The Met - Series 2

Episode
Episode Three
Broadcast Info
2017 (59 mins)
Description
Across London, twenty-four hours a day, The Met is dealing with the pressures and dilemmas of policing a city of eight and a half million people. In Episode 3, we follow response officers dealing with the ups and downs of policing the public in Hackney, East London specialist Flying Squad officers tackling a series of armed raids and Detectives trying to build a case against a man suspected of raping a woman.
EPISODIC SYNOPSIS
Filmed over the course of a year, The Met: Policing London follows officers of Britain’s biggest and busiest police service as they deal with life, death, crime and its victims, all across the capital. It’s the start of a bank holiday weekend and a young man has been stabbed in Hackney. Police Constables Dave Carron and Paris Smith rush to the scene but the victim doesn’t want to tell them anything about what’s happened. As he’s taken to hospital the next emergency call comes in less than a mile away there’s been another stabbing. For Dave, one of Hackney’s most experienced response officers, it’s an all too familiar Friday night but for Paris, arresting anyone for a knife is one of the most satisfying things she can do.
Across London, Detectives from The Met’s Sexual Offences Unit are trying to gather evidence against a man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman with Downs Syndrome. Rape is one of the hardest crimes to investigate and Detectives are struggling to understand exactly what happened in her flat that night - without it there’ll be no chance of bringing her attacker to justice.
Staff in newsagents and supermarkets in South East London have been terrified by masked gunmen demanding that they hand over money. The Met’s dedicated robbery unit The Flying Squad, have been called in. Using all their skills of undercover surveillance and forensics, detectives are in a race against time to catch them before they strike again.
Genre
Criminology; Policing; Forensic Technology; Social Work

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