"Confessions of a Killer (The Bill) ""Confessions of a Killer (288)"" is an episode of the long-running police procedural television series, The Bill, broadcast in 2005. The episode is significant in the show's history, as it features the events of the second ""Sun Hill Fire"", which resulted in the death of three officers. The episode attracted over nine million viewers, and was only the second time computer generated imagery had been used on the show. The imagery was used because producing a real explosion and fireball ripping through the station corridors was not possible. The events leading up to the"
"Police Interceptors Police Interceptors is a British TV documentary series that profiles the work of: a police ANPR Intercept Team (now known as the Territorial Support Team) in Essex (series 1, 2 and 3); South Yorkshire Police's Road Crime Unit and Derbyshire Police's Road Policing Unit (series 4); The Cumbria Constabulary's Roads Policing Unit (series 5); Lincolnshire's specialist police Road Policing Unit (series 6, 7 and 8); The Durham Constabulary and Cleveland Police's Special Operations Unit (series 9 to 11); and Cheshire Constabulary (series 12). The Durham Constabulary and Cleveland Police's Special Operations Unit returned as the hosts in September"
"force. A few police agencies using divisions include: Police division A division was the usual term for the largest territorial subdivision of most British police forces. In major reforms of police organisation in the 1990s divisions of many forces were restructured and retitled Basic Command Units (BCUs), although some forces continue to refer to them as divisions. The term was and used in many other countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth. The term has existed since the creation of police forces in the early 19th century. Most police forces were divided into divisions, usually commanded by a Superintendent. These"
"police station. The first series starts some time after the General Election in October 1964. Its fifth series starts in April 1968, just after the Oxford force's absorption into the new Thames Valley Constabulary. The series are a prequel to the ""Inspector Morse "" drama series, in which a much older Endeavour Morse, by then a Detective Chief Inspector, investigates murders in and around Oxford with Thames Valley Police. Oxford City Police Oxford City Police was the police force of the City of Oxford, England. It policed the city from 1 January 1869 until 31 March 1968. It was established"
"for 18 episodes as they followed South Yorkshire’s Road Crime Unit. Series 5, consisting of 10 episodes, began on 28 January 2013, and followed the Cumbria Constabulary. Series 6, 7 and 8 all consists of 10 episodes and followed the work of Lincolnshire Police's Road policing, and special operations units. Series 9. 10 and 11 are based around the work of the collaborative Durham Constabulary and Cleveland Police's Specialist Operations Units. Series 12 follows the work of the Cheshire Police Roads Policing Unit. Series 13, airing between 11 September and 28 November 2017, saw a return to Durham Constabulary and"
"are the officers who work under him, including a detective played by Peter Cleall who thinks he is from Starsky & Hutch and drives around in a Ford Anglia in the same red and white colour scheme as their Ford Torino. Patricia Hayes appeared in the second two series as a traffic warden. Spooner's Patch Spooners Patch is a British television sitcom, written by Ray Galton, best known for the sitcom ""Steptoe and Son"" and Johnny Speight best known for ""Till Death Us Do Part"". It ran for 3 series and 19 episodes and was made and broadcast from 1979"
"Police division A division was the usual term for the largest territorial subdivision of most British police forces. In major reforms of police organisation in the 1990s divisions of many forces were restructured and retitled Basic Command Units (BCUs), although some forces continue to refer to them as divisions. The term was and used in many other countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth. The term has existed since the creation of police forces in the early 19th century. Most police forces were divided into divisions, usually commanded by a Superintendent. These could cover a wide rural area, a substantial"
"BBC. The Met: Policing London The Met: Policing London is a British documentary television series about the Metropolitan Police Service. it is being broadcast on BBC One. The series shows how the Met works from Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, to police officers. ""The Met"" will be produced by BBC Documentaries who have previously made ""Our War"", an award-winning series about British soldiers in Afghanistan, and ""Protecting Our Children"", about social services. The first series, comprising five episodes, began broadcasting on BBC One on Monday 8 June 2015. The documentary was renewed for a second series,"
