A new scheme is training graduates to become detectives in just "a matter of months".

The Home Office hopes the Police Now initiative will tackle a 5,000-strong national shortfall.

The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has been given exclusive access to meet two of its first ever recruits.

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