Filming for a crime drama in Hertfordshire roads has continued with “mayhem” in one street this week.

ITV Studios has closed streets, with the county council’s permission, for scenes featuring arrests and riot police emergencies in different locations recently.

On January 26, Croxley Green cul-de-sac Bateman Road was shut between 9am to 7pm for filming by “ITV Mandrake Ltd” and new pictures show the same in Bevan Close, Hemel Hempstead.

Watford Observer: ITV Mandrake filming in Bevan Close.ITV Mandrake filming in Bevan Close. (Image: Deenah)

Film crews have had to warn residents that the police response they would see is not real ahead of filming. Riot police, a police van, camera crews, set decorators, trucks, and old cars were seen in Bevan Close on Monday and Tuesday (February 5 and 6).

One nearby resident, whose garage was used as part of the filming, Deenah, told the Watford Observer that at times the area became “mayhem” with “hundreds of people running around” and 24/7 security.

Watford Observer: ITV Mandrake filming in Bevan Close.ITV Mandrake filming in Bevan Close. (Image: Deenah)

She was told that the show would be set in the 90s, meaning the older cars had to be brought in, while she and other residents had to park around the corner.

The project was referred to as "Mandrake" but this will apparently not be the official title of the programme, expected to air near the end of the year or early next year.

Filming also took place in nearby Crabtree Lane.

Watford Observer: ITV Mandrake filming in Bevan Close.ITV Mandrake filming in Bevan Close. (Image: Deenah)Watford Observer: ITV Mandrake filming in Bevan CloseITV Mandrake filming in Bevan Close (Image: Deenah)