Nicholas Angel, an extremely dedicated and over-achieving police officer in London's Metropolitan Police Service, is so good that he makes everyone else on the force look bad. As a result his superiors send him to a place where his talents won’t be quite so embarrassing: the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford, where there hasn't been a recorded murder for twenty years. Once there, he is partnered with well-meaning but overeager and naive police constable Danny Butterman, the son of the local police chief Inspector Butterman, and a committed action movie fan who believes that his new big-city partner might just be a real-life "bad boy," and providing him with his chance to experience the life of gunfights and car chases he so longs for. Angel, meanwhile, struggles to adjust to the quiet and uneventful pace of the village, and despite clearing up several otherwise unnoticed crimes and misdemeanors in short order (such as shoplifters, underage drinkers and a farmer storing a huge supply of illegal weapons in his barn), soon finds his most pressing concern being a swan that has escaped from its owner. Faced with the reality of his situation, Angel and Danny eventually bond over drinks at the local pub and action movies.
Soon after Angel's arrival, a series of grisly "accidents" rock the village, seemingly committed by a cloaked and hooded individual. Increasingly convinced that Sandford is not what it seems, Angel begins to clash with the other officers on the force, in particular the two detectives, who believe that he's nothing more than an uptight city cop with an overactive imagination. However, Angel refuses to drop the investigation and initially suspects Simon Skinner, the charming but sinister manager of the local Somerfield supermarket, of murdering the victims due to their involvement in a lucrative property deal, but his confrontation with Skinner only reveals Skinner's apparent innocence and damages Angel's credibility with his colleagues even further. After being ambushed in his hotel room by the cloaked murderer, who is unmasked as the giant trolley boy of the Somerfield supermarket under the instruction of Skinner, Angel is led to a nearby castle where he discovers the truth - Inspector Butterman and the Neighbourhood Watch Alliance (NWA), intent on keeping Sandford's title of 'Village of the Year', have been murdering anyone who potentially damage the village's image. Angel discovers the bodies of various "problem" people whom the NWA have disposed of (several of whom Angel had encountered earlier in the movie), before being cornered and stabbed by Danny, apparently a member of the NWA.
Angel is not harmed, however; having tricked the NWA into believing that Angel is dead, Danny instead drives him to the village limits and releases him, insisting that he knew nothing about their true activities. Danny urges Angel to flee, reasoning that no one would believe the truth about Sandford; Angel decides to stop the NWA once and for all, however, and drives back to the town, stealing the weapons seized from the farmer earlier in the movie and then riding into the village on horseback. Once there, he meets with Danny and the two begin to dispatch the members of the NWA in an increasingly destructive and frantic series of gun fights. Initially confronted by the Sandford Police Force, Angel and Danny quickly persuade their colleagues of the truth and take the battle to the supermarket. Skinner and Inspector Butterman flee, and are pursued by Angel and Danny to a nearby model village, where both are eventually subdued. Although Angel's old supervisors arrive from London begging Angel to return, as their crime statistics have risen drastically whilst he has been gone, Angel elects to remain in Sandford. Back at the police station, the Sandford Police celebrate their triumph and attempt to complete their resulting paperwork, but are ambushed by a remaining member of the NWA, who attempts to shoot Angel; Danny takes the bullet, however, and the resulting chaos triggers a confiscated sea mine (which was thought to be deactivated) stored in the evidence room that destroys the station. The movie cuts to a year later, with Angel laying flowers on a grave marked 'Butterman'; it is revealed that Danny has survived, however, and that the grave is his mother's. Angel has been promoted to Inspector and Danny to Sergeant, and the film ends as they go back to working the beat together in Sandford.
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