"picked up on the neighbouring coast of the Norman mainland. One of the best known portrayals of Jersey on the small screen was the BBC's crime drama - ""Bergerac"", featuring John Nettles as Jim Bergerac as a policeman in ""Le Bureau des Étrangers"" (a fictional department, based on the real ""Bureau des Étrangers"", for dealing with non-Jersey residents). This was filmed mainly in Jersey, but storylines increasingly moved further afield to England and France. Jersey has two local radio stations, BBC Radio Jersey and Channel 103 The island's patron saint is Saint Helier. The established church is the Church of"
"The States Police supports the system of elected Honorary Police in each parish that has been in place in the Island since 1204. The States of Jersey Police are the only officers with Island-wide powers and provide a professional response to all serious crime in the Island. Under a memorandum of understanding with the twelve parish forces the latter routinely handle minor matters and traffic control, but Centeniers remain the only officers able to bring charges. The fictional ""Bureau des Étrangers"" department of the States of Jersey Police featured in the British TV series ""Bergerac"". An investigation into allegations of"
"1981 to 26 December 1991, split into 9 series with 8–10 episodes each. In addition, Christmas Special episodes were shown on each Boxing Day from 1986 onwards. In total 87 episodes were shown. Jim Bergerac was a complex character, presented by the series as a somewhat unorthodox police officer. He was recovering from alcoholism, partly resulting from an unpleasant divorce. A Jersey native, he returned to the island at the start of the series after recuperating in England from ill health dipsomania and major surgery on his leg following an accident caused by his drinking heavily prior to an attempted"
"the New Jersey faction, dominated illegal gambling in the state with his Jewish associate Zwillman. In early 1937, Newark family boss Gaspare D’Amico fled the U.S. after a foiled hit ordered by Joseph Profaci. The Commission decided to divide up his territory among the Luciano (""Boiardo crew""), Gagliano (""Jersey crew""), Mangano, Bonanno, Badami, Profaci and Philadelphia (""North Jersey crew"") families. Luciano was arrested in 1937, leaving Frank ""the Prime Minister"" Costello as the acting boss of the family. Moretti, a cousin to Costello, was promoted to underboss. Zwillman continued to align with the Lucianos, while Moretti was replaced by Newark"
"portraying officers in the fictional ""LCPD"" Police Department Academy Precinct. Toward the end of the show's second season, James Darren became a regular cast member as Officer Jim Corrigan. The background of Sergeant Thomas Jefferson ""T.J."" Hooker is that he, up until recently, was a plainclothes LCPD Detective Sergeant whose partner was killed in the line of duty while he and Hooker were trying to stop a bank robbery. An angry Hooker is motivated to rid the streets of criminals like those who murdered his partner, and he gives up his detective position to return to duty as a uniformed"
"members of the DeCavalcante crime family, in this case, Joseph Ganci. But in the early 1980s, as Riggi officially took over all of North Jersey, Polizzi was finally promoted to a respective captain in the Newark, New Jersey faction of the DeCavalcante crime family, and heavily involved in loansharking, extortion, illegal gambling and narcotics operations, which he oversaw from a pizza parlor, owned by his associate, Ganci. But in early 1985, Polizzi was picked up by US law enforcement and put on trial for major involvement in heroin and cocaine operations. A main defendant in the infamous Pizza Connection Trial,"
"the series and revising them into a new format, which was to be based in Jersey, and 1981 saw the first broadcast of ""Bergerac"", a series starring John Nettles as the titular detective, who returns to work after a bad period in his life. In conjunction with the series, BBC Books published two novels written by Paul Ableman, entitled ""Shoestring"" (1979) and ""Shoestring's Finest Hour"" (1980). After many years of being unseen, the series was repeated on terrestrial television in January 2002, with 14 of the 21 episodes airing back-to-back on daytime BBC One. However, due to scheduling, between 6"
"of Series 1 and 6 were edited versions, originally broadcast on UK daytime television. This was amended for ""Bergerac: The Complete Collection"", a box set released in 2009, which includes all episodes in their full length. In 1982, composer George Fenton won a BAFTA 'Best Original Television Music' award for Bergerac theme music. In 2018 Youngr re-recorded the track, entitled ""Bergerac Remastered"", with a video shot in locations around Jersey. Bergerac (TV series) Bergerac is a British television series set in Jersey, which ran from 18 October 1981 to 26 December 1991. Produced by the BBC in association with the"
"by New Jersey law enforcement in the beginning of 2006. Guarraci's official job is as a foreman in Laborers' Local 394. In early 2007, it was confirmed that after the convictions of consigliere Stefano ""Steve the Truck Driver"" Vitabile and Girolamo ""Jimmy"" Palermo from 2003 to 2006, Guarraci was promoted to ""acting boss"" along with underboss, Joseph ""Joe"" Miranda, to run the day-to-day activities of the DeCavalcante crime family. As of May, 2009, Francesco Guarraci at age 54 was still in charge of the family, along with Miranda, on the orders of the imprisoned boss Giovanni ""John the Eagle"" Riggi."
