THE search for missing people in County Durham is to be the focus of a new television programme.

Multiple cameras follow the searches, from the police tasked with finding them to loved ones left at home.

In Darlington, officers are sent out to track down12 year-old Joshua, who stormed off after a row with his mum and seemingly disappeared.

The programme, broadcast next Wednesday, shows Inspector Sarah Honeyman and her team trying to find young boy.

She said: “The biggest fear is that somebody snatches that child. As a police officer you are very well aware that there are more people out there that would do that than maybe the general public think.”

In the first of three episodes, the alarm is raised in rural County Durham when 13 year-old Katie disappears from home leaving behind a troubling suicide note.

All available officers are immediately scrambled to the search and a search dog and handler from the local Mountain Rescue team is drafted in.

PC Matt Gunby said: “A missing person in a negative frame of mind is a completely different matter to deal with. Then when you find a suicide note everything else goes out the window. The parade room at the station will empty and every available officer will go and look for that child.”

Reported Misssing starts at 9pm on Wednesday, April 12.