The Real Line of Duty
Between 2012 and 2021, hit BBC drama Line of Duty (2012) told the story of a fictional anti-corruption unit that famously went after bent coppers. Now for the first time, the senior police officers behind the real life sting operations re-open the casebooks to reveal the methods used to uncover corruption and secure convictions. They take us back to the crime scenes, show us the operations in detail, how they gathered the evidence, discovered the guilty and built the case that led them to jail. The Real Line of Duty uncovers the wider story of anti-corruption units: why and how the Metropolitan Police turned the torch on their own.
- 2024-2024
- 1 season
- Documentary, Suspense
Between 2012 and 2021, hit BBC drama Line of Duty (2012) told the story of a fictional anti-corruption unit that famously went after bent coppers. Now for the first time, the senior police officers behind the real life sting operations re-open the casebooks to reveal the methods used to uncover corruption and secure convictions. They take us back to the crime scenes, show us the operations in detail, how they gathered the evidence, discovered the guilty and built the case that led them to jail. The Real Line of Duty uncovers the wider story of anti-corruption units: why and how the Metropolitan Police turned the torch on their own.
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Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
46 mins
Fifteen years prior to Line Of Duty hitting our screens, a little-known until of the Metropolitan Police was being secretly set up to crack the cycle of corruption that infiltrated the country's biggest police force. The unit was CIB3 and its purpose? To expose corrupt police officers and bring them to justice. One of the first targets was former Met Detective Duncan Hanrahan, and with the newly formed CIB3 ready to go, Operation Eden was put into motion.
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