our streets and communities are policed in 21st century Britain.”

Nicky Buss, Customer Relations Director at ITV, said: “This is a fantastic example of a successful branded content series in peak-time on ITV1. We were delighted that it recently won the Media Week Grand Prix and that a second series has been commissioned – a great result for the client and for us. ITV’s Customer Relations team has been working closely with the COI to develop a number of additional opportunities for this next series with online web chats and interactive content”.

Beat: Life On The Street Series 2 is executive produced for Twofour by Joe Houlihan and the series producer is Jules Seymour. The series was commissioned for ITV by Diana Howie, Commissioning Editor for features and is supported by the Home Office.