We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Is Ted Hastings Actually a Bent Copper? An Investigation It's starting to look the corruption-fighter-in-chief might actually be as bent as the rest of them – and it could be his downfall By Laura Martin BBC/World Productions Superintendent Edward “Ted” Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) is the bastion of AC-12; the beating heart of the overstretched anti-corruption unit, a man whose life purpose is one thing, and one thing only: uncovering bent coppers. You may have heard him mention it once or twice before. But as we’ve followed our wise-cracking gaffer throughout six series, it has to be said that he’s racked up some pretty dubious behaviour of his own. Is Ted actually guilty of the precise bent-coppery that he claims to be fighting so valiantly?