Bent Coppers: Crossing The Line Of Duty

BBC2, 9pm At the beginning of the 1970s a secret network of ‘bent coppers’ operated throughout London. This fine three-part series begins with a look at corrupt officers within the Met – ‘a firm in a firm’ – for whom the working classes and minorities were easy targets. Here we discover how, after shocking allegations were made in a newspaper, a problematic inquiry began.