Premiering June 18, CHOPPER COPS Will Be Offered by Paramount+

If you've been looking for exciting aviation oriented programming,. a new reality series just MAY do the trick.

Paramount+ has announced the June 18 launch of CHOPPER COPS, a new docuseries that takes viewers into the cockpit of an elite Florida police team of helicopter pilots.

They’re just north of Disney World, but to the men and women of the Marion County Sheriff’s Department, the 1,600 square-mile area they patrol is no theme park. Marion County deals with crime scenes amounting 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.

Enter the need for airborne capabilities... 

With 10 half-hour episodes, CHOPPER COPS showcases Marion County Sheriff’s Department with 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 infrared cameras and augmented-reality mapping capabilities that allow police on the ground to see in the dark and locate suspects. 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.

Air One’s stories are brought to life through in-chopper cameras, radio transmissions and first-person interviews with law enforcement. The series also includes footage of the elite team’s response to an officer being shot and the efforts to arrest the suspected shooter. 

“If you want to know fear, and if you want to know whether these brave cops are going to come home at night, you’re about to see it in CHOPPER COPS says Sheriff Woods. “To us, failure is never an option.”

CHOPPER COPS is produced by See It Now Studios, Texas Crew Productions and V1 Productions. 

FMI: www.paramountplus.com