"of London"", ""Robin of Sherwood"" and an episode of ""Enemy at the Door"" called ""Officers of the Law"", first broadcast in March 1978. The latter was set in Guernsey during the Second World War German occupation and Nettles played a police detective ordered to work for the Germans and anguished over the conflict between his duty and collaborating with the enemy. He played fraudster Giles Sutton in ITV's ""Heartbeat"". In 1981, Nettles won the role that made him a household name in the UK, that of Jim Bergerac in the Jersey-set crime drama ""Bergerac"". This ran for 87 episodes until"
"theme tune, composed by George Fenton, featured a reggae and accordion refrain. The final episode filmed was the 1991 Christmas Special titled ""All for Love"", set partly in Bath. The final scene provided a strong hint about Bergerac's future, after Charlie Hungerford recommended Bergerac for a new position heading an expanded Bureau des Étrangers covering the whole of the Channel Islands following its success in Jersey. The show is repeated on channels such as Alibi and Drama. On 24 February 2014 the BBC started a rerun of the series on daytime afternoons on BBC Two. ""Bergerac"" ran from 18 October"
"department and New Jersey’s law enforcement community. During his term, the Division brought numerous significant cases, including the conviction of the ""suitcase killer"" (Melanie McGuire), who was sentenced to life imprisonment following her conviction for killing her husband and placing his remains into three suitcases that were thrown into the Chesapeake Bay, and the conviction of a former New Jersey state trooper and a former NHL player in a multimillion-dollar gambling ring. The Division also brought significant corruption cases, including against former state assemblyman and Orange, New Jersey mayor Mims Hackett, and the trial and conviction of the former chief"
"be seen to be, thorough and pursued with the utmost rigour and professionalism"" and that ""there is no hiding place in Jersey for anyone who abused children or, who in any way may have colluded with that abuse and no stone will be left unturned to bring them to justice."" It was suggested that some finds may actually be props from the TV series ""Bergerac"". The Attorney General, who has the responsibility for prosecutions, stated that ""justice should be done"" in spite of delays in the investigation. United Kingdom MP John Hemming said that he thought that there was no"
"is depicted in the detective programme Bergerac. Local radio in Jersey is broadcast on FM by BBC Radio Jersey, and Channel 103. Bailiwick Radio broadcasts two music services, Classics and Hits, 24 hours a day online. It is also available through Apple and Android apps and on TuneIn. Radio Youth FM, an internet radio station run by young people aged 12 – 24 is also active in the island and broadcasts up to 10 shows each week. Jersey used to be served by the Normandy-based radio station Contact 94. The ""Jersey Evening Post"", is the main printed source of local"
"Young's flat was located just above St Aubin, a few doors along from the Somerville Hotel; part of the interior was shot within another flat at Gorey six miles away. Jim's original home in the first few series was submerged when the States of Jersey flooded the valley to create the Queen's Valley reservoir in 1991. Plans for this reservoir were referred to at the start of series four, when Bergerac was forced to seek new accommodation because of them, in the process meeting an estate agent who became his lover. One of the main locations of the series achieved"
"Bergen and Passaic in North Jersey. They controlled large illegal gambling, loansharking and bookmaking rackets. The father-and-son duo used violence and fear to collect on these rackets, ensuring rivals would not take advantage of their activities. In 1989, Gatto Sr. was indicted on two murder counts and received 65 years, while Gatto Jr. was indicted on racketeering charges and received 30 months. Gatto Jr. was released in 1993 and assumed control of his father's crew. He expanded the crew's gambling operations by introducing the use of pagers and cell phones. By 1999, he was convicted on illegal gambling charges and"
"fame. These include Julian Glover, Connie Booth, Ray Winstone, Prunella Scales, Louise Lombard, Ronald Pickup, Norman Wisdom, Charles Gray, John Forgeham, Bernard Hepton and Steve McFadden. The series played heavily on its Jersey location and its supposed Frenchness. The early storylines were usually in and around Jersey, with short scenes shot in England and France. In later episodes the action strayed further away from Jersey, and was increasingly based in France. As Jersey is a small island (nine miles long by five miles wide), most of the filming locations there can be tracked down with ease. Jim Bergerac and Susan"
