What Do Police Officers Think Of The Tv Cops?

[10ClarionSt]

There's all kinds of police officers in crime dramas from the apologetic Columbo to the obnoxious Andy Dalziel. Do any of them measure up to the real thing?

[retrocop]

I'm trying to give them up. Cop shows are bad for my health! :-)

[douglas9401]

Here we go. :-D

[retrocop]

10 CS
I suppose from an entertainment point it would rock some people's boat. Most U.S. cop shows appear to have similar character roles and IMO are boring.Too much PC (no pun) deliberately injected into U.S. productions.
Dixon of Dock Green was well written and good in it's day. Corny now and dated.
Sweeney a joke.No guns and shootouts every day in the Flying Squad although they are authorised to carry firearms at times.
No Hiding Place was quite realistic but again, now dated.
The only modern production I truly enjoyed was Foyle's War.

[dannyk13]

Only one viz,Sgt MacArthur in Emmerdale played by Martin Dale 1980 1994(He was an ex Bradford City copper)

[woofgang]

Probabaly the same as NHS workers think of hospital dramas. Entertaining it may be, real life it aint

[horselady]

Woofgang-my nurse daughter drives me nuts shouting at casualty and holly city.

[Dodger666]

I think the question should be:- does the real thing measure up to the TV cops? The TV cops don't consider the Health & Safety at Work act before they do their job, they get stuck in.

[woofgang]

horselady, I don’t watch them

[Tilly2]

....and teachers with school based programmes. Honestly!

[shaneystar2]

I love any cop shows .
My brother ,an ex police officer,says most of them are total rubbish.
I watch them purely for entertainment value .You have to suspend your disbelief as I tell said brother,but he says the real thing is nothing like they portray in TV shows.

[EDDIE51]

What did you think of 'The Bill' retro?
I ask because it was written by a guy from my home town. I used to work behind the bar in a social club and he was a member, often talked to him.

[piggynose]

its called escapism, not reality

[indefinable]

Gene Hunt-Life on Mars ( favorite tv copper )

after watching 24hrs in custody i have realised that police conducting interviews have a lot of patience..No Comment, No comment, No comment, no Comment AHHHHHHHH JUST ANSWER THE BLOODY QUESTION!!

(Is being allowed not to answer a question an eu law????? ;) )

[trt]

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No Comment,

[retrocop]

EDDIE51
I thought the Bill was a very good series and close to home in many respects.
'The Bill' studio/nick was filmed in Merton Industrial Estate near Merton Abbey Mills. Many of the outside scenes were filmed in my local area. A fatal accident and fail to stop was filmed in Churchill Rd, Sutton. Stoneleigh Broadway and A24 London Road were also used.
My wife,a nurse at Queen Mary's Roehampton was invited to come in one Saturday to be an extra. Her O.P. unit would normally closed so the Bill producer's filmed it as a Casualty Dept for one episode.She was seen coming out of a room and walking away from the camera shot.
One of my colleagues in the Special Escort Group had Eric Richard ( P.S. Bob Cryer? as his neighbour in North London. Eric was a very keen motorcyclist and permission was sought for him to spend a day with us at our unit. I had just got back to our unit having returned from 'a job'. Having divested myself of kit I went into our crew/rest room to make a cuppa. Eric was having an answer/question discussion with the lads. I entered just as one colleague asked," Who is your police advisor on the series. You get even the minutest details spot on?".
I was wearing a V neck 'wooly pully' and in relaxation mode I pulled the clip on tie from the collar and let it dangle forward through the V and opened my top shirt button.
Eric said,"Most of us get invited to nicks as I am here.We,in the cast, look out for ourselves for small details and take them back to the series with us. For instance. I just watched our friend here pull his tie off and leave it over his v neck.Watch out for a canteen episode at Sun Hill.You could well see that appear."
I never saw that little gem appear on future episodes. :-( It was an excellent series EDDIE51. I don't know how I forgot to mention it.

[EDDIE51]

The name of the Police Station 'Sunhill ' is a street name in my home town, it is the street where the writer lived ,(and just a few hundred yards from the social club where he drank)

[Bazile]

TV cops are nothing like real life detectives .

Real life police work is mundane and boring, which would not make entertaining TV.

My favourite is Columbo - however you would not get a lone copper solving cases the way he does , in real life