"Waking the Dead (TV series) Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series, produced by the BBC, that centres on a fictional London-based Cold Case unit composed of CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000, and a total of nine series followed. Each story is split into two hour-long episodes, shown on consecutive nights on BBC One. A third series episode won an International Emmy Award in 2004. The programme was also shown on BBC America in the United States, though these screenings are edited to"
"Cuffs (TV series) Cuffs is a drama series depicting the lives of front-line police officers within Brighton and the surrounding area of Sussex serving within the fictional South Sussex Police service. The series aired on BBC One, with episode one first transmitted on 28 October 2015. The narrative focusses on the personal lives of the characters, against a backdrop of typical incidents faced by modern front-line police officers and more comedic ones such as hooligans harassing naturists on a nudist beach and reports of 'dog-napping' in a middle-class neighbourhood. The eight-part series was the first police-based drama to be broadcast"
"have been identified including back office cuts and efficiency measures, as well as cutting officers numbers by 10%, meaning 800 officers. The fictional ""Inspector Morse"", the main character in 13 novels by Colin Dexter and 33 television episodes by ITV, works for Thames Valley Police, but in the spin-off series, Lewis, the force is referred to as Oxfordshire Police. In 1982 the BBC broadcast a nine-part series by Roger Graef and Charles Stewart entitled ""Police"", which showed a fly-on-the-wall account of Thames Valley's E Division based in Reading. This featured the rather demeaning treatment of a female victim of rape"
"Line of Duty Line of Duty is a British BBC police procedural television series created by Jed Mercurio. The first series premiered on 26 June 2012 and became BBC Two's best-performing drama series in 10 years with a consolidated audience of 4.1 million viewers. The drama was recommissioned for a second series and the first episode was broadcast on 12 February 2014. The second series achieved widespread public and critical acclaim and on 8 April 2014, the BBC commissioned a further two series back to back. The third series broadcast was on 24 March 2016, and the fourth on 26"
"the show in February 2016. Cuffs (TV series) Cuffs is a drama series depicting the lives of front-line police officers within Brighton and the surrounding area of Sussex serving within the fictional South Sussex Police service. The series aired on BBC One, with episode one first transmitted on 28 October 2015. The narrative focusses on the personal lives of the characters, against a backdrop of typical incidents faced by modern front-line police officers and more comedic ones such as hooligans harassing naturists on a nudist beach and reports of 'dog-napping' in a middle-class neighbourhood. The eight-part series was the first"
"The Division The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and starring Bonnie Bedelia. The series focused on a team of women police officers in the San Francisco Police Department. The series premiered on Lifetime on January 7, 2001 and ended on June 28, 2004 after 88 episodes. The show focused on the lives of five policewomen in the felony division headed by Captain Kate McCafferty (Bonnie Bedelia). Storylines revolved around the women's personal and professional lives, and their attempts to balance both. The series tackled such topics as alcoholism, drug addiction, homophobia, and"
"a fairly standard police drama, with Bulman positioned as its eccentric lead. The series' premise centred around a group of police officers, including Bulman and Willis, known as 'Unit 23', who are brought together from different parts of the country to Manchester to infiltrate areas and investigate crimes that familiar local detectives could not. Five series were broadcast, with the final episode airing on 20 October 1982. Following the series, a further spin-off, simply entitled ""Bulman"", ran for two series on ITV. The series follows Bulman, again played by Don Henderson, as he continues to dabble in private detective work"
"independent, and no special circumstances that qualified for an exemption. Therefore on 1 April 1968 the Oxford force merged with Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire County Constabularies and Reading Borough Police to form Thames Valley Constabulary. Clement Burrows was made Assistant Chief Constable (Administration) of the new force, and in 1970 was promoted to Deputy Chief Constable. Thames Valley Constabulary was later renamed Thames Valley Police. It remains the police force for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. ITV's fictional drama series ""Endeavour"" portrays Detective Constable Endeavour Morse as he investigates crime in Oxford as a member of Oxford CID, based in Cowley"
