It’s a premiere day two years in the making.

Tonight Reelz will debutOn Patrol: Live, a new police docuseries from the team behindLive PD.

Reelz believed in the show from its earliest iteration and understood that it addressed all these things.

The original concept of the show is what everyone was interested in.

So far you have seven departments signed on forOn Patrol: Live.

What do you look for when choosing a police department for the show?

We always look for regional diversity, that’s the big thing.

We want to give that snapshot of the country.

Those are deeply contrasting environments.

What kind of questions do the police departments have for you?

Oh, it’s a huge commitment for these departments.

We have ultimate editorial control over what appears on the air.

And ultimately what makes air is at the production company’s discretion."

What’s in it for them is the transparency and the accountability.

The community is ultimately, typically sympathetic to what they’re seeing.

That’s why the format of the show is so unique.

No other show has three hours devoted to seeing these calls.

Nothing is reduced to a 30-second interaction.

You get to see what often is some rather mundane stuff…

These law enforcement officers, they have to wear so many different hats.

On Patrol: Livewill have a segment called Citizen Ride-Alongs.

What can you tell us about it?

How will you choose the participants?

It’ll probably be on-air solicitation.

And we’re going to adhere to their standards for safety and security.

Will they be able to discuss everything they saw, even if something didn’t end up on air?

There are no prohibitions as to what they can or cannot talk about.

There are going to be no restrictions on what they can share.

On Patrol: Livewill have its home-base studio in Jersey City.

Can you tell us anything about what the set-up will look like?

It’s gonna be a bit grander, I have to say.

What can you tell us about that?

The [30-day] retention policy is in place.

It’s always going to be on a case-by-case basis… We’re never going to be exploitative.

He’s going to be fantastic.

If there’s ever a chance to get him on again, we’d love to do that.

Tom was the first person to mention Curtis’s name [as a possible replacement].

I think he’s going to bring a dimension to the show that is going to be special.

On Patrol: Livepremieres tonight, July 22, at 9 p.m. on Reelz.