The camera crew who started following these various Merseyside Police 'detectives' could not have imagined what they were going to chronicle when they started this project.
Useless, clueless mostly senior bobbies, most of who had got to where they were because of who they knew, not because of intelligence or experience, and spent most of their time up their own backsides.
The first episode detailed the obscene corruption between an extremely experienced and well respected detective chief inspector, who willingly and stupidly tried to scupper a case he was investigating on behalf of some serious Liverpool criminals, putting himself at risk, and putting the safety of innocent officers at great risk.
I was personally involved in that particular case and 90% of the utter criminality and dangerous behaviour he got up to are not detailed in the episode, but he was a villain who ultimately went to prison.
Other episodes - A vice team receive a tip off from an informant, which results in them following a car around for almost the entire episode and at the end finding nothing in the vehicle. Half of the senior staff in that episode were sacked for corruption and taking bribes although that was after this episode aired.
Another episode involved an infamous murder from Kensington and the detectives who investigated it. The officers who arrested the suspect didn't even know the Caution and were as thick as two short planks, and ultimately the suspect walked free from court.
Its absolutely fascinating watching these programmes over 20 years later (look on YouTube most are on there now) to see how completely inept and idiotic most of the participants made Merseyside Police look, at a time before smartphones and Internet were popular.
Oh, and I was one of good guys.
Worth a watch. 6/10.
Useless, clueless mostly senior bobbies, most of who had got to where they were because of who they knew, not because of intelligence or experience, and spent most of their time up their own backsides.
The first episode detailed the obscene corruption between an extremely experienced and well respected detective chief inspector, who willingly and stupidly tried to scupper a case he was investigating on behalf of some serious Liverpool criminals, putting himself at risk, and putting the safety of innocent officers at great risk.
I was personally involved in that particular case and 90% of the utter criminality and dangerous behaviour he got up to are not detailed in the episode, but he was a villain who ultimately went to prison.
Other episodes - A vice team receive a tip off from an informant, which results in them following a car around for almost the entire episode and at the end finding nothing in the vehicle. Half of the senior staff in that episode were sacked for corruption and taking bribes although that was after this episode aired.
Another episode involved an infamous murder from Kensington and the detectives who investigated it. The officers who arrested the suspect didn't even know the Caution and were as thick as two short planks, and ultimately the suspect walked free from court.
Its absolutely fascinating watching these programmes over 20 years later (look on YouTube most are on there now) to see how completely inept and idiotic most of the participants made Merseyside Police look, at a time before smartphones and Internet were popular.
Oh, and I was one of good guys.
Worth a watch. 6/10.
