Bent Coppers News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Drugs squad detective who arrested many famous rock stars in the 1960s, including John Lennon, Dusty Springfield and Brian Jones

FOUR hundred years ago the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a…

TVREAL BBC Studios’ Doc Unit Hires History & Arts Creative Director ADVERTISEMENT Abigail Priddle has been appointed creative director for history and arts for The Documentary Unit, part of BBC Studios Productions’ factual division. In her new role, Priddle will provide creative leadership to production teams, play a major part in developing the strategy for history and arts and executive produce titles. She will oversee a portfolio of projects for clients in the U.K., the U.S. and beyond, working closely with both the head of the Unit and the creative director of development. Priddle, ...

I am shocked no more. The climax of this week’s television bonanza of police corruption was not “Who was H?” in Line of Duty. It was the three-part documentary on BBC2 called Bent Coppers. It was the more gripping because it was not fiction, it was a documentary. But the message was the same as Line of Duty’s: no one in charge of the police really cared about corruption. Bent Coppers told the story of London’s Metropolitan and City of London police in the 1960s and 70s. They took money from crooks almost from bottom to top. The source of payments was initially vice, p...

Vicky McClure as Kate Fleming and Martin Compston as Steve Arnott Well, fellas, if you’re only interested in catching bent coppers, the season six finale pretty much did the job. It turns out that DCI Ian Buckells wasn’t just an incompetent middle-manager who failed upwards – he was also H, or the Fourth Man, the final OCG plant in the police force.  But have we really seen the last of the BBC ratings juggernaut? Let’s hope not: there are still plenty of questions we need answering. And don’t you give us “no comment”, wee Jed Mercurio. 1. Is that the end of the OCG/police consp...