"March 2017 on BBC One. Filming the fifth series has begun for broadcast in 2019. The BBC has ordered a sixth series. It is the most popular drama series broadcast on BBC Two in the multi-channel era and is a winner of the Royal Television Society Award and Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Drama Series. ""Line of Duty"" was included in a list of the Top 50 BBC Two shows of all-time and in a list of the 80 best BBC shows of all time. It was the highest-ranked current series in a list of the best cop shows"
"Division 4 Division 4 is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes. The series was one of the first dramas to follow up on the enormous success of the earlier crime show ""Homicide"" and dealt with the wide variety of cases dealt with by police in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Yarra Central (modelled on St Kilda). The series was both popular - winning 10 Logie Awards, including two Gold Logie awards (for Australia's most popular entertainer) for Gerard Kennedy - and critically acclaimed, winning a"
"Criminal investigation department In the United Kingdom and many former British colonies, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the generic name for the branch of a police force to which most plainclothes detectives belong. A force's CID is distinct from its Special Branch (though officers of both are entitled to the rank prefix ""Detective""). The Metropolitan Police created a detective branch in 1842 with eight plainclothes detectives, thirteen years after it was established in 1829. Detective units were set up in the City of London Police and in other major cities and towns from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. On 8 April"
"the age of 21 as a result of the Garry Newlove murder in 2007. Series 3 of """", which aired in mid 2016, followed officers from Cheshire Constabulary alongside Ambulance crews from the North West Ambulance Service. During 2017, Cheshire Constabulary was featured in series 12 of Channel 5's TV programme ""Police Interceptors"". The Police Roll of Honour Trust lists and commemorates all British police officers killed in the line of duty. The Police Memorial Trust since its establishment in 1984 has erected over 38 memorials to some of those officers. Since 1788 the following officers of Cheshire Constabulary, or"
"No Offence No Offence is a British television police procedural drama on Channel 4, created by Paul Abbott. It follows a team of detectives from Friday Street police station, a division of the Manchester Metropolitan Police (a fictional version of the Greater Manchester Police). The series stars Joanna Scanlan as the protagonist, Detective Inspector Viv Deering. The first series focuses on the team's investigation into the serial murders of young girls with Down syndrome. it had been renewed for two further runs. The second series of seven episodes began broadcasting on 4 January 2017, and follows the investigation into Manchester"
"The Met: Policing London The Met: Policing London is a British documentary television series about the Metropolitan Police Service. it is being broadcast on BBC One. The series shows how the Met works from Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, to police officers. ""The Met"" will be produced by BBC Documentaries who have previously made ""Our War"", an award-winning series about British soldiers in Afghanistan, and ""Protecting Our Children"", about social services. The first series, comprising five episodes, began broadcasting on BBC One on Monday 8 June 2015. The documentary was renewed for a second series, which"
"a police protection unit. His charges are played by Louise Lombard and Sean Pertwee, as well as disposable cannon-fodder who can be dispatched relatively early in the story to demonstrate that theirs is not just a nine-to-five job. In last night's episode, they were assigned to protect a businessman, back in England to give evidence before a select committee about a dodgy arms deal. Cue tough jargon (""Red One. Position set. Principal landed. 11.04"") and a pretty standard plot involving conspiracy in high places."" Bodyguards (TV series) Bodyguards is a British television crime drama/action series, broadcast on ITV, that focuses"
"Traffic Cops Traffic Cops is a British documentary series broadcast on Channel 5 (and formerly on BBC One) which follows Road Policing Units from various UK police forces. It has consistently been one of the most watched factual series on UK television. The show follows the day-to-day role of a traffic officer and the incidents they come across. The majority of filming takes place at the scene of incidents, with occasional cuts to police stations and interview rooms. Locations include Yorkshire, Hampshire, Cheshire, Humberside, South Wales, and Bedfordshire. The last series followed Officers from the Roads Policing Group and Road"
"4 February 2018 and finished on 11 March 2018. A sixth series was later announced, set to air in 2019. Set in the mid to late 1960s in Oxford, England, the series centres on the early career of Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) after he has left Lonsdale College of Oxford University late in his third year without taking a degree, spent a short time in the Royal Corps of Signals as a cipher clerk, and then joined the Carshall-Newtown Police. In the pilot episode, having been transferred to CID after only two years as a uniformed police constable, the young"