"Newark, New Jersey during the 1980s, and was almost charged with Riggi in extorting the unions into ripping of their welfare and pension funds in the early 1990s. After reputed captain John ""Johnny Boy"" D'Amato stepped up as acting boss for Riggi in 1991, Amari developed a great partnership with reputed consigliere Stefano ""Steve the Truck Driver"" Vitabile, who was also one of the most powerful figures in the DeCavalcante crime family at the time. After longtime official underboss Louis LaRasso disappeared in the summer of 1991, Amari was reportedly promoted to LaRasso's position and fully in charge of all"
"him in a program designed to divert offenders from a conviction. This was as a result of a road rage incident in November 2012. In July 2014, a federal investigation determined that the department ""engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional practices, chiefly in its use of force, stop-and-frisk tactics, unwarranted stops and arrests and discriminatory police actions."" Newark Police Department (New Jersey) Established in April 1857, the Newark Police Department (NPD) is the primary law enforcement agency serving Newark, New Jersey, and the largest municipal law enforcement agency in New Jersey.As of January 2017 the force had 1035 officers in"
"States of Jersey Police The States of Jersey Police () is the official police service of Jersey. It was established in its current form by the ""Police Force (Jersey) Law, 1974"" and consists of around 240 officers. This was some 130 years after the need for a full-time force was identified. A body of paid and uniformed town police was set up in Saint Helier in 1854, which became the nucleus of the Paid Police established to operate Island-wide in 1951 by the ""Paid Police Force (Jersey) Law"". The Paid Police was renamed the States of Jersey Police in 1960."
"appeared in ""Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen"" #149, (May 1972). He later became a regular supporting character in ""Black Lightning"" beginning with vol. 1 #4. A Crime Scene Unit officer in the Gotham City Police Department, Jim Corrigan is, like so many of that city's police force, corrupt. He routinely abuses his position by selling crime scene memorabilia, such as bullets as well as more extravagant items lost by the city's colourful villains. Although the Internal Affairs division was aware of his activities, they could not interfere due to an explosive encounter between Corrigan and Renee Montoya, of the Major Crimes"
"Essex and Passaic counties in New Jersey. By now, Corsaro was the second ranked member of the New Jersey Gambino faction, just below mobster Robert Bisaccia. On April 21, 1989, Corsaro and other New Jersey mobsters were indicted on conspiracy and racketeering charges. The most serious charge was planning to burglarize and burn down the Fairfield, New Jersey office of the Attorney General, which was the base for the Northern New Jersey Organized Crime Task Force. Other charges included hijacking a truck containing $750,000 worth of cigarettes, conspiring to take over a Bloomfield, New Jersey waste-container concern, and making illegal"
"Newark Police Department (New Jersey) Established in April 1857, the Newark Police Department (NPD) is the primary law enforcement agency serving Newark, New Jersey, and the largest municipal law enforcement agency in New Jersey.As of January 2017 the force had 1035 officers in its ranks. In December 2017, the increased to 1,146. In July 2014, the newly elected mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, appointed Eugene Venable as police director and Anthony Campos as police chief. Later that month, Baraka and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Paul Fishman announced that the city had entered into an agreement with"
"Atlantic City real estate and would be described by the New Jersey SCI as a Scarfo mob 'financier'. Both the New Jersey State Police and the FBI set up surveillance of his Seatex office on Atlantic Avenue in Ventnor City, New Jersey, a chemical blending and packaging company that operated around the block, from Scarf Inc. Frank Lentino, a former Teamster who had become a labor organizer for Bartenders Local 54 and Leonetti's conduit for Matthews, introduced him to James Biaco. Lentino and Biaco worked with Matthews to arrange the sale of a city-owned land zoned for casino development. Matthews"
"to control the Jersey Crew, as he was doing his sentence in Atlanta. Anthony Accetturo Anthony ""Tumac"" Accetturo (born 1938) is a former caporegime and leader of the New Jersey faction of the Lucchese crime family, The Jersey Crew. Accetturo was born in 1938 in Orange, New Jersey. His father was a butcher, his mother a seamstress. Accetturo dropped out of school after completing the sixth grade. At age 16, Accetturo moved to Newark and became the leader of a large street gang. He gained a reputation as a ferocious street fighter, which led several of his fellow gang members"
