Beach Patrol

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Beach Patrol
Format	Reality Television / Police Videos
Starring	Various
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	29
Production
Camera setup	On location
Running time	30 min.
Broadcast
Original channel	Court TV (2006-2007), Tru TV (2008-Present)
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original run	2006 – Present
External links
IMDb profile

Beach Patrol is a half-hour television series airing on Tru TV. The show features lifeguards and police working together to apprehend criminals and save lives.

Each of the program's four seasons have focused on a different city San Diego, Miami, Honolulu and Huntington Beach.

[edit] Format

The basic outline of the show was based on real life moments of lifeguard and other beach patrol work on rescues and arrests. Although there was not much of the footage featured in the show that involved arrests, most of the footage featured rescues and finding missing personnel. The show runs for 30 minutes. A Beach Patrol special called The Best of Beach Patrol ran for 60 minutes. It was only within the San Diego series. The show was originally created and developed in the mid-nineties for the Fox-TV Station Group (FTSP/Foxlab), the same outfit that brought the airwaves COPS and America's Most Wanted. Beach Patrol was the brainchild of an executive at the division who was looking for a companion show for COPS which, ironically, it became, a decade later on another cable network.