Undercover Copper
- Episode aired Apr 26, 2006
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Joe Duttine
- Self - Narrator
- (voice)
Marian Fitzgerald
- Self - Visiting Professor of Criminology, University of Kent
- (as Prof Marian FitzGerald)
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Undercover Copper
In the United States, a police officer may shoot a suspect or even a totally innocent member of the public. In London, he may assault a member of the public. In Leicestershire, neither of those is likely, certainly not on the night shift, because if they aren't playing poker in the canteen or cricket in the cell block, our wonderful boys in blue are playing hide and seek in their cars or watching animal porn on their mobile phones.
This programme - a bizarre cross between "Candid Camera" and "Police Academy" - resulted from an undercover operation by a woman police officer turned journalist who re-enlisted after a career break taking a hidden camera with her. While some of the complaints she makes - sexism indeed - are trivial and then some, the public are entitled to a professional service, especially when it is paid for out of their taxes and rates.
The airing of "Undercover Copper" resulted in an investigation by the IPCC which issued a 58 page report. Some officers were subjected to disciplinary proceedings, but none appears to have been sacked. It was suggested that the footage released by Channel 4 was slanted to give a deliberately misleading impression. Perish the thought.
This programme - a bizarre cross between "Candid Camera" and "Police Academy" - resulted from an undercover operation by a woman police officer turned journalist who re-enlisted after a career break taking a hidden camera with her. While some of the complaints she makes - sexism indeed - are trivial and then some, the public are entitled to a professional service, especially when it is paid for out of their taxes and rates.
The airing of "Undercover Copper" resulted in an investigation by the IPCC which issued a 58 page report. Some officers were subjected to disciplinary proceedings, but none appears to have been sacked. It was suggested that the footage released by Channel 4 was slanted to give a deliberately misleading impression. Perish the thought.
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- a_baron
- Jan 9, 2015
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