"another of his popular detective series, ""Shoestring,"" starring Trevor Eve, came to an abrupt end. Like ""Shoestring"", the series begins with a man returning to work after a particularly bad period in his life: Eddie Shoestring from a nervous breakdown; Jim Bergerac from alcoholism and a broken leg. ""Bergerac"" sometimes dealt with controversial topics – for example when an old man was unmasked as a Nazi war criminal his age raised various moral dilemmas. Supernatural elements occasionally appeared in the series, and some episodes ended with unpleasant twists, as in ""Offshore Trades"" and ""A Hole In The Bucket"". The evocative"
"that islanders were collaborators. He defended the documentary saying ""There is no possible way you could have avoided collaboration with the occupying power who had power over the civilian population. If you had not toed the line you would have been shot."" This view was supported by local historians and members of the Channel Islands Occupation Society. During the filming of ""Bergerac"", filmed on the island of Jersey, he wrote ""Bergerac's Jersey"" (BBC Books, 1988; ), a travel guide to filming locations in the series. He followed up with ""John Nettles' Jersey: A Personal View of the People and Places"""
"45,000 emergency calls annually. In 2006, the NFD responded to 2,681 fire and hazardous condition calls. The department is a member of the Metro USAR Strike Team, which is composed of nine North Jersey fire departments. The Newark Police Department is a city-operated law enforcement agency. As of January 2014, the force had 1,006 officers in its ranks. The Essex County Sheriff's Office, New Jersey Transit Police Department (headquartered in Penn Plaza East) and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department are also within their jurisdiction in the city, as are the New Jersey State Police."
"bureau before retiring in 2007 and would provide inspiration for fictional Detective Bunk Moreland of the HBO Drama ""The Wire"". A character named ""Oscar Requer"" appeared in the ""Transitions"" episode on the fifth season of ""The Wire"". The fictional Oscar Requer was a patrolman working a night shift and a former partner of detective Lester Freamon, and was played by Roscoe Orman. Oscar Requer Oscar ""Rick"" Requer is a former detective of the Baltimore Police Department. Requer joined the department in 1964 as a Western District patrolman who would eventually move into the department’s Homicide Unit. He was featured working"
"to organized crime. Just days after the story broke in the national press, however, New Jersey State Police witnesses testified that Presser was the primary contact for the DeCavalcante crime family of New Jersey and the Patriarca crime family of Boston whenever crime figures needed loans from Teamster pension funds. The courtroom testimony intensified the pressure on the Reagan transition team. Democrats and leaders of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), a Teamster reform group, demanded that Reagan remove Presser from the transition team. But Reagan aides said that the transition team had completed its task and the issue"
"New Jersey faction he had been reportedly stripped of his rank and demoted him to soldier. The Taccetta brothers also had problems with their longtime rival Thomas Ricciardi who was trying to take over the faction. In 1992 the entire crew's administration Anthony Accetturo, Michael and Martin Taccetta, Thomas Ricciardi and Michael Perna were indicted on racketeering, loansharking, extortion, illegal gambling, drug trafficking, murder and conspiracy to commit murder. In 1993, when the trial began both Accetturo and Ricciardi decided to defect to the government and turn state's evidence testifying against Michael and Martin Taccetta, and Michael Perna. On August"
"Line systems. The New Jersey Transit Police Department has its headquarters located at One Penn Plaza East in Newark. However, the department has seven different districts to provide coverage to New Jersey Transit's extensive system of railways and bus terminals. District 1: District 2: District 3: District 4: District 5: District 6: District 7: Each of the regional commands provide different police services for their geographical area they cover, the different divisions within the department can be categorized as the following, The NJTPD has the following rank structure, in descending order: One of the primary missions of the New Jersey"
"Reddick as Colonel Cedric Daniels; and Sonja Sohn as Detective Kima Greggs. In the political storyline, Aidan Gillen returned as ambitious Mayor Tommy Carcetti; as well as Reg E. Cathey as political aide Norman Wilson; and Domenick Lombardozzi as troubled defense investigator Thomas ""Herc"" Hauk. In the street, Jamie Hector returned as West-side drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield. Also returning for the street storyline were Andre Royo as heroin addict Bubbles; and Michael K. Williams as underworld legend Omar Little. Former recurring characters who joined the main cast were Tristan Wilds as Michael Lee, Gbenga Akinnagbe as Chris Partlow, Jermaine Crawford"