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Former Detective Chief Inspector Jackie Malton, 70, was speaking in new BBC documentary series Bent Coppers. The three-episode series tells the story of institutionalised corruption in the Metropolitan and City of London police in the 1970s. Ms Malton retired from the Met in 1997 after a 30-year career before going on to advise producers of police television shows. Prime Suspect creator Lynda La Plante spoke to Ms Malton for hours to create no-nonsense officer DCI Jane Tennison. The character was portrayed by Helen Mirren in the long-running show before La Plante released a book of the same n...

The crime of armed robbery had been 'brought to a state almost of perfection' in the 1970s thanks to police corruption, a new documentary reveals. The final episode in BBC series Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty, which airs this evening, reveals how one of London's most senior police officers was believed to have helped suppress investigations and even took cuts of robbers' ill-gotten gains. Commander Hugh Moore, who was the third most senior officer in the City of London Police, was allegedly 'the greatest villain unhung', a fellow corrupt officer said. Moore, who died from heart fail...

Interested in 'one thing, and one thing only', Line of Duty's Ted Hastings leads the AC-12 anti-corruption squad to weed out 'bent coppers' in the hit BBC series. But while his team's mission to find the elusive 'H' continues to grip millions, a new documentary tells the true, revelatory story of corruption in the British police.    The upcoming second episode of Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty sheds light on how corrupt members of the Metropolitan Police ran a 'protection racket' covering sex shops in London's Soho in the 1970s. Officers from the Obscene Publications Squad, led by...