24 hours police custody - anybody watch tonight's?

[FloatyFlo]

I bet the show producers were rubbing their hands with glee as that one unravelled! What an episode! What an absolute tool that copper was.

[HeyMacWey]

When they were running searches they would have checked the victims details and and any record (a vehicle registration check would have been most likely) would probably have a record of all the people who had accessed that record iyswim.

In order to access stuff life that you need to have an actual reason. Same for tax records, health records etc. A tax officer couldn't just look up David Beckham's tax records or of nosiness.

[MagentaRocks]

I don’t think the police were nice and making excuses. They were shocked at how they had thought about him prior to this. What he has done doesn’t mean that he hasn’t been a ‘decent’ bloke in the past or that he hadn’t done a good job in the past. I think his colleagues struggled with this because it was so far away from the person they thought he was.

[Sidge]

I watched this, (I love this series) and was really surprised by the outcome!!

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I thought it was just incredible that the guy on the covert team was the perpetrator - talk about ironic. Watching CCTV and hidden cameras to survey a blackmail pickup that was never going to happen.

I felt quite sorry for him when arrested, and wondered if maybe he was being coerced or blackmailed himself. But then it became apparent that he was just a corrupt, sleazy scumbag. His colleagues seemed genuinely gutted that he had behaved like that, I don't think they were minimising his behaviour at all, just stunned that such a previously good copper could go so wrong.

I was also surprised at the volume of texts "Kiri" received from punters wanting sex services in the back of a grubby camper van whilst her pimp sat in the front [blurgh]

[LuxuryMilk]

From what I’ve seen of other programs the police do tend to be ‘friendly’ to the person under arrest if they are complying. They definitely didn’t minimise his actions though with them recommending a longer sentence.

I thought he gave himself away as guilty the second they w@lked in to arrest him. If he was innocent he would have been like “WTF are you winding me up??” Instead he started crying before they’d explained what he was being arrested for.

[Clutterbugsmum]

I don't think any of his former colleagues were making excuses about. You could see that they were shocked when they found out it was him. They couldn't believe the officer they knew, and had be awarded for his out standing police work could come to this, and such a small amount of money in the long run.

[satsumasunrise]

It was extraordinary wasn't it?

It just didn't occur to him he'd be caught on CCTV and that the police would check his internet history. He wouldn't get far in 'Line of Duty.'

[Purplemond]

Does anyone know if they would have to redo or go back other the cases the convicted copper was involved in ? i seem to remember similar happening in either a book or tv programme i saw a few years ago, but not sure if it was for entertainment or if its actually true in RL

[System0matix]

I love this programme too! Agreed, last night's was fascinating viewing. What a fool! I really expected him to have a costly vice (i.e. gambling) that meant he was ten's of thousands in debt.

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when the Chief Constable appealed his sentence

[AnachronisticCorpse]

Just watching it now. Ewww at the victim not even noticing the colour of her hair. And actual out loud LOL at the reality of her her compared to her photos.

The whole thing is just grim.

[AnachronisticCorpse]

What a twat. I work for the police (not as an officer) and the first thing you are told when computer training is that looking anyone up on the database leaves a footprint. You can usually find anyone from just a few details, but you wouldn’t outside the line of duty because you’d face consequences.

He must have known they’d look at the digital trail. What an absolute bellend.

[PootlesLovelyHat]

An unbelievable episode, as they say nowt so queer as real life.

The police guy was a complete tool, how the hell did he think he was going to get away with it. I wondered if he'd done it before? All for £1k, he's lost everything. I wonder if he offered to cover the surveillance?

Kiri was unrecognisable from her pictures, I wanted to know what her 'partner' pimp did apart from delete texts, 500 a day

[RaspberryCheese]

He must have had other issues. Taking such a ridiculous risk for a few quid? Also you would have thought he would have at least respected his colleagues instead of the no comment interview. His confession letter,i saw through it straight away,total bullshit. Crazy guy.

[AnachronisticCorpse]

I think his ‘issues’ were a porn addiction leading to prostitutes. It blurred the boundaries so much that the easy pickings of blackmailing other johns seemed safe. I imagine he felt protected by the fact they were unlikely to report it. This was never his first time.

[Haffdonga]

Watched and gobsmacked like all of you.

But presumably the bent copper was relying on the blackmail victim not reporting anything to the police. How many seedy camper van punters would go to the police and admit where they'd been and say they were being blackmailed, risking family and friends knowing? I bet most of them would just pay up.

That's how Gareth expected to get away with it and I bet he had done it before.

[Cauliflowersqueeze]

As soon as nobody came to collect the money I thought it must be the police - why would anyone not collect it otherwise - it was so covert.
Genuinely couldn’t believe the person doing the surveillance was responsible.

[BoDidley]

The minute they said, 'let's see who's been doing the same kind of checks we do' I knew it was going to be a copper! What a tool!

[Pebble21uk]

As someone who has a campervan I feel Kiri is giving camervan drivers a bad name!

[Cowsopinion]

I feel for his poor wife.

Also made me laugh when they referred to the prostitutes pimp as business partner.

Whilst it was a horrible crime I can't muster up much sympathy for the victim.. if you don't want people to find out you visit sex workers then don't visit them!

[Cauliflowersqueeze]

That poor prostitute. She could have been any age. When the camera zoomed in on that disgusting bed and she said how she sees so many she has no idea of the names.

[Str4ngedaysindeed]

My DH works as a civvy officer not far form there and when I told him, aghast about it, he looked at me as if I was a bit simple and reminded me that he knew about it from day 1 but obviously couldn't tell me. I get most frustrated when I think I'm telling him of an exciting local crime and then remember he will have been fully aware all along...

[Nannyplumbrocks]

Was a fantastic episode. Was absolutely not expecting that twist. That poor prostitute looks like she has had a hard life. That bit was grim. I felt so sorry for the wife of the cop. What he did was bad enough but using prostitutes aswell. And to have it all played out in public on tv. I also wonder about consent in being filmed for the programme.

[LizzieSiddal]

It was his “confession” which perplexed me the most.

He specifically said “I searched for drug rehabilitation programmes”. He would know the police would look at his phone, and that they would find out about his use of prostitutes and searches for “how to make quick money from crime”.

Why would you do that?!

[Cauliflowersqueeze]

I agree. Really odd.

[furlinedsheepskinjacket]

it just didn't add up to me

none of it made any sense

yy to pp who said would they review past cases he was involved in - his behaviour was so out of character i think there's more to this story

[AnachronisticCorpse]

If this was an actual tv programme it would have been a double blackmail, he was being blackmailed (for a lot more) unless he did this. And they’d have kidnapped his wife and kids to really put the screws on. Prentiss, Morgan and Garcia would have figured it out.