"British Section started a series of fund-raising events that came to be known as ""The Secret Policeman's Balls"" series. They were staged in London initially as comedy galas featuring what the ""Daily Telegraph"" called ""the crème de la crème of the British comedy world"" including members of comedy troupe Monty Python, and later expanded to also include performances by leading rock musicians. The series was created and developed by Monty Python alumnus John Cleese and entertainment industry executive Martin Lewis working closely with Amnesty staff members Peter Luff (Assistant Director of Amnesty 1974–78) and subsequently with Peter Walker (Amnesty Fund-Raising"
"shown January 2010. It followed Wiltshire Police and Dyfed-Powys Police Rapid Response Officers. Series 4: 10 episodes - First shown August 2010. It follows City of London Police as they tackle the rising crime rate within London's Square Mile. This is the first set that has the new format. For unknown reasons, this series was narrated by Simon Allix rather than Richard Bacon. Series 5: 10 episodes - First shown October 2010. It follows the Lincolnshire Police as they tackle drug related and violent crime. This series was narrated by Daniel Abineri. Brit Cops Brit Cops is a British reality"
"Special Branch (TV series) Special Branch is a British television series made by Thames Television for ITV and shown between 1969 and 1974. A police drama series, the action was centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police. The first two series were shot mainly in a studio on videotape with filmed location inserts; a standard method of the time but one which suffered from jarring differences in picture quality between interior and exterior scenes. The location scenes of some episodes were shot on outside broadcast cameras, leading to smoother transitions between"
"and eight months for a brutal bottle attack on a cyclist. Danvers is currently residing in prison. This child gang will be looked at as a group of youngsters who were steered in the wrong direction by someone older and just as much a delinquent. He has proved doing crime is not cool and merely causes a blight on the neighbourhood. Honicknowle Defence Regiment The Honicknowle Defence Regiment, better known as the HDR was a mid-2000s criminal gang from Honicknowle, Plymouth. At one point they were dubbed one of the most feared gangs in the United Kingdom. The HDR is"
"Police""; with a logo similar to that of the defunct Tyne and Wear County Council and uniforms with slightly altered badge labels borrowed from Northumbria Police, the real police force which covers the Newcastle upon Tyne area. All characters had a major role in the series. The first series sees Cole work on the night shift, and thus, the majority of the scenes are filmed in the dark. This creates an air of suspicion and tension, and this is clear as Cole is unsure who he can trust. His two main co-workers are reluctant to forge a relationship with him,"
"Crime Team from North Yorkshire Police, as well as the Roads Policing Unit from West Yorkshire Police. Previous series have followed the Yorkshire & The Humber Regional Roads Crime Team, West Yorkshire Police, Cheshire Constabulary, Hampshire Constabulary, Humberside Police, South Wales Police, South Yorkshire Police, Sussex Police, Bedfordshire Police and Hertfordshire Constabulary. The show is currently airing on Channel 5, branded as Traffic Cops: On The Edge. It remains following the Roads Policing Unit, and the Operational Support Units. It also follows some promoted officers in their role on district as they continue policing the roads. ""Traffic Cops"", along with"
"company's collapse, was never released. The series remains unreleased on DVD. Murder Prevention Murder Prevention is a six-part British television crime drama series, written and created by Declan Croghan, that first broadcast on Five on 30 October 2004. Inspired by the real-life Homicide Prevention Unit within the Metropolitan Police, the series follows a unit headed up by DCI Patrick Goddard (Conor Mullen), who attempt to prevent murders from taking place by using modern scientific techniques and basic police instinct to gather enough evidence of intent to kill in order to arrest potential murderers before they offend. According to Croghan, """"Murder"
"Police (TV series) Police was a BBC Television documentary television series about Thames Valley Police, first broadcast in twelve episodes from 4 January to 22 March 1982. Produced by Roger Graef and directed by Charles Stewart, it won the BAFTA award for best factual series. Graef was given access to film Thames Valley Police by the Chief Constable, Peter Imbert, who went on to be Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Filming was based in Reading police station and took place in 1980 and early 1981. The series had a significant impact on debate about the role of the police. The"