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In May 2020, Wilding announced that he is returning to active service with the Metropolitan Police..

In 2016, he presented a three-part series for ID called British Police Murdered on Duty, telling the stories of the Shepherd's Bush murders, as well as murderers Dale Cregan and David Bieber.

In 2016, he filmed a five-part series for BBC One called Ill Gotten Gains following police and proceeds of crime experts seize criminals assets after conviction and watch them auctioned off to raise money for the public phrase. He co-presented alongside Angellica Bell. He presented Christmas City for BBC One daytime in December 2016.

Wilding presents Crime Scene Rescue on BBC One; the show began on 15 April 2013.

In December 2013, he became a contestant in the third series of the diving reality show Splash!.

On 13 August 2012, Wilding started a new series called Frontline Police. In the series he joins the Essex Police force and goes back to his roots of when he was in the Metropolitan Police. The show currently airs every Monday at 8pm on Channel 5.

Since February 2011, Wilding has been a host of the CBBC show Cop School, educating the youth on how to be a police officer. It was renamed Hero Squad in 2012 and the second series, looking at other emergency services' including the police, aired in October 2012. In March 2011, he presented the BBC fly-on-the-wall documentary series Neighbourhood Blues which focuses on how the police help communities and how they fight crime.

In September 2011, Wilding took part in and went on to win the second series of ITV's 71 Degrees North, where ten celebrity contestants must battle it out to see who will make it to the 71st parallel north, with challenges along the way.

In August 2011, Wilding hosted a Crimewatch special on the riots in England.

On 15 December 2011, Kirsty Young, Wilding's Crimewatch co-host, stated that it would be his last show. Since June 2009, Wilding presents accompanying series, Crimewatch Roadshow, every morning live on BBC1. Series 4 aired in June/July 2012.

He appeared several times on Big Brother spin off show Big Brother's Little Brother in 2010.

In September 2010, Wilding went to the front line of British Military operations in Afghanistan filming a series for BBC called Remembrance Week. Whilst filming he witnessed a bomb blast that killed one of the serving soldiers with the unit he was filming (The second Battalion the Duke of Lancasters Regiment) The Lions of England. The series focused on both past and present conflicts.

In August 2009, Wilding was revealed as one of the contestants in Strictly Come Dancing and was partnered with Aliona Vilani. Wilding was made fourth favourite by bookmakers behind former boxer Joe Calzaghe and actor Ricky Whittle, however he became the third celebrity to be eliminated on the show after failing to be saved in the dance-off, on 3 October 2009.

Wilding is a regular reporter on crime issues for BBC One's The One Show. Since 21 April 2008, Wilding has co-presented a new programme called Missing Live, shown every weekday morning on BBC One. In August 2008, he hosted the twenty-episode fly-on-the-wall series following the lives of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, Helicopter Heroes on BBC One. He has also fronted two series of the daily live show Crimewatch Roadshow for BBC One and will present the third series in June 2011.

In January 2008, he won a celebrity edition of The Weakest Link and Ready Steady Cook. On 29 December 2008, Wilding appeared on Celebrity Mastermind. His specialist subject was The Human Body. He came last with only fifteen points. In 2011 he took a role on CBBC as co-presenter and dunk tester for Dave Benson Phillips in the remake of Get Your Own Back.

Wilding had to go through numerous interviews and auditions as well as formal television presenter training. Having also auditioned for Blue Peter, he was offered a part on BBC Crimewatch, which he has appeared on since 2004. After taking a period of unpaid leave, Wilding resigned from the police force in February 2008 to concentrate on TV work.

Upon leaving the army in 1999, Wilding started working at Harrods in Knightsbridge as part of the security team. After approximately nine months at Harrods, Wilding's application to join the Metropolitan Police Service was accepted and he started training school. Wilding joined the Service on the 22nd May 2000 and was posted to Peckham in South London. While based at Peckham in Southwark, he was involved in the high-profile police investigation surrounding the death of Damilola Taylor. Wilding was part of a specialist unit specifically created in the aftermath of the murder where he worked on the tough North Peckham Estate where Taylor was killed.

Rav Wilding (born 16 October 1977) is a British television presenter, whose former professions include security guard at Harrods, soldier, police officer and from June 2004 to December 2011 was a presenter on Crimewatch. He has presented Crimewatch Roadshow since 2009.